so that relationship with joe arpiao is tritt -- the guy couldn't get re-elected in maricopa county, old. he's clearly on the back necessary to run an in a state as expensive at arizona. >> you guys are all great. thank you so much for taking the time today. we do want to go back to the coverage of harvey, because nbc's phillip mina has made his way to the convention center in houston. what's the situation on the ground there, phillip? >> reporter: well, chris, we just arrived at the george r. brown convention center. there are nearly 3,000 vaccees brought here and many more that i want to introduce you to. mia wattler. she is not staying here, but you came to get some supplies. tell us how it is you came to be here. >> so i left my house at, like, 5:00 a.m. on a boat from the fire department. and they rescued in their boat and took us to the highway where we got in a dump truck. and we drove in the dump truck for about an hour and a half in the freezing cold rain. and then we got to a shelter, but that shelter was already full. so they had to take us back to the fire department with

that is on top of all of the headlines that came out during the storm from his pardon of sheriff arpiao. they plan to visit texas tomorrow, it is a trip the vice president said the president is ank strus to make. >> the president wants to be there and make sure that everyone knows that we're with you. >>. >> peter alexander is at the white house, is he still plans to go to texas tomorrow? >> yes, that is why they moved up today's meeting, it is likely he will make remarks about the federal government's response. white house officials have not made it formal yet, but it is our understanding that the president insents to go to corpus christi. he will not bo going to houston. they have been filled with praise saying from the president on down, he gives them an a plus for their efforts so far. he has been updated by his chief of staff, john deathly as well as tom bossert as well. they were both at fema during katrina more than a decade ago, the president expected about two hours from now likely to take questions from reporters and to speak about the situation in texas. >> local authorities

joe arpiao was found guilty two weeks ago of ignoring a judge's order to stop racial profiling duringcted undocumented immigrants. he has been a vocal supporter of mr. trump and he is scheduled to be sentenced in october. he has become a hero among the far right civil liberty groups have long complained about racial profiling so a pardon here would be well received among some of mr. trump's base who voted for him on the basis of aggressive immigration enforcement. the white house isn't commenting on this yet. they don't have an official announcement but this would be the first pardon of the trump presidency. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> rockies fans welcomed chad bettis back to the mound last night for the first time he was diagnosed with cancer. he pitched seven scoreless innings. bettis had offseason surgery for test ti cancer. the rockies went on to win the game 3-0. >> way to go, chad. >> good to see him back. >> he looked happy too. >>> more people are getting the most common type of arthritis in the knee. we're here to tell us >>> ahead, how time has taken its toll on a