Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new warnings to residents. Get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. Just moments ago we learned that a houston Police Officer,
sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. His police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in after him. It was too t
trace: i see the group behind you. are they stopping cars as they go in or as everybody allowed to come and go as they want if the roads are stable enough? we are down in key west which was an area that wasn t hit as hard. people who stayed here coming out to get food and water. this is the military. on route 1 near marathon which is kind of central, southern keys, there s a stern roadblock. residents are not being allowed in. we have to show i.d. that we are pressed. if we are hearing people trying to get past the line and they are making arrests quickly and swiftly. they are definitely turning away residents away in the marathon area. trace: as they should. matt finn live in key west. nice job. thank you. police are stepping up patrols to hunt down looters and parts of florida. cops didn t have to look very hard to spot a pair of accused
somewhere like corpus christi which wasn t hit as hard. and that s why he s going to louisiana on saturday. and at the risk of interjecting politics into this, we re talking about a number of people, millions of people, who are really, amanda, just trying to get through the hour at this point in time. but as you re watching what s happening there in this response so far, what s your assessment of the administration at this point in time in delivering for folks who need help? well, in that press conference i was struck by the way that secretary price mentioned the mortuary needs that will be needed later. i don t mean this as a knock to president trump, but this is a man who sold luxury all his life. this is probably his first very real exposure to suffering and strife. he has to make a dedicated, concentrated, sustained effort to keep the eye on texas. the white house is going to try to pivot to tax reform tomorrow. i think he is going to have to juggle a lot of balls in the air, b