Firing of a missile over japan, the u. N. Now condemning this latest test but isnt taking any action. Good morning, everyone, its august 29th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin along id Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Harvey will make landfall once again as some towns on the edge have measured 50 inches of rain. With the president s and first ladys visit yesterday, the situation became more dire for many in the city and across south texas. In all, there have been nearly 19,000 Water Rescues across south texas as of last night. The death toll has climbed once more, now to nine. But images are circulating across social media. Along those killed, Houston Police officer Sergeant Steve perez. The chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived
media asking for help, asking for help in their elderly parents or people who live there. There is one house i was able to find the address for. This is a house in beaumont. A street map before the storm. There are people as of an hour ago on the roof of this house asking for help. Asking for a boat to come get them in the beaumont, texas area. Just to give you perspective of how high the water is there in some of the locations. Im going to show you on the radar here. This is the center of the storm. Just made landfall. Final landfall, heading up to lake charles. On the city of orange, on the border of texas and louisiana. This thunderstorm has sat here. Probably about five to eight inches of rainfall in the last two hours recently. Heres the beaumont area. I want to show you the rainfall totals, these are stagger. In three hours last night, they picked up six inches. In six hours they picked up 11 inches of rain. This is on top of the rain they already had. 24hour rainfall total. 26 inches of rain, two feet of
im upstream from the Addicks Reservoir, the addicks and barker are built and designed to keep Downtown Houston from flooding. This is what it looks like if theyre working. You can imagine the reservoirs have been taking in tons of water. Theyre designed to fill up and be discharged into the Buffalo Bayou and out to the gulf. But the rate of rain over the last couple of days has just been far more than the reservoirs can handle. Theyve been overflowing up in the neighborhoods around highway 6 where im standing right now. Up and through western houston, leaving neighborhoods with water waist deep or higher. Were waiting to get into one of these neighborhoods this morning when it gets lighter and safer. The plan is to discharge water out through the reservoirs out through the dams which are getting spilled over. Which they dont want to see suffer any sort of catastrophic failure. Theyre discharging this water out just as fast as they can. And you cant really see it here in this light. But you can feel the water flowing past me as its going down through the reservoirs and hopefully out through the gulf. Its something that the Army Corps Of Engineers and others here in houston are going to be watching. Garrett haake, thank you. Lets turn to the center in houston opening as a massive shelter. Julia bagg is with us. Officials saying the Conference Center could hold up to 10,000 people. A lot of people now funneling in through there. Reporter thats exactly whats happening, yasmin. Just in the past few minutes four bus loads of people rolled up, bringing the total to about 900 people here now. To give you an idea how fast they got things up to speed. They started out five hours with 30 volunteers. Theyre now up to 500 volunteers. People like andrew nichols. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you. Reporter youve been on the assembly line. Tell us what youve been doing in the past eight hours or so . The coulds, as you can see, weve been putting cots up all day. Since 10 00, last night. Until 10 00 in the morning. Basically putting up cots putting blankets on them, sheets, this type of stuff getting ready for the folks when they come in. Reporter you saw the buses come in the last few minutes. What is it like seeing the folks coming in, how are they . Its heartbreaking. Its heartbreaking. Theyre displaced. I went through that with alison, ive been there. Its tough. Well be all right. Houston is going to take care of it, trust me. Reporter andrew nick kolgs, thank you for joining us this morning. Sure appreciate your work. 10,000 people can be housed here. This is supposed to brink some relief to the george r. Brown Convention Center which has been Holding People far over capacity. So this is a much bigger setup to receive, as you mentioned, up
to 10,000 people. Yasmin and ayman. Good to hear theres more housing for people there in the time of crisis. Especially thanks to the volunteers as well. Julia bagg, thank you so much. And best buy is responding to reports of Price Gouging just as harvey was about to make landfall in texas. It happened after this photo went viral showing the store showing a 12pack of smart water for almost 30 bucks. And a 24pack of da sanni for 43. Best buy has since apologized calling it a big mistake on the part of employees at this particular location. They priced the case based on the price of a single bolt. Its focused on helping not hurting those affected by the storm meanwhile, weve seen so many incredible displays of neighbors coming to each others aid. Sheer acts of kindness and charity. A Donation Center filled with clothing, bedding, toys and
