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And in our more Perfect Union series, a pair of texas Furniture Stores opened for people who need food and shelter. The owner says we have got to give people hope. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The First Responders are so busy. 911 calls are not being answered. The situation in port arthur continues to be dire. Tropical storm harvey makes a second landfall overnight. Unless youre in imminent danger, youre just going t have to figure out a way to deal with it. Torrential rains all through the overnight hours. Were seeing catastrophic flooding again in texas this morning. The recordbreaking rainfall that flooded houston is expected to wind down today. Rescues continue, the need in this region is only growing. Thousands who fled harvey are jammed together at double capacity. There has never been anything so expensive in our countrys history. Theres never been anything so historic in terms of damage. The president spent the day in texas talking with officials. We are suffering here in the state of texas. And what the president is doing is helping texas. The u. N. Security council is strongly condemning the latest north Korean Missile test, calling that launch outrageous. Its unacceptable. I think something serious has to happen. A washington, d. C. , grand jury has indicted 19 people accused of attacking protesters in front of the Turkish Embassy in bay. All that a crisis in a crosswalk. A man accidentally steps into a sinkhole and gets stuck. Goodbye, home run. The baby got one to take home. Look at the baby laugh. And all that matters. There will be a lot of people that will help you. President george w. Bush visited Southern Methodist universitys football practice and offered words of support to the houston area. The days are dark now, but theyre going to get better. On cbs this morning. This is historic, its epic what happened, but you know what, it happened in texas, and texas can handle anything. President trump visited texas to see the aftermath of harvey firsthand, and to try to lift the spirits of those impacted by the storm. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this pcharlie is off today, Norah Odonnell is standing by in houston where a big new shelter opened overnight. Margaret brennan is here at the table. We are all in our places. As you wake up in the west, i wish the news was better for you today but you know the drill. Tropical storm harvey is the lead once again hammering the gulf coast after making landfall for a second time. Severe flash flooding hit beaumont and port arthur, texas, this morning after hours of heavy rain. A local sheriff says port arthur is cut off by flooding and people there are now going into what he calls survival mode. East texas and louisiana are now seeing the worst of harvey. Houston is actually seeing some sun today after days of record rainfall. But louisiana may see another 6 to 8 inches of rain over the next two days. We begin our coverage this morning with michelle miller, who was along the louisiana texas border. Shes east of beaumont near orange, texas. Michelle, good morning. Reporter good morning. Orange, texas, is about 23 miles east of where harvey made landfall overnight. We should note that this is i10, the service road. Folks staging there, bringing their boats. Weve seen all kinds. Flat bottom boats, air boats, hoping to make rescues because this is a foot and a half of water. This service road, a virtually bayou. And thats mainly because when the storm came ashore, it did so at high tide. 24 inches of rain over a 24hour period. This made for the perfect 12 punch. Further down in port arthur its really treacherous and folks are on social media simply begging for help. It was brutal overnight there. Every highway is closed so we cant get out anymore. We cant evacuate. Reporter port arthur, texas, is where harvey made landfall and lingered overnight. Search and rescue operations were suspended at night fall because the conditions were simply too dangerous. On social media, people reported fires like this one burning unchecked at this apartment building. Those who dared to drive encountered heavy rain and intense wind gusts. Mayor Derrick Freeman says an estimated 20,000 homes have water in them. We have water all across the city, five, six feet deep in some places. This is a very massive, critical type situation were under and were trying to get it handled. The water is flowing in. Weve got rivers inside, outside, upside down and everybody is in the bleachers. People who evacuated to the citys civic center faced a delud delu deluge. Everybody needs to go in that survival mode and start trying to get yourself to higher elevations. Get on your roof. You may sit up there and get wet by the rain, but youre going to not crown. And it is still sitting over us as we speak. Darla martinez says samaritans saved her mother, 80yearold phyllis martinez, as the water rose overnight. When i seen him carrying her in in his arms, i had my phone in my hand and i just snapped the picture because i just i wanted to thank the young men. Reporter we still dont know if those people were able to be moved out of the civic center to another location. We do know that port arthur is home to the Largest Oil Refinery in the country, motiva announced this morning that they are shutting down its operation as soon as the floodwaters abate, they say theyll be back up and running. Thank you, michelle. Meteorologist jeff jamison of our dallasft. Worth station ktvt is tracking the storm. Jeff, good morning. Good morning. Harvey is still a Tropical Storm, even though its made its way inland by about 40 miles in southwestern louisiana, just to the west of lake charles, louisiana. All that rain in Southeast Texas, including orange and port arthur, in some cases its totaling over 40 inches since the storm began. And today the storm will continue to move north. By this afternoon, still a Tropical Storm across central louisiana, and by tonight its weakened into a depression up in northern louisiana. By the weekend, this storm in a weakened state will be across parts of tennessee and kentucky and spread heavy rain all the way up the path through the weekend. Now, we are looking at the rain continuing, especially on the west side of the circulation. So that means far east texas today, western louisiana could add another 5 to 10 inches of rain on top of whats already fallen right now. That rain will continue to push well up to the north and toward memphis and northern mississippi by the time we get to tomorrow. Gayle . Thank you, jeff. The weather is improving in houston, as you see, but the Flood Disaster is still unfolding. Its a problem. The death toll has risen to at least ten after a falling tree killed two people in beaumont. First responders in houston say they have rescued more than 13,000 people. The mayor has ordered a midnight to 5 00 a. M. Curfew. Norah once again in downtown houston outside the Convention Center handling an overflow crowd, and the rain has stopped and the sun is shining. Good morning, norah. Reporter yeah, good morning to you, maurice. Every morning ive been here its been sheeting rain. Not today, a break for the people here, a dramatic improvement in the weather. In fact let me show you the sun, shining here this morning. That is a big help to people, but much of the city is still flooded and the need for help is still extreme. About 8300 people spent the night inside the Convention Center. Thats about a thousand fewer people than yesterday. But still 3,000 more than capacity. City officials opened more downtown shelters to help handle the overflow. Mark strassmann is inside the Convention Center. