The president will visit the storm zone. Hes asked about his pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio as he holds a press conference with the president of finland. Those are headlines from today, monday, august 28. We do say good morning to you, everybody. Were following breaking news. As you take a look at this radar, this is not an old image from friday, although it kind of looks like it did when we were here on friday. That is a current satellite radar and it is not a good picture. Rescuers are working into the night to reach stranded residents of the texas gulf coast. There are at least 3,000 members of the texas coast guard in the region, and they said more than half of their helicopters nationally are there, too. They expect the storm system to stay just off the coast most of today and tomorrow. Abcs lana zach is in houston right now where the threat isnt so much the wind but that terrible flooding. Good morning, lana. Reporter good morning, linda and kendace. The flooding certainly a
Tens of billions of dollars of Economic Activity at risk. Contessa brewer downtown houston and jackie deang lose and Morgan Brennan looking at the rising cost of harvey she is up in connecticut and Angie Lassman is tracking the path of the storm. Right now, lets see how the markets and your money are doing in reaction with joe kernen. Yeah, stocks are down the dow, anyway. Steady this hour in a narrow range. Nasdaq is actually up. Apple is among the top leaders announcing a product event september 12th where it is suspected to unveil its latest iphone the big moves happening in Energy Following harveys destruction. Gasoline prices surging as refineries shut down for the duration of the storm, at least. Lets get you caught up on the latest of harvey Governor Greg Abbott announcing he has activated the entire Texas National guard that brings the total number of deployed guardsmen roughly 12,000 12,000 new numbers out show more than 1,600 flights have been canceled because of harvey. As b
We prayed a lot. We just praise god and we were rescued. We were very thankful. Reporter right now people in houston are still expecting up to nearly a foot more of rain which means more flooding is going to happen. I know you have the latest look at where harvey is currently in the track. This is one worst Case Scenario after another. Normally hurricanes once they move inland they keep moving or else they just stall and die out. This is doing neither. It is actually coming back out over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico and that will mean it n i] but i think then benter is just coming offshore now. Houston is up nihere. ni the problem is we have bands of heavy rain continuing to come in. You can seet it coming3w in f the gulf of mexiconi bringing tremendous amounts of moisture going anywhere. You need theninr storms to star moving. nr now, whats going to happen here, by tomorrow morning still offshore. That means some of the bands will stay strong becauset the center of it is o
Only to find that there are no more rooms. This hotel would just give us a room. I think they have Convention People coming in with reservations. Reporter some tried to take advantage of the situation preying on homes and abandoned businesses. We had four people that tried to loot. Reporter one shop owner asking for help posting this Security Camera of looters going unpunished. This is houstons main shelter here. There are thousands of refugees already in place. They set up 2,000 cots much those ran out earlier today. And still we continue to see and people arriving as the rains continue to fall. Reporting from houston, lana zak, abc news. Lana, thank you. President trump and first lady melania are set to travel to texas tomorrow. The administration has not yet released specific details about the trip but we are expected to hear from the president within the next half hour when he holds a joint News Conference with the president of finland. Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised the govern
More days of flooding rains ahead. The worst far from over. Lives hanging in the balance. The race against time right now. And, good morning, america. You are looking live now at houston, texas, that is a neighborhood of meyerland. Entire neighbors under water as you can see. The rain still coming down. Thats drone footage of the city as well right now. The rain is coming down. Houses just about submerged. We have never seen anything like this. Incredible all the video and images coming in and, of course, harvey is still wreaking havoc on the fourth largest city in america and as beef been saying it is far from over. Much more rain to come. More than 2,000 rescues. Take a look at this video from overnight. That man just holding on to his car waiting to be rescued as the current threatens to keep him away. More rescues still going on right now. Well talk to the police chief about that in a moment. Take a look at some of these before and after images, truly st stunning. This is the inter