>> leland: vice president about a touchdown in texas. we're back with you in an hour. >> molly: "outnumbered" starts right now. >> sandra: fox news alert, vice president mike pence to meet with flood victims today and get a firsthand look at the destruction left behind by harvey. this is the situation in the greater houston area. authorities monitoring a potentially dangerous situation at a crippled chemical plant where there were reports of explosions and fires overnight. the local authorities saying the smoke presented "no danger to the community at all. this is a "outnumbered," i'm turned to smith. here today, kennedy, also from fbn, trish regan is here, former deputy state department spokesperson, marie harf and

former navy seal, bridging a congressman, scott taylor joins us and he is outnumbered. welcome, sir. >> representative taylor: is great to be with you and i am no doubt one lucky guy. >> sandra: very good, it's good to have you. obviously another big day monitoring harvey. we begin with the potentially dire situation at the chemical plant in crosby where there were reports of explosions overnight. the harris county sheriff's saying the smoke presented no danger to the committee, although federal authorities warn it's in dangerous. 14 deputies were taken to the hospital as a precaution. a short while ago, sheriff ed gonzales reassured a jittery public that there was no imminent danger. watch. >> our chemical akam company officials say these chemicals are similar to stating over a

burning campfire. we believe this smoke is a nontoxic irritant. the fire marshal's office plan from the beginning to allow this fire to burn itself out. firefighters are taking a defensive posture to prevent it from spreading. >> sandra: matt finn joins us live from outside the plant. matt? >> as you just mention, there's some conflicting information here on the ground. first, arkema, the chemical company says this was a chemical reaction and anything released into the air is an irritant, not a toxin. the sheriff says what people might be breathing and is similar to brazilian smoke from a camp fire. an executive says he's not entirely sure how dangerous these materials might be. >> are these toxic? >> out there noxious. i did on the composition of the smoke, but it's certainly

noxious. >> you can't say whether or not it's toxic. >> how close -- >> hold on coming into the question. >> it's noxious. >> the arkema chemical company said it closed last week in preparation for hurricane harvey. ed brought in brecht up generators, but those flooded. it brought in liquid nitrogen, but that failed. these chemical compounds don't have refrigeration and are combusting. officers went door-to-door asking people to leave. highway 90 is closed, there are a few road closures in this area, so it is a developing situation, one that is certainly worrisome here in the ground. we will follow it throughout the day and keep you updated. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: obviously, very jittery about the situation. thank for the update. meanwhile, rescue operations

still in effect. this dramatic scene was caught on camera in beaumont where a man was spotted clinging to a tree. he had reportedly been stranded since 4:00 in the morning and was too weak to grab the rope rescuers through to him. eventually they drove their boat right into the trees and were able to pull them into safety. listen. >> they got that and drifted to him and they caught that and went around the tree. we thought we lost him, he went quiet, so we were screaming and hollering at him and hollering at him and we really thought we lost him. he hollered out and grabbed the tree. we drove the boat is has to be could up to the trees. as far as we could before the current -- and had the boat sideways. >> sandra: amazing story of a rescue. meantime, evacuation orders have been issued for neighborhoods near the barker reservoir and houston where homes are underwater.

griff jenkins is live. >> that's right, there are new evacuation orders coming in overnight. in the neighborhood where i am, just one of them that's going to be flooded, expected to be floated for the next several weeks. today, sheriff is going out on pet rescues. early in the morning, they were going door-to-door to make sure there were no humans left him another doing pet rescues. owners like randy here going after his wife's cat, sophie. randy, first of all, tell us about rescuing sophie. >> we had to go in and rescue her because we didn't take her with us, we didn't realize the water was going to be up for 4-5 weeks. there was no way she could live that long. >> can we poke her head out? wouldn't you leave? when you have to get out? >> we left monday when the water started coming into our house.

