and novembmofi with my cell pho. do you have a generator? caller: i do not. i have a friend who is going to let me hang with him. we think president trump will probably make a visit down here in the early part of next week, conditions permitting. so my house will be, if it survives the storm without electricity, i m going to be working throughout the district to make sure that they get the federal resources that they need. representative fahrenthold, best of luck, be safe going to that friend s house. but if he has a generator, that s a good place to be. we re still talking about this monster hurricane harvey making landfall. the white house dropping a bomb
able to get to folks who need help until the worst of this passes. representative farn holiday, are you satisfied with the preparation before harvey made landfall? caller: fema has prepositioned a lot of food, tarps and water. and it s about three hours away from corpus christi but is further enough inland that those resources aren t going to be in jeopardy from the storm. so i think the thought is we re going to see how they deliver. we ve learned a lot from katrina and ike, but this is a unique storm. i m afraid we ll have tough lessons here too. you said sabine, texas where the resources are?
miles per hour, to the southwest of the center near port aran sis, texas. what can those in the path of the hurricane expect next? the two biggest concerns are rainfall and storm surge, with the storm surge coming first. storm surge is where the water rices along the shore line, being driven by the strong winds that we just talked about. that will bring the water level up to as much as 13 feet above ground level near to the northeast of where the center is coming ashore. water levels are already up about five feet and are going to continue to rise. the storm will stall very near the coast, just inland. that s the other problem we re expecting. rainfall on the order of 20 inches or more in this area. with isolated amounts as much as 40 inches, record rainfall amounts, extreme flooding is possible. oh, my goodness. so can you talk to me about this, if you can, we ve seen
months. the president signing a disaster proclamation for the state. and as the hurricane bears down on texas, a political storm in washington. president trump pardons controversial former sheriff, joe arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt. plus sebastian gorka, who down-played the threat from white supremacists is out tonight. we ll have all the latest on this busy might night of breaki news. chad myers is in the hurricane headquarters. we re going to get to martin first in corpus christi, what are you seeing right now? reporter: well, it may seem like the weather is slightly improved just by the fact that i am night not being beaten up so
knew we would be covering this. i guess i m not the media analyst, but i don t think this is a news dump. i think the sheriff is very much what the president wanted us to be talking about, because it s a signal to what kind of law enforcement he wants, it s a signal about pardon ning and his priorities right now. i think he anticipated we were talking about it. i would prefer to have a president who was only focused on the category 4 hurricane, but i believe he knew he knew i don t think i think he knows how we would react. maybe he can t stand not being the lead story. i think he didn t want to be usurped by harvey. he has to be in the news cycle. i think this is a way for him to have taken a leadership goal. we have a category 4 storm slamming in texas, instead he chose to do a news dump. i was in new orleans for katrina, i used to live in the