The hang hishanghai slightly lo. In europe, green arrows across the board. The dak x is up by 0. 4 . The cac up by 0. 3 the ftse up by 0. 2 . The dollar, which has been under so much pressure, you look and you see today the dollar sup against the euro, back below 1. 20 this morning it looks like the dollar yen is at 109. 89. Check out crude oil and gasoline prices, crude Oil Yesterday at a onemonth low. Its down once again this morning at 46. 18 rbob gasoline up nearly 6 yoed yesterday to a twoyear high of 1. 82 sits at 1. 83 this morning as we quont to watch the reficontinuec those refineries shut in with the additional rainfall. Gas prices at the pump could go up to 2. 60, 2. 70 we were thinking 4 dollars was the norm even after this, its amazing that were in a different kind of and can you believe that people that supposedly know what theyre talking about said crude would go down and gasoline would go up because youre not refining as much you get a glut of crude . A scarcity they we
Event. Flooding in houston, dallas and to the north. Houston received more than 15 inches of rain in may. We could get another foot with Tropical Storm bill. That is definitely unfortunate news for all of texas and this will be spilling into oklahoma arkansas and points north. I was in the red river valley last week. They said the worst Case Scenario is if we get a tropical system. There you go. Here it is. This is bill. It will cause 1012 inches of rain. They are watching this closely. Highway 87 just to the east of us has been shut down. Theres already flooding. Its a low lying area. Anywhere from high island down to the bolivar peninsula. Folks are ready. Emergency crews are ready. If we need to send people out, if we need to do what we need to do. This is going to be a flooding event. The winds have been increasing over the past 30 minutes. This is an angry gulf of mexico behind me. Normally a public beach. It is now completely washed up toward the seawall. The seawall has another
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
we can t get to all of them as quickly as we d like, but we have been able to initiate rescues where people call and said we have a group of people, a lady s in labor. those kinds of things, and it allowed us to deploy resources perhaps in a more misht manner. ed emmitt, director of the harris county office of emergency management. we appreciate your time and do hope to that that weather forecast gives you relief as well. thank you very much, ed. by air and by boat, more than 2,000 people rescued in the houston area, the coast guard plucking people off of rooftops. we ll take you inside that mission just ahead, and more than two feet of rain from harvey and counting. tracking the storm s path. that s coming up. phone with our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight- four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won t go up just because of an accident. switching to all