>> let ' go into the storm zone president trump visits texas today to oversee the response to hurricane harvey, in fact he's already promised the loan star state whatever the it needs to rebuild. they're hoping to learn from past mistakes. check the run down from the left side of your screen. this is what we're talking about on tonight at 5@6:30 we want to look at it from five years, ten years is this is the way to do it. this is of epic proportion. i want to say working with the governor and his entire team has been an o honor for us. governor, again , thank you very much. >> the fall out from harvey, president trump visited texas& today to get a firsthand look at the dev

tomorrow is over the golf picking up moisture, the death l toll is certainly going to rise as rescuers continue to race to make their way to stranded people in texas. just seeing the devastation, the images of people being rescued from roofs you saw that off the roof of a car. the president was in corpus christi, but a bit away from the storm zone. many people are watching president trump's response. he promised texas speedy federal assistance hey, yim and shawn, the president, he spent most of the day, he started early this morningen route to texas. he's on air force one headed back to our region. he didn't really go to the heart of the damage i'll tell you, he's the not getting any controversial over that. i spoke with jason russell of the washington examiner about the president's

points that he made today and why they really were the right decision. take a listen. the one concern is obviously you you you don't want the presidents to become a dis\tax\tacks. you don't want his security detail to keep aid from getting where it needs toking go. that's why i think it was smart he was in corpus christie and not in downtown houston. it's important to go and fly over the damaged areas without becoming a distracts to the aid efforts on the ground which he seems to be doing. now as jason mentioned he was in corpus christie also also went to austin today. interestingly enough when we talk about the stopping points that the president decided to make and his team, of course, a lot of this was done very last minute throughout the day we were getting updates from the white house press pool l who were with the president and we did not have details of those stops simply because of the president's teams efforts to

devastation, but as we said yesterday, the president also mentioned that he might go back on saturday, night go to louisiana on saturday. so that might be a time when the president decides to visit some of these more, you you know, horrifying areas. shawn, as you you mentioned, the inl every images are really shocking and terrible. of course the day wasn't without controversy. some have criticized whosh the partnership was heart full enough or compassionate enough and then there was a line of controversy over melania trum's you shoes. she did end up wearing sneakers. she started off the day in high heels and then changed to more appropriate shoes. some of it silly. the president taking on the role for the first time since he started in office of handling and responding to a a natural disaster. so a lot more in front of us, especially in light of whether or not the funding for harvey relief will be in

way tied to these talks of a government shutdown. so a lot to still look ahead to when people are deciding and grading, if you you you will, the president's response to this horrific tragedy. back to you you. you pointed out earlier, the different tones that pawsm, president bush struck in times of tragedy. this is all part of the job. we appreciate it. as harvey continues to dump on whose torng then \tier\tear it a is feeling the economic impact. >> so the cost of recovery for the storm expected to be anywhere from 30 to 100 billion-dollar. property damage alen expected to be in the 40 billions and many homeowners are not covered with flood insurance. many insurance companies expecting people to foil their claims by thursday. this is going to be a difficult road what i can prose

that the federal government will be working as closely w as possible with the take it and local officials and when will not quit until this is done. i will tell you you this is historic. it's epic what happened, but you know what, it happened in texas and texas can handle anything. there we saw a little bit of president bush during contact tren a, president obama during sandy and of course president trump today. for more on the potential political storm from harvey, paul bled shaw at school of public affairs joins us. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, shawn. from looking a at the current president has responded, what grade would you you give the administration so far. >> i think so far the president has struck the right tone, which is to bring people together and to emphasize relieving the immediate suffering. the guess i think are going to arise when we figure out how we're going to pay for

to get back next week. they're almost certainly going to pay for the emergency harvey fund as part of a broader effort to race the us debt limit which is politically contentious and also most importantly to fund the government. >> right. >> which they haven't done. that's all going to be part of one big package, i suspect. what's interesting is that donald trump had previously threatened to hold the debt limit and the funding billion hostage over his border wall? a. i don't think president trump can hold the victims of the houston harvey flood hostage to his border wall. you you hate to bring politics up at a time like this, but it's going to happen. one story that's gotten a the lot of play over the last couple of days was after saturday we had a coalition of lawmakers who voted down relieve for hur containan

you you arrested on an outstanding he a lot of democratic lawmakers from new jersey saying we're not going to do what ted cruz did. are they trying to take sides too early or is this all part of the game? a. you're all the right. only one republican from texas voted for the sandy funning. ted cruz made a particular issue over it their contention was there was ex extraneous funding, but that's the exact kind of funding they're going to want in the harvey rescue billion and the reason is it will reduce long term cost. we need to plan our communities better for these floods which they'll call 500 year floods seemed to be happening every five years. we're going to have to plan our communities better to reduce these costs in the long run so some of the funding should go to that. planning those communities and doing this is certainlying whying to cost money. i know that back during when vice-president

