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Administrator of fema and tom price secretary of health and human services. all across the board from the white house to the federal administration to fema they have been very helpful. we are able to see the storm come in a week or more in advance. supreme positioning were taken care of whether the federal or state assets or local assets. when it comes to preparation, weve never been more prepared than we have in this time. >> chris: what can you tell us about president trumps personal engagemen...

My application for disaster declaration, it triggered all the resources of fema to help texas. what youll see in the coming weeks and months is a tremendous rebuilding from this damage. a large part is for fema helping out. were appreciative to the way the president and white house has responded to this catastrophe. >> from the forecaster getting, how much longer is texas, the millions of people going to be under the gun from harvey whether a hurricane or tropical storm? >> understand what im go...

Challenges. arthel: governor, while you and i are speaking, showing live pictures in houston at the brown convention center, this is video coming into the newsroom. were showing the people sheltering for who knows how many days to come, and you laid out a comprehensive plan, governor, before, during and after harvey. insurance claims will be a priority. fema will play a major role as you know. is there any way you can work with fema to make sure that the process runs smoothly for those folks, so...

White house to the fema, they been very helpful. this is the quickest turnaround ive ever seen from the time a governor made a disaster declaration to getting it granted. >> garrett joins us live from the white house with more. >> heather i want to touch on something, he added this is the quickest hes ever seen this approved. put this in context, previous presidents have approved and issued these disaster declarations, but typically its a much longer drawn out process. for example, just this aft...

Greg abbott who joined us just a short time ago when we spoke at the top of the hour for what his state is facing right now. houston continues to see catastrophic flooding in its area. tropical storm harvey dumping a deluge of rainfall onto residents who are struggling to form a path out of this storm. now there have been 18 counties populated by 17 million people that are covered by president trumps disaster declaration. we also know the president will be traveling to texas on tuesday, the gove...

Harvey. the president declared it a disaster before the storm made landfall. that frees up a lot of federal resources. people are calling the storm a first big test, it will hear how the president is responding in terms of what the administration thinks is at stake. is clear they understand its a big test. >> leading up to hurricane harvey president trump wanted the country to know he was bringing a close eye this morning he said closely monitoring hurricane harvey. were bringing nothing to chan...

I had the opportunity yesterday afternoon to visit with evacuees as they were getting off of buses that had come in from the corpus christi area. you could sense a sense of relief on their part that they are out of the way of danger of an increasingly dangerous storm. theyre happy to be alive and were a piece in that regard. but obviously concerned about what they had left behind. about the possibility they had lost her would be losing the place they lived as well as some of their property. most...

As he recognized earlier, the president has already granted a request for a disaster declaration. texas is already getting relief from fema to help our individuals, our citizens in communities. to help the rebuilding process. >> sean: we covered the issue of katrina. the issue of the levees was another issue. clearly mistakes are made. you feel as governor, having been in touch with the white house, as this goes on for days and days, you are confident the help and assistance, whatever needs peop...

County aid, they will wreak quest resources in. when the state to pass the has exceeded in the present expedited the major disaster declaration claim last night within hours of him making that request were going to talk about it --s. >> leland: youre looking at my pictures and galveston, this is become a tropical storm. its not as powerful. as casey is reporting, it feels like dangerous conditions out there. you have huge serve, you have storm surge and water coming over the break wall as a wate...

Corpus christi area, now expanding to some larger areas. i had the opportunity yesterday afternoon to go to san antonio to visit with evacuees as they were getting off of buses that had come in from the corpus christi area. you could sense a sense of relief on their part that they were out of the way of what was an increasingly threatening storm. they were happy to be alive. and they were at peace in that regard. but obviously also concerned about what they had left behind, about the possibility...