we figured it was time to go. >> where you rescued? >> we had to wait it out and about chest deep water and some one pick this up in a boat. i'm not sure who they were. >> seconds ago, we rescued this cat, what's this cats name? >> haley. she put up a pretty good fight. >> what happened? >> we had to corner the cat and wait tried to get her in the box, we lost her again. we went back underneath the bed and we flipped the bed and she got caught in for an of the door and that's when she surrendered. >> talk to us about these missions. this is a bright spot of what has been the most devastating six days that a lot of people around here seen ever. >> it is, it's the saving grace in something tragic. your reuniting family members, pets, within families. it's heartbreaking to see this devastation, but this is the

saving grace. they were able to get their families out and now they have their animals, what a blessing it is. >> lastly, let me follow-up, while you're taking pets out here, you have like the river south of the city that are still very much in the line of fire. >> we are considered about the river on the west side of the county and communities along the river. right now, it's around 35 feet, they're expecting about 56 feet sometime around 10:00 a.m. trial morning. we've exceeded that by a couple of inches, so we are preparing ourselves along the river. >> what will that mean for the folks down there? >> again, we hope people have heeded the warnings and they have left their residences. at this point in time, we will be getting a lot of resources on that side of the county to prepare for the worst. >> if i could, just one last thing, we're floating in front

of aaron's home. aaron, when we came here, we passed your truck, you're in construction, that's your livelihood, it's underwater. now we are in front of your house. hasn't even hit you what happened and what you plan to do? >> that rate there is a hit. if i could go back, i would have stashed the truck. that's my probably number one downfall. >> there you go, we're doing pet rescues out here and folks getting their most prized possessions, their animals, but facing obviously tough road ahead. >> sandra: thank you to those brave americans rescuing those in need and continuing to road is once -- they give it reporting. congressman scott taylors on the couch with us. and new evacuation order, waters is still rising, people still in imminent danger. >> representative taylor: there's a still threat out there. you have that water, you have

sewage potentially, there are a lot of threats and it's important to folks out there and texas to heed warnings of officials, but i will say, there is simply amazing stories out there from first responders, regular folks, people around the country. and virginia, there's folks helping out. in all this tragedy, there are some incredible stories out there. >> sandra: kennedy, watching agyeman right there with the cowboy hat on saying this is the saving grace to see people come together and helping out each other, helping out our neighbors. >> kennedy: absolutely. i talked to one storm survivor the other day who talked about the water rising in his house and they had to make that immediate decision to get output or a neighbor had a boat in his teenage son got on snapchat until those funds were they were and they sent a canoe over to rescue that family. i asked him, how do you decide what you take out of the house? he said, that's the hardest part. he got really choked up thinking about the mementos and the birth

certificates and some of the pictures and your kids artwork and things will never be able to get back and i think of those first responders. we are eight days into this storm. look at the reporters faces out there and they're exhausted anything about the firefighters and the police officers in the emergency workers, not to mention the neighbors who have been working day and night in homes like this. >> sandra: these are life pictures coming in from houston. kr iv showing these pictures. that's a camera going by on about where we just saw literally it's showing the top inches of pickup trucks. >> trish: it's awful. it's awful for the all these people. i covered the aftermath of katrina and one of the things you can never fully convey on camera is a how rough it is there and how hard it is to see this and how people are so challenged. first of all, our heart goes out

to everyone there and we want to make sure everybody is safe. beyond that, this is a very difficult, very true medic thing go through. you are now confronted with, the fact that you are still there and okay, but now you've lost everything. so few people have insurance and they have to start over. in many cases, people have lost their jobs, you have refineries that are shutting down. they may not have worked to go back to. they may not have a home to go back to. they may not have those cherished photographs, there were hard copies. >> sandra: there are water rescues happening right now. the one we showed you at the top there was a man who had been clinging to a tree so long that he didn't have the strength to actually grab onto the rope that was thrown to him.

