thing has let up at all let alone the tornadoes that are scheduled. president trump is preparing to head directly into the disaster zone tomorrow. joining us to discuss the president s trip and more is g.o.p. congressman blake. thanks for joining us. good morning, brian. brian: are you concerned about the logistics? well, i think we are going to be able to pull it off. corpus christi where i am right now is starting to recover from the storm. but we have got a lot of areas just around us, rockport that are in pretty bad shape. but i think we will be able to handle the president here in corpus christi. and the president s team has indicated they don t want to get in the way. but the president wants to get a look firsthand at what s going on down there. brian: meanwhile he tweeted this out. great coordination of agencies rains and flash flooding are being dealt with and rescues are taking place. the university of georgia climate expert said yesterday he is also a nasa
ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. rescues underways in dick kin senways indickinson, texas. brian: casey stegall joins us with dramatic rescues as the sun comes up we have to do that again, casey. we have been stopping here in the pitch dark. have you heard the roar of those big fan boats. even though there have been curfews in place there is around the clock operation. especially when you are talking about victims potentially sitting in their homes now for a long period of time. no electricity, rising floodwaters. there is a sense of urgency. look at this. right here is dickinson, texas. where you get off the interstate on i-45. it is all under water.
of effort as well. how have your helicopters, are there more assets for coast guard bring to bear. we have great support by customs and border protection. international guard is bringing resources. in the other key part of this is safety of flight and just coordinating that airspace. the air maritime operation center run by cdp is providing the airspace deconfliction. [inaudible question] ainsley: you are just watching this press conference that fema and the department of homeland security have put together with many of the leaders that are out there trying to rescue the folks that are still in their homes on the second floor, third floor, on top of their roofs and trying to get out. brian: one thing that s pretty clear is that they have learned from past situations like this you don t sit there and praise each other. you don t say how great a job everybody is doing. especially because they are not out of the woods yet as you heard to quote them exactly bye a long stretch.
new york times article is that lisa murkowski, the senate from alaska, basically the times reports that murkowski wouldn t vote against this health care bill when she was threatened with the project from the interior department secretary brian zinke. now, that actually didn t work on the house side, where trump had mick mulvaney go to mark sanford, the south carolina senator to vote on the health care bill with basically the same threats. and those things aren t working and the president needs to figure out how to win over and get backing and support for these measures, as opposed to threatening to take away chairmanships which is something that he mentions and makes mitch mcconnell, i can just see him shaking his head back in kentucky. around wondering if this is a tactic that s going to work instead of trying to build the
saying of defense secretary james mattis, it was not his op-ped. a treasury spokesperson tweeting this about steve mnuchin, it is laughable to think this could come from the secretary. linda mcman tweeting her denial as did wilbur ross and rick perry as well. jon huntsman s spokeswoman tweeting his denial. deny, deny, defndeny. then rounding out the list so far, anyway, so far, kirstjen nielsen, ben carson, jeff sessions, elaine chao, dan coats, mick mulvaney, sounny purdue, alexander acosta, robert wilky. robert lightsinger. betsy devos. andrew wheeler. brian zinke. john bolton. christopher wray. wasn t me. even the first lady weighing in focusing more on the author s