he reducing the number for other programs. do you think that we'll see something like that this time around and the wheel ing and dealing in quong. i think they're going to be some in the conservative freedom caucus who attempt to make amenities to that effect but i don't think speaker ryan will be having any of it. i don't think it will become law and ultimately i think there will be broad by partisan support for this funding. i do think however, the irany is that fund ing for harvey will make raising the debt limit easier for republicans and quiet the criticism that had been coming from the house freedom caucus. >> makes sense. please come back because i know there's going to be a lot more to talk about this in the days and weeks and months to come. >> thanks for being here. a lot of have been asking us how can we help. >> there are a lot of people who want to donate food or clothing it does

pack up supplies. the best way to do it is money. there are many other ways to help and you you can find the full list on fox5dc.com. let's talk about the storm and the weather here in our area. let's check in with caitlyn roth. here's the good news here. we've had our share of rain it's been doom i and gloomy today, but the sunnies going to come out tomorrow. you're going to talk about the hurricane off the top, but we mentioned with the storm and baseball tonight, a lot of factors. >> i'll get straight to our radar in a minute. but first an update on tropical storm harvey, i was looking at a loop going back to early friday morning showing the whole gretion on radar. it's just incredible. each day harvey had only had epa hour or two without any radar. that was beginning friday and here we are tuesday evening. it is still raining in

hukly tropical storm harvey on its way out. the rain is start ing to come to an end in the western suburbs of washington, d.c. we've had a wet, cool day thanks to tropical depression number ten neferl did develop into a tropical storm many we should be clearing out through the rest of the evening so the nats should be able to play ball. tomorrow, wednesday, a nice afternoon and warm on thursday the pardon for ohio ar pio, the question is was it legal, was it illegal. we're going to take a closer look when the 5@6:30 returns.

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all options are on the table when it comes to the u response president trump, the gentleman in an's prime minister calling for an emergency meeting of the us security council, the two spoke by phone after korea fired the missile into the pacific ocean. it had the longest range of any of their recent tests. we are going to talk about what else is left to do to north korea. no country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million in japan. it's unacceptable. they have violated every single us security counsel resolution that we've had so i think something serious has to happen. we hope china and russia continues to work with us like they have in the past on north korea, but i think he enough is enough. the latest missile launch comes after president trump threatens to quote bring fire and furry to the regime if they continue to threaten the united states. a big story that broke on friday, president trump

joe arpaio and so why and how he did it is still stirring up controversy. kim letterly while i a professor at the balance more law school is here with us tonight. >> thanks for being with us. it is unconventional, but did the pardon break the constitution, is it unconstitutional? >> i don't think there's an answer to that question at this point. i think that a lot of the conversation has assumed that the pardon power is unlimit ed and the constitutions is a really old document, 1789 and lots of it is not clear, in my view, including that. we have to acknowledge that some of stuff is gray and in this instance i think with ar pay oh there could be some issues that are different than we've seen in prior circumstances with pardons . any idea what kind of issues we're talking about there ? they're two in particular. one is the timing of it. when you think about most parns

on the way out the door. he's going to be a private citizen. he pardons people, the public gets upset. mark rich, for example rg during the clinton administration, a prime example. >> absolutely. this one was early in his first term and signals a possibility that he might use this power while he's a sitting president and does that shift the dynamics of the govment a little bit and the second thing that i find a little conventional problemmic is the fact that we're talking about a court order that was violated and a decision that, to relieve mr. arpaio for any liability for violating a court order. without courts that function in a way that the public respects and the government respects we're really could get into a constitutional crisis. the president and his folks say, look, the constitution gives him the broad power and the authority to pardon, you know, anybody on a federal level like that. many people are asking do you think he he could he -- if we start to

investigation he could end up pardoning himself. can a president pardon himself? that's one of the key questions that is being asked right now and that's why i think it's important to make clear it isn't clear because with arpaio, again , we're not entirely sure. can the president pardon himself , i think if he wassen geajed in some kind of obstruction of justice or committing some kind of crime it would be really difficult for a court to up hold that. we can look at it from this perspective and say there's a gray area we're not sure where it's going to go from here. we can talk about it, but who is the one out there that says we're going to investigate that or define that in who does that. >> it would have to be the supreme court and in this instance it would probably be difficult to find a plaintiff to bring the casement we have three levers of power, the president, the courts and congress and so far we've seen congress sort of watching things go and weem ' see if they make a decision to move forward on

