harvey victims dealing with this devastation. the folks on the ground and to meet them in person to let them know that the nation has not forgotten them. the help is on the way and it will continue. the cajun navy was there. and to meet the first lady as well. were joined by betsy, betsy, your reaction to what your scene today? the president first lady visiting texas and louisiana, the way he has assumed the role of comforter in chief? this is really important that the president at the offset of his second trip to the area that has gotten hit is talking about the importance of congress making sure we can get this funding through.
hit by the high winds of harvey, we got hit with all the rain, the rain that went up in central texas, the rain is getting in those rivers and coming back on us and rained on us again and jefferson county, beaumont to get the bad flooding, i think you will see discussion about infrastructure, we have dams, levees and things of that nature so we can be on top of this if it should ever happen again. arthel: houston definitely is such a great economy and moving city, metropolitan area but it also is very spread out, you have got a lot of property that normally in the past would absorb some of this water. well, houston is a very diverse area, 6.2 million
heavy rains to end over you and also daybreak. are you asking for people in the surrounding areas and towns to your north and northwest that weren t hit as hard to come and help with boat rescues? not at this time. we stood up our emergency operation center last wednesday. we do have quite a few resources. i m not saying that they are not that it s not that we have enough because you never have enough for something like this, but right now it s very organized and we know what we are doing and probably the better thing would be after the rain stopped first of all, you can t get to us. every street, highway, freeway that comes into beaumont at some place outside of beaumont is blocked with the exception i-10
who s bombing what. we know the russianings have said they will go after fuel trucks in that area. also been targets of the coalition and the french. who is behind those civilian casualties unclear. eyewitnesses even tens of kilometers away from raqqah reporting the sound, the rumbling, incessant rumbling, 20 thuds, lengthy deep booms, heard about 3:00 this afternoon. eyewitnesses we spoke to said. definitely raqqah under strain. there are some activists that has caused the leadership to flee towards mosul and iraq. others denying that. so hard to tell what the precise reaction on the ground is. we know the french talk about targeting command and recruitment of training centers there. we know many are also asking quite how many targets have suddenly come into view in the past few days that weren t hit in the months of air strikes the u.s. put together in the past. but still civilians inside that city, still definitely isis
zipping his jacket over a suicide belt in crowded manhattan street scenes. jets from russia and france hitting raqqah. today pentagon officials explain these targets weren t hit earlier because isis continuously changing fighting communications and headquarters within that city. raqqah once was home to some 200,000 people. cnn s global affairs correspondent has a rare look inside that so-called isis capital. it s pretty scary what is going on there. very scary. we rarely get a glimps inside the stronghold. a group are risking their lives