don t go anywhere and stay off the roads. coming up, rex tillerson seeking distance from president trump in the wake of charlottesville. coming up, my colleague tom roberts will have conversation with tom costello over tropical storm harvey. we ll be right back.
and as a result they re getting stranded and we have to respond to them with the 911 calls. but there is no question, no doubt in my mind, that the best decision and the right decision was to tell houstonians and people in harris county, don t get on the road. don t try to evacuate. you can t put 6.5 million people on the road a day or two ahead of the storm without making it more dangerous for them. so without hesitation or doubt, i would make the same decision if we had it to do again. one of the top five largest cities in our country. you have a lot to govern there, mr. mayor. sylvester turner, thank you for the update and hopefully we re getting word to folks in your area in terms of what you would like them to do. thank you. let s bring out more on tropical storm harvey. where it might be going. getting close to houston again with more rain. shawn mendiola our meteorologist. shawn, what s the latest? i want to point out this
even a washed out bridge. schools here are also closed tomorrow. the rain s coming down. still getting gusts, 40, 50 miles per hour and it is just relentless. our thoughts and prayers with everyone here. that s the latest from smithville, texas. it s going to be like that for days up until friday and some estimation. it s hard to believe that towns like that, like smithville will have to see that. chris bruin, thank you so much, my friend for that report. give us a sense of all of that weather from the weather channel for us. that does it for us this hour. i m richard louis. my colleague thomas roberts is next and he ll be interviewing texas governor with the latest on harvey and what they can expect in the next week. have a great night. flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. when we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by overproducing 6 key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. flonase helps block 6. most allergy pills only block one
the fact that he may have provided good service to the country at some point in time does not excuse his behavior as sheriff. he was a law enforcement agent. he was an official with power, and he abused that power. that s just a fact. you don t just ignore that and say, oh, well, he did some good things in his life. that isn t the way it works. all right. linda valdez, thank you so much. nick ackerman, really bringing it today. i thank you both for help on this topic. assessing the damage after harvey. we re going to return to that breaking story. fema says it could take years to recover. we go live to victoria, texas where residents are without power and water. re you related o jennifer? kind of joking with him. and my dad was so proud to tell her, as a matter of fact, she is my middle daughter . so now dad has the venture card, he s earning his double miles,
now, moments ago the white house confirms now that the president will travel to texas on tuesday to survey the damage caused by tropical storm harvey. catastrophic flooding in houston, the city already seeing as much as 17 inches of rainfall is one of the things he ll see. as you can see in some areas, the problem here, according to the national weather service, is that parts of the city could see a historic 50 inches by the end of the week. search and rescue efforts are under way across the southeast region as we speak. texas governor greg abbott has activated 3,000 members of the national coast guard to help those in need. more than 300,000 people without power across the state. this doesn t include, by the way, houston which is 6.5 million people. this as residents are being told to shelter in place.