but right now, the heaviest rain falling for southern louisiana and lake charles. they're expecting anywhere from 15 to 20 inches of rain. some areas could receive 30 to 40 inches of rain. i want you to check out the anatomy of a tropical s notice how you might get some breaks in the rain as the rain bands continue to circulate and meander. right now, on the ground is storm team4's own amelia draper. she'll talk about that a little bit. i know she's down toward galveston. as i zoom in, notice how they're in a bit of a break, but the worst of it is yet to be over, correct, amelia? >> yeah, that's exactely right, somara. we're in galveston, along broadway avenue. i want to show you down the street. we have a lot of water. i'm standing on the sidewalk. it's four to six inches deep. folks milling around, business as usual, because we've not had rain here since the midday hours. and take a look, here's a side street. you can see the road here is closed. this is what we're seeing a lot in the galveston area. a lot of the side roads are closed with the water too deep. but

we are starting to see that across all southern louisiana including in southeast louisiana. that's because of those winds. we don't have watch outages yet. we do anticipate over the next 24 hours southwest louisiana will see additional 10 to 24 inches of rain. this is in concert with a storm surge that remains in the one to two feet above ground level. which will prevent the rivers om draining as we would want them to. which would flooding problems. the storm will make landfall some time tomorrow morning to leave tomorrow. it will be a tropical storm then it will track back and across louisiana from southwest louisiana up through the northeast corner. we do have tremendous support from our federal partners including -- i was able to speak with president trump again. he did announce that there's an intention. he would visit our state on saturday. that the communication and the partnership that we've got with our partners are excellent. the state continues to lean forward in working with our local first respoers. certainly we have assets spread strategically across the state o

we are starting to see that across southeast louisiana -- across southern louisiana, including southeast louisiana. that is because of those winds. but we do not have widespread outages yet. we can be thankful for that. we do anticipate over the next 24 hours they will receive an additional 10 to 24 inches of rain. this is in concert with the storm surge that remains in the one to two feet above ground level, which will prevent rivers from draining, as we would want undated -- want them to, which will exacerbate flooding problems. the storm will make landfall sometime tomorrow morning, to noon tomorrow. it will be a tropical storm and track back across louisiana from southwest louisiana up through the northeast corner. supportve tremendous from our federal partners, including fema, who you will hear from in a minute. pss conference yesterday i was able to speak with president trump again. he did announce there is an intention -- i do not know if this is final -- that he would visit our state on saturday. but the communication and partnership we have with our federal partners has been exc

governor, then i will come back up and people take questions for we head out to louisiana -- to southern louisiana. bill? bill: thank you. i appreciate the partnership are friends in texas and my colleagues over there, we are appreciative of what louisiana is doing. the type priority is the work together to support louisiana and texas and protect lives. we still have challenges, residents are still not out of harms way. responders and volunteers are working tirelessly to help those in need. r emergency shelters providing meals and offering comfort. we will still be here at fem a. i have a robust team. we are going to continue to correlate with our counterparts in texas as we can support them, plus planning for the future of any other events as we have stories out there. for hurricane yet season. we will be vigilant as well. thank you. >> thank you. repeat what the governor said, go volunteer. volunteer.louisiana.gov. to help.how do not load up your car and headed to texas. you can't get in, as the governor said. if you are wanting to help with the boats, the cajun navy, don't just grab boat and ge

many areas along the gulf coast, spreading into southern louisiana places like lake charles, new orleans will be dealing with major flooding as they wake up and go through the day on tuesday, houston, unfortunately continues to pour down rain. we're on day four in a row where it's rain nonstop all day and night it will continue into the overnight hours. look at that incredibly heavy rain through houston, so they're just getting battered as that on shore moisture continues to feed on to southeast texas, lake charles have had torrential downpours, new orleans getting a break. but they should start go get of her bands moving in. tropical storm sustaining at 45 miles an hour, it will meander along the texas border, make landfall against the texas louisiana border some time late tomorrow into early wednesday but not before bringing an dish one to two feet of rain over two feet of rain on top of what is already accumulated if possible. in the extreme southeastern coast. threat is long from over, we'll be dealing with the rain through wednesday, finally moving out. for us, another tropical syst

