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i'm standing in, this is wil dloet chester west. they will have to rebuild. their houses are subsumed right now. the first floors, driveways, garages, by water. the white house estimates more than 100,000 homes are either damaged or destroyed. t entire neighborhoods that were once green are now submerged with water. so, of course, there are concerns about contamination and diseases in these floodwaters. i can tell you, chris, the mosquitos are out in full force this morning. they, of course, thrive in this standing water and humidity here. >> i'll tell you what, really a sad picture of the tragedy is that where you are, if you look at that home behind you, that's almost the best case scenario right now for people, is that their home isn't completely saturated with water, but the neighborhood is unlivable and time is going to be the factor. this is not going anywhere for weeks. alisyn, stay away from those bugs. fema announcing they have approved assistance for nearly 100,000 people. remember, millions live in the affected area. congress awaiting the trump administration's initial request. it will certainly be for billions in emergency funding. will congress take it seriously -- by seriously, that means not attaching it to anything else, not letting it get caught up in politics and bogus fiscal restraint during a time of need. we hear that the house could vote as early as next week on that first round. we'll see what they do. vice president mike pence in texas con solg victims, helping out, helping clear. seeing the devastation and devastated firsthand. president trump will follow on his heels, going to houston tomorrow to meet with victims in the flood-ravaged city. the most dire situation, beaumont, texas. we keep telling you the storm is gone, but the devastation is not. the city has no drinking water. imagine living with no water for days to eat, to drink, to cook. they're waiting in long lines for the ration of bottled water. the outage is horsing the city's hospital to evacuate patients. we have it all covered. cnn's miguel marquez is in beaumont. what's the latest? >> reporter: this is a scity, chris, suffering two crises at once. still dealing with water rescues in the city. nearly 300 in the city itself. many more in the surrounding county. here at baptist beaumont hospital, evacuations. the lack of water -- it's not the floodwaters rising here but the lack of water completely cut off the city. two pumps cut off by the rising natchez river. the hospital started off with 193 patients. they're down to 85 now. the most critically injured, those in icu, those on dialysis, nine prematurely born babies were all airlifted yesterday. they have 85 patients left. they need to continue to airlift them, they say, because the freeways around beaumont are either nearly impassable or completely impassable, and moving them is very, very difficult. they had to move them -- can't move them to houston where they usually go. they go to dallas, jasper, galveston. one patient went all the way to missouri. when will this be resolved? it's not entirely clear. it's expected to crest around 1:00 p.m. today. once it crests and it starts to go down, then they'll be able to get to the pumps and figure out how to fix the problem. it could be days. back to you. >> miguel, thank you very much for that reporting. we'll get an update for you. joining us on the phone is captain brad hennison, public information officer at the city of beaumont emergency operations. thanks so much for being with us. how are people there able to get clean water today? >> we have been able to get trucks in overnight with water, and we are setting up some points of distribution this morning. we'll hopefully be starting that distribution in just a few hours. >> we just heard our reporter, miguel marquez, say the natchez river continues to rise. so what does that mean for you? >> well, most of our rescues have come to a halt now. but as we look at the river that's on the east coast -- east line of our city, we're looking at -- it should crest today and it will start following. our biggest situation is the water supply, it's cut off. we sent a boat out yesterday to survey the site, get some pictures and see what we're looking at. what we're also looking at is some alternative solutions, temporary solution to get a pump up and working that would bypass that entire pump station and get water to our water treatment plant. the water treatment plant itself is still functional. we need to get a water supply into that plant. we're looking at other avenues to get that working. >> when you say, captain, rescues have come to a halt, is that because everybody in need has been rescued or because it's impossible to do more rescues? >> well our main thing in beaumont, on the east side of our city is the natchez river, on the north side is the pine island bayou. the bayou has crested, so we've got most of the people out of there. the east side on the river there, that is a very sparsely populated area, so it's not as bad there. yesterday we did close our shelter, one of our shelters, several people chose to go back ho home. some went to stay with family and friends, things of that nature. others being moved out as we speak. >> captain, as you and i speak, we're watching video of very dramatic rescues from yesterday. it's just incredible. this captures what emergency responders are up against. there's a man trapped in the raging floodwaters. he would surely have been washed away. an emergency responder is able to attach a harness to him and take him up to the chopper above. there's a heavily wooded area, having to go through the branches, in fact, they take one up with them as they go. what are the biggest challenges facing your fire department right now? >> from the fire department standpoint, the first thing i heard yesterday