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Catastrophic flooding. yes rrks additional catastrophes throughout this region because of the heavy rainfall and the story youre going to hear a lot today is what happens with the barker reservoir and the addicks reservoirs. at least i know the addicks was. these are close to overtopping. this is the addiks reservoir. this is the graph they have of the website tracking where it is. this purple line shows you the top of the spillway at 108 feet. this blue line shows you, as weve gone through sund...

Everybody that weve been working with is fantastic. what weve been trying to do is make sure we go from the phase of rescue and reaction to the phase of recovery and a smooth transition. were also going to be assisting the state and local governments in reallocation of federal accidents to disaster relief, looking at granting immediate foreclosure relief. insurance, mortgage insurance, as well as insurance for rehabilitation through the section 203k program. section 108 loan guarantees for infra...

So much that us releasing this water really isnt going to make that huge of a difference comparatively but the alternative is having these da s s compromised in some ways or having the reservoir, some sort of failure. thats what they are trying to avoid but as weve been saying, we -- were now at 108 feet, it was the capacity and its just spilling over on the north side and officials admit they dont know whats going to happen here. >> they dont know -- >> just to explain to our viewers, the idea ...

A disaster and people are hurting to pay for their own political pish list. >> this started saturday when a new york congressman pete king tweeted he will vote for harvey aid, adding one bad turn doesnt deserve another. >> a lot of politics involved there. whats ahead for the next couple of days and when is it going to end? bill karins is standing by for us. >> theres a couple stories developing since overnight. one of them we started following yesterday with the reservoirs. this is downtown, ...

Homes filling up and beginning to flood. about 30 minutes ago, eric, we saw a couple walking, literally clutching what was their lifes belongings just walking out of this. certainly not happy with the decision with officials not telling these folks to get out. but this has never happened in history, this is unprecedented. that reservoir youre looking at behind me, addicks, is 108 feet high. they did not think they would get there. yesterday attempting to maintain control with a controlled releas...

Doing. >> thank you, sir. >> brock is doing a fantastic job. and elaine. everybody that we have been working with is fantastic. and what we have been trying to do is make sure that we go from the phase of rescue and reaction to the phase of recovery and a smooth transition. we are also going to be assisting the state and local governments in reallocation of federal assets to disaster relief. looking at granting immediate foreclosure relief. insurance, mortgage insurance, as well as rehabilitatio...

Welcome back. hurricane harvey is the strongest storm to hit texas in about 50 years and the strongest hurricane to hit the u.s. mainland in almost 12 years. and we continue to follow it here on msnbc. to give you some perspective, here are the wind gusts that were talking about here in the past 12 hours. peak wind gusts around port arkansas around 132. lamar, 110. rockport, 108. all throughout 2 night, we are talking about the threat of wind gusts, rain, storm surge. but now, theres there appea...

Gust that was reported. 132-mile-per-hour, 125, 110, rockport 108. now you know, youve seen some of those pictures, what a 108-mile-per-hour wind gust can do to structures and thats a low end category 3. still a hurricane but wont be for long. it is drifting to the north at only 2 miles an hour. now we start that painful process of seeing where this drifts to in the days ahead. weve had this feeder band over galveston and mostly just north of houston. this is just a tremendous amount of rain tha...

President trump to arrive in phoenix for a rally there. steve harrigan is on the scene. he joining us from the protests outside the arena. hey, steve. >> tucker, there is two sides of the street here. the side where im at where the anti-trump protesters are gathering with their signs. the other side of the road are people filing in for the trump speech. you see the two sides giving each other the finger. cursing, swearing, yelling at each other. its 108 degrees here. this is not a happy crowd on...

Or a canopy. captain debris is on the ground with his bank the plane and so. and explosion blue off the canopy as he flew 350 mile-per-hour over michigan. the blast damaging the bottom of the plane, billy landed the jet. heather: the american bar association suggest letting illegal immigrants practice law in the united states. joining us to discuss this, thank you for coming on this morning. lets put it on the screen. 108, barred mission not be denied based solely on immigration. you can be a la...