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Guard. the lives theyve saved. were very, very proud of you. thank you very much. >> mr. president, a couple thousand rescues a day. everybody else in this economic issue, of course, we are in with border of protection agency, and in the facility donors, and on the waterways, the pilots, conditions now are not amenable. we recognize that as a national priority and will keep that -- [ inaudible ]. >> thank you. >> fantastic. thank you. >> mr. president, at this hour before the press pool pillpull...

Christie and then to austin. bracing for more rain in the area. 12th anniversary of katrina. brad blakeman assistant to george w. bush joins us now. whats the advantage that president trump has that president bush didnt? he has a competent mayor and he has a really good governor. and the communications have been strong. right, brad? >> no doubt about it. in katrina president bush was hamper dollars in the federal response by having an incompetent governor of louisiana and a corrupt mayor. who th...

You have people going into labor, i imagine, facing those kinds of things. do you believe that texas governor abbott is utilizing all available resources? i know, for instance, the u.s. military is still standing at the ready if need be to send in more national guards men, for instance. >> im glad that the governor first worked with the members of congress and asked the president for the disaster declaration for texas, that he marshalled the texas national guard to help out. now all 12,000 guard...

Upon either county to county mutual aid or state resources which youre already seeing. the governor declares a state of emergency which basically gives the governor the ability to mobilize allstate resources down to support his counties. and then once the states capacity was exceeded over several days ago, they ask for a president disas center declaration, the president moved in an expedited and swift -- one of the quickest time frames ive seen to approve the disaster declaration so we can mobil...

Working with very closely at our level and state level and the federal level. >> thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate you taking the time and our prayers are with everyone there in your area. >> thank you very much. >> authorities expanding the disaster declaration so that it now covers one quarter the texas population. will tell you how many people that is. plus we will take you to a town that suffered the brunt of the initial impact. an up close look at devastation. first, rick perr...

Expedited and swift, one of the quickest time frames ive ever seen to approve the disaster declaration to mobilize our resources to help. >> just about everyone watching fox news knows someone or maybe even has family in the state of texas and you just see these numbers. they really make you shake your head. 12 million people affected by the storm. up to 30 inches of rain so far in parts of texas, as it moves into the neighboring states like louisiana. more than 300,000 power outages. as you poi...

If you are looking to help, start there. it will have a whole host of nongovernmental and religious organizations that are seeking help and being able to support texas. we have to make sure that donations and volunteers are managed correctly to be effective through the stated and local levels. thats one way to start. underneath the presidents disaster declaration we have turned on what we call individual assistance programs. we are expecting, you know, based on this event, over 450,000 potential...

2 million liters of water. tens of thousands of tarps to backfill the needs of the citizens. just north of here in rockport on the trucks are already arriving. we are pushing them out to the point of distributions on behalf of our state and local partners as well. and this is the way it is supposed to work. we are a unified effort. we are a team, and we all depend on each other. when forward. as the governor said, of the 18 counties, is incredibly important, and i want to push this message the f...

Prepositioned a lot of search and rescue before the disaster declaration was ever approved by the president trump. we prepositioned everything that we basically have down. and in support of the state and local efforts. now, now that those resources are there, were basically at the direction of the governor to ultimately help the local government. this is ♪ just a federal government response. there is something called emac. emergency management action compact. there are teams coming in from all...

Down the buffalo bayou through houston, they have to control the release of the water very closely. i guess thats why they have engineers looking after this stuff, right? >> yeah. >> derek van dam live in houston. the by u-- bayous, you cant jut walk in the water. there are water moccasins, snakes, sometimes gators in the water. an incredible 62 counties under a disaster declaration. rockport especially hard hit. emergency officials saying the area totally void of any functioning infrastructur...