expanded. they want people nowhere nearer than a mile and a half and we are seeing a measure of that right now. i want to talk more about the crisis unfolding in beaumont, texas. we have the jefferson county commissioner reverend bo alfred. i ve had the opportunity to speak with you a couple times this week as your community has gone through what it s going through. as we look at new pictures now from a chemical plant, either on fire or an explosion, i know beaumont has a lot of refinery services, et cetera. what s the level of concern where you are? well, you re right. beaumont has a lot of refineries, et cetera. but i m very confident in their expertise and their safety records, one. number two, those plants are the ones helping the city with their expertise and the engineering section to get us past the point of not having water. so, i feel comfortable with where we are moving at this present time. you can t gauge some things happening and we just have to
belief that they will do it in a short order. well, listen, commissioner alfred, we re rooting for you. we ve got confidence in you. we wish you the best of luck. we appreciate you. thank you. well, please stay with us. we continue to monitor the smoke rising above a chemical plant near houston, texas. will the u.s. get hit by another hurricane? just days from now. we ll bring you the newest forecast on hurricane irma s power and its path towards the u.s. another day of work. why do you do it? it s not just a pay check, you actually like what you do. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. you re developing ai applications on the cloud. finding insights hidden in decades of medical documents. and securing millions of iot sensors.
community together. so, we know that that help will be tremendous. and for those individuals around the country, if you give to the salvation army, it would be great because that is the driving wheel that s been helping us tremendously. as we ve been talking to you, we ve been watching that river still rising in beaumont. we ve also been watching smoke rise from a chemical facility in beaumont, texas, there. appears to be a fire or an explosion. one of the most one of the biggest problems i know, commissioner alfred, is access to the basics, clean tap water and that s still an issue for residents in beaumont. it is. it is, and it s something that we we have to get corrected and it has to be done in short order. i have tremendous faith and confidence in those engineers companies and, i.e., private firms that have pitched in to help the city. i have tremendous, tremendous