what brock is doing is really pretty special. he's coordinating federal efforts across different departments and agencies. he's coordinating volunteers and workers and professionals from other states, as well. we have talked a lot this morning about the search and rescue efforts under way. life-saving and life-sustaining is our effort right now. help is coming from all over the country. there's a lot of effort under way. what brock has to do and what the president has to remain focused on and what i try to help him focus on is unity of the efforts. we'll focus on that for the next 24 to 48 hours. >> the president has just tweeted he'll only visit when he can be sure he's not interrupting. any idea? >> we'll go where we can without getting in the way of the operator. we won't prevent lifesaving activities from taking place. the president wants to go to show support. he doesn't want to get in the way. he's been very clear about that. we'll let the details play out. he'll get there as soon as he can. >> you heard the governor say he

i am sam brock, back to you in the studio. >> well it never hurts to ask. and here is a good example why. >> an 18-year-old south bay girl believes in it and she has nearly 2 million reasons why. >> she recently graduated from homestead high school in sunnyvale and she is off to college but leaving behind quite a gift for her community. >> here. >> reporter: she has a lot of experience selling things to adults. >> this was for cookie sales. >> reporter: even with that track record, this 18-year-old is a bit surprised at the sale she recently closed. >> so i came home after that, and i was like that's a lot of money. did i really do that. >> reporter: this all began when esther was looking for a project to earn her gold star. >> i want to do something where i can help people who don't have the same things as other people. >> reporter: the people esther settled on with children with disability. she realized she never saw them at her local playground. her research on the topic led her to magical bridge. a fully accessible and wildly accessible playground. she

but kelly mentioned brock long the new fema administration. he was confirmed by a vote of 95-4 in the u.s. senate. not a divisive figure. he's the former director of emergency management for alabama. it seems to me that this is the first event of this presidency where sort of the dire nature of the event seems to have halted other instincts in this president. he seems to be focused on the storm after some early morning venting and he seems to be putting forward the kind of folks that would reassure any citizen in the path of such a dangerous and frightening storm. >> i think that's exactly right, nicolle. there's a third person i would mention who's general john kelly, the new white house chief of staff. we say him in the photo tweeted out this morning in the oval office briefing the president at the resolute desk and he's very involved in the white house response. they are trying to put forward a real sense of competence and strength and make people feel assured that they'll have this under control. i think it was telling that we didn't hear

the brock turner sexual assault case is making headlines once again. new consultant the judge hired and how that consultant is tied to president trump. >>> plus immigration overhaul, the controversial plan president trump is backing this morning that would change the country's immigration system. >>> and back in business, the popular south bay cafe that was damaged in a car crash over the weekend is open once again this morning. put your orders in, we're live at the scene as the first customers head inside. today in the bay continues right now. >>> let me tell you, you have an om let there you're full all day, i've been there if the thanks for joining you us aim laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm skolt mcgrew in for sam brock. kari. >>> it's starting out warm and humid too if you can believe it as we're looking at some of those temperatures around the bay area this morning starting out in the 70s and it just feels really muggy all thanks to the surge answer of monsoonal moisture. as we take a live look outside in fremont already busy with cloudy skies. an

brock adams, who is the emergency manager in alabama is universally and nationally respected. he knows what he is doing. and most of it is people at fema who are the career people. who do this every day, day in and day out. and regardless of who is the president. but we all know at one point there was a president who didn't name a professional emergency manager and it really hurt the agency and it hurt people in katrina. but brock adams at fema is a real superstar in emergency management and he's -- he'll have things under control. >> i had a really -- i was able to have a good conversation with mr. long and appreciated his insight and he seems to have a good grip on things. >> i'm sorry, brock long. i sa i said brock adams. >> that is okay. the same person, sir. but the real story is the flooding. and there are predictions of over 40 inches of rain in certain areas of texas. so what does fema need to do to keep people safe? what can fema do? >> well, right now, the federal force, which is made of up people from across many agencies, they are actually -- it is still in respons

reporting live, sam brock, back to you in the studio. >> thank you. you see sam brock in san francisco, there is no fog and that's usually indicating things are about to heat up. >> starting to clear at the coastline with the hot, dry air building in as we've been mentioning this heat wave is starting to build and tomorrow you're definitely going to notice the temperatures ramping up as we get a look at the micro climate forecast. high pressure that will stick around for the next six days and it's not going to budge. really pushing hot weather, also all the way up into portland, as well. now in advance of this, we do have a red flag fire warning that's been issued for hills above 1,000 feet. you know who you are if you live above 1,000 feet for the next three days with low humidity returning and winds out of the west and also eventually out of the east five to 15 miles per hour. it's not barbecuing or out hiking. stay away from that. in terms of tomorrow morning's forecast, starting off relatively comfortable. 66 in the south bay and clear and patchy

