100,000 homes either damaged or destroyed. 50 dead. a half a million cars destroyed and tons of blame to go around. so what lies ahead given the lack of zoning regulations in houston. and the ongoing battles over climate change that some say energized the storm. well, these two articles on bloomberg caught my eye. harvey wasn t just bad weather, it was bad city planning. by peter coy and christopher flavel and harvey could reshape how and where americans bill their homes. joining me now, bloombergs climate policy reporter and business week economics editor peter coy. peter, any city regardless of the zoning standards and regulations would have been devastated, i know we can agree on that. you said so in your piece. but what is the question that you think needs to be addressed now before we move forward? the immediate action is obviously to save people who are
tropical system of all time, 53 inches very possible. it will be the biggest rainfall in our nation s history in terms of tropical systems. the tropical system itself, harvey is making a third landfall at the border of louisiana around cameron and it will continue to move northeastward, speeding up as we get into friday but for houston the drying out starts. extreme southeastern texas, louisiana, potential for more heavy rain, 6 to 12 inches upwards of 15 to 18 isolated areas but as we get into thursday and friday we get the cold front, the trough that will lift the storm northeastward. historic event in terms of the weather. heather: it will take a long time to clean up from this. as we mentioned yesterday the president did make a trip to houston, made a stop and people
capacity is down because of harvey. heather: 9100 flight cancellations because of harvey and houston airport remains closed. we could see them going into tomorrow. the busy airport shut down because of flooding and we will see those are back up and running. you love to hear stories of people helping. one of those businesses that is helping by providing boats. they are providing 80 boats to support rescue and relief in the wake of hurricane harvey. to the government agencies and rescue organizations, also donating $40,000 in supplies. the truckloads of supplies will support the american red cross and a convoy in springfield,
heather: they should be dealing with high water level until october. this is the buffalo bayou at record levels, 70 feet, it is going to remain at major flood stage for the next week. that is incredible and absolutely these will not come down for weeks if not months back to their normal levels. wettest us tropical systems, 51 inches, that record goes to 1950 in hawaii. this will beat it. harvey still a tropical storm making landfall, third official landfall across the border of texas, louisiana. we will finally see, and we will deal with epic flooding, not only said texas but louisiana and mississippi river, and kentucky but houston out of the woods for the next several days.
homes, stiffing the penalties saying now when you burglarize a home the penalty is two to 20 years, now it is 5 to life with mandatory jail time. last night the chief saying this. we had armed robbers robbing our community, victimizing them again. harvey wasn t enough and they are doing this. reporter: law enforcement doing both rescue missions and law enforcement work taking care of these bad apples. a very busy day in houston. heather: as if they don t have to deal with enough, can t believe people are doing that. rob: in these situations you see the best and the worst in humanity. what folks down there have to face today, any relief in sight?