There. Leaving homes with 3 feet of water in tell. Back in kingwood, camille confirmed what he have all seen. The worst just, thats what it is saying. Hold on. I mean, we lost everything. The rescues went on nearly ten hours today. The people we talked to said, folks are still at the apartment complex. People on the third floor who have said, were going to ride it out. But norah everyone who wanted out has been rescued. David begnaud. Thank you so much. Even with evacuation shelters overcrowded and illequipped today President Trump defended federal and texas Emergency Management officials during a visit to the storm zone. Here is jamie yuccas. In corpus christi, President Donald Trump was optimistic about the response to Hurricane Harvey. We are going to got you back and operating immediately. It is epic what happened. You know what it happened in texas. Texas can handle anything. As he was leaving a local firehouse, he waved a texas flag that had been plucked the crowd. He held up my
Long and nobodys ever seen this much water. Historic, after what happened, but it happened in texas and texas can handle anything. Trade to residents in the houston area but they welcomed flight. The sun finally rising go viral. Harvey continues to have an impact on the energy area. Reuters reporting the largest refinery in the United States shutting down due to the storm. This disruption could have a major toll on gasoline prices as they head to the holiday weekend. Right now one fifth of all u. S. Refining capacity is shut down and gasoline prices already a. Gasoline prices of 20 cents a gallon continued to rise. Features in the stock market are showing gains across the board on the dow futures after a nice reversal of the market yesterday. Blue chip of about 57 points in trading tuesday. The psyche of reading a secondquarter domestic product, our biggest reading on the economy divided it to the event eastern time could expect them to. 7 growth. Investors eyeing President Trump on ta
Problems in southeast texas. Early this morning there were at least two explosions at a flooded Chemical Plant in crosby, texas. Several people are being treated after inhaling fumes near the plant. The immediate area around that facility has been evacuated. At least 32,000 people have packed into shelters, most of them in the houston area. The death toll now tops 30, but that number is expected to rise. This morning, firefighters will begin going door to door searching for victims. And at this hour new mandatory evacuations have also been issued near an aging reservoir. The water level in the 79yearold Barker Reservoir is rising. There are now fears that it may collapse. Abcs maggie rulli continues our live coverage from houston. Maggie, good morning. Reporter diane and kendis, good morning. Harvey is now moving inland as that tropical depression where its expected to drop another 8 inches of rain on top of tennessee and kentucky, and while its no longer raining here in texas, unfortu
The devastation from the largest rainstorm to hit the United States is growing. More than 38 people have died. We will go to houston and port arthur texasas for the latest. We will speak with george about the crucial questions hurricane is not being asked about. Another suspect in the brutal beating of Deandre Harris. He has been arrested. Why has it taken so long when the beating was caught on film . We will speak with the reporter who interviewed deandre. There was all of this chaos going around. I felt myself getting hit. Every time i got up, i lost consciousness and fell. And tooks picked me up me over ththere so i can g get. Amamy all that and more, comimg up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, Tropical Storm harvey made a seconond landfall wednesy near the border with louisiana, bringing more rain and catastrophic flooding to the gulf coast as the death toll from the unprecedented storm rose to at least 38. On thursday
From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran