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Were lye in the cnn newsroom. Thanks for being with us. It is a storm for the record books. Harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nations fourth largest city. Around 3,000 National Guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. Some families desperate to get to Higher Ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. Pets are being carrie...

Enclosed allowing spectators. that is because this prefecture has no state of emergency declared. as a result fans filled the # 600 seat arena, everyone was wearing masks, clapped to cheer on the athletes and for the most part seemed to maintain a social distance. this is a rare experience given the ban on spectators at the 97% of events. and even though the number of fans was limited, there was a noticeable change in the atmosphere. people recognized the rare opportunity that they had being amo...

Christmas market in france to 250 people killed at churs in sri lanka to my killed in afghanistan. they still have the ability to carry out mass casualty attacks and thats with or without baghdadi in charge. and unfortunately, weve also seen this script before. in 2006 as you know, the bush administration killed al zawahiri, the predecessor group to isis. in 2010 they killed baghdadis predecessor. in 2011, barack obama killed both osama bin laden and anwar awaki. were still fighting a war on ter...

>> and david -- >> this is common sense. >> david, this is also, as you said, on a state level because it could not only affect senate and congress nationally, but state legislate churs which are very important here. >> absolutely. and, you know, as you said, i mean, texas is loosening restrictions in the wake of el paso. so this is not just a federal issue. its a state issue. and i agree that theres a lot of grassroots activism in the last few years that is makeing difference. were not at a tip...

Accumulated an extraordinary amount of power and is involved chiefly in the congressional negotiations. but what i find when i talk to white house officials, even at a very senior level, people who when they used to have big, senior staff meetings in the roosevelt room, people in that room, they really dont know whats going on and its a smaller and smaller group who actually do know whats going on. nick mulvaney, hes come in during a crisis. he brought some of his own people. hes doing the best ...

The presidents playing a long game. he hopes to ultimately democrats hand and increase the chances of reaching a broader compromise on immigration. he wants funding for border security, including the wall and curtailing legal entries, all of which his gop colleagues insist theyve got covered. >> that consensus bill has not i think -- weve been working with the white house on it but i dont think its been fully vetted with him yet and it contains all of the things that he mentioned in that intervi...

Waters rise. we have paying churs from an permanent building in houston where the water is flooding the entire first floor right now. and louise walker is joining us, she took these pictures and is still at the apartment. how are you doing? >> caller: were fine so far. were out of the water that was in my apartment. we have managed to go upstairs to a neighbors apartment. >> so what the is situation where you are now? >> caller: where i am now bottom level is waist deep in water. we have helicop...

The guy in the hallway going to the bathroom every day. >> that may lead to awkward moments. >> actually. i believe there were a lot of people around donald trump who didnt believe priebus was loyal to him. a dinner they had before where trump and others were at, that subject certainly came up. i think part of bringing scaramucci was to lead to reince priebus moving on to greener past churs. he accomplished that goal, after that maybe he was too many for him to move on. >> in 11 days. >> 11 days...

Which a churs. this will be the hottest ever. medford, a good chance on wednesday. salem. as we head through thourz, portland, organize porpg this is a first order climate station. we have a longer period of record there. 107 is the all-time record high. we have chance on thursday. if we dont do it thursday, we could do it on friday. the pacific northwest is the place to watch. one more for you here. an army medic who richked his life to save fellow soldiers during the vietnam war has become t...

Having your expensive scum churs sitting in the rich peoples homes collecting dust. is that accurate? >> well, i dont know -- i didnt sell too many expensive sculptures, but i like the functionality of the home ss and like to be creative and make creative thing, and i like the things that i create to make a difference in society and in someones life, and not just be a static blob that sits somewhere and does not benefit people on a raw scale. >> gregory kloene doing some big things with a big yd...