sexual assault trial of stanford swimmer brock turner has hit a >>> the recall campaign of the south bay judge who oversaw the sexual assault trial of stanford swimmer brock turner has hit a number of roadblocks. indeed, much of the legal community has come out in support of the judge. but kpix 5's neda iranpour tells us the stanford professor won't give up her fight. >> reporter: judge aaron persky facing more fallout and outrage after the stanford rape case. a group gathering outside the santa clara courthouse wanting to push the judge out of his seat trying to gather signatures for a petition to recall him. but judge persky filed a restraining order to halt their signature gathering efforts. >> the point is to waste our time waste our money, tie us up in the courts and prevent democracy. >> reporter: a stanford law professor who is behind this campaign claims persky has shown bias in cases involving violence against women. she considers the six-month sentence for brock osweiler far too lenient after he sexually assaulted an unconscious woman outside a stanford fraternity party. >>

that's fema administrator brock long. he will be calling in later this hour to give us an update to the situation there, but we are talking to you about your confidence in the government to respond to natural disasters like tropical storm harvey. john is calling in from philadelphia. good morning, john. caller: good morning, and thanks for having me. i think that they're going to be a little slow getting to it because of the hurricane's timing, strength, and all that. and then you got to look at the big state of texas, pretty much getting wiped out. that's a lot of territory, but i would say that there's a lot of work going to be there. so if you want to work, go to texas. i think they're going to be slow in response, really. host: why do you think it will be slow, just the nature of the storm itself or do you think it's something about federal readiness in responding to storms as we've seen in recent years? caller: that's what it is. i went through sandy in philadelphia, and we were 100 and some miles from the eye of the

acting sect of homeland security elaine duke, the federal emergency management agency administrator brock long, the national weather service director, and also joining to take questions will be the commandant of the u.s. coast guard. and the secretary of health and human services price. again, the first three speakers will provide opening remarks and then will open up to questions it to select you in advance administrator law will be immediately heading from here to make his way down to texas so we should end probably at 7:45 to allow him to get to his airplane to make it down to texas. and with that will bring out our speakers. thank you. >> good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us at fema headquarters today, home of the nash response coordination center i know everyone in the gym and on the president's team has been moved by the images and stories of people who are suffering in texas. we want to make sure you all know that we are working right now to provide assistance quickly as we can. right now we're focused on rescue operations and will move into recovery operations later

thank you for what you've been doing. >> thank you, sir. >> brock is doing a fantastic job.dy that we have been working with is fantastic. and what we have been trying to do is make sure that we go from the phase of rescue and reaction to the phase of recovery and a smooth transition. we are also going to be assisting the state and local governments in reallocation of federal assets to disaster relief. looking at granting immediate foreclosure relief. insurance, mortgage insurance, as well as rehabilitation through the section 203-k program. section 108 loan guarantees for infrastructure, for economic development and for a host of things. and also disseminating information, which is so critical. you know, the masses frequently become confused. we're working very hard to get rid of some of the regulatory burdens so we can get things done very quickly. linda and i will be working on that, to make sure that we get what we need to the people. and i want everybody to know that we're in this for the long run. we know that once the water recedes, that's when our work really begins,

thanks for joining us i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm scott mcgrew in for sam brock. let's get a check of your weather. i checked miami today, it's supposed to be 90 degrees with 73% humidity, that's humid. >> and it feels very humid here too. it feels like miami when you step out the door. and look at how hot it's going to be, there you go, 90 degrees in san jose. we'll be in the upper 90s in gilroy and if you can get this there will be high humidity, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures still getting this hot so it will not at all feel like the bay area reaching into the upper 90s in antioch for the peninsula san carlos at 87 degrees, 73 degrees on the emba embarcadero and we have some isolated showers and possibly thunderstorms firing up today. i'll keep an eye on that. mike, you're seeing what a difference ten minutes makes. >>> look behind me we've filled in most of the lanes here in the cash lane. fast track is just starting to fill soup we should have those metering lights turn on or turned on in the last couple of minutes. there you go. so just ten minutes and

but what we should do is, and i think brock -- i've heard him in his confirmation hearing, brock wants at true reform to the national flood insurance program. and we have to do that we can't, for example, continue to subsidize homes that build in flood zones. you know what? i think that if there's an insurance company for example that wants to take on that risk, and is willing to build a pool to do that risk, we ought to look at privatizing part of this it was the insurance companies originally that said we don't want to cover floods, so they will bebied and got congress to create the nfip and i think we've seen the disaster that that can be. let's look more at the free market and see if we can do some free market reforms for the flood insurance program so that people that take those risks actually have to pay for those risks. >> michael, just quickly, what's the big swing factor now that could make the total cost of this disaster much higher or much lower just simply how long the water sticks around for? or other factors that you can look at? >> as long as the water sticks around you

