couple storms. again, follow directs directions, mead warns get out of the way, i am so proud of this citizens of state of florida. and the first responders. so the local officials, the governor has been a an outstandg job, and i am really proud of the people, they are following directions. i visited shellers, for last couple of days. and you know, volunteers, they are actually for the elderly, people are volunteering to fill sandbags. appreciate needs shelters, i tell you that everyone has come together, and we re going through this together. we ll survive. comparing to types in past, do you think that your residents took the danger of this storm more seriously having seen what just happened with harvey? did they look at that. s and decide that, you know, to
shellers for evacuees. an this is moving so slowly if at all. the winds have dropped to 65 miles per hour but residents need to stay alert. don t take the eye off the ball about their safety because of rising waters that could lead to catastrophic flooding. and if that wasn t enough, the national hurricane center is warning folks along the coast, the tornados could happen, jut take a look. footage from last hour of a tornado forming right outside of houston. were told that more could be forming overnight. so let s go to victoria, texas, we have correspondent along the coastline in texas where we find katie beck opn the ground with the latest there. and you ve been in a specific spot in a neighborhood all day. how has it changed? reporter: well, throughout the course of the day, it has been getting worse and worse and obviously this water is continuing to collect. i m at the foot of a driveway right now that basically is sort of an island.
to have to postpone the vote at the same time that the cbo score is coming out and then, you know, indefinitely we don t know when the vote is going to be because it gives the opposition more time to mobilize once they have the numbers in their hands. so the delay here, allan, help or hurt when cornyn, he s seemed fairly optimistic today, senator cornyn, the whip, he s seeming fairly optimistic, yeah, might not be so bad. the delay, it s definitely not a good thing. it has more time for the new cbo score to come out, which all that could do since you re going to have the number of people losing health care insurance blasted around, it s going to be talked about all day for the coming days after that comes out. you know, the people on the fence, the murkowskis, hellers, capitos. more alaska deals, though, to get the vote over the line? maybe. who knows? looks like susan collins is a definite no, rand paul, nothing can happen to get him to yes.
it adjusted up. all dealing with the chaos of a disaster. what happens when someone stays sat at one of the shellers. they have to register here and create a mark in the data system. so people can try to find their loved ones. there are six such shelters at the red cross set up throughout the oklahoma city area. the university of oklahoma has announced that it has opened up their dorms because they re on summer break for anyone to make use of those. here s a problem, though. a lot of oklahomans who i have been talking to say it s a point of pride for them. they stay with friends and family. but because we ve had so much trouble with the land lines here, with the cell phones here, with e-mails and texting, it s made it more difficult for people, even if they are with friends and family to get in touch with those looking for them. what some people have done, they ve traveled from out of state to find people they can t reach.
we should stress you re an encyclopedia on that. at that point, president-elect was unpopular and john kerry, 6 to # points ahead. there are a few examples this year of republican candidates, senator hellers from nevada, not going to the republican national convention. so there s about five of them. but if you look at the amount of democrats not going to the democratic national convention, we re well over a dozen candidates and those elected running for reelection. there s more to come, this is a very high number. if you re the president and get reelected, do you remember the folks who dissed in. in some cases i think he probably encourages them to i think in claire mccass cal as case he probably suggests she doesn t. he wants to retain the senate if he wants to get anything done. it s his advantage to have those do what they have to do to stay in office.