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Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new warnings to residents. Get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly p ....
Struck by here, seeing all the stories of emotion, all the stories of loss, of devastation still unfolding. we do not know the extent of the damage here. very little in terms of empathy from this president. very little in terms of emotion or talking directly to the people of texas. he s been talking about the businesses, talking about the response and his crowd. certainly this is a test, a new moment for this president. how he ll ultimately be judged, brianna, as every president is in a disaster like this, is not on today, it s on the response and the recovery and how texas rebuilds if they get federal funds, et cetera, months, perhaps even years, from now. brianna? that is right, and so many people in need as we look at these pictures. jeff zeleny is going to stand by for us as we await president trump going to this emergency center. we hope to get more information about how things are going in texas. i want to go now to houston which is where more than 3500 ....