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Possible. red cross along with cities, counties and the state of texas have set up evacuation shelters throughout the state with more than enough capacity as fema indicated with 30,000 evacuees sheltered. but our agency is more involved with the painstaking process of years of rebuilding that it will take to rebuild many of these communities. we managed the block grant for katrina, for rita and for other affected areas. >> sandra: put this into perspective for us then. were looking at femas effo...

Officials, felt they werent really in good contact with federal emergency management officials. how have those contacts been like for you? do you feel as though you are hearing enough from the federal government at this point in terms of assets being brought into the area? help and assistance being brought into the area? >> yes. those contacts have been fine. weve done this, i was not here for rita when it kim through our area, but i was here for hurricane ike, and weve been through many, many f...

Them. we have hurricane rita, and i covered that as well. the evacuation that took place was a bit of a disaster as you are aware of. >> those memories trying to linger all those people moving out of the highway. >> there is a lot of things to consider. from the people that i spoke to was a personal decision of whether they decided to stay or go. >> thomas. >> as we think of rita and what the nation was going through at that time. it was a month africa trina. the -- katrina. that storm that deal...

We are seeing a lot of the devastation. what is it the rest of the country can do? >> thats a great question. donate to red cross. we welcome, if people want to volunteer after the storm is passed, i know our neighbors in louisiana when they had hurricane rita texans poured into louisiana to help clean up, after katrina went into louisiana, we went in to help. then rita came into southeast texas. we welcome volunteers and donations to red cross. we are thank you to the president for signing an e...

See 13 missiles tests and 21 missile launches, on part, what we saw last year. these were short-range missiles. this wasnt the long form or long-range missiles that wed seen that could potentially reach guam and north america. the united states said theyd launch fire and fury if theyre towards guam. given the fact its the same from north korea, they would monitor the situation. neil: an understatement. well go back to texas for a live update there. right now, its a category 1, it could soon be a...

That much rain in the next four days. well see what the wind and rain and storm surge has done and wait three and four days to see how much rain harvey ends up dumping on this area. it will be a retired and named storm well remember for years on end. the toughest storm to hit the united states since 2005. that was the terrible summer we saw wilma, rita and katrina. we hope everybody fares well and we will see when the sun comes up and were more mobile. >> jon: rob schmitt from corpus christi. th...

Before. the whole hotel is surrounded by water. were upstairs. the floors are well above. the power is still on. which is something weve noticed that is good. we hope your power stays on too. this is where we were earlier. we were down there getting whipped. you can see how the wind is whipping the water. you can hear the roar of the wind through the building. >> that was mike seidel in port lavaca, texas. there are a lot of reports from various parts of texas still experiencing punishing winds ...

So this is bigger than anything they have really seen in about a decade here in houston. and theyre taking the necessary precautions. we were just at a neighborhood where a number of homes are raising, elevating themselves. one had planned the construction for next week but saw the forecast, and now theyre rushing in to raise their home, a process that usually takes a couple weeks. but the construction workers are working around the clock to do this. i mean, theyre taking it seriously. they know...

Rainfall, you just mentioned the surge comes in, high tide, youre talking about feet. >> thats friday. we wake up saturday morning, this is a nighttime event, were not going to -- well have reporters on the coast that will show us the storm surge through their feet, maybe going over the dunes and stuff like this and seawall, we wont know until saturday morning how bad the storm surge damage was and we also wont know how bad the wind damage was. you wake up saturday, thats what happens when you g...

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