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I think theyll bpting to strike that down when he and the first lady travel there this weekend. it wasnt that he didnt visit a shelter, he didnt acknowledge or didnt, you know, hug a victim. he didnt really acknowledge the hardship that these people have gone through when he was there in texas. he talked about his agencies and the relief efforts and he wants them to be a textbook example going forward. theyre going to look for him to strike that tone. press secretary announced hes going to donat...

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Soon and thats the first bite of the apple for them. they want to do short term aid. thats what members of congress from texas and louisiana are asking for and theyre willing to come back in a second time later down the road. thats if they get a fuller extent of the damage of how much its going to cost to try to hit some of these clean-up efforts. so thats what were hearing from white house officials. i imagine were going to hear more of that from mike pence today. as well as maybe some sort of ...

The presidents response to this. if the criticism of george bush after katrina was a lack of attention, lack of resources, you cant say the same about this, can you? president trump has been very involved from the very beginning. very public about the involvement, vice president pence, the military sending resources, neighboring communities, good marks for the president early on? >> well, i think the only fair thing to say is incomplete. i mean, we dont even know the extent of the damage. certai...

And emergency crews are now going door to door to account for all of those neighborhoods residents. brian todd was out there with them today. hes been surveying the damage by him. youve been out with the crews for a number of days now. what does the situation look like today? really five, six days after the storm struck? >> reporter: its really astounding, jim, as you mentioned, five to six days after, this is what youre looking at in this apartment complex in west houston. the water is up midwa...

Here. all of those houses there, each one a family before and after the storm. thats what it still looks like today. heres holiday lakes. you can barely tell where the lakes start and end now as you come in here. that kind of image being repeated really across a giant section of texas as big as the state of new jersey. and as the breath of the disaster becomes clearer, the damage revealed, harvey certain to become one of the costliest storms in u.s. history, if not the costliest storm. right now...

There of just how enormous the scope of this damage is. how high the waters are in some of these areas. and look what mike pence is seeing there on the ground today really is matching with the rhetoric were hearing from officials in washington. we heard from homeland security advisor tom bossert earlier today said their early statement is 100,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed so far as a result of this storm. they said they expect that there will be further deaths, the death toll will ris...

The president said just yesterday you were doing an incredible job. here through corpus christi and rockport and victoria. seeing the response on the ground and seeing the results. i echo that with a grateful heart. thank you for your leadership. im also grateful to be joined by members of our cabinet, secretary of transportation elaine and who else is back there? secretary of labor and we will hear from each one of them as well as our secretary of homeland security. the president sent karen and...