of positivity, despite losing everything and she may not have found that medicine and that spirit is so important. and thank you to you for your company grunt style and donating what you are doing and stayed down there with other friends and fellow vets helping people and that is just -- that is that x factor that you have got and those who serve the country in uniform and continue to do so, just naturally, right, in these situations. so -- >> yeah. alex buck and derek, they just want to serve. and even the community alone has -- we raised over a quarter million dollars alone just to these causes and that is outside of what we've donated. americans are supporting their countrymen. >> that is right. >> and no matter race, color, religion, it does matter. >> we are all american. sergeant, thank you for what you are doing with grunt style. and keep on going. thank you, sir. >> thank you, sir.

it is a top of the hour. 5:00 p.m. eastern and 4:00 p.m. there in lake charles, louisiana. live pictures right by air force one. the president and the first lady just coming down from the stairs. the lower stairs from air force one. they normally do have stairs that they roll up and in these cases where the president needs to arrive and leave quickly, they are now going to move into their suvs and then survey some of the damage from hurricane harvey. louisiana as well as texas as is well-known the two states that got hit in a very, very big way. the last advisory for instance coming out of noaa showing 52 inches of rain. this is the last report coming from noaa. 52 inches in texas. and there in alabama, not too much less. and that has been -- only two of the states. when you look at the noaa advisory, it was a whole handful of states that have been

affected by harvey. now just about to leave the -- the continent. and i don't think many folks will be missing harvey come monday. lake charles, louisiana. 4:00. we'll be following the president on this. katie beck has been with this story for us all day. and katie, another visit now from president trump. and you know, this is not easy work for anybody. >> reporter: no. and this visit had a certainly different tone than the visit in corpus christi. this is where the president could interact with folks and very clear he did not want to distract from the recovery effort going on when he came previous previously, on this visit he was able to meet and greet people and serve them hot food and have conversations, play with children so there was a different sort of atmosphere with this visit than with the previous. the previous visit was more about briefings and understanding and strategy. this one was more about humanity

and letting people know that they are going to be supported and that help is on the way. so he really got that message across with folks. they are delighted to meet the president and have conversations with him. and they feel that so far the federal government and the assistance they've received here in the energy shelter has been superb. every need has been met and that they feel very positive about their experiences as much as they can. but that being said, the people that have homes that have been in the past of -- the path of harvey here in houston. they are in the middle of a dramatic clean-up right now. when you drive down the streets, you could see piles and piles of sheetrock and belongings in people's front yards. it is overwhelming. and that is the word we heard most often from people describing what they are going through. it is overwhelming. and we met a priest today who was making the rounds on a huston street just administering hug and some faith and he was saying that people said to him,

i don't even have time to pray. i just want to get my house back in order. i just want to get my feet on the ground. catch my breath. and they are not there yet, richard. >> katie along with those who are supportive and great to see the leader of the country come to visit with his cabinet members as well as state officials, the governor, and others saying we are aware of the pain you may be going through and trying to make it better and though there may be poz -- positive and there are those that want more help. i was speaking with candy molina who just got back to her house in houston and she said in a conversation that was very emotional, she has four children, she wasn't sure when she was going to be able to get the next meal for them. the last time they ate was the last -- last night. and she was coming to tears during that conversation. have you seen those sorts of stories at these resource centers, at the shelters where they are saying, we're glad

you're here but you need to move faster. >> yeah, and i think one of the things about a lot of folks we spoke to is their home is all they have. and to abandon your home is a lot easier said than done. but that is your asset, that is your nest, where you are raising your family and despite the fact that it was six feet under water, you want to try and salvage as much as you can. you want to try and keep things normal as much as you can for those children and right now everybody's lived are upended and everything feels temporary and i think that is the real struggle, is to try and provide some sense of stability and continuity and not feel like they have to pick up their feet and go wherever they could find shelter and wherever they could find food and at this point this stability isn't there yet for everyone. >> some of the headlines coming out this afternoon from reuters in terms of oil supply, this is

