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
just what they were wearing. so it s just it s a lot. it s a very, very trying time for those who are victimized by this flooding and this extensive rain that s been generated from this massive hurricane. as you are looking now at texas still very much in the middle of this and dealing with the aftermath of harvey and you re looking towards louisiana, are there enough local and state and federal resources? well, that remains to be seen. you know, when you have such a very large area impacted, it takes a lot more than anyone would ever imagine. so i think we ll be seeing more and more assistance coming from all around the country. there are many, many willing and able people who are finding their way into the disaster area to try to make sense out of something that feels senseless to the victims. as we look towards louisiana, what advice would you give the current governor, governor edwards, as he s trying to help
get louisiana through this storm, considering you certainly have some experience from what happened during katrina? are the warnings of katrina being heeded here? well, absolutely. i think louisiana s paying a very large amount of attention to everything that s going on, because some of our state is in harm s way as well. our current governor, john bell edwards, is really doing an excellent job. we, in the aftermath of hurricane katrina, of course rewrote the disaster plan, so governors since that time have had a good master plan to follow that came about as a learning experience through our katrina disaster, and i think it s stronger than it ever was. when you look at what s happening in texas, do you think governor abbott is heeding the lessons learned from katrina? well, governor abbott did have well, governors of the
throughout the day, this is it s so important the work that he does here and what his administration does in what is just a catastrophe in texas, and we re still looking at harvey moving into louisiana. do you get the sense that the administration understands that, this this is just one point in time and that the real test is ahead of the president here? yeah, i do think they realize that and i think the administration realizes this a big chance for them to get this right. they ve really tried to be on top of this ever since when it was just barreling toward texas on thursday and friday. we ve seen that, because these things can be career-defining for a presidency. just as we saw 12 summers ago with george w. bush and the way they handled hurricane katrina. i think the trump administration has realized that and they re going to be judged off the way they handle this recovery and the response to this hurricane. that s why we ve seen it. that s why the president wanted to go there as
point, right? but we ve heard people say, who dealt with disasters, they say you ask people to leave and you know this a lot of times they just don t leiave. but you would have liked to see a more concerted effort to get people evacuated ahead of time, right? that s right. when you remember katrina, we were dealing with about 60,000 people that had to be rescued. i m thinking the numbers are going to be larger in texas at the end of this story. former louisiana governor kathleen blanco, thank you very much for joining us. we join with louisiana next with this storm harvey. our prayers are with them. certainly, our prayers are with them. north korea trying to send up its fourth missile test in just four days. plus, breaking news related to the special council russian investigation. what we re learning about subpoenas issued, coming up.