be obviously another exhausting very long day for emergency crews here. right now fema says it has 8500 members here and in louisiana and 1100 of those members are performing search and rescue operations around the state. we have witnessed that we saw it yesterday. as the community, one of many was engulfed by water, family with young children and dogs were rescued by boat. you know, we have had so many people come up to us and say who can we call? can you direct or you can point us in the right direction. so i want to very briefly put up the phone number that fema is providing that is 1-800-985-5990. if you have loved ones in this area that is the number to call. you can also text, talk with us, one word. to 66746. the rain continues to fall here saturating heavy walls of rain. our janice dean is reporting up to 50 inches. the wettest tropical storm in u.s. history here in
houston. your area has been everwhelmed. got to get out go to houston. now houston has been hit louisiana says can i help? now we find out and the president confirmed yesterday louisiana is going to get hit as well. ainsley: some of the rain is heading over to louisiana. the southwest area of louisiana governor said dangerous situation. a long way to go and play out over the next several days. pete: president trump speaking out forcefully. extending prayers. he will be visiting the region today. leaving the white house at 8:30. here is what he said yesterday. my thoughts and prayers are with those affected by hurricane harvey. now it s looking more and more like the state of louisiana will be also affected. the people of texas and louisiana we are 100 percent with you. i will be visiting the impact zone tomorrow to make sure that you are receiving full support and cooperation from the federal government.
moment like this is to be prepared. you want leaders that are on it and proactive and have a plan. sometimes there is no good decisions at all as you can see. do you stay? do you go? as long as there is decisive action being taken that s what they want. brian: did they learn enough in the last storm in order to prevent massive damage in this storm and let s hope there is a mayor not going to hide in hotel room like the last one. pete: things don t get better when you hide from it. this white house has stepped up and said they are going to take rapid action. the president will be taking off and heading down to houston and to see for himself the damage. brian: corpus christi and then is he going over to austin. pete: that s right. ainsley: this is what he said yesterday about the folks dealing with this mess from harvey. my thoughts and prayers from those affected by hurricane harvey. now it s looking more and more like the state of louisiana will be also
pete: wow. brian: right. this is going to shifted to how people can get to services and place to live very shortly. first we have to wait for the rain to stop. ainsley: let s hand it over to jillian who has more for us. jillian: that s right. we are following a couple news stories to get you caught up on. antifa members attack peaceful demonstrators. prayer valley in california punched pepper sprayed. now is he calling out politicians. i m just wondering moderate left, how long are you going to stay silent on antifa. okay in the politicians, the mayor of berkeley, the mayor in san francisco, nancy pelosi, you know, feinstein, all of you. how long are you going to stay silent in antifa. in their silence it s almost like they are using antifa to their benefit to attack free speech. jillian: at least five people were attacked. governor of illinois
food, assistance. what you do is amazing. for folks who have never been in a situation like that and never seen the red cross firsthand what you do in disasters, if we give money to your organization, what are you doing there on the ground to help these people? so, on the ground, just to give you an example, we have about 30,000, let me say that number again. 30,000 people that the state and local government and red cross volunteer organization are sheltering. they need cots, they need blankets. we have enough for over a 5,000 people right now on the ground in texas. so who is taking care of people in shelters? it s red cross volunteers. control tiers from all over the state of texas and all over the country. we are bringing those folks in by plane, by bus. any way we can get them in and staging them. there is high water. high profile vehicles to move people where they need to go. all of that costs money. we ask people to call 1-800-red cross or go online. you can text 90999 and the