. >> sam brock joins us live from that city. what happened and why the difference in the way the protests were handled. >> reporter: police here say they did not want to inflame a suddenly strained situation with antifa protesters. the protest on sunday did start peacefully. now the question many are mulling, could the violence have been prevented. >> a faceoff pitting the principles of free speech and anti hate. events turned out to be one-sided. many antifa demonstrators armed and seemingly ready for answers. >> the police made the right decision to pull back. >> reporter: there were, at least, 500 police officers posted up around the park from all different agencies. when the wave of mass protesters showed up, they were allowed in to avoid a conflict. >> reporter: t >> said nobody gets in with weapons and yet they let people in with weapons. >> reporter: tony ribbera was chief of police. he worries about the precedence of empowering a group like antifa. >> when people are committed to breaking the law, when you let them get a

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sam brock at crissy fields. the story changing bit minute. >> reporter: good evening. right now maythe mayor is -- th san francisco police are going to be posted up at alamo square for the next 24 hours. this would be the safest place for a rally and a change of venue throws it into flux. and crissy fields was the epicenter of the city's universe as preparations zoomed ahead for a high profile protest. in an instant, that changed. >> after several conversations with the police and understanding what is going on, we decided that tomorrow really seems like a set up. it doesn't seem safe. a lot of people's lives are going to be in danger tomorrow. >> reporter: he is changing plans. instead he wants everybody to show up at 2:00 p.m. at alamo park. >> bringing in tons of extremist. >> reporter: mayor lee spearheaded an antihate rally. the mayor asked people to avoid areas of confrontation. >> he want to make sure that the people have a place to be peaceful and safe. >> reporter: we talk about the fact that be the situation is changing by the second and within the last coupl

sam brock, nbc bay area news. >>> more now on the situation in boston. a chaotic scene as tens of thousands of counterprotesters overwhelmed about 100 people who turned out for a right-wing rally. officers escorted the free-speech group out of the area for their own protection there. president trump tweeted looks like many anti-police agitators in boston, police are being smart. >>> demonstrators in san francisco applauding the counterprotesters in boston. hundreds of people showed up to blast bigotry and racial violence and demand they change the name of justin herman plaza. >> justin herman should not be venerated in this city. he has a history of displacing and creating discriminatory housing policies. >> the gathering comes as the patriot prayer rally is still under review. bay area politicians are asking the permit be revoked because of the violence in charlottesville last weekend. >>> the widow of the man killed in the barcelona terror attack opened up this weekend. heidi and jared tucker were in europe to celebrate their first anniversary. they ha

>> i'm going to answer part of that and i will ask brock to answer part of it. let's divide this up. let me tell you also and i should have mentioned this to you. we have come here, you may or may not know but we will be departing here going to rockport, so i will get to see firsthand what challenges they are facing. but you mentioned buses. we do have buses available where we are evacuating people, and there are multiple locations. i personally greeted people who got on those buses from corpus christi and other areas around here. they went to san antonio. there also are buses that go to austin, dallas, to other locations. so there are multiple evacuation centers. people can get on buses and go to at no charge. so that's one. two is for those who are still here, there obviously is a need for food and water as quickly as possible. we will be establishing if it's not already established which i think it is points of distribution for water and all the supplies they need. separate from that, part of your question must be answered by the fema admin straighter. >> so.

we're moving forward. >> brock, what's your biggest challenge? >> well, the biggest challenge or concern i have is the isolation that many texas citizens are going to face. we have not built a true culture of preparedness in this country and we got a lot of work to better prepare our citizens and, unfortunately, what scares me or what keeps me up at night right now is many of the citizens in texas are going to be isolated in their houses or their dwellings for multiple days. it's going to be a very sizable mission to support citizens and with the weather event, we can't just fly helicopters in. we can't get to people right now until the weather subsides because we can't put our own resources in danger. >> you talk about that culture of preparedness. we've been talking a lot this morning about the fact that there is what some people call hurricane amnesia after these 12 long years of not having a storm of this size so let's just hope that everybody is able to make it through this safely. brock long, thank you and we send you the best wishes and be

