if congress does not raise the debt limit by the end of this month, it s going to interrupt federal agents as they try to help harvey victims. sounds like speaker ryan already gets the message. has he tweeted that he will do his part posting last night, quote: as families and communities begin long recovery from hurricane harvey, house will act quickly on potus request for emergency relief funding. to show you how truly enormous the cleanup is expected to be the white house is asking for $7.8 billion but accuweather is predicting the damages could be about $190 billion. more than katrina and sandy combined. later on this morning, president trump will meet for the first time with harvey victims. air force one is set to land here in texas in about four hours. we do expect him to be in the houston area before making a stop in lake charles, louisiana on his way home. and this second visit comes as the national weather service warns that part of the houston area are going to have high wate
moments is a lot of what you look for. come down here don t sugar coat it shoot straight with me about what you re seeing and tell me how we can get it done outside of political ideology you aren t republicans or democrats this will cost us money but let s be smart and efficient and make sure the dollars are spent wise ly. a lot of people saying this is 160 to $190 billion storm. why are we only spending 8 billion upfront? a great explanation. start with what you need in emergency sense, see how well its spent how it works where you need more and appropriate more as is necessary. those are the types of business approaches that the president has tried to take. clayton: we had earlier on the show general semini, whose in charge of the army corps of engineers in charge of the reservoirs down there and he said look we re in a stage right now where i don t know how many billions of tons of debris that they now have to haul away like that s the job right now. the recovery, the rescue, gett
number could be around 4,000. a brand new fox news poll shows that 40% of registered voters now approve of sending more troops. that s up from 29% in june. the dream could be ending for thousands of illegal immigrants. plans to announce obama era deferred program. the so-called dreamers brought here i will lylely as children will reportedly be allowed to stay until work permits expire. vice president pence says the president will make final decision with, quote, a big heart. those are your headlines. brian, send it to you. brian: thanks, jillian. a texas fight to recover from the devastating effects of harvey. analysts predict the cost of damage could exceed $190 billion now. ainsley: where do the rescue and recovery efforts stand right now? here with the latest is the governor of texas greg abbot. thanks for joining us, governor. my pleasure, ainsley. thank you. ainsley: we have had your state in our prayers. have you gone through so much. what is the latest?
a week half harvey first made landfall. for others the cleanup is now just beginning. folks are returning to their homes for the first time as floodwaters begin to recede. estimates of the costs of the damage are topping $190 billion, a full 1% of the nation s entire gdp. the threat is still not over. houston s mayor issuing voluntary evacuation orders to parts of the city a short time ago. doug luzader is live where things continue to change. doug? that s right, they are changing. not for the better for the residents of some of these communities. this is the western part of houston. these homeowners, no doubt, hoped that this water would begin to recede, but they ve received disturbing news from the mayor, who says the army corps of engineers need to do
7000 completely destroyed. when you put it together according to accuweather could push $200 billion, $190 billion is the current estimate and that would exceed estimates that have come from what katrina did. as we get into the video here the national guard doing searches over beaumont, texas, eastern texas which was decimated by a lot of rain very fast as this tropical storm went ashore in the last couple days, a lot of damage there. in houston they are going through a lot of homes trying to find people who might have been inside and do a lot of recovery efforts. the death toll at 39. that could grow as they do house to house searches which continue today as houston begins the process of recovering from this terrible storm. back to you. heather: is texas struggles to recover from harvey, a new storm