towns, 50,000 people. 100,000 people even more affected it s not that they weren t prepared for it. they didn t know the path would head in their direction and it would stay that long. ainsley: also when katrina hit louisiana or new orleans in that area is a lot smaller than houston. it would make sense that money would go toward houston. it s the fourth largest city in the country. brian: louisiana is going to get hit too. that levee had breaches. some of the other networks saying why is the president talking about tax reform it s insensitive. if you watch the speech. he started the speech talking about the people of texas and the individual things and inspiring rescues and yesterday he tweeted out, too. we are with you today. we are with you tomorrow. and we will be with you every single day to restore, recover, and rebuild. you talk about a positive use of twitter. he is con standly say saying i m there. constantly calling. vice president today. he comes on saturday. as he gets clos
federalism the belief at the state level you can protect and have your sovereignty. texans live free. and they get mocked by people for doing so. ainsley: one person wrote they obviously don t know texas and texans. it s sad. obviously this person has never been to texas or doesn t understand the culture there, doesn t understand what christians believe and that s sad. brian: meanwhile, here is what the cartoonist said i try to get people to think of the ironies and subtleties. example of antigovernment type, texas successionists benefiting from the heroism of federal government rescuers. carl rove of austin took this personal like you did. listen. well, it says that this guy a moronic liberal. is he confusing a belief in limited government with a belief in no government. i would remind him that texans pay more in income taxes to support our federal government than the people of any other state except one. we enlist in the military at
set to rise to 59 feet by friday. ainsley: one couple wrote about their experience having to evacuated with five young children saying we tried to stay as calm as possible to try not to scar them for life. we have to evacuate we told them. could you imagine being at that age and having to pick up what you wanted to take with you. the bear minimum, basically. justin asked us daddy, are we going to lose everything? joining us now is jeremy johnson and his wife audrey. and they are currently sheltering near dallas with their five children. good mornings to both of you. good morning. good morning. ainsley: jeremy, i will start with you. what happened on monday? well, we live in fort bend county where you were just reporting and our family, along with 130,000 other families that live within the levee districts were given mandatory evacuation notice in the wee hours of the morning monday morning. if you can imagine, ainsley, we went from sheltering in place to you have to leave. for th
brian: all right. this is a fox news alert now. and here s the story that we are breaking in to tell you about. we have officials now updating us on the latest on harvey from the fema center. ainsley: let s listen in. neighbor helping neighbor. we had tremendous amount of people stepping up and volunteering with our partners at the red cross and the salvation army. we have had generous offers of people coming in like the southern baptist. southern religious groups coming in and providing feeding kitchens and meals. let me be clear this mission is going to continue for multiple weeks. understanding that it takes time to mobilize people to the transitional shelter assistance program to hotels, we re going to be asking for volunteers to specifically look at the shelter mission. particularly if you have you know, particularly volunteers that have shelter management experience. we would ask to you concentrate there. we re also pushing forward commodity distribution. we are burning we
a much higher rate than the national average. we have the third highest number of people serving in the military on our state alone. we are 40% smaller than the population of california yet we got only 800 fewer national guardsmen because texans are so patriotic to serve in their country. the idea we are represented by somebody who wants to secede is an idiotic comment. it was done for political and ideological purposes. ainsley: send us your comments. pete: foxnews.com. brian: do it now. it s been four months since robert mueller was appointed to investigate the trump campaign russian connection. pete: congressman ron desantas on deck. ainsley: we continue to monitor the news out of texas because of all this flooding.