so for the city of houston, the city of houston and harris county, we're not in the direct path of theurricane. forus, it was a major rainfall. 33,000 house holts without power. the water system in the city of houston never went down. it's final. it is working. the transit system is now working. but we wanted to do, wanted to go from door to door to make sure that we haven't missed anyone. we want to focus on that. as we move to recovery. and so that's where we are. we're giving special attention to west houston because they flood the not from hurricane harvey, but because of the release from the reservoir. that's why you have a lot of people who are very frus stated, because their homes were dry from the hurricane, topical storm, but the release from the reservoir. with respect to the kingwood area, they are in large part flooded because water was released from -- >> what was the other option? look. that's what they had to do. you had to release the floodgates on some 0 of these dams and reservoirs otherwise it would have been catastrophic. i'm standing in this area of will chester. t

the city of houston is open for business. anyone who is planning on conference or convention or sporting event or concert coming to this city, you can still come. we want to you still come. we can do multiple things at the same time. now, we're checking on our seniors, low income communities, houses across the city of houston to make sure that we are repairing those homes but we can do that at the same tame time. only two areas under water in the city of houston in the northeast in kingwood, that is getting better. then in west houston, those homes didn't flood because of the rainfall they are flooding because of the release of water from the reservoir. and right now we are only talking about 26 homes in west houston, what i've said to them if you have water in your home, we're asking you to -- requiring you to evacuate if you don't have any water in your home you're fine. i want to be very clear. yes, it was a very serious storm, historic, unprecedented but the city of houston is open for business. and so if you have a confer

houston continues to recover over a week after harvey slammed into texas. nats saturday the cityplayed host to the president.as part of trump's ásecond visit to the state...this time meeting with evacuees at a harvey relief center.pres donald trump/saturday/houston: "really, i think people appreciate what's been done. it's been done very efficiently, very well and that's what we want. we're very happy with the way everything's going. there's a lot of love, a lot of love." elsewhere in the citya new evacuation order.this one mandatory for close to 300 residents on the west side who stayed in their flooded homes. sylvester turner/houston mayor: "there comes a time when you have to exercise good common sense and this is one time when you have to put person over propertyto the eastin ábeaumont water áremains an issuebut not just because of the flooding.the high waters knocked out two of the city's water pumps days ago leaving residents without ádrinking water.mayor becky ames/beaumont: we are not at the finish line but we've undoubltly gained a second wind.temporary pumps are in plac

while up north in houston, the mayor insisted the city has turned a corner. >> the city of houston and let me speak into all of the cameras, the city of hue son is open for business andphyte frankly we're open for business right now. >> officials say 70% of the land is covered in at least a foot and a half after water. some of it could recede by the end of the weekend. firefighters in the city are now going house by house looking for victims and stranded survivors. some residents are also returning home. >> we're out of here. pretty sure. my wife's from san antonio, and she doesn't want to go through this anymore and we're done. >> reporter: and here in houston even getting around is becoming a little easier. most flooded roadways have dried out. the two major airports have reopened and anne-marie greene, power has been restored to most people who lost it during the storm in the city. >> that's some good news. >>> dickinson texas is about 30 miles southeast of houston. it suffered extensive flood damage from the storm. a mandatory evacuation was ordered but some residents were able to

houston. and as the city dries out, the death toll climbs.d morning washington. - unseasonably cool start to september - showers from harvey tonight through saturday - warmer & drier second half of labor day weekend

i feel proud of houston city. there's a lot of good people here. >> aside from taking pictures with fans, the players actually played a little game of soccer with the kids. the most important thing to the team was being able to see some of those smiling faces. >>> all right. back here at home, see i'm not all by myself. i've got sheena parveen with me. speaking of harvey, some chilly and rainy start. >> the remnants of what's left over from harvey. we've been watching the storm so long. finally made its way inland, kentucky, but the rain is here with the system. this morning rainy and chilly. it's going to be like this all day long. we're in the going to see afternoon clearing, sunshine. good news tomorrow as we go into labor day monday. you'll be able it salvage most of the weekend. not this morning. some moderate rainfall around pow cseh bowie. parts of prince george's county. making it's way in to montgomery, northern fairfax county. this the case throughout the afternoon. we'll see waves of rain moving in. tak

