rockport, texas, city manager kevin says multiple people have been taken to the county s jail for assessment and treatment after the roof of a senior housing complex collapsed. he says rockport historic downtown area has been heavily damaged so it looks like they re taking people wherever they can to assess them until they can get them to the proper places in facilities. leland. leeland: some of the first images here getting of the damage here. it still nighttime, obviously, very hazardous to move around the stores. joining us is thomas, a former assistant director to fema was involved in the hurricane and response. as we check in with our reporters and in samaria it doesn t seem that bad you keep having to explain to viewers places that are batlike rockport you can t get to it we can get information out from and give us a sense of how it normally takes from the time the storm comes
is consistently falling. we are on standby as the winds increased. leeland: what has happened to your residence? are a lot still there, are they able to get supplies? we have the system snuck up on us so quickly that it grew so fast and we did issue a mandatory evacuation thursday morning, late morning, i would say a rough estimate is maybe 30% left still have a high percentage of the population, about 70000 here in the city. we asked them to get shelter in place and we have to shelters open that are both to capacity currently. leeland: i know that occasionally during the worst of the storm fire department, ems, please tend to shelter in places as well so when the storm passes
president. they will be judged initially on how they handle the evacuation in the rescue and that s thing but they re also going to be judged on how they treat people after the storm and that is critical. thousands of homes are going to be damaged and destroyed and people in the storm are going to lose their possessions, their memories and everything and fema and its insurance companies are the ones they get to decide how much money these people are going to get to rebuild their homes and that s a ton of responsibility. leeland: when you say get to decide, to folks who don t live in hurricane country you thank you have insurance and you if your house burns down the insurance committee comes and pays to rebuild your house is that different from folks who live along the gulf coast and live in the path of these hurricanes? well, we re really talking
some type of significant downed power lines or outages coming in going-i m so surprised to see those lights on after what we have been seeing overnight. matt, in blessing, texas, we appreciate your work. you ll join us for the next couple hours so stay safe until we see you next. leland. leeland: noteworthy, jackie, that s where matt is is about to 10:00 a.m. and right now it is low tide. it is the very lowest tide you will get throughout the night as the tide moved up and then you have the storm surge. that is that eastern part of the counterclockwise wind and we will continue to push more and more water up onto those locations for galveston as the tide comes in. those two things combined only magnify each other as the water rises both from the storm surge in the whipping of the water and the tide rising so, we will check in with matt and make sure
hardline tactics going after immigrants. the move drew outcry from civil rights groups with accused joe arpaio of his crackdown on illegal immigration as part he did on tuesday that it might be coming. north korea has fired three short range missiles one of which the uss has failed. there are the first note watches and these are the first known launches since july when the north successfully tested a pair of ibm missiles in that analysis says it reaches deep into the us mainland where they perfected the white house was briefed on the latest lunch at times and they are monitoring the situation closely. he says this is a win for the us. leeland: that is not enough news for you on friday, present donald trump asked that transgender are not allowed to serve in the us military but the