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Certificates and some of the pictures and your kids artwork and things will never be able to get back and i think of those first responders. we are eight days into this storm. look at the reporters faces out there and theyre exhausted anything about the firefighters and the police officers in the emergency workers, not to mention the neighbors who have been working day and night in homes like this. >> sandra: these are life pictures coming in from houston. kr iv showing these pictures. thats a c...

Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. welcome back to our continuing coverage of the aftermath of hurricane harvey. im george howell live at the convention center that is a shelter for so many people here in texas. the good news is many people around the state, especially here in south texas, they looked up and they saw the sun for a second day. harvey is no longer a hurricane, but its floodwaters still very much the story here. emergency workers and volunteers are struggling to ...

Is it smart to build the homes? this is a city that has faced 400-year storms in the last couple of years. these -- there are going to be places in the united states that are no longer liveable inhabitable because of the rising oceans and extreme weather events, same is true in new york. while i have no doubt the money is going to flow, it always does because of the generosity of americans and the politics of destruction, my hope is we will finally wake up and say were not building for the next ...

Going to be wet, given the kind of client we have. its a wish of many of us in disaster management who think about resiliency and those of us in hope land security who know we are into the building for the storms that are going to come. >> all right, thank you everyone. i appreciate it. emergency workers and simps risking their own safety to rescue neighbors trapped by rising waters. joining me is tara goer, an emt in the process of evacuating patients from a hospital and helped her pregnant nei...

Hutchinson convention center by tomorrow. >> the governor of texas calling in 1,000 additional members of the national guard to help flood victims. across the country, several states and the u.s. military sending emergency workers and equipment to texas where the work is just beginning. >> this disaster is going to be a landmark event. were already in the stages. while were focused on response now and helping texas respond, were already pushing forward. recovery housing teams, were already pushi...

Fund me. they do a good job of getting people who open sites, but it is all about helping people. and theres also charity navigator that if you want to donate, you can go on charity navigator, and they will help you find the legitimate organization to really help texans during this time of need of need now. >> neil: you are right. could be legitimate. thank you, pam bondi. she knows a thing or two in florida about hurricanes and national disasters. floridians offering anything they can to the lo...

>> we prayed a lot. we praise god. we were rescued so were very thankful. >> i was positioning of writing -- thinking of writing my social security on my arm. >> urban search and rescue teams from all across the country descending on houston to help out. police and other emergency workers every major city and state has them. new jersey september them, massachusetts, new york, l.a., salt lake city. weve got a lot of that going on. we have another big issue going on. that is the rain is not going ...

Officials, charities, hospitals, working to get it open at the kay bailey hutchison convention center by perhaps tomorrow morning. >> this morning, corpus christ i national airport back open. others closed. called in, 1,000 members of the national guard to help flood victims. across the country, several states and the u.s. military sending emergency workers and equipment to texas where the work is only beginning. >> femas going to be there for years. this disaster recovery -- this disasters goin...

Hours. officials saying least two people killed by the storm and death toll is likely to rise. houstons mayor warning that some 911 calls are going unanswered as priorities go to calls where lives are at stake. >> houston independent school distrib disstrict closed schools for a week. dallas will open a mega shelter. that is the kay bailey hutch inton center. they hope to have it open by tuesday. >> corp us christie airport is closed. several state and u.s. military sending emergency workers and...

And infrastructure to have to repair. we appreciate your time and obviously your service through some difficult times in america. we appreciate it, sir. >> thank you very much. leland: a little bit later in the show, current fema administrator who he just talked about, brock long, been on the job just a couple of months, joins us with the latest on his agencys response and what theyre working on right now. obviously, this is now just beginning in the very couple-- the first couple of hours day b...