Days cooling trade. And the crystal blue caribbean sea. Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at the rubric dot com. And now abc world news. This is bbc world news america reporting from washington im john obrien. President trump travels to texas where hes briefed on the efforts to deal with historic flooding. Until for support to those who already lost so much. As thousands seek shelter in houston the please confirm one of that offices deli doctor being trucked in water. Where life in texas with the latest on the stor . Im in lagrange texas one of sam many towns trying to recover from the record amounts of rainfall. Them nice from any Tropical Storm in the United States ever recorded. North korea fires a missile across japan putting millions of residents on warning the u. S. Says something serious hasta happen in response. And for two decades its given us the best views of saturn. But now the Cassini Mission is about to go out with. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television and around the globe. The amount of rain in Houston Texas is not reached a record for any Tropical Storm system in u. S. History and its not over yet. The people in affected communities the urgent need for shelter is taking priority with more than nine thousand now sleeping at the Convention Center. The b. B. C. s orchard allen is in la grange for us and stops on coverage again tonight laur. Well jane herring lagrange people like counting the cost of the aftermath of that historic level of flooding following on from hurricane hobby. That returning to that devastated homes that trying to find that belongings people have been telling me. I found a holy bible i found a memento from my own and its really a very emotional state when people are confronted with the reality of the destruction that has been ruled. By this epic flooding a behind me im standing in front of a trailer paul why so many people lost their mobile homes they were simply picked up by the. Force of that flooding and bad banged into walls smashed into one another and its really just an incredibly sad situation for people. Who mostly calm even access the homes at this point now where about a hundred miles west of houston and in houston why so many more people . Have been affected by it even larger levels of flooding thousands without past thousand sleeping in the Convention Center and no end in sight. As the storm has still got some strength left in it his my colleague james cook. Nnova. Hes not the only one finding it tough. Its now four days since the hurricane and still the rescues role on on are you a little bit yeah. In the chaos though there is some order the boats have come from all over the United States. And not a moment too soon. There are lot of people. Any help but i. Think the for these people. Really am. As ive never been to anything like this. This operation was fast and smooth Police Soldiers civilians all working together. From above they can see the problem and its a big one arrests of one a few blocks away is overflowing. It was built eighty years ago to protect the young city of houston. But no one fan. Action face. Or still rising. So flooding is going to continue along the structures in the homes that are. Against the western edge of the pool. So streets are going to be flooding they will continue to afford. New streets will continue to flood new homes will continue to flood. Well this is now what much of houston and its surrounding suburbs look like. It eerie here everyone seems to have fled a noble the scale of this disaster is striking. It may yet get worse. Much of this water will eventually work its way down stream to the city itself. Where theyre already struggling to cope . This shelter remnants of bates yesterday since then four thousand more people have arrived and even that is fraction of the number looking for a haven. What is right and also some people cant imagine the sunny day in its been raining for a week . So that it was in peoples minds aligned the soulful big itself along with the more petition more doctors mean more health care. For everybody in the whole facility. For houston and for the u. S. This is a wakeup gala. A giant of Global Commerce has been paralyzed should the city have been evacuated. The mayor says no. You cannot put six point five Million People on the road two days before a storm that you dont know where it is going. Is it it is apps are heard. But the fabric of the city is now tailing even motorways are giving way. Hundreds more deaths are reported including one Police Officer the strain is beginning to show. Watcher direct you got there it was too treacherous. To go wander and look for. We made a decision. To leave officers there. A waiting. To the morning. Because as much as we want to recover last night. I could not put. More officers at risk. For all we know how hard it was gonna be cut recovery mission. Every hour brings news of more rescues more people trapped more damage with nearly fifty inches of rain this is now a record breaking disaster. James cook bbc news houston. Now President Trump himself has been here in texas today going to both Corpus Christi and austin to be briefed on the relief efforts. Hes facing his first major Natural Disaster as president and has on north america and you dont say pool reports hes very keen to get the tone right. Okay modred chief determined to show that he is in command. President trump arrived in Corpus Christi this lunch time the city where harken harvey made land for. And the crowds had gathered outside the fire station to hear hymnbook come to offer comfort and support. Though it sounded more