our maggie brings us the very latest. maggy. maggie: with only more bands of heavy rain expected adding to a catastrophic situation. the country's fourth largest city remains underwater. with more heavy rain expected, the city could be soaked with up to 50 inches. >> 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. maggie: today a new problem. officials say city dams built to protect downtown houston for a 1,000-year event is at capacity. the water is rising more than four inches an hour. >> we have experts monitoring these structures 24/7. maggie: to control the flodding, the army corps of eng ears are releasing the dam. >> those in the neighborhoods will be challenged in the next couple of hours and days. maggie: floodwaters are forcing entire apartment buildings to flee to the roof. >> there's about 30 of us on the roof. across the street, the building is caving in. it's water everywhere. we have nowhere to go. maggie: half of the country

maggie was the guest of honor at the official ribbon cutting ceremony. the mayor looks forward to watching maggie run someday. >>> west virginia, donald trump celebrates the latest jobs report. this morning he said excellent job, i have only just begun. the us economy added 209,000 new jobs for a total of 1 million jobs since president. trump took office six months ago. >>> a closer look at the numbers say behind-- the pace is the same as it does next year. there is concerned that our paychecks are growing too slowly. >> what we've been seeing our trends that started two or three years ago. they've been trying to see steady and strong job growth and consistent movement towards full employment. >> 66 points and corporate earnings for the record climb,

>> the sources i talked to today confirmed maggie's reporting, this was not a reported firing. the terms were agreed to last week, that bannon met with robert mercer, the right-wing billionaire, and then mercer talked about the exit. so it seems there was a planning or foresight to bannon's departure. >> bannon told the weekly standard the trump presidency we fought for and won is over. what do you think he means by that? >> hi, sorry, what i think he means by that is two things. there is some virtue signaling, on trump saying i'm not going to war against you, but he is telling his own followers, the readers of breitbart, other officials in the administration and other conservatives, you know if this check list of things doesn't get done and he cited a bunch, including the wall and some others, it's because i, steve bannon am not there. in reality. all of those things were going to be incredible heavy rifts. this allowed steve bannon to say this happened because he was not physically present to push them true. again, stoeve bannon is a savvy operator and knows the base he will

building for tomorrow morning, right, maggie? >> reporter: eric, exactly. crowds are already here in charleston. this is supposed to be the most watched eclipse in history. and already from coast to coast, small towns and cities are filling up and cashing in. >>> t-minus one day to the great american eclipse. >> it's a once in a lifetime thing. they say almost every person that sees it, it's the biggest event of their life. >> reporter: the hype and the traffic jambs are only growing. >> it's busy here. >> reporter: some driving whatever it takes to hunt down totality. this man logging more than 1,000 miles. >> because when they say we're going to have a solar eclipse in our generation to actually see it. >> reporter: millions are trying to catch the moon's shadow as it races from or or to south carolina. with every city in between, boasting the best views. >> i'm building to put a pitch for charleston because we're the last place, we're also the best place. >> we're the point of greatest eclipse. >> reporter: hopkinsville in wes

>> maggie. >> hi, sorry.think he means by that is that, there is some virtues signaling to the president they're not going to war against you, he's telling, you know, his own followers and the readers and other officials at the administration and other conservatives if this is not getting done because of -- this is the end of the other side. in reality, all of those things were going to be incredibly heavy lift. in this alone, steve bannon, saying they did not happen because he's pushing them through. in reality, they were going to be tricky. steve bannon is a saavy operator and he knows that he's dangerous. >> josh, maybe the president should be nervous. the president is not going to go to war, sorry, steve bannon is not going to war with the president but what about the people that's working in the white house? >> his interview with me and he's positive on saying he's going to move forward. he made it clear that he's going to go forward to people that's inhibiting trump's agenda. those people including folk

hi, maggie. >> reporter: hi, eric. well, the excitement just keeps building and building here in charleston, but the only downside to that is the businesses are struggling to keep up with demand. we're less than a day away from the great american eclipse. [cheering and applauding] >> reporter: as the moon's shadow races from oregon to south carolina, small towns are turning into international hot spots. and with the excitement comes massive crowds and epic traffic jambs. >> we're really concerned with the population surge in the rural area. the infrastructure is not really set up for that. so, we've really beefed up our resources, our assets. >> reporter: but for most people visiting, all the hassle is worth it. >> it had to be totality. we couldn't settling for anything a little less. >> reporter: she drove through the night for 12 hours to get to totality. we caught up with her while shopping for, what else, eclipse gear. >> really almost everything is sold out so i'm very excited with one day left that i found somet

