Learning Harvey News Today

September the 1st. can you believe its september the 1st? mika has the morning off. with us we have washington anchor for bbc world news america, catty kay, also, national political correspondent for ms nbc steve kornacki, u.s. politics reporter at usa today heidi pridbella, co-author of the playbook jake sherman, in washington, d.c., senior political analyst for nbc news and ms nbc mark hal person. cat catty kay, why done you take us through the news, especially for harvey. >> its been a busine...

Of relief aid, and, of course, members of congress are going to give him that relief aid to try to seem like theyre not as dysfunctional as the republican congress has been over the past nine months. >> yeah. hes offered money of his own, $1 million. theyre going to need more. katrina they asked for something and got pledges i think of $60 billion. this is going to run into the billions. normally the kind of things republicans might be worried about, but with the pictures out of harvey, you seem...

Particularly and potentially undocumented down in houston, harvey. >> it has a hume undocumented immigrants in houston. its the city with the third largest undocumented population in the country. what we have seen in the shelter as many of the people are headed home, now is when you start to see undocumented immigrants start to trickle in. i spoke to about who have a dozen yesterday who told me they took their time to come here because there is a lot of of fear in the community that if they come...

Are recedeing, they are finding mud snidz several homes, families are returning to that area. it could be several days until tens of thousands or more can return back home t. weather here across houston is getting warmer. it should get dryer, but this storm certainly has already done a lot of damage. bill, back to you. >> nbc news miguel almaguer, thanks, to you. now the water level in beaumont is peaking today. it will slowly recede through the weekend, very slowly. i also got an update on the ...

Miguel almaguer, hes in port arthur, texas. >> reporter: hey, bill, good morning, this is what so many are waking up to, the flood waters pouring into communities. authorities say if locations like this, it may be several days before they can go door-to-door t. death toll from harvey now stand at nearly 40. but that number could rise in the coming days. it is believed 100,000 homes have been affected by this storm a. storm on the mover that is pounding the heartland today. we also know that 32,0...

Approved a hundred thousand requests totaling individual assistance. two republican congressional sources are telling nbc news the trump administration is likely to ask for $5.5 billion at first, split between the relief fund and a small business relief fund. there was hope passion the bill could be included. sources say fema is burning through the cash they have so far, they might not be able to wait until late september to get more help. yesterday the vice president toured rockport and corpus ...

Dominated instead. in dacts you know, theres an old stay or get out of the way. for the members on capitol hill, theyre getting to a point where they just want him to get out of the way, stop insulting members, some insulting lisa murkowski, stop playing a game of subtraction, sfrrks right now lets bring in nbc meteorologist bail karins. the remnants are harvey are still making trouble in texas and now were looking carefully at irma. >> the first time i show youthese pictures, joe, learning

In this shelter. >> thank you very much. what she is reporting is exactly what weve been hearing. the residents down there, undocumented residents very anxious in these times. harvey is making them also. how do you think what is happening in harvey can impact the debate over daka and potential the white house may feel this is not the time to repeal it when you have too many people hit by harvey. >> the white house has been down this road a couple times before. and it has so far held back from do...

Helping and hed like suggestions, if you have them. >> thats interesting. an olive branch of sorts. thats much better than calling them enemies of the people. so well take that. baby steps, as they say in "what about bob". >> catty, interesting back and forth between and of course thats what good lawyers would do. getting ahead of the surf saying we understand youre talking about this were here to explain to you why its not. so tell us a little bit about that, whats going on. >> a reminder that ...

Building and theres only one architect in new york city thats allowed to work on that building, only one. that architect in washington d.c. is mitch mcconnell. theres no getting around mitch mcconnell. thats a public service announcement from the white house. now lets bring in our meteorologist, bill karins. bill, the remnants of harvey still making trouble in places like tennessee. >> new pictures from nashville. this is south of nashville. last night heavy rain caused flash flooding. look at t...