texas note cracking down, compliance now rolling in about a about businesses charging up to eight times more for essential goods, like a gas and even accommodations. man, texas attorney general will join us live on watch they are doing about that. the health issues could linger much longer, coming up, a breakdown of the potential risks that many texans are facing.
of a man who brought arts and sciences to the new world, the new holiday simply substitute the one history for another. how can we on one hand support and the dignity and human rights of people while on the other hand replace one groups and social inclusiveness for the sake of another? eric: is so about a dozen cities in five states have now replaced columbus day with indigenous peoples day, yesterday, the statue of columbus was beheaded in new york at the mayor renounces all hates. shannon. shannon: still in high gear in southeast texas, keeping an eye on the chemical plant as well, it assented deputies to the hospital and force more evacuations, we are live in texas straight ahead.
are saying that it could be even greater or stronger than that, something we have to really watch for, this is a classic hurricane, and the european model this is both of the models where we see that cone of uncertainty, so gfs pushes it towards the east coast, perhaps curving us, we ll have to watch, if the other happens, this is a more dangerous situation because it is going to affect more people, dominican republic, cuba, and some of the gulf of mexico, not this weekend, but next weekend, so i m just giving people a heads up, i don t want to scare people, but we are into peak season, eric and shannon, and i just want people to be prepared. eric: that is a lot to be prepared for, we will be watching. shannon: as harvey downgrades to a tropical depression, many towns are starting to deal with much larger problems, beaumont, texas, getting a huge look, why the recovery process just got that much tougher for them.
say that it is important to them, but 78% of them say that they don t think it will get done this year. eric: in about 10 minutes from now, one of the architects of the successful reagan tax reform that happened back in 1986 will talk about what we can expect, john roberts at the white house. shannon: president trump is calling on congress to help those left devastated by a harvey. right now we have the money necessary, but the real number which will be many billions of dollars will go through congress, i think it will happen very quickly, it will go very fast. shannon: capitol hill will have just weeks to ask before the nations of flood insurance program expires, we will speak with one of the lawmakers leading the charge to reform the program, we will speak with john duffy, he joins us next. a eric: and of course, the rescue operations are not slowing down at all in texas, fema officials are now planning for the long term for the
texas and louisiana get the help they need, there are no questions about this and what it may get attached to because there are so many difficult things that congress needs to get done, the debt ceiling, other funding, there seems to be a question about whether the g.o.p. would publicly have to explained that, to something else that would be a much more difficult vote. you are exactly right, i think it is very possible that it could be time for a debt ceiling increase, there are some real funding problems broadly about emergency relief, especially when it comes to flooding, the national flood insurance program, it is a federal assistance program, it is $23 billion in the hole, and that s bill comes due when the debt ceiling comes due in the middle of september, so it has real problems as far as our ability to pay for these big disasters and not incur a lot of dust, as you know, we are over 20 trillion as it stands right now. shannon: and all of the