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning, norah. That surge of evacuees that overwhelmed this Convention Center forced city officials to open up two more big shelters downtown. And youre right, that should ease some of the pressure here where volunteers have struggled to deal with short supplies and short tempers. Volunteers from across texas scrambled to convert houstons nrg center into a shelter for storm victims. Were here right now setting up cots for those people that were not able to get into some of the other shelters that were open. Reporter less than 24 hours after planning for the shelter began, evacuees started pouring in. The center has made room for up to 10,000 displaced residents. Caring for these rescue victims has been a low gistical challenge for the houston mayor. Can you guarantee that the supply chains are going to get through to that center in time for those folks . We have made a request from fema for 10,000 cots and additional supplies and we said we need them to get here as soon as possible. Reporter once again turner defended his decision not to evacuate nearly 7 Million People ahead of the storm. Are you satisfied that that plan was the right plan . The hurricane did not hit the city of houston. The city of houston has been impacted by an inordinate amount of rain. The things that you cannot avoid, you simply have to learn how to manage. Im going to allow all the people on social media and talking heads to talk, but they dont have the responsibility of managing or running this city. I do. Reporter many Safety Experts agree the decision was likely best, given the available information at the time. Former fema official, elizabeth zimmerman. Any time you can get people out of harms way ahead of time, it is safer for them in disasters. Reporter the third shelter that has now opened is the Toyota Center. Thats about a block from here, its where the nba Houston Rockets play. Its going to hold about 5,000 people. Families only, no pets. But the logistical problem will remain to get all these families where they need them for the foreseeable future. Reporter the red cross told us this morning that everyone inside the Convention Center now has a bed, a caught, and people can now take some showers. You remember that yesterday we spoke to a woman who told us about the difficult conditions inside. We went back later in the day to see the situation for ourselves. Houston wasnt prepared. The government wasnt prepared. The mayor wasnt prepared. Reporter michelles frustration has only grown since the dump truck brought her family to the george r. Brown Convention Center. We found stacks of secondhand shoes and mountains of donated clothing. But what about beds . This is just one of five rooms filled with cots like this. All were taken by the time she arrived. She showed us her accommodations. Its an air mattress, cardboard boxes. Reporter how many adults and how many kids are supposed to sleep all in here . Five adults, three kids. Reporter thats pretty tight. Welcome to my new home. Reporter volunteers gave sticker books to her children, while the family hangs in limbo, waiting to find out what happens next. What has your family been doing all day . This. What are the bathrooms like . Horrible. Charlie, youre running this shelter here. Correct. Reporter Charles Maltby is with the american red cross, which as a partner of fema is responsible for running shelters like this. Houston is a big city, fourth largest in america, as you know. The plan was only to fit 5,000 people. How could that be . That is a good question. Thats something that what we really look to do is have smaller shelters available. We try and house folks as close to their homes as possible. And this really was more of a evacuation site. The asusumptions that were in place even a week ago just have been completely overwhelmed. Theyre saying no one expected the storm to be this bad. They expected it. They knew. We have weathermen and women for a reason. They knew this was going to happen. They knew this. Reporter now, it is true that forecasters did predict rainfall of up to two and a half feet in some spots, but not the historic amounts that we have seen so far. Red cross organizers say they hope even more supplies will arrive at the shelter today. In fact they told me there are 20 trucks all around the country that are headed here of t. Its just getting through the floodwaters. This morning houston is remembering Sergeant Steve perez who died in the catastrophic flooding. The 60yearold officer drowned in his patrol car while he was trying to get to work on sunday. Manuel spoke with the Houston Police chief about the departments loss. You always feel what could you have done, and the truth is theres nothing we could have done. Nothing. What are your officers going through right now in trying to respond to so many emergencies . They are tired. Weve had officers hurt. He never gave up on his mission, and he paid the ultimate sacrifice. Reporter perez leaves behind a wife and two children. President trump is offering assurances to those hit by harvey that his administration will do Everything Possible to help with the recovery effort. Yesterday he and the first lady received a briefing in Corpus Christi and visited an Emergency Operation center in austin. But they stayed away from here in houston. Jamie yuccas is in Corpus Christi with the president s visit. Jamie, good morning. Reporter good morning, norah. The president s message here was positive and optimistic. This city is pretty much back to normal, but in austin he looked at other areas very hard hit by harvey and called that an impact that will last a while. President trump and wife melania touched down in dry and sunny Corpus Christi. As his motorcade made its way into town, they saw little, if any, signs of damage. The storm actually made landfall about 30 miles away. Usa, usa. Reporter hundreds of mostly protrump supporters gathered outside the firehouse where the president was briefed on the recovery effort. Thank you, everybody. Reporter and he made a surprise appearance outside. I will tell you this is historic, its epic what happened, but you know what, it happened in texas, and texas can handle anything. Reporter Corpus Christi resident kenneth hamm praised the visit. I think its really cool to show support. Obviously the optics are very good. Reporter sam cummings, one of a dozen protesters on site said the president came to texas for personal gain only. Hes using it as a political cover and photo op to benefit himself. Reporter the president complimented the state and local officials for their coordination on the recovery effort. You have been terrific. Reporter and almost congratulated Texas Governor greg abbott before stopping himself. We wont say congratulations. We dont want to do that. We dont want to congratulate well congratulate each other when its all finished. Reporter fema administrator brock long implied congratulations are a ways off. This recovery is going to be frustrating. Were going to be here with you to help guide you through it. Its going to be tough to navigate, all of the programs that become available, but were here to help. Reporter the president