abc's maggie rulli joins us with the latest. maggie, good morning. >> reporter: diane and kendis, good morning. president trump may be leaving washington, d.c. for a few weeks but his possible involvement with russia will certainly remain front and center right here in d.c. >> we didn't win because of russia. we won because of you. >> reporter: surrounded by thousands of supporters at his campaign rally in west virginia, president trump can't seem to escape russia. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> reporter: but in washington, all signs point to the ongoing investigation into russian election meddling only ramping up. "the wall street journal" first reported and abc news confirms that a grand jury has been secretly working for weeks in d.c. suggesting a new elevated phase in special counsel robert mueller's investigation into whether president trump or any of his associates colluded with the kremlin. the president's pers

maggie, go ahead. we're going to bring up the time magazine website. they have a really cool website for you punch in your zip code. 98001. that is how the eclipse will looking your area. maggie, go ahead. caller: hi, i love watching your show. very informative. the graphics are excellent. thank you. my question is, can we use welder's goggles to watch the eclipse? host: i don't think so. i think you need to get a good pair of these, they are probably sold out in a lot of places, you need your special eclipse glasses. helmet think a welder's has as good a protection. i don't think it will help you in the event of monday's solar eclipse. hot springs, montana. this is joseph, what are your plans for monday's eclipse? fromr: we will be watching up here on the flathead reservation. we have a lot of plans, a lot of folks will be showing up on monday to watch the eclipse. i sure appreciate your program and it has been great. thank you very much. 'cha. you bet here is what lori has to say on facebook. eclipse,are about the but i will be doing what i regularly

abc 7 news reporter maggie ruehly is tracking the latest live in houston. maggie? >> reporter: we are getting hit with more rain and wind here in houston, and we're expecting another band of heavy rain coming our way only adding to an already catastrophic situation. the country's fourth largest city remains under water. with more heavy rain expected, the city could be soaked with up to 50 inches. >> 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. >> then today a new problem. officials say city dams built to protect downtown houston against a 1,000-year flooding event are nearing capacity. the reservoirs are rising at more than 4 inches an hour. >> we have dam safety experts monitoring these structures 24/7. >> reporter: to control the flooding, the army corps of engineers will begin releasing the dams, but first they have to evacuate residents whose homes could get flooded. >> those in the neighborhoods that are going to be challenged over the next couple of hours and days. >>

in washington, we hear from maggie. maggie, while you are on we are going to bring up the time magazine website. they have a really cool website where you punch in your zip code . , 98001.it on the screen and that is how the eclipse will look in your area. maggie in washington, go ahead. hi, everybody. i am loving watching your show. very informative. the graphics are excellent. thank you. my question is, can you use welders goggles to watch the 's goggles toer watch the eclipse? >> i don't think so. i think you need a pair of these. you need special eclipse glasses . i don't think a welder's helmet, as good as protection that offers, i don't think it will help you during monday's solar eclipse. thanks for being here. hot spring, montana, we're from joseph, and your plans for monday's eclipse? ityeah, we will be watching from up here in the flathead reservation. we have a lot of plans. a lot of folks are going to be showing up on monday, to watch the eclipse. i sure appreciate your program. it has been great. think you

maggie. >> reporter: matt and jeanette, good morning.eather here in houston appears to be clearing up but harvey was such a devastating slow moving storm that the flood waters here are still at catastrophic levels. america's fourth largest city is at a standstill. reeling from the 100 trillion gallons of water harvey left behind. >> there they are. >> reporter: first responders and volunteers alike are racing against rising flood waters. more than 7,000 people have been rescued so far. many plucked from their roof desperately clinging to coast guard baskets but the calls keep coming in. >> i hate to think there are people in these houses. >> reporter: at least 1,000 people are still in urgent need of help. >> don't give up on us. seek the higher ground we will get to you. >> reporter: linda was propped on her car on the highway for two days. >> there are angels out here. >> reporter: those rescued are often left with only the damp clothes on their backs and anything they can grab. shelters are beyond capacity. the houston convention cent