toiletries. Despite days of rain, the sun broke, if if forth a brief moment last night in houston. Here it is setting over the city, Still Immersioned deep in floodwater. President trump once again expected to tral to texas this saturday after making two stops in the Lone Star State yesterday. The president and first lady visited Corpus Christi for an update on efforts as they arrived in austin. During his stop, President Trump thanked officials for his response and promised federal aid. Were going to be working with congress in helping out the state of texas. Its going to be a crossing proposition. Because, again, probably ted cruz is here. Senator thank you very much, senator cornyn. And well be working with these characters over here. I think well come through in really you know, with the right solution. But probably theres never been anything so expensive in our countrys history. Theres never been anything so
historic in terms of damage. Before that, outside of the firehouse in Corpus Christi, the president waved a texas flag and addressed a crowd of people who have gathered. Thank you, everybody. I just want to say we love you. You are special. Were here to take care. Its going well. And i want to thank you for coming out. Were going to get you back and operating immediately. Thank you, everybody. What a crowd. What a turnout. After those remarks, morning news read reporters heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced texans and no expression of sympathy for them. A message that texans will be okay. President trump is expected to 1350ek at a Springfield Manufacturing Company that makes ventilation equipment. And the white house says the event will be closed to the general public. Course to politico, the speech was written by white house
adviser steven miller. Will, quote, try out new phases for selling the policy like jumpstart america and win again. Gary cohn tells the Financial Times that Key Administration republicans have come up with a framework for reform and that details still need to be hammered out. Were told that framework includes raising the standard deduction cap, eliminating the Corporate Tax rate. And estate tax. And defense secretary jim mattis is once again breaking with President Trump after announcing that transgender troops will be allowed to continue serving in the military pending results of the study. Secretary mattis issued that order last night saying hes freezing implementation of the president s ban on Transgender Service members. On friday evening as Hurricane Harvey headed for texas, the white house announcing that it was moving forward with
President Trumps stand. In a statement, he says, quote, our focus must always be on what is best for the military combat effectiveness leading to victory on the battlefields. Up next, more including pets displaced by the flooding. And the megachurch joel oste osteen, after reports for shelter. When we come back. So find a venus smooth that contours to curves, the smoother the skin, the more comfortable you are in it. Flexes for comfort, and has a disposable made for you. Skin smoothing venus razors. Take a look at this baby deer. You could hear the baby deer crying as a Good Samaritan carries it safely across water. 100 dogs are now looking for homes. The dogs released just before harvey hit. They arrived at new jerseys morriston yesterday. Will soon be transferred to a dozen shelters across the east. A federal judge has thrown out sarah palins defamation lawsuit. Palin sued the New York Times had in the deadly arizona shooting that left congresswoman gabby give nordz critically injured. The editorial published the same day as a congressional Baseball Practice suggested the man who carried out the Arizona Rampage with an ad that placed cross hairs over leaders including
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southern methodists southern universitys Football Practice and offered words of support for the houston area. I know youre going through a really tough time. And just know there are a lot of people that are going to help you. If youre from that area, youd be amazed at the people that come down there to help. All kinds of people. And so, the days are dark now, but theyre going to get better. Houston texans Defensive End j. J. Watts Online Relief Fund for Hurricane Harvey victims has now eclipsed 5 million. Thats right, after quickly surpassing the initial goal of 200,000. The donations continue to grow with the help of some big contributions like the 1 million donated by Tennessee Titans owner amy adams strunk. Really incredible. And Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander said he will more than
double his 4 million donation for hurricane relief, upping his donation to a whopping 10 million. Lets go to u. S. Open tennis on Arthur Ashe Stadium where defending Champ Angelique Kerber has been ouflted after one loss to japans naomi osaka. The sixth seeded kerber is just one of the champions in the open era to be eliminated in the first round of the u. S. Open. And eye record flight for boston, chris sale, who is now the fastest pitcher in history to reach 1500 strikeouts. It look the lefthander less than 1300 innings to reach that mark. Trying 11 batters, and 11 scoreless innings on the red sox 30 victory in toronto last night. And in the nations capital, marlins slugger giancarlo stanton, 51st Home Run of the season. A shot out to the seats in left field. Stanton makes the mark for