will come back to texas on saturday. His spokeswoman says that trip may now also include a stop in louisiana. Norah. All right, thank you so much. Much more from houston ahead, including a helicopter tour. For now, lets send it back to new york. Norah, thank you. President trump is morning to north koreas latest Missile Launch. He tweeted, quote, the u. S. Has been talking to north korea and paying them extortion money for 25 years. Talking is not the answer. The American Military released an image overnight showing its newest test of a Missile Interceptor off hawaii. The test came one day after the north korean Ballistic Missile firing. New video this morning is giving us our first look at that launch. The north Korean Missile was fired from the capital of pyongyang and flew over japan. Ben tracy is in tokyo with how the missile triggered warnings and widespread concern across japan. Good morning. Reporter good morning. So japanese Officials Say this Missile Launch came as a complete surprise, and we now know that neither japan nor the u. S. Tried to shoot it down because the missile was flying too high over the island. Now, the missile that was launched is what north korea calls its hausong 12. Doing so makes a preemptive strike by the u. S. More difficult because it shows north korea can put its missiles in unpredictable and highly populated areas. Kim jongun was at the launch site and deemed it successful. State media also said that sending a missile over japan was north koreas way of, quote, muscle flexing in response to u. S. And south Korean Military exercises that have been taking place since last week. It called this a curtain raiser with more north korean actions to come. Now, kim jongun has instructed his military to launch more missiles into the pacific, but he says hell also wait and see what the United States decides to do and then respond accordingly. Gayle. Ben tracy reporting from tokyo. Thank you. Reservoirs around houston are being pushed to their breaking points. Ahead, the effort to evacuate everybody quickly, as dams and for the first time we can give you a look at harveys impact on houston from a helicopter. Jericka duncan sees glimmers of hope from above. For days harvey grounded many helicopters and planes but with an improvement in the weather, were able to show you how widespread the devastation is. Ill have that story coming up on cbs this morning. My Psoriatic Arthritis caused joint pain. Just like my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. And i was worried about joint damage. My doctor said joint pain from ra can be a sign of existing joint damage that could only get worse. He prescribed enbrel to help relieve pain and help stop further damage. Enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. Serious, sometimes fatal, events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. 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Board of education has voted no on a controversial to break up the mou good morning, its 7 26. Im michelle griego. The Contra Costa County board of education has voted no on a controversial proposal to break up the Mount Diablo Unified School district. Opponents of the plan claim its a case of a wealthy White Community trying to segregate itself. In butte county fire crews are battling flames that spread more than 2500 acres. The ponderosa fire has ripped through about 10 homes. And forced evacuations. Stay with us, traffic and wea ther in just a moment. Take a look at highway 101 if you are making your way through the south bay this morning, not looking good for drivers heading northbound. Its 82 minutes between hellyer and san antonio avenue. This camera right near north first street, this backup due to an accident near highway 87. Still has one lane blocked. Traffic is slow all the way from Yerba Buena Island and heading north. As you get past that crash, we continue to see slowdowns for drivers heading along westbound 237 and the bay bridge toll plaza all stacked up. Its in the red into San Francisco. Roberta . Its so foggy outside, we have drizzle in San Francisco right now. You may need your windshield wipers over the bay bridge if you are heading due west. Good morning, everyone. Take a look at the temperatures. We do have clear skies in redwood city. Its clear in santa rosa. 60 in san jose going to up 83 so our temperatures today will be where they should be for this time of the year. 60s through the 70s, 80s and 90s outside number today towards the delta. Look at the robust heat wave beginning thursday. Dangerous heat through next week. Many animals got caught up in the widespread flooding engolfing Southeast Texas. Some men as you can see here braved the Rushing Water to rescue a neighbors dog in beaumont yesterday. One with a rope tied around his waist got into the Rushing Water to grab the stranded and very scared dog. His friends reeled them in and the dog was reunited with its very grateful owner. You know who else is grateful, margaret, the dog. If he could speak, hes say thank you. You can see it on his face. Dogs have a lot of emotion. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Margaret brennan, as you just heard, is here and Maurice Dubois of our new york station. Were getting a new look at the still unfolding disaster in houston. Drone video gives us a sense of how much of the city is still underwater. Many of the swollen waterways dont appear to be showing any sign of receding. Norah odonnell is in houston. Good morning, norah. Reporter hey, good morning to you, maurice. This unprecedented amount of water in rivers and reservoirs is threatening to send flood levels even higher. The Addicks Reservoir just west of downtown spilled over monday for the first time ever. County officials now say 4,000 homes in that area have flooded. Record or near record water levels are straining other reservoirs, lakes and rivers. David beg nnaud is in humble, texas. Reporter norah, good morning. About the Addicks Reservoir, we hear homes around there have three to six feet of water in them but there is some good news. The Flood Control district says they now believe that the water thats seeping out of there will seep into an underground storage area rather than overflowing and getting out uncontrollably. Thats some good news. Where we are in humble, the water is receding rapidly. And people love it. Meanwhile the sun is shining. Some of the best news they have gotten in the last 72 hours. Evacuees were arriving by the truckload. The force was Strong Enough to sweep away an entire concrete barrier along interstate 69. Officials are anticipating uncontrollable overflow at two reservoirs west sunset abuse. In our vicinity. All still working to help people in need. Absolutely. Thank you so much for your reporting. Much more from houston to come. Ahead, were going to look at how Oil Refineries are taking a big hit. For now lets send it back to you in new york. Thank you, sure has made me feel differently about rain. Thank you so much. Here is a look at some of this mornings other headlines from around the globe. The hill reports that defense secretary jim mattis will allow transgender troops to keep serving for now. This comes after President Trump signed a memo banning transgender people from enlisting in the military. Mattis is is amy bling a panel that will make recommendations and implement policy regarding those currently serving. Politico says donald trump junior is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary panel. Hes expected to be questioned about his meeting last year with a kremlin linked lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton. Politico says the testimony will likely occur in the next few weeks. 