maggie rulli live from washington for us. thanks, maggie. >>> and the white house insists that the president did not lie when he claimed to have received two recent phone calls that never took place. >> the president said the head of the boy scouts called to praise his speech to the troops. but scout leadership said there was no such phone call. and he also said he got a call from mexico's president complimenting him on his work at the border, but mexico said that call also never happened. press secretary sarah sanders offering up this explanation for the president's claims. >> no, on mexico, he was referencing the conversation that they had had at the g20 summit. in terms of the boy scouts, multiple members of the boy scout leadership following his speech there that day congratulated him, praised him. >> but the president specifically said that he received a phone call from the president of mexico -- >> they were actually -- they were direct conversations, not actual phone calls. >> he lied. he didn't receive that phone call

muchas gracias, maggie jimÉnez. muchas gracias.e hervir el agua por un minuto. obviamente, deje que el agua se enfrÍaantes de consumirla. si no puede consumir el agua, va a tener un galÓn de agua. le va agregarocho gotitas de blanqueador. lo va a mezclar bien. lo va a dejar reposar por 30 minutos. esto es bien importante. nosotros necesitamos de agua para vivir. hay que hacerlo de manera segura lo otro importante en la comida. cualquier tipo de alimento que estÉ en contacto con estas aguas contaminadas, simplemente, lo tiene que eliminar. lo tiene que sacar. no puede tener ningÚn alimento que estÉ en contacto con esta agua contaminada. si tiene un alimento que estÁ en temperatura ambiente por dos horas o mÁs, o que haya cambiado de color, simplemente, no lo puede utilizar. no tiene que descartar. para los niÑos es importante. si tienen la fÓrmula en polvo tiene que ser mezclado con agua embotellada. un virus en un niÑo que produce diarrea no es lo mismo que producen adulto. en niÑo puede causar deshidrataciÓn. en houston no es fÁci

maggie rulli live in houston for us. thanks, maggie. >>> the president praised emergency officials coordinating harvey relief efforts during his visit to corpus christi and austin tuesday. the president waved the state flag and declared that texas can handle anything but he's receiving some criticism for not acknowledging the victims of the flooding. he plans to return to texas saturday to meet with some of those evacuees. >>> as we mentioned, houston city leaders have opened a new megashelter, it's the convention hall at the nrg center and the complex includes a stadium used by the houston texans football team. now, officials say they're trying to make the shelter as welcoming as possible. >> these are guests. these are neighbors. those are the terms. and you see people are greeting them, and that's what we want to do. we want everybody that's coming in here to feel warm, feel like this is a place where not only are they safe, it's a place where they can begin to put their life back because most of these folks are going

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diane and kendis. >> maggie, what's it like that the rain has let up? still seems like a huge amount of work to be done. >> reporter: diane, there's so much work to be done but i have to say when that brief sunshine shone through yesterday i wasn't expecting the impact it had on people. just our crew here went outside, looked up at the sun and there was an entire change in spirits and in mood and even the mayor yesterday said this is something that houston needs, but you make a good point, the sun might be shining a little bit more today but the recovery effort, we just have so far more to go. >> sort of like the solar eclipse all over again. people going out to take a look at that sight. >> all right. a little ray of hope. we'll take them where we can get them. thanks, maggie. >>> the president praised emergency officials during his visit to corpus christi and austin tuesday. the president waived the state flag and dec handle anything but receiving criticism for not acknowledging the victims. he plans to return on saturday to meet with some of them. >>

maggie rulli live for us in houston with more. good morning, maggie. >> reporter: reggie, natasha, good morning. well, texas slowly begins to recover, there are more than 230 shelters like this one across the region that are still open for houstonians today. in some parts of houston, water rescues and recovery missions going around the clock. five days after hurricane harvey made landfall. >> we already made one dramatic rescue. now we're right back at it. >> now a tropical depression, harvey continues to batter the gulf coast. >> river inside, outside, upside, downside. >> port arthur desperate to escape the rain. >> i'm scared for my babies. >> even though the rain has stopped in houston, the floodwaters continue to rise. roughly 15,000 calls for help have poured in. officials now going door to door, marking bright orange cs on homes that are clear. officials estimating up to 40,000 homes destroyed in harris county alone. >> 100,000 is certainly not out of the question. >> those returning home to see the damage sift through they

