a question on the estimate of additional national guard forces . is that your estimate or the governor's estimate? >> the governor has not yet requested these forces. what we are trying to do is anticipate that way from the department of defense but national guard anticipate texas -- texas'needs. we are trying to anticipate all the needs and we are posturing up to 20,000 or 30,000 underneath the general authority. it is essentially a training authority for these units to be able to plan to move. >> your estimate of what we needed, not the governor's? >> yes. theo this in concert with state government planners. texas has just not asked for them yet. >> for comparison purposes, you mentioned 3000 texas national guard already involved. you mention other states have contributed. the total number of guard troops currently involved in the effort -- i did not hear the total. >> i wish i could give you a huge fidelity on that. roughly, i would say 3500 as of this minute. that would include forces already through emergency assistance being employed by the st

i'm curly the director of domestic operations of the national guard bureau. and that responsibility, i'm responsible for essentially coordinating response and recovery told the mystic events the national guard is responding to. of the soldiers, i would like to give you a brief update on the national guard's response to hurricane harvey. our sympathy goes out to the citizens of texas and louisiana potentially. this hurricane and record aooding occurring has been great strain on families in citizense individual and our first responders. our thoughts and prayers have to be with the victims of this incident in the state of texas. we are proud of the texas guardsman who have responded. the soldiers and airmen have ton working around the clock alleviate the pain and suffering that have been experienced by the citizens in houston and southwest texas. i would like to emphasize upfront as we talk about national guard response come the training and equipment the national guard receives to fight the nation's wars also make it possible, as we rapidly respond to states nee

the director at the national guard bureau. i am responsible for coordinating response and recovery to all domestic events around the nation. this louisiana and texas national guard come i would like to give you a brief update to their response to hurricane harvey. victims goes out to the in texas and louisiana. last 48rmath over the hours is that a great strain on families in texas, the individual citizens, and first responders. our thoughts and prayers have to with those that are victims of this incident in the state of texas. of those whoroud have responded up to this point. they have been working around in the state of texas to alleviate the pain and suffering that have been experienced by the citizens in houston and southwest texas. i would also like to emphasize up front as we talk about national guard response, the training and equipment the national guard receives for federal mission to fight the nation's wars also make it possible to be very good as we rapidly respond to states needs domestically. the federal training b

, right now post katrina there has been a lot of emphasis in the national guard as always been the first for the governors to use. but, the national guard through neutral agreements with sister states will call in assets such as helicopters that they need. and special units that they need. but this is a national guard will have the lead. then for those things that they need, if they need a ship they will go to dod and ship will be sent from the navy. or if they need extra wide

regards to the national guard, i worked with these guys during the rebellion. unfortunately for the national guard's people, they were not looked upon as anyone to do the job. they were looked upon as weekend warriors. there was a lack of respect for them. i saw them with their bayonets on their guns and so forth. they were people who are not been trained either. neither one of us are trained in how to handle these kinds of. it was kind of frightening, and the fact they did not know how to handle this, nor where they fully equipped to deal with these situations. once the 101st got in, the community says these guys just got back on the war. they are different. you will see they did very little shooting in comparison to the national guard and dpd. >> we moved right over the city line the second day of the riot. it had been prearranged. illustrates to see the 101st. they use the church parking lot as a turnaround spot. it was totally jarring to sit there and say, wait a minute, this is detroit. hasn't come to this? a lot of people, that is their memory. the tanks.

or did the guard need to be called up earlier? >> the national and specifically the texas national guard, we are always ready, we have folks deployed, we had a folks preposition, standing by ready to go. it's important to remember that this situation is still a very dire one. there is rain still being poured in, i got off the phone with the commander saying that one minute, roads will be passable and an hour or two later they are not passable. situation still dire on the ground as we work through that to rescue and take care of our fellow texans here. >> leland: we have some more video of the president's motorcade, he was in corpus christi making his way to austin where he will meet with the governor and his operations teams to get a briefing there, one of those briefings will be about the national guard's work. what does it do for morale at the president and commander in chief shows up, it's got to be a great feeling for some other retired soldiers there for the president to come. >> having the commander in chie chief, whether that of the govern

