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Responding. thankful for the first responders and the terrific work theyre doing. were working to aid them by deploying 3,000 national guard members as well as providing about 200 or so boats and helicopters for emergency rescues. but its these first responders who are making life and death decisions, who helping so many people live. im so proud of them and what theyre doing. i want our fellow texans to know well continue to effort until we get to every single person. >> downtown houston is obvi...

What emergency officials are asking people to do, call 911 for help and stay on the phone until this is getting answered. sir, this sounds dire. how are you guys holding up, and what are you doing at this hour? >> well, it is. our citys underwater right now. our bayous are overflowing, our roadways are flooded, our neighborhoods are flooding, and weve got officers and firefighters throughout the city. but, obviously, when you have a 500-year, 1000-year flood that is unprecedented for our city, i...

Area. then the big rivers have record breaking floods in the days ahead. and heres the worst part. we said this is a five-day event. todays day three. two more days of rain. our computer models, one still says in the next couple days another 25 inches of rain in the houston area. newer 15 in victoria. it is saying san antonio not too bad or corpus christi not too bad. this is one of our other computer models still saying another 7 or 13. you get the picture. some of the worst things thats ever h...

Something to hover around for a long period of time you will get a surge and thats where most of our worries come in with a surge over to been our structures. here the surge is on the issue but you have the initial server that came through but its a prolonged rainfall that will continually count through our systems. what we did particularly in the houston area with our attics we left the gates open for as long as we could let that water natural flow continue until a point in time around 8:00 ocl...

And the toxic relationship thats being built with our neighbor to the south, mexico, it concerns arizona a great deal. they are very dependent on trade and the sales revenue generated by visitors for mexico. that toxic relationship -- i think you have one issue. its going to be health care right now. people will be eliminated by the replacement idea thats being promoted now by the freezing of eligibility and by limiting access to health care in this state, which was terribly uninsured to begin w...

Ornaments in their attics, you can still find them all over the place. i certainly have them. >> they are beautiful and i think a lot of people do actually remember them. christmas is important for so many people around the world, right, obviously we know this, what do you think is the number one reason that people wait for christmas? what is it that brings us together? >> you know, we all get a pass at christmas time to be sentimental. [laughter] >> okay. >> right? >> right. >> open up flood ga...

Is. and so anybody who needs help may decide to dial 911. that will not help them. theres nobody who is going to come help them at this point. in fact, the authorities spent some time today going from door to door talking to those who chose not to leave. and actually writing their names down and their addresses so that after matthew passes through, they can go check on them to see whether they have survived the storm or not. the authorities say that theyre disappointed that some people seem to h...

This hurricane. what theyre not understanding, according to the authorities is, that this is not simply a wind event. this is going to be tidal surge. in this area, it could exceed 12 feet. so im 55", add another 55" to that and go even higher and you can see, even some of these homes are up on the dunes here. the water will be in the homes. now, as we saw during katrina, some people had to crawl into their attics. and so the authorities here have been trying to do everything they can to scare p...

Ineptitude and incompetence at every level of government and the way that people suffered, the way people lost their lives, the way people were in sweltering heat, high humidity, stranded at the convention center, stranded at the dome, on the roofs and attics of their homes, only, i believe, by continuing to remind people will we recognize and understand how important it is for the nation, for states and cities to have their emergency response act better together today than it was ten years ago....

Reminding people about the ineptitude and incompetence at every level of government and the way that people suffered, the way people lost their lives, the way people were in sweltering heat, high humidity, stranded at the convention center, stranded at the dome, on the roofs and attics of their homes, only, i believe, by continuing to remind people will we recognize and understand how important it is for the nation, for states and cities to have their emergency response act better together today...