twin brother. he said larry carved that falcoh in the woodshop at the springfield prison, then mailed it to their mother.d i showed a photo of that falconi to beaumont and jimmy. what s it like for you to sen that after all these years? it s definitely bizarre, but it s also reassuring to me, lester, i ll tell you why. now these falcons backs everything i said. that s exactly what it looked like. after becoming a free man in 1999, jimmy got to spend five more years with a father he idolized before big jim passed away. and he s kept his nose clean, not wasting his incredible opportunity. he sees the hall experience as something that gave him a second chance at life. he s done well in real estate and co-wrote a book, in with the devil, that tells jimmy s
says his city is 95% dry and mostly operational. still floodwaters from hurricane harvey could take another two weeks to fully recreed in some areas. the storm killed 38 people and tens of thousands are still living in temporary shelters. the. graphic size is far larger than katrina and sandy combined. we have over 5 million people affected in this, it s the swath all the way from corpus christi to beaumont. so it s going to need more than what was funded for katrina. people in southeast texas are returning to their homes to look at the damage. one woman got a welcome surprise amid all that devastation.
even close to enough money from the federal government? it definitely will not be. however, it is very clear that the president has made it clear, congress is making it clear, this is just a down payment. let s not compare it to sandy. let s compare it to katrina. the population size and geographic size is far larger than katrina and i think sandy combined. we have over 5 million people who are affected by this. it is not just houston. the hurricane swath all the way from from corpus christi to beaumont. it is going to require even more than when was funded for katrina which was $120 billion. in addition to that, listen, we are trying to work to rebuild the state of texas ourselves and that is why we have created this new fund called rebuildtx.org if
to have truckloads of water headed to beaumont. then the problem is how you distroib out it. particularly to people that may still be sheltering at home. we heard from a general in the military that they are deploying nor national guardsmen here. is it everything you ve seen, do they need more military troops here for the next phase? yes. comparatively speaking, katrina they brought in about 50,000 national guard and we had 20,000 federal. how many here now? what the texas state has i think is around 12,000. the governor mobilized the entire national guard. i thought it should have been it s 24,000 as of this hour. governor abbott did deploy i think 12,000 more but your feeling is that s still half as many as they need. oh yeah. they need a good 50,000 troops. what would they be doing
do you know what the situation is? do you have any reporting on the situation in beaumont for people lacking water? reporter: right now, the fact is that there is not drinkable water coming out of the faucets for the folks in beaumont. so there is a that s a really humanitarian issue for the people in that community. and the hard part, brooke, is it s getting resources to beaumont. we were staying in lake charles, louisiana, about 40 miles east from where we are now. our intention was to get to beaumont today and the main thoroughfare leading into beaumont is completely shut down so you have a community that s dealing with rising flood waters, all kinds of damages to their homes but also the lack of power and add on to that, no usable drinking water coming out of the faucets and that is a huge problem. so that s why we say, even though the sun is out now, even though the rain has stopped, the real work of recovering from