To stay here illegally. President trump is donating 1 million of his own money to storm victims. We are with you today. We will be with you tomorrow. And we will be with you every day until this great state and these great communities recover and rebuild to be even better and stronger than ever before. [ applause ] [chanting u. S. A. ] brian just to that fox news alert. Now the floodwaters are slowly receding. Good morning, everyone. The grim relates is setting in. Harveys death toll is climbing to 39. Number is expected to rise. Pete crews going door to door looking for survivor. Brian Vice President president telling them yesterday they are not alive. Ainsley Griff Jenkinsdowns joins us from texas with the historic desks. Griff . Good morning, guys. Here just south of houston, major flooding. Dangerous flooding is expected along the brazos river. Look behind me. This is just a street about two miles north of the brazos river. It has trapped an entire subdivision. Kingdom heights has
This job done. Difficult times such as these, we see the true character of the American People and together we will endure and we will overcome. Brian we got a fox news alert now. There are two explosions. Two explosions rocking a Chemical Plant. Its just north of houston and it just happened. You are looking at a glow from those explosions. Its in crosby, texas, where evacuations have already been completed due to rising waters and unstable facilities. This explosion not unexpected though. Ainsley we are also learning at least 10 Harris County sheriffs deputies have been taken to the hospital following those collapse. Pete those officers complained of dizziness and ann arbor likely from inhaling chemicals. Not completely unexpected. Ainsley refrigerate all these chemicals making here. Pause we lost our our generators we cant do that. He warned everyone there is going to been explosion. 1. 5mile radius, 300 houses evacuated because of that. Brian fire will happen. Reacceptible gasoline
Leland but thousands are still in shelters as dozens of towns and much of houston remain underwater. In some places the water is still rising. The president now asking for billions of dollars more in federal aid. Were going to get an update on femas efforts and hear from some ordinary americans doing extraordinary things. Boy, if theres been anything to take away from this week, it is how americans, specifically texans, rise to the occasion. Its been incredible. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington, im leland vittert. Elizabeth im elizabeth prann. Thanks for joining us on a busy saturday. Leland we are awaiting President Trump and first lady melania trumps arrival in houston. Theyre a little behind schedule. We hear air force one might make it up in the air live to Ellington Field as it happens in southeast houston. They should arrive sometime in this hour. And peter doocy with the astrodome behind him. You covered the first visit by President Trump to Corpus Christi a
Water. Be strong and everybody will be okay. When one part of america hurts, we all hurt, arm in arm, we will strive. We will endure, and we will emerge stronger than ever before. Abby in a matter of hours, President Trump returns to texas getting another firsthand look at the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Todd this as evacuations are still underway for areas where the waters are still rising. Clayton Griff Jenkins is in houston right now and he joins us live with the very latest on this disaster. Good morning, griff. Good morning, guys. Thats right. Its day 8 and evacuations continue. Were in the western party of houston just behind me. The Addicks Reservoir. Anthey have asked for voluntary evacuation here because reservoirs are going to be, according to the army corps of engineers pumping water out of them for at least the next 15 days because of the amount of water in them in these neighborhoods and the immediate area of these reservoirs in western houston are subject to further fl
They destroyed homes and buildings i left 300,000 people without power. The worst could be yet to come. Expected to last for days. Thus go live to casey. We had to shame the people in the background here but this is what we you should not do if you are in this region. Look at those people out there right now thinking its fun to hang out right there in the middle of all of those crashing waves on that rock formation that goes out, taking selfies and funny videos of themselves. But you see the white caps all around, all we been getting has been about how dangerous the rip currents are, messages from the National Weather service and the like. All it takes is for one wave to come up and crash over, sweet those people off and then you have emergency rescuers that have to put their lives at risks to try to go out and save them. If you live in this area, this stuff is not fun, youre not supposed to play in it. It is extremely dangerous. Weve been talking about flooding. Well get brandnew vide