rell vent because people -- relevant because people need fuel to get supplies to people that are stranded. it is about 6.1% of oil production offline right now. that could effect clearly pricing which we've been talking about over the last week. we're also hearing that certain suburbs will not have schools open come tuesday. that makes a lot of sense given some of the flooding there. but then the question is, where do they go, what do they do. what is the situation in terms of those every day needs, gasoline, staples, food and water. like in beaumont, with the water supply pumps not working. what is the latest on that today. >> i think in houston proper, the supplies are solid. >> there are gas stations open and restaurants to go have dinner at. those are solid. but on the fringes, that is not the case. and they were reported from bay

town, texas, a few days ago and that area has the second largest oil refiner in the country and an exxon oil refinery that had the roof collapse because of damage. that refinery has 7,000 employees. it was closed and we were speaking to people that live in that area, all of the people that live in that area work at that refinery. so you have to think about the fact that there 7,000 people in that area alone that are not going to work and that becomes a real hardship for people, financially, if you work for yourself or if you are self-employed aub self-employed and you no longer have a house to do your business out of, how do generate income and make money and that financial stress is really taking a toll on people a week after -- a week after the storm. >> also the associated press, katie, reporting that the epa not on the ground there in the

texas-louisiana our yearea and the issues of explosions and below and above ground storage tanks and lack of electricity and concerns about this stuff leaching into the ground and into dirt through water, that is a long-term problem. are they addressing that and have you heard the same about the epa? >> reporter: we've heard there is some monitoring done by the epa and they are keeping track somewhat of the toxic chemical leave level -- levels but there are concerns being in the homes after the floodwaters and you go in there and we've been wearing surgical masks but by 3 or 4 minutes you could feel your lungs start to burn. it is not a good respiratory situation and actually with all of the flood damage, the mold, you could smell it immediately. could you smell the mold on the front lawn from the belongings in the house and now on the

front lawn. if you stand next to the pile, you begin to take those fumes in. so it is a dangerous situation and for a lot of people cleaning their homes, they are skboezing them -- exposing themselves to dangerous things. >> katie beck for us. been covering the story out of texas for us. the visit by president trump who just left texas and is now in louisiana. in lake charles. some of the video from moments ago as he was arriving. katie, thank you so much and of course we'll stop back with you later to get the latest in terms of what you are seeing in recovery and helping those who need help. let's bring in political reporter daniel litman and policy editor for vice news, alex thompson. let me start with this, if i could here daniel, this president now on the ground in louisiana. it appears that despite -- and i brought it up earlier, the president that doesn't

necessarily even like to shake hands. this because -- of various issues. but he's been hugging children, he is on the ground meeting many different types of people and doing something that every president has had to do in the past. do you think this president is now shifting gears. he is learning for the first time this lesson that unfortunately what it takes to handle a natural disaster. >> he has grown into the as job -- the job as comforter and chief and to step up his game and even democrats were quoted in stories who were victims in texas saying we're glad trump is here. it is good to see the federal government on the ground. and so i think trump sees this as an opportunity to kind of have a big bright spot in terms of this year. which has been full of negative

headlines. i think he wants to do a good job and shown that he can live up to his -- management experience and this is a great chance foyer him to re-set the conversation and re-set people's image of him if they do a good job in this harvey clean-up. >> and as he's watching -- during the harvey clean-up and trying to be part of the solution, he announced the billion dollars -- the $8 billion today alex and this narrative, if we just take a step away from the much needed attention to the help of people on the ground there, the narrative for him is good. given even within the last 24 hours russia is still an issue here. >> absolutely. the president -- by going down there, we had the first chance this week. he went -- he was criticized for saying that he saw the devastation, when he actually hadn't gone close to there because he didn't want to

interfere with efforts and now that he's down there, he he looks like he is appraising the situation. of course at the end of the day, it -- it will really matter for houston is what happens over the next 18 months. but for trump's immediate political future, it was good that he went down there and he got a chance to do what he didn't get a chance to do earlier this week. >> and to apply a little bit of what the president said in houston, texas, he was talking with the press and told the press what you thought about the recovery effort so far. let me play a little bit of that. we don't have that as of now. but he basically said, it was well received, we now have it, we'll play it. >> really, i think people appreciate what has been done. it has been done very efficiently and very well and we're very happy with the way everything has gone. >> they're really happy with what is going on. it has been something -- it is very well received.

