very terrifying. we re by ourselves. he s diabetic, and sometimes he goes into a coma and i go bananas. that woman and her husband are two of the more than 3500 who have been saved by crews in the houston area. president trump is on his way from austin, to austin from corpus christi, for a walk-through at the emergency operations center. meanwhile, harvey is back over the gulf, gearing up for its third landfall, which will only dump more water on to the houston area, a local meteorologist put it into perspective, 1 trillion gallons of rain has fallen there over four days. that amount would run niagara falls for 15 days. meanwhile, the mayor of houston is still under fire for not ordering an evacuation ahead of the storm. earlier he ripped into critics and challenged them to come and help with rescues now. the demand for shelter has led
it, and look. nobody is going to get through a storm this size and the severity of harvey unscathed. our hearts go out to the folks in texas, and sure to keep them in our hearts and prayers. i want you to know the president and his team, we ve been in constant contact. i ve had multiple face to face meetings with the fema administrator just since he came online in june. we feel like our federal partners are there with us, and leaning forward with us, we re going to do whatever we have to to protect the people of our state. unfortunately of course, it s a good thing when you need it. we have a lot of experience with hurricanes and other floods. we re just a year removed from thousand year flooding in louisiana last august. that was not a tropical storm or a named storm at all.
now taxiing on its way up to austin texas. that s where the president and first lady will be touring a command center they re leaving corpus christi, they wanted to get a brief on the rescue efforts underway down there. they were not towering the damage corpus christi was not hit in the way austin was. texas is not the only state that is feeling the effects of harvey, louisiana is also dealing with flooding from the storm. evacuations are underway as we speak there. and all of this is happening as the city of new orleans marks the anniversary of katrina. louisiana s governor joins me live next. (woman) when you have type 2 diabetes,