we're still involved. and search and rescue missions import aransas in rockport. and aransas count. and we are grateful in those locations as well as elsewhere. for all that eighty billion walmart. blows in and soon to be home depot or are doing. so there is. much to do. and those are just. the most immediate steps. importantly. they are this is a place that texas at a famous. will be involved in for a long long time. that we will be here. until we can that restore this region. is back to normal as possible. for as we discussed at arm meeting earlier.

we need to recognize is going to be a new normal. will be a new and different normal for this entire region. no but we will not stop. until we get as far as we can. color print. them. but details and there. the past. i am. to the national fema administrator. what i want to do explique up bleed till just a bit? does it citizens need to know about. as governor. i had made a state. disaster declaration. four fifty four counties across the state of texas. in order for a disaster declaration to become a federal disaster declaratio. it requires a certain. financial thresholds to be met. those financial thresholds.

have been met. in eighteen counties. there are eighteen counties in the state of texas. i made the federal disaster declaration for that the president. has granite. with their presidential grant. triggers. the involvement of fame. because there are. a lot of people in your viewing area. they may not know if they are on. the federal disaster declaration list. i want to read these counties out for you. the bay county. go ahead. clayburgh. new isis san patricio. referring though aransas resort area. calhoun. chambers for ben. get harris. jackson. libert. matagorda. victoria. and wharton. those are the counties that currently qualify. for a federal disaster

declaration. depending upon what is learned. and weeks and days going forward. there may be more counties added to that list. the reason why this is important. is because if a county is o. the federal disaster declaration list. there will be an abundance of resources that come from the federal government. to aid people in those counties. i want to provide you. and address on the website that hopefully will hear everybody else speak about because. this needs to be every person's. go to location on the internet. it is. disaster assistance dot org. i'm sorry. di guardia as my fault right disaster assistance dot gov. disaster assistance dot gov. and this is brock long who is the national fema administrator. who will be

re emphasizing that tell you more about it? i brought it up. because everyone needs to know this because there are people out there. who are desperately trying to doing the same hand to the governor of texas greg abbott who clearly is giving some very important information to those? houston residents as to what to do in terms of. the fact that the city is witnessing this extraordinary disaster now joining me now from the same as fronts for the fall. for the crowd that i mean dismissing tool those counties it was listing off gives you some idea of the enormity. of fat this disaster i mean the evil somewhere in the order of four hundred thirty thousand people. expected to work demand some form of emergency assistance. you've just been out in those streets there of food just give us a sense of what you've been witnessing. yeah a lot of people who

i've seen. walking by him and he will need some sort of assistance said because that just behind me here you can see that this is an area of houston that's is being evacuated. as we speak now i spoke. about it with you an hour ago since then i've been able to speak to the local authorities to the police constable here. and i austin what exactly is going on down the road here and just how serious it is well he said the water. is going up to here up to people's necks that's how serious this is. there's a river down that. that is now completely inundated the area around it completely inundates at these clubs getting very serious indeed and this part of texas i'm seeing entire families walking up this road. toward some sort of safety and the people who manage to get them out of that. all volunteers these are people who are driving down this road right now a lot of them bringing along their boots all could news so anything that they can find. they are being sent straight into that flooded area essentially a lake out

right now they've been told by police to just go in there. and find whoever they can and come back with as many people as possible and have some of those people. i've seen been loaded into trucks here those trucks and then taken to the gas station up the road. the people then being pods and bosses and taking to the local sports hole where at least they'll be. a little bit dry it's a very serious situation here and you know that's the toll right now from a tropical storm harve. is relatively low the full such an important at natural disaster now the fear is that in places like this on. things could get very very bad indeed considering that according to the police constable again. these people had the water right up to their necks. should it is extraordinary when you say all of this and i mean the thing to keep in mind this is a city of our around six point six million people. it is america's fourth largest city.

you're you're talking there about private citizens we've heard of the cajun navy people who've come from other states. with their boats to. get in there and help rescue a in terms of officials armenian either a division c. personnel are they just simply overwhelmed given th. size of the set scenario. i think i'd better answer in the affirmative to that one because the simple fact. that they're all police officers here but that that basically asking people to. call for more boats and to call for more volunteers for them to be able to then get into this area and get people out of that will that shows you. that those volunteers also so badly needed now thousands of national guard soldiers have been activated they are active a around houston tha. i don't know exactly where i have not seen them yet and i don't see them here but they might well be involved the police is involved here the fire department is involved.

