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Well as athena jones, white house correspondent, who is already on the ground in houston. general honore, id love to get your perspective on whether you believe this kind of trip, which may be a little different from the trip earlier in the week by the president and first lady, because theyll be meeting with flood victims and seeing, you know, up close and personal the devastation, whether this will be a real reality check. you heard former mayor of philadelphia michael nutter talk about the rol...

Told me, fly your airplane, son. if the instruments are not working, we had over 200 aircraft in new orleans without instruments, because all the instrumentation was broken until the "iwo jima" got there. this is just good training and a tribute to our pilots who are flying the airplanes. >> and hovering spot on, 150 feet up. incredible. general honore, appreciate it. at this time last night, our gary tuchman wases a baptist hospital in beaumont, and they had begun airlifting patients out becaus...

If the instruments are not working, we had over 200 aircraft in new orleans without instruments, because all the instrumentation was broken until the "iwo jima" got there. when navy ships get here, theyll be able too provide air command for those helicopters. this is just good training and a tribute to our pilots who are flying the airplanes. >> and hovering spot on, 150 feet up. incredible. general honore, appreciate it. at this time last night, our gary tuchman was at baptist hospital in beaum...

Replacing those dams if you are going to keep them. otherwise, we have communities this morning by the four engineers that will be underwater in the excess of a month as we slowly release the water off these old dams. they need to be replaced or taken out because the threat is like having a giant bomb north of the city, our fourth largest city because those old dams are dangerous and werent well built in the first place. that infrastructure needs to be fixed, john. >> thats right. the time to st...

Its kind of this toxic stew of a variety of things. as dr. fauci mentioned, its people who have underlying disease who should be the most concerned. if you have a cut and the bacteria gets in there, it could be a problem for anyone, but theres especially concern for people with underlying diseases and also pregnant women. >> yeah, absolutely. so, general honore, after hurricane katrina experts called the floodwaters a toxic soup. there was garbage, human waste, oil, even decomposing bodies. is t...

Look, weve met several survivors who took enough of their medication. the they knew harvey was coming. they took a weeks worth and still cant get back into their homes and medications are washing away. they felt they had done the right thing. its just the concept of home. thats a really powerful feeling for all of us, and to not know when youre going to be able to return to yours and everything in it might be ruined is just so terribly sad. but its been a very long week in houston for the surviv...

Vulnerable. >> okay. thank you very much for that clari clarification. all eyes are watching beaumont, texas. thats because, as we just heard general honore there. the grid is failing. if that happens theres an entire cascade of catastrophes that could happen. they have lost both water supplies. drew, what is the latest in beaumont? >> reporter: they are going to go out and check the water pump thats in the river. the they should be doing that now. they had to take a boat out to do that. that fa...

One. so obviously the floods went above this tree. in fact the locals tell us it went as high as those two trees in the distance. the flood waters at the very top, those leaves were peaking out on these tall trees over there. the obviously, its going to be a lot of cleaning up to do. but this is exactly what more cities need. this is park space. this is open green space. and it can turn into a flood plane if necessary. because obviously no homes around here had to be devastated. i went to bring ...

Today katrina ranks among the cost ci costliest natural disasters ever in u.s. history. and there are fears harvey could be even worse. >> when you look at comparisons, the population size and square mile size of the area impacted both by the hurricane swath and the flooding is far larger than katrina. >> few people know more about the impact of hurricane katrina than retired lieutenant general russel honore. he commanded the military response to that disaster, arriving in new orleans on this da...

The sand all the way down here. you can see at what a clip these rapid flood waters are still moving. over to my left, what is normally a parking lot, is today, a duck pond. that -- all of that water is not supposed to be here but again, it will be receding if yesterdays conditions are any indication. you can see all the garbage strewn. in the tree you can see the bag up at the highest point. mask the locals here tell us the trees in the distance, those much bigger trees that those, the tops of ...