abc's maggie rulli joins us from the flood zone in houston. maggie, good morning. >> reporter: diane and kendis, good morning. this is a weather disaster affecting thousands of miles and in millions of people and more rain is on the way. overnight, the national guard live streams their dangerous not ops mission desperate to keep up with the thousands in need of rescuing in houston. life and death moments caught on camera. families fighting to stay above water. floating on air mattress, piling into canoes and rescue baskets, children wading through the waist deep waters. all 12,000 members of the texas national guard are activated. but it's not enough. so neighbors like captain sam are stepping in saving this family with his own boat. >> this is very unfortunate because we don't have anything, you know. we lost everything in our apartment. it's just really unfortunate. >> reporter: now warnings that what we're seeing is only going to get worse. >> there is a reality we have to come to grips with and that is we are process of responding to the s

in houston, texas, maggie rulli channel6 "action news." matt. >> thank you maggie.had pradelli is headed to the flood zone. his life reports for "action news" begin later today from the gulf coast. >> a south jersey man recently moved to texas only to witness the continuing nightmare there that is tropical storm harvey. 29-year-old andrew riebel and his fiancÉ megan evans moved there will last movement so far the flood waters have not reached the couple's third floor apartment. >> in terms of a prolonged event like this i've never experienced anything like this. the street up to 45 was littered with vehicles that had broken down. there is debris, mud, deceased animals all over the roadways. >> he says their years of experience in snowstorms and blizzards instinctively made them stock up on plenty of food and water. >> new jersey governor chris christie is calling texas lawmakers hypocrites because some of them want a federal disaster declaration for hurricane harvey. christie says he hopes texas does not endure the delayed disaster relief vote that new jersey experi

. >> maggie is in charleston with more on this heavenly event. >> small towns and cities across america for millions of eclipse hunters. all desperate for a glimpse of totality. >> the lines of traffic are hours long in primeville, oregon. the state is expecting to see a million visitors. >> at the campground in idaho, this couple has been camped out since wednesday. nebraska is expecting half a million to fly in from all over. >> we flew to seattle, spent the night in seattle and flew here. >> the carolinas are booked up. >> everyone is at capacity. >> the eclipse last stop in the u.s. >> what is the hype like? >> it's huge. >> they are on app mission to transform the bent into the place to be on the big day. >> right now the field is empty. come monday, thousands of people will be here for the solar eclipse. >> many of them local kids studying up on science and safety. >> so many times we gather together in grief, but this is fun and educational. we share it with idaho and columbia even. >> maggie ruly, charleston, south carolina. >> tune into "6abc" monday. abc will bring you coast t

also insert things that will be wholly unfamiliar, so the heroine of the story, the character called maggieostello who has appeared in a couple of earlier sam bourne novels, irish—born, very idealistic, principled woman who worked for the previous president, who was this widely admired figure around the world, and now has held on, working for this much more unpopular president. so she is at the centre of it, she is a wholly fictional character. but the universe around her, i'm aware that people are going to be bringing things to it that they know from the real world. well, you know perfectly well what they're going to bring to it. they're going to say this is donald trump. now, i mean, is it donald trump, or is it not donald trump? so, the president is never named. he's a fictional creation. and i think that's important, because you wouldn't be able to set all these other hares running. so, you know, for example, at the centre of the story are these two lieutenants to the president, loyal partisans for their party, who find themselves frankly appalled by the man they are serving, have come

. >> maggie rulli joins us live with the latest.ood morning, maggie. >> reporter: matt and jeanette, good morning. well, the weather here in houston is starting to clear up but harvey has been such a devastating slow moving storm that unfortunately the flood waters here remain at catastrophic levels. america's fourth largest city is at a standstill. reeling from the 100 trillion gallons of water harvey left behind. >> there they are, there they are. >> reporter: first responders and volunteers alike are racing against rising flood waters. more than 7,000 people have been rescued so far. many swept from their roofs desperately clinging to coast guard baskets but the calls for help just keep coming in. >> i hate to think that there are people in these houses. >> reporter: at least 1,000 people are still in urgent need of help. >> don't give up on us. seek the higher ground. we will get to you. >> reporter: linda was trapped in her car on the highway for two days. >> all i can say is there are angels out here. >> reporter: those rescue

