so any place in the state of texas where there s an evacuee or first responder who is affected by this storm, they will be able to have the hotel taxes waived. i just got word from the ft. bin county judge who has issued a voluntary evacuation for the brasses river area in ft. bend county and a mandatory evacuation along the san bernard. this is one of the foremost regions in the state of texas that already has flooding and we anticipate the flooding to grow worse in that area. this morning i had the opportunity to make phone calls to several of the mayors who were affected by the hurricane last night. i spoke with the mayor of victoria and spoke with the
the roads close and the flooding happens, it s going to turn the lights out so you have a cascading effect of the storm and it s going to get worse by tomorrow than it is today, so everybody in low-lying areas needs to be evacuated. they need to be doing a major evacuation of areas that the models show will be flooding tomorrow and get the people out before the roads close. we heard from the governor in the last hour about the disaster declaration and for the counties affected in this, also that there are 338,000 outages and it s going to take several days for that to be addressed properly by the electric company. getting people back on track. the update that the fort bend area, the brazos area, that area was a voluntary evacuation. the san bernard area is a mandatory evacuation right now. the governor said they enacted 1300 troops initially and have raised that to 1800. do you think that s enough to suffice what you predict or worry about over the next couple of days as you call thi
texas where there s an evacweue or first responder, they will be able to have the hotel taxes weight of the evidenc waived. i just got word from the fort bend county judge who has issued a voluntary evacuation for the brazos river area in fort bend county and a mandatory evacuation along the san bernard. this is one of the foremost regions in the state of texas that already has flooding and we anticipate the flooding to grow worse in that area. this morning, i had the opportunity to make phone calls to several of the mayors who were affected by the hurricane last night. i spoke with the mayor of victoria and spoke with the
you know what, we have never had richie havens starting off this morning. this is danny glover s playlist, thanks for being with us. he is an oscar nominated actor and producer of a new documentary shenandoah. i spent time there doing a documentary as well. ryan lizza, the washington correspondent from the new yorker and will cain from the blaze.com. i missed you terribly. it s been 12 hours since we ve seen each other. i get to meet one of my favorite actors, deets from lone some dove. are you from texas? if you don t like lonesome dove, you re in trouble. you might have to switch spots today. i was going to say lethal weapon but everybody says that, right? our starting point this morning, breaking news, hazmat crews are on the scene. a spectacular fire, taking place in ohio. a train was pulling several tankers derailed just before 2:00 this morning. the accident happened in the north end of columbus, which is near ohio state university and the ohio s