in these homes and now they re out there on the street corner. it s a very disheartening and sad situation they re in. only about 15% of the homes in harris county, we ve heard, have flood insurance, which is just remarkable when you look at all the help that these folks are going to need. stephanie elam, thank you very much for that. the president has requested a starter payment of just under $8 billion for federal aid for texas. governor greg abbott of texas says that s a tiny fraction of what they re going to need. kaylie hartung is in texas. he said essentially $120 billion in federal aid. that would be more than in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. reporter: poppy, president trump says he expects his request for funding to be approved quickly. but he also says that that funding needs to be tied to raising the debt limit. that s where this gets political. his treasury secretary agrees with him. he has to borrow more money and pay for it if texas is going to
the words the president uses in terms of the message it gets to pyongyang is much different than the message that gets to our allies. i agree, that concerns me. we need a tight, cohesive alliance. frankly it s never been stronger in terms of our regional focus in that part of the world. this is as strong as it s ever been. general marks, thank you. laura rosenberger, thank you very much. global threat reaction coming fast and furious around the world to north korea s hydrogen bomb test. and the president said to scrap protections for so-called dreamers, or ending the daca program amid growing backlash from his own party. what does this mean for the hundreds of thousands of dreamers currently in this country? we ll speak to one live right here. massive cleanup after harvey and a huge price tag. 31 crashes, 4 food fights, and the flood of 09.
t the washington post to pull out of trade agreements. what is the end goal there? would it be effective to anger one of your most significant allies in the region? this issue, to your point, represents the way in wish trump s campaign promises are coming to reality here with these foreign conflicts. remember, he campaigned, of course, on withdrawing from different trade agreements, talking tough on trade with other countries, from withdrawing u.s. presence around the world. so all of these things are kind of coming to a head here in north korea. in many ways the president is left with little options, very few options. experts say there are no really great options left. the president is also learning kind of the diplomatic routes here, right? he thought he could have a relationship with the chinese president, thinking that the chinese president could be tougher on north korea. a lot of people said that wouldn t happen. he s realizing that now.
the flows of money and supply that are fueling and providing input for the nuclear and missile program bus we need to understand that china will never have the same interests as we do. that s why it concerns me when we see very vague statements from the president about whether it s cutting off trade with, as you indicated, would be implying china here, or whether it s about china needs to solve this for us. china is never going to solve this for us. it s really dangerous if we begin to think in that way. we also want to say i agree with major general marks on many things. unfortunately, i do disagree with him that the president s words here don t matter. our adversaries and allies alike look to the president s words as a key signal of both deterrence and reassurance. the credibility of our words matter incredibly in these kind of scenarios. one of my biggest concerns i see playing out right now is miscalculation by one of our
that have taken place before we have been able to get the attitude and the flight pattern of that missile to determine it s not provocative either to japan or our neighbors in the south or the region. if it was, united states, number one, would take it down. number two, then that would open the door for a military response. we have to keep that on the table and also be very, very clear that, look, united states and south korea are not looking at the reunification of the peninsula. we re not looking for a one korea solution and the denuclearization of the peninsula is aspirational but it s a pipe dream. it s not going to occur. but, general, you have the president just weeks ago threatening north korea with fire and fury. true. should it threaten the united states once again. now it has clearly threatened the united states once again. the words this morning, it will