groupthink. our friends at "the five" are ready to go live in new york city, see you tomorrow night. ♪ >> fox news alert i'm juan williams and this is "the five," we continue tonight with the utter devastation in texas, the most extreme rain event in the history of the continental usa. president trump returned to washington after a day of visiting first responders in texas. in houston, we are still seeing dramatic rescue after dramatic rescue. of this one captured by a traffic camera on the sand has central bridge. if the mayor of houston has issued a curfew from midnight to 5:00 a.m. in order to prevent looting of evacuated homes. the death toll from the storm now stands at 16 including sergeant steve perez, a highly

respected 34 year veteran of the houston police force. >> we can't find him, it was too treacherous. to go under and look for him. we made a decision. to leave officers there waiting, because as much as we want to recover him last night, we cannot put other officers at risk for what we knew in our hearts was going to be a recovery mission. >> juan: for the latest let's go to trace gallagher in kingwood texas. >> we are about the last rescue boat out tonight, we are on lake houston. this is the barrington subdivision, it's a golf community. we've been out here for two hours, we have not seen anybody. if the crew we are with says earlier they saw a man who was on his balcony and he said i've got a food, i've got water, i've got electricity and i'm not

leaving. you can see some of these homes actually do have electricity though the water is rising inside. if you are not going to leave now, were about the last boat out here. it means that you are going to write it out for the night. you're betting the water is not going to get any higher which it could be risky because it appears the water is not going down at this point in time. they rescued some 400 people out of this area today in lake houston, the northeastern part of the city. we saw people who held on as long as they possibly could getting their valuables up to the upper stories before they left and they came walking out or boated out with dogs and cats and suitcases and all kinds of stuff just to give you an idea of how fast this water came rushing in, we saw a couple of u-haul's down the block, they came here, try to load up all their stuff and then were trying to get out. the problem is one guy told our crew that he came up, we just

had a stop sign. we just rolled over a stop sign. he told our crew that he thought he was going to come home in 15 minutes later he walked outside and it was entirely flooded, the entire neighborhood was flooded. this is the devastation that we have been seeing a four days. if there is a little bit of good news because as you can see it's not raining for the first time in five days. we even saw a peak of the sun a bit earlier. they've got a long way to go here, lake houston and the rest of southeastern texas. >> juan: stay safe. let's now go to the houston convention center, caroline. >> people have walked through these doors, max capacity was supposed to be 5,000, a couple blocks away they've now opened a toyota center where the houston rockets normally play. they're going to try to get some of the people who are here and push them over there.

the city will open the third to make a shelter if they have to but so far it's been holding a steady around the 10,000 mark. we have seen people of all ages walk through here including two little girls who met earlier today, one in a two to one and a cinderella dress. we've seen the elderly come in line on the floor because they ran out of cots here but they are getting close, they are getting hot meals. this is where it all happens, this is where the volunteers gather the close, the shoes, the things they need and it's all being made happened by local houstonians. if this is amber townsend, tell us what you are up to and why you are here. >> i am here to give my time to the community, i had such a burden. i had to get out here today, i couldn't wait any longer. i filled out the form yesterday. i've got to go surf. it's so cool, i came here by myself i didn't know what i was getting into.

>> somebody says what, i need shoes, i have no clothes. >> they drop the clothes off here, we literally out in the rain were going and collecting them and bringing them in. we are physically sorting through the sizes. someone will come and they're like oh, my goodness, we need somebody that needs such and such. we need to baby blankets, we need socks. someone just brought in, it's ridiculous. these are brand-new, i swear, most of these are dry clean and they have tags, i'm so ecstatic because it's beautiful things. if whatever were throwing away, community. >> giving their best to the community here, an outpouring of volunteers and help here tonight, it's beautiful to say. >> juan: thank you so much, that's a break in the clouds to see people helping each other like that, thank you.