we're stepping back a little bit from the helicopter at the request of the national guard. as we look at the other camera here, the national guard is taking out a stretcher. they're going to take the stretcher apparently for a different patient because of the space on board and may just be easier to put the patient on a stretcher. a lot of this stuff is being put together as we're watching it unfold. okay. here comes a -- asking him to come back. okay. this is important. as you saw them approaching the helicopter, the national guardsmen pointed them back. there say spinning rotor on the back of the helicopter that could kill somebody. you never approach a helicopter from the back. what they're trying to do here is move them on one by one in an orderly fashion and there are some people who clearly are medically trained but not necessarily trained in how you handle an approach to a helicopter. okay. so now they're going to remove this wheelchair, and they're going to bring the next patient on board on this chopper. i'm trying to see how many patients we have left out here. i c

first let me tell you, that since i last announced the status of the national guard in the state of texasi last announced that we had 12,000 national guard members activated, that number has been increased to 14,000. the reason for that is that some members have come back from deployment overseas, others who were unable to participate because their own homes had been subject to flooding or damage, they are now able to help participate. bottom line, we are now up to our highest level of the number of texas national guard members who are deployed to help our fellow texans deal with these challenges, we are also, as we speak, coordinating with the national guard bureau to deploy an additional 10,000 national guard who were being deployed here from other states. so that will take us up to a total of approximately 24,000 national guard who will be deployed here in the state of the texas. now some of those will be arrayed across the greater harris county area, we are immediately deploying far more to southeast texas to deal with the emergency conditions that people are facing in southeast texas

the beauty is that the national guard and those in the national guardsmen in the orange helmets there, they are coordinating this effort but this is houstonians in large part helping their fell loi people. >> that's what they are going to need. this area to the north of the reservoir, i haven't heard of a lot of bad flooding from the north there so i think it should be pretty accessible. there's no major rivers there, the brazos is further south. it should be accessible for anyone who wants to go to this area to help to come in from the north. i will also stress these are new people that have been obviously watching the coverage and stuff, we're going to get closer and closer this afternoon to dark. it looks like this will be a mass evacuation in this area and take through the night tonight. they are telling people to hang white sheets out of your houses and put them up on the roof so you can't see the house numbers, it's very difficult for these people to locate these boats with the house numbers when it gets dark. if you need rescuing, put the white flag out front. >> that may be wh

you see members of the national guard of course the governor has activated all 12,000 members of the onal guard here in texas. and in the distance, you can see another boat rescue happening. let's walk over here and see if we can get a clearer picture. i think we were standing over here next to this bank sign. we were able to stand here safely. i'll wait for you right here. and look around here, if we stay, we can see again, these are members of the national guard that are waiting for the boat rescues that have been happening over the past few minutes. just spoke with one of them and said they've been doins this since 7:30 this morning. there's no telling how many people are trapped inside their homes in that neighborhood. i don't know if you can zoom in way in the distance and see past that tree, that's where they've been coming out over the last couple of hours or so. hallie, this is a very desperate situation for many of the residents here in houston. again, we're on the northwest side north of i-10 near the reservoir on the north side. and the concern is on the south side of the r

well over 1,000 active personnel in association with it. >> that was major general james from the national guard will be a long one, a long-term effort and pledged thousands of national guards troops and military assets for the regions. thousands of victims have been rescued from flood ravaged homes in texas. countless others are stranded and 24 hours ago, this woman was one of them. she was trapped inside her home with ten other people. she was in the thick of a life threatening situation when i spoke with her yesterday. what is the feeling. you said 11 people trapped in this house, including children. how is everyone handling this right now? >> caller: we try to be calm, but i worry about the children. that's our concern. as they say, like some people can come, three people oh, choose from here. somebody is -- to come to this address. a whole street under water. a lot of people that need help. >> she joins me now for an update on her status. first off, leidys, break down what you have been through. we were texting back and forth saying you haven't been rescued, then a moment saying we are all

we are getting great support from the national guard and the state of texas. the entire first response community. this has truly been a unified effort and i cannot emphasize enough the great work that good samaritans are doing as well. back at coast guard headquarters, i have 32 watch sanders around because the 911 calls have inundated the call centers in texas. we are taking that overflow and we are receiving over 1000 calls per hour. we are not out of this by any stretch and we will be semper broadus as we continue to watch this storm move on. thank you very much. >> thank you, commandant. they hold community continues to the send upon texas -- the whole community continues to descend upon texas. peopley are we pushing forward through the dhs surge capacity, that secretary duke proactively put into place in the commandant's people who are risking their lives to save others in conjunction with state and first responders, but we are calling upon other states through emergency assistant contracts. we are asking state support to come down and they are continuing

