Wind gusts of up to 132 miles per hour. Winds and massive storm surges pummelling large swaths of the state leaving thousands without power. Areas like rockport get hurt worse than others with entire buildings collapsed, trapping residents and sending others to hospitals. President trump declared Hurricane Harvey a disaster late into the evening. Hes monitoring the storm and tweeting from camp david with his National Security team and the Vice President there. Leaders in texas also urged residents to evacuate, warning those who remained would be subjected to the storms wrath for days. Heres governor greg abbott. We are concerned that not enough people have evacuated, and we are still urging people if at all possible, if youre in lowlying areas, in zones where evacuation orders have been in place, there may still be time to get out. We begin by heading to corp Corpus Christi, texas. Were hearing about catastrophic flooding possible the next several days, correct . Reporter that is the p
Hi, everybody, im thomas roberts. Welcome back to msnbc. Coming up this hour, tying the president s hands. Congress reaching a deal on russian sanctions that may keep donald trump from making any kind of deal for plaunt. But will the president sign on to it . Really depends on who you ask at the white house. Crossing a line. President issuing a warning to special counsel roll mubert mue dont look into my finances. What is it really all about . Is it all about Donald Trumps neverreleased tax returns . Well tell you about the new democratic slogan and why so many are saying is that really all you got . The house and senate agreed saturday to a sweeping bipartisan sanctions package on russia for meddling in the u. S. Election for 2016. This floor could be on the floor by tuesday and the president s desk before the august recess. The question facing President Trump is will he sign it. Remember, the president has consistently downplayed russian hacking or interference in the election and re
Erupted in violence late this morning. White nationalists groups attending a scheduled unite the right rally to protest the removal of a confederate statue clashes with counterprotesters including clergy and ant fascist groups and members of the black lives matter movement. The rally ended before it began when the governor and officials declared a state of emergency. Before 11 00 a. M. But clashes continued into the early afternoon. The most Serious Violence happened when a driver plowed a car into a crowd of peacefully marching counterprotesters. Killing one person and injuring 19 others. Several witnesses say they believe it was intentional. Police have arrested one person in connection with the crash. It is being investigated as a criminal homicide. Police say in addition to the crash, another 15 people were injured at todays protests. Lets go right to nbc news correspondent Mia Rodriguez who has been in the crowd in charlottesville all day. Mia, give us an update on where we stand
One of the drivers involved in the fatal crash. This is where a gray challenger slammed into pedestrians, on foot part of a counterprotest march of the White Nationalists in charlottesville virginia. Police have not released any more information beyond that when it comes to the one driver that they have in custody in questioning over what happened now. What would be this fatality. We do have video of this crash. I want to warn you about the graphic nature of this video that was captured by the counterprotesters on scene. And the violent crash that happened with bodies flying in the air. The twodoor car with tinted windows, it plows, without stopping through this crowd of people and into another vehicle that caused a Chain Reaction. Now people were screaming, running, there was chaos on scene. That car reversed and fled, injuring more people on its way out. So we heard from the hospital. We know and can confirm about the one death and 19 other people were being treated at the hospital i
The owners initially warned since their cooling systems failed the chemicals could warm, catch fire, or explode. If they start to warm up, they become unstable and they decompose. Water is still in our facility and preventing us from accessing the facility and we believe at this point that the safest thing to do is the other eight containers product in those to degrade and push. In houston, the water is reseeding and exposing the true devastation of the storm. The death toll road to 89. Vice president pence is on the ground there. Meanwhile in washington, the white house says they will brief journalists this hours. First to our reporters down in texas, Garrett Haake is in houston where massive flooding is continuing to affect people. What are people finding . Theyre not liking what theyre finding. The lucky ones have six to eight inches. Some have water to their doorknobs. The water im in now is down eight to 12 inches. It happened so long after the rain stopped and that has kind of be