even by you guys. it has been well received. >> daniel, so from the president's perception here and his conversation, he's very happy with what the first responders and those who are on the ground are doing and no doubt many folks will agree with him on that. but on the flip side, there is a concern that is there enough help and i've spoken with some first responders and directly and they are not thinking that they have all of the -- all of the needs satisfied. >> that is true, richard. you saw yesterday that they -- the federal government increased the request for disaster help from congress by a billion dollars. because the federal -- the fema is spending much more money out of their fund for disaster help than they expected. and so even over -- a period of 12 hours, they increased that request by a billion dollars. which means that there are serious needs that this is going to be probably the second most

costly natural disaster in history. and we could see more storms coming up because of climate change. that is a big issue that i think has been overlooked sometimes because just in the last ten years, you see two huge natural disasters, katrina and harvey, that climate scientists say there is a greater chance you will see those at an increased rate over the next few years. >> and you heard it, a thousand year incident here. i want to talk about harvey. and the maps right now from noaa, going to have a live map online that shows the flooding there in the houston area as well as in louisiana area, those two -- excuse me, texas and louisiana, the two states hit so hard and the globs on this map are still huge. and alex thompson, when i was speaking with representative al

green last hour, he said well the president seems supportive. and although he is committed to $8 billion, i think it is going to be over $100 billion and we've heard that number before because of katrina, right. and with the big battling coming up in the coming weeks, the question is, will this become over politicized as we have seen such -- such things happen before. >> well it is already becoming politicized. whether it is over or not, we are going to find out very quickly. the -- because as they mentioned, fema is burning through the money so quickly, this artificially moves up the deadline for the debt ceiling which many members of even the republican party have wanted to use to enact other reforms. and then you also have the budget coming up and you have to reauthorize several other important programs, including the flood insurance program at the end of the month. so it is not just rep al green, also his republican counterpart has been saying that this could

be even more than katrina. another republican from texas said. so you are going to see harvey is going to impact hundreds of thousands of people in the houston area. but it is also going to impact everyone's jobs in d.c. for next month. >> all right. yeah. certainly. daniel litman and alex thompson, thank you. >> thank you. we're expecting to see live pictures of president trump's arrival at the next destination in louisiana. we've been playing the tape when he got off the plane and we'll have that for you as he surveyed recovery effort and new developments in the russia investigation which we wufr just allude -- we were just alluding to surrounding the firing of james comey. stick around. ♪

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president trump is in louisiana right now. to get an update on recovery efforts there after visiting houston his visit to areas suffering from hurricane harvey. a catastrophic flooding from harvey has displayed many

residents and thousands with homes unlivable and property destroyed beyond repair and the president has requested $8 billion and earlier today he praised those on the ground helping to rebuild. >> they have done a fantastic job of getting things together. so when was the water at this level. when did it disappear? >> saturday morning. >> and for how many days was it up? >> [ inaudible ]. >> just one of many conversations he has had along the roads that he's traveled so far. joining me now on the phone is harris county judge ed emit with the harris county office of home security emergency management and the hurricane harvey relief center and met with the president as he made many stops. thank you for being here, judge. tell me how the conversation went and what you saw? >> well, the conversation went very well. the shelter that the president visited was one that harris

county set up in a matter of six hours to handle 10,000 people. we haven't had that many people in it, fortunately, but it is probably the model that will be followed in the future and i think the president was impressed. but more importantly, the conversation was very direct about what is needed next and that was a lot of conversation about debris removal, and i must say he -- he not only list anned, he basically turn his aides and said get it done and 15 minutes later my office got a e-mail from the white house saying this is what is going to happen. so, you got to admire that. >> well yeah, if we could turn around things that fast, judge, that was pretty quick. most importantly, though, how are folks doing there in houston? >> in houston, and harris county, we're doing better. we still got thousands of people that aren't going to get back in their homes any time soon. but we've now reached out to the other areas around the state and

said, we've got a shelter and it is set up and state-of-the-art. come our way if you need us. >> one of the conversations i had earlier and i have to bring it up for those viewers who are maybe just joining us, judge and that is candy molina and she got back into her home, sir. but she spent about three minutes saying she was worried because they had four kid and they hadn't eaten since last night and didn't know where they would get the next meal in the next bunch of hours. and i know you hate to hear that because especially doing what you do there at the security management space and that office that you just were talking about that you were able to open. >> yeah, i do hate to hear that. because there are meals available. certainly here at the shelter, everybody is getting three hot meals day and we could go up to 60,000 meals a day and if we have to and the various groups that we have meals ready to