this disaster. >> you come back and visit the city of houston and this city of houston will be a shinings no doubt in my mind that the city that i know, this city will bounce back like never before. >> i sure hope he's right about that because a lot of people come back a year from now and he's speaking with such conviction today. i'm gayle king. charlie assault with a firearm a -- charlie is off and so is nora. after a long week she was on hurricane harvey duty. we begin with hurricane harvey again that hit texas one week ago tonight and it will take more weeks to recover. satellite images before and after the storm show just how bad the flooding was. overflowing rivers covered communities in water and made roads invisible. >> harvey killed at least 37 people. the white house estimates 100,000 homes have been effected. fema says it's already approved $57 million in disaster aid. >> there is still severe flooding in east texas where harvey's second u.s. land fall hit hard. flood victims desperate to leave the area packed the beaumont airport overnight. that city lost water service 24 hour

. >> houston city. >>> when we come back, we will check out who is topping the list for the best-dressed stars. >>> and ed sheeran responds to the haters. "the skinny" is next. to the haters. "the skinny" is next. ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >>> we're kicking off "the skinny" this morning with a reminder that celebrities can get away with wearing pretty much anything. >> "people" magazine has come out with the list of the best dressed. topping the list? nicole kidman. are those parrots? >> yeah, "people" says no star wears fashion so fearlessly. and we agree. nothing says brave like parrots on the sack and i would still worship at her feet. >> a wet hessy? we know how nick feels. let's check out another look, shall we? >> "people" says each of her looks look unapologetically ambitious. >> also on the best-dressed list, rihanna. here she is wearing her heart on her sleeve or actually her heart as her sleeve perhaps or her entire body. you like that? >> i like that as well. i feel similarly about rihanna. >> oh, yeah? >> the magazine describes her as consistent. jack, are you shouting something?

and as houston beguns to dry out the mayor has a message for the nation. >> the point is, the city of houston and let me just speak into all of the cameras, the city of houston is open for business and quite frankly we're open for business right now. >> good morning from the studio 57 news room at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie greene. the remains of harvey caused significant flooding in nashville. most of the flood water in houston is expected to recede by early tomorrow mbut each day th extent of the damage becomes more clear. 37 people were killed. ten percent of the buildings in houston were flooded. and some areas are running low on food. there is danger from fluided flo -- polluted flood water. don champion is in houston. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. even as flooding persists the recovery is underway here, but to the east the threat from harvey isn't over just yet. >> the rivers in southas potentially bringing more flootding to towns already hit hard by harvey. thursday's stranded residents were still being rescued from hi

cities, especially in houston, we see a very deregulatory response. we see cities that give clear indications of what is required and they are usually things focused on health and safety. that is the government should be doing when they talk about permitting us let's make sure people are actually save any structures are sound and beyond that, let people do whatever they want what their buildings and let people create whatever they want and let people paint their homes whatever color they want and live next to a business. by giving people the freedom of choice, the market decides what building should be aware and reduces the cost substantially and use the amazing growth in when homes are cheaper to build, businesses can come in this is something extremely important, respecting property rights makes an economy thrive. and then we look at california and see the exact opposite. the cost of living is increasing, more expensive to do business in the state of california and they're coming to state that texas or arizona were the regulation is not as severe. ch

houston is a city that is used to be flooded. four years and we've had three epic one in a hundred year flood events and this is by some estimates a one in 800 year flood event. something is happening here that we haven't seen before. i mean, i take brock long's quote at face value. this is a storm america has never seen before. on sunday, the first day of the storm, bush airport recorded 16 inches of rain. the prior record had been 8 inches, 70 years ago. rivers are cresting above their record levels by eight, ten, 12 feet. one -- in one place in houston, it rained 13 inches in an hour. the science issin controvert able and it wants the ocean and creates more extreme weather events. what we're seeing here, probably it will be repeated and this is just as brock long said, the most extreme storm, the most extreme hurricane, the most extreme weather event the country has ever seen. >> vernon, we're showing a live shot now of marine one landing at andrews. the president of course headed back in your direction today. assess what is kn

