Trump gets a briefing on the catastrophe from Emergency Managers and government officials. Inside the zone he is vowing Disaster Response better than ever before. And all options. The president responds to north koreas latest Missile Launch with a not so failed military threat, saying that all options are on the table. Cnn is the only western network reporting from pyongyang. Well take you there live. Wolf blitzer is off, im jim sciutto, and youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The catastrophic flooding in texas is worsening this hour. Water is rising in rivers, reservoirs and bayous and the rain is still coming down. South of houston, Police Warn Residents to get out now following the breach of a levee. More than four feet of rain has now fallen in parts of houston. That is the most ever recorded inside the continental u. S. Now Tropical Storm harvey has been recharging over the gulf. It is expected to make landfall once again tomorrow and could drop another 15 inches of rain.
Epic disaster, he gets criticized if you go in too soon, perhaps interfere with any kind of recovery efforts, we heard some of that, the president didnt meet with any people that were directly affected, today we have seen the president and first lady there interacting with folks who have their lives turned upside down by Hurricane Harvey. President there on the tarmac interacting also with the United States Senate Delegation representing louisiana, senators cassidy and kennedy who will be asked to approve funding for Hurricane Harvey victims in the coming days and so those personal conversations very important as the president will look for votes, one would think that recovery for Hurricane Harvey would not be controversial in any way but you never know these days the way Congress Works and so the president putting a face to face pitch if you will with the congressional delegation to louisiana to lets get relief to these folks and get them back on their feet. Quickly because its very,
The road. That is dangerous. For houston, Harris County. Harris county got a lot of rain. A lot of flooding. Combine houston and Harris County you literally cannot put 6. 5 Million People on the road. If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare. Especially when its not planned. And many of us in this city remember when the Evacuation Order was ordered before and learned our lesson from that. Has to be very well coordinated all the way from houston to the destination point. You have to make sure that you have proper gas stations, make sure you have the proper lanes that are flowing in the right direction. It has to be coordinated. If you do it or attempt to do it and its not coordinated, not done right, you are literally putting people in harms way, and you are creating a far worse situation. In this particular case, the hurricane, we were not in the direct line. It is true, we anticipated a lot of rain. And a lot of rain, but
What you and i are now discussing and thats the all important aspect that why the reservoirs, why they had to let water out in order to safeguard not only the homes but the families, the animals and everyone there in the houston area. What will they have to do in terms of recovery and rebuilding, sir . Well, in 2006 after ca transcriba we developed a flood Bridge Management program and, of course, we put Public Safety number one and then we based on approach of idea of buying down your risks. Everybody has a certain level of risks and you can never eliminate all the risks totally there. You do activities, zoning, evacuation plans and then you build levees or canals to convey the water out, bring the risk down to a level that one, you can tolerate and, two that you can afford. Its always a balancing act between how much you can tolerate and afford and when houston begins longterm recovery, they would all take a look with federal, state and local Government Agencies and the people and de
Some people waiting over a mile just to get bottled water. Governor abbott says 440,000 people have registered for fema assistance. The Corpus Christi ship channel is back open. The Energy Secretary says approving up to 4. 5 Million Barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum reserve will help ease any fuel crunch. That did help do something we havent seen in a week. Gasoline futures closing down today 2 . That is the first drop weve seen in nine sessions. The retail gas situation does show a speak. We are up 17 cents a gallon in the last week alone. Now we go to rich in texas where the rescues are underway. Chris . Were about 40 miles southwest of texas. What you see now is an active rescue. Theyve been called in from flooding by the colorado river. This is the board coming in. Troy nehls called in the board. Theres about 12 houses that have people that need rescuing and were told that they have 60 dogs because a woman had a shelter here and people would pay to send their dogs here. N