peachment. what about the justice department? i know that's still a gray area as well . would they have some sort of legs to stand on. >> it's going to enforce constitutional questions to the extent that they relate to the government. you you you really need what i call a broken arm plaintiff. you you need someone that says i was hurt by this pardon. i'm now different from the rest of the world. i can come in and get a judge to re solve my problem. i have on ask you this quickly, onmccain said if president trump ran as the law and order candidate this is proof that he's not respect ing the law. do you you agree with that mp i would definitely a agree with that. you put a driver in a car and you you want the draifer to get out of the car and have the car remain intact. president trump is the draifer of our car, the car is our constitution and we want it to stay in that shape for the next president for future generations. and i think when you start thumbing your nose the at judicial orders. it really is something to be concerned about. i

with him. kimberly whale i, professor alt the baltimore law school. on the way, banning the about your gand did i and gold where students may no longer be allow to wear redskins clothing to school, come up after this.

>> a private school in montgomery county is telling parents and students and staff to leave their washington redskins gear at home. >> that's right, school leaders say the nfl's team is name ises disparaging. our own tom fitzgerald looked into this and here is what we found out. this is the green aing acres school in north bethesda. d.c., washington and virginia that's redskins country. not this l school. for years there has been an effort to get the washington redskins to change their name because some native american groups say that nape iso fencive. greenacres school sent a letter to parent saying they do

sent here with clothing that racially denigrates a group. the they say i was in the an easy decision. wearing clothing with the name of our local football team or the logo that's an amath ma t our or mission. i think it's a racial slur much it's deeply demeaning. school administrators say the ban on redskins gear at greenacres school came after long talks in classrooms with questions about the the team logos like the washington redskins that are base ped on race or ethnicity. that's a question we asked virginia democratic governor terry mcauliffe. since charlottesville's violence, the governor declares that he wants all confederate statutes removed to stop hate speech. the govern or, though, has not called for the washington redskins to change

tries to get the team to build a new stadium in virginia. so what's the difference? mcauliffe says it's about public spaces versus a private company there is no moral equivocal situate, please. we are talking about monuments that are owned and controlled by the state, state property versus a private company. private companies have to make their open decisions. as gomp offer i take actions on those things that i can affect. for their part, the washington redskins and their owner daniel schneider have i'm cysted for years throughout these controversies that they will never change the team's name. in north bethesda, maryland, tom fitzgerald reporting. two potential witnesses who were near a loudon county confederate statue at the same time it was vandalized. they spray painted it with vulgar language. these two witnesses right there, the people mr. is say

those people or anything about this incident l call the loudon county's sheriff's office. a popular tell advantage list is taking heat for something he didn't do. it's certainly not this. there he is. we're going to talk about expwroal ol steen didn't do for his mega church followers. we'll give you you an especially dawt update on the situation when five at six:zero comes right back.

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evangelist joel olstein opened the doors of his 16,000 mega seat in houston after taking a lot of social heat on social media. that is congress. that is not the church. he was delivering the invocation. he treat tweeted that he and his wife were praying for everyone effect. people on social media blasted oal steen for the not opening up the church to people who were flooded out of their homes. people

around the church showing it was wet, but streets were still pass ible. things have change. the church is now open. there's a lot of act tit. when it came to shelter, they said they would open it up once other option were exhaustioned. a friend of mine went over to lakewood church there's massive amounts of activity, people bringing in donations. there's a concerted effort to bring in donations, water, things like thatment you have this big areap a. you you you pull down a lieutenant of tax exempt money. maybe people felt he wasn't doing his job. >> it's social media, it's pretty he easy to get ticked off . trending tonight, the first lady's footwear. take a look right there. people on social media blasted first lady for wearing high heels as she boarded marine one to head down

the president later said the first lady would be changing to another pair of shoes aboard marine one but that still didn't stop the twitter trols. she did of course change footwear. she has on sneakers there. really, that's the one thing you you want to focus on is what she's wearing to the marine one? there are so many bigger issues that you you can think about than worrying about the what the first lady has on her feet. it's the same deal that michelle obama wanted to give michelle obama for whatever they could find. >> when she wore a dress with no sleeves. president obama wore a tan suit to a press conference. social media gives voice to dumb things on all sides. the president was down in texas today and it's the first important step when you you talk about recovery of texas. >> absolutely. it didn't matter what side of politics you're on, the humanity and the

whatnot, not the shoes, not all that other stuff. thanks for joining us tonight and joib us at 8 p.m. on fox5 plus. we'll see you you you at ten for the news and the final five at # one :30.

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