What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Announcer this is a special edition of Good Morning America. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now, roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. Right now, so many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right, and the Texas National
Harvey now in louisiana and it could travel as far north as the ohio valley threatening cincinnati. Potentially the costly its Natural Disaster in u. S. History 160 billion is what one estimate pegs it at and now another storm barreling in potentially hurricane irma. What better way though to help americans heal than with jobs and economic growth. Thats what President Trump wants he was in americas heartland today kicking off a major push for tax cuts. Springfield, missouri the first place of route 66. This is main street america. Welcome to risk reward im elizabeth macdonald. Well lets take you to port arthur texas. It is 91 miles east of houston. It was hit with a flash flood. 40 inches of rain since yesterday. The mayor now says the whole city is under water. It is ground zero of hurricane harvey. Officials there are calling conditions dire and 55,000 residents flooded out of their homes. House fires reported, 20,000 homes had six feet of water inside. Port arthur residents picked u
Mindboggling statistic, i know, n vietnam, proportionately speaking, more puerto 18, the declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the urther consideration of h. R. 2824. Will the gentleman from tennessee, mr. Duncan, kindly ake the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h. R. 2824, which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a billtomend title 5 of the Social Security act to extend the maternal, infant, and literal childhood Home Visiting program. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, amendment number 4 printed in ouse report 115331 offered by the gentlewoman from florida, mrs. Murphy, had been disposed f. Nfinished business pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, the Unfinished Business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 2 printed in house report 115331, by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Pascrell, on which further
Nights playoff game between the warriors and rockets. The game itself ended in regulation but some fans dealt with weather related overtime. A few hundred people stayed put to ride out the Severe Weather. And you see it there, that is the message on the big screen warning fans to shelter in place because of dangerous flash flooding across that city. These are tweets from our own joe fonzi who is there covering the warriors. The houston area got slammed by this system last night. More than five inches of rain came down last night and into the morning hours. Most fans and players left the arena but there was that small group that didnt chance it. And you can see Dwight Howard he even came back out from the locker room to chat with some fans that were riding out the storm. We do understand this morning a small group of people remained inside the arena. Dwight howard said he decided to stay there after hearing from a friend of his who was stuck on a flooded freeway in the houston area. Now
This was already the rainiest summer on record in new orleans its not that disastrous break that people are talking about, even before harvey. Now the governor of louisiana breaking the levy, its just warning of dangerous flooding media thats got you guys. Could be on the way. Trying to blow it out of proportion. We dont do drama here. Harvey, the ongoing disaster and recovery ahead. Lets get to it. Anyway, if we get a little bit of a leak, its not a big deal. Now, its the Rushing Water that Shepard Smith reporting light starts to a road stuff over from the fox news desk. Time. We had a pretty good waterfall shepard we begin with what is reported to be a levee breach here probably from here to the south of houston and a warning for people around it to get out end. Now. I dont know how many gallons a as result of Flash Flood Warning minute, but a whole lot. In effect for western part of we stopped at, got a little trickle, no big deal. The county south of houston. Thank you for your tim