with the cakardashians pledging >> we continue to monitor on the $50,000 today. and a gofundme page has raised more than 16 million. this is going to cost billions left side of your screen, that's and billions of dollars, and the sergeant describing the that is only a drop in the death of a 60-year-old officer bucket. ali velshi will pick it up now. of the kingwood police department who dieesed coming o >> red cross allows you to text boats. >> reporter: what these boats appear to be carrying are harvey to 90999 a$90999 and it everyone's possessions, they're sort of unloading them on to these smaller sort of rubber text so right away. boats here, bringing them up to and that conversation you had sort of dry land here in this about the immediate needs in parking lot. houston, specialties, people who people have been coming in here, as you can see in the background have particular skills and the clothes of the detergent and the here, there's a national guard truck. there are people there with crates of pets, there are dogs, diapers and the formula and there are all kinds of people what's heartening is the way carrying their luggage and people are stepping up. whatnot. wow, this is incredible this scene out here, we have a coast >> are you back later? >> no, i'm not. guard helicopter right now one of those rare days. overhead, they appear to be >> good afternoon a i'm ali doing water rescues in that neighborhood right there from where all of these boats have emerged, you can see the dogs up

velshi, heavy rain is still there, they're trying to unload pounding the city, the national all of them. and people do not want to leave weather service in houston announced today that 49.2 inches their pets behind and that's of total rainfall has been completely understandable. as we have said before, pets are recorded in a suburb outside the your family, so rescuers are city, that marks a new report trying to accommodate trying to for total from a tropical system get their pets out. there are people who have three, in the continental united four dogs, they do not want to leave them behind and it's a states. we are learning that over 34,000 combination of both law enforcement, first responders and volunteers are doing everything they can to get those people have been rescued in houston. pets out of those neighborhoods the red cross says that 17,000 so owners won't feel compelled people sought refuge in shelters to stay, and it's starting to overnight. all eyes are still on a pair of pour again here in this area on reservoirs in western houston as the west side of houston, this water levels continue to rise, situation is still unfolding and people are frankly concerned the levels have surpassed the that the water is going to rise, top of the addicks dam, it's because one of those reservoirs is near here and this was not supposed to happen here. but the water has continued to

108.7 feet. rise throughout the day here, the water will now flow into which is why people are out here, launching into these neighborhoods and trying to get areas around the dam. people, pets and whatever president trump flying in with belongings they can grab out of the first lady to survey there. >> you are to the north of recovery efforts. the president was greeted by addicks reservoir, that's texas governor greg abbott. overtopped it's boundary, and after meeting with officials, that's why you're seeing all the president trump spoke to the water coming in there. crowd outside. >> this has been a total how many people are coming in on cooperative effort. again, we will see you soon, boats right now? >> reporter: i would say about a this is historic, it's epic, half a dozen coming in, but you what happened, but you know what it happened in texas and texas have people coming in, going can handle anything. thank you all, folks. thank you. out, you have high water thank you. vehicles, and the high water vehicles have not been able to go back into the neighborhood, because as we understand from the people who have come out, the water is almost to the top of the stop signs on the streets, so some of these particular vehicles could not make it back there, again, it is so high, that water, which is >> proud moment for the why they are using a lot of the president, he's now on his way boats out here to make their way to austin, he should be landing into the residential area.

any moment now, he'll be tour g ali? >> again, it's a very big residential area and that's why we're unclear how long it will take to get people who want to get out from there, maya will we ing the response center. check back in with you. >> reporter: ali, actually one >> reporter: we're at an area right now where people are bringing boats, they are going more thing, it looks like they have rescued a deer here, i into this neighborhood back here, bear creek area, you can don't know if you can see right see that they have brought in here, a deer from the all kinds of boats, people have floodwaters, we have all kinds been disembarking here in this of people out here rescuing -- parking lot. it's the closest area of dry poor thing looks very scared, land, you have people who are very wet, looked to have an injury on its right side there. waiting for loved ones who have >> yes, all right, we'll stay been picked up, others who have just been dropped off. on -- >> and we had seen a deer and joining us right now is one earlier. >> just when i took over from of the people who was just picked up. katie, i saw there was a deer. this is sherry heins, she's joining us with her dog cocoa and there you see the president bean. tell us about your neighborhood, coming out from air force one, it's flooded? >> my home is not near as bad as they're getting into ta vehicle a lot of them. and they're going into the but of course i had to leave, you couldn't stay, they came and response control center. rescued us by boats and they let's have a look at the most up