houston. they're not in the city of houston. i feel very comfortable about our water system. system is safe. the plants are functioning and so i'm fine about that. that may be right along the san jacinto river area, but those are outside. i can't speak specifically as to whether or not the epa is on the ground. it would be important to have them on the ground and to take to inspect those sites and to contain any possible contamination. so i'll be visiting with other people in the region, but those are sites not specifically within the city of houston. >> many times with water damage there are invisible toxins or where you don't know -- you think your house -- the water is gone, but the mold could be so bad that you cannot live in there. who is making the determination whether a house needs to be condemned completely or it can be rehabbed? is that a federal government decision? is that something your government handles? walk us through that? >> right. that is something that we will be handling locally and what i've said most of 95% of the city is dry. for many, the damage is o

dealt with this catastrophic storm. >> you come back and visit the city of houstona city recovers when it's been hit. there's no doubt in my mind that the city that i know, which i was born and raised, a city that i know, this city will bounce back like never before. >>> hope the mayor is right about that, a lot of people will come back a year from now. he's speaking conviction. i'm gayle king, charlie is off and so is norah. everybody is glad norah has a day off after a very long week. we begin with hurricane harvey again, which hit texas one week ago tonight. it will take many more weeks to recover. satellite images before and after the storm show how bad the flooding was. overflow and rivers covered communities and water and made roads invisible. >> harvey has killed at least 37 people. the white house estimates 100,000 homes have been affected. fema says it's already approved $57 million in disaster aid. >> there is still severe flooding in east texas where harvey's second u.s. land fall hit hard. victims packed the beaumont airport overnight. that city lost ser

houston. it's a very different city from new orleans. with more than 2 million people, houston is the fourth largest city in the country and it was also growing before the storm hit. meanwhile, when katrina made landfall, nrns had a population of 450,000 people and had been declining. >> one of the benefits houston has is the geography is the sprawling nature of the city, so just outside of those flooded there are going to be places where people can pirenta in vacant hotel room, so it's going tb a little better lodgistically in terms of positioning assets, the workforce to be able to get in and rebuild more quickly. >> there's also a stropg diversified economy in houston and the population is mu this makes it more likely people will come home instead of fleeing the city like they did with katrina. >> let's turn to anthony chan, he is chief economist at chase. nice to have y >> pleasure. >> i want to pick up from where kate left off. i know it's still early days, but how much do you think the hurricane harvey might affect next month's jobl

in houston, the city is struggling to get back to normal. a process that is certain to take months, if not years. we get the latest now from nbc national correspondent, miguel almaguer. >> reporter: nine days after harvey's landfall in west houston, the water is still rising. thousands of evacuations ordered over the weekend. >> everything is lost. >> reporter: families pouring out as overflowing reservoirs are partially drained. >> we just started evacuating the kids, getting everybody out. that was our situation. >> reporter: harvey is gone, but this region remains in peril. an estimated $180 billion in damage. rebuilding will take years. but the riggs family says the pain will last a lifetime. >> we have such great neighbors here. i mean, it's a great community. i'm a cancer survivor five years ago. 2013. and, you know, i guess i'm happy to be alive. >> reporter: with houston getting back to work, businesses big and small, like this daycare, are trying to stay afloat. >> our center is very important. because the parents have got to get th

today. >> reporter: the houston mayor says this city is turning the corner with help from countless volunteers including olympic gold medalist simone biles. >> i think everyone wants to just give back as much as possible because volunteering helps, giving blood helps, anything that we can do, we want to try to help. >> reporter: and this morning across texas we are told more than 30,000 people are still in shelters, and fema officials say the work has begun to get them out of these shelters and into hotels but still no time line as to when those residents can return home, that is, if they even have a home to return to. diane and kenneth. >> the storm has moved on but still so much work left to be done there. elizabeth hur live in houston for us, thanks, elizabeth. >>> flooding from harvey has slowed operations at two main gulf coast pipelines and that's created a temporary gas shortage triggering long lines at stations in texas and new price hikes across the country. according to aaa gas prices are now at a two-year high. the energy department has released 500,000 barrels of crude o

to benefit and help others. >> reporter: then it's right back to work helping their city get back to normal. >> houston is the best city in the world. we'll come back from hurricane harvey, also. i will tell anybody that's going through this just know that the sun will come up. your city will rebound. >> reporter: in prince george's county marcella robinson, wusa9. >>> president trump tried to ease the mind of any daca recipients today, the program that protects undocumented immigrants from being deported because they were brought to the united states as small children. the president said he would end it earlier this week, but today he tweeted, "for those concerned about your status during the six month period you have nothing to worry about, no action." but immigration activists aren't buying that. stephanie ramirez has more from hyattsville. >> they should believe what jeff sessions said the other day because that's basically the law of the the dreamers no longer on daca could be rounded up and deported after march 5th? >> we don't know. it's unprecedented. so i mean it could happen. they have the me