this past tuesday i joined with governor edwards and fema administrator brock long. in that meeting i requested fema to preposition as many assets as possible on the ground in new orleans in the event of serious weather event. we're going to have that. i have led nearly daily calls with the city council and leaders of jefferson parish. today participated in a coordination call with other regional parish presidents. we're conducting calls with the national weather service as i said at least twice a day. we have, as i said as a result of the tabletop exercise and anticipated event we're about to have, been prestaging emergency assets throughout the city. the new orleans police department, new orleans fire department, ems, prestaged 20 high water vehicles, boats at locally strategically place around the city. trying to prevent drivers going into those areas during high water. all of these assets are being backed up by the state search-and-rescue units including louisiana fish and wildlife and the state fire marshal. the city is working with fema to prepare to bring in w

his point man, brock long.ema coordinates immediate response its job to be on the scene the long haul helping with federal disaster relief efforts. >> we're not at recovery yet. thinking and planning for recovery. we have recovery teams down. down in texas. right now this mission is, it's very important. this is a life safety, life sustaining mission. this is a landmark event. we have not seen an event like this. you could not draw this forecast up. you could not dream this forecast up. >> with us to share reporting and insights, cnn's dana bash, michael bender, ryan lizza and cnn sara murray. early hours you hear no complaints. having a political conversation in the middle of a tragedy, some mind find that crass but a big test for the administration and every president has to deal with it at some point. and a member of the trump administration, both democratic and republican congress people in that area affected. especially the counties right around houston. i would say so far so good seems to be the political

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that was brock long, a fema administrator. we want to turn back now to rob marciano who's had a very long evening and now a very long morning. he's been monitoring the situation in port lavaca, texas. what's the latest, rob? >> reporter: tell you what, amy not nearly as long as the folks who live in this part of texas. they're going to have a long road ahead of them and certainly the ones that smartly evacuated, they had a long night and they're going to have a long cleanup once this water recedes but it hasn't done that yet. this is lavaca bay. on the other side of that bridge is matagorda bay. this bridge spans the water. we have not seen any traffic, private vehicle or official vehicle, so they're not going to go out until these winds die down. the winds are still gusting over 50 miles per hour easily. you see them whipping across these waters, creating white caps and keeping the storm surge from receding. so that plus all the rain, we just got water everywhere and the wind is not letting up either. i certainly hope that th

. >> you're doing a fantastic job, and brock has been incredible.ole group, and steve who i just met, the job that they've done getting along. number one, they like each other, very important, and number two, they respect each other. and the job that all of these groups have done getting along in terms of coordination has been really incredible. everyone is talking about it. the sad thing is that this is long term. nobody has ever seen anything this long and nobody has ever seen this much water. the wind was pretty horrific but the water has never been seen like this to the extent. and it's maybe someday going to disappear. we keep waiting. we have four of our great congressmen right here and we really appreciate you being here. we're going to be working with congress on helping out the state of texas. it's going to be a costly proposition because, again, probably ted cruz is here, and senator, thank you very much, senator corwin, and we'll be working with these characters over here, and i think we'll come through with the right solution. but probab

we're moving forward. >> brock, what's your biggest challenge? >> well, the biggest challenge or concern i have is the isolation that many texas citizens are going to face. we have not built a true culture of preparedness in this country and we got a lot of work to better prepare our citizens and, unfortunately, what scares me or what keeps me up at night right now is many of the citizens in texas are going to be isolated in their houses or their dwellings for multiple days. it's going to be a very sizable mission to support citizens and with the weather event, we can't just fly helicopters in. we can't get to people right now until the weather subsides because we can't put our own resources in danger. >> you talk about that culture of preparedness. we've been talking a lot this morning about the fact that there is what some people call hurricane amnesia after these 12 long years of not having a storm of this size so let's just hope that everybody is able to make it through this safely. brock long, thank you and we send you the best wishes and be

. >>> a victory for group pushing to recall the controversial judge in the brock turner sexual assaultase. visiting superior court judge issued a tentative ruling allowing the group to continue to gather signatures as part of their campaign to try to remove judge aaron persky . the group rallied outside the san jose courtroom where judge tsenin made her decision , the hearing was in response to an injunction filed by judge persky weeks ago. judge persky became the target of the recall after he sentenced a former stanford student, brock turner, 26 months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.>> this ruling validates our belief that judge persky filed a frivolous lawsuit that was intended to stall and delay and obstruct the democratic process.>> it's about following the law. the people voted for the constitution and approved it. that needs to be respected. >> judge tsenin said while superior court judges are officers of the state, those judges can be recalled by county voters. attorneys representing persky had two days to submit argument before the judges final ruling thur

