reporter: philip, more than a week after harvey slammed into the texas coast, thousands of homes in west texas remain under water. most of the region shifted its focus to the clean up effort and what is likely to be the most expensive natural disaster in u.s. history. >>> in west neighborhood after neighborhood still under water. mandatory evacuations for 4600 homes. after their owners thought they had escaped the worst. >> it's sad. i feel sad for us. i feel sad for everyone. >> reporter: families like the romos told they can't return to their homes for nine more days while the city releases water from overflowing reservoirs. >> the few stuff we have left that's not been flooded out, that's all we want. >> reporter: throughout the region the damage is overwhelming. street after street looks like this. the clean up and rebuilding may cost up to $190 billion, more than hurricanes katrina and sandy combined. a day of prayer in texas and nationwide, some congregations setting up outside while water was pumped from their chapel. volunteers flood the streets and makeshift distribution centers. dona

th's a latoo where the rain and thunderstorms will be, west texas and north texas this afternoon. >>>the rest of the week looks kind of similar. the heat is going to hold for a while. >> like half the country is fighting fall, the other one is like okay we're ready for winter. bill, thanks. >>> former congressman anthony weiner faces sentencing today for sending sexually explicit material to a 16-year-old girl. the estranged husband of huma abad in. he contends he's a changed man. >> straight ahead the latest in the war of words with donald trump and north korea. and we've got the details behind this nut riding on the outside of a speeding train. you're watching "early today" on a monday. i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans... ...better than a manual, and my hygienist says it does. but... ...they're not all the same. turns out, they're really... ...different. who knew? i had no idea. so, she said look for... ...one that's shaped like a dental tool with a round... ...brush head. go pro with oral-b. oral-b's rounded brush head surrounds each tooth to... ...gently rem

better than that some estimates we've seen we've seen the price go up it's promising let's look at west texas intermediate now we see that these prices going down and it goes down then we come right up right after the hurricane we saw the drops when it right before it hit landfall then it went down as it came in and now we're seeing it go back up we saw the price gouging at the pump we expected that but many at home were a bit struck by the legging price of oil even as gas prices went up can you explain that for us a little bit. yeah it's a very complex market but we can simplify it like this at first the price went up because people thought a lot of the gulf of mexico production would be shut in production of crude oil then once it actually hit we realized that the place you're going to use that oil which is the refineries they were shut down there was nowhere for the oil to go so actually the price of oil dropped and even as the gas of price and price of gasoline was going up so that was the that was the seesaw going on and more recently we saw oil go spiking back up again i think because w

that's in way west texas. they decided they wanted to help, got in their pickup trucks, drove to austin texas, which is still 200 miles away from houston, they went to a sports place there and bought a bass boat, a trailer, a motor, filled it up with all kinds of stuff, drove to texas, houston, texas, and kept working for others. that's one of many stories. this supplemental is important to southeast texas. let this vote show that we will vote not for politics but for people. that's just the way it is. i yield back. mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman from new jersey reserves. the gentlelady is now recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i am delighted to yield two minutes to the very distinguished ranking member from california, of the homeland security ubcommittee of appropriations, ms. roybal-allard. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentlelady from california recognized. ms. roybal-allard: mr. speaker, there is no question that this sup

that canyon fire but they are still there you will notice they probably reach just about in the west texas in the caribbean just a fair amount of cloud touching florida cuba jamaica that's a very obvious streak there and that would use some useful also as yet not particularly heavy rain and there are plenty shower still to come from both the wind with the leeward isles and as you can see a lot of green still representing rain in mexico. in the aftermath of civil war peace and reconciliation i remember seeing in the absence of justice. people in power on earth chilling testimonies of atrocities suggesting of storage have failed to conduct full and proper investigations that could help heal resentment inflicted by conflict. partial justice at this time on al jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.n. secretary general antonio guterres says the range of crisis is the world's fastest developing refugee emergency more than a half a million or enjoy a fled to bangladesh since fighting began in myanmar's rakhine state last month. russia and turkey say they'l