harvey is also having a significant impact on the state of louisiana. let's go to rick leventhal who is in lake charles, louisiana, . >> where outside the lake charles civic center which is now a mass shelter for evacuees, not just from this region but also from texas and it's been the staging area for some of the flat boats. we talked about the cajun navy, volunteers bring out their boats. they're not all from louisiana. the guys on this boat drove here from the atlanta, georgia, area. they drove about a thousand miles to bring this boat to help out. they can't get into texas right now because a lot of the roads are closed and their turning people away. they're staying here in lake charles there may well be a rescue tonight. dozens of people being pulled out of a neighborhood that was heavily flooded because of the rising waters and they are expecting more heavy rain tonight. the flooding was so bad that the purple heart rec center were a lot of people were evacuated to also had to be evacuated and to

those people were brought here to the lake charles civic cente center. we spoke with the louisiana governor who told us that this state is now offering assistance to texas. let's listen to the governor. >> we've always been good at taking care of our own, by the way they were great neighbors to us. hurricane katrina hit louisiana and we could not have had a better neighbor than texas. >> there is a spirit here of helping out and i wanted to talk to some of the guys with the boats about why they are doing what they're doing. one of those gentlemen, his name is todd lowe, here's what he told me earlier tonight. >> it was frustrating, getting over there and try to help people. it is what it is. >> would you have kept trying, do you think you could have

gotten? >> there's always a way. >> what's your goal of herrick west market >> justice help as many people as we can help. >> the storm is headed over tonight into tomorrow. they're talking about the possibilities of four to 6 inches of rain, possibly more. there are warnings for possible tornadoes in this area is on guard. they've seen a lot of flooding here for eight straight days, the ground is saturated when they get heavy downpours. the streets often flood and some of these neighborhoods flood, they are standing by and ready to start rescuing people if necessary. >> juan: kimberly let me turn to you and ask a little bit about how you perceive the idea of so much consistent, four straight days of rain. it's like something biblical is going on. >> kimberly: it's like at the end times, i half expected noah's ark.

you've never witnessed or seen anything like this, the president touched on that, really try to bring it home for the rest of the country. watch these images but we are not feeling the power and the onslaught of that water, it's so incredibly powerful. people losing every momento and piece of clothing, they worked so hard at their jobs to provide for their families, that feeling of loss and disappointment. mothers and fathers feeling like they left their family down because you can't help but feel racked with guilt over all of i it. when i see the people chipping in and try to help each other out, it's really heartwarming and of thoughts and prayers go out to officer perez and his family, here's a man trying to serve after 30 plus years in the community and he went out there again the most his life. >> juan: the story is he said

to his wife, i've got a job to do. his wife was trying to get him to stay home. what struck me watching caroline's reporting, what a contrast to the superdome. remember the superdome in hurricane katrina? now they've got double capacity, about 5,000 at the convention center, it looks like everything is taken care of and volunteers are there. >> jesse: they learned their lesson from katrina. i love listening to these reports from the louisiana governor saying texas had our back end now are going to have their back. it's amazing to see, you see these two kids playing it's just a beautiful thing. a lot of humanity out there. in texas is making america great again, as of the president's trip today gave a real shot of adrenaline to the crowd. it wasn't necessarily a visit where i feel your pain, i'm going to give you a shoulder to cry on, it was more cheerleading, let's do this, let's do this together.

recovery, there's a little marketing and p.r. behind it too. i understand that. were going to set the gold standard for recovery. these natural disasters have a way of making presidents step up to the plate and move beyond politics. remember what happened with sandy where president obama came in, put the bomber jacket on, not out on a marine one and toward the beaches with chris christie and people looked to the president at times like thi this. you think of the last week how divisive things have been. this has been a real unifying moment for texas, for the country, i think an opportunity for the president to heal some of those moves. >> juan: it let me turn to you quickly, one of the points of controversy coming from the blogs on the left were mrs. trump's stiletto heels going to the helicopter as they were flying off. to get on the plane to texas, what do you think? >> people love to criticize what women wear all the time, i think

it's outrageous. i think it has no place in the discussion of what's happening in texas today. the fema administrator said yesterday this really moves me in the morning press briefing. this storm could not have dreamed this storm up. i want to make sure i get that quote right. it's been so brutal, so disastrous, so horrible it really defies the worst nightmare. today, it sent a continental record rainfall for the u.s. we are seeing images on tv come overseeing photos online on social media, it's hard to grasp and begin to understand what the people who live there are going through. you can see it and visualize it but you can't understand it unless you are there. it's been a heartbreaking time for all of us. the one good thing to come out of this horror is stories about american resilience that we see over and over again.

