on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. the next objective is to stabilize disaster survivors. once we move them we re able to extract them from different areas and rescue them, we have to get them into shelters. this shelter mission will be a very heavy lift. we re anticipating over 30,000 people being placed in shelters temporarily to stabilize the situation and provide for their care. sandra: emergency mode. fema saying 30,000 people have been placed in shelters so far as the army corp of engineers releases water from two houston-area dams to control to control the amount of flooding as the rising amount of water
disastrous situation, this human tragedy of what is happening there, deserve at least in progress good grades. eric: you talk about presidents going down too soon. he will be there tomorrow but obviously avoiding houston because of the pictures that we re seeing and trying not to interfere with the disaster recovery efforts there. i think they re doing this exactly the right way and that s why i say i give them very good grades in progress. eric: on the broader issue of local government and potential failures and there has been a lot of talk about evacuation and the mayor of houston turner did not call for an evacuation. in rita 100 some odd people died trying to flee the city. you have the issue of the bayous, the cement gullies. the army corp of engineers haven t finished projects. is there a failure of local government to try to deal with the flood threat? the third deadly flood just in