of april to mark the holy festival of eat, it did not hold. given the rapidly deteriorating security situation, the government took the difficult situation to evacuate all british embassy staff and their dependents to fulfil our duty to protect our staff as their employer. this highly complex operation was completed yesterday. the operation involved more than 1200 personnel from the royal marines and the royal air force. i note the house will join me in commending the brilliant work of our colleagues in the ministry of defence, as well as the bravery of our service men and women for completing this operation successfully amidst extremely dangerous circumstances. i also want to pay tribute to our international partners for their ongoing cooperation in aligning our rescue responses. and i want to express my admiration for the work of the crisis centre in the foreign office, where over 200 officials are working
about 30% of the city was underwater. at the end of the floodwaters. 130,000 homes were destroyed. 500,000 automobiles. not to mention, we had about 35 individuals who died in harris county across southwest texas, we had over 70 died. the first responders were the ones who really carried us through those days. we have over 61,000 responses by first responders, rescue responses to those in the harris county area and the larger southeast texas area. it was a tremendous disaster. while houston proper is still doing well, as you go out from the city in several places in the city, we are still doing massive recovery. neil: i was thinking, who came up with this idea to get this concert go on and going to go? we were having a veterans day
hillsborough county in the tampa area given the all clear to go back out in the street. todd: first responders can look into hundreds of 9/11 calls made overnight. that does into the mean it is safe for everyone just yet. jillian mele picks up our live team coverage right now in tampa. jillian, good morning. jillian: okay. so we are in the car. good morning, guys. we want to show you the debris. if you drive slow here for a second, matt to get a good look at this. this is what a lot of the streets are looking like on davis island. we are on hudson avenue littered with branch after branch. we haven t seen any live wires down although we are seeing reports of that on twitter. bob buck horn just tweeted please stay off the roads. lots of downed power lines especially on the north end of town. city crews are fullly engaged. be safe. hillsborough county just tweeted that fire rescue and the sheriff have resumed 91 rescue responses. that s what we are dealing with right now. as we just turn