went around and after they got me, they went through the whole neighborhood to help other people out and then we made it here and there's nowhere to go. to date radar images of tropical none of my family can get here to get me and so i got off the storm harvey. boat and these people were so nice to help me, and they said that storm is still dropping rain, beaumont is east of well you can come to our house and stay, and i was like, i houston, it's close to the border of louisiana, which is don't know you, and i was like, also seeing heavy rain from this okay, i guessyou can still come. storm. stephanie of courgosk is on the beaumont, but you're finding it hard to get there from houston? hey, you have nowhere to go, >> reporter: this is really come home with us? incredible, and we knew there weren't a lot of ways to get out of houston, but if you look on a why did you decide to do that? map, typically it takes about >> i know that people need help two hours to get from houston to and a lot of the shelters are beaumont and we have been on the full and they're also taking them to dallas and places. we came and got family earlier road three hours because we're actually further away from and take them to our house, so beaumont, because it was the only rule out of houston, we

we're trying to help do what we can, because i know it's tough have to go north and drop in out there right now, you know, from the north, almost from the we just volunteered to help northeast to get into beaumont. people out right now as much as but we're chasing that storm, beaumont is a city of about we can. 100,000 people. it's on the nachez river, had >> reporter: your home is becomes a makeshift shelter? >> we were in a big accident already received quite a bit of flooding, there's been some last year, and a lot of people helped us too, so we try to return the favors other people voluntary evacuations and now it is getting the brunt of those gave us. >> reporter: you mentioned it bands of heavy rain from harvey, took a couple of hours in the as you mentioned, still a boat to get out of your neighborhood? tropical storm, it's getting >> it did. when they picked us up, they had that rain that you saw that fell to go the whole neighborhood to on houston, there's a forecast make sure that they got of 20 inches, they are the next everybody that needed fob picked ones to face the brunt of this up, but there were lots and lots of boats and these people have come here to do this and once we got on, they just didn't want to storm. leave and come up here until >> it's remarkable that this they made sure that everybody storm came on shore as a was out. and my neighbors, they didn't category 4 saturday night and it want to leave because they have four dogs and four cats so they remains offshore. and we're looking at maya's shot were hesitant but we got them where she is still getting rain and they will probably get rain until thursday night. this is still a tropical storm out and they're safe with east of houston and is still

friends, but i think the whole getting battered. so the worst of it isn't there neighborhood is flooded though, yet, stephanie, where you are? i really do. i have lived in the same house >> reporter: no, it isn't and for 19 years and nothing like this has never happened. they're going to get it, and you that's why i didn't get alarmed. i didn't lose power, my house may have seen some of the people wasn't flooded and i had plenty who have been tracking these of water and food, so i was storms and seen some of the headlines, there is an alligator fine. but i knew this morning, my farm in beaumont, texas and they whole garage was flooded and house 350 alligators and we then it was coming in the front door and the backdoor. heard earlier in the week that >> reporter: this just started that compound was compromised this morning because in the previous five days you were high and dry? >> i was fine, i was watching it and those alligators were on the news and just hanging getting out. so there's some fear, that 350 out. alligators, let alone that the i kind of knew around 3:45 this wildlife that's in these waters morning, i thought if this to begin with, it poses another doesn't stop, i'm going to have challenge for people, kind of a to leave and my neighbor was scary one. >> just to give us a sense of being rescued this morning and where you are, you went north my other neighbor called me and from houston, your aim was to go said you need to get out. i told the fireman i needed to basically due east, beaumont is east and a little north of come, he said let me get her to houston, you have had to go safety and i'll come back for north and then you headed east