what do you think, brock? >> the recovery from this disaster is going to be years. now, as far as the hazards go, you're looking at weeks. once the rainfall stops, the rivers have to process the water. in some cases, it's going to rain in areas where the water can't filter out so you're going to have stagnant water in some certain areas. the one concern that i have initially is people being isolated in their homes, you know, and cooped up for multiple days and being able to get to the resources that you have. so we have partnerships with the private sector, trying to understand pharmaceutical -- retail stores or grocery stores, whether they're shut down or remaining open so we know how to better help the state tailor their assistance to the citizens. >> i'm looking at three particular storms of late that were pretty devastating for texas. tropical storm allison, hurricane rita and hurricane ike. hurricane ike cost the state $22 billion worth of damage. do you think harvey may eclipse that? >> this is going to be a very expensive and costly frustrating event. you kno

she was a part of this call, as well as brock long. you've been speaking about.e is the fema director right now. the bottom line is, the president says, as he tweeted a short time earlier, as well, that he has spoken with the governors of texas and louisiana. he says closely monitoring hurricane harvey developments and here to assist as needed. security officials here at the white house tell me the emphasis right now for americans should be on what their state and local officials are telling them. that the white house, the national teams are prepared to respond and to assist as necessary. but for the moment, this remains, as they say, in the hands of those local and state officials, katy. >> and peter, president obama was criticized by donald trump, the candidate, for not visiting floodwaters in louisiana last year. he was also crediticized last august for not cutting short his martha's vineyard vacation to do that. the president is going to camp david this weekend. is there any talk in the white house about potentially staying in the white house in order to resp

brock has been incredible.tandpoint, nim, steve, who i just met, steve, the job they have done, getting along. number one they like each other, very important. number two they respect each other and the job all of these groups have done getting along in terms of coordination has really been incredible. everyone is talking about it. the sad thing this is long term, nobody ever seen anything this long and nobody ever seen this much water in particular. the wind was pretty horrific but water has never been seen like this to the extent. it is maybe some day going to disappear. we keep waiting. we have three or four of our great congressman here. we appreciate you being here. we'll work with congress helping out the state of texas. it will be a costly proposition because again, probably ted cruz is here and senator, thank you, very much. senator cornyn. we'll be working with these characters over here. i think we'll come through with a very, with the right solution. but probably there has never been anything so expe

so as long as he has the ear of the president, i think we're in good shape because brock gets it, brock knows when and how to ask for the things from the governors. he understands the governor, that governor abbott's in charge here i guarantee you he's sitting down with governor abbott and his emergency manager and asking the very simple question, what can you do and what can't you do, if it's the things that you can't do, let me see if i can take care of those >> michael brown, thank you for joining us on short notice tonight news line. be safe. >> you bet >> thank you >> all right joining us now for the halftime hour today, jim lebenthal, josh brown, steven weiss, and josh seecheng obviously, hurricane harvey is a big story. it's threatening oil, threatening gas, threatening infrastructures, and more importantly, it is threatening lives. cnbc contributor jeff killberg also joining the conversation. he's live in the commodity pits at the chicago merck jeff, obviously, this is a serious storm, people are still in harm's way. this is about life and death, first and foremost but what are

>> as brock said, it's very early in this. what we do know is the water in corpus christi and in victoria area, recommendation for boiling of the water before consumption. the good news is, the work that's been done, pre deployment that's been done, there are significant water assets that are there available for folks. that's the challenge we have is getting them to people. >> wls just in terms of the refineries, most of them exercised voluntary shutdown before the storm hit. very prudent measure and that will help with any environmental issue. >> 24%, 25%, a quarter of them already shut down, correct? >> i do not know the exact number, but it was -- most of them did do a voluntary shutdown well in advance of landfall. >> normally we hear emergency officials say let the first responders handle it. you just called for volunteers, for american citizens to jump in and help texas. what does that say about the situation right now? >> i mean, this is a landmark event for texas. texas has never seen an event like this. this is going

i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. straight to the forecast right now with kari. >> it is looking nice as you step out the door this morning. still mostly cloudy. this is what we've seen the past couple of mornings. no major changes as you head out on this wednesday. it's 62 degrees. the tri-valley at 59 degrees. and it feels mild in spots, cooler in san francisco. the fog you can't see anything. as we head through the day highs in the south bay reaching up to 83 degrees. 88 in the tri-valley. for the east bay expect a high of 72 degrees. we'll talk more about these temperatures as we head into the weekend it cools down a bit. mike, starting with a crash at the bay bridge. >> always an alert when i mention bay bridge. overall a smooth drive. the crashes we do have are off to the shoulder, but this is right in front of a construction zone east 80. there's a crash on the shoulder. the construction zone around fourth and the lower span. be careful in the area. we've heard no workers were injured. this happened a while bac

