When he fired james comey. A number of communities remain in the very real threat of danger. The roads choked off, and First Responders in search and rescue mode. In beaumont the coast guard hacked away at a roof with an ax to rescue a mother and her four children. Also in beaumont, power is out for many, and the water supply has failed. The 120,000 people who lived there have no clean water. The National Guard spent thursday evacuating baptist hospital. Plus, all eyes are on crosby, texas, where there are concerns about more explosions at the archema chemical plant. The evacuation of People Living within a mile and a half of the plant. Meanwhile, there are signs that help is on the way from the president and the administration. Fema says they have already approved 100,000 requests, totaling 15 million of individual assistance. Two republican congressional sources tell nbc news that the Trump Administration is likely to ask for 5. 5 billion at first. That is expected to be split between the Fema Disaster Relief Fund and a Small Business loan fund. There was hope that passing a bill could be included with the debt ceiling, but sources say that fema is burning through the cash they have so fast they may not be able to wait until late september for more help. Yesterday the Vice President toured corpus christi, and even helped clear brush. He assured texans more help was coming. I think karen and i today were most inspired by the volunteers. To see the outpouring of compassion and concern was deeply inspiring to us, and every american should know that even in this difficult time, this disastrous storm, the very best of the people of texas and the very best of the people of america are shining forth. The president also pledged 1 million of his own personal money to the relief fund. Joining us now from southwest houston, gary haake here. I understand some marnl roads have reopened. In fact, some people are starting to return to their homes. People have been able to start coming back to their homes and start this long brutal process of getting back to work. Everything in some of these one story homes was ruined. They need to restart and rebuild their lives. Believe it or not, these are lucky people. If you are living in that addisad addicks or barkers dam area, they still have 10 or 15 more days as they continue to discharge the water out through the dams and into the bayou. Those folks have a longer way to go. The houston Harris County area Flood Control folks say the worst of this is ip deed behind them. Theyre getting rid of this water at a record pace. Even though theyve got Something Like 136,000 structures around the area of damage. Enough to fill the astro dome, they say. More than 3,000 times over. Incredible. Ear going to talk more about the weather and the long road to recovery ahead. Well check back with you in a bit as well. Thanks. Also in houston, the George Brown Center has been serving as a massive shelter. Thats where we find marianna attencio. The water is finally starting to recede in some parts of houston. People are finally starting to head home to start the Recovery Process. Thats exactly what you are seeing here. This is the citys biggest shelter, and weve seen a drop from its peak when it had 10,000 evacuees to 2,500. The last red cross estimate as of last night, 1,750. That means that the people who are still here are the most vulnerable. People who dont have a home to go back to who are still trying to locate missing relatives. If you walk in the hallways, you see still flyers for missing people. People who need Mental Health assist yabs, medical assistance. Yesterday i was with Garrett Haake watching some of the foels who are trying to get back home, and the roads are still very hard to access. The homes are hard to access, and that just means that the road to recovery here in houston will be very long and difficult for many of the people here. All right. Bill karens joins us. Harvey still possibly making trouble. I dont know, but were also now talking about irma. Im going to focus mostly just on harvey now. Theres still Flash Flood Warnings out there and Flash Flood Watches. This storm is still with us. Yesterday wasnt too bad around the memphis area. It did pour. There were a lot of Flash Flood Warnings. I didnt see anything that was really extensive damagewise. No water rescues or anything like that. You can still see the spin of the storm. Its over it is top of nashville, tennessee. Theres still a heavy rain field e shield up through kentucky. Yesterday, we had tornadoes. There were numerous ton tornadoes in areas of alabama. We could even get Severe Weather on this little you see this line of thunderstorms here. That moves into georgia. We could get additional storms there. Reason this area of red, its bone green, kentucky. Just north of nashville. The whole area is under a Flash Flood Warning. Law enforcement has reported there is water on the roads. From the louisville area to Bowling Green, thats the area of greatest concern with harvey. We will track with some of the clouds and that rain today towards West Virginia and a little piece of energy thats rainfall too around the d. C. Area. That wont cause too many problems out there. Again, just mostly kentucky. Its probably the phenyl Flash Flood Warnings well have with the storm. Weve been having flch warnings now for five Straight Days because of harvey. All right. Well talk about irma later on in the program. I know a lot of people are thinking about that as well. Lets switch gears and talk about politics. What could be the most pivotal month of the Trump Presidency yesterday. He continues a summer slide in the polls. Now, while his disapproval gradually rises, this as the washington is hurdled towards the deadline to keep the government operating and out of default. And the lejs lav calendar is short. All of this has to get done. Past tax cuts, fund a border wall that the president says mexico will pay for, and now administer Disaster Recovery in both texas and louisiana. Now, amid all of this, a new report of friction inside the white house from the Washington Post saying the president is chaffing at john kellys moves to reign him in. Several anonymous feel told the post that kellys actions run counter to his love of spontaneity and brashness. Because they consider him strict and morally superior friends of the president said he seems to pine for the days when his boasts he boasts about his president in superlatives, but he has sudden and dark moods. The president is already at work trying to diswade special Counsel Robert Mueller from bringing certain charges. In fact, the wall street journal reports that in documents and meetings trumps attorneys have presented muellers team of