eat -- those that are readily available. i hope she would contact the right group because we could get her meals. >> and i know that there are solutions out there. and smiexs it is just getting -- sometimes it is just getting the information as you know, judge. we are watching live pictures of president trump and his motorcade, he is in lake charles, louisiana. it is 4:23 local time and the second major stop as he looked at the hurricane harvey affected areas on this area there in the south. judge, what do you need? >> at this point, we've moved away from the rescue operation. we totally back in the reconstruction mode. we need -- and fema is on the ground and as i've told everybody, everything that is going on right now is great. two weeks from now, if people haven't been able to register for housing assistance and they haven't been able to get people close to their neighborhoods, then we'll be fussing about it.

but right now, we're just working the process and things are good. and in fact, people keep saving supplies here and we keep saying go over to beaumont and port arthur where the water supply was cut off and help those people. we're in that recovery stage now. >> 120,000 there in beaumont affected by the water pumps not working and to get potable water and that is important because you need water and could survive without food but you need that good water that you could drink. are you helping beaumont and coordinating with them. i know you have a lot to do if harris county, but are you coordinated with them at all. >> to the extent that we are opening our shelters and we are diverting resources to them, but the state of texas, counties are an arm of the state government and the state is going a good job of letting everything flow toward beaumont and port arthur. this is a three part battle.

hurricane harvey went in and moved to us and now moved over there. and hopefully we'll all be in that recovery stage pretty soon. >> and sir, how are the small shops doing and do they have supplies should they be able to open? you did mention there is some restaurants, are there restaurants that are for the most part open as well? if people do move back to their homes and do need a meal? >> yeah, it depends. a lot of restaurants are open. the grocery stores are all open. which is good. because otherwise, we would have had to go to what are called points of distribution. but stores are stocked and if one was flooded, it might not be. but there are ample food stuffs available. >> that is good to hear. stand by for a second. we are watching live pictures here in lake charles, louisiana. 4:25 p.m., president trump arriving along with melania trump. the first lady and along with four members of his cabinet in

tow. judge, the numbers came out today that about 5% or 6% of the infrastructure for production of oil is offline right now. >> correct. >> is there enough oil or pet roll there for folks to put into their suvs and their cars to get around because that is very essential during this recovery phase. >> yes. there is. and in fact, i've been driving around town today and you don't see long lines and you don't see gasoline stations closed. >> no lines? no lines? >> no lines. because people -- we don't have as many people out driving as you would on a normal day. but, yeah, it is available. but what -- one of the reasons we have had lines, we any how that industry works and people went to fill up before the price went up. >> and you have had any reports of gouging? >> very minimal. and those all go through the attorney general and the

district attorney. but very minimal reports of that. and minimal reports of looting. so generally things are calm. but as i said, stay calm, until we get to the point where people don't feel like they are making any progress. and this is why we are really ramped up by the whole recovery process. we have got to get that going. and school is starting. one of my goals is to make sure kids get to go to the school they are going to and that means you have to get close to the neighborhood. >> and the word is when many districts do start classes on september 11th, they won't be open and you'll have to find some other plan for now. understandable, sir. but i know you are focused on trying to solve that problem. judge ed emit, thank you for all of your great work down there and it is good to have some positive headlines to report on today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> thank you, sir. i want to bring in reporter scott detrow who covers congress. and scott, what we're watching right now are live pictures of

president trump, welcoming the president and first lady and many folks happy to see the president of the united states come down to their area and say, everything is going to be okay, we're going to take care of you there in lake charles, louisiana and it seems like in houston, texas, and in all of the places that he did stop, there was report that on his way to air force one he stopped at a church. so it sounds like there is some ad hoc stops as well as might happen during such difficult times as the president tries to get a sense of what those every day americans down there are going through. as you watch the president on his trip today, what is your reflection. >> i don't think doesn't get more nonpartisan than this for the president of the united states. he representing the country and saying the country cares about you, the country will support you, the country will help you rebuild. the fact that one of the people who met president trump on the tarmac today was al green, who went on the floor of the house and was one of the first