he had to go directly underneath. thus the situation now. some of these people have been clinging onto their lives for so long that there week. the situation is changed by the minute. >> marie: absolutely. these stories, the comical plant, if it tells us anything, this is going to be a challenge for houston and the region not for months, but for years. one of the things of been so asked ordinary with the journalists who have been out there telling these stories, telling these stories of people coming together, of americans, for us to do the news, when other things happen, congress comes back, we need to keep the focus on what's happening in houston, how they're rebuilding, what they still need. when the news moves elsewhere, we as americans need keeping attention. these stories have showed us how this is. >> trish: that's so true. i love what i do, i think we all love our jobs, but at times like

this, you really feel that this is when the media is most needed because those people right there, there struggling and they will continue to struggle and they need people to care. the only way we will care is if we can get their stories out. it's an credibly valuable with the media is doing right now and all this storytelling is very important. every single one of those people, individual, every sigel one of those people is facing a struggle, no matter what side of the aisle thereon, no matter where they come from, very victim of the strategy to to me tragedy >> representative taylor: as americans, we go to the aid of our neighbors and we help them out and hopefully when we get back next week, this will be addressed because it is important and you're right, this will be a year's worth thing there. it's important that there's

accountability and everything and hopefully this isn't a kind of put a go football, we come together to the aid of our neighbors. >> kennedy: that's a wonderful reminder, the needs of others, they put them so easily ahead of their own and that's what's been so inspiring about this. to tricia's point about the media and using this platform, you have people with higher profiles who is raised $10 million so far, like j.j. watt. he's one of the best players in the league and he is using his position to raise that kind of money and is people like him who reminded him, don't forget about this. we have so much going on internationally and at home, there's so much drama that we have to remember this.

>> representative taylor: i have a company in my district who has a story down in houston and they want to get involved to it around the country, et cetera wonderful thing. there are folks with high-level platforms we should be out there and we should commend these people. >> sandra: want to reiterate, we are staying on the sly picture because it's quite frankly amazing that we have this shot. this is someone on a boat. every once in a while you see the camera turnaround. it is griff jenkins crew and you saw the camera pan around, they made rescues on the boat, animal rescue, people rescues. we're back on this image, what is the discussion you're having with your colleagues before returning next week about this? >> obviously they're doing their own thing right now. i've tried to make a couple phone calls to numbers in texas, haven't been able to get a hold of them. i know they're safe, i know they're busy.

i want to alert them to some companies where i'm from that want to help out. i haven't had major discussions, just within the virginia delegation, we've talked about it. there is discussion about what we were talking about. those things should fall to the wayside as we go and help americans who are in need, quite frankly. i have talked to folks were down there. there's a bunch of former sales in texas and they've sent pictures of their houses on the devastation, it's a tragedy. as i said, just like americans, regular americans, law enforcement, forecastle rela nation are coming together to help these folks. >> sandra: governor greg abbott has been giving frequent updates. it's unbelievable to thing but the coronation between local and state officials, the federal government, not just what's happening today with these rescue efforts, but then you think about the daunting task

that lies before them in the days and weeks to come. >> representative taylor: i'm in hurricane alley. virginia beach and we see this type of stuff, not of this magnitude, but there are a lot of lessons to learn and the coronation between agencies and local, state and federal are key. i've been impressed, quite frankly of that coordination between the different levels of government and again, to all the civilians out there as well. there'll be a lot of lessons learned. >> kennedy: particularly hurricane katrina and how long fema waited to get on the ground. they don't have the luxury of stalling anymore. officials have figured out some of these relief organizations like the red cross, they get right in their and individual's have realized that too. that's what's so cool about texas. this responsibility for the people and personal responsibility. when you cordon eight that with appropriate government

response -- >> sandra: look at that. that's an ambulance. fully submerged. >> marie: we talk a lot about bad things that happen on the internet. one thing is the amazing, good way people have been able to mobilize, to help. whether it was that cajun navy or someone else, we have seen the good side of the internet. i think getting these person stories out, getting people who want to help, its right place to do that. for me, it has been life-saving. katrina was just long ago, we had the internet, but we were not watching it in the same way that griffin and our team are able to bring it to us. >> trish: sure, the internet for sure. and the ability for people -- >> kennedy: particularly social media. those apps like snapchat or twitter, even instagram and people able to message others to let them know where they are.