we're getting great support from the national guard, from the state of texas, the entire first response community. this has truly been a unified effort and i can't emphasize enough the great work that our good samaritans are doing as well. back at our coast guard headquarters. i have 32 watch standers, around the clock. because 911 calls have inundated call centers down in texas. we're taking that overflow and receiving over a thousand calls per hour. we are not out of this by any long stretch yet and we should be as we continue to watch this storm move on and as we move on the long road to recovery. thank you very much. >> so the whole community continues to descend upon texas. we've amassed quite the federal government support over 12,000 staff members, it's going to continue to grow. not only are we pushing people forward through the dhs search capacity, that secretary duke put into place and the commandant. and we're asking the state support to come down and they're continuing to amass in texas. the operation is very clear. we're still in lifesaving, life sustaining mode. not only t

the national guard continues to position assets across the state in preparation for the rain events that we expect over the next several days. i'm asking the people of louisiana to pay attention to this storm. l.a..org. . information on the emergency itself gov.o emergency l.a. looking forward both as it relates to louisiana and texas, i want to recommend voluntary louisiana.gov. we willsomething that preside over as it relates to disaster efforts with damage in louisiana but also with respect to texas. one of the things we hearing from our friends in texas, they are still in response mode, still doing search-and-rescue. now is not the time for people in an uncoordinated fashion to start sending things are driving into texas because you can cause more of a problem than you would be of assistance over there. we want to organize efforts in louisiana. in theill come a time next few days where they will transition from response to recovery. they will need all the things associated with recovery and we know that we want to be as generous as we can to help them in the way they have helped us n

but it was quickly brought back under control by you know by police who were back there for the national guard of the national guard even though they're in all or have not been caught you know it's been for some years now to be reduced to. a remarkable job in there and they're doing it with restraint. or they are doing it with these strikes some some people have suggested too much restraint and they're supposed that is always going to be the very difficult situation for them or in forstmann whether to go in at the first sign of of unrest or not what is the solution is there one because we're bound to see more protests of a similar ilk how on earth does does anybody do anything to prevent another tragedy unfolding. well we still have tonight there's talk that these demonstrations could go through the night and i think that the police are going to be a problem they're going to learn from what happened today and they're going to reinforce. people have a right to peaceful demonstration but if it gets out of me and it becomes violent then they have an obligation to stop the violence people can peac

the national guard also here in some presence, don't know the total numbers but don't do anything we could see. i don't see any sign of them yet. i don't know how many national guardsmen are on standby. we keep moving in this direction because these guys are obviously the epicenter of what is creating so much consternation around here. i don't know where they are going to but they have been booted out of the park where they came to protest. there is a second park on the outskirts of charlottesville, mcintire park where the city asked the alt right movement to stage their protest saying emancipation park was not big enough to accommodate the crowd and that is certainly true. part of the problem is the historic part of charlottesville is partly residential and a lot of homeowners and residents who are freaking out over what is going on. have great concern for their property, livelihoods, one business owner said 75% of the businesses in charlottesville would remain open today. given what we have seen, that may be changing. this part of town -- go ahead. elizabeth: when you spoke with gen

first, the texas national guard. they are active in 25 locations across the state. as i mentioned, we have 14,000 state national guard deployed with more than 600 vehicle, 500 boats and 100 helicopters. they have been doing most recently air rescue missions in the beaumont region and in the past week they have made more than 8,500 rescues, more than 26,000 evacuations and more than 1,400 shelter in place and welfare checks. they will continue in the most immediate time period search and rescue operations and aiding shelter operations across the state. some information about the puc and access to power. there's an urgent need to get power restored in the coastal bend region, in particular in aransas county, the aransas pass, locations like that. the power provided there is aep. and the update for aep is there are still 107,000 outages. that is an improvement since the last time i that is an improvement since i last reported what was around the 138,000 level. there are many new power crews that are out working in the region to reduce the power outages. since the last t