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Its nice to have a good thing come out of something so scary. So scary because as harvey dumped record rain flooding houston, sarah hunter went into labor. She has a flare norah the draumt, thats for sure. But she and her husband had decided to ride out the storm at a hotel close to the hospital just in case. And sure enough, the elliott came a week early. We wouldnt have been able to make it to the hospital if i hadnt. The hospital picked this hotel as part of their hurricane Preparedness Plan for a reason. They wanted women who were in high risk pregnancies, people who would go into labor during the storm to be at the marriott because its just steps away from childrens hospital. Right there. And across the street there is another emergency room. Is your house okay . Doctor brent leads the Emergency Management team where elliott and 26 others have been born since saturday. Harvey has been that its been kind of an ongoing issue. So its been days on days. But the staff was ready for that and a hospital was designed to resist a post hurricane flood. You have flood doors in the basement levels that are essentially like submarine doors that shut us off from the rest of the Texas Medical Center underground. Chirngs has only seen minor leaks. I think you can see a tree down there. But north of downtown rising flood waters forced saint luks vintage hospital to evacuate 29 patients monday using boats and trucks. Our biggest concern was the water that surrounded the hospital, accessibility and we did have some water that got into our main powerhouse where all of our operational power and needed Life Sustaining equipment comes from. About 40 nurses and staff are still stranded inside the hospital. Their houses have been destroyed, and they are not able to return home. But like so many emergency workers, they stayed on the job, helping patients like sarah, her husband and newborn baby. Every single staff member and nurse and doctor thats been here, they have family members. For them to stay focused on my family, that really, really means a lot to me. In fact, just moments ago a food truck arrived here at the hospital. After allison in 2001, hospitals across this region made a lot of hurricane improvements, expect them to make similar improvements after harvey. But now that you can start accessing hospitals like this one, Emergency Rooms are bracing for an influx of new patients. Chris. Thank you. Well, one mother to be was not near the hospital when her daughter decided to be born. Ahead, the new dad shares how neighbors helped them get to the hospital when flooding trapped them inside their home. And well talk to houston Mega Church Pastor joel owes steen. He addresses the criticism surrounding his response to harveys flooding. But lysol max cover kills 99. 9 of bacteria, even on soft surfaces. One more way youve got what it takes to protect. 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When the strong contractions kicked in neighborhoods called on the Fire Department to send a truck. New dad greg explained to cbs this morning how everybody pitched in to help. The firearm and some of our neighbors got into the water up to their waist and they kind of held their arms together making like a little bit of a chain. Once we were in the truck they put a big shower curtain over to and we were sitting on fire hoses. They made it to the hospital safely and she was born early monday morning. Mom and baby were were happy to say are both doing well. And so thankful to neighbors to help them out. Aid yell is a very nice name for a little girl. And the story of how she came into this world i dont think her parents will ever forget. Tropical storm harvey is taking its second shot at the gulf coast. Ahead, the newest damage from the storm in texas and louisiana. And well check on efforts to help thousands of flood victims in houston. 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The measures would treat violent acts by white nationalists and neonazis as terrorist attacks. Marins board of directors is saying no to an expansion of carpool hours, now at 6 30 to 8 30 a. M. Caltrans is still considering it. Raffic and weather in just a moment. Good morning. Time now 7 57. An accident blocking one lane along northbound 101 as you approach highway 87 has traffic messed up on 101 through san jose. Heres a live look near north first street. About two hours for drivers going between hellyer to san antonio avenue. Avoid that stretch. Of85 an hour from 101 in san jose to 101 in mountain view. Expect delays through san mateo 101 at hillsdale, an earlier accident keeping the ride heavy both direction. And oakland jampacked in the northbound direction. 33 minutes from 238 to the maze. Roberta . I hope you have a moment to just take a good look at this. Watch the clouds as they are just rushing out in a northerly direction. This is our live weather camera from sutro tower. 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And we ask pastor joel osteen about the critics that say his houston mega church was too slow to help the storm victims but first, heres todays eye opener at 8 00. Tropical storm harvey is hammering the gulf coast after making land fall for a second time. Its really treacherous and folks are on social media begging for help. All of that rain is totaling over 40 inches. That surge of evacuees that overwhelm this Convention Center forcing officials to open up two more big shelters. The message was positive but in austin he looked at other areas and that called that an impact that will last awhile. Were hearing from Flood Control that most of the watersheds in Harris County it looks like the water crested. Now that the weather has finally cleared up a little bit we were able to see what houston looks like from up above. After me tlania trump was boarding in heels. I dont know why anyone should care what anyone wears when theyre on their way to help people. People are like why is she wearing those heels. Who cares. Look at the pope. You see how he dresses. Look at that. He looks like hes going to a p. Diddy party but we dont say he cant go out helping peel dressed like that. Im gayle king. He does have a way of putting things. He has a point. Going to help people and the fact that they showed up a lot of people were grateful to see them. Charlie is off. Nora is on assignment and standing by in houston. Tropical storm harvey is back on hand this morning blasting east texas and south western louisiana. The storm made a second u. S. Landfall overnight near the louisianatexas border. It brought life threatening flash flooding to port arthur texas where the sheriff warned people to get into survival mode. Port arthurs mayor wrote on facebook that his city is underwater right now. Good news this morning. Houston is finally getting a break from the rain and jeff from our dallas ft. Worth station ktvt is tracking the storm once again. Good morning. Good morning, harry still a Tropical Storm. The heaviest rain is on the west side of the storm all morning pounding port arthur and beaumont. Right now still has winds around 45 Miles Per Hour near the senor of the storm. It will continue to move into central