petition drive is legal and should resume and judge persky was targeted for removal after sentencing brock turner to only six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. 58,000 signatures have to be collected to get the recall major on the june 2018 ballot. >>> the san francisco police officer accused of child pornography is doing the pittsburg courtroom this morning and the 37-year-old was arrested this morning at the horse stables where he has been working during this investigation and he lives in antioch where the contra costa county prosecutors are handling the case and he was suspended without pay. the officers -- the officer has reportedly posted the $100,000 bail shortly after his arrest.>>> investigators confiscated $23 million of marijuana plants in the illegal grow operation was found on land that belongs to the san francisco water department. that was also in the regional district property. these sites were well hidden and the plants were ranging from two feet to 10 feet high and watered by a sophisticated irrigation system that illegally tapped into the availab

>> i'm going to answer part of that and answer brock to answer part of it. let's divide this up. let me tell you, also, and i should have mentioned this to you, we have come here, you may or may not know, but we will be departing here going to rockport. so i will get to see firsthand what challenges they are facing. but you mentioned buses, we do have buses available where we are evacuating people. and there are multiple locations. i personally greeted people who got on those buses from corpus christi and other areas around here that went to san antonio. there are also buses that go to austin, to dallas, to other locations. so there are multiple evacuation centers. people can get on buses and go to at no charge. so that is one. two, is for those who are still here, there obviously is a need for food and water as quickly as possible. we will be establishing, if it's not already established, which i think it is, points of distribution for water and supplies they need. separate from that, part of your question must be answered by the fema administrator. >> sure. so let me take a sec

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the federal emergency management agency administrator, brock long. the national weather service director louie. and also joining to take questions will be the confidant of the u.s. coast guard. and the health and human services price. again, the first three speakers will provide opening remarks. then we'll open up to your questions. just to let you know in advance administrator will be immediately heading from here to make his way down to texas. we should end promptly 7:45 to allow him to get to his air 14 make it down to texas. with that, we'll bring out our speakers. thank you. >> good morning everyone. thank you for joining us at fema headquarters. everyone in this room on on the president's team has been moved by the images and stories of people who are suffering in texas. we want to make sure you all know we are working now to provide assistance quickly as we can. right now, we're focused on rescue operations and we'll move moveinto recovery operations laettner the week. we are deeply concerned with those in houston and surrounding area where st

brock long pointing out.to be involved not just those who are helping out already in texas but to everybody and he gave out the following website. to griff jenkins on the ground. this is a story that you've been telling over and over again. this is about volunteer rescue. this is about all of these selfless volunteers out there helping their neighbors, friends and loved ones anyone in need. the story of volunteers has been a tremendous. the heroic heart of some of them taking their john boats out. this is a situation that has been devastating by historic proportions is going to be even more challenging because of the release of water from reservoirs just very quickly for our viewers. the reservoirs. intended to protect it had reached full capacity. into one particular by you. you can see the rain coming down that will add to the problems. mister jackson you came down to see with the end of it situation of it was. we are definitely concerned about it. the rain keeps coming down. to see if the release is having

. >>> new at 6:00, our coverage continues with sam brock who spoke with the fbi about the high profile events. sam, it gets scary now. people are afraid to go to a place where there's a large crowd. >> there's no question. good evening. there's an air of fear, at least tension of what's to come. as far as the fbi's approach, they are doing exactly what it always does, communicating with local law enforcement agency, stake holders here, every day and every hour. speaking of which, i'm on the embark dare row. this is san francisco. there are always activities going on. keeping that in the back of your mind, there is still concern right now, red flags raised about what happened in europe. as cars cruise around the bend on marina boulevard, it doesn't take a camera's refined lens to make you realize how close a normal day can become a crisis. a 1900 pound cargo truck. in london, separate attacks on the westminster and london bridges, involving cars. and yesterday, spain's worst terror attack in more than a decade, involving men in vans. is there a cause for concern ahead of major events ne

and finally, i think that brock law over at the head of fema is remarkable leader who's got so many years of experience had in alabama, on hurricane, he knows what needs to be done. this administration is getting ahead of the storm. >> i believe -- that's a good point you made there, because i believe back to after katrina, michael brown, who's big achievement was heading up a horse organization of some source had no crisis management experience and we saw president bush say of a job. seems like this is a much different cast of characters, route people at the right time >> it and in many ways, it's a mirror situation. that is the president bush had so many of the right people qualified people in different important offices and yet over at fema, he had one of the at least qualified in michael brown. here, in administration, that has people and energy and education and epa, who largely want to disband the organizations over at fema in brock lawn you have someone who received near universal approval by the senate, 96-4 vote. so many years of experience, he's the right person and understands

