role, and everyone is leaning forward under the president and supporting the governor and the state and local officials with their quest in addressing this disaster. >> reporter: and the top priority right now is, of course, saving lives. this afternoon texas governor greg abbott said that assistance is pouring many from across the country to help in that effort. ten states have sent helicopters to assist in those search and rescue operations and specialized teams from other states as well as fema have been deployed to work on those efforts. fema also has relief supplies ready to go in both texas and louisiana. the problem though is that a long as long as this rain keeps up, that supply is not able to get to those who need it. so a lot of that effort in response is going to on hold. arthel garrett tenney, thank you very much for that update from the white house. eric: you know, people in harvey's path have been taking to social media to call for help and to let authorities know that