Forth Bend County Texas News Today

Many coastguards. >> on the right hand side of our screen were watching vice president mike pence, actually, those are two little girls, vice president mike pence is helping with the cleanup effort right now in rock port, texas. he flew in today, and right now she helping the crews out there take trees and branchs and debris out of this poor familys home. he was speaking with reporters earlier talking about why he and his wife decided to make this trip. >> president trump sent us here to say we ...

Bigger e rumpruption. >> and they say more explosions could take place. lets go to port arthur, texas. tamara bailey is joining us. she was trapped but today she, her fiance, and her 4 month old son are safe. >> congratulations on getting out. a weird word to use, what is your biggest concern right now? >> its my home. we lost everything in our home. everything is under water. im just happy that we were safe and someone rescued us. were now in beaumont and were about to be evacuated again.

Affected. meanwhile, were going to keep an eye on texas. sarah huckabee sanders is set to address the bless. some trump voters we spoke with sound like theyre getting tired of president trump. not just them. new polling bears that feeling out across the country. is the president listening? i kept looking for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i was doing okay. then it hit me... managing was all i was doing. when i told my doctor, i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of moder...

Arthur, texas. air rescues are under way. the water out there is still pretty deep. youre in knee deep water, but tamara was saying the water was as high as chest high. that her fiance had to carry her infant son out over his head in the boys car seat. >> the water just came down so fast and hard, two feet in 24 hours, they had nowhere to go. we talked to some people who said the water was up to their waist yesterday. there is a lot of water still out here. it will be at least another day before...

And this city and this region rebuild bigger and better than ever before. >> vice president pence along with his wife there saying the federal government is there to support texas. we expect him to be traveling back to the region this weekend. mike pence doing dirty work trying to get the recovery effort under way. trying to support first responders and victims out there. doing what they hoped the president would do himself. but the white house saying he did not want to get into any areas where ...

Special election. everything can change at a moments notice. thank you so much. next up, well go back to texas and well check on families that are checking out their damaged hopes for the first time. a man that was rescued in forth bend county texas. >> i was helping get the neighbors kids and stuff, but this is surreal. this is something i have never been through in my life. ilied throu lived through katri was not this bad. >> my faith in humanity has been restored. drive three-quarters of a ca...

Nows the time for a better moment of proof. ask your doctor about victoza®. > harvey moved out of texas, but it has left a lot of damage in its wake. beaumon beaumont has lost their water supply. a flooded chemical plant earlier this morning. they warn since their cooling systems failed, more explosions could occur. >> in houston, flood waters are beginning to recede in some neighborhoods and people are returning to check out the damage that it left behind.

That is what this country is made of. people doing their best to make sure their friends, neighbors, loved ones, are all okay. the recovery effort will start soon. who is -- what is left in these houses. and this is going to last months. we saw flooding like this all over the country from other storms. in sandy, the water was not this high, did not last this long. and the recovery effort out there took months and months and months. this is texas, the end of august, but september is still a hot m...

Ground there. meanwhile in washington, the white house says they will brief journalists this hours. first to our reporters down in texas, garrett haake is in houston where massive flooding is continuing to affect people. what are people finding? >> theyre not liking what theyre finding. the lucky ones have six to eight inches. some have water to their doorknobs. the water im in now is down eight to 12 inches. it happened so long after the rain stopped and that has kind of been the rulest thing. ...

Some law and order here, but mostly a lot of really concerned homeowners that want to make sure they have their they will be out of these homes for a long time. >> kari sanders is also in beaumont, texas. kari, we were watching those air rescues, if you will, the patients being air lifted out, what are you seeing all day? >> it is continuing. what we saw earlier is when the national guard came in and they could take more blackhawks. there is another helicopter getting ready to go. it is launchin...