be impacted by the addicks reservoir failure and 670 homes for the barker. and they re saying levels at the addicks reservoirs, homes may experiencing 4.5 to 5 feet of water, and at the barker reservoir, anywhere up to 4 feet of water, so you certainly can t live in that. so that s why we re having all those rescues. we have actually broken the all-time record rainfall in texas. we smashed it, basically. i mean it s the old record was 48 inches, 49.32. so this is the new number now, and again, this number may go up just a little bit, so we may hit that 50-inch mark that we have been forecasting here for the last couple of days, you had asked what the situation is in houston, the rain is still are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? coming down, but definitely not try zyrtec® in the torrents that it was it s starts working hard at hour one coming down last night. and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day.
49.32 inches of rain, the president has landed in air force one. the president and melania trump, d boarded the plane, they are on their way for a briefing with local authorities on the situation currently happening down there. the president was very careful to say he does not want to get in the way of any recovery efforts happening there. abby, you heard from the mayor at the top of the hour telling houstonians staff the street. that is still the primary message as these rescue efforts are underway. abby: where watching this live in the moment of that rescue. i thing of the top of this hour, the truck will be completely underwater. here is made a point that the water is not a safe place to be because you don t know what s crawling around in those waters. alligators, you name it. the president is now in corpus christi where she remember saturday morning, that is where the heart of the storm hit. they may not be experiencing the flooding that houston is, but they re going back to thei
thousand. abby: now they re just taking walk-ins because you get 70 people in there. what s so hardworking about that, these convention centers, the only place people can go to get food and water. sandra: went to bring in janice dean, speaking of which. janice dean, as we bring you in, that level could to be breached, 49.2 inches has fallen. 49.32 at mary s creek and that surpasses, ed is now the wettest texas tropical system of all time. if we get past a 53, that will surpass 1950s hurricane out in hawaii and i think you re going to do it. i ve seen unofficial totals of over 52 inches of rain. historic rainfall, devastating, catastrophic, you name it. i have to say, the national
hour. would 15 be damaging? well, the experiment has already begun. washington state already had 9.32, the highest minimum wage in the state and if you look at washington state it s got phenomenal job growth. it is seattle is one of the also the technology mecca. even after the $15 an hour it s the fastest growing city in america. so what about what is happening in los angeles? more business skrobs than any other fine but what about those trying to push the $15 an hour on hotel establishments and a lot of hotels are saying we can t afford it, we might pull out. well, what the right number is really anybody s guess. even you would say 15 seems i think 15 is what people have determined is a living wage. but do you find 15 extreme in this time right now? i don t. i personally don t. you have to see what the market can bear in different