morning when we lost our water supply is what are we going to do when we have a fire. one of the things we did do right away is contact the state and request a task force of tankers. those arrived yesterday evening. we've got them staged in beaumont, so they would respond with our fire trucks in the event of a fire. each of our fire trucks carry from 500 to 750 gallons of water on the truck itself. on the initial attack we have water there where these tankers will be able to support that and fight structure fires. >> that's very good news. it's very good news to hear you have those water tankers standing by if needed. captain penisson, thank you very much. we'll keep a close eye on beaumont today. >> so about one hour from now, rescue crews in houston will get first sunlight and be able to resume their door-to-door searches in parts of a c searches in parts of a city that are still under feet of water. cnn's ed lavandera is live in west houston with more. what's the situation there, ed? >> reporter: according to harris county officials there are still main areas of concern. this neighborhood you see behind me very much under water. this is on the west side of town near those reservoirs we talked so much about over the last few days and also another area on the nooeft sirtheast side of to. as the floodwaters have receded and the cleanup begins, those firefighters and first responders going through the neighborhood and making the grim discoveries of people who weren't able to escape the floodwaters or were trapped on their way out or just couldn't escape it. the death toll has now risen to 47 because of hurricane harvey. those teams will continue to fan out across the city and continue those searches as well. that's the grim work being done as well as the cleanup which will take months. across the city, county officials say 136,000 structures have been damaged because of the floodwaters. that includes neighborhoods, homes and businesses. a lot of work in the cleanup process that needs to be done. in some places here, like over near where the reservoir is on the west side of town, officials say it could take several weeks, if not months for the reservoir water levels to get back to normal. that means it will be a slow drain and will take time to leave these areas. alisyn? >> ed, that is what we keep hearing. it's go into take a lot of patience from people here in texas to get back to some semblance of normal. listen to this next story. they came all the way from california to help rescue the victims of harvey flooding, a dog named jester and davis doty have been working together for a decade. the one-time rescued dog has become the rescuer. great to have you guys here. what does jester do in a situation like this? >> jester and i, we are tasked with locating victims, either in structures or in the environment or other locations. i do that with my partner jester. he gives a focused bark indicating live human scent. >> he picks up a human who is trapped but still alive. give us an ample of some of the things you've pulled off? >> we have pulled off rescues in laguna beach where people have gotten lost in the wilderness and were incapacitated. they couldn't get up and move. we can send our canines into the wilderness to find them. other examples are floods like this where it's caused the structures to collapse or even when they haven't collapsed, we can send the dog down in the street and much more efficiently than humans, we can use the awesome scent of smell from the dog to pick up on that. >> is it true that in the few days that you've been here, you have done like a thousand rescues? >> at least. the amount of rescues, and as fast as the water has risen, we've been lucky enough to be one of the first teams here to do that. >> you all drove from california to get here because fema activated you. >> absolutely. >> how long did that take? >> that drive was 29 hours. i got the call late on friday nig night. we remember on the road within four hours. we encountered thunderstorms, lots of rain. we didn't see the flooding until we got to the city. >> oh, my gosh. what are the challenges for jester. let's say in this neighborhood, if you were to unleash jester, what are the problems he's been confronting here? >> the major problems we have with the dogs in the situation like this that's behind you is the high water level. although he can swim and move around, it's good to have him more on dry land. i can have him go through water, something like this to go across the street and search a home, but to have him on the land is the easier case. there are times we can put our dogs in boats and take them to a high occupancy building, like an apartment building or multistory building and have the canine work those multiple stories while we wait in the boat. >> you've seen situations like that. there are neighborhoods and condos where it's three stories, four stories. we were going through one yesterday, a couple days ago and we heard people whistling for help, but couldn't tell exactly where they are. is that what's in his future? >> absolutely. he'll use his ears, but it's his sense of smell we're using the most. he can find where those people are at and give us those barks. >> so tell us jester's history. >> when he was a puppy he was constantly jumping over six-foot-high walls. he was doing it over and over again. the owners said we can't do this. the pound kept picking him up. he was on the euthanasia list. the team was able to find him, train him and take all that energy of jumping over walls and put it toward finding and locating victims. >> look what he's given back. he's rescued how many victims would you say? >> jester, he's had a real world in laguna with the person we found in the wilderness there. we're hoping that we can do a lot of good out here in houston. the foundation does truly match it with the fire departments, they give them to us, they're volunteer, they're for free. basically for the reason of the fema mission. to come out here with all the cooperating agencies and stakeholders, it's not just orange county that comes out here. we have other counties as well, orange and anaheim. it takes the entire team to make it work. all those different aspects come together. >> we know you'll do good work here. thanks for telling yous story. >> thank you. >> great to see you. chris, back to you. president trump heading back to flood-ravaged texas tomorrow. how will the president connect with the survivors in houston when he sees the devastation firsthand. we're going to discuss that and the bat lt over emergency funding. why would it be a battle at all? 