very well received, even by you guys it s been well received. if you look out the window at all, did you happen to see any flooding. no, i didn t see you mean the flooding? oh, yeah, there s a lot of water but it s leaving pretty quickly. but there s a lot of water. a lot of water. but it s moving out. but i think most importantly, the governor, the relationship with the governor and the mayor and everybody, it s been fantastic. and with the federal government, it s been really. and we re signing a lot of documents now to get money. what documents. 7.9 billion. we signed it and now it s going through a very quick, hopefully quick process. all right. let s bring in political reporter for the los angeles times and john harwood, editor at large at cnbc. welcome to you both. i know you ve been watching the president make his way there through the nrg stadium after landing in houston about an hour and a half or so ago. john, as we watch the meet with
on federal forces alone have been rescued and that number is going to climb. here in harris county were houston s, local officials are trying to consolidate about 40 small shelters and into shelter shelters. they teamed up with a local grocery store. nrg stadium has 8,000 open cots, so they don t think overcrowding would be a problem, even so, it sounds like a lot of harvey survivors are staying in the houston area and we are getting that word this morning from officials and austin, texas, who had planned to open up a maker shelter there this morning, but they are putting those plans on hold for now because they say a lot of people who were flooded out in houston are staying relatively close by until they can get in to see how bad the damages at their house. sandra: peter, what are you
they will be calling shelters like this home for the foreseeable future. are they still processing people, phillip? i know they were expecting 5,000, they had to take 9,000 and they have opened other shelters. if people show up, are they taking them in? they re not turning anybody down. if they come here, they will be processed. they have the option of heading over to the toyota center where the houston rockets play. that s right next door. that s another place they opened up to give a little more room because they had only been set up for 5,000 as you mentioned and they doubled the capacity as well as nrg center next to nrg stadium where the texans play. that is another shelter that has opened up. so they are preparing for just another influx of evacuees. phillip mena, thank you for that. harvey hovering over western louisiana bringing heavy winds and more rain to an already drenched region just as new orleans is marking 12 years since hurricane katrina.
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ten seconds. we re very confident. it ll be my high honor to cast the deciding, tie-breaking vote on the floor of the senate next week. chris: mr. vice president, thank you. thank you for your time. it s always good to talk with you, sir, and i know that you re headed here to houston for the super bowl and bringing two wounded servicemen with you. safe travels, sir. thank you, chris. chris: up next, the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee, dianne feinstein, on the president s supreme court nominee and the battle over the trump travel ban as fox news sunday continues its coverage of super bowl li from nrg stadium in houston.