>> sandra: pass atop of the car. perspective is everything. to give you an idea of the rising water level there, to go back to the point of some of those rescuers that we heard the top of the hour. the water level in some areas is still rising. >> representative taylor: the threats to remains and it will for a while. once the levels go down, you'll still have issues inside the water, you have mosquitoes, potentially disease that will be spread. alligators, their reporting about 330 of them, there are still a lot of threats for a while to come. >> sandra: reminder to everybody that vice president mike pence is expected along the ground along with the second lady there in the texas area to survey the damage. he's excited they're just moments. we continue to follow this devastation out of texas, plus president from hitting the road to sell the g.o.p. tax reform plan that he says will boost the middle-class in this this country. did he sell it and can he get a

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>> sandra: fox news laurent harvey, now a tropical depression. rescue efforts are underway as the waters are slowly receding across southeastern texas, but

many evacuees have no homes to return to. governor greg abbott saying there are no more than 32,000 people in shelters across the state and they have an additional 3,000 beds available, if needed. all this is the search for survivors is far from over. >> lots of water. water above the roofs of cars, houses, about 4 feet from the second story. electricity is a big issue. >> i didn't want to leave my babies. >> sandra: peter doocy's life from a convention center. thank you for your continued coverage on this. what is happening at the convention center? >> we just caught up with sheila jackson lee and said she had to be taken out of her house by high water vehicle a few days

ago. she said she knows this is not going to be sustainable for very long. >> this is organized, but it's not a full time and lifelong place. people want to go home and i walked these hallways before saying is there a way for us to get home? we don't know what the conditions of their home will b be. >> that's where fema comes in. there trying to plan how many people will need shelter and a staged a 4.6 million meals and 5.1 million liters of water to send to harvey's hardest hit areas in the coming days. the emergency management agency has already spent nearly $60 million taking care of survivors and a number of people who need their help keep rising. >> three in houston, one in dallas, search and rescue come out well over 10,000 people just

on federal forces alone have been rescued and that number is going to climb. >> here in harris county were houston's, local officials are trying to consolidate about 40 small shelters and into shelter shelters. they teamed up with a local grocery store. nrg stadium has 8,000 open cots, so they don't think overcrowding would be a problem, even so, it sounds like a lot of harvey survivors are staying in the houston area and we are getting that word this morning from officials and austin, texas, who had planned to open up a maker shelter there this morning, but they are putting those plans on hold for now because they say a lot of people who were flooded out in houston are staying relatively close by until they can get in to see how bad the damages at their house. >> sandra: peter, what are you

hearing from people who are the convention center right now? obviously some of them have been there for days, some have just gotten there hours ago. what is their mood like in their morale? >> people have a lot of questions. on top of whether or not their house is going to be there and what their belongings look like. there's a big room here to our right where i just but did a big lap. there are people who are getting legal advice, there are people who are getting advice from the health department about their houses and about potentially health problems of their own, and there are others who are sitting around watching some coverage of the storm on a big projector screen just to see if they can get a glimpse of what the area that they are displaced from looks like. people are calm, but people really have no idea what is going on too far outside of the convention center except what they're seeing on tv because so many areas that these hubler

coming from our complete and accessible. you either run into a roadblock, water, or authorities who tell you have to turn around. people just don't know and they don't know how long it's going to be until they get answers. for now, people are patient, but curious. obviously, nobody is particularly happy to be here, but they have everything they need for a few days and they are just sitting on the edge of their seats as they wait for award from authorities when they can go back. >> sandra: i just say with you for a minute because there is a split screen and read going to continue showing you live pictures of areas around houston, rescue efforts, recovery efforts continuing, but on the bottom of your screen, you are seeing a fox news alert running right now. we're getting word of a hospital in beaumont has been forced to

evacuate its patients due to flooding. peter, we're getting new information on this as we speak, but it brings up a very good question about the convention center and some of these facilities that are housing those that had been rescued from their homes and other places. are they getting medical attention if needed in the center? >> there are doctors and nurses here who can look at folks. we hear there have been about 70 or 80 people who needed to be taken elsewhere to hospitals for more serious care once they got here. anybody that has any kind of a problem, it is so well organized by the federal officials, by the local officials. everything will staffer and volunteer is externally knowledgeable as are the houston police officers inside and outside who are here to maintain order just to make sure that these people, if they have a question, if they don't feel safe, that everything is really.