and you're sort of northwest of you, but he didn't come back. beaumont at the moment? so i think there were people >> reporter: that's pretty much worse off than me, more accurate and just even to get flooded areas, but i really where we are, it's not like we didn't want to leave, you guys, were going in circles, you just i didn't want to leave my homend can't get out to houston to the east really, it's just a complete flood plane, we decided and i didn't want to be a bother to initiate either, but like i then to head north. and for people who are familiar with this part of texas, we're headed in the direction of college station. said, i knew i needed to leave. we're not going to get all the way up there, we're going to >> how hard is this for you head south before we get there, right now? but that gives you an idea of >> it's devastating, i was in such denial, i didn't put how far out of the way which have had to go to get to anything up, i didn't grab beaumont. >> stephanie, we'll stay in anything, i just thought, not me, not me. touch with you, stay safe as you and i felt guilty because i was head east to beaumont. we were just looking at live watching it on tv looking at all these poor people and what they pictures of rescues in kingwood, were going through, but, no, i texas, i do want to tell you the mean it's horrible. piece of news that we got just and my car is a beautiful car, moments ago and that is a but it's like 15 years old. 30-year veteran of the houston so, you know, they're not going police force, sergeant steve to -- you know, i'm going to perez pictuerished on sunday ni have to find a way to get another car. and it's just terrible.

it's really sad, but i know so many people have it much worse going to work, his wife asked than me, i mean believe me, much him not to go to work, but he worse, and my little dog is said, there's work to be done. safe, but yeah, it's really devastating. but i tell you what, these guys with these boats are so nice. i mean they were so nice to me. he has perished in the attempt >> reporter: all right, well, sherry, we wish you so much to help his fellow houstonians. luck, our thanks to the garcia we are covering hurricane harry family for taking you in. this is a situation where people and we'll be back after this are helping each other out. quick break. patrick woke up with a sore back. these boats are constantly going in this neighborhood, you can see more people coming out on a boat right now. this is what we're seeing, but he's got work to do. people going in, spreading out so he took aleve this morning. down these side streets and trying to get people out any way if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. they possibly can. >> are you still at that parking only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. lot where chase bank is? tylenol can't do that. >> reporter: we're near the

sign, yes, there's a chase bank, aleve. all day strong. all day long. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> we were just looking at what that area looks like when there's no floodwater. that man taking sherry in, is that woman's dog name cocoa bean? >> reporter: yes, that's the dog's name and she's shivering, but somebody got it a towel and i think it's going to work out for her. >> the rain is coming down again, it had eased up on the west side of houston, here's the side, the east side was getting more rain, the west side was getting the relief of the water from those dams, the two reservoirs, addicks and barnes

reservoir. but you are now seeing kingwood, texas where we are now seeing rain coming back, we're going to check in with our weather folks to find out what the forecast is. let's see how much more rain we can expect. meteorologist steve sasna is with us. i heard you say a little while ago the center of the storm now had gone by and there was just light rain in houston, is that right? >> yes, i will show you where that rain is in a moment, but i wanted to show you the harris county flood district, and they're stating with the whole addicks and barker dam situation, 2,500 homes as of noontime they're estimated will

be impacted by the addicks reservoir failure and 670 homes for the barker. and they're saying levels at the addicks reservoirs, homes may experiencing 4.5 to 5 feet of water, and at the barker reservoir, anywhere up to 4 feet of water, so you certainly can't live in that. so that's why we're having all those rescues. we have actually broken the all-time record rainfall in texas. we smashed it, basically. i mean it's -- the old record was 48 inches, 49.32. so this is the new number now, and again, this number may go up just a little bit, so we may hit that 50-inch mark that we have been forecasting here for the last couple of days, you had asked what the situation is in houston, the rain is still are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? coming down, but definitely not try zyrtec® in the torrents that it was it's starts working hard at hour one coming down last night. and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day.