homers hit in august with 18. But his heavy bat wasnt enough to pass the nationals who beat the marlins last night 83. Thanks. We want to go back to that story weve been covering throughout the night and that is the National Hurricane center has an update on Tropical Storm harvey which has now made its second landfall west of cameron, louisiana. Lets bring in bill karins. What more have we learned about this statement from the National Weather service. Well, the storm made landfall. That, we expected. Its going to move on shore. Thats not an issue. Ive got to show you these pictures. We just cleared these pictures. Its happening right now in port aurth thur, texas, south of beaumont. This here is the Evacuation Center. This is one to two feet of water in the sink center. Notice where the people are, nobody is on the cots, everybody is up here on the bleachers. All of these people are waiting to be rescued. The water is one to two feet in
the sink center. Weve got a couple images here. Some of the people decided they didnt care, theyre on the cots sleeping in about a foot of water. This is happening now until port arthur because of tremendous amounts of rain. Now, weve got video that we want to show you, theres in the sink center. People had to evacuate their homes, maybe under mandatory evacuatio evacuations, maybe they decided to be safe. Port arthur civic center. I have reports theyre using dump trucks to evacuate those people. It was told that the new shelter doesnt have any resources. They dont have any cots. They dont have any food there. But at least its dry. And thats the situation theyre dealing with in port arthur. If you go on social media, there are many people asking for rescues. There are people on rooftops. Elderly people, people waiting two or three hours. Remember we had the pictures your cajun navy, next door neighbors, people with boats going into louisiana to help out. They actually tholsd people dont come in. The water is too swift. Theyve had a number of bolts within the beaumont port arthur area that have tipped over. Theyre actually stopping the cajun navy from going into that region. Theyre saying just coast guard and what you would call the experts that have done this for a living because they dont want to have to rescue more people. And also the lack of electricity. Saying dont go in. We love that you want to help, but its actually causing more harm. Imagine getting to a place that you think is dry and safe and having to evacuate. Im sure people are think doing we keep people in port aurth thr arthur or bring them out . They say theyre going to get there. Theyre waiting for daybreak to
get out there to try to get to the people most in need first. Bill karins, thanks for that update. Still ahead, much more on the devastating floods in texas. Well hear from the volunteers pitching in. Plus United Nations condemning north koreas Missile Launch over japan. But whats being done about it . Were going to get a live report, coming up. Wow nice outfit. When i grow up, im going to mars. Were working on that. Some people know how far they want to go. A personalized Financial Strategy can help you get them there. See how access to j. P. Morgan Investment Expertise can help you. Chase. Make more of whats yours. To j. P. Morgan Investment Expertise can help you. Take the zantac it challenge pill works fast . Zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. Nexium can take 24 hours. When heartburn strikes, take zantac for faster relief than nexium or your money back. Take the zantac it challenge. Youre more than just a bathroom disease. Youre a life of unpredictable symptoms. Crohns, youve tried to own us. But now its our turn to take control with stelara® stelara® works differently for adults with moderately to severely active crohns disease. Studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. Stelara® may lower the ability of your Immune System to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. Some serious infections require hospitalization. Before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. Before or during treatment, always tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have flulike symptoms or sores, have had cancer, or develop any new skin growths, or if anyone in your house needs or recently had a vaccine. Alert your doctor of new or worsening problems, including headaches, seizures,
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historic. Its epic, what happened. But, you know what, it happened in texas. And texas can handle anything. Thank you all, folks. Thank you. Thank you. More shelters are opening, the houston Convention Center took in 9,000 people when it planned to take in half of that. The nrg center has opened last night. Some of the infrastructure is coming back line. The airport expected to reopen today. And Bush Enter Continental Opening thursday. Joining us from galveston, nbcs Sarah Dal Joseph off is there. Youre saying demands for shelters are increasing. Reporter thats exactly right. When one goes down another comes up. A Light Rain Falling here in galveston. But its nothing compared to yesterday where they received more than eight inches, eight inches of rain. Now, theyre working to get some
of the people who need shelter to dallas right now, where theyve opened a mega Convention Center that can take 5,000 people. Working on that right now. And the airports beginning to reopen there certainly help in that. Meanwhile, historic galveston remains flooded. Remains shut down. Public transit down. But sometimes, things are kind of conventional. I hesitate the word back to normal because were still a long way off from that. City offices in galveston will reopen today and is a baby step here. The port of galveston, remains closed. Youll remember there were some ships, cruise ships out to sea waiting it out. Theyre still there. They briefly sat in new orleans to give people the chance to get off. They kol fly themselves home. Make their own arrangements to do that. Some people opted to stay on. Still waiting to get home to dry