louisiana by this evening and finally weaken into a tropical depression tomorrow morning and continue its push into kentucky and tennessee by the end of the week. But it will be dumping a lot of rain. Through louisiana 5 to 10 more inches of rain possible and well see those rainfalls pile up tomorrow and in on friday. This is on top of the incredible rain amounts we have already seen. Houston 37 inches of rain. That record at bay town of 52 inches. We go to add more of that in beaumont. Thank you. As you can see the rain that already fell on houston is not going away. Officials say it will take weeks to dry out. The city is now under an overnight curfew after reports of scattered looting at least 11 deaths are now being blamed on harvey and its aftermath but that number will likely rise. Lets go back to nora outside the Convention Center in downtown houston where the crush of he vak yevacuees is ending a not raining anymore. The recovery is beginning. Theres now been more than 13,000 people rescued in the houston area and surrounding counts since the storm hit. Now that puts enormous pressure on Evacuation Centers where many of these people are now staying. The red cross says more than 17,000 people are in shelters and that number is expected to grow. They do have volunteers they really appreciate the people that have shown up to volunteer and we have shown you how the citys largest shelter at the Convention Center was overflowing with people. It was nearly double its capacity by monday night. The red cross is telling us this morning that nearly 2,000 people have left and so now they have about 8,300 people inside and they have got everybody a bed. Mark is inside the Convention Center. Mark, good morning, how is it looking . Good morning. The pressure you talked about has grown on these crowded Evacuation Centers. Houston has opened up at least two r more new shelters for folks to go. One of them is nrg stadium where the Houston Texans play and it began taking in evacuees last night. The stadium can hold up to 10,000 but despite the crowded shelters houstons mayor is still defending his decision not to order a mandatory evacuation. He said he was worried that a mass exodus could have lead to gridlock as when hurricane rita hit in 2005. 60 people died in traffic jams, many from heat stroke and one former fema official said its safest to get people out of harms way but ultimately local leaders have to make that call. Now the Toyota Center thats just a block away from where im standing also home to the Houston Rockets also agreed to take in evacuees. Taking about 5,000 folks. Families only, no pets. Thank you so much. The recovery from harvey will be long and difficult. The president visited texas along with the first lady. He met with state and federal officials in Corpus Christie. That gulf coast city sits near towns that sustained some of the worst damage from harveys initial land fall. Mr. Trump brought the message that texas can handle anything and praised the way leaders are responding. Itwe want to do it better th ever before and looked at five and ten years from now as this is the way to do it. This was of epic proportion. Nobody has ever seen anything like this. The president also went to austin where he said he will work with congress to approve funding to pay for harveys damage. Later today he will be in Springfield Missouri to talk about why he wants to tackle tax reform. The nations Largest Oil Refinery is shutting down because of flooding from harvey. It began a controlled shutdown earlier this morning and in bay town a chevron refinery was under water. Now there have been reports on social media of a chemical smell in the area. Exxon mobils refinery in baytown has also been damaged bihar have with the company reporting unusually high emissions there. Exxon is assessing the situation and People Living within 1. 5 mile radius of the Chemical Plant in crosby are under a mandatory evacuation. Chemical refrigeration at the plant was compromised due to high water and lack of power. Company officials said quote, the potential for a Chemical Reaction leading to a fire and or explosion within the site is real. So well continue to follow these developing situations but for now lets go back to studio 57 in new york. To all of you. Im so glad the sun has come out. We have a moment here in new york and it was raining and some people were complaining oh the rain, the rain but we have to put into perspective you get wet and you have to go inside a warm house and you have clean underwear. I heard an interview the other day when a guy said all i want is clean underwear. It does help put things in perspective when you see whats happening in houston texas. I think i said that last night, i think i said that last night on the evening news that the most basic human items that people are looking for can really hit home. Facebook google and amazon are stepping up. Each pledged 1 million in matching donations. Hollywood star Sandra Bullock that owns a home in texas reportedly gave 1 million to the red cross. The owner of the Houston Rockets, thats Leslie Alexander will donate 10 million to a relief fund. J. J. Watt upped his fundraising goal again to 6 million. So far he raised 5. 1 and proceeds from tomorrows texans Dallas Cowboys game will go to relief and recovery. Watt talked about the out pouring of support. Im going to do everything i can to make sure that this money goes back to the people and we help rebuild houston and teahe areas around it. Thats our city and community and it to make sure that we get everybody back on their feet so as much money as we can raise i cant say thank you enough. Go j. J. Watt to help people effected by Hurricane Harvey you can visit red cross. Org or text the word harvey to 90999 to make a 10 donation. When j. J. Watt started he was just looking for a few hundred thousand. He wasnt even thinking in the millions and now he is. 5 million, 6 million, who know where is the ceiling is on this with all the generosity out there. Well, houstons massive Lakewood Church is now hosting victims of harveys catastrophic flooding. Just ahead, joel osteen will join us to respond to the criticism that he initially shut out people that had nowhere else to go the rising the rising water in texas poses several major health risks from the spread of disease to limited access to your medications. Ahead one of houstons Top Health Officials tells us about the hidden dangers that could last long after the flooding recedes. Youre watching cbs this morning. When you have allergies, it can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. Luckily theres powerful, 24hour, nondrowsy claritin. It provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. Live claritin clear. Oh, its actually. S your sfx short balloon squeal its ver. Sfx balloon squeals ok can we. Sfx balloon squeals im being so serious right now. I really want to know how your coffee is. Its. Sfx balloon squeals hahahaha, i had a 2nd balloon goodbye oof, that milk in your coffee was messing with you, wasnt it . Yeah. 