if they need medical attention, they can get it. if they have needing a flame stomach plane, not much is open. >> sandra: peter doocy, thank you. i want to get right to these live pictures right now because you're seeing doctors, jackets, scrubs, that is because we now have the images in beaumont, texas, of this hospital that was just forced to evacuate, we are told because they had no longer had running water to begin with. obviously electricity has been an issue, but here's what we know about that southeast texas hospital. it had to evacuate 200 patients by air after the local water supply failed because of flooding from harvey. they're saying right now the hospital is working with health care to move patients to facilities that that system has and that houston suburb, pasadena and elsewhere, it's not

known yet if beaumont's other hospital is being evacuated, but this is what we know about this particular hospital. baptist beaumont hospital, the main pumping station there loss of service. they no longer had running water. these are live images, obviously that you're seeing right now of hospital workers jumping in and trying to aid in the end back you asian of these nearly 200 patients that were in that hospital. i open this up to the couch as we watch these life pictures, this is unbelievable. >> kennedy: it is under legal because hospitals oftentimes are fortified with their own facilities. they are still self sufficient obviously. this storm is unlike anything that these places have been able to deal with. we know the water supply has been compromised in beaumont as well and it's very heroic. >> sandra: as i said, these

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>> sandra: fox news alert, you're looking at live images of hospital patients nearly 200 of them now have to be evacuated from a hospital in southeast texas. that's beaumont hospital being evacuated because they no longer have water supply. it has failed doing to flooding from harvey. in these images, you have seen the doctors themselves, nurses themselves, carrying patients out one by one, having to be airlifted. large emergency contingency to those hospitals. you can draw conclusions about hospitals who have to evacuate. the hospital system saying due to the failure of the city's water pump, it's in the best

interest of our current patients to transfer to other acute care facilities. due to the citywide lack of services, we have no other alternative than to discontinue all services which will include emergency services. this is being done immediately and before your very eyes, those helicopters carting off patients from the southeast texas hospital has just been shut down due to flooding and therefore, no water. >> kennedy: it's been impossible for rescue crews to reach some of the most vulnerable citizens they are. they got over 2 feet of rain. these proportions of the weather, it's impossible to quantify the magnitude, but you still have some in a vulnerable citizens who are not only chapped, they have no hospital to go to and they can't drink or bathe in the water so if someone goes out into the floodwaters to rescue one of their neighbors, when the first things you're supposed to do is take a shower to decontaminate yourself and in beaumont, they can even do that.

a bad situation grows even dire. we may see a little but of son herein there, they're still in the thick of the storm. >> trish: they're waiting on water deliveries from houston apparently. there are shelters as well in beaumont, so you had to be concerned about those folks there. i would imagine they have a lot of bottled water. you saw anheuser-busch switching gears in their factory to be able to package water as opposed to beer and get those shelters. for a hospital like that to have two airlift hundreds of patients -- 200 patients, those peoples lives in this whole process are some cases likely in jeopardy. if you're getting emergency services at a hospital, you're in need of those emergency services, so as a challenging trip for them as they tried to locate everyone right now. >> sandra: where to put those patients, the hospital saying

they are working with hca health care to move those physicians. mike pence, the vice president has now arrived. we are told we have images of that coming in, here we go. the vice president and his wife, the second lady arriving to survey the damage from harvey in this area and there he is, along with his wife. they arrive in this storm ravaged area and texas just moments ago and corpus christi. as we saw, the president a couple of days ago in the very same spot. he is greeting governor abbott there and his wife and governor abbott will give him an update on the search and rescue mission there, the recovery efforts that are ongoing. mike pence just arriving on the ground. this is a crucial moment for the country to see our nation's biggest leaders on the ground there to survey the damage, just to see how bad it is and we have

to think this is something that the residence, it's heartwarming to see them come down there because they really get a grasp of what they're experiencing and all of this, congressman, scott taylor on the couch with us, ahead of the president making another visit to the area this weekend an undisclosed location. >> representative taylor: leadership matters, so it's important we have them on the ground to show they care and they understand what's going on. you're seeing the navy was in beaumont, they're trying to bring water there, the national guard, getting text messages from folks in the navy who are monitoring this, folks in louisiana who are trying to get there. it's great to see leadership taking place there and from the bottom all the way to the top basically. >> kennedy: the next step is congress. congress has no time to squabble.

