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In one part. city of beaumont without water, the grid went down and it s surrounded by water which means the roads are impassable. creating an air lock to left stuff or get high enough trucks where you can get the flow of water and start distribution points. the problem with water is distributing it. it s heavy. it s not easy to handle. handle it in bottles and consider a community like this that may be four or five miles. where do you put the water point where people can come. you can t get it in so you may talk about using air left support to bring it in and set it down and this endistribute it to people equitably to keep them alive. when you look at the town here in this great metropolitan area of houston, there s about four or five different houston operating. let s talk about that. four or five different houstons. where we are downtown, it looks ....
Basically normal. things have dried out. but then come a few miles west and here is what you re looking at. what are all the different houstons you re seeing? this is a pretty upscale community, still have access. le still have electricity. explain that. why do we see lights on in some of these homes clearly people have evacuated from? a lot of people in these homes. people are staying here. a lot of them are staying here. because their second floors are fine. some took water on the first floor. done some minor opening up but have electricity air-conditioning and television. so that s a good sign? or. that s a good sign because if the electricity go out most of these people have to leave because you don t have the sewer system working or water. maintaining the grid under these conditions, my hat s off to the utility people in this harris county, whatever they ve done, they ve done it well because ....
To say we re with you, and there s a lot to be said. we ll hear from the president this afternoon. and before we go to break, two of houstons most famous residents have a message for neighbors. former president george w.h. bush and former first lady barbara bush releasing a statement saying we are in maine but our hearts are in houston. praying for all fellow h houstonians and those answering the call to help their neighbors. this we know, houston and texas will come together and rebuild. that from george h.w. and barbara bush a bit earlier today. our continuing coverage of harvey and its impact continues in just a moment. you do all this research ....
Hosting the super bowl. this is fabulous. this is really the sports state of america, we ve got super bowls here and except none of your teams were in the super bowl. they ve got the wrong teams in the super bowl. it should be between the houston texans and the dallas cowboys! . leyland: they agree with that, and there may be a few folks who disagree, it was a rough time for the texans and we can admit that, a quarterback problem there. when it comes to this, this is a chance to highlight the city and houstons had a hard go of it. you would think because of the down turn in oil, but despite that fact we added more than 200,000 new jobs in the state of texas this last year and more texans with jobs today than ever before. our economy is thriving, look at this area right around here and you see the level of energy, not oil energy, but the energy of the people, the vibrancy of the people of this state and there was no state better than texas, especially as concerns jobs or economic ....
Abby: thousands joined the reverend al sharpton for a civil rights march. and nationwide 50 cities hosting pro-immigrant rallies in defiance of mr. trump s pledge to crack down on illegals. also this morn being morning, a twist in the mysterious case of a man who jumped out of a plane with 200 grand strapped to his back. finish he may have been a contractor. cooper famously hijacked a plane in 1971 before collecting ransom money and parachuting out of the back. the fbi closing the case last july after the 45-year-old trail went cold. and the houstons got trounced by the patriots and the falcons pummeling the seattle seahawks but the game upstaged ....