this continues the heavy bands of moisture across southern louisiana, look at lake charles, went on at 5:00 this afternoon, mainly south of new orleans now expected to get heavy rain late into early tomorrow morning, the path is slowly me an dearing off to the east southeast and will make a third landfall as a tropical storm some time late tuesday on the texas louisiana border before late wednesday into thursday moving out of texas off of louisiana and into arkansas. we're talking about place that is will record 50 plus inches in southeast texas including houston an additional ten so 15 including new orleans, we have moisture to deal with from what should be tropical storm,er ma by day break coming up in a little bit around 10:30. >> help is on its way to houston from our area, the american red cross sent one of its mobile kitchens to the region, left fairfax county this morning. and inside and volunteers will pick up more supplies as they get closer to texas. volunteers will prepare meals for people in need and provide them with cleaning supplies. >>> many people in our region would l

there is heavy rain across southern louisiana.hat we will see coming up, we continue to add totals here over the next couple of days. this will average 40 to 50 inches. this will eventually get out but think how much more it will >> a lot of people thought houston would be saved in the recent storm because they had elevated view of where the sat. it's level. flat. everything is flooded. >> it's a swamp surrounded by by a owes. they are -- by a you. they are prone, but not to this level. jonathan: thank you. michelle: nationwide, the response is growing to get the supplies and resources to houston. this is the red cross supply. the task force team is going to arrive in the storm zone and stephen tschida looks at the massive rescue and recovery effort underway. >> the floodwaters so deep, so devastating and deadly. the head of fema says the federal government is overwhelmed. >> overcome the disaster is greater than fema coordinating federal government. >> maryland task force one search and rescue team are en route to texas with a tr

there's multiple flash flood warnings in effect, in southeast texas and southern louisiana. as much as 15 inches of rain expected before dawn. >> crews are work around the clock to rescue people stranded from the floodwaters at home, businesses and vehicles. the rescuers are using boats, helicopters and everything else at hand. >> the houston convention center has 7,000 evacuees, 2,000 more than capacity. >> the city's mayor says the shelter will not turn anyone away. >> reporter: the evacuees keep coming in by the busload at the houston convention center, where they are reaching capacity. the numbers are growing exponentially all day long. we spoke to one woman who walked in after a helicopter rescue, shivering cold and holding a 3-month-old baby. they walked in with enough supplies to last them a few days. those are the types of stories we're seeing here at the convention center. take a look behind me. that's the registration desk. that's where all these people who have left their homes are checking in with the red cross and getting all their information in. and that room

fact, you can see that rain moving with the center of the storm, but heavy rains today across southern louisiana, by the time we get to tomorrow, it is northern louisiana, parts of arkansas that could see flooding rains and then that rain continues to move up toar tennessee by friday and saturday. an additional 3 to 5 inches of rain in port arthur on top of what has already fallen and we're looking at western louisiana, possibly seeing more than 10 inches of rain over the next 24 hours. that will lead to more flash flooding in that area. and before harvey finally moves on out, and then we'll get a better idea of how much damage is caused and better weather for folks to try to clean up and recover. anne-marie. >> meteorologist jeff jamison in dallas. thank you so much, jeff. >>> houston's flood control system is no longer in control. two reservoirs overflowed and a levee failed. engineers released water from two reservoirs to ease the strain, and that sent even more water into neighborhoods that are already flooded. the reservoirs are at record highs. one of those killed during the storm was a ve

some areas will see 30 plus inches coastline of texas but other areas like southern louisiana, up all the way to austin, texas. that's not the only worry. we also have the storm surge. greater than nine to twelve feet above ground in certain areas. >> it is hard for so many of us to picture. you can't fathom what 40 inches of rain looks like. people in more than a dozen county goes of texas will be going to bed under a tornado warning. somebody took this video of a strong funnel cloud in the area. look at that. our team coverage continues with storm team 4's amelia draper live in richmond, outside houston, where she and photographer have been dodging dangerous conditions all night. mel. >> erika, what a night it has been. we had a heavy band from harvey move through the area and there were two tornado warning at that time. using our nbc washington app and the radar i was able to navigate us through the tornado warning safely, but we were talking about very heavy before we got through the band, we stopped to check out some damage from earlier in the day, from a potential tornado earlie

inches of rain could be over the next five days, from san antonio to houston, right through southern louisiana. that is going to be the legacy. that is the danger and what we consider to be a life threatening weather with all that rainfall in south texas over the next couple of days. that's the big look at the weather story. here's a look at the weather where you are. today in south texas, that's not we have a tropical wave over florida triggering showers and storms also today as we go throughout your afternoon. we also have some concerns over storm surge. we'll give you some updates on that coming up later. >>> los angeles dodgers pitcher rich hill almost threw a perfect game. in the bottom of the ninth, a ground ball to third and bounced off the glove for an error and the bid for perfection was gone. he did throw nine no-hit innings. the game went to 10 and lost the game 1-0 to a walkoff homer. >>> just ahead, a huge crowd protests at nfl offices to support unsigned quarterback colin kaepernick. i love you, basement guest bathroom. your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. i l

