the midst of a tragedy, the victory and triumph comes on the other side of tragedy. thank you for being here. we ve heard some encouraging words from people who been through so much but remain strong in the face of all of their devastation. it s heartbreaking to see the water so high but the pastor sounds so resilient. howard people coping? the words that we have heard more and more over the last few days is texas strong. people are resilient, their determined, and there helping each other. they re coming from all over the country to help. these folks are helping each other. in their staying texas strong. molly: where tracking another storm that s been brewing in the atlantic. a potential impact for hurricane irma and were could be headed. plus firefighters are battling the largest fires that they ve seen thanks for loading, sweetie. .oh, burnt-on gravy?
the standing water that s their we just had our walk a reporter standing in front of a highway that looks like a canal. howdy major you re finding the people you need to? is working with the local officials to try to find the folks, they know where they are and got us in. we have aircraft during searches consistently working with other agencies with aircraft in the air. the governor did something phenomenal. he decided to push as much capability as we could push down instead of the pole system the state uses. he realized this is going to be a bad storm, like nothing ever saw. we began pushing capability out there so communities didn t have to ask like is a normal
the midst of a tragedy, the victory and triumph comes on the other side of tragedy. thank you for being here. we ve heard some encouraging words from people who been through so much but remain strong in the face of all of their devastation. it s heartbreaking to see the water so high but the pastor sounds so resilient. howard people coping? the words that we have heard more and more over the last few days is texas strong. people are resilient, their determined, and there helping each other. they re coming from all over the country to help. these folks are helping each other. in their staying texas strong. molly: where tracking another storm that s been brewing in the atlantic. a potential impact for hurricane irma and were could be headed. plus firefighters are battling the largest fires that they ve seen
temperatures are expected to cool but in the night meantime a number of records have been broken. on september 1 san francisco hit 106. that s an all-time high considering the average is only 70 degrees. back to. molly: this is one story worth watching. meanwhile, powerful storm is turning far out in the atlantic days after hurricane harvey devastated southeast texas. adam is in the extreme weather center. hurricane irma yesterday a category two storm, now a category three hurricane. and actually they clocked to win 730 miles per hour. it s moving off to the west. it is still a ways out there. it will take a little while before it gets worse heading. here s what it s looking at. it will be running over warmer water. from the category three were expecting to be a category four
molly: the entire texas national guard call to duty in southeastern texas. close to 12000 members have been helping with search and rescue efforts in delivering supplies and water to people in need. brigadier general, pat hamilton is here. he is a dual status commander for the texas national guard. sir, i know you re busy in the men and women serving their happy to do it. they re probably tired and busy as well. thank you for joining us. if you can bring us up today, how s the texas national guard helping right now, what s the status? it s not just the texas national guard. the dual status commander role allowed me to command all of the department of defense national guard from other states. all the department of defense assets coming into the area. that s been tremendous. right now are made focuses in east texas where we re still doing search and rescue evacuations because of the high water. were also beginning to transition a focus on distribution of commodities like water and fo