moves to west texas, gets a land grant, dies in 1901. listed as destitute. his wife applies for a confederate pension in the state of texas. there is a lot of documentation in that pension application, including a statement from benjamin pendleton, the wes culp guy, who knew robert. he talks about remembering robert moving south with his dad from gettysburg in the 1850's. frank hoffman lives the longest, until 1920. he sold his culpeper farm, moves with his unmarried daughters to washington, d.c. they no doubt provided information for extensive obituary in the washington times, titled pa man who fought for the confederacy. families and local people know these stories. one of frank's daughters lived until the age of 94. she lived to 1972, 45 years ago there was a person alive who knew one of the gettysburg rebels. i would've loved to have interviewed her. alas, she did not. that is their story. they were on the losing side, the wrong side of history with their choices, but these guys had a unique perspective. they were unique participants in one of the great

moves to west texas, gets a land grant, dies in 1801 -- 1901. submit for aars to confederate pension in the state of texas. there is a statement from benjamin pendleton, the wes culp guy, who knew robert. he said robert was moving from gettysburg in the 1850's. longest,fman lives the until 1920. he sold his culpeper farm, moves with his unmarried daughters. they no doubt provided information for extensive obituary in the washington times, titled pa man who fought for the confederacy. daughters lived until the age of 94. she lived to 1972, 45 years ago -- one of the gettysburg rebels, a lot of people interviewed her. she knew many stories, but she did not. that is their story. they were on the losing side, the wrong side of history with their choices, but these guys had a unique perspective. they were unique participants in the great traumatic and defining moment of american history. they were foreign invaders in their own home town. i thought their story needed to be told. [applause] >> you are watching "american history tv, all weekend, every w

. >> when his father was assigned to fort sam houston in san antonio, douglas attended the west texasitary academy. >> can never be second best. people said he was a little bit standoffish from everyone else but people also said at times he could be very friendly. >> in 1896, 16 years of age, macarthur applied to president cleveland for an appointment to west point. despite a barrage of recommendations including four governors and a former secretary of war, macarthur was turned down. his father suspected the switching from the democrat to the republican party in the civil war had earned him no favor with the democrat president. >> there was never any doubt in his mind he was going to go to west point. >> i think his mother and father made sure that there wasn't any doubt in his mind. especially his mother. >> but the following year he was turned down again. this time by a republican president william mckinley. jeffrey is a u.s. army veteran and author of biography "old soldiers never die." >> if you take somebody who's pretty bright and put in the word and focused and disciplined way,

right along the border of mexico and west texas.one with heat waves. syracuse went three days in a row in the 90s for the first time since 2013. here it is late september. pretty eye opening stuff for this late in the season to be as hot as it was. 73 in chicago. new york, d.c., 77 and 78. in the northeast little humid this morning. by the afternoon, humidity is cut in half. very enjoyable air mass. >> i walked in this morning t windows were fogged up. it was so humid. >> you'll be happy when you leave work, for more than one reason. >> exactly. >> still ahead, lawmakers call on silicone valley's biggest players to discuss russia's role in the election. >>> equifax and the massive data breach. those stories and more driving your business day coming up. (vo) more "doing chores for mom" per roll more "doing chores for dad" per roll more "earning something you love" per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty the quicker picker upper. want s

journal has a good piece talking about the spread between west texas and crude, historically why it'she storms, which is really boosting u.s. crude exports, so everyone around the world, pays if it's more than a $4 spread, apparently, so that's been supporting west texas. >> john joins us john, did you expect anything out of this opec meeting what do you think is happening with the oil trade today in light of that? >> it's been quiet, michelle, in the aftermath. they were trying to talk up and come to an agreement on extending the production accord through the end of next year, but that didn't happen i will say, though, the russian oil minister in particular, his arm must be hurting from patting himself on the back so much from the success they claim to achieve, bringing down inventories, which is an inaccurate view. >> but still we don't ever seem to move above $50. isn't that what they are hoping for? every time the price rises, u.s. production rises, as well. >> that's right. they always want a higher price, no matter what they say. right now they are praying for $60 a barrel that'

questions if you don't mind, number one, taking a step back looking big picture the wildfires out west. texas people are recovering from, irma, jose, resources of the federal government are not limited. at what point are you worried resources are stretched too thin? >> i don't. chief of staff general kelly said the federal government should be able to watch and chew game at the same time. he is absolutely right. we had cabinet meetings today, yesterday and throughout the storm events, focusing on national security matters around the globe. i'm pretty comfortable in our ability and capacity as leaders. also as institutions to handle various different things come our way. i'm extremely comfortable with president trump's capacity to do so. he juggles issues of complex i on complexity as they do today. congress stepped up in bipartisan way. president trump deserves a lot of credit for putting that together over the last 48 hours and they have done what the american people really want them to do and that is act and do what's right and instead of quibbling over things that tend to get in the way of

