was pitching in, loading boxes and supplies to help victims in houston the catastrophic flooding from harvey has displaced many people. texas governor greg abbott says there are 258 shelters housing more than 42,000 texans and today, the death toll stands at 42. the national guard is going door to door rescuing those still trapped in their homes, and volunteers and neighbors are also pitching in. one such person is houston s don paolo. he has been rescuing his neighbors with his canoe even as his own home remains flooded. he joins me now from houston convention center. thank you for taking the time amidst all of your struggles. that is very kind of you. the first thing i want to ask is, how are you? i m good, thank you. actually, i feel like i m better than most. i ve got a wonderful support network in my friends and my neighbors. my house i had six inches of
of these people out and try to get these businesses back going and, you know we just don t know. it s just going to be a day-to-day deal to see what friends and family and any help that we can get can be appreciated. reporter: thank you so much, scott. and what he has been saying reiterating throughout the day, alex, they had insurance, but not flood insurance. they never imagined this could happen. that s awful. thank you. thank you very much. still ahead, we ll hear from a harvey hero who continues to help others even after losing his own home. plus, is the dream over for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought here as children? protests are going on across the country as president trump decides the future of the d.r.e.a.m. act. hello, discover card. hi. can you tell me about these new social security alerts i keep hearing about? sure, just sign up online. then we ll alert you if we find your social security number on any one of thousands of risky websites. wow. that s co
talk about how virtually every republican lawmaker in the house of representatives and in the upper chamber in the senate, they want to give aid to those impacted by harvey, but how they want to do it is they re very much divide on this. here s why. you ll remember back when other storms have impacted thing like sandy, katrina, have impacted a host of other states, including new jersey, by the way, and you ve got ultraconservatives who are saying they want to pass a separate piece of funding bill, emergency relief funding, that s $7.85 billion to harvey and not tie it to raising the roof, raising the debt limit that they have to get done by the end of the month. you ve got other folks, and seemingly the white house now, suggesting in that letter, that they want to actually lump everything together to move all of this together. that is not necessarily what ultraconservatives in the freedom caucus want. i ve spoken with several aides of the freedom caucus just on friday and they say, kev
to help us decipher which charities are the trustworthy ones, let s bring in the chief operating officer for charity navigator. so, here are some of the top local nonprofits in the houston area from charity navigator. walk us through how a donor can find a safe place to donate their money. sure. it s no different in every sector, consumer advocacy is a full-time job. so for more than 15 years, charity navigator has been the largest independent evaluator and rater of charities, so during disasters like harvey, our work at charity navigator s particularly valuable to donors because every day our analysts are evaluating the data, both good and bad, to create the ratings we publish on our site. so it s really as simple as a full-time team doing nothing but evaluating organizations so that we publish those results and allow consumers to have access to them. tell us about some of the
assistance with those on the ground, clearly he s trying to show that the executive branch and the president s office are really very much engaged in helping to work with local and state officials. this koms lecomes less than 24 after his budget director, mick mulvaney, sent a letter, an official request of sorts, to capitol hill. you ll remember that lawmakers are due back from their august recess on tuesday, requesting about $7.85 billion in relief efforts for those impacted by this disaster, impacted by harvey. so, it comes, of course, with the president having a new message while he s on the ground, which is that he s urging lawmakers to pass through a $7.85 billion initial relief funding package to help those impacted by harvey. erin, how much will the president be judged on his response in the weeks, months, and possibly even years to come as we well know, presidents are often judged on their handling