Series of storms, political and literal intensified over the weekend. President trump addressed the rising water in texas moments ago. Weve pledged our full support as texas and louisiana battle and recover from this very devastating and historic storm. Theres probably never been anything like this. President trump is scheduled to go to texas tomorrow. He also said he might return to texas again on saturday. And possibly to louisiana as well. And promised funding wouldnt be delayed by congress. Youre going to see very rapid action from congress, certainly from the president. And youre going to get your funding. Its a terrible tragedy. And i think youll be up and running very, very quickly. Well bring you the latest on harveys devastating flood a little later this hour when we go live to the disaster zone. But thats not all that happened at the press conference. President trump was asked by a reporter from dpin land about the growing threat from russia in the balance ticks and whether o
Seeing the way everything was. I was traumatized. My house is six feet up, it was up at our like the top of the door. Have you ever seen flooding like that . No, i havent. I thiank the Good Samaritan for coming to pikus up. There was no way we could walk out of there. 4 to 6 weeks. We dont have water, we dont have food, we dont have sewer or electricity. We dont have anything right now. Nbc news can confirm that three people have died in the houston area. The family of six are missing today. Officials feared they died after their van was swept away as they tried to escape the storm. Road after road is unpassable. Neighborhoods look more like lakes. Thousands are still trapped, stranded in their homes. An estimated 9 trillion gallons of water has been dumped on the region. 11 trillion more could follow. 30,000 people have been forced into shelters. 3500 people have been rescued. 12,000 National Guard members have been activated by governor abbott. And outside help continues to pour in.
Damaging information on Hillary Clinton. What happened in the summer of 2016 and why all of the talk about pardons now . Why are we talking about there is nothing to pardon. There is no president ial crime. They have not been discussed and theyre not onle table. Plus, reviving the health care bill, republican senators take another shot at the republican bill. They will return to the legislation fairically corrected or they will vote to vote now and replace later. But inaction is not an option. We need to be drivered from obama care and Congress Needs to act. First, we begin with breaking news in texas. Eight people found dead in a tractor trailer overnight in a horrific Human Trafficking incident. At least 20 were found in dire condition, and the driver is now in custody. Mia rodriguez is now there in san antonio, texas. This is horrible. What do we know so far . Just the shocking discovery of the 38 people. Eight died. Two are children, a discovery only made because someone inside of
Far lower in many cases than ours and jobs left our country. Large corporations changed their Business Models by exporting jobs to other countries and then shipping their goods back to the United States where theyd make massive profits and they wouldnt be paying tax to us either. So we lost the jobs, we lost the taxes. They closed the buildings, they closed the plants and factories. We got nothing but unemployment. We got nothing. Other businesses, even classic american brands, switched their headquarters to foreign countries. Because of this and other reasons like weak borders, america remains stuck in the past. Although i have to tell you, we have general kelly here today, and we stopped 78 going up to 80 on the border traffic coming through in just a short period of time. [applause] hes done some job. Whole different world out there right now. Today we are still taxing our businesses at 35 , and its way more than that and think of it, in some cases way above 40 when you include stat
Jackson. South korea on edge, how are they reacting to this latest nuclear test. . There is a lot of anger, frustration, and frustration in the talk about war that we are hearing today. Here is south korea, the leader has been pushing for negotiations and for reconciliation and he is getting nowhere. In recent days we have seen more military posture. We have seen the training exercises that really send a message that theyre getting more and more serious, they dont want to see a military confrontation. But they have been doing this because they feel theyre just getting nowhere. Theyre also looking to the u. N. Security council hoping for tougher sanctions to be imposed and enforced. Will they enforce any other sanctions that the Security Council comes up with. There are a lot of people in south korea that are concerned about the conflicting messages to the north and the world. The cryptic messages. There are two unpredictable and impulsive leaders, President Trump and kim in north korea