i will tell you that the national guard bureau we have been assisting them with planing so that as we look at other state's capabilities outside the two effected states what they may be able to bring forward. talking border magnitude. 10 20, 30,000 soldiers with capability to come forward for the governor in texas and edwards if needed. >> yes, sir. if louisiana is spared. when we're comfortable that we made it through this, i've offered the governor has offered anything we have to move to texas to assist them. >> you activated troop? >> so as we speak right now we've got about 100 on stayed active duty. the governor gave us authority to go up to 350. based on the threat of the storm we'll increase or provide him recommendations how to increase or stage as the storm unfolds and we understand the threat. >> general curtis based on the flooding we're seeing video wise out of the houston area, are they talking with all of you about door-to-door searches ultimately in new orleans and such in>> i don't know that they've gotten into that detail yet. you know the main thing is the big search

we will be able to stay in front of the spirit where getting great support from the national guard, from the state of texas, the entire first response community. this has truly been a unified effort, and i can't emphasize enough the great work that he good samaritans are doing as well. back at her coast guard headquarters i have 32 watch standards standing watch around the clock because 91 911 calls e inundated the call center ten texas. we are taking an overflow and receiving over 1000 calls per hour. so we're not out of this by any long stretch yet, and we will be as we continue to watch the storm move on and then as we move into the long road to recovery. thank you very much. >> so the whole community continues to descend upon texas. we have amassed the federal government support, over 12,000 staff members and is going to continue to grow. now don't are we pushing people forward to the dhs surge capacity, as secretary duke proactively put into place and also the commandants people are risking their lives to save others as well in conjunction with state and first responders, but we are

assets spread strategically across the state of louisiana, in terms of law enforcement folks,ire marshals, wildlife and fisheries, and louisiana army and national guard, with the vessels and the high water vehicles, to be prepared for whatever might come our way from harvey. at the moment we have 671 , louisiana national guardsmen working on harvey operations. those are on state active duty. the national guard with high water vehicles and boats in conjunction with the state fire marshal's office and wildlife and fisheries did assist local first responders last night with rescues in three different calcasieuacross parish, starting at 6:00 last night, finishing at 1:00 or 2:00 this morning, making about 500 rescues. we have 15 louisiana national guard soldiers on state active duty assisting in new orleans by monitoring and reporting on the status of the various pumps in operation there. last night, 269 individuals were in shelters across southwest louisiana. 200 of those were people who were actually rescued last night. the cajun navy, as you all know, deployed to assist in search and producing has been tremendous results in the houston area. earlier t

. >>> we should tell you that the national guard is on the scene in charlottesville, virginia. we want to bring in cedric lay t layton. what can the national guard do to help calm the situation? >> one of the big things they can do, they can augment the police forces we already november that the virginia state police are there, local sheriffs deputies as well as charlottesville police. and so what the national guard does, it basically serves to emphasize the governor's intent to not only keep the peace, but enforce the peace. and what they do is they begin to switch roles from a military organization to a law enforcement agency along the lines of the state police. but their powers of arrest are limited in a case like this. so what they can really help with is keeping the crowds under control, doing things like providing low ggistical support other agencies and can provide medical support should law enforcement agencies and other personnel actually be injured. >> now, to be clear, you're a military analyst for cnn. retired air force colonel. what is your take on it as an american

but there's much more, and i'd just like to add you see here coming up the national guard has mobilizedwith a major who's here on site, the pao, and he said, listen, i know a lot of americans have asked where is the national guard, where have they been. but they said we were here from the beginning. many asset were coming down and others coming up from the galveston area. so the national guard is here assisting these guys as well. arthel: absolutely. 3,000 national and state guard service members deployed there. 500 vehicles, six shelters, 14 aircraft, ten states helping out with those aircraft and specialty rescue teams. states, nebraska, tennessee, utah, california, missouri, arizona, ohio, new york. everyone coming to the rescue of the folks there in texas. national guard is always a great sight to see on hand. eric: and, grif, supdown -- go ahead. >> reporter: well, i was just going to say, exactly. you know, the problem with this storm is that if we're on the front end of three or four days, these folks are working around the clock, at least the ones i've been talking to, and we ha

those clauses and up in the acts that establish and perpetuate the national guard. if you are wondering what gives eisenhower the power to send in the national guard to arkansas before any violence had occurred just because he suspects, quite rightly, that there could be trouble, it is these clauses. so it is still there. we don't hear about the national guard going into places like this anymore. we hear about the national guard going and when there is an emergency. e -- but we are in an emergency situation right now in terms of civil rights, i would argue. momentd not be a worse of when nothing would be done because of the current president and attorney general. i could say would be a good thing, but it is not going to happen. the other problem is that there principal which says that the u.s. army is not supposed to be used against states. that law is used against an argument like mine. i can win that argument. [laughter] i will get into how. there's a lot of precedent. if you have the right president -- the right army and navy, dealing with the right secretary ,f w

