he says he believes most people have left here, although police worry for folks who try to ride it out. they ve never seen anything like this and they don t have anything to judge it by. they re worried about coming back because if you go 10, 15, 20 miles due north of here, it is the only road on the way to tallahassee 30 or 40 miles to the north. that s the lowest lying marsh area. in middletown and others and they expect that will flood for days if they get this predicted 12 to 14 foot storm surge. a lot of people wanted to ride it off because they didn t want to be cut off to check on their property. a bad mixture of being stuck between a rock and hard place. but at the end of the day people here have to realize you can replace property, you cannot replace lives. this one will be life threatening, no doubt about it. sandra: real quick. we have to get to janice dean. do you still have electricity there?
shepard, we ve been here about two hours. it s a consistent flow of boats going out in the water and then coming out. here s a family. they ve been here 10, 15, 20 minutes just sitting on the side of the barrier. we re told this will go on for hours. shepard: people to the west of there, i m sure there s people in west houston and the big city don t realize it s such a complete disaster there. yeah, this is about a two-hour drive from houston. i understand that there was about 25 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. so more than an inch an hour. our meteorologists and people are saying this is an absolute disaster. like you said, the mayor saying the entire town is under water. shepard: ask your photographer to show us around while you re there. sure. let s walk down towards the water. here to my left is another family getting off a boat or what appears to be a family.
york. glad you re with outside this monday. it s july 18th. a lot going on. nice to see you as well. nice to see you. christine s still off, i guess. two more casualties in the uk hacking scandal leaving rupert murdock s empire reeling this morning. rebekah brooks arrested. reported friday she had resi resigned. she s been released on bail. it s not clear if she ll testify tomorrow. last night in a shock move that has left scotland yard for accepting almost $20,000 in hospitality from a private health clinic after he had yound yund gone surgery. that health clinic was represented by a p.r. firm owned by former editor of the news of the world. this picture is building up. this cozy relationship between the police and senior executives at news of the world. that made his position very difficult. he decided to step down last night. insisting all the while he had done nothing wrong. the issue of my integrity, let me set clear that i the the people that know me know my i
raise revenues and reduce the budget deficit we going to have a fiscal train wreck if we decide to print money, we are going to end up with you inflation. sean: japan had a lost decade. japan tried a series of stimulus i think eight or nine total, you would know more than it. they kept trying and they never completely recovered from their downturn. is that something we could see in america that we go 10, 15, 20 years without the economic recovery, job creation? the president said we face catastrophe if we don t pass the stimulus and unemployment wouldn t go above 8% if we do now it is 9.9%. if we don t do it inflation or fiscal costs are going to lead to higher interest rates, higher mortgage rates, that is going to crowd out the recovery could have a double dip recession or stagnation. hopefully that is not going to happen. hopefully we are not going to make the same mistakes like
raise revenues and reduce the budget deficit we going to have a fiscal train wreck if we decide to print money, we are going to end up with you inflation. sean: japan had a lost decade. japan tried a series of stimulus i think eight or nine total, you would know more than it. they kept trying and they never completely recovered from their downturn. is that something we could see in america that we go 10, 15, 20 years without the economic recovery, job creation? the president said we face catastrophe if we don t pass the stimulus and unemployment wouldn t go above 8% if we do now it is 9.9%. if we don t do it inflation or fiscal costs are going to lead to higher interest rates, higher mortgage rates, that is going to crowd out the recovery could have a double dip recession or stagnation. hopefully that is not going to happen. hopefully we are not going to