first on haiti, in support of the us agency for international development, their bureaus are monetary in assistance, humanitarian assistance, they are working to provide a life saving support for the people of haiti. they set up a joint task force, joint task force haiti, which will be led by rear admiral keith davids. he will be cutting the operating from home is dead air reserve base. thejtf from home is dead air reserve base. the jtf is now the forward elements of it, the from homestead air base. when i m flying to helicopters at tahiti providing a picture of a head at this morning. to haiti.
flooding in texas and left five people dead. the storm dumped more than 40 inches of rain in the houston area inundated neighborhoods and displacing thousands in areas that are still feeling the lingering effects of hurricane harvey in 2017. president trump spoke to reporters at the joint reserve base thanking the coast guard and first responders. during his first appearance with india prime minister in houston, he gave his condolences to those affected by the disaster. i want to take a moment to address every resident of houston, affected by the recent horrible flooding. the entire american nation is standing by your side. we re ready. we love you. we support you. we will be there with you every single step of the way. the houston chronicle says emergency personnel raevlged more than 2,000 people on thursday alone. a new nbc wall street journal poll finds personal
houston, as they fire up the four engines on that big 747. some final observances today? it was on the honor for us to be here as well, john. i want to mention, some of the military. that included the 77th army band from fort sill, oklahoma. who played hail to the chief. we heard a 21 gun salute here as as well, with members of the bush family. as he mentioned, among those walked onto this plane, after president george h.w. bush s casket was removed by the honor guard and then carried to the waiting air force one, which is now, of course, special air mission 41. the engines are up, they will begin taxiing shortly. and then take off, here, from arlington field. the reserve base here at the joint installation.
official and u.s. officials in the united states since the clinton years. secretary of state mike pompeo and north korea s former military intelligence chief are wrapping up their meeting right now in new york. you see them getting into their waiting limousines there. they had a dinner together last night and now it s this meeting trying to lay the ground work to revive the president trump/kim summit for sometime in early june. that s still expected to take place in singapore if these two have been successful in getting the talks back on the rails. we ll keep you apprised. julie: we re awaiting the arrival of president trump in houston and here is a live look now at the joint reserve base where the president is expected to land. he is traveling to texas to meet with the relatives of victims from the deadly shooting at sante fe high school. the white house says he will be personally offering his condolences and support. we ll take you there live once
continue to go over the scene here at the recruiting center where the shooting started and 10 miles away at the reserve base. they say because of number of shots and cash all thes it will be at least a couple more days before they finely clear both scenes. 24 hours ago at this moment this area erupted in complete chaos aziz seize pulled into the parking lot. he took out what witnesses described as large black gun, opening fire, firing 25 to 30 shots straight through the front doors and windows of that recruits center. thankfully the only cash all the was a marine lightly wounded in the leg. from here he drove down the street to the reserve center. drove down jersey barriers meant to she vehicular traffic down, not allow to get up speed to crash through the gates but somehow he managed to do that. crashing through the gate. looks like on the left side of the recruiting center.