going from bottom to top. so it s going to be very difficult to have those areas that are unaffected where folks can come from and work their way to be able to help others, and it s going to take a lot longer to get there meaning folks that have not evacuated could be on their own for at least a couple of days. as soon as that storm clears and that we can find a base that we can operate from or we can find fuel, we will be there. we re going to have to wait to see what that impact is. rest assured, as soon as irma a makes impact, we will come in behind with c-130 aircraft, we ll work work with the state, with governor scott, and start doing those initial assessmentings. but we re going to be in an emerging response phase for days, for days with this response. reporter: the commandant told me earlier this week he ordered all of the coast guard s personnel that was in texas assisting with the harvey relief effort toss get out, head this way to the southeast so that they can be prepar
following you up the center of the state. the so you have to know exactly where you re going. what they re rec meanting instead is that people go into secure storm shelters here as close to home as possible. okay. the which wish and your citizens the best. in jouust hours the senate set to vote on the bill to begin the funding for harvey relief effort the. le all the living former presidents are teaming up to help the victim the of the storm. look at this. hurricane harvey brought out the best. we want to help our fellow americans begin to recover. people are hurting down here. but as one texan put it, we ve got more love in texas than water. we love you, texas.
about keeping the government running or increasing the debt ceiling, maintaining the debt extension, the ceiling. and when you look at all of that, then to throw into the mix, okay you will take on a hot button immigration issue, ryan is really telling him here, hey, you know, maybe we will do that, maybe we won t. but let congress start to take a crack at it and we can spread this out: there are other more pressing issues. let me get in one more to kelly, and the white house announced obs thursday the president is donating a million dollars do the harvey relief effort. but listen to the difference on thursday versus friday of the source of that money. watch. i m happy to tell that you he is would like to join in the efforts that a lot of people across this country have done and he is pledging a million dollars of personal money to the fund his personal money or money
thursday. and now we have tropical storm irma and issuing watches and warnings from the storm. pay close attention to this, over the next 5-7 days this will be very close to the dominican republic, bahamas and caribbean and this could affect here in the u.s. back to you. molly: and a whole lot of work still ahead in the harvey relief effort. and we look at the deadly storm aftermath so far. this is about as real as it is a guess. gets right now. my house is completely underwater. are you okay?