abc's maggie rulli continues our live coverage from houston. maggie, good morning. >> reporter: diane and kendis, good morning. harvey is now moving inland as that tropical depression where it's expected to drop another 8 inches of rain on top of tennessee and kentucky, and while it's no longer raining here in texas, unfortunately, the worst may be far from over as it's estimated the storm may have damaged as many as 100,000 homes. in some parts of houston water rescues and recovery missions are still going around the clock five days after hurricane harvey made landfall. now a tropical depression, harvey continues to batter the gulf coast. >> a river inside, outside, upside down side. >> reporter: port arthur desperate to escape the rain. >> i'm scared for my babies. >> reporter: even though the rain has stopped in houston, the floodwaters continue to rise. roughly 15,000 calls for help have poured in. officials now going door to door marking bright orange cs on homes that are clear. officials estimating up to 40,000 homes are destroyed in harr

in houston, texas, maggie rulli channel6 "action news." >> thank you, maggie. "action news" reporter chad pradelli will be arriving in the flood zone soon. look for his live reports starting later today on "action news." >>> 29-year-old andrew riebel and his fiancÉ 27-year-old megan evans moved to houston from bellmawr new jersey last month. riebel says they have never seen so much rain. the flood waters have not reached the couple's third floor apartment, a the least not yet. >> in terms of a prolonged event like this i've never experienced anything like this. the street that leads up to 45 was just littered with vehicles that had broken down. there is debris, mud, deceased animals all over the roadways. >> riebel says their years of experiencing snowstorms and blizzards in south jersey instincts tiffly made them stock up on plenty of food and water. >> and more local first responders are leaving for texas today. >> "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at the american red cross in center city with more on the outreach from the delaware valley. kather

abc's maggie rulli has details from washington. >> reporter: days after the republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare crumbled in the senate, now a new hope. >> i think we can resolve this problem, but it's going to take more bipartisan work. >> we have a lot of bipartisan discussions going on right now. more than we've had in months. >> reporter: both sides are calling for a solution with republican senator lamar alexander and democratic senator patty murray teaming up saying they want to see federal payments to insurers that help millions of low and moderate income americans afford coverage continue for at least another year. but president trump has threatened just the opposite tweeting if a new health care bill is not approved quickly, bailouts end very soon. and he's repeatedly said the only alternative to a repeal is to let obamacare fail. >> let obamacare explode. it is exploding right now. >> you know, i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode, and then do it. >> reporter: some senators now ignoring those threats from the president. >> but for now what we need is s

okay, you told me, it's maggie. cristie: yes, this is maggie. she is about 2 months old.he was transferred to our shelter from another shelter, and she--we don't know what happened with her. she was found by herself, brought in as a stray, and then transferred over to us. robert: somewhat typical of the animals? cristie: that's pretty typical. and we do transfer quite a bit of animals from other shelters, and she was just one of them. and most of the time, we'll get these puppies, we have no idea what happened to them prior to showing up. robert: right, makes a great advertisement though for clear the shelters. cristie: sure, yeah, absolutely. she is ready for adoption, and she will get surgery tomorrow, and she will up on the website, hopefully soon. robert: maybe not as great as promoting, but i know that you named three animals after me, as well as our two producers, lance lou and joachim castudio. first of all, that's me, right? that's robert? cristie: that's you, that's robert. robert: and that's a lab? cristie: that's robert, yes, he is a yellow lab. robert: okay, t

let's bring back the panel to discuss, maggie haberman, abby phillip and errol louis.non will weigh in commercial if you're going to be talking about afghanistan because this is such a fundamental part of his philosophy, we should be out of there, the president supposedly bought into it and that leads us to tonight. >> look, there were many issues on which the bannon clashed with almost everybody else within the white house and certainly afghanistan was a huge piece of that. he believed that the u.s. should not be further drawn in and then he, you know, was advocating this privatization plan that was pushed by somebody named eric prince who was a relative of a cabinet secretary. as it turns out that did not go through any of the normal chams, it was all this side process that bannon had going. i do think that bannon sees himself as the keeper of this campaign pledge that the president made which was, you know, not getting further drawn into these foreign wars. i suspect you will see breitbart, bannon's website, reacting pretty strongly to whatever comes out of the pres