when i was with you at 5:30, it stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. was coming down at 1.2 inches per hour. but in houston, communities like beaumont and galveston, they're seeing the heavy rain as well. and they still will see a lot of water piling up here. so the storm system is now finally moving off to the north and east. and with that, we'll start to all right, we are continuing see the rain push out to the east and with that we'll start to cover the rescues in houston, to see conditions at least in some areas get better, but there is still rain coming down again, remember, a lot of the in houston, there are still infrastructure here is being tested and with that water people being rescued with boats pressure being there for several days, you're going to see even that are being piloted by citizens, by fellow houstonians. some breaches down the road. here's what the picture is in so even after the sun comes back houston. and i'm going to ask for a out, there will still be some picture to come up when we have issues, make sure you're got one, we have the national following the proper government agencies on twitter to get the guard, all 12,000 national guard members in texas have been called in for the relief efforts information for the community near you, that's going to be so important. around texas, not just houston. and after the rainfall ends, later tonight, look at these you've got coast guard, coast river rises on the brazos river. guard members from other states,

urban search and rescue teams so the problems are here for from other parts of the united days to come. states, including new york, new that's why fema's saying, we're going to be here for years, jersey, boston, los angeles, we're in uncharted territory, salt lake city, they are all ali. going in there, but fundament >> july tell me one thing, when is new orleans likely to get the worst of this? fundamentalfundamenta >> they're getting the worst of it right now during the fundamentally it is a math problem, there is more rain coming down than can be drained, overnight hours, and we have to have the system make landfall, houston has two reservoirs one but it's speeding up, it's of which has overtopped it's moving at 8 miles an hour, but yesterday it was moving at 2 boundaries because more rain was miles an hour. so each trend in the early coming in than it could release, advisories it's speeding up. it was actually under a controlled release and still is. so hopefully we can put it to this is just math, until that rain stops coming down on to bed soon enough. houston, even if it's a little bit at a time, flooding will >> we'll keep checking with him. increase. >> the problem is once we went past that mark, the water can the guys has been working long keep going and the problem is, hours like everybody here at that water levels there could be rising all the way through the end of the month and wonder msnbc. garrett, what if anything is the recede until the 20th of goal for the white house in this september. so that was the big concern with visit? >> reporter: ali, i think the this. we were really worried about

primary goal for the white house this yesterday when we were and for the president is to show seeing those rainfall rates at one to two inches an hour and they are pulling together a we're looking at the graph and competent whole of government the line is going straight up, response to this crisis all up that this was going to be an and down the texas coast, the issue, so now that that water white house flew here today with had toppled over, it's going to four cabinet secretary, a cadre ac take a long time to get it to go back, again the exact numbers of aids, and the message they and time frames are going to be wanted to send is all of us are working together, we are uncertain. there's a lot of uncertainty focused, we are dialed in, and we're going to work together to here, usually when solve this process no matter how meteorologists make forecasts they have some past events to long it takes, and the other part of it is to educate the look at, if we get six inches of president on exactly what's rain here, this is what happens, going on down here, exactly how we have never had a situation bad the suffering has been in where we have had 50 inches of some parts of texas and exactly how long it might take to clean rain in a major metropolitan it up. i asked texas governor greg area before, that's why color abbott before his meeting with tables had to be redrawn and the president today about exactly what he wanted to see and he addressed that part of meteorologists are sure what's this, take a listen, ali. going to happen when you get >> we want him to see and this kind of rainfall in a short amount of time.

understand the enormous i think the infrastructure here challenges that texans have faced and the need for the aid that he is providing. is definitely going to have to be monitored closely, because you don't know what the impact is going to be, so bridges, he's a champion of texas and a champion of helping us rebuild overpasses, that people drive on and i think we will hear that every day to work, are going commitment. >> reporter: there you hear the have to be evaluated. >> when you have water damage, governme governor of texas praising the it's not clear what the damage is. you guys deal with this all the time as meteorologists, to some president for this response. degree the earth takes in the the white house wanted to approach this with sort of a rain when it falls, are we just first do no harm strategy, the saturated around houston that we cannot hope for the earth to president as you know travels with an enormous security take in the water over the next couple of days? presence, it takes a lot of >> it was the rate at which the resources to move him somewhere, rain fell on saturday night that they didn't want to be anywhere was the problem. the ground could not digest it. that might potentially distract from the rescue and recovery so everything just basically efforts, that's why we're seeing funneled into the bayous and that's when you saw a lot of the him in corpus christi and austin. but the president saying he urban flooding in downtown houston, so, yes, the ground wants to come back to the area couldn't absorb anymore rain,