but i don't think that a rescue mission here would be anywhere without those volunteers you mentioned the cajun navy. i sold some of their members they come from the likes of louisiana came here with their boats and have basically taken things into their own hands i spoke to one group of them. i just a short while ago they had driven one of them all the way from memphis tennessee that's nine hours away. with his boats i basically kept driving until the roads turned into a river which is exactly what is happening right here. at this precise moment now the local authorities and you heard that from the texas governo. greg abbott's they are relatively satisfied with what they have done and as is the matter of the of the city. because he we did noty

evacuation fate could have. i think the authorities still believe that they made that right decision we will have to wait and see how things evolve over the next forty eight hours. because we are expecting these rains to continue and of course the flood waters will rise again as they did here. red raw the surprisingly just a short while ago. since philip crowd the reporting live from houston and get a sense of just how that city is being drenched by saying how. wit foot crowther is sin does sticking with the story hurricane javi is also blowing through. key areas for the u. s. oil and gas and industry sector. and has already caused a some disruption to production joining me now is and climbed on the fly. specialist on the us energy sector from columbia university. from what we gather shell and exxon and one have already said that

they shutting down some of the operations. in the region but what is going to be the long term impact. of the storm on the industry as a whole. what we don't know for sure and i saw the first time of course that the oil industry in the call which accounts for huge? chunk of the u. s. production and refining capacity. that is affected by how flod damage. she's katrina which really. because a lot of the fantasy to be shattered for extended periods of time. and the industry has made a huge effort to harden its infrastructure and make it more drug bradley. but at the same time she's about to detonate. there's been a huge increase in oil and gas production in the us i guess refining a chemical activity. that as a result of the sheer revolution to share americorps.

that and that means that a lot of new collection is not looking good on shore. at no production capacity that has moved from the off shore areas. where no platforms would have been shut down as a precaution plus you get and then come back online? to on shorter kitchen with that much more prone to flooding and long term damage. and then i can time became i've become much more integrated much more interdependent much more complex. so that means that areas that are not directly in the path of the hurricane. may be affected indirectly. particularly the permian share production area which is the most prolific part of the publishing industry. in the us that is not at risk of immediate flooding. but dependent on flood at affected areas to access to markets both did domestic refining market and the export market whom. am

reloading export terminals and and so i i just because tom is amiss here just one also ask you i mean how is this. both the u. s. market and the global mock. so the short answer is that for now we have a significant shut down of refining capacity about two million barrels per day. of us revenge but he shut down that deck could mouse for. it a little bit of thought we don't know yet until we can assess the flood damage with a printer that any. water that makes like right now it's offline. most people think that crude production and gas production capacity. we not be affected in a big way but if in fact. major risk that maybe underpriced that maybe out under appreciated by the market and not to be collected next. well as the global market. some of them most immediately affected markets we've been great mexican product markets we should increasingly dependent on us exports. yeah i'd be at another mexican gasoline come from the u. s. gulf coast does

exports would be offline for awhile. so there would be a significant repercussions both in the us domestic market and overseas as well. atlanta hello if i'm gonna have to leave they thank you so much. what? and another snooze and in his first visit to israel since becoming you end a secretary general antonio guterres got an earful from his hosts of this monday. binyamin netanyahu taking aim over the world body's recognition of palestine at eunice code. book the israeli promise to seize as biased when it comes to denouncing human rights this as the israelis. prescriptive aris on the un peacekeeping force in neighboring lebanon. using a line as to what they call an arms buildup by his villa. iranian backed militant group that victory god has more. good luck for the un secretary general the middle east peace process was likely at the top of his agenda for his official visit to israel. the israeli prime minister however count on the right is. i think the most pressing. problem that we face. there it regards his blood

and soon. iran. . there's busy turning. syria into a base of military entrenchment. and it wants to use. syria and lebanon as war fronts against. it's declared goal to eradicate israel. israel's long held concerns i've archenemy arounds backing for hezbollah whose fighters are actively supporting bashar al-assad's regime in syria. the israeli government fears his eventual victory could give pteron feather territory. to extend the threat it already faces from hezbollah's militants in neighboring lebanon. elsewhere. benjamin netanyahu accused the united nations regional peacekeeping force of not doing enough to interdict weaponry being smuggled to the militant group. something guterres a short wasn't the case. i will do. every single in my eh capacity. to make sure that you know you feel fully. meets

it's meant that their idea or the intentional to wheel. her to destroy the state of israel he something totally acceptable from my perspective. do terrace also visited the holocaust memorial yad vashem way he faced calls from the israeli president to clamp down on what he called bias within the institute. and against the nation. while stressing his commitment to impartiality. the terrace was likely hoping to get around to discussing the billy get peace process. when he meets with palestinian officials in the west bank and gaza over the next two days. and joining me now in the studio is french peace activists also brownstein now offer this is good tara's first trip to the region since taking on the job what is the significanc. this. symbolic. somebody gets very nice for images secretary general view entertainment one of two. most problematic base honored so i'd thing then and it's his first visit since it good. de luise office six

months ago. but i don't think that it would have been. an important political impact as you know the israeli government is very good i think season you when. a plane ruled victim of the gigantes very by is that. israelis only being condemned criticized sometime israelis right that sometime he's wrong he's right doesn't. eh respect is un resolution. let's forget the last one the one where the present day about aidid not to debate to. two thousand three hundred thirty four. asking israel to stop duke was a colony. nothing up in you know mike moore's dance act. i just impending he's meeting gave permission at the now is meeting. a singer there's your good jurists few hours later is going to one of the set and went to celebrate fifty years. of colorization in the west bank and is guaranteeing the settlers than never. israeli dismantled presentiment so doesn't work too good it was a slap on the surface of the secretary general. as you sold more is going to be in