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>> that's the big question, especially when the president is threatening to fight congress, his own congressional leadership, over the wall with mexico, and the talk of shutting down the federal government. people have to remember this is the poor function of government, to look after people, take care of people who have no other place to go, not even to their local government or the state government. they have to be able to rely on the federal government when something is this large. i think it's a huge opportunity for a president who claims to want to dig in on details around infrastructure, to understand core function as president is to lead a federal effort to respond to disasters. >> so what do you think trump's options are? hopefully it doesn't happen. if we see a repeat of the sandy situation, they try to tie it to a funding bill or tie it to a debt ceiling negotiation, or try to tie it to offsets of other government spending. all those things will delay the process just like it did with sandy. what are his opinion snuns. >> his main option is to use the bully pulpit effectively and try to lead and be the chief advocate for victims of this horrible flood and storm and to be able to use that leverage and perhaps to delay some of the fighting over the wall to focus on getting a package passed. i think time is what's important. as you've heard from lawmakers over the past couple of days, they don't want to somehow tie this to the debt ceiling fight which would push a package off. i think the first order of business, they've got to get back, got to get this agreed to and get money working. you look at details like the fact that from katrina you had refugees from that storm who went to houston, many of whom are still there. there's so much time it takes to settle people, care for people long after the waters recede, this is a recovery effort that the federal government has really got to lead. >> we still have emergency officials on the ground in new york and new jersey dealing with sandy. so now there's another implication. it seemed like there might be a friday surprise working or at least a short-term policy move with daca. when you look at harvey, could harvey influence the daca move? how so? >> you have 500,000-plus estimated undocumented people there, many of whom are not being checked now for any papers because the owl exigency is about helping humanity. do you think that could change how the president deals with daca, especially in light of the press briefing yesterday. let's play this piece of sound about what his homeland security adviser said about who is eligible for help there? >> the undocumented immigrants, eligible for long-term relief help? what happens when they leave -- >> once the eligibility standards range across a number of different programs. the point here would be if you're an immigrant that has committed a i'm kroo, you'll be removed. an immigrant looking for assistance that's eligible for citizen, it's my understanding you're not eligible. >> it's going to be a bitter pill. what do you think of it? >> tom boss cert, the guy who goes back to the bush administration and their own approach to immigration policy which is far different, as you know than president trump. president trump has been reluctant to get rid of daca for a long time, but pushed by conservative opponents of this obama-era law. i think he's going to have a hard time doing this in the middle of the aftermath of harvey. we'll see. he's always acknowledged this is a very difficult issue for him. if he wants to cave to some of those pressure -- the pressure from opponents, he might move forward. i have to think and certainly people like his chief of staff, john kelly, who want to delay this and not take on anymore fights. the rational calculus is not always the one that wins with president trump. but we also know he is malleable on some of the issues where he thinks they're too difficult, or he may not be ideologically predisposed to siding with opponents of daca. >> also, it's always about the greater context. you had charlottesville that put him to the test of what he is as a moral agent. it did not go well. now you have harvey which is, if you believe in fate or anything like that, what an odd turn of events to have this demonstration of the beauty of humanity when pushed to the extreme. could it be a catalyst to try to harness that energy of, we're all in it together and use that to motivate policy discussion? >> you know, there's always that potential. i think the president, any president has an opportunity to create not a fresh start, not a reset, just to kind of start some new chapters. i don't know if it's there with this president. even in his response to harvey, it was so self-ag grabbndizing. let's not forget the big piece. he wants to come into september after a horrible august, self-inflicted wounds, a lack of discipline. he heads into september significantly weakened and now with a real do-or-die moment on something substantive, leadership on harvey, the issue with the debt ceiling and, of course, tax reform which could be a great