the vix above ten, gold up more than $9, and oil, not only is west texas closing in on 52, but brent58. that's a new high for the year >> yeah, and it's helping energy stocks for sure. best performing group on the s&p up 10%, technology is lagging both in the s&p and that's the story with the nasdaq after earlier the russell 2000 index of small caps reached a new high citigroup says there's some catching up to do after small caps have lagged, but also people pointing to the fact transport stocks outperformed last week. another week when the dow and s&p closed marginally higher, so we remain near high levels, on guard for any geopolitical headlines, i guess, is the story. >>> on a much lighter note, "will & grace" is back, airing on thursday on nbc at its peak, averaging 17 million viewers a week the show won 16 emmys and the latest episode of our series "binge" we sat down with the series creators and asked how they plan to address the current state of politics in the country. >> he's a man, but he's aged into a lesbian >> steven tyler. judd boyd. newt gingrich? >> yes >> she's -- do

. >> he collapsed, and died of of heat stroke in a row mote area west of texas.s parents expected that reed would learn the outdoor skills he would need for the trip with two adul the education that he needed to be able to do what was asked of him on an introductory hike. >> reed's parents blamed the boy scouts for sending him out with a 14-year-old and 18-year- old, instead of an adult. >>> many are anxious to see what's left, especially near the keys. this was the scene in florida city earlier today. just south of miami. you've got to go through there, if you want to get to the keys. evacuees running into heavy traffic, and gasoline in short supply. >> i stayed in a hotel room for a couple of days. the money ran out, now i'm just waiting to get my expectation is everything is half destroyed. i'm a tour guide, so i know i'm out of work for the next two months. but hopefully, there will be plenty of work rebuilding the town. most of the island, we all stick together. >> so many people have that as their reality. they may not be tour guides, but whatever they did

not since a massive fertilizer plant explosion in the town of west texas in 2013. that ammonium nitrate blast which leveled a good chunk of the town and killed 15 people, texas made one change to its rules about chemical storage. what those chemicals were and where they were stored would no longer be public information. which means when things start exploding, like they are right now at the arkema plant, the people of texas are asked to trust the companies and state officials are telling them the truth about what's happening. and what the danger is. now if you lived near this arkema plant, would you trust the state officials and the same state officials whose only response to a previous chemical explosion was to hide information from the public about what chemicals are spewing into the air. fortunately, there are people who are trying to get that information, trying to fact check the authorities. last night rachel spoke with chronicle reporter who wrote a series of articles last year about the dangers of texas's chemical plants. he asked arkema to hand over the inve

it was written because of what happened in west texas when first and local responders didn't know whatng on in that plant and that plant destroyed that community. the previous administration created that policy and just in the last month the pennsylvania put th -- epa put that policy on hold. it would have forced plants like this one in crosby to inform local first responders what was in the plant and how -- what they were do if the plant caught fire. guess what, that plant's on fire right now. that plant was built in a flood zone. that plant should have never been put there. the epa and the corps of engineers approved that plant going into the area where it is. now it's flooded. it's under six foot of water and we have a mess on our hands. hopefully he'll ask the president to tell the epa and the corps of engineers to stop approving plants in wetlands. as mr. nutter said earlier,wy need to stop putting plants and refineries inside of wetlands as the sea rise and we have these strong storms they could have catastrophic events. the water in houston has been declared toxic because of the

rule that was proposed during the obamama year after the explosion in earlier chemical plant in west texasit would require third-party are the safety procedures at chemical plants and would have required more disclosure to the community about what is in chemical plants, what specific chemicals are being housed in chemical plants, and it would have mandadated better coordination andnd a closer relationship between ken and lolocal -- chemimical companiesd first responders and emergency services in those communities. what ended up happening was when that rule was proposed, , toplblicans in congresess republicans, forward a bill, a set of billsls, and the housused senate, to basically delay and effectively kill that rule. that was a way for them to signal they wanted the trump administration to kill l that rule. as you mentioned and in our story, texas attorney general ken paxton was one of a number of republican officials who sent a letter to the epa demanding the rule basically be withdrawn. it was highly critical of the rule thing was overly burdensome to the chemical industry. you had arke