democrats to say, we need to impeach president trump. >> that is right. >> but there they were talking today because rebuilding a house, rebuilding a community, the big picture is something that both parties agree on. when you get into the details of how much funding and things like that. you have negotiations. but by enlarge it is a big deal and a psychological boost. think about it. if you are in a convention center in -- not knowing whether your house is going to be there when you get back. it sends a huge message for the president to show up and say the country cares about what you are going through right now. so i think you are seeing a lot of images today of president trump playing that traditional commander-in-chief role, that up until this point we've only seen a handful of times from him. >> i also want to bring in to join our conversation, brian darling, a staffer for rand paul. do we have him. >> i'm here. >> thank you for being --. what is your reflection. we were just talking about how

the president has been working this afternoon, to stop, to stop and a lot of positive response and regardless of political affiliation, things have been above middle shall we say in terms of it being good. is this now a turn in the pike here? >> i think it is. i think it's an awful situation we saw with the storm just, and devastation and the loss of life, it is a awful and terrible shich and it is times like these where a nation pulls together and the nation -- everybody is rooting for people in texas and louisiana. and really want things to work out for them. i mean, you look at congress, congress is talking about potentially taking up a disaster relief bill very quickly and passing it reasonably quickly. you don't hear that very much. you don't hear talk like that about passing legislation on any issue like this. so i think it is a positive development, again it is an awful situation. but president trump is showing

leadership, he's showing compassion and doing what he needs to do as president to help bring the country together. >> the question is, here as we move to monday and tuesday and wednesday and the coming weeks when we have the debt limit coming up, does this opening in the road, does the president decide to take it or not and, brian, as we have seen before, we could move from a what seems to be a day for regardless of party everybody is together on helping people here, but that could quickly change. >> yeah, it can. and my worries is that congress will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because we are already reading it is possible this disaster relief bill will pass the house and go over to the senate and they'll try and add an increase in the debt limit to it. that will really complicate prospects for quick passage of the disaster relief bill. and again it may be a situation, an example of congress fumbling the ball and making a mistake because they should pass this bill and get it done.

if they attach a debt limit increase into the bill, that is going to cause massive problems. >> scott, does the president pass that important test, his first major national -- major natural disaster, does he pass the empathy test here? >> he certainly is doing a good job of it today. i think it's better scenes and better images than earlier this week. earlier this week, what you saw was president trump doing what he's tended to do on the campaign trail and so far in his presidency, meeting with people in a controlled setting and having a meeting and there were logistical reasons not to go down to the convention center in houston when so much of the city was still under water but today us out and interacting with people and giving them that boost to say the country is going to be here to back you up. but i think that -- i think that emergency funding could get tricky pretty quickly. the $8 billion or so, looks like that will be passed next week, according to most congressional leaders. that is probably less than 10%

of what texas and louisiana are going to need based on initial estimates. there are several more bills to come and the bigger they get, the more controversial it could get. especially given all of the other stuff congress has to do. it has no choice to do. and remember, that critical national flood insurance program that so many people in houston are going to be relying on is one of the things that needs to be reauthorized in the next month. >> and brian, as we get to that over $100 billion estimate as the president will need to answer to that. right. and we've seen it before. because of sandy and katrina, where the numbers quickly do grow after the initial brunt of the storm leaves and with the reporting from noaa now is harvey will leave north america at the end of this holiday weekend. and folks will not miss harvey very much. how does this president handle it with the issue of the debt limit and handle it well so that it brings together congress as opposed to separating congress

as well as congress from the white house? >> well, first you have to remember after superstorm sandy, there were two relief measures. one was a smaller one, much like the measure we'll see coming up for harvey next week and then the $50 billion measure, that was a controversial one that many were criticized because it had rerelated items in it. that is the million dollar question. if kolgs attempts to -- congress attempts to pass a debt limit increase. that is a problem. if they wait and try to pass it with another disaster relief bill that is bigger, they may have a better chance. but again, you are mixingishures that don't need to be together. congress is going to have a difficult time passing a debt limit increase. they should keep the dafter relief -- the disaster relief package separate because all avenue sudden this is going to get all political and the hand holding will end and all of the good feelings will go away. >> stand by if you can. my two friends.