it restores faith in humanity at least for me. stories like sergeant steve perez, he is the police officer who died. local civilians from texas and neighboring states who are rushing in on boats, on canoes, going door to door to help people and animals to save them, those kinds of stories i think are just incredible for the country sometimes. >> juan: what do you see? >> greg: i see and hear a lot of the same things, were talking about this coming together stuff, it's a shame because it's ignored all year round. the idea of basic good citizenry is actually mocked in the media because the story line and parts of middle america, texas, it's one of oppression, division, and bigotry. you think about all the nonsense causes that take up conflict airspace, i call it conflict airspace where there are these ridiculous fights over bathrooms, over pronouns, micro

aggressions, identity politics, gender politics. these are the things that consume people in the media, people in academia, people and entertainment. harvey comes and washes all of that away and reveals what really matters, not these bows are manufactured in squabbles but things that actually happen to people every day in their lives. even when they are in over their heads, literally. they don't need inspiration from me, they don't need inspiration from a leader, they don't need inspiration from religious leaders, they inspire themselve themselves. this is the america that the news ignores because there is no conflict to build up. you can't gin up anything with this and there is no anti-for helping out because they can't find anybody to punch. >> kimberly: they like to do that. >> juan: when we come back, i report on president trump's trip to texas today, stay tuned

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>> jesse: president trump visited texas today to see the aftermath of harvey it firsthand and to try to lift the spirits of those impacted by the storm. >> president trump: we want to do it better than ever before, this is the way to do it. nobody has ever seen anything like this. >> jesse: with the latest on his response to harvey, let's bring in ed henry from washington, what do we have? >> just in the last few moments, we learned of the coast guard had said that 4300 lives have been saved by that agency in the houston area since sunday alone. the key is they are still saving lives at this hour. working around the clock along with many law enforcement officials and first responders.

that is what president trump and first lady and melania trump were highlighting today, they visited texas governor greg abbott and other top officials in austin and corpus christi deliberately not going to houston because the president did not want his presence to rob critical resources that could help save lives in the houston area. this is all hands on deck for the trump administration, so serious that the defense department today revealed that as many 20 to 30,000 additional national guard troops could soon deploy to areas hit hardest by a hurricane harvey, even some of the presidents one time political foes like senator ted cruz said today he was impressed that the commander-in-chief made this clear and unequivocal commitment to the people of texas. >> president trump: we love you, you are special, i want to thank you for coming out, were going to get you back and operating immediately.

>> fema director brock long was correct in saying the convention center in houston is not the superdome, noting there is food insecurity for displaced residents my sharp contrast from the chaos at the superdome in new orleans a remarkable statement to be sure to be made on the 12th anniversary of the start of hurricane katrina. first lady and melania trump accompanied the president, there were liberals in the mainstream media who were so upset with reporting that she started the day in high heels. we can report that she later came in his knickers, a remarkable day focused on trivial matters amid all the death and devastation, the first lady tonight putting out a statement declaring the effect of this storm will be felt for many years to come. >> jesse: kimberly, before we get too high heel gate, tell me your assessment about the presidents travel there, the

objects in the remarks that he delivered. >> kimberly: i'm curious to see across the airwaves if they're going to give him credit for that. i think he was presidential, commanding in terms of his presence. i love that he was trying to lift the spirits of these people who have been so beaten down by this natural disaster and this devastation that's been pouring down upon them. the president and the first lady represented the country well and you could tell they were very well received. i loved his coach mentality trying to cheer them on and lift them up to make them feel powerful and courageous and fearless like there wasn't anything that they couldn't handle. i like that approach. that's an approach that brings people together and makes them feel confident even though they may feel down. it changes the emotional and psychological direction that they might have been going on, it's good to make them better, capable and able to handle the

outcomes. >> jesse: great moment when he held the texas flag up. big response. she would get a what you think. >> kimberly: she is very elegant, she's classic, she represents the country well and she feels the mother the pain and devastation of the children that are suffering and we should focus on that. >> jesse: the recovery efforts must be going well if all that's left to do is attack the first ladies she was. >> greg: it's getting more than that. cnn correspondent said he noticed very little in terms of empathy from this president. >> jesse: we actually have that tape. >> greg: i would enjoy that, thank you jesse. >> one thing i am struck hearing all the stories of emotion, still unfolding, we do not know the extent of the damage done here, very little in terms of empathy from this president, very little in terms of emotion or talking directly to the people of texas.