as soon as saturday, but it's but the funny part is, the possible he may be much closer previous record back in 1978 to what's going on for that with amelia, texas had a drought second trip. going on at that time, but the ground was so hard that it 2:15 p.m. central time, 3:15 eventually flooded -- so it was eastern time, the president is the opposite effect. now on the ground in austin? so again, texas not a good >> reporter: he's in the air, the last time i looked at the history here with land falling systems. >> let's go tack to maya pool reports, it's not a very rodriguez, who is on the long flight, and he's going to the main command center there in northeastern part of houston, austin. which has seen a little bit more this trip for the president mostly talking to the officials flooding because of the who are part of the effort and overtopping of this reservoir. to the first responders who have been working so hard. it's just been nonstop, every time we come back to you there's nothing officially scheduled for him to talk to any something else is happening? >> reporter: absolutely, we have of the victims of this. he's not touring the had sirens in the background, neighborhood or going to a shelter or at least not anything and helicopters overhead. that the white house has and now we have seen so many of publicly disclosed. the boats out. the closest he came was to speak now we have a personal water craft basically towing a flat to the feel who had gathered boat right now, coming back in, but for now, all the boats outside that firehouse where officials met this afternoon. appear to be out, in the >> so far this hour and for most neighborhood, trying to find people in need of rescue, we of today, we have been working to give you the very latest news have ambulances that are being

on the ground in texas in the positioned over here behind us middle of the most extreme rain that appears to be an area where they are setting up, ambulances, event in continental u.s. history, coming from someone first responders, fire trucks, who's been sitting in the studio right here at this intersection for the past few days, our near sixth and clay, a little bit north of clay road. journalists have been doing a and this neighborhood, like you great job, but at some point said, has just been getting when the ground is dry and the hammered by rain and by the floodwaters and the people that storm is over, those folks get are in this neighborhood are in to come home, and there are many need of help which is why so many people, the national guard, the first responders, the volunteers in all kinds of people around houston are not so personal water craft, big boats, small boats, flat boats, airboats have been coming out lucky. janet molena lives in houston, here to try to get people out of she now joins us by phone. their homes saying it wasn't you were trapped and you got like this last night. out, tell us your story? but when they got up this morning, here comes the water coming right into their homes, >> our house wasn't as flooded and they're saying, i need to as some of the houses in our area. get out because it's only going there was three entrances and we to get worse from here. couldn't get in or out of our >> and you talked to sherry who said that all of a sudden the subdivision, and about 15

minutes from where i live, water was just increasing, it's sunday night, possible tornado a heavy residential neighborhood hit in this neighborhood called behind you where those boats are coming out from, and we're also sienna plantation, which god seeing a lot of pets, a lot of bless them, they, after that animals coming out and those yesterday were or the day before were placed on a mandatory rescues continuing. all right, maya, we'll come back evacuation because the brazos to you shortly. river runs very close to it. we want to talk to kerry and the water of course was at sanders, and you have been its capacity and possibly gol watching what's going on over there and you have been studying something very important here into some of the homes there, and that is about people's that's very close to my home. insurance claims over the next couple of days? the scariest part about this was >> reporter: let's give you a not being able to get in or out. scene setter, first of all, i'm in querro, so you would think so then getting on an evacuation that this is a long way from made that scary moment even houston and the disaster that's worse because you knew for some happening there, see this line people they had to get out, but there was no exit. here, this is texas state root >> how did you get out in the 22 and it runs normally over the end? what method did you use? >> so we waited it out. guadalupe river. and the guadalupe river itself is continuing to rise. definitely were not going to and to give you an idea, the chance it, especially watching u.s. geological survey came in a the news and all the boat short time ago and they marked