they need to look no further than houston. city is picking up the pieces from hurricane harvey.in on the recovery efforts there. >> everything is bigger in texas. including, the clean-up. more than two weeks after harvey flooded the texas gulf coast, thousand of houston residents are still picking up the mess the storm left behind. >> pat arthur was rescued by a boat. his home couldn't escape the storm. everything is going. 23 years worth of memories now thrown into a pile in the front yard, ready for the land fill. >> we are going to stay for a while. first thing you do is you cut it at 4 foot. and pull the sheet rock out. >> it was still raining outside when mike greg started gugt his home. everything soaked by the 2 feet of water had to be removed. and thrown away. >> everyone is fine. everyone is healthy. and i have a big support system. >> but the hardest thing for mike to get rid of was his wife's piano. >> it was very valuable to me. >> of it was the last thing they splurged on together before starting their family. >> it's okay. it's okay. no it's okay. >> reporter: for

gulf coast and the city of houston.n monday, the big storm was the big story. >> floodwaters overwhelmed

and that is significant because houston is the most ethnically diverse city in this country. e's an argument that is made, we'll never have solidarity as a nation if you're so ethnically diverse. houston does it. and so if they can do it i think that argument against making our country diverse or opening up more immigration falls down. the second thing is that i think as washington becomes more dysfunctional, power is going to the cities and states. and i thought the basic efficacy. houston government this week is further sign that that may have to happen even more. >> o'brien: mark, would you agree that maybe the lessons of katrina, for example, bore out and perhaps not only were the localities better equipped but people themselves were better prepared, is that possible? or something that the trump administration can take credit for? >> i don't think there's credit. i think certainly, early returns are encouraging, i think the public sector, i think the private sector, i think voluntary sector, i think citizens whether it's the cajun navy, whether it's corporate involvement.

in that same year, in the city of houston, 64000 believe permits were given. uest: if we look at these texas cities especially in houston, we see a very deregulatory response we see cities that give clear indications of what is required and they are usually things that are focused on health and safety. that's really what government should do when they talk about permitting is less make sure people are actually safe and make sure the structures are sound and beyond that lets people do whatever they want with their buildings. let people create whatever they want. let people pay their homes whatever color they want to live next to a business if they want. by giving people that freedom of choice the market decides what buildings should beware and reduces the cost of living substantially nec when homes are cheaper to build that means businesses can come. that means jobs can be created and so this is something that is extremely important is respecting property rights. that makes an economy thrive and we look at california and that's the opposite. the cost of living i

shortly after he left, houston city officials spoke to the public and announced that water is still pushingople out of their homes. kristen holmes is there in houston with more. mayor sylvester turner/-d- houston:"i have no choice but to issue a mandatory evacuation."houston's mayor tells some west houston residents with water in their homes ... they must leave.the order applies only to an area flooded by water releases from swollen reservoirs.authorities said it's a matter of public safety.chief samuel pena/houston fire dept.:"it's my professional opinion that people that remain in inundated areas are in an unsafe situation. the hazards that exist in these situations are presenting a problem for first responders."meanwhile, water service is beginning to be restored in beaumont.six temporary pumps have been installed.residents who haven't evacuated have been relying on bottled water since flooding knocked the treatment plant offline thursday.this as the president and first lady visited texas and louisiana saturday.in houston, they stopped at a church and a relief center at nrg stadium.pres.