>> jesse: >> greg: what a shames opportunist, it's not about empathy it's about effectiveness. this is a dangerous thing to be playing when you think feelings are more important than funds. feelings don't save lives, they don't. they actually replace funds. when you think somebody is doing good by hugging. terrible response to katrina. what did she do? she held off sending in federal help for days after the storm hit. the red cross was denied entrance into entrance into new orleans, all the buses were on low-lying land and so they were ruined. all of this got placed on the president, it got placed on president bush. it made it that he doesn't care about suffering when all he did was try to do his best. it was kathleen blanco, she

cried. she cried during this, she showed empathy, she was a failure. i don't need crying, i don't need empathy, i need effectiveness. hopefully the, that's what we'll see. >> jillian: you don't need pop psychology, that's not helping anyone. natural disasters can make or break a president, that's not news to anyone for this trip was really important. not just because of optics and public perception, this trip was really important because the president needed to see the damage in the devastation. he is the decision-maker in chief. over the next days and weeks, he's going to make a series of decisions that are going to determine how the nation responds to this and in turn how texas recovers from this over the coming months and years. he needs information he can only get from being on the ground. all around it was a good decision politically, and a good decision practically also. i think waiting would've been a

big mistake. >> i don't know about empathy big because to me it was the fact that he would take time to go there, the president is scheduled to go not only to texas but with louisiana later. i will say that if there is a difficulty here for conservatives on the funding issue that greg was talking about because if you will recall, people like senator ted cruz opposed people in the northeast one hurricane sandy hit back in 2012. >> jesse: he says that's because the build was here in in pork. >> juan: in the presidents budget he's cutting things like insurance for people who live in flood zones. may be the saying this, the real measure of empathy, i'm just copying off of what greg said, the real measure of empathy is his ability to say i'm going to help you and give help in terms

of funding or other federal aid, that's critical for people trying to do what the fema director says it's going to be a long slow recovery. >> greg: what a really boring segment would be is flood insurance. the whole controversy behind a flood insurance is absolutely astounding. the type of repeats floods and how much is paid out. it would abort you to tears but it is probably one of the most important stories. >> juan: it wouldn't bore the real estate industry. >> jesse: we will be talking about that later, north korea is conducting its most provocative missile test yet. will tell you what that means for you after these brief messages.

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>> kimberly: to date north korea test fired a missile that flew directly over japan, provocative the japanese government called reckless. president trump says all options are on the table. here's what nikki haley had to say. >> no country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in japan, it's an acceptable. >> kimberly: this is your area of expertise, yet another act of provocation by north korea. if the president is facing strong statements, now following up. >> jillian: i think it's fair to say that this particular missile launch was a direct response from north korea to the joint u.s. south korean military exercises. what was different about it normally they launch missiles

from remote areas far from where human beings live. this is only 20 minutes from the airport. what this does is send a very clear signal to the united states, you guys are still thinking of launching some kind of offensive preemptive strike on our missile facilities, you might have to think again. now you're going to have to calculate in potentially hundreds of thousands of casualties that would come along with that. that was new, we hadn't seen that. >> kimberly: what are the next steps here? >> greg: i think north korea was upset they are no longer in the spotlight. they were the big thing at three years ago, there are next shows up at your engagement party, saying this is what you're missing. i try to understand north korea because would you surrender your weapon systems if you knew that everybody hated you. they believe is the key to their survival. we have to figure out a way to give them some assurances on security and make china pay for any future violations.

we've got to make china and russia understand that if you are a friend to an adversary, you are also an adversary. you have to understand reality, there's going to be comp or misys and rewards going on and it's not going to be -- you can't have the missiles. maybe they develop a nuclear program, but you can't have this. there's got to be a way to do it because it's the same kind of argument you have with the second amendment. you're going to have to pry that gun out of my cold dead hands, that's what north korea is saying. >> kimberly: what do you think about what's next for the situation, what should the president to be doing? >> jesse: the ball is in the presidents court right now, they're testing the presidents. i think what happened was he set a fire and fury. if you threaten us, you threaten our territories, you threaten any of our allies. they first fired a bunch of short-range missiles just to see what we were going to do, those fell into the water, we didn't do much. then they fire a missile right over japan.

japan didn't shoot down the missile because the missile wasn't a direct threat. they could have, but they didn' didn't. north korea did just enough to provoke us but not so much that we would have had to respond militarily. they're like the kids in the backseat of a car on a car trip with the parents say if i hear one more word, we are pulling the car over on the highway. first they make a little noise and then they kick the seat. there just try to see what they can get away with. that's what they are doing now. they are seeing how far they can push the united states. we'll see what the president does, more sanctions, more war games, more threats, will say. >> greg: you're honing into my metaphor territory and i don't like it. i'm good to start doing this is dr. feld's world.