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and also the tornado risk, a tornado watch out for southern louisiana through tonight. and it's going to spiral in more bands. and heavy rain for houston. the center of harvey gets over water, maybe strengthening before tomorrow. and another 20 inches of rainfall, on top of the we already got, in a city that has nowhere else to put the water. >> rob, thank you. >>> the entire region here is threatened by days of rain in the forecast. but areas along the coast are suffering from the full force of the hurricane. one mayor asking residents not to return. here's matt gutman with more. >> reporter: tonight, harvey's destruction laid bare. those category four winds topping 130 miles per hour. chewing up whole texas towns. in rockport, it is mind-numbing. street after street, mash-ups of metal, siding and splintered wood. >> it will be a year, and it's not going to be easy. >> reporter: search and rescue operations still ongoing tonight. we teamed up with these firefighters. >> anyone home? >> reporter: it was there we dog bentley. he'd been hurt trying to leave his home. tria

we are still seeing that rain continuing to come down and it has spread out across much of southern louisiananto mississippi, so we are seeing a wider swath of some very heavy rainfall and actually the center of tropical storm harvey is still over the gulf. this will be moving back inland near lake charles as we go into the next couple of days and continuing to move off towards the north and still the potential of flooding. we'll have more updates here on that. looking at san francisco over the next several days we are going to keep those temperatures on the warm side. look at friday. up to 80 degrees there. we could see some hotter temperatures in the middle of the city while the inland areas are going to have to deal with another wave of some dangerous heat starting on thursday, continuing into friday and also into the first part of next week. and, mike, you're still tracking something near the dumbarton bridge? >> i am, kari. we're still trying to get details. i can at least put the warning out to folks. speed sensors look great around the bay. only minor slowing out of the altamo altamont

also shifting towards our communities along the gulf coast including new orleans and much of southern louisiana. let's get straight to radar and i'll show you you where the heavy rape is right now which does include houston. they're on the southern edge at now but they are still getting very heavy, very consistent rain . that's from houston down southwest ward towards bay city, communities that have already seen to 35-plus inches of rain. along the gulf coast we have a tornado coast that's out from belt lake charles all the way through new orleans. the severe weather threat is there as well as the intense heavy rain bands that feed off of the golf of mexico. look at lake charles, new orleans. they're getting inundated with some of the feeder bappedz that we saw. now , over the past 72 hours the rainfall is stag terring in parts of texas. dayton, texas has seen just shy of 40 inches of rain. including south texas with 32.3 inches of rain. both of the airports, have seen over 20 inches of rain, but harvey not going anywhere any time soon . still a tropical storm, winds sustained a hour, barely mo

now a tropical storm making landfall in southern louisiana.e civic centers, the civic center, the evacuation point in port arthur. those are cots that are in the water and everyone is up in the bleachers because the civic center, the shelter, has flooded. now getting dump trucks to try to put people in the back of them to take them from that location to a safer location. the tragedies occurring and heartache and people waiting for rescue, the reason why is because of astronomical rainfall in the last 24 hours in beaumont. they had 26.5 inches of rain in one day. and in one six 0-hour period, 11 inches of rain. incredible amounts of water fell overnight around beaumont and port arthur. the mayor is saying the whole city is under water. >> can you imagine all the people that are going to need help from here on in. bill, thank you. >>> with that in mind, donations have been pouring in to help the victims of harvey. sandra bullock and rachael ray are each donating $1 million. comcast nbc universal, the owner of this country, facebook and disney ar

some of the flash flood watches that go from southern louisiana, and some will last through the middle of this week. as far as the forecast went last week, the heavy rain band did set over the top of houston. it did move in and move out. did every mane stationary. the current radar shows the huge fire hose. torrential rain and thunderstorms coming off the gulf. it is in beaumont and port arthur, picking up four to five inches in an hour's time. that's where the worst of the tragedies and the worst of the increase in water is happening this morning. up to lufkin, that's steadier rain but also showing flooding between houston, beaumont and lake charles. houston overnight, saw a period of heavy rain, but not like the night before. the forecast models continue to have this area of large rain in and around houston. they don't focus the heaviest rain in the city itself drg the day today. purely showers and thunderstorms on and off. as long as we don't see the fire hoseover them, hopefully the water levels in those bayous won't rise. this is over the next 12 hours. the hurricane center has it