like a campaign rally. This story is. What i have been . But you know what is. Texas and texas can handle anything thank you all. Ver. And with a flourish. It used the flock of the lone star state. Crowds did. Earlier he met the tech as governor greg abbotts who praise the cooperation between state and federal government. We wont say congratulations we dont want to do that. No wonder king right. Yeah the one small. Trust twelve years ago. Disastrous ling of harken katrina and this obsolete tone deaf comment from then president bush. To use emergency relief coordinator and brownie youre doing a heck of a job. Faber director. Actually it was one heck of a mess nearly two thousand people died at a new orleans it was particularly bad. There was an evacuation but it seems that all those who were left behind with black. President bushs reputation wouldnt recover. The response to harvey has been more sure footed so fa. Across the spa state damages being assessed. We went to la grange so how far is it moves particular thing. Sent via your home is moved across the street. This mother to shows her children with a house once stood. This is just one small town in texas it is estimated that some five hundred homes have been destroyed here. At this trailer park you can see that particular house its been up rooted. Full all top of a car and if we just move across you can see the water bubbling up from the ground. Thats because there is a crack gas line underneath. For the Emergency Services it means it is still too dangerous to investigate. Were still in the foothills of this disaster. Thousands will remain home this for months to come. Theres an economic reckoning to be had will congress agreed to fund the rebuilding. And the biggest question of the mole as louisiana stands next in the park. As Tropical Storm harvey done his worst. Or is that more devastation to calm. Jon sopel bbc news texas. And as you saw bad jones say pull was reporting from the grainger earlier today he was talking to people at that very same trailer park. And that is just behind me where people lost their homes and at jane talking to some of the mothers who are trying to get that children back to school at this moment who have lost their homes. This is such a difficult time this is a hard time of transition anyway for kids go to school explode when you have no home. No clothes and you dont even know what youre spending the next night. Yeah well today even start to laura whats that priority right now. Well at the priority is my suddenly where are you staying and then that is the whole question of the clean up but as the matter of the small town. Said to me today its a moment of hall break but also a moment this fight we call warming and i think that thats definitely true you see the heartbreakers people gosh that homes. See that that possessions been completely ruined and rats and begin to count the cost of the recovery. But that was so heart warming is the in the small town usually calm will patrol without someone giving you a free bottle of warsaw offering you a blanket. Sang his a free sausage roll so in a town of five thousand where three hundred homes will say have been evacuated. Everybody knows a person whos in need and everyone is that for them of course is different. In a big city like houston weather is more and only missy by head you really feel the kindness and the strength of small town america coming through. What about the government response they confident that theyre going to get the support they need in the long term . We know this is a town which is welfare has a strong taxd when you look at that. Take levels of damage that it will take years for that city to recover just as it did with new orleans remember today is the twelfth anniversary. Of katrina making landfall in new orleans well if you look at new orleans today its still bad skulls from twelve years ago. How whats happened here at in texas is on a much much bigger scale nor trevelyan in la grange thank you very much do stay with us because we will hope to come but she later in the program . Well for more on the president s response to the storm so far i spoke a brief time ago with one christy who was a special adviser to george w. Bush. Well now its twelve years since katrina out which was one of the low points of the bush presidency. Arm how well isnt this administration doing with harvey. Well good evening to you jane i think the administration is doing very well. Theyre coordinating without officials on the ground in texas of course not only with the governor lieutenant governor. But local officials in these towns and communities that have really been hard hit by this terrible disaster. Youre talking about eight area thats the fourth largest metropolitan area the United States. We have tens of thousands of people who have been displaced. As large a billion is just reported theres been a strong coordination with First Responders of making sure that people who need be rescued her being found. That those who need food and shelter being taken care of so. Thus far i think all the response efforts weve seen thus far the federal state and local level. Have been very well received its interesting though that a President Trump didnt want to congratulate anybody at this point. Up he said he wanted to wait until it was all finished which could be a long time but what you make of that tone its quite unusual this into it. Well i think is right actually i dont think this is to hunt for congradulations i think this is a time for high fiving. I think theres a time to still make sure that those were missing are found we heard that terrible tragic