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And mayor turner s great relationship with the faith community. we have people at a convention center, about 2500 people there. we ve had 2000 rescue missions with the police department itself. and we have about 230 left. and we re just hopeful that sometime today we ll be able to finish all the rescue missions and then we ll go toward a search mission. you see if there s anybody inside the homes flooded to the roof. chief, given the sprawl of the urban area of houston and the size of your force and the condition of roadways and flooding, talk a bit about the degree of difficulty and the logistics of rescue operations. it s really tough. because roads have been impassable. our police cars, we ve had about 30 of them that have been damaged or destroyed by flood ....
Foreshadowed pardon of controversial sheriff joe arpaio, the latter drawing open and direct criticism from speaker paul ryan. also over the weekend as the president focused on responding to his first major domestic crisis he took on notable fire, incredible comments from defense secretary james mattis and his secretary of state rex tillerson. we ll play those for you and explain why they are so significant at this point in this presidency, and finally, a brand new washington post report that trump s business sought a deal on a trump tower in moscow while he ran for president. we ll speak with one of the reporters who broke that story late yesterday but we begin with the texas flooding, more rain is in the forecast and there is simply nowhere for the water to go. stories of heroism, neighbors and people from hours away helping each other in the depth of the catastrophe. the latest, two people are dead, ....
Ban bands. it will be minimal amount of flooding around lake charles. now that the storm is coming out over the water, it will drift for two days. it s starting to set up south of houston. here s a closer view. here s houston here. new rain bands are developing. the national weather service is saying these bands should shift over houston this morning producing 1 to 2 inch rainfall rates on top of the pictures you re seeing. it s adding insult to injury and the water will continue to go up. the other story is thousands of people will have new damage to their homes because of the dam releases. i was reading the information on the dams. they said they have to release the water out of those dams for weeks it s going to take because the water coming in is so fast that they have to open the doors to those dams. some of these people that have their homes flooded, we could be talking weeks, maybe even months ....
Enough north into central louisiana we start to dry out along the gulf coast. bill karins, we ll be checking back in with you. let s go live to houston. julia, what can you tell us? reporter: what bill was talking about, the bayous. i m standing in front of the white oak bayou on the northwest side. you can hear we can, at least, just the furry of the water rushing over there. while earlier it was rushing over the bridge, it s still extremely high. i just talked to police officer. i pointed out it had come down in inches. he stressed not that much. as you heard what bill was saying, expecting this to rise again. this is exactly what s caused schieffer flooding on the northwest side of town. we saw so many water rescues in the past 12 to 16 hours right in this neighborhood. people who just got ahold of a boat, an inflatable boat of an ....
It puts them in a more law enforcement officers in a more tenuous position, makes their job more difficult. and i ve got to say, mika, bottom lining this, the worst damage that s been done though has been done to donald trump in the eyes of the judiciary. they once again see that this man acts like an autocrat. he has no respect for judges, certainly shown he has no respect for federal judges. the damage to the republican party in my opinion also the damage to the country as this goes on. what more does he need to do? i don t get it. coming up, when will the flooding stop? that s the big question. we ll check in with bill karins and go live to the scene in texas where the devastation from harvey is only just coming to light. fema says it will be there for years. plus bob mueller issues new subpoenas in the russia probe, taken connects back to two former aides to donald trump. ....