. >> sandra: hundreds of members coming from southern louisiana. what inspires you to do this? >> it is something in our heart hearts. a level of dedication that is unsurpassed. i think the driving force to keep us going, the gratitude we are shown. we picked up a family of asians a few days ago that cannot speak english very well. the looks on their faces, the hugs we received, the gratitude -- you do not have to communicate verbally with both sides of this. it is heartwarming. it is the drive that keeps on going. the relief on their faces, the families are now safe, and back together. it is an overwhelming feeling in the drive to keep us going. >> sandra: we are seeing some of your video footage and pictures. commander tony wade, cajun search and rescue. thank you for what you are doing. we are all appreciative. >> thank you for all the help and support. >> sandra: thank you. take a look at that us. this house here in houston. completely, completely underwater. devastating. our own jeff locke was there. we will get a live report, next. marie callender knows that a homemade tu

landing there, of course he'll be talking tax reform, the images still coming out of texas and southern louisiana, just so heart breaking. >> stunning. you look at these scenes in port arthur, where people are in a shelter and they're laying on cots and the water is rising around them as they're sleeping. so this is what the president obviously has on his mind as he heads to missouri and tries to move forward with some of the agenda. while he lets everybody on the ground do the work that they are well equipped to do. it's an obvious natural incredible disaster that texas is dealing with. so the federal government has to try to mete it as it can. they appear to be doing the pweflt that they can based on what's coming in. but all of that really remains to be seen. whether or not there's going to be a high five at the end of this, we'll see. but, yes, tax reform is so important and he knows it. he has to articulate what he wants in this speech today in a way that the american people can relate to and either get on board or not get on board with. >> sandra: the white house is giving guidance that we'

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we could see another one to two feet more across southeast texas and getting into southern louisiana, too, as we go through wednesday. that's a quick check on the weather headlines in >>> good sunday morning. i'm lisa argen. low clouds and fog. another spare the air alert today. the heat continues into next week. here's santa cruz. it will be nice and comfortable here, but in the upper 70s. so even warm for beach standards. look for 75 in the city. 106 in livermore. 103 in concord, and the accuweather seven-day forecast shows more heat tomorrow. the coolest days come midweek. >> reporter: this weather report is brought to you by geico. the national weather service tweeting out to try to implore on people in the flood zone not to get trapped in the attic of your home. as tempting as that, try to the roof so you can be rescued there. sobering thoughts for southeast texas. >> speaking of that unfolding situation, we talked about how the 911 system in houston is overwhelmed. people needing to be rescued. on the phone with us right now is one of those people, hayley isbell, a storm victim.

storm surge, but you can see that the danger goes throughout the entire texas coastline into southern louisiana, how people will be affected by the storm surge there through the middle of the week. this is a long-term issue that is taking place, the effects of tropical storm harvey. lloyd is calling from the virgin islands. caller: hi, good morning. host: what do you think? are you confident in the government to deal with hurricanes and storms and other disasters? caller: i'm really concerned, because the government denies the fact that we're having climate change, and the climate change would make storms stronger that will be hire, and that these events will happen more frequently. so if you denied that, how can you properly plan? i would hope a state like texas would change its mind about climate change, because they're being really hurt. but you really can't plan if you're saying, well, this is not a going to happen and this is not going to be. climate change is a real thing, and it's happening all over in every state, whether or not you're having fires or whether or not you're having floods

obviously we don't have the low lying land that we had in southern louisiana, but we've been hearings all morning that a lot of people are sticking around. >> yeah, unfortunately you know, right now is the time to heed the warning. this is a very serious storm. the first major hurricane that we've had since 2005 as you guys suggested earlier. the time to evacuate and heed the warning is quickly coming to a close. and eventually the elements of the system are already beginning to impact the texas coast and inland we're seeing rain bands and seeing the ocean level start to rise in many cases. it's going to be a very dangerous situation and let's set the expectations. texas is about to have a very significant disaster and we have to let people know that. >> what preparations does fema have in place? >> so as i said earlier, we've already placed incident management teams in both texas as well as the state of louisiana because we anticipate this system to possibly later in the forecast period start to inundate the state of louisiana. we have search and rescue teams -- multiple search and