rescues, all the hard people working, it wasn't worth it. this area right here. but if you look over here, you and i know some of the people that lived in those can see that was 90 minutes ago, neighborhoods where they had so it's continuing to rise, we're right now at about 45 feet evacuations, decided to do the same thing and just pray that it above flood stage and the concern is that it will continue wouldn't be the worst-case to rise, and if you go down river, and of course it's kind of hard to believe that this scenario. and luckily, today there is area really is pasture land. wind, my parents live in houston but if you go further down river, you run into the town of so we waited this time to check victoria, and in victoria, there our apps to see, really net are more people who live alongside the river than up working with people, asking here, and those who live around what their area was like, alongside the river are being told, this may be a slow motion my parents live close to nrg, and i live about a 20-minute disaster you're watching, but drive from them. you got to get out of your finally when the water receded houses, and you mentioned in the neighborhood, we got out insurance, and that is perhaps the biggest surprise to people, today, went through some puddles who are right now wondering, in the street that just covered okay i left my house, all i was our tires. we managed to get out. able to grab was my phone and my we stayed away from the major roads because those you could not get into. and we took the back streets. keys, but it turns out in the houston area only one in six homes has flood insurance, and

the street called alameda, took the cold reality here is, it all way down to by nrg and homeowners insurance, if you could read all the legalese in were able to get to my parents, there, it excludes a natural but unfortunately for them, they had leaking in their ceiling, in disaster like a flood. if you had your pipes burst, you would be covered but nothing their roof and it's just started coming down on them. so they have a leaky roof. like what we're watching unfold and it looks terrible. right here and across texas. and we don't know how long it's >> coming up next, i'm going to be joined by someone who fled to going to be before we can get that fixed so until it stops houston when hurricane katrina raining, they have maybe 15 on new orleans years ago and is opening his synagogue to dozens of families forced out of their bucbuck buckets out where they're homes by harvey. our live coverage of harvey collecting water. but we managed to get out continues on the other side of the break. [radio alarm] safely. if there is anyone in this area that's looking for food, krogers on spanish right by nrg and main, they're open, and they are ♪ letting people, maybe 10 at a time in. so if anyone's wondering. >> so people not from the area,

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i learned that it's a family that has faith in god and when you have faith in god, we know >> okay -- >> reporter: actually, at this there's eternal life, we know school that's been turned into a that this family knows. shelter there are already 300 people. it is already over capacity. the fire department, they have his wife asked him not to go in. been helping here. i don't know if you can hear me, and steve is one of the sweetest ali. what i was saying is that the people i have met in this department and i have only been shelter is over capacity with here nine months, we had 100 families that have come from houston. some have been here as early as employees and i knew who perez thursday. and they don't know when they will be able to go back home. was because he was a sweet and for many latino families in the gentle public servant. state of texas, it means being i told him not to go to work. displaced with their young children. it also means dealing with his father-in-law who was a potential language barriers. i want to talk to stephanie combat veteran, told him not to here. go, because the conditions were this is your family, stephanie. so bad. and his response was, we have what's been one of the biggest got work to do. challenges of being here with so and here's a man that didn't many young children in the spend, you know, 20 minutes and then come back and say, hey, i shelter for so many days? >> i mean -- oh my god. tried, he spent close to 2 1/2