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Now joel osteen joins us from houstons Lakewood Church this morning, hello joel osteen. Hey, gayle, good to hear from you. Well it looks like things are up and running, but some people say pastor, youve got some explaining to do, because from sunday, there was one message from facebook, and then it appeared that the doors were not open to anyone. How do you splanl the discrepancy . Gayle, our doors have always been open. We receive people even as soon as the water started receding, but we worked with the city constantly. The city set up a shelter about four miles from here that can house 10,000 people, showers, dormitories, kitchen, security, all of that. They didnt need a shelter at that point. Things like that. So we said fine, you do that, well do our part. Never dreaming that we have so many people needing shelters. When they filled up, they said we need shelters, we started our shelter. This notion that we would turn people away or were not here from the city. Weve been here for 60 years doing that. I dont think anybody thought you turned anybody away, i think they said that the church was not open and the words that it was closed due severe flooding and the Video Evidence seemed to show listen, there was no flooding, why wasnt it not open immediately i think is the bottom line . Well, none of that is true. There was flooding if we didnt have our flood gates out back here, this build flooding in 2001. The whole bottom floor. It would have been a safety concern at the start, but thats really not the bigger issue. The issue is we work with the city, they say let us be the shelter. Go to the county, go to the city shelter. So, you know, somebody created a notion that, you know, were not open, but theyre not opening. They stay on the streets, dont get on the streets. This building is a safety issue. Were here for 60 years. So you know web thats what were all about here at lakewood, helping the city. It was tuesday before you got really um and run kbrpg did it take so long to mobilize . If you were here, you would understand why. Our volunteers, people that run this building, they cant get they cant get to the facility. We couldnt set up our tv hardly today from some of our crews. So you have to be here to see that number one, the city runs the shelters, what they need us to do, they ask for a distribution center, you see hundreds and thousands of volunteers came out. They need a command center. You can do is here. We could have been a shelter from day one. How many people have you taken in so far . I dont know how many. Ive lost count, but i know there are hundreds and yesterday we had, you know, people bringing supplies and just, you know, we cant even hardly take anymore supplies here. We continue to take people, as many they bring. How many can you take in and i see on your website that youve already begun that. Asked us to be a distribution center. People are bringing baby food and baby supplies and medical supplies and things like that. So were taking in supplies that we can feed the different shelters around town. And so thats what theyve asked us to do. And were doing that. Thank you, pastor for joining us. And the doors of Lakewood Church are open. Thanks so much, gayle, great talking with you all. All right. Good to see you. Former president george w. Bush pays a special visit to Football Players. Southern method university. Ahead his message of encouragement to student athletes from the houston area. And well show you how one Furniture Store owner is doing his part to help hundreds of flood evacuees. Youre watching cbs this morning. Psoriasis does that. It was tough getting out there on stage. I wanted to be clear. I wanted it to last. So i kept on fighting. I found something that worked. And keeps on working. Now . They see me. See me. 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This morning, at the state capital, several bay area mayors are meeting to address the statewide housing and affordability crisis part of the big 11 california mayors all from the 11 largest state cities pushing for a change. Stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment. Good morning, time now 8 27. An update to that crash we have been tracking in san jose. This is along northbound 101. Right near highway 87. All lanes have cleared. But the damage is done. We are tracking a travel time of an hour and a half. 90 minutes between hellyer and san antonio avenue. Expect delays to continue throughout much of the morning. Along 85, bee continue to see the slowdowns. 55 minutes from 101 in san jose to 101 in mountain view. Heres a live look at 101. This is right near north first street. Traffic is stacked up in the northbound direction. San mateo bridge, youre in good company westbound from 880 to 101. Just under 40 minutes. Bay bridge toll plaza still dealing with speeds in the red along the eastshore freeway, 42 minutes from highway 4 to the maze. Another 21 minutes into San Francisco. Roberta . Jaclyn. Good morning, to you and good morning to san jose. We have some cloudy skies there now. We have a layer of low clouds and fog stacked up at the coast working into the bay seeing a little slippage of the clouds over the Santa Cruz Mountains into the south bay. 52 degrees in santa rosa. 60 degrees in san jose. Later today, our numbers from the mid60s at the beaches with partial clearing in pacifica to 60s and 70s common across the bay today. This is really a seasonal late summer day. Nearly 80 in redwood city. 88 degrees in santa rosa. Low 90s east bay. This is the last day with seasonal high temperatures for the month and tomorrow serious heat begins inland for at least a week. Warm to hot weather daly city friday and saturday, 80 degrees. Otherwise, excessive heat warnings through next week. Former president george w. Bush offering support to Football Players who come from houston. He stopped by practice yesterday. I know theres some people from houston here, and the houston area, and i know youre going through a really tough time. And just know that therell be a lot of people that are going to help you. The days are dark now, but theyre going to get better. The dallas Area Football Team announced yesterday itll give free tickets and concessions to those affected by harvey at its Season Opener on saturday. Good hot dog and some popcorn goes a long way. That was nice the president to stop by. Nice to see him. Welcome back to cbs this morning, maurice from our cbs station here in new york and margaret brennan, shes from washington, d. C. Joining us at the table. Welcome, guys. Charlie is off, nora is in houston. Shes standing by. Well check in with her rather in just a second. Right now its time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The Washington Post reports former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer finally got to meet pope francis. Yay. He was greeted at the vatican on sunday. The meeting was reportedly organized by the International Catholic legislators network. Spicer was serving until the white house when President Trump met with the pope back in may, but he was not included in the group that held a private party with the pope. A lot of people felt badly for him at the time. Its nice he got his moment. And better late than never. Thats right. The rise of the 1,000 smart phone, the post says samsungs new note 8 starts out at 930 and theyre speculation that apples tenth anniversary iphone could hit 1,000. Tributes to better function and more technology. Innovations include sharper skreens and wireless charging. Can you hear me now. Can you hear me now . Yes, i can. Proposal by the head of the fda to reduce the levels of nicotine and secrets to addictive levels. The paper says the 2015 study shows smokers using low nick teak cigarettes were more likely attempting to quit. They did not compensate by smoking more. The expensive cigarettes and the availability of less harmful devices like those e cigarettes. The star ledger of new jersey reports dogs displaced by harvey were put on board a plane to that state. 