scott and brian. what we're going to do is take -- we're going to take a short break. we're going to continue to watch what is happening as the president arriving in lake charles, louisiana. 4:34 local time and a lot of folks that need help cannot wait to see the president. we'll of course get right back to them. ♪ ♪ hi! leaving a career to follow a calling takes courage. a personalized financial strategy can give you confidence to take the next step. hi guys! aw yeah! see how access to j.p. morgan investment expertise can help you. chase. make more of what's yours.

all right. we're looking at pictures there in louisiana. the president surveying the two states that were absolutely hammered by hurricane harvey. lake charles, louisiana. we understand that he probably is in the national guard armory, probably meeting some of the first responders and some of the boots on the ground that are there helping to make the situation better in the recovery efforts. we're now in that stage of trying to get folks out of the emergency shelters and back into their homes and/or some other type of permanent housing, whether it be trailers or what have you, that may be available in the coming days. so we're waiting to see when the

president does come out of that national guard armory in lake charles, louisiana. and we'll have the live pictures when it happens. as we do wait, i want to bring in texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee who is part of the delegation who met with the president earlier today. she's live with us by phone. and i was watching the live video, representative, and i saw you there sending the president off as he was getting into air force one. and you had an opportunity to speak with him. what did you talk about, representative. >> well thank you very much. every time i have an opportunity i want to thank the first responders and the coast guard, national guard and the united states military and all of the volunteers and of course offer my sympathy to those families who loved ones lost their life. i'm en route to the family who lost four of their children and their grandparents and some -- so i'm right outside of their area getting ready to go and see them. so this is a catastrophic

incident and we took every opportunity in this time with the president to really push the financial needs of our constituents. it was all business. i handed him a letter, a bipartisan letter asking that we get immediate eerm advancement or what it is called or an expedited reimbursement. so simultaneously as we send the invoice, they send us the money. because our local officials, counties, small cities, big cities, large counties, large cities, they cannot afford it. we cannot afford to carry this enormous financial catastrophic and emotional and human event. >> i have to ask you this representative, because your city of houston has been hit hard and we look at the latest real-time noaa satellite imam --

images of what is flooded and there is a big blob over houston in terms of an area that noaa is considering, the national hurricane center. how are things going. >> well you are absolutely right. this morning i was out giving food to people who are at this point without food and water. because they have been waterlogged, the water has gone down so we have not only areas that are under water, west houston, kingwood, and my other colleagues districts but we are well aware and we know that west houston is needing a lot of help, as the areas who have now drained, north east houston and i'm in northeast houston now. we're going to be going out and giving out food, what is happening is that people are drying out, but they have nothing. because if you travel the -- the breadth and distance of this county and city, everybody's belongings what they did have is all out. the damage is so catastrophic that tvs and couches and rugs

and personal belongings are out on the front. it is a painful scene to see. but it is even more painful that they don't have water. they don't have medical care. and they don't have -- and they don't have food. the city and county are doing an excellent job as you well know. we have the convention center shelter that is set up early. i've been there since sunday. nrg combining a lot of shelters there and so certainly the local leaders have done the emergency work. now we have to deal with placing people, but more importantly we have to deal with people who were able to stay in place, who were still around areas where they can't access the basic necessities. so that is why i think this request of which we emphasize, i'll give you two points that i emphasize. one, replace the dam. put in new dams and secure those dams and make them able to with stand the catastrophic incident of hurricane harvey.

and then to support us in upwards of $200 billion in aid. we have $100 million that is coming. we have a crunch of $8 billion that is coming out. but i tried to make the point over and over again to the president that this obviously is a beginning that we think this damage across this landscape of those who have been in the eye of hurricane harvey is upwards of $200 billion. >> upwards of $200 billion. and those who have been looking at the numbers saying over 100 brls. you are saying going even larger. and one of the elements, representative, might be that as we look at the petro chemical belt of america where you are at and the refineries on and off shore like when we see explosions like arkema yesterday and further issues related to underground storage tanks and above ground storage tanks an the epa, according to the associated press, not being on the ground at fund sites which there are plenty there in the region of texas and louisiana,

