The president will visit the storm zone. Hes asked about his pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio as he holds a press conference with the president of finland. Those are headlines from today, monday, august 28. We do say good morning to you, everybody. Were following breaking news. As you take a look at this radar, this is not an old image from friday, although it kind of looks like it did when we were here on friday. That is a current satellite radar and it is not a good picture. Rescuers are working into the night to reach stranded residents of the texas gulf coast. There are at least 3,000 members of the texas coast guard in the region, and they said more than half of their helicopters nationally are there, too. They expect the storm system to stay just off the coast most of today and tomorrow. Abcs lana zach is in houston right now where the threat isnt so much the wind but that terrible flooding. Good morning, lana. Reporter good morning, linda and kendace. The flooding certainly a
Thank you. Typically wed start this hour talking politics from here in washington, but not today because as so rarely has happened this year the biggest story is not named donald trump, its harvey. A second landfall may be possible this week. Dams ready to be released. 4,000 members of the National Guard mobilized. 2,000 people rescued so far. We prayed a lot and we just praised god and we were rescued. So, were very thankful. Within the last hour or so, the president approving an Emergency Declaration for louisiana as he, himself, gets ready to head to texas. We. Ron are on the ground there with the latest. Our team of reporters is on the ground including jacob rascon in houston and bill karins also with us closely following the track of this thing. I want to go first there to katy beck. We have been seeing these images for several days of the destruction. What are you seeing there on the ground . What is the expectation coming up to . Well, hallie, a lot of fear and anxiety here from
ambulatory and help with their own evacuations and get on buses and can actually move on their own or at least with some assistance. and then start getting some of the equipment and nurses and staff out, as well. right now what we know is happening is some of these hospitals are evacuating patients, bay shore medical center are evacuating in pasadena, texas, suburb of houston. a lot of the hospitals are doing perfectly fine. m.d. anderson is doing fine with outpatients and that s part of the texas medical center, as well. dr. john torres, just back from being on the ground in texas. thank you for that update. we ll be following it throughout the morning. not just the problems from harvey on houses and buildings here, but also creating some big concerns for the economy in houston. why? look at gas prices. the possibility they could spike as much as 25 cents a gallon depending on what this flooding does, according to experts.