unifier among republicans. he could lead that charge. he campaigned on the idea that it was going to be so helpful to the u.s. economy. now he's got to get something done. if not, he goes through his entire first year without any major legislative accomplishments. this is high stakes time now. >> david gregory, thank you very much. appreciate it. have a good weekend. alisyn? >> okay. a young man terrified of losing his father making an emotional appeal for help right here on cnn. i don't need to tell you about it, chris. you were the person that he spoke to. we are happy to report that plea was answered. we have their reunion for you next. lient for a lifetime the more that we can strengthen and re-harden that tooth surface, the whiter their patients' teeth are going to be. dentists are going to really want to recommend pronamel strong and bright. it helps to strengthen and re-harden the enamel. it also has stain lifting action. it's going to give their patients the protection that they need and the whiter teeth that they want. ♪ to to me he's, well, dad.son pro golfer. so when his joint pain from psoriatic arthritis got really bad, it scared me. and what could that pain mean? joint pain could mean joint damage. enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop further damage enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders and allergic reactions have occurred. tell your doctor if you've been someplace where fungal infections are common. or if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure or if you have persistent fever, bruising, bleeding or paleness. don't start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. since enbrel, dad's back to being dad. visit enbrel.com... and use the joint damage simulator to see how your joint damage could be progressing. ask about enbrel. enbrel. fda approved for over 14 years. 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what were you thinking? >> call dad, tell him to get out. >> there's more rain on the way. >> bradley was monitoring the news and satellite information. so he saw the flooding begin to subsume his dad's neighborhood and knew the situation was dire. >> was there a moment where you were fearing the worst? >> every day, because we could not verify, factual, that he was out of the house. >> the only solace was this photo that family members spotted in "the new york times." it appeared to show the back of harrison allen loaded with other evacuees in a flooded dump truck, but they still had no idea where he was. >> how many churches and shelters do you think you combed? >> a lot. probably in the 40s or 50s. >> you went to 40 or 50 shelters. >> face-to-face. >> they also handed out this missing poster, but still no luck, until wednesday night when cnn put the poster on tv and chris interviewed bradley. >> he doesn't have a phone. in this day and age, if people lose their cell phone, do you remember every number to call in an emergency? if you're 88 years old, you definitelily don't. >> mark yack vic is one of the managers at a nearby double tree hotel that has taken in hundreds of evacuees. >> i'm watching cnn, and i see the story on this missing gentleman. i took my phone and took a picture of the screen and immediately called the hotel because i knew he was still here. then we were able to make the connection. >> where is he? >> on thursday morning, bradley and his family drove hours from outside of austin to the double tree to find his dad who was just thanking mark for his help when bradley dashed up. >> hey, buddy. >> hey, babe. so good to be back in the arms of my family again. >> i know. these people helped us find you. >> you did good. i appreciate it. >> even baby avery seemed relieved to see her great grandpa again. >> give me a kiss. >> oh, yeah. >> so chris, just the best possible outcome we could have, a good news story. obviously the power of television. when you put somebody's picture on tv, it gives a chance for millions of eyes to see it and it worked that time. >> people stepped up, that's a big part of the story coming out of houston about the reality we are all in it together and people want to go good things for others. got the houston green way plaza double tree hotel. they were very nice letting us shoot it. their manager stepping up and making the identification. all 388 rooms, they're giving them to what, the evacuees, the whole hotel? >> yeah, and first responders. can you believe that. all their rooms right now are filled with evacuees and first responders. look, this is a great story, but harrison is not alone. there are a lot of people who obviously have been separated from their family and still looking for them. anyway, that double tree has opened its doors to us and all the folks struggling with the hurricane. so we thank them a lot. chris, great story. >> listen, there are too many of them. too many people who need rescue, too many people who are still stranded, displaced or can't be found. happy endings matter, too. it's nice to bring that one at least for this family. meanwhile, harvey's catastrophic floods are forcing houston's schools to delay the start of their school year. the superintendent of the school district, the largest one, is going to join us next with what's happening with the kids. david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪ ♪ hey grandpa. hey, kid. really good to see you. you too. you tell grandma you were going fishing again? 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[ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. harvey took out a lot of gulf coast refineries, as a result driving up gas prices coast to coast. and the timing couldn't be worse. labor day holiday weekend. cnn's alison kosik live in dallas with more. