Course Harvey News Today

Welcome back. im stephanie ruhle. the most powerful atlantic ocean hurricane ever recorded in history is now ripping through the caribbean on a track toward florida. just as congress prepares to take a vote as early as today for funding for harvey relief, many residents in both texas and louisiana are struggling to pick up the pieces after that devastating storm. i want to bring in two of my favorites, the co-chairs from the problem solvers caucus. they met last night to plan the road ahead. dem...

Legislation raising the nations borrowing limit, the debt ceiling. is that a good idea? >> i think we should be voting up or down on harvey. i think these things should be separate. if theyre ultimately packaged together, im going to stand by those who are devastated in texas, but i really think we should be voting separately on those. >> all right then. well, if congress doesnt pass a spending bill, we could see a partial government shutdown. thats not something anybody wants to see. congressma...

Able to say i tried, because its such a sympathetic issue. >> you recover the white house every day. you see steve bannon on the outsaid hes surrounded by globalists. thats kind of criticizing the president. listen to mark levine on the road the other day. >> mr. president, look around the oval office, look around the white house. where are all the conservatives? where are the people who supported you in the campaign? so president trump does himself a disservice, i believe, when the diversity of...

North korea, all the budget battles, and of course harvey. and were entering a phase where trumps inner circle is coming to talk to members on the senate side for the first time. members of the intelligence committee, and don junior is coming in to talk about that meeting this month, so it could be interesting to watch people closely when the world isnt watching closely. they may show their sympathies more when the cameras arent quite as focused on that probe. >> missing a bit, but not forgotten...

That his own base is stirring p up. >> first, some of these are gone, but some of them arent. immigration is a great place to see that trump hasnt actually abandoned his base in any way on this issue. we are talking about whats going on with daca, thats a huge decision. some republicans i think would be fine with lets the kids stay here, others want them out, but we have seen an immigration crackdown throughout the country that really hasnt gotten much attention. this is the president living up ...

Being with us. joined now by the former fema director michael brown. he says he believes the damage caused by harvey will be worse than katrina. thank you so much for being with us. let me ask you to assess the situation as you are seeing it. were just seeing these days upon days upon days of rain in houston. what would be your biggest area of concern right now? >> well, one im not surprised by the national hurricane center and the national weather service also said that this rain was going to...

Front of the boat with me. ive got a team of guys from my neighborhood who are checking text messages, checking the maps. weve got three or four cars, when he bring people in from the boat they off-load them at that site, take them away. theres another team that watches my trailer and the car, because the waters will shift when youre out there and you have to be able to get out. and so, we had some close calls yesterday where we couldnt -- didnt think we were going to be able to get out. you hav...

>> i would say south houston where theyve already seen 43. but if you get west of houston where the reservoirs are, probably 4 to 6 there. thats 4 to 6 more than you can handle but its not the 10 which will be southeast of the city. >> all right. chad myers for us. as you said, 50 inches of rain. it sounded unbelievable then, but the unbelievable has happened. thanks. chad. all right. more breaking nouz this morning. white house says all options are on the table after north korea fires a mis...

They are inland waterways in the city of galveston. as more rain falls today, of course harvey will make land fall again tomorrow. incredibly trying times for the texas coast. a houston mother was stuck for hours watching the floodwaters rise after losing everything in her apartment. listen to this. >> im so depressed, i dont know what to do. im praying they get us. if they dont get us soon, they are not going to get us at all. [ crying ] >> oh, my god. >> she has now been rescued, but this is n...