i'm sorry. >> juan: i think of the nfl you can't even have an end zone dance where you do that, it's not allowed. >> kimberly: is the president handling this court to mark what else would you like to see them do. >> juan: because he set a fire and fury, he saw the north koreans back off. that into the case. i do agree with what jesse was saying. this is an act where they say it's just enough to get attention but not enough to provoke a response from the united states or anybody. everyone's like what are you doing? i'll tell you who it did get a response from, south korea. the south korean president who was pretty -- i don't know how to describe it in those terms but he is not a militarist. he has been advising president trump to negotiate with the north koreans. let's sit down and talk. guess what he did after this. he sent fighter jets to drop bombs right near the border.

now south korea is clearly taking a different response to what you're seeing from japan or the united states. it's about time, fired up. directly ahead, you won't believe what like lives matter is saying, greg has the details next

>> greg: in a new york "new yo" piece, black lives matter founder says they never meet with donald trump because he's hitler. we wouldn't at the movement take a seat at the table with trump because we wouldn't have done that with hitler. he is the epitome of all the

evils of this country, racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia, it goes on, does it matter? what you are seeing is a mass delusion, every action proves a monster. it's the same mania behind the witch trials or when ronald reagan was testing his microphone and decided to make a joke. >> my fellow americans and pleased to tell you i signed legislation that would outlaw russia forever, we begin bombing in 5 minutes. >> greg: the media freaked out about this like it was real which is what happens with donald trump every single day. that's key, if you lose your mind over every single word, you will lose it forever. and then think he's as evil as heavy metal was in the 1980s. >> from some of the fan magazines of particularly heavy metal, sadomasochistic outfits are advertised with the

fingerless gloves and it spikes the studs on them. these little s&m outfits are marketed to teens and preteens, is that correct? >> they are marketed, who buys i'm not sure. >> greg: he can sure pick a cause, he's the expert in climate change. this is my point, donald trump is now at death metal to the left. he is now officially a scare, triggered by a trump selection, the aftershock creates uncertainty which leads to this frenzy. to the left, he isn't just racist or insane, now he's both. the democrats lost to him, how nuts does that sound? this belief that he is evil, that removes one step at dialogues that use prevent violence. to make violence okay, you must demonize the target. which was done to cops recently after years of demonizing, they became targets.

shot in dallas, brooklyn, louisiana, san antonio. they took pigs in a bucket to heart. delusions die hard when you only talk to the diluted. i have a feeling when you call somebody hitler and say they are responsible for genocide, you don't want to have a conversation with them. >> jesse: trump is literally killing people. i don't like it when people use the word literally like that. i want to run the entire al gore heavy metal hearing, can we run that? forget to flood insurance, let's do al gore and heavy-metal. notice with black lives matter also said was evil is capitalism. that is the common denominator with all of these outfits, capitalism is always evil. forgive me if i'm wrong. floyd mayweather just made $300 million on the pay-per-view fight. because of capitalism.

is that wrong? i would think a black lives matter would support that. they picked call in cap her neck, another black millionaire athletes because he's not getting signed. talk about mixed priorities. the problem i also have with this is black lives matter could have been a decent movement. if they just focused on the justice and the equality. when you compare the presidents to hitler and chant about killing cops it ruins all credibility. trump has done more than black people than i think they realized but how many thousands have see hired over the course of his ears running the gaming industry, running the apprentice, in the real estate industry? promoted them, given them opportunities, health care. i don't think hitler would do that. >> greg: do you think hitler would do that? >> juan: [laughs] what a question.