that ethos is well served for the american people. >> as you know, the governor called up the entire national guardtor of domestic operations for the national guard said with help from other state guards that should be could go to 30,000. of course then you also have police, you have fire, first responders, red cross, salvation army, volunteers. it sounds like a lot of people, but in a situation like what we're seeing and you talk about the breadth, the scope of it, will that be enough? >> well, you can muster all the resources you have. the challenge is applying them effectively and efficiently. ultimately i got to new orleans the week after the event occurred to relieve mike brown. the only way we met that challenge was a door-to-door sweep of every building in the affected area. we were able to accomplish that with d.o.d. support where you had high-water vehicles and communications with security support. so you have to marshal the folks to back you up to do a comprehensive sweep. the challenge is that it's such a broad spectrum and then you have the difference in abilities of very small cities a

i can tell you the coast guard, department of homeland security team, the dodd, national guard has e spent sunday and monday with the governor in different locations. we are getting better at every day. this is catastrophic proportions we've dealt with before but we're all in and i'm very encouraged. but obviously it's going to be difficult. with that, sir, i'd like to give captain tony hahn a couple moments here for perspective. >> good morning, mr. president. captain tony hahn. unified command. our unified command comprises over 150 federal, state, and local agencies and we also have partners in those covering all the bases. i want to walk through a time line of our activities that we've done over the course of hurricane harvey to let you know where we're at. tuesday the storm shifted and became a hurricane. our job is to assess the [ inaudible ]. that's what we started doing on wednesday. we started making preparations and lock down facilities, get vetsz vessels out to sea. thursday we pushed our force out of harm's way and our people so we could come back in after the storm to hel

first with the national guard and the state guard combined. have now activated 3,000 national guard and state guard service members serving all the way from houston to victoria, over to corpus christi and parts in between. they've activated 500 vehicles, 6 shelters and 14 aircraft. the trexz department of transportation has deployed 400 people. they're involved in recovery missions and corpus christi and victoria primarily right now. in those areas they are involved in removing debris as well as repairing signs. so one positive about where we are right now is that tex dot and other city folks in the corpus christi region are in the early stages of the rebuilding process. they are -- the texas department of transportation is working to restore the ferry service to port aransas. there are right now more than 250 highway closures in the state of texas. in that triangle region that i mentioned earlier. we have electronic message boards that are providing realtime information. if you are seeking information about road closures, you can go to drivet

the national guard is experienced at doing this. i would anticipate that a number of national guard deployed in the state of texas will increase from here. i would say four months. >> fuel rationing? >> we are working both with the epa as well as energy companies as well as other authorities to ensure we are going to get fuel out as fast as possible. we have authority right now, fuel priority must be for first responders so we can keep people safe and protected and rescued. once we finish with the first responder needs, we can get into other issues. having talked to leaders of energy companies, they are working as swiftly as possible to ensure that fuel operations will be restored quickly. >> some have expressed concerns that it might affect the way people can get reimbursed for claims to their insurance. there has been a petition to change the effective date of that bill, can you talk about your concerns? >> any claims along those lines are absolutely bogus. i am going to read it you do make sure you have it, the statement issued by

with first responders, the coast guard and other agencies stretched to the limit, the entire texas national guard, some 12,000 troops, has been activated. private citizens have joined the rescue effort, using their small boats to help pull people from submerged homes and vehicles. there have been 2,000 water rescues in just the past few days. it is predicted more than 450,000 will seek some sort of disaster assistance. dallas has now opened a mega shelter to take in many thousands more from the flood zone. and there is growing concern that louisiana may be next to feel the brunt of this storm. it simply won't quit. president trump will travel to texas tomorrow, and saturday he plans to go to louisiana for which he's also issued an emergency declaration. of the flooding, he said, quote, there has never been anything like it. he just praised the efforts of workers. he said the federal government will be there. guests are standing by with full coverage of the day's top stories. right in the middle of the disaster zone. in western texas just west of houston, paulo, tell us how bad the situation

this is where the texas national guard is basing its operations and it's going to be headed to do more rescues today. everyone welcomes the better weather, the rain has stopped, but there's a lot of work ahead. from the air, you can see what houston still faces today. entire neighborhoods still underwater and clearing skies will only go so far. >> we are not done with the flooding even if the skies are clear. >> the death toll is rising as rescue crews come across more victims of harvey. among the casualties, officer perez who was trapped in his vehicle while responding to the storm. >> [indiscernible] and once he got there it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. >> new mega shelters are opening around houston to accompany thousands of evacuees. as the water recedes, we'll have a better idea of how extensive the damage is, but some may have lost just about everything. president trump arrived in the region to visit corpus christi and the state command center in austin -- >> this is historic. it's epic, what happened, but you know what, it happened in texas and texas can han