compared to hurricane katrina, we several issues, crime issues, issues where the areas in southern louisianaere much lower than the areas that we're dealing with in texas, the flooding was that much more severe. but really we had transportation infrastructure problems. people couldn't get in or out. supplies couldn't get in or out. are we better at staging supplies so if people are stuck in their communities, if not their homes for a few days, we're not going to have shortages of water and food? >> the problem will be similar but different because of scale and the size of the event. the city of new orleans relatively a small area where 80% of the people did having wait and 20% didn't evacuate. because of the scale and size of this rural coastal plain, that this is affecting from corpus christi all the way to houston and as far north as san antonio, with floodwaters that are to keep low-lying areas underwater for days, this is much more complex and broad a problem where in katrina we had a concentration of 60,000 people inside the downtown and surrounding area of new orleans. this is dozens a

all of this now pushes into louisiana so the track will want to make track somewhere across southern louisiana and then it finally does what any tropical storm, you expect to do, it catches the westerlies and quickly gets out of here, rains itself out but our storm has been stuck across this region because across the western u.s., there's a major heat wave and that's the high pressure is keeping the storm at bay. >> glad you mentioned louisiana. we'll go live to louisiana in a little bit. for now, thank you so much. >>> coming up, we will take you inside one of these emergency shelters where thousands of evacuees are dry and safe but are now coming to grips with this new reality. what comes next? a live report is coming up. >>> also, president trump warns all options are on the table as north korea fires off another missile, this one prompting people in japan to seek shelter underground. you're watching cnn special live coverage on a tuesday afternoon. i'm brooke baldwin. 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin' up the country. later, gary' i have a motorcycle! wonderful. ♪ ♪ i'm

louisiana. really worried about the southern half of louisiana as we go through the next couple of days because of the cold front you see coming down from the high plains. that's going to slowly nudge, and i mean slowly nudge what's left of harvey which will be a tropical storm which means we'll have winds faster than 39 miles per hour, but it's the rain that it's going to dump, and you can see by thursday morning it's just passing through the througe shreveport/bosier area and then accelerating off to memphis and another foot of rain is possible. back here at home, our own issues to deal with. most of us around the bay shore and north bay under a heat advisory and the rest of us away from the coast excessive heat warnings. 95 in the orange and 95 to 109, and i've got several more days of this heat coming up in my accuweather seven-day forecast. kristen? >> mike, thanks. >>> you can track the heat where you live with the abc 7 accuweather app. we're looking live in walnut creek right now where the hill is building and the cars cruise along 670 from there to the south bay and all across the bay

we do have a tropical, we have a tornado watch issued from areas all the way through southern louisiana. a couple tornado warnings. the storm itself is located here and you and see that let little development right here feeding those bands into the houston area. that was kind of the concern. of course, we have the dam release that started. one of them. the other dam release starting later today. i actually saw a report from convoy north of houston. they have 12 different communities. they're asking to evacuate because the dam there is now double the highest rate they have ever released the water at. that's how much water is all throughout this region. here's the rainfall forecast through thursday. still another 10 to 20 inches possible. and, again, a lot of that is in the next 36 hours as the tropical storm gets a little closer to the region. as far as the catastrophic flooding has gone throughout this region. we're still watching the one bayou especially. one went down a little bit because it hasn't rained that hard in the last 24 hours. now the rain is picking back up. we'll see if so

heavy band over lake charles and beau mont, also very heavy across the southern parishes of southern louisianaright into places that just can't take any more rain. >>> here is the number i have for you right now. this number is already a few hours old and it's been raining all day. i suspect day ton, texas now well over 40 inches. waller at least 35, maybe 36. that's 3 feet of rain. that's a yardstick of rain. right now, jim, about 120,000 people without power and although that sounds scary, 2.2 million people still have power, and the waters rising. electric and water don't mix. >> so many dangers in those waters. chad meyers, thanks very much. >>> i want to go back to houston now. that's where city officials certainly struggling to deal with this unprecedented disaster. we're joined by houston city councilmember at large, amanda edwards. ms. edwards, thanks very much for joining us tonight. we know you've got a lot on your plate. we're trying to figure out if houston knows how many people are still trapped in their homes. we had the estimate from one congressman, al green, who represents one