that has got to be part of your concern as we look forward to not even today but in the coming weeks. >> richard, you are absolutely right. and i have spoke to the homeland security department -- homeland security, conveyed just -- spoke to secretary duke, but i've been in touch with her staff, earl iy this morning. i'm asking for the epa to be on the ground. i'm asking for dhs to be on the ground. i want a chemical plant by chemical plant inspection now. i want a refinery by refinery inspection now. i want to determine who is under water and who is not. because as you well know, the plant in -- in crosby is allowed to burn out. that means it is going to be a succession of fires. i don't want to take the word that it is not toxic. i don't live in those neighborhoods but i live up stream. there are other people that live downstream in terms of the flow of air and we can never count

that a chemical is not toxic. that is going to be one ever my major issues in terms of protecting the surrounding areas, as a member of the homeland security committee, i'm grateful to say that the team has indicated that they are going to be responsive and going to check back on my request for inspection. but they are getting a team together of epa and dhs -- >> representative. >> to address the question of these sites. >> representative sheila jackson, i can't thank you enough for taking the time. you go from sight db -- going from sig from sig fr from sight to site. and thank you i appreciate your time. >> thank you for caring. >> you bet. and now straight to some tape that we just got in. president trump here meeting with some of the first responders and some of the those on the ground that are helping. let's listen.

so as we've been doing we are getting in tape and live pictures throughout the afternoon and we wh we can we like to listen to the conversations. we heard a little bit of last -- laughter and the president thanking those in lake charles, louisiana and moments ago and this is the second big stop for the president on this afternoon. 4:46 local time. associated press reporter has been with the president and she joins us by phone right now. and darlene maybe you were able to listen to the president as he was meeting here inside of the armory but how has the little

visit been going there. >> reporter: well it is over now and we're on our way back to the airport. for a flight back to washington, d.c. but the president wanted to come here to lake charles to greet and to thank a lot of the emergency responder folks who have been working pretty much around the clock since hurricane harvey struck in this area. >> and darlene, what is that sense? because these are the folks doing everything? how is the energy level and then back to the president. but what was the sense of the energy level of those national guard members there, that the president was meeting? >> reporter: oh, it is usually a thrill for these folks when they see somebody like the president of the united states come to where they are and acknowledge the hard work that they've been doing. so there is great energy in the room when he was there. >> what about -- their over all energy level. becausas were noting, many of them were working potentially days straight. >> reporter: and it is hard for me to say. we did not get to interact with any them or speak with any of

them. it was just the president and the first lady and other officials like governor john bill edwards here in louisiana and members of congress. >> and so how would you summarize as you are now on air force one and getting ready to head back to washington, d.c., how has that tenor been between the people that the president has met? >> reporter: oh, there is a great turnout here in lake charles for the president. the streets are lined with lots of people waving flags and holding signs. just absolutely thrilled and happy to see him come to their small town. it was the same case back in houston. the first stop was the nrg center which is turned to a setter for many mem -- for many people displace and they were happy to see him come there and interact there and interact with children and help serve lunch. >> what have been the topics that houstonians have brought up with him that louisianans have brought up with him?

>> reporter: we were not close enough to hear a lot of the one-on-one conversations he was having with a lot of the people he met in houston. some of us tried to ask the president what he was hearing from folks as he met with them. and he said that they were just happy and everything was going well. and he sensed a lot of happiness in the room. >> one of the questions that those will ask, is were the stops that he made representative of what the over all damage is and i've been alluding to this this afternoon, because the amount of flooding as we all know, the map is still, when you look at the map itself, it is full of a lot of water. >> reporter: yeah, he went to a church in a suburb of houston that is called per val land and we were told that just a few days ago those roads were under water, cars couldn't drive through. so just in the matter of days, things have cleared up enough for people to start getting out and driving around and clear up

enough for the president of the united states to make a visit. >> we also looking at the reportering from you and associated press and maybe you were just alluding to that. didn't seem like it was on the plan, but he -- the entower age decided we're going to stop there. do you know anything about that? >> about the stop at the church? >> yes. that's right. >> at the church there's a big distribution program that's going on. people are able to come by and pick up a box of food supplies. they're able to pick up a second box with toiletries. the president and the first lady came to sort of witness that whole operation, thank the volunteers, a lot of whom are members of the church. it's stalled first church of if you are land. and then after that stop the president went outside and there's kind of a driveway where people can literally drive up in their cars or trucks and pick up supplies. and the president loaded up or helped load about a half a dozen

cars and trucks with boxes of supplies and water, packets of water and that kind of thing. >> as you know because you're dofrg the president, we have this impending question of what happens on tuesday with daca, which is that obama era executive order related to those who were brought here by their parents, the parents coming to the united states illegally and the children being brought here in that process. was that brought up at all -- the reason why i bring that up because when you look at texas, there's almost 300,000 daca eligible individuals, which is pretty much the line's share, one of the line's share of those who would be affected by this decision. was that brought up at all? okay. again, we were talking with the "associated press's" darlene superville. she is with the president.

