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
Nationwide, an average gain of 225 cents per gallon. 2. 40 as the National Average price and this is just the start. In houston, the sun appeared briefly. It was a curfew overnight. 14 looters arrested. The rescue operation remains in full swing with the volunteer navy plucking thousands from their flooded homes. Thats the inspiring part. Youll see more of it on this program today. The media however, they just had to spoil it, didnt i. . The president went to texas to offer federal help and they picked on melanias shoes. Enough, please. Today the president goes to missouri. Hes refocusing his presidency and the deal with, grow the economy. Most of america likes this. Varney company is about to begin. Well, look at that. The sun came out this morning. That is the son in houston, texas. Came out however briefly. First appearance since thursday of last week or obviously a very welcome sight. Jeff flock, the man from richmond, texas who has the best of the volunteer navy yesterday is now w
Conversation stay tuned. Which will continue for the next 59 minutes. I want you to be more vocal on fast money, certain people are saying whatever they want. When good men are silent, thats when bad things can fester thats like a history lesson. Thats when things can fester hes saying youre a good guy. Ill take that. Thank you, joe a look at u. S. Equity futures it looks like we would have been on track for a positive month of august well see what happens this morning. Dow futures up by 57 points. S p futures up by 7. Nasdaq up by 20 this comes after an up day for the markets yesterday as well. Overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei closed up by 0. 75 . Hang seng down by a percentage point. Shanghai was almost flat if you look at whats happening in early trading this morning, you can see across the board there is strength. It looks like the ftse is up by 0. 6 similar gains for the dax in germany. The cac is up by 0. 7 . Check out the dollar, too. Dollar weve been watching so close
News of more pipeline and refinery disruptions are all in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey now reports of more storms brewing. Well break down the impact on energy prices. And explosion and fire at a Chemical Plant in texas. Were live on the scene with the impact. Scary stuff trying to figure out if its toxic or not we bring with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin picking up President Trumps baton who spoke to our Steve Liesman earlier with hoy lights of that conversation. Thank you very much u. S. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin sitting down exclusively with cnbc saying the detailed plan cometh despite criticism that President Trump was promoting a plan without detail. Mnuchin says there is a plan, and it will be released within the next few weeks. Originally our goal had been august unfortunately, things got delayed a bit, but were on a track to get this done by the end of the year, so youre going to see the details come out later this month its going to go through a committee proces
It is a devastating sight in texas. Up hitting, people trying to help one another, trying to help neighbors evacuate. Theyre going doortodoor. But we still know at least 31 people have died. Officials do fear that number will rise as floodwaters begin to recede and theyre actually able to go doortodoor, house to house, to see who may have been left behind. We know 44,000 homes, think about that, have been destroyed. In tyler county officials are warning folks to quote, get out or die. That is the warning as water levels continue to rise. There is no First Responders there. They have no firstresponders to get to the flooded areas. But during this tragedy, you are really seeing something wonderful, and that is heart of who we are as a nation. It is heart of who the people in texas are. This is americas real being, this is our truth. You have got neighbors there helping neighbors. You see them in the video over and over again. People risking their own lives to rescue a complete stranger.