And growing. The mayor promised more shelters will open and has requested more cots. A pair of Old Reservoir dams are now overflowing their levees adding to the rising flood waters. The flood gates are releasing water at twice their normal weight trying to leave the pressure. Five consecutive days of rain has set a new record. One station reported over 49 inches of rain as of tuesday morning. More than a trillion gallons have been dumped here on top of Harris County and to give you some perspective what all of that means, its enough to fuel niagra falls for 15 days. Countless neighborhoods in and around the city remain under water. Civilians are using their own boats to get to those stranded. Boats to gete caught a happy rer earlier today. Just talking to your sister here. I cant believe this. I just love these reunions when you get a chance to see families reunited. Take a look at this rescue posted by houston residents. Her neighbors formed a human chain to help get a pregnant woman
Under and look for them. As much as he wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. We knew it was going to be a recovery mission. To help shoulder the burden, everyday people are pitching in. These are National Guard members taking a break at a houston area mattress store. The owner stepped up to help out in a time of need. Laura anthony is in houston, helping shoulder some of the reporting duties. Laura is traveling with a convoy of rescue boats. Heres what she reported earlier this afternoon. Lets take a look in front of us. This is an intersection, a beautiful residential neighborhood. Lots of folks still have their cars here. They may be in those houses . Yeah. As a matter of fact, for every person weve gotten out today, weve had four tell us they didnt want to leave. Reporter we just went by a group of guys on the second floor of an apartment. You were telling them, some of these boats may not be here later. Yeah. Earlier there were a lot more boats a
Out of texas, despite the horrors faced from harvey. Its broken records and will likely require a long and expensive recovery. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. One congresswoman believes it will cost 150 billion, thats the cost of katrina and super storm sandy combined. 50 inches of rain have hit some areas, a record for the United States. The sudden rush of water has left thousands stranded. So far, more than 10,000 have been rescued. 17,000 stayed in shelters last week, but that number will likely rise. The president and first lady arrived in texas today. President trump talked about its historic impact. Probably never anything so historic in terms of damage and in terms of ferocity as what we witnessed with harvey. There have been incredible stories of rescue with Good Samaritans joining the effort. But the storm has claimed eight lives, including a 34year veteran of the Houston Police department. While reporting to duty, he drove below a flooded under
The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.
The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a National Comprehensive revision of the tax code was in 1986. The passage of the tax reform act, that some Affordable Housing tax incentives were baked into statute with the lowIncome Housing tax credit being chief among them. Since then this important section of the tax code has enjoyed bipartisan support. Still, it is worth examining this particular laws we continue to wrap up our work on tax reform. Throughout todays hearing a one each member to keep in mind some Guiding Principles for tax reform.