land. In galveston, texas, thank you. Lets get back to houston where nbc reporter julia bagg is standing by at the nrg center. Julia, youve been with us the past couple days as weve been having special coverage of Hurricane Harvey. Youve been at the shelters as well. Hour the evacuees faring at the nrg center considering that it just opened late last night . Reporter thats right, things up and running in a hurry here. Just in the last 5 1 2 hours or so, they went from zero to 900 evacuees here in the shelter right now. This, a much bigger center than that Convention Center in Downtown Houston, able to hold up to 10,000. Able to accommodate people much more comfortably now. We can tell you that that they as a resulted off with 30 volunteers 5 1 2 hours ago. They now have more than 700 volunteers, people coming in from all around houston. I just talked to a man who
suffers from copd who had to be rescued with his dog. The good news this is a place that will take you with your pets and that man told us what he went through. I sat it out, and i took the trip late. And they came and got me and my dog. We came over here. We saw on the news this was open. Because they say george brown, it was full. We came over here. Theyve been the nicist kind over here. And they take care of my pet. This is my baby boy. Theyve been very nice. I mean. You cant expect more than anything. Hopefully, theyre saying its clearing up now. Im sure i lost everything, b but reporter and volunteers have been assembling beds. Theyve been handing out meals. They tell me most people when they get here, they just want to go to sleep. Theyre expecting many more evacuees to continue arriving here in the next several hours. Back to you, ayman. Im glad to see that he was able to bring his pet into the Evacuation Center. I think that can be sort of a comfort for people when theyve lost everything else. Absolutely. Julia bagg for us. And the houston megachurch pastor joel osteen said its officially open for those needing shelter. He tweeted this after 5 00 a. M. Yesterday after coming under intense criticism accusing osteen for opening its doors to residents in need. He said the church was never closed. We were waiting for the right time. Really, lakewood is always open. We didnt necessarily have zaf here. Lakewood has been a part of this community for 60 years and any thought that were going to turn people away is so ironic and so wrong. The church is the former home
of the Houston Rockets and seats almost 17,000 people. He said the plan was to always use the church as a shelter. Lakewood is also being used as a Distribution Center for those wanting to drop off donations. And it has seen a giant influx of donated items. To get a deeper sense of what its like on the ground. I want to read a little bit from matt pierce, a Los Angeles Times report who wrote his account of driving through texas. He writes its hard to explain the stupefying effect of harvey. Unless you radio try to drive through. The rain falls all kinds of ways. But the one thing it absolutely doesnt ever do is stop. It rains in the morning, it rains in the afternoon, it rains in the evening, it rains at night. The rain is less at atmospheric condition at this point than a kind of state of being, like morning that cant be forgotten
unless youre asleep. Its clear that the water once it hits the ground has only One Direction to go. Up over the creek beds, up over the levees. Up over the roads. Up into your shoes. Up into your house. Up into your life. Driving down the road in the dark, its impossible to tell whether the traffic coming the other way is coming from somewhere else. Or, if they, too, have turned back. Deep down, you know it, too. Water ahead. It looms in the darkness all around. Creeping up in the fields and heading your way. Again, thats matt pierce, you can read the whole article on the l. A. Times. Lets turn to politics where donald trump jr. And the Senate Judiciary committee have agreed on a date for the president s eldest son to testify privately as they continue to look into russian interference into the election. It will likely take place in the next few weeks. It was initially supposed to
take place in july. Instead, negotiated to have it take place behind closed door. Hes expected to be questioned intensively about the kremlin meeting meeting during his fathers president ial Campaign Last june. And turning to north korea which is signaling more Missile Launches may be on the way over japanese airspace. Pyongyang said the launch was, quote, the first step of Military Operations in the pacific. North korean state tv released new images the missiles launch. Meanwhile, in an emergency meeting the United NationsSecurity Council condemned their actions. Nikki haley issued a new warning to pyongyang. It is time for the north korean regime to recognize the danger they are putting themselves in. The United States will not allow their lawlessness to continue. And the rest of the world is with us. Joining us now from seoul, south korea, nbc correspondent ron allen. Ron, glad to have you with us. North korea now alluding to more Missile Launches. What options do you think the u. S. Realistic and other world powers have in curbing these actions. We know that the Security Council a couple weeks ago obviously did not deter them from this launch. Reporter right, and President Trump has said that all options are on the table, one analyst in the region believe that the options are somewhat limited in scope and should point the negotiations dialogue with the north. The exercise that so angered the north are set to wrap up tomorrow and the u. S. Will maintain a huge Military Presence here in south korea and in japan as a deterrent. You noted that the Security Council passed another strong statement of condemnation against the north. But the north tends to shrug those off. Its feeling quite bold and obviously has a lot of capability, releasing those pictures you just showed of the missile that was launched that