thanks, maggie. appreciate your time. >>> abc 7 news viewers shared some great images of the eclipse with us. >> meteorologist drew tuma here with a look at couple of the pictures. drew? >> yeah, guys, we're getting a lot of pictures of the eclipse. look at this one from matthew. he traveled away from the fog and captured this eclipse with his camera. beautiful sight there. hugo traveled to oregon. watch the time lapse video, as the moon was crossing in front of the sun. you can see the skies darken. the total eclipse to our north. another picture, we weren't able to score the eclipse glasses, you can easily look at the shadows from the tree. this one coming in from the crescent shadows coming from the eclipse. an easy diy was to take a cereal box and make a viewer of your own. we saw people doing this across the united states. this picture coming in from sharon. her daughter said thank you for the video. she made her own eclipse viewer. this coming in from stacy. she made two of these for her studen

dilemma, which confronts the two people who work for him, and which is discovered by our heroine, maggie is that they begin to conclude that the man that they have taken an oath to serve is a menace to the world. and there they begin to wrestle with, where does your responsibility lie in that situation? as a good patriot, is it your duty to serve the commander—in—chief, or should you, if you really have concluded he's a danger to the world, seek to remove him? and of course they explore the legal avenues first. in a sense, we've been there before in the nixon presidency, because although what was at stake was simply the clinging on to power, it wasn't the possibility of a nuclear strike or anything like that, at least as far as we know. but there was a question raised among some of those around him as to whether his travails and horror of the position he was in had unbalanced him. and if it had, was there anything anyone could do about it? well, it's absolutely right. and i'm glad you mention it, partly because the characters themselves refer to nixon and the so—called madman strategy. t

in charleston county south carolina, maggie, abc 7 news. >>nd we're put together a time lapse video, you'llind that on our abc 7 news app along with pictures and videos across the country. itorks for both app and >> it's an act of kindnesshat didn't go unnoticed. it's very rare that somebody does this. >> what these firefighters are ying thank you and why they're saying thank you to a stranger tonight. >>> plus, if you're wondering what to do with your eclipse glasses, we're he a great alternative to throwing them out. >> the jetsons are coming back. this time around there's one big difference. >>> and you're doing to feel a big difference in our weather, big difference in our weather, i'm and i'll l you know what food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. i see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. you got me, mark. internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. food. water. internet. we need it to live. for all the streaming and the shopping

maggie is in charleston, south carolina with more. >> we were some of the last people in the u.s. to see the great american eclipse and the crowds here in charleston sent it off in style. >> the best part was when it kept getting smaller and smaller and smaller. >> the young and the just born and the young at heart. >> i don't know if i'm going to have another chance to see it again. >> the k-9, after so much anticipation, the moon arrived right on schedule. >> appreciate that we're able to predict it and understand to within fractions of a second. >> and totality sped at an average of 1,800 miles. >> i have goose bumps, literally, because i've never seen anything like it. >> the spectacle landing in city after city first hitting lincoln city oregon, casting its crescent on a place in nebraska. almost overshadowed by clouds, so-called capitol of the eclipse in illinois. >> there it is. >> but peaking out in the final few seconds. >> no words. no words. it was absolutely amazing. >> and then, finally, the last major stop for the great american eclipse, charleston, south carolina. >

he would be overwhelming your own message. >> maggie, always fascinating to talk to you. thank you for sharing your reporting with us. >>> a cnn exclusive. congressional investigators uncovering an e-mail from a top trump campaign aide revealing a previously unreported attempt to arrange a meeting between campaign officials and russian president vladimir putin last summer. the source of this e-mail is this man, rick dearborn. he is the president's deputy chief of staff now. our jessica schneider is live from washington with more on this. jessica, what have you learned? >> reporter: this is part of an e-mail disclosed to congressional investigators in a batch of about 20,000 documents from the trump campaign. it is from then campaign aide rick dearborn. in it he explains an individual was seeking to connect top trump officials in the campaign with the russian president. that individual looking to make that connection is identified only as being from wv. one source saying that's a reference to west virginia. in the e-mail dearborn did appear skeptical of the request to set

