♪ ♪. ♪ ♪. happy friday, everybody. >> president trump declaring sunday a national day of prayer. for the state of texas in the wake of hurricane harvey >> as you can see from the rundown, harvey, of course is the big story at 6:30 of let's get to it. as americans, we know that no challenge is too great for us to overcome. we invite americans to join us as we can't to pray for those who have lost family members and friends and for those who are suffering from this great crisis. >> harvey

moves north and east but still dumping heavy rain along the way. create, huge problems for parts of south including in tennessee. in the meantime, houston still trying to dry out. today, rescue crews continued door to door searches. let's see what the latest is weather-wise, harvey moving out but we're getting some remnants. >> gwen, when can we expect harvey to show up >> we'll see the remnants start, tonight. shawn, flight all day tomorrow. pretty much. right now, it's dumping plenty of heavy rain fall over the ohio valley and continuing to move its way straight toward the midatlantic. get the umbrellas ready. tomorrow will be day where we'll end up seeing anywhere from a half inch to half -- an inch half of rainfall. i. seeing the heaviest rainfall will be the south and southeast across southern maryland lot it will be a day with the clouds and cool air, we have a marginal risk for areas to the east of severe weather

to the west. we could even see storms popping up with this. definitely bears watching. in the meantime, hurricane ir ma spinning out to sea, not a threat to land at all right now, and we'll watch that closely as well. labor day is looking fabulous now, 85 degrees with plenty of sunshine i'm happy to say, and we've got a weekend with mixed conditions, we've got rainfall and a cooler day saturday. into the 60's, feels like fall. but on sunday, we're heating it up to 80, we'll see morning showers and sunshine, then we end up with temperatures rising almost near 80 -- 90 degrees, by the time we get to tuesday, we got 88 kicking in. mixed conditions but once again, the remnants of harvey bears watching for us as we get a soaker for your saturday an cool day that's going to feel like fall. back to you. >> at least it's not the a total wash-out. >> harvey began wreaking havoc in houston, allison barber has been in the area a few

ellison, give us an idea of how things have changed. >> reporter: well, we seen a lot of people coming back to flooded areas, trying to get in their homes and look at some of the damage here, where i am now, in west houston, these people are being told they need to evacuate. there's a voluntary evacuation ordered here because they're having to release water from the reservoirs. we've seen people thinking that it was drying up and they could maybe come home being told they need to leave. >> my whole neighborhood is flooded out. >> one week after harvey first hit texas mini houston area neighborhoodses are under water and rescue crews are continuing to search homes. in beaumont, there is no clean public drinking water. flood waters have knocked out the water treatment plant. for the second day in a row, baptist hospital in beaumont has been moving patients to other hospitals. >> we survived the storm including 45 inches of rain,

thought business at usual. then we received the call at 1:00 a.m. saying we lost the water source >> other challenges gas shortages, clearing mud from roadways and dealing with mountains of potentially toxic trash. president trump who plans to visit this weekend has declared sunday a national day of prayer. >> we invite all americans to join us as we continue to pray for those who have lost family members and friends and those suffering from this great crisis. >> reporter: right now, guys i'm showing you a little bit of what i'm seeing in front of me. these are search and rescue teams arriving to this neighborhood, this area in west houston, the mayor says if people in this area who have homes where they've seen a little bit of flooding, if they don't get out, they could be stuck in their homes, ten to 15 days without electricity or power. so you have a lot of people here coming to try and make sure people in this neighborhood have evacuated and shawn and sarah based on the

most people are taking that warning pretty seriously. >> thank goodness. you know, just to see it still, all these days later, my goodness, ellison, barber thank you so much. meantime as the mission turns from rescue and recovery and rebuilding, the new question is how much will it cost to clean up after the storm and the record floods? >> joseph associate professor of engineering management at george washington university joins us with more. what do you think how long will this take and what will it entail. >> clearly they're in for the long haul and this could be a longer more difficult process than what happened with hurricane katrina. it's so widespread, and the water levels were such that it created more significant damage even in areas that fully flooded. i think this is going to be a very long difficult shrug >> we've heard the damage estimates could be in the, you know, the 10s of billions of dollars. so from the

emergency management, where do you begin from the federal level to the state level to the local level? where do you begin and how do you help all these folks. >> i think it's actually at each level that has to help and is helping. texas is -- has looked has looked very far forward in this area and i think they're particularly attuned to this after taking in so many displaced people. at federal level they've mobilesed a lot of search and rescue and that will continue. state has had plans in place a long time and they're clearly organizing and assisting in each local management agency and local area has been doing their part and as we've seen, a lot of the communities come forward also. both as volunteers and as organized groups to provide assistance, but it's going to be going on for a long time. and in many ways, it's the later days that become so difficult when peopl