story of the Police Officer at thirty four year member of the force. Who died tragically so while there is joy to be had for those whove been found and those who have been recovered . Theres still a lot more to go and so i i do think the president took the right tone here chain of saying. Lets not just creek congratulate each other just yet lets make sure that we can find those who are still in need of help and assistance. And of course the help and assistance in the future is going to be very very costly to think congress is going to come forward to the money needed for the recovery. Absolutely this is going to be something thats going to be in the billions of dollars billions of dollars. Up fema are Emergency Medical Agency here in the United States has set up a website Disaster Assistance dot gov. Whether directing people who need to start filling out the paperwork start filling out those applications to get help. Wants Congress Returns we have a very short window of opportunity. To look at budgetary matters the appropriations process but i think first and foremost republican democrat doesnt matter at this point jane i think this is going to be. An american recovery effort and those dollars are gonna come from washington immediately an american recovery round we talk a lot about the nation being divided. Do you think that a disaster like this can unite people. No question about it i do i would certainly work in the white house and the terrible aftermath of hurricane katrina. And there were so many stories of heroism so many stories of optimism when it seemed like it was hopeless it seemed like there was no. Ive really chance for survival in years past people pulled through i think the people in texas in the lone star state. Are gonna be much stronger as a result of this tragedy in this devastation but we still have many many years jane left to go not months. From christy joining me from new york thank you very muc. Well the Trump Administration isnt only facing domestic challenges thats been widespread condemnation for north korea after it find a Ballistic Missile over japan. Japans Prime Minister says his country is now facing an unprecedented threat while the Us Ambassador to the un cold it absolutely unacceptable and irresponsible. From tokyo the b. B. C. s Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. Mmhm. These is help people in northern japan were what can that just off to six this morning. The. Yeah because you know. A missile is passing the announcer says a missile is passing please find shelter immediately. So at city hall there a frantic phone call. Coming to pick us up. Is there any damage. This is not to practice this is really. A north Korean Missile has just flown overhead. Im assuming that pesky cake i. My phone was by my bed says this woman suddenly it started ringing with alerts was really sharp. New. If no which was. Man. Thats the scariest thing. The missile that flew over japan is thought to be one of the. The whole song twelve. It was first seen at this huge parade in pyongyang and eight. A month later north korea shocked the world by successfully firing one into after space. Today it has gone much further forcing a grim faced japanese Prime Minister shinzo abbe. To address the nation. They cut the film awful lot this missile cried over the pa hes on outrageous oct. And i quickly caught flat that we have not seen the full. There will be many who say this north Korean Missile launch is all about politics is north korea. And thats probably right. So much consolation if you live here on the need for. This was an extremely aggressive act like kills yang. Sends a very disturbing message. People here in japan. Six and now hes tokyo with your great weapons he can hit. Okinawa with Nuclear Weapons you know if you dont wanna keep this game of escalation. We might wanna sit down and talk to the fat folk into the cab. But right now talking is the last thing on anyones mind here. Today south korea said f. Fifteen fighter jets to bomb targets just south of the demilitarized zone. American heavy bombers could follow next. Each side now feels compelled to flex its military might. And so the spiral of tension is wound up yet again. Rupert winfield hays bbc news in tokyo. Watching bbc world news america still to come on tonights program houston is already overwhelmed by flood waters but the worst may not be over the storm is not set to make land fall for a third time. Thats a new video game coaching today but it actually more of an experiment scientists are using it to study dementia by measuring navigation skills which one of the early as things to decline in people with the disease. While you play anonymous data will be collected and later assessed by neuroscientists james gallicus reports. Pets and sir of virtual worlds. You now captain of a bugs your chance. The usual sense of direction charts a course through complex waterways and icy oceans. And even feed hot dog loving sea monsters. But this is not only a game. Its collecting anonymous they too will you play. As part of the biggest dementia experiments in the world. This doesnt feel like medical research its. Farm. But one of the first things to go with dementia is our ability to navigate and thats we contest in Virtual Reality. The first version of this game was a Smartphone App that had three million players. And gave unprecedented insight into how a sense of direction declines as we age. But making the leap into Virtual Reality will allow scientists to study dementia in even greater detail some filing for us is the crisis much which i just. We capturing. Fifteen times more data from the video