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning, chris. since at least 5:00 a.m. local time, we've seen this line forming at this particular gas station in dallas. people actually telling me they set their alarms so they could wake up and get to the gas station. this is after social media kind of went wild with people really concerned about these production disruptions because of refineries being shut down in houston, being shut down in port arthur. people also getting really worried when they see that gas prices are speaking. here in texas since harvey hit, it's been a week. we've seen gas prices spike anywhere from 17 to 21 cents a gallon for the national average. other areas around the country seeing the same kind of thing. south carolina up 19 cent, delaware, 18 cents, kentucky, 17 cents. here is the thing, refineries are expected to stay off-line for, if not day, weeks. we could see this kind of distribution and production issue last a lot longer. chris, we could see gas prices, at least the national average hit $2.75 a gallon. chris? >> all right. thank you, chris. >> all right, alison, i'll take it here. listen to this. classes were supposed to begin this week for houston public school students. hurricane harvey, of course, changed all of that. joining me is richard carranza, the superintendent of the houston independent school district, the seventh largest in the country. >> yes, ma'am. >> so you have all these students that were supposed to start school on monday. now what? >> well, we just want to make sure that students and families are safe first and foremost. what we've been communicating is, as we've gone and looked at our school buildings, facilities, we have almost 300 school buildings. we've been able to inspect about 120 of them so far. the rest we can't get to. >> the ones you've inspected, after all this devastation and flooding, what condition are they in? >> not in good shape. every one has been affected. >> every single one of the buildings you've gone to, the structure has somehow been changed by this? >> some very minimally. others more significantly. to some we'll probably not be able to open them up for a year or so. >> if you're not able to open schools up for a year or more, what happens to these kids? >> we have multiple scenarios, everything from co-locating with other schools. >> meaning the kids would be bused to a different town? >> as close to their home school as possible. we also have scenarios about a rolling start to the school year where a group of students will start, a few weeks later, another group. that's not our first choice, but we will have the full assessment -- we've even got boats now going out to some of the schools. we'll have a full assessment today and then determine how we'll open up on the 11th. >> how do you know you'll be able to open up on the 11th given all these questions? >> we know we currently have enough facilities that we know we can either fix or dry out or get ready for school, that we can start. the big variable for us, our two other variables, the greater houston infrastructure. can we transport 218,000 students which is our student population, and we've got 31,000 employees. can the infrastructure support that? secondly, our teachers and our staff. they've been impacted as well. >> for sure. out don't know how many of them will be able to show up on september 11th. >> we have principals right now checking all their staff members. we have teachers calling their families or texting their families. we're trying to get a pulse on who is where and will we have a sufficient staff to even start on the 11th. we think we will. >> this is complicated on so many levels. you have 213,000 students -- >> 218. >> 218,000 students. parent kind of look forward to the first day back at school so they can get their own lives back in order with child care, et cetera. parents have to go back to work at some point. so what's happening with all of those kids right now? >> obviously the entire houston community has been affected. houston is coming back to work. what we're doing is partnering with community-based organizations so we have those opportunities for especially younger students to have some kind of a structured environment before they come back to school. it's a hard call. what we don't want to do is put any of our students or faculty in a situation where the environment isn't conducive to learning. >> of course, or in danger. how are you going to figure out if all those buildings are structurally sound? >> we have a great team. i have to tell you, our district team is fantastic. this isn't our first rodeo. we've dealt with flooding before. the assessment team we have is top nach. they're going to be able to tell us how soon can we repair, what kinds of repairs are there. like i said, based on the buildings that we've already looked at, we are confident we can get enough ready so that, even if we try to combine some schools for a while, we'll be able to get the school year started. >> superintendent carranza, best of luck to you as you take on this huge undertaking. >> thank you. >> chris, just one of the many ramifications of all of the aftermath of harvey. >> all right. people are trying to start to pick up the pieces, heartbroken survivors and victims returning to see what's left of their homes. how do you salvage, how do you start again? where do you begin next? how mucu think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? 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>> yeah. i'm not an emotion guy and i'm pretty calm and this has been too much for me. to be honest i don't know if i want to be here very long. >> back in the office, the real loss becomes clear. >> 150-year-old family bible. >>reporter: stacks of photo albums. >> this is the stuff that you can't replace. right? this is my son's birth announce.. >>reporter: up stairs where it's dry, wolf throws things in a bag. it's going to sit here for a month are two with six feet of water in it. >> >> reporter: up and down this neighborhood people taking stock of their belongingbelongings. 