with respect to the other parts of the city of houston, about 95% of the city of houston is dry. now separate that from the region. okay, because there are still major, major problems in the region, but in terms of the city of houston, 95% dry, electricity grid, probably about 12,000 homes without power, the wastewater system is fine. >> reporter: how long do you plan the continue the controlled releases, and what do you say to the families who feel their neighborhoods were sacrificed for the greater good of the city. >> the reality is those plans were put in place decades ago in order to protect everything on the lower send to to speak. this was an unprecedented amount of waterfall. so what the corps of engineers are saying to us is they have to build capacity on the west side of the dam, and in order to build that capacity, they're having these gradual releases over a period of time. and what their concern is, if there is another storm or hurricane coming and they don't build that capacity on the west side of the dam, then it could be catastrophic. so that's... it's a balancing,

houston. the mayor saying the city needs tens of millions of dollars in aid to start rebuilding. george howell live in houston, texas. thousands of people in the city step by step trying to rebuild their lives. >> and i'm natalie

in houston, a city already paralyzed by tropical storm harvey, a blast and blaze of a chemical plant have prompted more it i can wish and's. the you -- have prompted more evacuations. the death toll in the region affected by the storm is estimated at 35. authorities warn that the figure may rise as floodwaters receded antibodies are revealed -- and bodies are revealed. our coverage begins back at the chemicals palant. fires and explosions rocked the chemical plant northeast of houston. residents were evacuated from the nearby town of crosby. some authorities have warned that the public could be exposed to hazardous fumes. the plant operator is urging caution. >> what we have is a fire. when you have a fire, sometimes you have incomplete combustion and smoke. any smoke is going to be an irritant to your eyes, lungs or potentially your skin. if you are exposed to to that, we are encouraging anyone to call their doctor or to seek medical advice. >> one local resident is worried about elderly neighbors. lisa told her it is too dangerous to check -- police have told her it is too dentist

houston. during his visit i ask him to spend at least 30 minutes with us, with the daca recipients who have been voentsing and helping here in the cityuston. to come meet us and to -- so that he could understand and remove the stereo type that is here. we are not here to cause any harm. we are here to help. >> joining me now, founder of define american and mary lena of the national immigration law center and julietta, from united we dream action. and julietta, you are coming from a protest, can you tell us what that was about? >> yeah. we did all night protest outside of the governor's mansion office and i'm really exhausted. it was all night. but it was to send a very clear message. when governor abbott passes and signs before a very racist and unconstitutional law, we know that we have to -- a temporary halt by judge garcia, we also wanted to make it clear to a.g. paxton who is putting a threat on the program that we wan or our daca when they try to terrorize us, criminalize us and deport us, we are going to take over his space. and we're going to make it clear that migrants are here to stay and that we're here to stay and it to be

city rebuilds. ? and councilwoman, i know this is an incredible week for you here in houston. was that visit receive snd we all just saw him greeting some of the victims and some of the first responders who were all very positive about his visit. overall, are people paying attention to that or, as they do on this sad street, have too much work to do? >> i think you hit the nail on the head, martha. as you look around, you see how much devastation has really taken place here, people are focused on not only trying to just try to get their lives stabilized and get over the shock of the crisis that just the surrounding areas. and then asking the question, where do we go from here? what do i do next? yesterday, we canvassed areas where people were not aware that they had to tear out sheet rock. there is a huge curve of education that needs to take a place. there's a whole lot of work to do. the focus has been on the work going forward and trying to focus on how the rebuild next. >> and matt, one of the things he's done is he's pulled back from his threat. it seems, of shutting down

title or when the president makes a campaign stop folks living in these cities like chicago new orleans baltimore and now houston only seem to make the news cycles when there's a murder of a station in their streets. and while the difficulties and sorrows of the citizens of these cities based on a day to day sometimes hour to hour basis are real and do deserve the newspapers and what is often ignored are their successes the individuals or communities in the city whose talent and heart overcome their city's dire headlines in baltimore city most own most only see through its headlines of poverty and racial divisions there is a new generation of artists and thinkers who are proving there's more to their city than drugs and police violence one of them is writer speaker and poet come to fidel born and raised in baltimore can want his gift of shaping words into windows has been featured in notable publications like the root and huffington post use even share the stage with legends like angela davis today we welcome come to our stage so that he may share with you the beauty and the struggle as we start watching the haw

harvey. >> geologists would work with nasa says all that flooding had more of an effect on the city of houstone thought. he claims the weight of the water actually flexed the crust of the earth and that flexing has pushed the entire city down by two whole centimeters. >> wow. >>> next up the betting is well under way in britain ahead of the upcoming royal birth. >> prince william and kate are now expecting their third child who will be fifth in line to the throne. >> bookmakers have installed alice as the favorite among girls' names followed by victoria and mary, arthur has the best odds among boys' names >> another note -- >> king brian. >> king brian. >> king dougal. >> nick. >> no, it's not royal. >> okay. >> brian. >> who said it's a boy, by the way? we don't know. >> you're right. >> i think it might be time for another diane or diana in there or perhaps elizabeth. >> don't even start. >> elizabeth perhaps. >>> all right, another note about the baby's arrival. it will -- could fall -- >> right in the middle of the soccer world cup. >> what will britain do? >> they'll go crazy and then eng

