Are trying to determine how much damage there is and whether any civilians were left behind. The processls say could take as long as two weeks. Congress may vote as early as next week on a multibilliondollar aid package for houston. Thats according to the white house, which says emergency requests to replenish tricking reserves will be addressed in the next few days. Government reserves are running low with a political debate looming. Congress may have to act sooner governmentshe Borrowing Authority to cover the unexpected and additional costs of harvey. Aasts overnight at Chemical Plant near houston. Is the epicenter of the u. S. Chemical sector. Dozens of plants in the path of , knockingshut down out half of u. S. Production for some of the most frequently used chemicals and plastics. It may take weeks before damages our properly assessed and operations restarted. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im mark crumpt
Blake burman is at the white house and our Political Panel is ready to react. And finally, the sun breaks out in texas today, the Harvey Recovery efforts picking up the pace. The storm reduced to tropical depression but moving to the middle of the nation as the death toll stands at 31 and growing. Were going to talk to retired Navy Captain Chuck Nash to compare and contrast that but right now lets go to the white house and the press secretary. Questions related to hurricane harvey, and as you all know the president was in Corpus Christi and austin earlier this week and today at the president s direction, the Vice President , mrs. Pence and five cabinet secretaries are back in texas meeting with local officials and storm survivors and thanking many of the First Responders and other volunteers. The president s team here working around the clock to support state and local authorities following the storm, and now want to bring up tom bossert, the president s Homeland Security adviser to pr
Lets kick off with first word news, with mark crumpton. Mark an encouraging sign for texas, as it struggles to return to normalcy. Hasus christi ship channel reopened, after being shut down nearly a week. Port Officials Say the reopening is a step toward resuming operations at seven refineries, and transporting that fuels to market. The channel was closed when harvey slammed into Corpus Christi last week. Are inan 1500 people louisiana, and officials expect that number to rise as more people are a black evacuated from flooded communities. 1000 people were flown to dallas from a shelter in beaumont, where residents have no drinking trump will visit texas for the second time on saturday. Officials in houston expect most of the floodwaters to receive by late today, or early tomorrow. Gone, theater is rebuilding can start. And of this an estimated 136,000 structures were flooded in harris county. Up 10 sinceces are a gallon after the nations largest refineries shut down due to flooding fro
Down the street getting ready to leave his home and he told me he was packing like he wasnt going to come back for a long, long time. For the folks there obviously scrambling to get out of harms way do you know where theyre evacuating to . A live look now at the dark sky over florida. Again the storm is toward reporter a lot of people are leaving the state entirely, but that is not an option for a lot of folks. So the first step is to get away from the coast, get away from where we are and to go somewhere inland. Others are making their way up to Central Florida and orlando and those parts, but that could be in the path of the storm as well, so thats not necessarily a safe place either, a tough choice. Kenneth, thank you. Lets take a live look now at, well, the sunset in florida. Again the storm clouds are gathering there. It is tracking toward the southern part of the state. Where it could slam miami this weekend with a life threatening storm surge and major wind. Hurricane irma batte
Democrats call 202 7488000. Republicans call 202 7488001. Independents and others 202 7488002. We welcome your comments on our Facebook Page and will look for your tweets as well. Just a quick note on the hurricane, we are expecting a briefing sometime in the half fema and0 or so, from will take you to that when it comes up. We will talk to a florida congressman within the hour. Were talking about the president s deal with democrats. The storm this morning downgraded to category four, churning through the caribbean on its way to florida. The news about the hurricane making the front page of newspapers across the country. As is the deal that has been reached with Congressional Democrats and President Trump. The headline this morning from the Washington Times, bipartisan deal seen as a new era for President Trump. President trump wons first bipartisan legislative victory thursday as the debt spending deal approved. Democratic leaders, he writes, vowed to resist the president , now they c