, right now post katrina there has been a lot of emphasis in the national guard as always been vernors to use. but, the national guard through neutral agreements with sister states will call in assets such as helicopters that they need. and special units that they need. but this is a national guard will have the lead. then for those things that they need, if they need a ship they will go to dod and ship will be sent from the navy. or if they need extra wide body aircraft to movie heavy equipment. this is the national guard working with the county and state officials to do search and rescue, which is the first phase of the response to hurricane, tucker. >> tucker: so how does -- is it mostly done by air, the search and rescue? >> well, use all assets both air and ground. the winds will be restrictive maybe for days from using helicopters. most of our helicopter crews can operate about 25, 30 mile-per-hour wind. as you just saw a minute ago, that storm is going to continue to turn. and the winds may exceed 25 or 35 miles per hour for days on end. which would put us to a more restr

texas governor has activated the national guard. >> also animals not immune to harvey's impact either these horses are on higher ground now after they were rescued. they were up to their necks at this point. but thanks to the work of that cowboy, they made their way out of those high waters. >and tron call rains are dumpin a super soaker on our area as well. taking a live look from storm ranger 10, we are not drying out just yet. >> let's take a little off of that. the storm is sticking around for several more hours. i'll let you know when we're going to dry out and when harvey may impact our area. >>> working without a contract, local teachers toughing it out as they struggle to reach an agreement before the start of the school year. >>> also hot and fresh pizza delivered without a driver. where that concept is getting a test run at 5:00. >>> and nbc 10 is your official station of the philadelphia eagles. there's only one more preseason game left to go this thursday. eagles head north to play the jets. we'll kick off coverage here only on nbc 10. >>> wet and windy, it is a poncho and

he took the national guard down and they opened the free bridge and closed the toll bridge. during his administration, the price of oil dropped to 18 cents a barrel and he said we're not pumping oil until it goes back to at least a dollar. now, the one that i get a big kick out of is the problem we had with people scalping football tickets at the university of oak okaklahoma. he was being sent to norman to be sure that nobody made money on their football tickets. his son, johnston, was governor and they're the only father and son governor so far. i think it's kind of ironic that johnston opened the first tu turnpike. and in the capitol, it has a lot of oklahoma symbolism in them. first of all, the big red figure in the middle represents the universal man or all oklahomans. and that means red man. so there's the red man. lower left-hand corner, you have the state wildflower, the indian blanket. right above that, kind of a purple area, that's our state tree. our state bird. and by his other hand, an astronaut. there have been more astronauts going into space from oklahoma than

in the four years he was governor he called out the hoechl national guard more than 40 times. more than all the rest of them put together. and over all kinds of things. there was a free bridge built across the red river to texas. the folks that had the toll bridges had a kor don junction to keep the bridge closed. he took the national guard down and they opened the free bridge and close ds the toll bridge. during his administration the price of oil dropped to 18 cents a barrel. and he said we're not pumping oil until it goes back to at least a dollar. the one that i get a big kick out of is the problem we had with people scalping football tickets at the university of oklahoma. he was sending part of the guard to be norman to make sure nobody made min of football tickets. 20 years after him, his son was governor. and they're the only father and son golf nors so far. i think it's kind of ironic that bill opened the free bridge. john ston opened oklahoma's first turnpike. the painting in the arch way beyond the centennial. different in style from the other art work in the capitol.