i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. we'll get to that breaking news in moments. first, i want to talk about the weather this morning with meteorologist kari hall. good morning. >>> good morning. it's going to be another nice day and comfortable temperatures as we head into the afternoon looking first at the south bay where san jose will be up to 83 and 89 in morgan hill. some lower 90s in antioch and concord. hayward will be at 77. for the peninsula up to 75 in san mateo and for san francisco 68 in the mission district. very nice today but slightly warmer as we go through the week. i'll talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. mike has had an eye on the golden gate bridge. >>> overnight the closure of all but one southbound lane. we see all of the lanes open now as you approach the toll plaza. we'll look at our sensors as well. this is an overnight project we told you about yesterday on had this same show and we did see slowing on the approach from the robin williams tunnel toward the toll plaza. all lanes are cleared and now the sensors have cleared up a

rning to you i'm laura >> and i'm scott mcgrew in for sam brock. she's wearing a sunny outfit this morning. >> sums it up. it's going to be pretty cloudy today. >> still hot. >> yeah, the humidity. >> the humidity is just unreal this morning if you haven't been out there. just crack open the window you may just want to be close it and stay inside today as we get a look at some of these temperatures now. get a look at that, 76 degrees in the south bay, san jose, the peninsula is 70 degrees, 75 in the tri-valley. at least we have some 60s in the north bay and in san francisco east bay at 65 degrees. also tracking with those clouds a little bit of some moisture moving in, the possibility of a few sprinkles as well as you head out the dew door. also some potential for heat advisories in the forecast coming up. mike starts us out with what's happening in san jose. >> you have speed sensors showing you the limit all around the bay. a word of warning, san jose international airport you see that on the map this is northbound 87 approaching sky port just be

i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. we missed you, sam. >> you skipped the humidity. it's going to be humid, i'm getting out of here. >> which is why i went to the midwest. it was really great there. back home, happy to be back. >> and back to nice weather, too. >> this weekend was amazing compared to the week we had last week. cooler temperatures here for a little while longer, as we start out this week, you're seeing the clouds and the fog back there in san francisco and right now in san jose. we're seeing some clouds this to start out this morning. it will be a slightly cooler afternoon reaching into the low 80s in san jose. upper 80s for morgan hill and gilroy and for the antioch area over to concord, 87 degrees. and in oakland, 70 degrees today, the peninsula reaching into the 70s while san francisco will be up to 67 in the mission district and the north bay in the low 80s. and that's an improvement. we'll talk about what's ahead in a few minutes. mike is already tracking a crash in richmond. >> this is off the east shore freeway. overall your speed sensors look

and i'm not immune to criticism and neither is brock long or the local officials there. the mayor has stood up and taken a great deal of smart criticism, but he's also taken a great deal of smart action. and from my perspective what you have to do is hold us accountable, and what i think this president is doing, president trump is holding me and brock long and elaine duke and the rest of his cabinet accountable. and when we're not telling him what he wants to hear, he's going right down to the governor and find out if we're doing it right from his perspective. so that's the answer. i think it's pretty straightforward. is there anything that's unmet from a need perspective right now that you want to inform us of? if you do have something, i'm 20 yards from the president. we'll take it to him. >> i mean, not as of yet. but there's a lot of communities that have been devastated here and there's going to be a lot of needs really quickly. >> yeah. let me pick up on that and use that because that's a great point to wrap up my remarks here today. we are still in response mode,

fema administrator brock long has almost 5000 female employees helping the storm victims -- fema employees helping the storm victims. >> we are deep into the safety mission of's with water rescue along with search and rescue. >> president trump planning on flying to texas tomorrow to see the damage firsthand, and in minutes we get a live report from doug luzader in houston. >>> there have been over 2000 rescue missions in texas, and expected to continue through the day with the u.s. coast guard using helicopters to get the people off of the rooftops, out of the flooded streets, and apply them to safety. highways above the flood waters are used as landing zones for the rescue missions and emergency has received over 56,009 11 calls with people begging for help. -- 56,000 911 calls with people begging for help. >>> more than two dozen patients waited, as the flood waters continue to rise in the buildings in which they lived with many in wheelchairs and others relying on oxygen tanks to help them breathe. rescue crews were able to get to them after the water was nearly three feet deep and the

