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Appropriate. so does congress and the federal government keeps sending significant sums of money to this part of the money to help them recover? as was indicated in the press conference, the recovery process so arduous and expensive the federal government will have to be involved to help the reach and rebuild. the question is how much are they willing to invest? often the pressure on members of the house to spend money and help with disaster relief is the highest in the wake of the disaster, rig...

The refining capacity in texas. aaa says the average price now at the highest for the year. in texas, which is out of its mind already, leading long lines at gas stations not to mention frayed nerves. alisyn kosik. >> reporter: this is day two of these long lines. check this out. its getting longer and longer. these folks have been here since the wee hours. they set a their alarms to get to the gags station to catch a moment when the gas station was refilling because we did see a tanker refillin...

Flowing into neighborhoods around the reservoirs and potentially in the short term causing more trouble? >> well, that is the problem is that of those reservoirs are full to the brim. they are absolutely at the top levels, they are the highest that we have ever seen in the history of the dams, watch the weather is clear, we have had a couple days of good weather, we are very hopeful that to the storm that is in the atlantic will turn away from the gulf of mexico, so i am encouraging, pushing as ...

Satellite images of simonton, texas, fort bend county. see the images up on the screen? my apologies if you cant see them. right there? okay. my apologies. so simonton texas. right near the brazos liver completely inundated with water. and those are the images that we are going to continue to see. i mean, 100,000 people their homes are destroyed. it unfortunately we will continue to see those images. past 24 hours whats left of harvey moving across the ohio river valley and tennessee river valle...

All kinds of after effects that will last for weeks and months. the extent of the damage, the record rainfall, the highest for a storm ever in the continental united states. it covers such a wide area. youre talking about 100 miles plus east of houston. we dont have film from a lot of places that are cut off. still going to find towns under water where theres been extensive damage. people cant even get to shelters. its an extensive area in a tropical region. the heat and humidity, the accuweathe...

How does that sequence out? >> we start with the highest priority. icu patients, nicu patients, highest of ambiguity. we get them established and transferred. even not out of here at least they have a place and start from the, go from the bottom up from there. we have many, many patients that still need transferred and on the phone now making those arguments. it is very, very organized. we have like i told you, weve practiced this many, many times before. >> when you say you practiced this many,...

Than 30 years. when ronald reagan was able to accomplish that tax reform in 1986, which is a bipartisan effort, the lowered tax rates, some were as high as 70% by having this increase in the corporate tax rates. we have corporate tax rates that are the highest in the developed world. this is something that should be broadly bipartisan. >> bret: the president mentioning 3% gdp, touting that today. theres a poll in here, fox bulx reform this year, is it important. 49% of those polled said its impo...

How widespread this is, is it isolated to port oarthur, but te mayor has come out and saying that the levee has not breached. they have huge sandbags saying that the levee has not breached. were waiting for daybreak to see how bad it is. heres why we have all of these issues, beaumont, texas, this is at the airport, in between beaumont and port arthur, in six hours they had 11 inches of rain. thats equivalent to what houston had saturday night into sunday, everybody woke up, what happened. thats...

Economy has been growing. and lowering of the corporate tax rate, highest of any in the world. and it jump-start an economy trying to get started. >> businesses and corporations across america desire a tax reform so they understand the rules going forward so they can create those jobs for the american people. and the president has created 1 million new jobs. 2.6% economic growth in the second quarter and historic highs. they are already to go but they just need congress to marry up with the pres...

Than 30 years. when ronald reagan was able to accomplish that tax reform in 1986, which is a bipartisan effort, the lowered tax rates, some were as high as 70% by having this increase in the corporate tax rates. we have corporate tax rates that are the highest in the developed world. this is something that should be broadly bipartisan. >> bret: the president mentioning 3% gdp, touting that today. theres a poll in here, fox bulx reform this year, is it important. 49% of those polled said its impo...