harvey just making landfall once again this morning in southern louisiana where there are now flash flood warnings and abc's steve osunsami is right there in the eye of the storm in lake charles with the latest on all of that. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning to you, amy. the eye of the storm is sitting right on top of us right now. behind me is a very swollen lake charles, in front of me is the sad scene playing out so tiffing center where there are many families who are sleeping who had to be rescued it their flooded homes. it will still dump inches over parts of the country where it's already sat rayed like a cup filled with water. you add one more drop and it up and, remember, of course, amy, this storm was here on monday. >> and, steve, i want to talk a little about what's going on in new orleans because you've been reporting all week long that many of the pumps that that city depends on are not working. is that still the case? >> reporter: yes, it's a source of frustration for many residents in new orleans. the city tells us that about a dozen of their pumps are not wo

>> rob marciano, thanks so much. >>> harvey just making landfall once again this morning in southern louisiana where there are now flash flood warnings and abc's steve osunsami is right there in the eye of the storm in lake charles this morning with the latest on all of that. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning to you, amy. the storm is finally moving on but not before leaving a flash flood emergency. 25 inches of rain in fell places. lark dharls behind me is full. families rescued from their homes having to sleep at the convention center. one more drop it spills over. creating these flash flood emergencies across this region. amy. >> steve, i want to talk about what's going on in new orleans because you've been reporting all week long that many of the pumps that city depends on are not working, is that still the case? >> reporter: amy, that is a very sore point for many families in new orleans. after all these years, 12 pumps they need to keep the city dry that aren't working. they're working to fix those now. one resident who got a little clever as you'll see in this video posted

this is extending all the way into portions of southern louisiana.is going to be an issue as we head through the next couple of days. we will continue to track harvey. right now you can see the over all track has it moving out towards the coast. we are monitor this situation and i will have your local forecast coming up. over to you. >> thank you. >>> from the air to the ground volunteers from across the u.s. are helping those affected by hurricane harvey. >> the red cross in our area has already sentr resources. we will get that video coming up in just a second. meanwhile, megan. >> yeah, we want to show you video of a drone that shows the devastation from hurricane harvey. you are looking at rockport, texas. it's home to roughly 10,000 people, and you can see their homes are just destroyed. everything they worked hard for just gone. power lines and trees across the state. >> nbc's sarah dollup has been following the action live from galveston, and we will join her with the look at the possibility of catastrophic flooding. >> reporter: you know harv

there are actually multiple flash flood warnings in effect in southeast texas and southern louisiana.s much as 15 inches of rain expected before dawn. >> crews are working around the clock to rescue people stranded from floodwaters with vehicles, rescuer using boats, helicopters and anything else at hand. >> houston convention center now has 7,000 evacuees, 2,000 more than capacity. >> city's mayor said the shelter will not turn anyone away. abc's victor oquendo is there with more on this, good morning, victor. >> reporter: kendis and diane, the evacuees keep coming in by the bus loads where they're just reaching capacity. the numbers just have been growing exponentially all day long. we've watched these people come in cold, tired and hungry. we spoke to one woman who came in right after a helicopter rescue shivering cold and holding a 3-month-old baby. they walked in with enough supplies to last a few days. those of the types of stories we're seeing here at the convention center. take a look right behind me. that is the registration desk. that's where all of these people who have lef

louisiana. so the flooding is going to shift more from houston over to places like lafayette and baton rouge and lake charles. and we're going to have ourselves a crisis in the southern parts of louisiana over the next two days. along with what's going to continue to fall in the houston, texas, area. here's sue. >> all right, good morning, everyone. we have that fog advisory we mentioned on the golden gate bridge. at the bay bridge, things are looking good at this early hour. no delays here. no metering lights yet. we have road work out there. let's look at our overall traffic map. starting to get slow out of tracy. otherwise, you picked up to at the limit all the way the to livermore and dublin, pleasanton at this hour. roadwork, northbound 680 near pacheco. i'm not seeing slowing in the area. otherwise, we're pretty light so far. we'll knock on wood with that, guys. >> thanks so much. >>> developing news out of berkeley with counter protesters are claiming victory this morning. >> sunday' so-called anti-marxist rally was officially canceled but that did not stop thousands of protesters opboth sides from showing up. amy hollyfield is live at berkeley city hall. amy.

