Under and look for them. As much as he wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. We knew it was going to be a recovery mission. To help shoulder the burden, everyday people are pitching in. These are National Guard members taking a break at a houston area mattress store. The owner stepped up to help out in a time of need. Laura anthony is in houston, helping shoulder some of the reporting duties. Laura is traveling with a convoy of rescue boats. Heres what she reported earlier this afternoon. Lets take a look in front of us. This is an intersection, a beautiful residential neighborhood. Lots of folks still have their cars here. They may be in those houses . Yeah. As a matter of fact, for every person weve gotten out today, weve had four tell us they didnt want to leave. Reporter we just went by a group of guys on the second floor of an apartment. You were telling them, some of these boats may not be here later. Yeah. Earlier there were a lot more boats a
Out of texas, despite the horrors faced from harvey. Its broken records and will likely require a long and expensive recovery. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. One congresswoman believes it will cost 150 billion, thats the cost of katrina and super storm sandy combined. 50 inches of rain have hit some areas, a record for the United States. The sudden rush of water has left thousands stranded. So far, more than 10,000 have been rescued. 17,000 stayed in shelters last week, but that number will likely rise. The president and first lady arrived in texas today. President trump talked about its historic impact. Probably never anything so historic in terms of damage and in terms of ferocity as what we witnessed with harvey. There have been incredible stories of rescue with Good Samaritans joining the effort. But the storm has claimed eight lives, including a 34year veteran of the Houston Police department. While reporting to duty, he drove below a flooded under
Constitutional lawyer and law professor in his own right. He is also, as a member of congress, on the judiciary committee. And tonight with things getting slightly nutty in the republican effort to somehow try to use the courts to overturn the president ial election and install the loser instead of the winner of that election as the next president , we called congressman raskin tonight on short notice to help us with some of these latest developments here. I will tell you were going to get into this in detail but those latest developments involve, among other things, the fbi turning up at the office of the Texas Attorney general to serve a federal subpoena on him. The Texas Attorney general is the guy who has brought this case to the u. S. Supreme court to try to overthrow the election on the president s behalf. Turns out dude has some has his own very serious legal problems back home, and his personal legal problems and this Supreme Court case hes waging on behalf of the president , t
one prosecutor assigned to the case recently left. an unusual step so close to an indictment. another prosecutor departed for a private law firm and has expressed reservations about the merits of the case. one key witness testified that mccabe had no motive to lie because he was authorized as the fbi s deputy director to speak to the media, so he would not have had to hide any discussions with reporters. another important witness testified he couldn t remember how the leak unfolded. both of those witnesses testimony would have been crucial to any prosecution. and the times raises the prospect that maybe prosecutors took this to a grand jury to try to get from that grand jury an indictment of mccabe and maybe that effort failed. maybe the grand jury said no, we re not going to do it. if a grand jury declined to indict, that would be an embarrassment for prosecutors. reporters matt zapotosky and spencer shu at the washington post have more detail reporting today. both on the inter
were falsified. he s defending his close relationship with that deputy. how many times have i been where, to the bahamas with bates? i believe once. i ve been twice with the other reserve deputy. sheriff stanley glanz also saying today he has no plans to resign. we are live in tulsa with the latest. plus a bomb shell report claims the fbi admits some of its top forensic examiners gave false testimony over the span of two decades and some of those cases the defendants were executed. i ll talk with a reporter who broke that story. and just days after that gyrocopter at the capitol, a man with a so-called suspicious package climbs the fence at the white house. the latest on that incident is coming up in your morning s first read on politics. and you can join the conversation online @newsnation on twitter, facebook, and instagram. we ll be right back.