version. Because were separating out where the head looks and when the bites me. Not. Researchers hope that spotting unusual declines in navigation ability could eventually be used to test for dementia at its early stage. What we really want to be doing is trying to identify people with dementia ten to fifteen years and have them we do at the moment with our classic ways of diagnosing it . This Technology Still has a long way to go. Breeze only find diagnosing dementia early that theres any hope of preventing the irreversible damage to the brain. James gallaher bb scenes. And a brief up about some of the other news around the world in the man suspected of belonging to a far right group that rejects the existence of modern germany. Has denied murdering of policemen during a raid on his home last year. The man identified only as Wolfgang Pete is being tried in nuremberg he shot the officer through his front door during an Early Morning operation in october. Which was carried out to confiscate illegally held weapons. China says its looking into the case of a chinese ship detained in ecuador over Illegal Fishing in the galapagos marine reserve. Twenty crew members have been sentenced to prison terms of up to four years. A Chinese Foreign ministry specs. Now the countdown has started towards the end of the Cassini Mission to saturn. After spending two decades in space the croft is not performed its lowest orbit before its destroyed next month. Scientists say the hoping this final phase of closeup expiration will solve some long standing mysteries. Of science correspondent rebecca rebel morale has more. Instantly recognizable sefton and its spectacular ratings. The cassini spacecraft revealed this planet in incredible detail. And these are some of its latest close up images. Permits hexagonal north pole to its ring system and even an aurora. But this mission is very nearly six and. Cassinis being in space for twenty years. It set out to prove spotted putting someone of suttons means and discovered colossal storms but now its running out of fuel. Its final days though it will be crucial. Weve learned so much but in that process we will say race many new questions. One of the things that we still dont understand about so in a simply how long it study lost. Over the last few months cassinis been exploring every ten when no spacecraft has been before. Sweeping between saturn and its rings and in its final days it will get closer still giving us out bastet the view of the planets. Revealing its atmosphere what lies beneath his thick clouds. But these low stipes could also show us both hidden within its rings including a mysterious subject nicknamed petty. We noticed this smudge right to the edge of the airing the blurry spec was spotted by coal murray in twenty thirty inches on his mother in law peggys birthday. And the name stuc. To the board of dust more than a mile wide its either a moon being pulled over one in its death throes september and this is his last chance to find out. We need to understand. What . Object peggy really is. And weve only got. Literally not a matter of days our last look of peggy. Will be on september fourteenth. And i come with to see those images. Times running out for the spacecraft will go out with a bang. Its lost money that will be a death dive into simpsons atmosphere bringing this Blockbuster Mission to a close. Her back her health bc knees. Okay when its returned to our top story now the devastating flooding in texas which was destroyed entire communities. For more on what lies ahead we can cross again to the b. B. C. s earlier trevally and in la grange. Laura those a disturbing reports that harvey could make land for again. Can the system coke can the people cope if it does how bad could this get. Well jane whats happening now is that as its been lingering out there in the gulf of mexico Tropical Storm hobby has gained strength its now. Packing winds of fifty miles in that now well thats nothing like what it was when it was a hurricane. Its still alarming it is expected now to make landfall as early as tonight in louisiana so. Thats to the east of texas but obviously in its wake you would bring more flooding more rain full. To the low lying areas of texas like houston which have already been so badly affected and the National Weather service is that he predicted that they could be as much as a. Foot of rain. Affording on parts of texas and louisiana by the end of friday so that would be significant when you think weve already got. Historic levels of rifle so another record will be shattered between now and friday night but. Yeah some interesting news about the track is that it does then sort of instead of going along the coast of louisiana as it had previously been full cost now its going in the land. Early act so that would be a good thing for those hard hit Coastal Community sees. At least jam but we still have. Epic flooding to come head in texas lower trevelyan in la grange for us thank you very much indeed of course laura will be bringing us full updatesn your lifestyle. So you can swipe your way. To the news of the day. And stay up to date with the latest headlines you can trust. Download now from selected apps does. Funding of this presentation is made possible by. The freemen foundation. And coal Fuller Foundation pursuing solutions for americas neglected me. Planning a vacation escape thats relaxing inviting. And exciting. Is a lot easier than you think. You can find it here in aruba. Families couples and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm sunny days cooling trade. 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