flew over zwrap pan, that huge projectile. Some 50 feet tall and 500 meet in diameter flew 750 feet. And clearly capable of reaching that far. There was no talk of sanctions, but that could come. But, remember, as you pointed out, the last round of sanctions was just passed earlier this month. Its the eighth round of sanctions in the past 11 years and the north is still firing off missiles. Looking ahead, the south koreans have warned that the north plans to conduct an underground nuclear test. We may learn very soon what mr. Trump means when he says all options are on the table. Back to you. Ron allen, live for us in seoul, south korea. And you may remember president touch said that the u. S. Does not have a lot of good options and have lost the struggle with
north korea. Officials have been indicted by the american grand jury for their roles in a violent bra at embassy row back in may. 16 defendants were previously charged back in june and the additional three are all turkish officials. The incident occurred when Everything Dough want met with the president at the white house. This video shows erdogan looking on from his car outside the Turkish Embassy while calmly walking inside while the fights were still ongoing. The Foreign Ministry called the fights wrong and baseless. President trump has not yet addressed the incident. Still ahead, everybody, were going to go back to texas for the very latest in the aftermath of harvey as it turns to Overturning Dams and levees. Were going to get a live report from houston. Plus, bill karins is back with us. Hes going to have a live report on where the storm may be
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neighborhoods as the water is on its way out to the gulf coast. But they also have to relief some of the pressure. Obviously if either of those two dams were to fail that would make this a huge catastrophe beyond what its been. Thats not an imminent threat at this point so the corps is just trying to manage the drainage out of these neighborhoods that are still flooded up to chestdeep levels. Weve had some Rescue Workers coming by, some volunteers resuming the search this morning to make muir everybody gets out of here today. At least for now, it doesnt look like were getting anymore more up here today. No Rain Forecast for this part, ayman. Garrett haake live in houston. Thank you. Lets get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, were talking about a dire situation happening in port arthur, texas, where you have people literally fighting for their lives in a shelter two or three feet under water. Were trying to figure out
how widespread this is, is it isolated to port oarthur, but te mayor has come out and saying that the levee has not breached. They have huge sandbags saying that the levee has not breached. Were waiting for daybreak to see how bad it is. Heres why we have all of these issues, beaumont, texas, this is at the airport, in between beaumont and port arthur, in six hours they had 11 inches of rain. Thats equivalent to what houston had Saturday Night into sunday, everybody woke up, what happened. Thats what happened in the beaumont area. 24hour unimaginable rainfall total of 26 inches of rain. Thats one of the highest weve ever had recorded in our entire country in one calendar day. 24 inches in a day. The rainfall moved northward. Heres beaumont, still raining. Port arthur is located here not raining quite as hard there. Is this is going to exit and head out during the day. We do have saturated ground. We do have flash floods throughout the region. This is the flash flood emergencies where people are being rescued as we speak. And we could still get additional areas of concern. Will it be as bad as beaumont and port arthur, likely not. We still could get five to seven inches today. Up in The Hill Country in Western Tennessee were predicting seven inches of rain. Western kentucky and western louisiana. When you get elevations like that, the water funnels. Well have to watch those over the next two days. Those pictures we were showing you from inside its civic center there. Thats as bad as it gets. Its hard to imagine, they go to an Evacuation Shelter and now they have to be evacuated now themselves. You can see the pictures here. I think it goes back to the
point that you were talking about how quickly the water was rising that the folks had to take shelt 34. In a matter of 24 hours it went from being a safe place somebody was asking me how many lives do i think will be lost in this. Tragic situation. Still ahead more on harvey and the impact it may have at the gas pump as we head into labor day weekend. Plus, President Trump taking his push to overhaul the tax code. Details hes looking to make. Super cool notebooks. Done. Thats mom taking care of business, but who takes care of mom . Office depot office max. Order online and pickup in store in just one hour. Taking care of business my Bladder Leakage was making me feel like i couldnt spend time with my grandson. Now depend fitflex has their fastest absorbing material inside, so it keeps me dry and protected. Go to depend. Com get a coupon and try them for yourself. They save us from getting lost, go to depend. Com
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