in houston texas maggie rulli channel6 "action news." thank you maggie. >>> shelter dogs from the houston area arrived tonight in camden county. they were flown into morristown municipal airport last night. the rest will be spread ought across the region. >> ford for them to clear out some be room they decided to bring some of their dogs over here. that way we can get their dogs adopted. >> the shelters in texas will now be taking in pets that were abandoned during flood rescues in the hopes that they might one day be reunited with their owners. and we know many of you have wanted to help. abc's hosting a network wide day of giving tomorrow starting at 4:00 p.m. you can call our 6abc phone bank to make a donation. all proceeds will go to the american red cross. >> and we know the phones will be ringing offer the hooks because -- off the hooks because the folks out there extremely generous. >> and this is like katrina, you know, squared. >> sure. >> it really looks bad down there. storm tracker6 live double scan things are improving aroun

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in houston, texas, maggie rulli, abc7 news. >> okay, maggie, thank you.sk you where this stands at this point, because we have seen so much of this storm really just linger in some parts. >> that's the key. it wasn't moving very quickly whatsoever the first several days. now it's starting to move a little faster. everyone wands to know where the center is, it's between monroe and vicksburg. and that's where it's going to sit for the next day or so. but then it's going to start moving up to the north and east. that's going to put places like the ohio river valley, you can see that stretching all the way up from the mississippi river valley into the ohio river valley. a secondary push here that's going to hit the south, and that's going to be the reason why we're seeing all of this flooding or the potential for it, nearly 5.7 million people under a flash flood watch. until the next 24 to 48 hours are over. jessica. >> the number of people this is going to affect. not as hard as houston, but in other areas, simply staggering. >> 4 to 8 inches of rain. nothin

>> reporter: maggie ruly, abc news, new york. >>> as president trump deals with the controversy, this morning, friends and family are remembering heather hire. she was the woman killed during the weekend violence. memorial service was held in charlottesville. she was a passionate woman who wanted to make the world a better place. >> no father should have to do this. but i love my daughter. she loved people. she wanted equality. and in this issue of the day of her passing, she wanted to put down hate. >> in a tweet this morning, president trump calls heather hire a truly special young woman. heather's mother has declined to respond to the president's latest comments. >>> so-called right wing rally is coming to san francisco despite opposition from city leaders. the national park service approved the permit for the rally, planned for saturday, august 26th, at krissy field. mayor ed lee is not pleased. he sent a letter expressing concern. >> we do not invite hate speech or hatred to come into our city, and to instigate not only hatred, but potential violence. >> the leader of patriot pra

maggie rulli, abc7 news, houston texas.nk you so much, maggie. >> we're continuing to see incredible rescues like this one the u.s. navy posting this video as they save people in beaumont, texas, hoisting them up. the military is mobilizing its resources from across the nation to help. the governor has activated all 12,000 troops in the texas national guard. >> and here's some of the damage that one of our reporters, abc7 news reporter laura anthony, found in an area called umbel texas, which is just outside of houston. this is a major interstate that leads into the city. at least 150 yards of concrete, that median you see there, just got pushed aside by all the floodwaters. transportation officials say crews have begun work to repair that, but they don't have any idea right now how long it's going to take to be fixed. laura has been in houston all week helping out our sister station ktrk. one easy way you can help out victims is through abc's day of giving. today, our abc stations across the country will be fund-raising on

in houston, texas, maggie rulli channel6 "action news." matt and jeanette. >> thank you maggie.ill be arriving in the flood zone soon. look for his live reports later today on "action news." >>> 29-year-old andrew riebel and his fiancÉ 27-year-old megan evans moved to houston from bellmawr, new jersey, just last month. riebel says they have never seen so much rain. the flood waters have not reached the couple's third floor apartment, at least not yet. >> in terms of a prolonged event like this i've never experienced anything like this. the street that leads up to 45 was just littered with vehicles that had broken down. there is debris, mud, deceased animals all over the roadways. >> riebel says their years of experiencing snowstorms in south jersey instinctively made them stock up on plenty of food and water. >> help is desperately needed. more local first responders are leaving for texas today in katherine scott is live at the american red cross in center city with more on the outreach from the delaware valley. katherine. >> reporter: matt and jeanette, multiple local groups ar