the virginia governor has the national guard on alert. we'll tell you why next on mississipmsnbc live. >>> we begin with north korea crisis and president trump trying to alleviate concerns in the region. the white house telling nbc that president trump spoke with chinese president xi jinping as well as the governor of guam by phone last night. here's part of his conversation with guam's governor. >> governor, i just want to let you know, we're with you 1,000%. notice, he hasn't spoken recently. doesn't talk so much anymore. and we'll see how it all works out, but you're not going to have a problem. >> the phone calls came hours after president trump met with u.n. ambassador, his secretary of state and national security adviser at his new jersey golf resort. he then spoke with reporters about where he thinks the escalating tensions are heading. >> nobody loves a peaceful solution better than president trump. that i can tell you. hopefully, it'll all work out. lots of good things could has been, and we could also have a bad solution. but we

the governor has not requested a gill status commander, but the louisiana national guard has identifiedf louisiana. we anticipate louisiana will also request a dual status commander, as texas has already done... that statement from the pentagon, saying that the priorities are on search and rescue and protecting properties, the focus on houston, but he is also talking about the storm and the effect of the storm spreading, and the preparedness of louisiana. we are going to get a bit of analysis now from our environment a nalyst of analysis now from our environment analyst roger harrabin in a moment about the science behind the storm, but first our weather presenter tomasz schafernaker. in the last few minutes, we have been having these figures, officially coming out, confirming how unprecedented this is. they are saying 49 inches of rain, 125 centimetres. i mean, you know, that is an awful amount of rainfall, we don't often see that in tropical storms, and to put it in context, london gets less than half of that in the space of a year. that is more rainfall than manchester, which is quite

first the texas national guard. they are active in 25 locations across the state. w have 14,000 national state, national guard deployed. 500 boats and 100 helicopters. search and rescue operation and aiding shelter operations across the state. about the puc and access to power. there is an urgent need to get power restored in their being region and in particular in the calumny, port aransas the power provided there is an bp and the update is there are still 107,000 outages that is an improvement since the last time i reported, which was around the 138,000 model. but the good news is there are many new power crews that are now working in the region to reduce the power outages. since the last time i reported, there were two other power companies with reports. our number showed that centerpoint has a little bit more than 90,000 power outages and that would be primarily in the greater harris county region and also entergy has more than 81,000 power outages. they are all working as quickly as possible to restore power. the text is -- tecq has been working with the epa on

they worked live to theo pentagon for a briefing on the national guard's relief efforts along the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. >> good morning. i'm curly the director of domestic operations of the national guard bureau. and that re

national parks. the governor of texas says this is a much bigger disaster than hurricane katrina or super storm sandy. he's activated 14,000 members of the texas national guard last report, nearly 300,000 homes and businesses have no electricity. well over 210,000 people have applied for federal disaster assistance, and the national flood insurance program has received 37,000 claims. >> morgan: before the rain stopped, cedar bayou received nearly 52 inches, a record for the continental u.s., and overnight storm moved east toward the louisiana border. we have reports from anna werner and michelle miller. first, here's anna. >> reporter: demarco, we were our way to beaumont, but we had to stop here, just some 20 miles out because the highway we were traveling on now ends right here in what looks like a lake. and from high up above, it's easy to see why rescuers are having so much trouble getting into this area. 100 miles east of houston, tropical storm harvey unleashed high winds, rain, and flash floods on the towns of beaumont and port arthur last night. >> every highway is closed so we can't get out anymore. we can't evacuate. >> reporter: the coast guard pl

and 3,000 national guard members have been coming. this is part of thend rescue team in houston which has been deployed. thank you for spending time with us. your team is on the way to houston right now. they specialize in water rescues. what's the plan, exactly, when they get there? >> well, they'll get there, with they hit the ground they'll get a specific mission. they'll setup a base of operation and all the things necessary to get ramped up right away. i'd anticipate unquestioningly they'll get to work right away with respect to doing search and rescue missions. >> so your team employs swift and search water rescues. what does that involve. >> that water fills up very quickly, has nowhere to go, and where a street may have been dry one minute, the next minute it has flowing water of several feet that goes very, very quickly. and the team that we sent along with other teams from around the country are specially trained, equipped and certified to deal with any rushing water, as well as any still rescues. again, someone could be walking along and then

as texas brings in the national guard, the state prepares for a presidential visit. national guard, the presidentialvisit. it is national guard, the state prepares for a presidential visit. it is a historic amount of water. there has never been anything like it. so the people are handling it well and the people are handling it well and the people of texas have really persevered and when you watch the spirit and the enthusiasm and helping each other, the teamwork, it is something. texas is now saturated and is struggling. thousands have made to it safety. but the waters keep on rising. and the lone star state is swamped. flooding has also been reported in towns in central texas — where the colorado river has reached levels not seen for a hundred years. nada tawfik is in la grange — where a mandatory evacuation order has been issued. well it has been days since harvey has made land fall. but in communities here, they're just has made land fall. but in communities here, they'rejust now feeling its impact. here in la grange we are more than one hundred miles west of houston. 0ut grange we a