we talk about lessons that fema and local governments have learned from katrina and hopefully congress has learned its own lesson from hurricane sandy and not to squabble over the funding. when you see images like this still ongoing, this is going to be happening next week when you and your colleagues finish her recess, so when you go back, you'll have to tackle this. you only have 12 days between when you reconvene and when the government can potentially shut down. how do you fit in this critical funding for these hurricane victims? >> representative taylor: don't put pork in the bill. get the funding that's needed to help, let's be great neighbors. we have a packed schedule in september, we can get it done. you see things getting done on the ground and around the country, we can do our part. >> trish: what will be needed? you talk about needing

105 billion estimates today of 160 billion. will there be willingness from both sides, friendly democrats who may stand a bit in opposition to a republican congress to do they need to do? >> sandra: as you can see, vice president mike pence and his wife karen pence, shaking hands with the governor greg abbott from the state of texas right now. the vice president just landed on the ground in corpus christi. several other cabinet members, they are going to be meeting with victims of the hurricane and they'll be traveling to the town of rockford. the population about 10,000. it took a direct hit from harvey when it made landfall, so the vice president on his way. >> representative taylor: it's a great question. when you look at these pictures and some of the stories that you have played here and you see folks who are in need, whether black white khmer brown,

mccright, republican,, straight, who cares? i think it's important to make sure that congress is held accountable, whatever you felt about somebody in the past or moving forward, that should fall by the wayside right now. i don't know about a specific number, but it's important that we come to the aid of our neighbors, no question. >> sandra: we continue to watch his live images. the vice president has landed, he's on the ground there and your thoughts immediately return to those nearly 200 patients who just got word of having to be evacuated one by one, airlifted out of that hospital in southeast texas as a result of flooding, leaving them with no water. >> kennedy: by the way, those shelters that people were and in beaumont, texas, where sony had been displaced. we don't have running water, that means you can't flush toilets.

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>> kennedy: fox news alert, you're looking at the left side of your screen and beaumont, texas, where a hospital has now made the decision that they have to evacuate nearly 200 patients, including those that were in emergency services in that hospital. they are being airlifted one by one there. as you can see from the medical staff themselves, on the right set of your screen, continued rescue and recovery efforts happening in houston. here's what we know about that hospital in southeast texas. they are evacuating nearly 200 patients by air after their local water supply failed because of the flooding from harvey. baptist beaumont hospital folks are saying the pumping station

lost service so the hospital no longer had water that was safe to drink. access to the hospital is low but at this time, so patients will be airlifted to other facilities as you're seeing happen right now live in your screen, the hospital themselves put this out on their website that due to the failure of the city's water pump, it is in the best interest of our current patients to transfer to other acute care facilities. due to the citywide lack of services, we know longer have an alternative but to discontinue all services which include emergency services. this is being done immediately. it is the hospital's official statement there. something more we are learning about the beaumont hospitals of southeast texas, their general medical and surgical hospitals that survey data for the last year show that 77,000 patients visited this hospital's emergency room. the hospital had a total of 16,000 omissions, just trying to get you some brand-new information on the hospital

there as those patients continue to be airlifted. water rescues is still underway. an aerial shot here of the damage in that area, just a few moments ago, we saw vice president mike pence and his wife, karen pence, land on the ground there and corpus christi. the motorcade then took off to rockport texas where they will be meeting with victims and surveying the damage from on the flooding that is happening right now. the rescue efforts still underway and people, condiments got taylor on the cutlass today, people are still in imminent danger. some levels are receding, summarizing. >> representative taylor: no question about what bruising and beaumont. one of the things we are about in break, use on the black hawk that's helping to airlift some folks, but the military has and capabilities, the national guard, the navy, it's important that we have leaders from washington that are down there, we're seeing what needs to be, what resources potentially needs to be brought to help our neighbors and i