ramallah but president about his no dairies in turkey. so bright minister home that i would meet him what is very important is this trip to gaza. at one wednesday gaza is leaving a huge. durable humanitarian crisis and the only few hours a day electricity. it and no more dream every book rest. they're being thinking is a population of god is being picking. as ostrich parties were a by israel by egypt buys of hamas buys into our intel. region and nobody's doing nothing for it in this case and it's important for him to go there it's important for him. and so you went to do whatever the camp to really free to be the population gaza but don't want politically i don't see which kind of forty can playing. i mean

this is a new man in the job i mean he was formerly the head of the u. nh c. out the refugee agency and he certainly didn't make any friends with the israelis when he was doing that. job eva but do you see possibly that they could be a chance that. this man because he's a he's a can do type of person that he is going to give you a f. a owns a portion of the two four fever mendicants out of lebanon which is very important for israel. and their right to ask for. a descent i'm alluding saying he has a dream. see an israeli and a palestinian there a state did a palestinian state being born and living. in peace and security a book said let's not forget that israel was born. as you wayne. the creation of israel was done and was made possible because of the international community. sixty five years ago. if you're really warts and if you're really a we give

himself owns a mean to do s. why not to make sure that a palestinian state will be born as williams and you went into near future zoe solution it's to state for two people? living in gold neighboring relationship in peace insecurity. if you can do is act in which if something fantastic andy wood for fuel is dream our dream many people dream. a fair boston would have to leave their thank you so much thank you. in other news theology is host to agree on a migration action plan. paris summit with the leaders of france germany italy spain chattanooga and libya. meeting here in paris to tackle all stages of the migrant roots. some accordion the context of yet another european summer of mass crossings with nearly two thousand five hundred people drowning so far. in the waters of the mediterranean. gone is a french proposal to establish so called hot spots to screen potential asylum seekers in africa on the table instead. measures to

five people traffickers the establishment of un protection missions. to watch over the conditions in detention camps but that will only apply however. to chad and asia. moving on and british officials are in brussels this monday hoping to push. the eu towards talks on post bricks at times this is the block refuses to launch negotiations until there is a deal on london's exit bil. and of the divorce. incidentally has the story. struggling to untangle that tie and redefine their relationship. the uk and the european union meet again in brussel. having to make progress with the divorce procedures. to be honest i'm concerned. her thong buses quickly. with renewed ukip positions on or off should perish in the shoes. this is this is very to make sufism progress.

we mostly talked. negotiating server history. the uk conceded to the east timeline proposal in july. saying that they accepted to talk about separation fast and feature trade relations later. despite making little headway on issues such a citizen's rights. northern islands buddha and the cost of the separation. the uk's brexit minister hopes that discussions on the future nation ship with the block can start as soon as the autobahn. for the united kingdom. the weekends not driving for the technical discussions across foliage. will reach. but not to do that will require flexibility. and imagination for both sides something i think the council possible. on some subjects. back in the latest round of talks comes a day after britain's opposition labor party announced that it back the uk staying in the eu single market and customs union. saying that businesses and

consumers need certainty during the transition period of several years often much twenty nineteen. the labor party's new position as unlikely to help speed up negotiations in brussels. both the uk and the e. you expect no major leaps forward this week. and time now for business and for that i'm joined here in the studio by brian queen hello again brian. and drove the camp sharing and upload roebuck trouble written company fever that is has chosen a new cd. threats as surprise pick for many observers dark because russia he c. e. o. of travel from expedia chosen under over candidates such as outgoing general electric chief jeff immelt. and hewlett packard leader meg whitman the forty eight year old because russia he is a relative outsider to silicon valley he faces the tough task of putting the ride hailing from back on track.

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strong track record of driving growth while also delivering profits. under his leadership expedia more than doubled its annual revenue since twenty twelve. reaching nearly eight point eight billion dollars in twenty sixteen. it also became the world's largest online travel agency after acquiring competitors orbits and travelocity. his first taxes c. o. would be filling a host of executive vacancies. including chief financial officer chief operating officer and general counsel. the time now for a check on the markets harry kane hardly downgraded to a tropical storm having a. large impact on u. s. markets. oil refinery set down that we talked about earlier means that crude oil stocks will be piling up that's driving oil futures down. west texas intermediate iraq down around two and a half percent international benchmark of brent crude. also losing nearly a percent u. s. refinery shares actually rising as investors expect the resulting spiking gas prices to boost profits when they reopened. insurers

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dangerous storm, catastrophic consequence. folks need to not underestimate that. it will be a sustained challenge for a coming days. in makeup catastrophic storm is expected only worsen in the coming days and what may be the worst flooding disaster in u.s. history. parts of texas could be hit by as much as 50 inches of rain.