forward, and they can't get back into their homes, or they get there and they realize the large amount of debris and difficulties that they're going to have, how long and tough this is going to be. >> engineering-wise, when you're looking at, you know, the scope of how much damage this storm did, is there anything that could be done differently in the future that would prevent anything like this from, you know, areas flooding in particular or is this so unprecedented there really was no way around it >> there are many things that have been done. this could have been much worse. i don't think anyone ever anticipated this amount of rainfall over this period of time. in such a, you know, localized area. but clearly, texas and their communities will take away from this, as will part of louisiana that was recently also flooded, they will take away from this mitigation measures that hopefully will be incorporated into reco

forbid would happen again, the impact will be less >> should we have done something sooner? there's no secret that houston is just 50 feet above the sea level. and you know, when we start looking at the infrastructure and how cities are planned out, you know, i didn't think we would see images like this again after katrina. >> so, again, this is an incredibly complex problem. would you like to have seen something different? of course. but it's -- it's, you know, this is a process not just of terrain but continued development we're seeing across the united states in the coastal areas and low lying areas, taking away some of the wet lands and some of the natural sponges we had that could absorb some of this, and decrease the flow rate into occupied areas. so i do think that this is going to be a lesson for many in flood plain management and further ba

redevelopment and hopefully, we will look back on this as we have with some of the changes from hurricane katrina and say, we did take good from this. >> it was tough, i'm sure. how do you plan for a storm like this that we couldn't compare it to anything else? thank you so much, joseph, barber association professor of engineering management at george washington. thank you. big dip in approval ratings for the president. what has exactly become a deal breaker for voters? a closer look when 5at630 comes back.

♪ ♪. ♪ ♪. poll finds americans think president trump is an unstable dishonest and bully >> they don't always tell the entire story. cliff, welcome back >> great to be here. >> let me ask you about the first poll and we should say all of these are from fox news, the first poll asked

going in the country today? i was a little surprised to see 35% said yes, but 64% no and when you look at how it's changed since august, what is that 2016? my goodness. what do you tribute this to? >> people are just not happy. overall over last five, seven year, people have been pessimistic about the u.s. in general. there are high hopes or relatively high hopes at the beginning of the administration but they haven't seen much, this is a sign of frustration. >> what about in terms of, you can, they also compiled numbers on whether or not people are approving or disapproving of the president's job performance. what did we find there >> same sort of thing, the president has been, you know, he was high at the beginning of the administration, 45, 46 sore. he's in the mid to low 40's at this point. that's just -- that's a difficult place to be, he's lost ground over the last six,

months. and not in a good place so far. >> how does that compare -- i'm sorry, how does that compare when you look at his predecessors? >> he's at the lowest potent, if you take the last four, five president, without a doubt, they're in the mid 40's, 50, honey moon period, when presidents have high approval ratings. in the 30's is the lowest in modern history, basically. >> it's interesting, this is a poll that came from fox. you know, it's always in the past people have said that he very much, you know, is friendly with fox. of do you think this is going to carry more weight with the administration? do you think they will pay attention to this a little bit more than perhaps in the, npast polls where they say whatever? >> yes. definitely. before the administration fox has more credibility but this poll is very much in line with all the other polls, 30's approval rating

place to be. basically 40 points is the tipping point, that's where a sitting president has less than 50-50 odds of winning the next election, as you look at his attributes, everyone can agree 83% he says what he thinks, he's extremely pole rising, only 25% of americans in the same poll think he's presidential. >> we talk about being popular rising. the next poll we looked at is president trump tearing the country part? 56% say yes, drawing the country together? 33%. >> once again, he loses for many people, like i said, he's a popular rising people. many people don't like his style, which is brand, aggressive, which can't confront >> part of protesting and that type of thing, here's what we found.

monuments and statues to sty up, 61%, but 29% want to see them taken do you, any surprises here or no >> this what we've seen, people see it as a heritage issue, they're not linking it to slavery. they believe this is local, where local communities should make the decision, not at all. this result was not surprising at all. we've had in the past >> cliff young lead pollster for thomas righters. have a happy holiday weekend >> to you, too, have great weekend. coming up, politics and higher education. what role will the trump administration play in opening doors for qualify education for all students? back after this. back after this.

. education secretary betsy devos has quite

critics say she is not what the country needs to help the students a recent research center poll said americans are deeply divided. fred lick lawrence the ceo of the nation's oldest society joins us. when we look to this particular poll, i was stunned when i saw that a third of republican to say think colleges and university, don't necessarily have a positive evict on the country but almost 75% of democrats do. >> if ask the general question, the institutional question do you think they're they have a positive impact you get the big divide. you just talking about in the program just before me. if you ask people, what about your education? did your saying? help you get a job? did your education further your personal growth? the difference

high number, high 80's say either it helped them somewhat or a lot and high 90's say it helped them in personal growth. people seem to have concerns about the institution generally. but you ask them about their own education, very high evaluation >> what are the top education concerns do you think for members of congress right now? what do you think they would actually be able to get done. >> to a certain extent, it's about funding and i certainly hope that congress will do its job in making sure there's still funding for student loans and programs, i was gratified to see what started as a budget that was questionable seems to be growing now that it's on the hill and the house appropriation sub committees seem to be funding programs broadly or at least recommending that. of there are some concerns, for example, the haze program, only $7 million, which in a federal budget >> for those of us don't know