can't say enough of how i'm impressed by local, state, and federal cooperation coronation and every day americans. >> kennedy: e want to maintain life is much as possible appeared as a floodwaters receded, it could be a really dire situation. in beaumont, it doesn't so mike it's a critical care facility, so these patients can be transported a little bit more easily as opposed to somewhere where nicu and a post surgical facility would have to transfer, but thing but the things you can't do if you don't have water. you can't drink water, you can flush toilets, you can't sterilize any equipment including your hands. seeing that transfer any taco of the navy hospital and all of the places that are now being made available in this effort to preserve life. >> sandra: these pictures are amazing, first of all from the standpoint of theirs no one else there to help.

these are the doctors and the nurses themselves that are helping these patients get on the stretchers, to load them onto the helicopters, get them stabilized, make sure that they are safely transferred and airlifted out of this area, but you can also see the help from military personnel, getting off at helicopter themselves. >> representative taylor: for a temporary hospital to be set up by a national guard -- >> marie: do you remember after katrina, so may people fled to houston and ended up resettling there because they didn't want to go back to new orleans and rebuild. i keep thinking about the people that have now been through this twice. it's heartbreaking, but to have to lift your katrina and now harvey. >> trish: there is a very interesting article today on exact way that. i read some papers this morning, but i remember being on the ground after katrina at the houston astrodome with all these

people who are so traumatized and to think of them and there were tens of thousands going through the exact same thing again, it is really heartbreaking. the hospital, i think you make a good point, hopefully it's no one that for example, a small baby that would be an neonatal care or somebody who just had a heart operation and is recovering from that, that would be very difficult to get people out. most of those patients that they are airlifting are going to be okay. one of those things i hope we learned from katrina is how to deal with the crises like this. you think about the lost lives in katrina and while we don't know what the final count will be here in the expectation is that it will go higher, there were over 1,800 people who died as a result of katrina and my one hole. is that an texas, they were able

to prevent that massive, massive loss of life because it was a little better organized. >> marie: we're not seeing, if you remember the video from the superdome. we see these large shelters, we had a report earlier from peter doocy at one of them. it seems to be working and they have medical care, they have people helping with fema claims, people with legal services who learned some of these lessons. >> kennedy: and medical facilities. there were people there who were traumatized and they have a place to turn within the shelter. now there are so many questions that remain, what will they find when those letters received? how many people have been trapped in their homes? where these people go long-term? >> marie: and has to include mental health services per the trauma from someone like this is

not just physical, as we know. i was heartened to hear that in these shelters, they have mental health professionals, particularly for children and the elderly, i think that's a key part of this. >> trish: i told you this before, but we went through sandy, we were displaced in a hotel for 3 weeks per my children were quite young at the time. every time they see range of this day and this is hard for them to watch on tv when they see these images coming out of texas. to this day, when they see rain, there's a nervousness there and they want to make sure that they're not going to have to leave their house. that is a very real fear that any child who's been through anything and certainly my kids weren't going through anything like this, but still it's a real fear for these kids and it's going to be extreme atraumatic for children, for adults, and you're right, there's point to be some need there and i hope that we as a nation do it. >> sandra: rescue efforts still underway in texas, we are going to continue coverage of

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>> due to a failed water supply in beaumont, texas, you are looking at wide images of medical personnel they're airlifting nearly 200 patients one by one to get them somewhere safe. we are going to continue watching this for you. thanks to skunk do not congressman scott taylor for your first time.

>> i am one lucky guy to be with you ladies, thank you. >> "happening now" starts right now. >> molly: a fox news alert is vice president pence lands in texas. hello everybody, welcome to the second hour of "happening now," i molly line. >> leland: is we've been showing over the past hour or so, the effects of harvey are still very much being felt and will be felt for the months and years to come. harvey is still on the move, tearing through other states no now, the saturated cities in texas are continuing to deal with floods from record rainfall and houston streets are submerged, homes and golf, you can see on the left side of your screen the vice president walking down the stairs of air force one. that's houston, vehicles covered, 25 miles northeast of houston, chemical reactions