oil prices holding relatively steady right around that $49 mark for west texas intermediate also with gasoline inventories, a drawdown of 3.2 million barrels. that is smaller than the expected drawdown of 5.8 million barrels. of course, all of this in focus given the fact that refineries on the gulf coast trying to get back to some sense of normalcy and operations there we'll keep an eye on that oil trade. for now, those are the statistics a better than expected build in crude. a smaller than expected draw in gasoline carl, back to you. >> all right dom, thank you for that. >> back to irma. we're monitoring the impact of travel on irma good morning. >> good morning. miami international airport, that is what a lot of people are focused on there are long lines there people are waiting to get on flights and get out of there here's what's happening at that airport. airlines are preparing to stop their flights most are stopping them starting tomorrow 7% of miami's flights are canceled today what are the plans not only for miami but all of florida whether it comes to american airlines? the

this is in west houston, texas on the interstate there. people that are now handcuffed there in boats. they were in the water there on a flooded part of the interstate. we are calling for details now to see what transpired here. one of many stories, and this is live picture of police holding several people there who were arrested in boats in a flooded area in west houston, texas. >>> well, a week after harvey first came ashore, the governor of texas said some areas are still deadly dangerous today with rivers in some areas still on the rise. let's go live to cnn's ryan nobles. ryan, tell us what the conditions are like there. any signs of hope, waters coming down anywhere? >> reporter: yeah, jim, we've been in this neighborhood all day today in orange, texas which as you mentioned is in the eastern part of texas. this neighborhood is still pretty much flooded out as you can see. we're in a truck now with our friend brad who actually lives in this neighborhood. he has a truck that is just enough above the water that we can take a tour of th

and i called the guy that we were with, james, schroeder, up in george west, texas, asked if he wanted to go. we pull add quick team together. there was six of us that loaded up. and we left here, probably, left corpus christi about 9:00 that evening. we got to fort ben county around midnight. and by 12:30, we were taking off and rescuing people off the harlem road area. we pulled up and there was a community fire department there, and they had plenty of people but didn't have the equipment to get into the actual neighborhood, and we knew that we may have bit off more than we could chew at that time, but we went in there and the amount of people that needed rescued was, it was overwhelming to us. there was people screaming out of the windows. people flashing lights, flickering flashlights on and off at us. we did the best we could and were there a good, solid eight hours loading up. six, eight, ten people at a time and bringing them out, and they had a dump truck backed up because of the hot water. they couldn't just have any vehicle there. a ladder. people getting off the ladder, into

in fact, crude oil didn't even change on the day holding just below $oo a barrel on west texas intermediate below $50 a barrel and gold off by 1%. $1311. those are today's market minutes. julia: on china, china's holdings of treasuries rising r a sixth straight month actually the highest since august of 2016 in terms of individual numbers here the treasury holdings rising $19.5 billion to $1.1 trillion in july. some of the other numbers as well. next selling of foreign net selling of treasuries with $490 million in july. the net buying of agency debt $10.3 billion in july. and other headlines on that and i'll bring them to you but for now as you can see, rise for the sixth straight month in china's holdings of treasury, yay, keeping those yields down. scarlet: record high for the dow and s&p 500 to kick off a big week for the president's first u.n. general assembly. thanks so much to our guest for joining us today. quantitative easing obviously helps stocks, helps risky assets. u.s. stocks wouldn't be at record highs if it wasn't for years and years of quantitative easing. what we are likel

thing, it's been setting higher highs and higher lows and finally, you're seeing oil break out west texasediate above 50. this thing has a good up trend i think it continues >> very, very quietly microsoft, s.a.p. we talked about it yesterday i think i used the term which you didn't like, hiding out. >> don't hide out. >> don't lean in, sully. you're good. >> let's continueto focus on the profit that it is deliverings and it is i smooth ride, less volatility than a lot of the other fang-type tech names. >> good stuff. now brian sullivan and the rest of the folks for "power lunch," which starts now >> thanks, scott here's what's on the menu. president trump not pulling any punches in his first ever speech before the u.n. general assembly the president making it very clear it is america first and that quote "we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea if it continues on a nuclear path." hurricane maria slamming the eastern caribbean. now the category 5 storm is taking aim at puerto rico. it may be the biggest storm ever to hit puerto rico in nearly 100 years. and millennials a