86-year-old man is back for the first time. we found him in hois dark bedroom alone with no power. he needs his medicine. >> this was ed's office, all these papers piled high on his desk. you can see now they're all totally ruined. the water so high the fridge is now floating on its side. >>reporter: on the boat, he tries to take it all in. >> very confusing, can't get it wrapped up in my mind what's going to be next and what i'm going to need to do. >>reporter: these are just two of the countless people who captain evans has helped. his work is far from over. >> it's not even real. you see this on tv. it's total devastation. >> reporter: alex mark wad cnn news. >> this is the kind of disaster that hits you on every level. there are so many different urgen sees, it's not just about stuff. it's about the things that make you remember who you are. yes, you can cling to each other. those medications, so many left without them. they're going to be hard to replace because farm asies around open. >> for sure, chris. look, we've met several survivors who took enough of their medication. the they knew harvey was coming. they took a week's worth and still can't get back into their homes and medications are washing away. they felt they had done the right thing. it's just the concept of home. that's a really powerful feeling for all of us, and to not know when you're going to be able to return to yours and everything in it might be ruined is just so terribly sad. but it's been a very long week in houston for the survivors. and the rescuers, so joining us to discuss what's happening today and the rescue efforts and what he sees is lieutenant generous generousle -- general honore. >> it will continue to be save lives as the governor had said, number one priority. search and rescue mixes going on in one part. city of beaumont without water, the grid went down and it's surrounded by water which means the roads are impassable. creating an air lock to left stuff or get high enough trucks where you can get the flow of water and start distribution points. the problem with water is distributing it. it's heavy. it's not easy to handle. handle it in bottles and consider a community like this that may be four or five miles. where do you put the water point where people can come. you can't get it in so you may talk about using air left support to bring it in and set it down and this endistribute it to people equitably to keep them alive. when you look at the town here in this great metropolitan area of houston, there's about four or five different houston operating. >> let's talk about that. four or five different houstons. where we are downtown, it looks basically normal. things have dried out. but then come a few miles west and here is what you're looking at. what are all the different houstons you're seeing? >> this is a pretty upscale community, still have access. le still have electricity. >> explain that. why do we see lights on in some of these homes clearly people have evacuated from? >> a lot of people in these homes. >> people are staying here. >> a lot of them are staying here. >> because their second floors are fine. >> some took water on the first floor. done some minor opening up but have electricity air-conditioning and television. >> so that's a good sign? or. >> that's a good sign because if the electricity go out most of these people have to leave because you don't have the sewer system working or water. maintaining the grid under these conditions, my hat's off to the utility people in this harris county, whatever they've done, they've done it well because there's a whole lot of this grid that's under water. but what's not seen and is a big deal today is while we continue to do search and rescue mission is establishing the priority of work for logistics. >> if you were the commander you would come up with -- because there are so many different challenges you would have to come up with a priority list of where to deplo people. >> that has to be driven down to the counties and stays. the and where are you going to establish distribution system, where do you need them? some places like this you've got grocery stores that are open. some have farmpharm a sees. alisyn, talking, give people confidence. helicopters popping people on roofs save lives, watermen going out in boats save people lives. but the true solution to a disaster like this is lodgegist. we need some genius here and a face on them. can't be somebody appointed in washington and show up on a tv screen. in katrina, we brought the first cost comout of third u.s. core, had had trucks airplanes. >> you've not seen that person yet. >> they need a face on logistics. >> thank you very much for all of the expertise, great to be able to rely upon you. following a lot of news for you this morning. let's get to it. >> when you look at comparisons, it's far larger than katrina. far larger than sandy. >> this hurricane is of a magnitude i've never seen before. >> the food is running out, water is running out. >> it's just unbelievable. nightmare that we can't wake up from. >> it's a long way to go. it's not months but it's years. >> a death toll continues to rise as the president prepares for his trip to the flood zone saturday. >> i've seen a lot of things but that terrified me. >> it's not even real. you see this stuff on tv in this is total devastation. >> you can't fight mother nature. she's giving us one right now but our citizens are resilient. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone welcome to "new day," it is friday, september 1st, 7:00 a.m. here in houston. one week ac oh today hurricane harvey made landfall. the rain has stop but there a helicopters searching for swiefers. we've seen more than 72,000 people have been
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