nothing really but challenge, hours because he has that in his challenging. it's just everybody coming over dna. here. every day it's a bunch of people coming back and stuff like that. and i told his wife, according >> do you have any idea when you guys will be able to go back to your personal faith, if the home? lord was going to take him >> i really don't know. today, how would you want him to we were supposed to go back go, laying in bed watching our sunday morning but there was no way out of houston. disaster or doing what he has >> you're here with these young children. this is jocelyn. done for 34 years and the smile what did you bring from home? that overcame that woman's face, can you tell us? >> i bring my -- his beautiful wife said it all, >> what did you guys bring from if it was his turn to go, she said, this is the way he would home? have wanted to go. >> i brought a blanket. and with that i just want to >> reporter: you guys have been tell the men and women of the going to school here as well, houston police department, what you have displayed for the past right? >> yes. >> reporter: this little girl, four days, sleeping on cots, our ali, has a name tag. you went to school nearby, but you had started school in your dive team yesterday, their only hometown. do you miss not being able to start school back home? meal was a power bar. >> do you like miss it? and they were out there at 11:30 no? yes? >> kind of. at night. >> reporter: these two girls in and if we would have let them, particular, ali, they had been started school, so they now are believe me, they would have gone having to just go to school

in that war. somewhere else. for those who are tweeting, why some of the many challenges these families are facing. are the cops being fed, they're that's the situation in dallas trying to save people, and despite the fact that we haven't as thousands of evacuees are able to do the best of jobs hoping to arrive and seek feeding them, they're out there refuge. >> school started in texas on a power bar having worked 37 already. they've obviously closed it this hours, so i'm sorry that we're week but that's one of the biggest challenges, marianna. feeding them, but that's why sorry for the audio problem with we're doing it so they can save marianna. we send to be sending the signal lives. so with that, i just want to say that we will continue, this police department is resilient via saturn. as is this community and i look i want to bring in gadi schwartz forward to taking this man and giving him the honors and his who is in baytown, texas. family that he so richly it's the site of the biggest deserves, from the day that we refinery in the united states. have his funeral, and i know what's the latest? this is houston, and they know >> reporter: a quick update from it's going to be a while, baytown. this is one of the last boats because we have got some work to getting ready to pull out of the do that he would want us to do. water. basically move the entire we apologize now when we mess up flotilla down the road 10 minutes away. there is an area where they put traffic, but we will know on the out an all call for people to day that we say goodbye that his come help save people who are family is getting an opportunity stranded in their homes. the area behind us is pretty

to see us honor him. [ speaking spanish ] clear. earlier it was a critical situation. there was one area that had been evacuated. it was an area that everyone moved to higher ground in the elementary school. they were sheltering in place but that place was taken over by water. so they brought everybody here to dry land and now there is another place in need of [ speaking spanish ] assistance so we'll make our way over there. >> gadi schwartz in baytown. i do want to remind you all. i don't want to lose sight of the fact that there have been so many rescuers working to help families and pets and kids get out there. coast guard. urban search and rescue teams. houston fire, ems workers and the houston police and the houston police have lost an officer. sergeant steve pérez, age 60. 34-year veteran of the force was driving to work. he drove two and a half hours on sunday, pre-dawn, trying to find a safe way to get to work.

and he drowned. he was caught in flood waters, and it took the police until this morning to recover his body. they knew he had perished but were not able to get his body. our thoughts are with the family of sergeant steve pérez, and the houston police department who have lost one of their own in these rescue efforts. if you do want to help, you can go to red cross.org or text "harvey" to 90999. it will automatically take a $10 donation and charge it to your phone bill. that's harvey to 90999. that brings this very busy hour to a close for me. i will see you right back here at 11:00 p.m. eastern. you can find me on facebook and instagram. thank you for watching. "deadline: white house" starts right now.

president trump says texas can handle anything. hello, everybody. i am mike barnicle, filling in for nicolle wallace. the country turns to the president today, who is in texas, as he faces the first natural disaster of his presidency. emergency crews have been working around the clock, and thousands of people have been rescued as the texas coast and greater houston area battle catastrophic flooding from what is now tropical storm harvey. some areas are expecting to see an additional one to two feet of rain. right now the president is in austin, texas, but this afternoon he visited corpus christi, one of the coastal cities that initially felt the brunt of harvey as a category 3 hurricane but has not seen nearly the same kind of flood damage that the houston area is suffering through at the moment. the president was briefed on relief efforts by fema, the coast guard, and the national guard. and he delivered the following

message. >> i can tell you that my folks were telling me how great the -- your representatives have been in working together. it's a real team. we want to do it better than ever before. we