brock long, thank you so much for your time this morning.e got a busy weekend ahead. >> thank you. >>> boy, people have got to get out of there. we just heard brock long talk about that dangerous flooding. let's go to ginger for more. >> george, after it hits early tomorrow morning and makes landfall, usually a storm dies out. this one will start to decrease in intensity, but watch this. it makes a u-turn and goes right back toward the gulf of mexico feeding off warm wears. look at tuesday into wednesday, we are still talking about harvey sitting over southeast texas and this is where we end up getting two high pressure systems, these blocking kind of situations where it's sandwiching all that moisture between. there are no steering mechanisms to help get this storm out. and that's why we're talking about up to 35 inches of rain in southwest louisiana in that 6 to 12-inch rain including new orleans. it's all going to be happening as we head into next week. this is going to be a storm we talk about, unfortunately, for at least the next seven

this hour i'll speak live with the head of the federal emergency management agency, brock long. there you see him. and our correspondents, specialists and other guests are standing by as we cover this breaking story. >>> first, let's go to cnn's martin savage. he's right in the heart of things in corpus christi. martin, you're in the danger zone. that's expected to take a direct hit from harvey. give our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world the latest. >> reporter: wolf, corpus christi is definitely under the gun and the wind just fnz to increase. it's an indication that this hurricane is growing ever more closer to the shore here, and it is the wind right now that is the biggest problem. it is literally body punching this entire area with a heavy, heavy force that is only going to increase over the next few hours. but then comes the secondary, and that's the the rain and that is truly what could be the most destructive and deadly force over multiple days. not since katrina have we heard the dire warnings like we are hearing now. and also what we're hearing is that this

and now it seems you can't walk by yourself. >> some brock, nbc bay area news. >> an important ruling tonight connected to the death penalty in california. the state supreme court upheld movement of the prop 66 approved by voters last november. the law actually speeds up death penalty cases in california. by having a five-year period for appeals to be heard. justices say the five-year period cannot be mandatory though. there are 750 inmates on death row in california. an inmate has been not executed in the state since 2006. >> another controversial figure could be coming to cal. president trump's recently fired chief strategist steve bannon may be on his way to speak on campus at uc perkily spokesperson they've been working to bring mill p.o. yiannopoulos and ann coulter and bannon next month. part of cal as free speech week. earlier this year cal had to cancel the yiannopoulos event because of the violent protests. coulter he is appearance also cancelled. >> the sfla police department is aiming to for more diversity so making a push to attract more officers from the lgbt community. >

brock long, the acting fema administrator. thank you very, very much. very good seeing you. >> you bet. neil: all of this happening and then the president announcing yesterday a couple of big things going on. a key resignation and then a key pardon in the middle of all of this. doug mcelway at the white house on shall we call it, odd timing, doug? >> so true, neil. president trump may be an outsider, but he's not above the classic washington game of the friday night document dump. he tweeted last night just as the full fury of harvey was lashing the texas coast, i'm pleased to perfect you i've granted a full pardon to american patriot joe arpaio who kept america safe. he continued the life's work protecting the public from scourges of illegal immigration. he's now 85 years old and after 50 years of admirable service. arpaio followed up, thank you, president trump for those asking how to help, donation to my legal fund and going directly to pay off legal fees from this fight. and neil, there was yet more palace intrigue at the white house last night with

if you or someone you know in texas needs help, we heard from brock long there, the fema administrator, that is where you should start. there were a couple other websites there. we'll get that information up on the screen. meanwhile, though, president trump flanked by the governor of texas, greg abbott. brock long, the fema head, saying at one point this is not the superdome, referring to convention center there in houston, promising food and security. in fact, saying that those things already existed there. and president trump, in classic trump fashion, if you will, saying at one point, with regards to the recovery effort, the federal response, quote, we want to it better than ever before, going on to acknowledge that texas is a special place and a special state as well. president trump there again in corpus christi. we heard from governor abbott earlier about precisely why it was that the president did not go to houston and he explained and it makes a great deal of sense if you think about it, that the president did not want to be in houston and serve as distraction and a number of p

the fee minute administrator brock long has almost 5000 female employees -- fema administrator brock long has almost 5000 fema employees headed that way to help. >> we are helping people to be rescued through the swift water, and search and rescue. >> since saturday night there have been over 2000 rescue missions in texas. >> those missions are expected to continue throughout the day with the u.s. coast guard using helicopters to rescue people and fly them to safety. highways above the floodwaters are being used as landing zones for the rescue missions, and ellison barber is reporting on the white house reaction to the latest development in texas. >> reporter: tropical storm harvey considered to be a stress test for the trump administration and a chance for lesean administration to show how they can handle a major disaster with blood levels continuing to rise. president trump is said to be heading to texas tomorrow. >> reporter: after a weekend at camp david the president is back at the white house turning to twitter, "historic rainfall in used to back in all over texas. floods are u