78 dogs arrived yesterday. They are from the shelter in san antonio and will wait for adoption before the storm. Its the first flight to the northeast of animals affected by harvey. Love that. I do too. Good ending. Very good ending. But not so good. The Houston Chronicle says 350 alligator in Southeast Texas could be just inches from freedom, yikes. They live in a sanctuary called gator country. The rise in flood waters are just a foot below the top of the facilitys fences. The owner says nothing to worry about here, theres already a Large Population in the region. Many have been in captivities for years and apparently wont go far from familiar food source. Wasnt on the mind before, but now it is. Lets hope they stay where theyre supposed to. There is a much Bigger Health risk in areas affected by harvey. Lets go back to nora in downtown houston for that. Thank you, margaret, thats right, the devastating flood waters in texas are raising several major health concerns. More than 8,000 of them are here in houstons main Convention Center. Health hazards in the disaster are mounting both in the short and longterm. Dr. David herself is the physician, director of houston ems and Public Health authority. Doctor, thank you for joining us. Thank you. I know this has been declared a Public Health emergency here in houston, when you have people trapped in flood waters, whats the big concern . Well, there are a number of concerns. The first the immediate concerns, step on something, or not step on something, theres a manhole cover missing, people could be badly injured walking through the flood waters is always dangerous. From a health point, the organisms they be in the water and the chemicals may be in the water. 8,000 people in this Convention Center. How do you avoid a Health Crisis . When we have large numbers of people congregate in small spaces like this, we worry about a viral illness outbreaks. You know, we heard about the cruise ship for everyone that got sick, its the same virus that we worry about on the cruise ships that we worry about here. The norovirus. Exactly. That can be a real problem where people are already, you know youve got all kinds of problems going on. How do you prevent that . Two things, one we have to try to get folks to focus on personal hygiene, right. The facility has to make sure that the bathrooms are kept tidy. They need to be cleaned multiple times a day. It needs to be at least doubled with in terms of cleaning. Get the Hand Sanitizer throughout the facilities so people will have it easily accessible to them. Oddly the one place you dont have Hand Sanitizer is in the bathroom. You want people to use soap and water, not use the Hand Sanitizer. So the waters are a thorough cleaning i walked through there, i didnt see a lot of Hand Sanitizer. Its been one of the challenges. We need so much of it, the facility had some to begin with, but this is a crowd than the facility is used to dealing with. Especially with no notice. Theres ants, we know that. How about mosquitos. So in the short term, im not too worried about the short term because all of this rain is going to wash out all the breeding sites for the mosquitos. And it only lives for maybe a week anyway. So the preexisting mosquito population will drop off and there wont be any new mosquitos. But thatll be only about 10 to 14 days, then were going to have an explosion of mosquitos because theres so much standing water which is all breeding sites. Well deal with that two in two weeks. Zika here . People have been infected with zika in central and latin america. We have not had any local transmission here, but that is absolutely something thats front and center only the radar. Thank you, thanks to all the doctors and nurses and Health Professionals that are taking care of everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. And we visited with families taking shelter inside the george r. Brown Convention Center behind me. One woman we spoke to yesterday was watching over her family after an uncomfortable welcome the night before. Did they have any bed for you . No, maam. And you have how many kids . Six. So where did everybody sleep. On the floor. I stayed up in the chair. I didnt sleep. My babies slept on the floor. Yes, maam. All of them. I got some they ran out of blankets, so we had got a bunch of towels and propped them up to make it be comfortable. And we just made a big pallet on the floor. People came here with nol clothing, they didnt a have shoes and the call went out for donations and this is what resulted. There are mountains of these clothes. Half a dozen of these, huge piles of clothes. I went to the table, they gave us two little things. They told us when they want them to come back. And they gave him pampers and wipes. They did. Do you think the city should have been more prepared . Yes. When the mayor said dont leave, he didnt think it was going that bad, im like okay. After that, i just new it was alive. Charlie, youre running the shelter here. And were just keeping up. Just keeping up. Were meeting all of the needs of the clients, but its going about as well as we could expect it to. Theyre just keeping up. One of the problems has been getting supplies in. How are they making sure that the trucks that have the cots and supplies can get in . There are no guarantees. Lets face it, i think theyre working hard. And theyre crossing the trucks can get in. But we follow these four walmart trucks, took them two days to get in. They finally get to the back of Convention Center to drop it off. Theres no place to unload because there are too many people who are now living in spaces where the supplies would be left. So theyve got a series of logistical challenges and thats going to keep on going. One of the things that has eased pressure on the Convention Center is now theyve opened up this other shelter. How big is that going to grow . Well, there are two different centers. Where the Houston Rockets play and where the Houston Texans play, 10,000 evacuees, 5,000 potentially at the other, thats going to ease pressure here. Maybe 1500 fewer folks at the Convention Center than yesterday. At the same time, youve still got to feed these people, get them sheltered, get them cots, supplies, and some respect for logistical challenges multiply because you have not at one place, multiple places. The biggest thing is for the waters to start going down. Having spent days only going up. Thank you, mark. So gayle, you hear just a lot of challenges still ahead here in houston to take care of all of those who have been rescued from their homes. Nora, thank you. I know youre heading back to new york. I just to want say again, what a great job you and your team have done. You guys have really painted a picture for us. I think when the story first started, we all thought okay, its heavy rain, theyll be okay. But youve really take telephone us behind the scenes to show us how bad its been and how cold the weather is for the people. They come with soaking wet clothes and nothing to do and nowhere to go. And i know too it must have been affected you, the things that you have seen. Yeah, you know, its i felt strongly that people should see what happens, meaning our viewers, should see