program in which teachers travel abroad, study world languages and world cultures, bring that home for k through 12 and for universities and colleges. for so many of our students who aren't comfortable in other language, culture, which is such prt of the world, that's a powerful program >> based on the first statistics we were talking about and the disparity and you ask that question, if i'm a parent, should i be concern considering we have a republican white house and congress >> no, you should be comfortable with fact that american colleges and university, which are under stress in main r many ways and certainly financially continue to be among the highest in the world. i've seen the number of international students we had of very high quality. frankly it's whatever number we wanted. the demand was overwhelming. they will come from all over the world to study in this country. >> you know, we've also seen

share on college campuses of racial tensions, racist incidents, perhaps, and do you think that gives universities -- maybe it's a grounds to actually talk about these things and come together, but do you think it also on the other hand concerns people about sending their kids to college or kids going there themselves >> i think it does and i think it goes back to the first question you asked me. some of that popularization are what people see on campuses. i think it's terribly important that our campuses be open to broad debate and discussion, no one has a right not to hear things they disagree with, that's part of what you go to college for. they have a right to be safe and not to be threatened, no the tobin intimidated but they don't have a right not to be challenged. i'd say it the other way around, i think you have a right to be challenged. that's why you're going there. >> got to grow, have diversity, otherwise, we would just stay all like this. >> frederick lawrence, ceo of thefy beta a kappa

>> has friday night football gotten a little bit too politically correct? a closer look when 5at630 comes back. baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? no sir, no sir, some nincompoop stole all my wool sweaters, smart tv and gaming system. luckily, the geico insurance agency recently helped baa baa with renters insurance. everything stolen was replaced. and the hooligan who lives down the lane was caught selling the stolen goods online. visit geico.com and see how easy it is to switch and save on renters insurance.

native american head dress is sparking controversy >> whether students can wear the head dress during athletic events, lindsey watts is live where they're getting ready to start a game at 7:00. lindsey television what people are having to say. >> reporter: she wasn't and sarah, as you said the gam is about start. you can see the line of people waiting to go in. in the stands, we have just heard in the last few minutes, people chanting we want the head dress. we have also seen a few people wearing their own homemade head dresses in opposition to this change. to the principal at link nor high school saying we are not going to allow this to be worn, a little background, every year, the senior class votes on a

or she is like a super fan and wears this ceremonial head dress to sporting events. we can show you photos. i was communicating on twitter with last year's chief and he gave me pictures of himself wearing the head dress, he's surrounded by students. of this year, the school's principal decided this was going to come to an end, another example of some feeling there needs to be more sensitivity to native american culture and way it's represented especially in sports. now, some, as we've noted already, feel that this is inappropriate, unnecessary, just a little bit ago i talked to the senior who was elected this year's chief. listen. >> it's just a tradition and i mean, in my opinion, it defines link nor high school spirit. having it been taken away is just in my opinion, terrible. i don't think it is should have been done at all. it's never been worn to, like

it's totally worn just to show school spirit. >> reporter: we'll show you now a statement from the school's principal, nancy dollar, it says, in part i'm aware of the passion and petitions on both sides and the emotion that is arise when traditions change. it affords the opportunity for reflection and conversation as new traditions are created. and then she goes on to say action that is create divisive ness are unwarrant at school events. back here we're going to pop on into the game and see what's going on, it's unclear if there will be any kind of issues that arise because of people's anger, that this long-time school tradition has come to an end, lindsey watts fox 5 local news >> the young man that you spoke to who i guess is named the chief. did he say was he going to still try to wear the head dress? did he give any indication? >> reporter: he did. i

think he said -- taken away. he didn't want to wear it in there tonight and then have a school staff member confiscate it or for the students to lose it and i think we talked to him among a group of seniors, i think they want to keep that in their possession for now and hang on to it and they're hopeful that maybe something will come to light to change the principal's mind so they will be able to wear it at events later in the school year. >> all right. lindsey watts reporting for us, thank you so much. former first lady michelle obama life on crews control. she was in spain visiting an american diplomat and his partner, the obamas know how to relax as private citizens. that's a beautiful yacht. they've been just about everywhere since leaving 1600 pennsylvania avenue, indonesia, balancely, toss can knee, just to name a few >> that's what i

leaving a stressful job like that. that's it for us, join us at 8:00 on fox 5 plus. fox 5 plus.

announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: ok, we are heading into labor day weekend. >> yeah! harvey: so, ok, that's easy for you to say, because everybody's got that b in their mouth. what is it, shevonne? >> it's a game called sneak out much harvey: sneak out. so here's the deal, we're going to give each of you clues to read, and you have to read them as best as you can with that in your mouth. and the person here who can understand it and guess who the subject is of the stories we're going to tell today wins a bottle of champagne. where do we begin? >> there was a short guy who had to take a drunk high. he ran at a fast pace and didn't quite figure the space. >> tom cruise! tom cruise! announcer: tom cruiz does his own stunts,