>> greg: hitler never open the casino. >> juan: according to what people say about how trump treated workers at the casino, hitler never told them to get the black folks off the floor when the rollers were coming in. that's in books. i am struck by that i data, i think black lives matter is a very important movement in this country. when you say that, i think it invites everyone's duration and people ignored. when she went through the list and said racism and after charlottesville and white supremacists, when she goes through things like homophobia and you think about what's going on with the trump edict on transgender people. >> greg: he was for gay marriage before obama was. he has jewish grandchildren. >> juan: i guess people like us treasury secretary who was

speaking to them now in a harsh tones, rex tiller's and say you speak for yourself on this. if >> greg: you're saying he is hitler. you're validating everything he said. those aren't real facts, those are feelings. >> juan: charlottesville is not a fact? >> greg: your interpretation of what he did is a feeling? >> juan: transgender in the military? >> greg: you are prescribing your emotion into it. >> juan: let's stay rational here. obviously this is ridiculous, they lose credibility when they make these kinds of statements and when they condone violence in general. i agree with you that they could be a very powerful important movement if they behaved in the right way. and didn't condone violence and what's happening in ferguson and other places and bombastic statements like this that have no reason whatsoever with the truth that what's going on and what the president is trying to do. it doesn't help them at all.

it alienates everybody from them. there is no credibility. >> juan: i think it's such a major moment in our country with regards to racial tension, how can you say that there is no validity to that? >> kimberly: i didn't say that whatsoever, but you love to try try -- i'm not having this in the press where you try to make it like i said something i didn't. you do it all the time and i'm not having it printed the bottom line is that they could serve a great purpose, talk about raciae martin luther king did, people march on both sides to be powerful and make sure there is a quality of her my minorities and women. when you condone violence and you call the president of the united states -- yes they do, they encouraged it. if >> juan: chant at at the milwaukee march? >> jillian: she said they would turn down the hypothetical opportunity to interview the

president. i think that's a major strategic blunder and i think it's that's kind of thinking that probably contributes to the fact that they're not as visible as they were a few years ago. if you are a civil rights advocacy organization, a political advocacy organization, you exist in order to influence policy. the way you do that is by talking to and negotiating with politicians including those who you don't agree with, even if you think they are hitler or stalin or whatever. you still have to have a dialogue. it's that kind of mind-set i fear undermines the organizatio organization. >> greg: we got to go. a college professor f people would ask me in different countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm everything. i'm from all nations. i would look at forms now and wonder what do i mark?

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>> jillian: he was a visiting professor at the university of tampa but on sunday he tweeted texas deserves all the destruction that came along with hurricane harvey because it voted for president trump. he wrote i don't believe in an instant, but this kind of feels like it for texas. hopefully this will help them realize the g.o.p. doesn't care about them. mr. story deleted his tweet but that didn't stop the university from firing him. they put out a statement saying his social media post didn't reflect the school's views or

values. you're a lawyer, is there a legal case for this firing? if we put aside how we all feel about it. >> kimberly: there well within their rights to be able to dismiss him. texas justice is swift and furious here. in terms of being an associate or assistant professor, whether or not to have tenure or things of that nature. i think they checked it out and then acted expeditiously. very improper comment obviously. >> jillian: what do you make of it? >> juan: houston is a very democratic city, they voted for hillary clinton, not president trump. i think he aimed his hail and brimstone at the wrong city. in terms of firing him, i'm very protective of academic freedom, i think it's the opposite of the pc argument that you heard from the right that everybody has to say exactly what's right. you're going to fire the guy? i think what he said was

insulting and damaging including as i read today, two students from houston who are going to the school and worried about their own families. >> jillian: you have to imagine, if he has conservative students in his courses, they're going to feel kind of rough coming out of this. what if you are one of his students? >> jesse: i will not be wouldne because i wouldn't take a sociology. he said the 9/11 victims the surface, here we go. i guessed his story has ended, a little prematurely. a natural disaster, gay marriage, it happens on both sides. >> jillian: don't call jesse, he'll call you. >> greg: he talk about instant karma, he was talking about, and it can. twitter is the quicksand of career guests. it the next day he's unemployed,

visiting professor, short visit. >> jillian: check with us, we'll be back

>> juan: thanks for watching us tonight, "hannity" is next with continuing coverage of the drama from hurricane harvey.

it will be right back here tomorrow night with "the five" at 9:00 p.m., set your dvrs and if not, just join us. good >> bret: this is a fox news alert. i am bret baier at the white house. president trump on his way back from texas at this hour. after surveying some of the damage and talking to officials on the ground, at the most extreme rainfall event in u.s. history. 52 inches of rain have inundated houston and the surrounding area. since hurricane harvey stormed through over the weekend. it is still raining in many places tonight. damages are already in the billions. much of that, especially for private residence, may not be covered because some 80% of the victims were told to not have flood insurance. they will be turning to the government for help.