houston city council member amanda edwards and presidential historian and abc news contributor mark updegroven. welcome, everybody. it's been quite a week. and matt, i want to start with you. you talked a lot about the president's first visit. you worked in the white house during president bush's response to hurricane katrina. how do you think president trump has handled this, especially given yesterday's visit? >> i think you have seen the city, the county, and state be big in this and show up and do it all right. i think the president learned the lesson of katrina. you need to show up quickly and in force. which president bush didn't do initially if the aftermath of that awful hurricane. i think the president has to figure out the right tone. part of being a president is not only showing up, but actually conveying to the american public you have empathy. compassion. you understand what is going on. i think one of the difficulties he has is he has a trust deficit. when this hurricane happened, it happened on a watch where he had a trust deficit. and two-thirds of the country didn't trust him

as floodwaters receded in houston, harvey returned with a vengeance along the texas gulf coast. rains lashed citiesrt arthur and beaumont. initial estimate of property damages was $30 billion, less than 40% of it covered by insurance. many houston neighborhoods could remain uninhabitable for weeks. >> one of the signs that, people will look to and what is important how quickly that debris is being remove. what we are needing from fema is an advanced payment on debris removal. >> give me a since of the kind of check you are looking for as >> the debris removal for city of houston, alone, could be an where between $250 million, $300 million. >> total damage and clean-up costs could reach $75 billion making harvey the second most costly natural disaster in houston history behind only ka katrina, its legacy of ruin will challenge houston for the next decade. >> we have always faced challenges. that's who we are. this is a city of hope and opportunity. this is a city that will come back, stronger than it has ever be for that, i have no doubt. ok, let's try this. it says you apply the blue one to me. her

mortgage confidently. ♪ >>> the houston texans are helping their city in the wake of hurricane harvey. a fundraising campaign launch by j.j. watt has collected more than $18.5 million. yesterday the football players handed out water and critical supplies to storm victims. michelle miller is in houston with more of the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning! hurricane harvey did not discriminate. members of the texans football team also flooded. j.j. watt and crew knew they had the means to push through. they want to make sure that the rest of their city does. boxes of supplies, water, even hugs. j.j. watt and teammates are helping to get the people of texas back on their feet. on sunday 10 semitrucks arrived from watt's home state of wisconsin. filled to the brim with donated items. >> these are volunteers. >> not a single cent of the millions of dollars he's fundraised. watt said with a fund this large, he said he wants to make sure it's managed correctly. >> make sure i work with local organizations that we do it right here in the city so that money goes to the people of hou

of the acceptmental together to come back to texas. >> cnn's stephanie elam joins us live in houston. the city mayor says that houston is open for business and hopes everything is on track to move forward after labor day. what do you see on the ground there, stephanie? a lot of debris behind you? >> reporter: yes, jim. you're right. most of this, driving around, seems you can get in. still parts under evacuation in west houston and neighborhoods like this one where they are just completely gutted by the floodwaters that came through their house in the middle of the night. imagine the waters rising so fast you have to use an air mattress to float out your grandchildren. what one couple had to do. how much water was here. going up to five feet in their house. now that everyone's able to make it back to this neighborhood, this is what they're dealing with. having to pull everything out of their house, from their carpets and furniture, to the toys, to the drywall. everything. pulling it out hoping to get ahead of the mold setting in. this is what it looked like in this northeast houston neighborho

. >> tell me, what's the guidance people are getting from houston city officials, because i've heardferent versions of, do go home, don't go home. what's the directive? >> reporter: at this point, in this area right now, it's, everybody get out right now. get out while you can. even still like i said, though, brooke, there are people that are refusing to leave, that are on the second or third stories of their apartment complexes, and they're just going to wait it out. but from what we've seen, we went into that water yesterday and it looks just as high as it was yesterday so it may be a long time coming before any of this water comes down. >> all right, nick, thank you. we are waiting, again, for that white house briefing to begin. we were briefed by the governor of texas. now we are watching washington, waiting for sarah huckabee sanders to stand behind that podium and brief the white house press pool. we'll take it live. stand by. you're watching cnn. at holiday inn express, we can't guarantee that you'll be able to contain yourself at our breakfast bar. morning, egg white omelet.