arguments that the president did not obstruct justice when firing fbi director james comey back in may. According to the report, people if familiar with the matter said that one memo laid out the case that trump has the Inherent Authority under the destruction u constitution to hire and fire people as he sees fit. You may recall in an interview with lester holt two days after firing comey that the president said he took action because of the justice departments russia investigation. There was no good time to do it, and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself. I said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they could have won. He weighed in about the trump legal teams reported memos tweeting there may never be any charges. Defense lawyers dont usually waste time on preemptive memos responding to frivelous theories of guilt. President trump is reportedly considering ending yet another obama era program. According to reports, the president may announce as early as today that he will pull the plug on the program known as daca. It is allowed 8,000 undocumented imgrapts to receive work permits and deferred deportation. Vice president mike pence says the president is not rushing to a final decision. President trump has said all along that he is getting very careful consideration to that issue. When he makes his decision, he will make it, as he likes to say, with big heart and i know that he will. The question is on deferred action against arrivals, and my position today is that the administration is still reviewing the policy wrv file decision on that front has not been made, and when it is, we will inform everybody in this room. Hundreds of business leerz are speaking out. The ceos of apple, amazon, facebook, and google join roughly 300 Business Leaders urging President Trump to keep the program in place. In a joint letter to President Trump along with congressional leaders, they write, in part, i dreamers are vital. They are part of why we will continue to have a Global Competitive advantage. Still ahead, the Obama Administration had planned to take Andrew Jackson off the 20 billion, but that idea may have hit a roadblock. Later, defense secretary jim mattis dismisses talk that he has disagreed with President Trump over north korea. Those stories and much more coming up next. Whats the story behind Green Mountain coffee and fair trade . Lets take a flight to colombia. This is boris calvo. Boris grows mindblowing coffee. And because we pay him a fair price, he improves his farm and invest in his community to make even better coffee. All for a smoother tasting cup. Green mountain coffee. Thats why at comcast were continuing to make4 7. 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Its due here on wednesday at 2 00 a. M. They have the surge almost approaching and almost getting into the northern Leeward Islands here. You think where is it headed to . Then they were a long ways away. You may not even know until maybe monday until we get a better idea where its headed. This area of High Pressure called the midatlantic bridge, this is over the ocean and especially as we go throughout the summertime. It can be very strong and weak. When its very strong and building close to us, thats when we get the heat waefsz up in the east coast wrr if its a weaker state, it will occur harmlessly out to sea, and you never have to worry about it. The problem is its supposed to be a little stronger over the next week, and its going to steer it a little further towards the west. It will be somewhere north of hispaniola and about five days from now it could either turn northwards or go into the southeast. Well have to see. No one knows if its going to be a big issue or not. Now i think its just because its coming on the heels of what we saw with harvey. Everybody is on edge. It reminds me with 2004 and 2005. A lot of fear. Theres not much we can do reason. We have to wait. Thanks for that. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is raising mnuchin avoid an answer when asked about it in an interview with cnbc. Secretary lu, before you, your predecessor, supported the idea of removing Andrew Jackson from the 20 bill and putting Harriet Tubman on. Do you support that idea . Let me just comment on, you know, ultimately we will be looking at this issue. Its not something that im focused on at the moment. The number one issue why we change the currency is to stop counterfeiting. Certainly there are Cultural Assets as to who is on what bills, right . People have been on the bills for a long period of time. This is something well consider. Right now we have a lot more important issues to focus on. 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The nfl wraps up its final week of the preseason, the College Football regular season is already underway and last night a big ten kickoff. A second ranked ohio state played its Season Opener on the road against indiana. To bloomington we go where buckeyes freshman running back j. K. Dobbins set a School Record rushing for 181 yards in his college debut. Not a bad start. Following a tight first half, ohio state blows its open after the break. Buckeye qbj. T. Barrett with three touchdown passes in the second half, including a pair of big ones in the third quarter. First on a connection with Paris Campbell who races 74 yards up the sideline for the score, and then a 59 yarder brought to the house by receiver johnny dickson. Ohio state would add another two scores in the fourth to beat the hoosiers 4921. A sigh of relief for buckeye fans. Now, turning to Major League Baseball and a last minute blockbuster deal ahead of the midnight trade deadline. Just before time was uphnj. Bolstering their run for the postseas postseason. Picking up second baseman Brandon Phillips from the Atlanta Braves in exchange for a prospect hours after acquiring outfielder justin upton in a deal from the tigers. Now, chicago cubs strengthening their outfield and some speed as well on their base pass. Acquiring outfielder leonis martin. Veteran right hander Miguel Gonzalez in a trade with the white sox for a minor league infielder. Here in new york in the bronx the yankees take the first of a fourgame series against the al east rival boston 62 thanks to a dominant performance on the mound by starter sabathia. At the stadium to bear witness was Supreme Court justice and bronx native sonja society mieor who was fittingly seated in the judges chambers. The section in right field named for the yankees rookie slugger aaron judge. Still ahead, the state Department Takes aim at russia after moscow ordered the u. S. To cut diplomatic staff in that country. Plus, a closer look at Vice President mike pences visit to hurricane ravaged texas. Were going