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And that does it for this edition of Andrea Mitchell reports. Im Chris Jansing in for Andrea Mitchell. Follow the show online, facebook and twitter at mitchell reports. Katy tur is up next here on msnbc. Thank you very much. Hurricane harvey with winds of up to 110 Miles Per Hour is bearing down on the texas gulf coast at this hour. It has the hall marks of a historic storm. The city of Corpus Christi lies directly in its path. Voluntary evacuations are now under way. And landfall is expected to...

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Professionals to respond to certain calls and they were law-enforcement officers but those officials issued statements praising law-enforcement for their efforts and swift response. >> matt finn, thank you very much. raking tonight, state police in delaware have arrested five people found in congressman barry scanlons vehicle in connection with that carjacking. the jury and the trial of forme minnesota police officer jill deliberating after 24 hours of sequestered discussion over three days and ...

Cover hurricane harvey. here are live pictures at the coast in corpus christi. you can see the waters there starting to churn. rain, were seeing. the rain bands were seeing along the coastline, too, as well. joining me now by phone is barry scanlon -- excuse me, not by phone, on camera. former assistant to the director of fema under bill clinton. barry, thank you very much for joining us. i want to talk about the current fema administrator and how he is saying that the president is being apprise...

Right information. and they, you know, have the tracker that gets it to you every four hours. so i think the professionals there are doing their job and working well within the federal family to get the right information out. of course, you would like to have a director and a leader of all the different agencies. but theres a process to that. >> yeah. barry scanlon. thank you very much. good to know, sir. >> thank you, katy. >> nbcs jacob rascon is live in houston. what are you seeing there? how...

public-private partnership to build disaster resistant communities. welcome and thank you for joining us. what is a disaster-resistant community? >> it is a public-private partnership with citizens, government, and the public prate-sector to make sure communities are prepared and ready to respond when any hazard happens. make sure the businesses are open, the schools are open, so they are taking steps like training mitigation -- >> lets look at washington and. you have got cities acros...

Dollars. no price can be put on thousands of lives lost. how does a nation begin to address a crisis of this magnitude? joining me former fema official barry scanlon is with us. you look at the human toll. the immediate needs of people. obviously, theres food, water, energy, supplies, blackouts. the magnitude of that, 10,000 plus dead, tolls still rising. hundreds of thousands homeless. what is the first thing you have to do at this moment? >> it is a massive logistical effort. they obviously ha...

They are going to need a lot of help doing it >> sean: in the case of these communities that have been wiped out we saw the case of this young baby being rescued under the rubble. this guy was two miles out at sea, he was rescued. what im not seeing in a lot of these images is a lot of rescue teams. youve got to wonder if there are people buried in the rubble in some of these shots we are looking at without the personnel to help find them. >> without is probably the case. we saw that in the indi...