right now, the president is on his way back to the white house. late last night asked congress from a state billion dollars in emergency harvey relief money. the president told the senator cruise he might have to fight for the funding but he thinks congress will pass it soon. molly: okay thank you. some frustrated residents are waiting to return to their homes as part of houston remains underwater more than a week after harvey made landfall. some neighborhoods continue to fall because of releases from reservoirs. then the focus shifts to recovery. they say were praying for you and stuff, we appreciate the prayers, we do, but what we need his assistance.
about 400 people per shift. so they re saying yes, they re here, prepared to be here as long as they need to be to help the people in the shelter. but one thing that they really say they really are good on physical donations, clothes shampoo and toothpaste. the at this point they re saying if you want to help out, keep a lookout for how you can donate your time but really what they need is money to help the people who have been displaced because of harvey. important message. thank you so much. those shelters which are becoming less populous by the day. thanks. joining me now chief officer for the american red cross. suzzie, thank you so much for being with us. give me a brief overview of operations there in tirms of numbers. sure. thank you for having me, john. it s been one week, today since harvey made landfall. seems like a lot longer than that. the unfortunately, while
livelihood that will never, ever be the same. sandra: i want to bring gillian turner in and remind her he buddy this is a live helicopter look from peter doocy on the left side of the screen. the right side of the screen, we have flooding from lake jackson, texas. gillian: just looking at these aerial shots courtesy of peter, i m thinking about the devastation that s so obvious. there is water up to the roof switches hideous to think about, but there s also will remove into the relief and recovery part of this process, these people on the ground now have to worry about horrible, horrible waterborne illnesses and diseases. we have to ensure the people to really sick from that. not only is everything wet, it s now polluted with all these chemicals and materials and animals and bugs and things like that. sandra: one week after harvey made landfall, unbelievable to think we re still still looking at these
sarah. good to have you with us. let s talk about the visit of the vice president. how did that go on the ground as texans began the recovery process in some areas? good morning. just after just under a week after harvey made landfall vice president pence was here on the ground. he went to rock port. that was an area that was hit particularly hard. it s just outside corpus christi. he toured some of the damage, and then he went into a church to meet with some of the residents who were affected by the storm and offer them reassurances. skbro we are with you. the american people are with you. we are here today. we will be here tomorrow. we will be here every day until this city and this state and this region rebuild bigger and better than ever before. [ applause ]
to the kids down to kushner, it is it s scarring them. the president is immobilized. he can t focus on anything else for any period of time. the minute the second russia headline comes. a lot has happened, a lot of crises have happened. we ve got harvey. we ve got what s going on with north korea. the president has made a number of foreign trims. he s trying to reset. every single time he goes back to washington or every single time one of these crises passes, what pops up again, the russian investigation. exactly. and you have republicans in congress who are leading these investigations who see in some ways these investigations as a way to show independence from this president, particularly as he creates his own controversies. so they re not stopping their work anytime soon. the problem for the president too is that there is really no end in sight here when it comes to these probes. and we get these bits and pieces of information, these kinds of drip drip drip which point to t