houston receives an entire year. we saw flooding in parts of the city that it never flooded. i went out in an air boat justhe north of the attic spam inuston northwest houston, writingit through a neighborhood with water up to the roof and houses. ordinary suburban neighborhood.hoyo you could see out the vestiges of families plein air. floating in the water, in the backyard. you could see holes in the roof where people are taking an accident broke into get out to escape the rising water forut first responders have broken into get to that. we took a boat down clay road, r fairly large road in northwest houston. i know clay road well. i became a christian at clay road baptist church. clay road is completely underwater. looks like for the middleweight. you look out and see nothing but water as far as the eye can see. i wrote up a local com bull right down the middle of clay road, going over cars, but you didn't even know when you are passing over cars. as we were going down clay road, we saw an alligator swimming across clay road. the scope of this disaster defies words. it is no

fill one of the world's biggest football stadiums one and a half times and that is just for the city of houston. residents are being urged to separate their garbage to make recycling easier setting aside electronic components like television sets for instance but most of these piles include all kinds of unsorted material and the city says that's ok too the point now is to move the track if we can get them separated get them pushed or that are most likely. set up we'll but right now if they're mixed in their trailers under a piece of carpet they were going to pick it up use and residents just glad to see the debris that's been growing mold in the hot texas sun all the way land stench is going to be a big relief in. just get it out now and then one but as the trash is removed outside it's clear there's still plenty of misery left behind city officials say this job to take three to four months i want to offer al-jazeera houston now the island nation of summer in the pacific ocean is one of the world's highest rates of obesity imported fast food is favored over natural local produce but campaigns u

a majority of them in the houston area. city officials say only about 1,000 evacuees remain at the houston convention center. that is down from a peak of 10,000. many are returning to homes devastated by the flooding. at least 156,000 were damaged in harris county alone. nbc's jacob rascone has more from houston. >> reporter: philip, more than a week after harvey slammed into the texas coast, thousands of homes in west texas remain under water. most of the region shifted its focus to the clean up effort and what is likely to be the most expensive natural disaster in u.s. history. >>> in west neighborhood after neighborhood still under water. mandatory evacuations for 4600 homes. after their owners thought they had escaped the worst. >> it's sad. i feel sad for us. i feel sad for everyone. >> reporter: families like the romos told they can't return to their homes for nine more days while the city releases water from overflowing reservoirs. >> the few stuff we have left that's not been flooded out, that's all we want. >> reporter:

if they don't get the water out now and it rains it can be catastrophic for the city of houston. >>>being there, and seeing it up close. what has struck you? >> reporter: the people. the one thing we can get over is how many people keep coming to try and help. we have met a lot of people that don't live in this area, and maybe there homes were not damaged but they went out to try and help. the other thing that's been amazing is that we rode with a son and daughter who the sun had brought his sister down to help a friend of his mother. the whole time they were out trying to help that friend the mother told us her house had been flooded as well. she needed at some point to get her home to check on her things, before she did that, she was trying to help out 1 of her friends. we also saw a deputy with the harris county sheriff's office who had been at the area where we were all day, a flooded neighborhood, and he helped an elderly couple who had finally decided to leave their home. we found out later that the elderly couple were actually his in-laws. he had been there all day helping

she interned with united states representative sheila jackson-lee and houston city council member robert galegos. due to her community service, she was asked by the mayor of houston to serve as the youngest member of the mayor's hispanic advisory board. she is the first daca recipient to serve on this boferred. -- on this board. last week in the aftermath of hurricane harvey, hermina stepped in to help her community just like she has always done. she volunteered at shelters, helping people with fema and red cross applications. she was joined by many other daca recipients. she wrote me a letter. she asked for only one thing -- for president trump to come and visit houston and meet the daca volunteers, to meet those heroes, to look in their eyes, to hear their stories before he made his decision about whether they had a future in the united states. hemina and so many others have a future to give to this country, but without daca she faces deportation. this president who said we love the dreamers with his decision yesterday has said we are going to deport the dreamers. by ending the protect