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houston, sylvester turner. after a brutal august, a now-weakened president trump faces a challenging september. i am fully committed to working with congress, and i don t want to be disappointed by congress. do you understand? can he get a budget passed, raise the debt limit, keep the government open, get his border wall funded? i ll talk to republican senator roy blunt of missouri. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. matthew continetti. susan page. and eddie glaude of princeton university. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year. this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. we re going to get to the latest on the flooding in texas and the recovery efforts in a moment. but we begin with some very big news overnight while you were sleeping. north korea carried out its sixth ....
we signed it now it s going through hopefully quick. plenty of praise for recovery officials. what a job. the water is disappearing we have a long way to go but the water is disappearing. the flood waters are disappearing, but the clean up and recovery facing millions ever texans is just beginning. we ll get updates from our team in texas as well as the mayor of houston and the head of fema, brock long. plus we ll look at the potential health risk as result of harvey and hear from bob schieffer about the spirit of the lone star state and its ability to get through tough times. as tough as this was, it s been a wonderful thing, even for the country to watch for the world to watch. but as congress heads back to washington and face battles over funding the government, will that spirit of unity prompted by harvey last? we ll talk about that and the president s plan to potentially overturn an obama administration directive that protects children of undocumented imm ....
pointing out, there s been an escalation, a constant exclas back and forth. reporter: the north koreans fired a missile over japan not long ago. they threatened guam not long ago. and now this after just a couple of days ago, a massive show of military force by the united states, south korea and japan, a massive flyover. military exercises here that were to some extent unprecedentsed. and yet the north koreans keep pressing forward. the analysis in this part of the world is that the north koreans are clearly testing and pushing the trump administration to see how they will respond. they see an administration that s perhaps weakened, that has low approval ratings, that s somewhat in disarray, and isn t able to get much done, so now they are seizing this moment, many would argue, north koreans are trying to assert their will. this regime sees its very existence tied to nuclear weapons and advanced missile capability. they see themselves acting in self-defense. they see ....
michelle miller spent the day with a health official spreading the word about the health risks. the big key is flooded water you know is unsafe. reporter: this doctor is making the round in areas that were flooded in houston. as the harris county public health director, he is warning residents about the risks they face, while cleaning up their homes. then me of all of this is mold and mold loves moisture. he got a foot of water and now mold is growing in her garage, and inside her house. when you took out the, the cabinetry and the sheet rock, were you wearing protective masks. no. see, that s what we have been saying, make sure you wear protection when you are doing all this. what we don t want while you are fryi trying to help everything and get back to normal life, is, that you also get sick in the process. doctor shaw says it is important to clean up fast because of what contaminated walter leaves behind. floodwater can harbor dangerous bacteria wh ....
texas for the last several weeks. i represent part of the houston area, north houston and into other areas of harris county. houston is one of many cities in harris county, texas. and of course i m going talk bout hurricane harvey. on august 26, texans across the state braced themselves for hurricane harvey. it was a quick hurricane in that it was developed very quickly in the gulf of mexico. texas, it southeast near corpus christi, in rockport. and did considerable damage in rockport. i understand from congressman farenthold that represents the area that the entire small town was just obliterated by hurricane harvey. that s right on the coast of texas. hurricane harvey made its way up the coast toward houston. riding the coast and the gulf of mexico. when it got to houston, texas, it slowed down to some extent. and for five days it rained. it rained all day and all night . and the flood waters rose in the houston-harris county area. all told, we got about 50 inches of ....