javier, it really goes towards southern louisiana. now away from the tragedy, as francine --tioned the rescue efforts is it about the texas coast, the louisiana shoreline, or both? >> it is absolutely both. the hurricane is heading to louisiana, but it is close to that border with texas, where we have significant refining capacity. refineries are suffering from flooding in the area of houston. it is both areas that are a big concern for the energy market. javier blas.d, thank you. greatly appreciated. much more coverage on this, particularly out of washington. we will be joined from the bureau of the white house in washington. the organization already has dozens of shelters up and running, but it expects the crisis to grow exponentially. thousands of texans will rely on the red cross. donations will go to www.redcro ss.org. stay with us from london, from new york. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. i am tom keene. let's get to first word news with taylor riggs. taylor: a testfiring of a missile over japan was a over guam

is washington looking at trillions of dollars in aid to houston, texas and western and southern louisianathis is "bloomberg surveillance." fire francine lacqua in london and tom keene in new york. tropical storm harvey is expected to cross again tomorrow on the texas and louisiana border. some are estimating the cost of the damage as high as one billion.00 will, thank you so much for coming back on. this is a chart charting the difference between wti and rent. we have seen a lot of price swings when it comes to gas nots and the wti moving as much. will: we got a lot of oil refineries out in the u.s., as more than 2 billion barrels a day. refineries are not working and that is dampening demand for crude oil because they're not putting oil through the plants. the u.s. has become a big export of crude oil. the shipments are not being made. the situation you're getting is a buildup of oil in texas and oklahoma with nowhere to go. all the market action has been in gasoline. tom: let's go to the deep state. we showed this in the last hour to great acclaim and let's do it again. this is the nati

look how widespread that, from southern mississippi, louisiana, all of southeast texas, some areas with the potential for 12 inches of rain. back in 2001, a tropical storm called tropical storm allison that killed 43 people in texas and was only a tropical storm. and that one dumped 30 inches of rain near houston. we're not going to compare this one to that yet. but this has a lot of similarities. >> we know we want all those people down in texas to be safe, bill. thank you so much. keeping our eye on harvey, we're also keeping our eye on the markets this hour. here we are, down today, we talk more and more about investors starting to ignore the rhetoric, all the news that comes out of washington. ignoring president's tweets but not ignoring his speech last night. why? because he said maybe he would look to tear up the nafta agreement. he continues to press the point that he wants to build that wall, maybe even shut down the government over it. the president's tough talking maybe has the market a little worried. ♪ new band-aid® brand skin-flex™, bandages. our best bandage yet! it moves

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to take away the water that is now flooding many of these structures and communities in southern texas and louisianar he's done that. i would point out too that when you populate your administration with generals, organizationally you have people in very important, very critical places who know how to deal organizationally with these situations. >> i'm glad you mentioned the president's wardrobe because there's an allegations that the president has crossed another boundary. this tweet, he makes sure he's carrying the hats he's advertising, suggested to be $40 on the campaign website. this is the u.s.a. cap he was seen wearing over the weekend. right now in the grand scheme of things is that a big deal or something we should let slide. >> i think we need to care about who the victims are and to provide services. is it inpreeappropriate i think. but not the biggest thing to deal with today. big focus should be congress giving funds to deal with this in texas. >> john, again, it seems the president gets criticized for everything these days, can't get anything write for some people, you said it is impor

exactly at the state border which my district, of course, includes the parishes in louisiana that border texas in the southern portion of the state. so so many of our citizens from louisiana and from the district that i represent were part of that rescue, civilian rescue effort that is commonly referred to as the cajun navy was essentially just thousands and thousands of civilians with boats and four wheel drive trucks that load up their vehicles with water and food and temporary shelter and they just roll out to areas, neighborhoods that have been flooded. and they begin reses cueing people from-- rescuing people from second floor, you know, apartments or from rooftops or out of atiqs. a very common mistake is for someone as a house begins to flood they go up to the second story or crawl to the attic and then they have no way out. so we have to use chainsaws to cut through the roof in order to get sometimes whole families out of an attic on to a boat and then to high ground and then from there, they have to be picked up by buses and brought to a shell ter, a temporary shelter until they can get put somewhere