they like it, but a lot of oil shell coming on in west texas.the world market and bring everything down. >> maria, don't forget this, the chinese just today are announcing the end of gasoline automobiles in china. now, they don't really mean it yet but between that and the change in taste for driving in the u.s. -- maria: all the supply coming out the u.s. how about the ipo of saudi ramco. the listing is actually reshaping the kingdom's policy toward opec that late last year the company was ready to leave the group altogether if opec members did not agree to production cut. saudi says it did not go through with that and everybody wants a part of the ramco. >> the timing is critically. they would like to take it when prices are close to 50, they are reasonable too. they know that if crude oil prices were above 60, we would be bringing a couple more million barrels of shell. it's going to require, you know, some -- >> i'm sorry, maria. now the women in saudi arabia are going to be able to drive. that maybe the only thing they drive -- >> i don't k

if we have flash flood issues, it will be areas west of texas. in the northwest, maybe a sprinkle or two and sunny conditions throughout the week look nice. the rockies, there's the rain in texas. by the end of the week, watching decent conditions, showers in the northwest. nice weather. feeling like fall, how it should. >> bill, thank you. >>> mexico is reeling after another powerful earthquake rocked the country. this is just one of thousands of aftershocks following the deadly quake. a victim described what it was like to be in a victim as it was collapsing. >> shaking more violent that i ever, ever seen before. all of a sudden, the floor started. boom. boom. boom. >> another survivor says she was trapped under a building almost 24 hours, but was able to send a text to her husband. they are concentrated on less than a dozen sites where people could be buried under debris. locals came out in droves to sift through the rubble. >> a glimmer of hope as rescue crews discover a trapped dog free from the collapsed building. reportedly, the dog is in

oil ending the day flat with west texas intermediate crude at $51.55 cents a barrel.carlet: let's take a quick look at the bigger picture, the s&p 500 finishing the quarter with a 4% gain. about nine sectors within the s&p 500 rose. staples declined. when you look at treasuries, the 10 year yield, you can see it is that 2.34%. at 1%, it was just a hair above 2%. point, it was just a hair above 2%. dollar index up by more than 2.5%. oil, up. the massive hurricanes send prices falling, now well below $50 a barrel. opec and allies firming -- pledging to hold firm. "what'd you miss?" the final trading day for september has markets ending on a high note. nasdaq ending in record territory, the s&p closing out its eighth straight quarterly gain. setting on -- gaining because of bets on tax reform. how will things shakeup in the fourth quarter? joining us is douglas ramsey come alive for minneapolis. do you see the trump trade back in action again? doug: i do not know. movement in small caps gained attention, but this has been going on for a couple months. they had a nice qua

international energy it -- is saying stronger is demand, so maybe that story giving a better list to west texasate, but still below $50 a barrel, gold selling off a little bit like it often does on risk on days. in the industrial metals pulling back, nickel is down 5.3% on the day. for more on what is driving stocks higher and what to expect from the bank of england, this is the bloomberg markets live editor, and en masse. -- dan moss. but it wasall gain, the third day in a row with gains, second day that the u.s. stocks have simultaneously closed at major records. sentiment isgh improving to some extent. >> we had this big relief rally with hurricane damaged not as bad as expected and when north korea did not shock anyone over the weekend. what i have been harping about are the bollinger bands. joe: we will deal with some bollinger bands. what are they? that line in the middle is a 20 day moving average. this is the s&p 500. they have a band above it which is two standard deviations above that and one below it which is two standard deviations below. you can look at that chart on any timeframe,

oil falling by 1%, but $51 and west texas intermediate.has done pretty nicely and continues to pick up, 1.6%. below $12.90 -- $1290 per ounce. those are the market minutes. scarlet: the moment investors have been waiting, president trump unveiling the framework for tax reform legislation. republican of tennessee senator bob corker told us that this will make health care look like a simple thing to do. what investors perspective, short-seller of pimco associates will be with us. if you look at the tax plan president has proposed, 20 percent corporate tax rate and a writeup of capital spending for five years and three tax brackets for individuals, this is the starting point and things will get water down. do you think that congress will buy it and do you buy it? >> it will be a hard sell. senator corker may be right, i pland the gop health care gop stalingrad because it was symbolic and just a morass. i do not know if it will be better, i do not know what they are trying to accomplish, still campaign promises. corporate tax rates while 35% n