what happens when youre inside a shelter like this. The type of care they are receiving or not receiving. And its hard. Its really hard on people. And i think one of the things to remember is volunteers showed up in droves. There were lines of people that wanted to go help inside. Thats the reminder of the strength of the texas spirit. Nora, thank you very much. Safe travels back home to new york. Look forward to seeing you. There have been countless stories of neighbors helping neighbors in the rising flood waters in houston. Just ahead, how a Furniture Store owner is sacrificing labor day sales to help h my name is Valerie Decker and im a troubleman for pg e. I am a First Responder to emergencies 24 hours a day, everyday of the year. My children and my family are on my mind when im working all the time. My neighbors are here, my friends and family live here, so its important for me to respond as quickly as possible and get the power back on. Its an amazing feeling turning those lights back on. Be informed about outages in your area. Sign up for outage alerts at pge. Com outagealerts. Together, were building a better california. Our series a more Perfect Union, we highlight examples of people coming together to show that what unites us is far greater than what divides us. In texas, countless people have mo extraordinary acts of humanity to help flood victims. David introduces to an owner who opened his doors to hundreds of evacwees. David is in the flooded kmun ee community outside of houston. Reporter good morning, a story thatll make you smile. We all need a smile, right . You mentioned this guys name and everybody here in houston says oh yeah, mattress max. Got a 160,000 foot showroom, huge, ands at the start of the storm, he was rescuing people. The only difference with his rescuing, he had a place to take them to. Im part capitalist and social worker, and this is what i like to do. Everything going all right . Yes, sir. You need anything . No, sir. Reporter mattress matt made a name for himself selling furniture, but its legacy of giving thats going to leave a permanent impression. Im worried about these people, im worried about the business, im worried about the community. Reporter sunday two of his gallery Furniture Stores would be open, not for business, but to provide shelter and food for people in need. Her and her son are now among the hundreds of people whove taken up shelter in one of his stores. Its good to be here away from the flood. Because it would have got when it started raining, it would have got all the way right here. The water started to come in the house and it was coming in so fast, we had a matter of time to get out the house. Reporter grace and her son got in one of the trucks that matt deployed to rescue people from the rising flood water. Hes also providing food, breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the evacuees. We thank you mr. Mack for opening up his doors to us. Because we didnt know where our next meal was going to come from, or clothes on our backs. Reporter mack estimates its costs 30 or 40,000 to keep his stores up and running through the crisis. Question afford that and what we cant afford is to cause these people to lose hope. Weve got to give them hope. This is what my parents would have done. Reporter his record of Community Service would make his family proud. Every christmas his business has provided furniture to families in need. He also donates his furniture to make over teachers lounges in area schools. Its a long way from new orleans. Reporter even providing refuge isnt new to mack. In 2005, he houses 200 of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees in his store. Several of the katrina victims like jerry burke even landed a job there. Need anything, you good . Katrina blew me in. Lost everything. Didnt know where i was going to go, what to do. And i came here and talked to mack, and he sent know hr and the rest was history. And he furnished my apartment, gave me everything that i needed to survive, plus a job. Totally lifechanging for me and my family. Reporter some of harveys evacuees like roberta are paying it forward, helping out in the store. Whatever he needed me to do, i was there. Now im just like answering the phones, directing people, you know that come in that need help. Reporter even though the upcoming Labor Day Weekend is an important one for the furniture business, mack says hes not going to kick anyone out. Were going to keep these folks here as long as they need to be here. They may be here three months, seven, who knows . Were here to help. Thats what we do, thats who we are. For him to open his door and stay youre affected by the flood, come in, and i mean, you have people wet, you had people dirty. Who does that . Do you have to see it to believe it . Its real. He has a heart of gold. You just look around, the man is an angel. Nobody asked him to do this. The city didnt call him and ask him to open his doors. Mattress mack said i want to. And thats what thousands of other people have done. Brought their boats, brought their vehicles, and their good hearts and made people smile. You know what else made people smile . Yesterday at 6 00, people were pulling over on the side of the road to take a picture of the sun. Something we hadnt seen here in about three days. Oh boy, david, what a great story. Listen, if you live in houston, makes you think i want to go to gallery furniture, buy some furniture, and help some people out. Go mattress mack, thats awesome. Thank you, david. More Perfect Union indeed. You are watching cbs this morning. Well be right back. Well, we are still on a mattress mack high, really, really like that guy. You seen earlier in the newscast who was waiting to be asked and you look at mattress mack, look, nobody asked me to do it, its wait his parents raised him. Nice. Thatll do it for us. Watch our streaming network for updates on board of education has voted no on a controversial proposal to break up the mount diablo unified sch good morning. Im michelle griego. The Contra Costa County board of education has voted no on a controversial proposal to break up the Mount Diablo Unified School district. Opponents say its a wealthy White Community trying to segregate itself. Senator harris is trying to save daca. The program protects Illegal Immigrants who were brought to the u. S. As children. President trump has threatened to end the program. The senator is holding a town hall in oakland tonight. Crews are battling a wildfire in butte county tonight. The ponderosa fire has burned more than 2500 acres. It has destroyed nine homes near lake oroville. Weather and traffic and weather in just a moment. Good morning. 8 57. Slowdowns for drivers on 101. This is a live look near ygnacio boulevard. You can see that traffic is in the red. 41 minutes from roland to 580 so as you head through novato, you will be tapping those brakes. And in the east bay, we are tracking slowdowns along 680 southbound, 23 minutes from willow pass road to el pintado road and westbound 24 from 680 to the caldecott tunnel, just under a 20minute commute. So there is an accident in that eastbound direction opposite commute. Definitely keeping the westbound heavy. And were in the red 36 minutes highway 4 to the maze. Excuse me, along 880 from highway 4 to the maze. And across the bridge, its about a 20minute ride into San Francisco. Good morning. 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