the governor pulled 12,000 national guard troops in. we're pulling units out of fort hood and federal forces are coming in as well. we will be here to help you through it. it's going to be ugh to navigate. that, i'd like to pass along to our friends at the coast guard. >> this is where your coast guard is at its best. we have coast guard meand women across the country [inaudible] i would be remiss in not telling you that. [inaudible] , we brought everything for the next couple of days. i don't even know what that looks like. i spent sunday and monday with the governor. [inaudible] with that, i would like to give captain tony a couple of moments here. >> [inaudible] unified command is comprised of 150 authorities. [inaudible] on tuesday, the storm shifted and became a hurricane. what we started doing on wednesday. ande locked down facilities thursday, we've been evacuating. on friday, we moved our boats and aircraft away from the storm so we could respond. [inaudible] [inaudible] on saturday morning -- [inaudible] we the storm has shifte

i know the mayor and the governor acted very responsibly by calling up the national guard in advance of yesterday's event. so, i don't assign blame or assuage blame or try to press blame to other groups, jake. what we saw yesterday was an unacceptable planned demonstration of violence. what i would say is with respect to murder and i'm a little bit indignant of the way you phrased that. apologies if i took it the wrong way. but i place the blame most squarely and most directly on the murderer, alleged murderer, the driver of the vehicle. it's no question in my mind the driver of that vehicle acted with intent. that is the driver of that vehicle. he is rightly accused of being a murderer and i would -- one more point. the attorney general yesterday after the president went on television and pledged all the national support he could muster for this and that was necessary put out a press release last night the u.s. attorney are all pursuing this as a civil rights investigation. we'll see where the facts take us on all the people involved yesterday and on the driver of the vehicle. if th

first with the national guard and the state guard combined, we have now activated 3000 national guard members. they are serving all the way from houston to victoria over to corpus christie and part in the team. they have activated 500 vehicles, six shelters and 1a aircraft. the texas department of transportation has deployed 400 people. they are involved in recovery, missions and corpus christie and victoria primarily right now. in those areas, they are involved in removing debris as well as repairing signs and stop one positive about where we are right now is that agencies and the city and local folks in the corpus christi region are in the early stages of the rebuilding process. that was greg abbott speaking in the last little while. he is the state governor of texas. i am joined by the owner of the helper in arms, a scottish pub in the city. tell us what the last two days have been like for you. fortunately for me i did not get as much water as other people in the city did. i did get about three inches inside my house but at away. business wise, we had a good time on friday night b

>> i love the national guard. both of my sons are in the national guard.to go quicker. texas is the home of over 10,000 national guardsmen as involving only mobilized about 3000 of them. lauren: how do we need? >> let's put it this way. katrina we had 40,000. lauren: and also 20,000 federal troops. >> in the 82nd airborne division in 240 some odd helicopters. this guy to scale up quickly to use a business term. right now they are trying to do it in the middle of the rain that's coming in which prohibit the helicopters from getting in. that this is a complicated issue. dual distribution and they need support person bid contracts to come in because all of those small gas stations is going to be a real mess on our hands. lauren: phil flynn told is the process of getting these refineries and plants back online is very dangerous as well. that is something when we get to that point we will have to watch as well. thank you so much for your time. go ahead. >> i've got one more point. we have to look at continuing to build our big plant in wetland. at three feet el

the texas governor activated the entire national guard for this major catastrophic event. this baby was one of the victims the guardsman gently handed the baby to her awaiting mother. >> we were on the second floor, but because of the kids we decided to. >> this place, my apartment typically never floods but everything is gone now. >> reporter: these images repeated themselves throughout the houston area as several local levies breached. catherine estrada was one of many with the blank stare. wondering what happened. >> i lived here when katrina was going on and i thought oh my gosh, those poor people and now it is happening to us. >> reporter: tonight, the effects of hurricane harvey are sticking around. how wide spread is the damage, well the mayor of houston announced that he is opening the toyota center which is an arena nearby this convention center. too many people who actually need the shelter. so that will be opened momentarily and some of the people waiting in line outside can go to that area. these people are here because of an armada of volunteers and we will mee