she was saying that air force one is about to get moving and head back to washington, d.c. it could be that that is why we've lost connection with darlene superville, but she has been with the president all day and was giving us the sort of sense of what it was like to be with the president along with the first lady and the four members of his cabinet. some of the discussions that he had had not only with houstonians, louisianans, but also first responders, elected officials, for the most part what we're hearing in our conversations regardless of party have felt that this has been a receptive and a positive visit by president trump so far. and as i was speaking with the "associated press's" darlene superville, that last question i was asking was come tuesday and it's been a big topic over the last several days is what would he decide on daca. and as the president does visit

flood ravaged areas of those two states i was just mentioning, there was tuesday right in front of him. and again, the daca program which allows young people prout here illegally as children whether or not to let them remain in the country. and joining me now from houston, 15-year-old and her name is i can't see mean med ron notice. thank you for joining me right now. and you just applied for daca. do you know where that might go and with especially the tuesday decision in front of you? what are you thinking? >> i'm very excited. i'm nervous as well just waiting to see if the president, what he's going to do with daca. i'm alley nervous because that's going to affect me. >> it certainly can. are you affected by harvey? were you pushed out of your home and now need to be at a shelter?

how did the storm affect you? >> the storm flooded my whole house, so we were really scared at that time. it flooded all our house. our furniture is gone, so that really affect me because now i don't really have a place to stay. so the storm affect -- it didn't also affect me. it affect almost everyone here in texas. it affect us really bad, especially us immigrants that don't have any help from other places that can help us. that's really stressful. >> and i can't see mean, you're probably talking about because of your parents' status or your parent's status as well as yourself applying for federal assistance will be extremely difficult or if not nonexistent for your family. >> yeah.

>> have you talked about that with your parent or parents? >> yeah. we were talking about it because while we were at lone star because we were there for a while because we didn't have a house. we were talking about how the government is going to help us, if it's even going to help us because we don't have a social security. we can't apply to sfeema. red cross didn't even help us. so we're thinking like what are we going to do? how are we going to fix the house? what are we going to do when this is all over. what are we going to do? we don't know, so it's really stressful. >> were you worried about that when you moved into the shelter or when you reached out for help at the different centers? is that something that also passed through your mind? >> at one point i was so worried about my house and how my mom is going to start working and all that that i didn't even think about it until we got there and we saw fema there and my parents

started talking it. and i was just thinking, well, weapon don't have a social security. how about if they ask. i was scared to ask for help. my parents were scared to ask for help because the new law that was coming about police officers asking for your papers, we didn't want to ask for help. we were so scared of getting deported, of them we can't help you, can't be at lone star because you don't have papers, you don't have that. the lone star helped us no matter what. they gave us a play to stay and everything. so, yeah, we were thinking about through the whole time that we were there, that fema came to help others. sadly, they wouldn't help us because of social security. >> i can't see mean ma dron notice there in texas. a dreamer. one of those who have applied for the obama era executive order that assists those who are brought here by their parents

illegally. thank you so much. i know it's very difficult right now there in texas. so thank you so much and much luck to you, my friend. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. marie callender knows that a homemade turkey dinner can make anyone slow down and pull up a seat to the table. that's why she takes the time to season her turkey to perfection, and make stuffing from scratch. so that you can spend time on what really matters. marie callender's. it's time to savor.

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watching the breaking news coming out of louisiana, president trump still at the national guard ar mother there in louisiana. and after he's just left the armory is what we understand and heading towards air force one, but these pictures from moments ago where the president was visiting those who have helped in the recovery effort after hurricane harvey. and it's been a very busy afternoon, but a shortstop there as we were speaking with the "associated press's" darlene superville saying that the president wanted to get through and make that quick stop there. nbc's katy beck has also been following the president on this saturday and he spent a majority of his time really