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>> chris, thank you so much. >>. >> caller: thank you. >> all right. >> in two hours the president and first lady are leaving washington and going to go to that area in the gulf coast. they are set to meet with survivors of harvey in texas and louisiana. live from the white house, jeremy diamond with us. jeremy, what do you know about this trip? >> reporter: in a few hours, well see the president and first lady heading to houston as well as to southwestern louisiana. this will be the presidents ...

>> so far i got a little over 200 people rescued. people in wheelchairs and people pregnant women, they needed help yesterday. >> on your boat alone. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: how about you? >> i dont even know how to calculate it. within the last couple hours 40-plus within the last two hours of us just now. probably 50 pets. so, i mean, the biggest thing people have to understand is were out there running the waters and were hollering at people and beating on doors but if theyre stuck in a hou...

This scene continues to unfold. we continue to have pouring rain in the flood zone. flash flood warnings continue. as we start to get heavy bandings of rain in heavy louisiana, the flooding the worst in and around the houston area. thats where the heaviest torrential rains overnight continue. look at the radar. continues to bring bands in from the east heading to the west. the heaviest stuff is set up from houston to beaumont to a little lighter heading toward sugarland. thats where the heavy ra...

A boat and start just grabbing people out, but can you talk about the coordination? we hear about 120 cops and firefighters from new york are heading in. and utah the national guard are heading. in where are they funneling to and then how are they fanned out? how could there be a sense of order to the madness. >> this is where prior planning took place. all the surge assets forward we have the department of interior we have swift water rescue teams. we have wildlife refuges there. we have nation...

Conference over at the white house. that is where we find garrett haake. we learned more about where hes heading and who hes going with. >> hallie, i spoke to sarah huckabee sanders and she confirmed the goal is to get the president to corpus christi, texas. harvey came ashore before it drifted to the north and east and the worst has passed in corpus christi. the governor, greg abbott will be there and be outspoken and some questions about whether it was appropriate for the president to travel t...

This launch from the direction its heading is to the northeast. guam is to the southeast gs so this wouldnt follow through on kim jong-uns threat to have it land 30 miles to the west of guam. thats the one that had all the sabers rajtsing. we had secretary mattis saying it was game on, that that would mean war if they did indeed attack the u.s. launch towards guam. this looks like its heading towards the ocean, but again we dont know its ultimate destination and we dont have confirmation as to -...

The anticipation for this storm, hurricane harvey, experts predict this may be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before. john? >> all right. nick val entity for us in corp. russ christie. get out and listen to emergency officials. now in san antonio where some people are heading. the even though san antonio is is inland will not be spared. >> reporter: right. many of those evac eukeys are making their way like austin or here in san antonio, the threat is far from over. once they arri...

Of this heading into the midterms, with the weaker areas, of republicans in both the house and the senate, and i have to say that i agree with rachel somewhat, however, i think that yes, congress and the president need each other, but i dont think that the president is helping, there is no olive branch here, i think this tweeting is not only on presidential but it is not professional, and it is juvenile. i think republicans are going to have a mutiny, but they are going to have to go forward wit...

Expect along the gulf coast. lets go to bill, whats the latest? >> as we continue to watch the storm approaching land, the eye is 90 miles from the coast. its moving at ten miles per hour. so were still talking about the landfall this evening. you can see the storm on radar, its been wiggling a little bit but its heading in the northeast direction. the winds are increasing, the water and waves will start increasing, as we start to get into the heart of the storm. this right here, is the hurrican...

Believe me if we have to close down our government were building that wall. let me be very clear to democrats in congress who oppose a border wall and stand in the way of border security, you are putting all of americas safety at risk. youre doing that. youre doing that. >> he attacked not by name but clearly attacked the two republican senators from arizona. he attacked the democrats there. its almost as if he is against all of congress here. >> hes heading in that direction. under bill clinton...