If either of these reservoirs were to breach their berms, look what is out there . 3,000 homes and residences out there, all in jeopardy. That is what is threatened at this hour. Already water is going out the spillway, crossing what is route 6 out there. That road out there is route 6. Already water overbreaching that. And headed into those homes. Theyre hoping though, that is as bad as it gets. It is pretty bad. Well show you next hour what that looks like. For now, it holding. They hope it continues to hold. Neil jeff, thank you, very, very much. By the way to jeffs point, it rice it is really not just houston but Hillary Vaughn is here. Hi, hillary. Reporter they got off one of people just rescued. They were waiting since 4 00 a. M. For a response. What did you feel waiting for the rescue crew . Obviously keeping the girls safe. Luckily were in a second story home. We hunkered down there. We wanted older neighbors to get out first. Were ablebodied, so. Reporter what did you decide
Beaumont with the coast guard as they performed live rescues. Well take you to that area. But first we bring you breaking political news. President trumps newest Approval Rating. 41 . Thats a brandnew number. Its also a brandnew low for this president. The number of voters satisfied with how things are going is down 10 point. The majority of americans is telling us they believe the president is tearing the country apart. He wants to lower the corporate rate to 15 . Do the new poll numbers complicate things in those questions are being asked in just a few minutes. Lets get to hillary vaughn. This picture on the monitor behind you. Hillary sent us these pictures earlier in the day as she was reporting on the situation. People in dump trucks piling in, driven away from their homes flooded out by any means possible. Reporter rescues are still coming in, and its babies, children, elderly. Everyone needed to be rescued. Its not that they have gotten to be everyone who needed to be rescues ou
The National Live book festival starting 10 a. M. Eastern saturday on cspan2s book tv. Maryland senior senator ben cardin held a town hall on health care. He also discussed medicaid and medicare. He was joined by the leader of Johns Hopkins university. Short talk on republicans failed efforts to repeal the Affordable Care act and then took questions. [inditinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [raps gavel] hoping to have a town hall meeting where we can have a discussion about health care. I want to welcome [applause] thanks. For all lets have a discussion for all. Good evening. Welcome to everyone who came this evening. My name is tom lewis. Im the Vice President for government and Community Affairs for Johns Hopkins. I want to welcome you to Johns Hopkins Montgomery County campus. Promised 11 years we have been offering postgraduate level courses here. I want to introduce our speaker. For 20 cardin served years in the maryland house of delegates, the youngest ever elected to
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
I recognize myself six minutes. Minutes. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Frelinghuysen i rise to present an amendment to h. R. 3219 to make america secure appropriations act. This legislative package provides critical appropriations for National Security, including for the department of defense, department of veterans atares and department of energys Nuclear Programs and the legislative branch bill. My colleagues, this is the primary constitutional duty of the congress to ensure the safety of the homeland and the American People. This legislation was carefully crafted to meet that responsibility, funding our critical material priorities, supporting veterans and making our borders more secure. The core of this package is full year funding in the department of defense and intelligence community. And i thank chairwoman granger. Provides 658. 1 billion, an increase of 61 billion in base discretionary funding for fiscal year 2018 enacted levels. This is no doubt, this is a signif