verve stated neighborhoods. understandably, trying to get back before it s safe and authorities are warning them not to do that. a few moments ago, we point out, vice president mike pence land and the ground in texas. there you see him in corpus christi being greeted by the governor, greg abbott of texas. that happened in the last hour. the vice president landed to meet with state and local officials to talk about the rescues and recoveries. we ll see the pictures of the vice president all day long and with him, energy secretary rick perry, former governor of texas and other officials. now fema officials and houston firefighters are going door-to-door. we mentioned that a few minutes ago. brian todd has been there throughout the storm and with one of those crews right now. the weather is a lot better but still have to go house to house, brian. isn t that right? making sure people are okay? reporter: that s right, jim. we re still in the emergency response phase of the storm even thou