Harvey First News Today

What are you guys going to do now, claudio . Were going to stay here, find shelter. Because weve been hearing the news its going to come back and hit us again. And would have had nobody would have had nowhere to go. So were going to stay here and try to protect ourselves. Try to protect my kids. And try to try to last through this storm. I dont know if its going to get worse or not. But we want to be safe. I want my family to be safe. So i guess were going to stay here until everything is over. ...

Welcome back. these are new pictures just in to cnn. weve been watching arrests taking place. this is in west houston, texas on the interstate there. police arrested people that are now handcuffed there in boats. they were in the water there on a flooded part of the interstate. we are calling for details now to see what transpired here. one of many stories, and this is live picture of police holding several people there who were arrested in boats in a flooded area in west houston, texas. well,...

Universe, the entire united states. that refinery still going to be down another two weeks. so these pipelines, they really cant run unless they get product from the refineries. that means we wont see supplies. theres other refiners requesting from the government to give them some oil from the reserves. thats what rick perry did today and the trump administration. so they can start getting gasoline back online. that is a good things. but its just going to be a small amount until we get the pipe ...

>> neil: the vice president of the united states in texas. you can see governor greg abbott there as well. all of this ahead of the presidents private is melania trump on saturday. we know the president will be in houston and also visit louisiana. this will be the presidents second trip to the region. again, saturday we should get the details later today. meantime, harvey is forcing a lot of people to shelters, tens of thousands of them. oftentimes theyre in very, shall we say, cold, kind of con...

Will be looking at the change tomorrow when we get the governments monthly jobs report that will be a key indicator of where the markets go from here. not only factoring in the possibility of tax cuts but whether the job growth was the wind at the overall national economys back going into harvey. meanwhile, you keep hearing about a citizens army, not a federal army. i want you to meet a woman that opened her home to shelter those in need. not because the government told her to do it. because she...

Exacting. houston officials are keeping a close eye on a chemical plant that was rocked by explosions and fires this morning releasing a plume of acid smoke. the plants owners are warning more explosions could follow. a major pipeline that carries gasoline to the south is expected to remain shut till sunday. gas futures up 24.5% in the last eight days. meanwhile, harvey also hitting folks at the pump. regular gas is up 10 cents the past week. theres a delay between the effect at the pump and the...

By tomorrow. so were continuing to bring more and more forces in. boats that we didnt have out before weve got out now. were going to continue to focus on it until we get everybody ha needs to be rescued rescued. >> thank you very much, colonel steven metz, i appreciate your time. i want to go to tom seder now live for us in the weather center. you heard what the colonel said and youve been listening to folks on the air and reporters, as well. harvey has dumped more than 15 trillion gallons of r...

Author of "the land of america." i have so much to ask you guys. please, if you could keep it short. theres so much ground to cover here. general, i want to start with you. its about 72 hours since harvey first slammed texas. how do you think the response is going? >> i think its going in the right direction. ive been a proponent from day one that we needed to go in big and it took the governor -- hes doing a good job but he only fully mobilized all of his national guard. whiches about 12,000 he...

So were continuing to bring more and more forces in. boats that we didnt have out before weve got out now. were going to continue to focus on it until we get everybody that needs to be rescued, rescued. >> thank you very much, colonel steven metz, i appreciate your time. i want to go to cnns tom sater now live for news the weather center. tom, you heard what the colonel said. youve been listening to the folks on air and our meteorologists out in the field, reporters as well. harvey has dumped mo...

Is it equipment or what? do you have enough equipment to get to people? whats the biggest problem youre facing at this hour? >> well, i mean, weve got boats there now. weve got high profile vehicles there. were bringing in more and more helicopters to help us all the time. i think the biggest issue right now is just time. getting to everyone that needs to -- that we need to get to and covering such a vast amount of area. were still fighting deep waters in some areas. but i think we have the equi...