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Indeed been fortified. there was concern that it was going to let go and now -- it was going to be a danger to everyone downstream. that particular levy has been reinforced and is inspected to be fine. joining is now with whats happening. >> this thing is moving just incredibly slowly but folks in louisiana now seeing more and more of it. let me show you whats happening out there as we speak stretching from houston. its on the backside. this is all shifting to the north. now stretching all the w...

American public, this is a storm that started on thursday. we are now almost midweek the storm is still going on and it is my belief that this kind of rescue efforts will go on for maybe 24, even 48 hours. >> neil: you hear about it could continue into october we are told. having said that, i do wonder and i agree with you, i think governor christie of new jersey put it best, we cant win with the present of the united states of a cat or a. but this will linger. this is a storm much like katrina ...

Thursday, friday, saturday, better news. but may be too. unfortunately. it still seems so far away. >> shannon: your reports are so important right now because they reiterate this is still an ongoing situation. janice dean, thank you. >> leland: its getting worse spirit as we just mentioned, there are reports that for the first time ever houstons addicks reservoir has overflowed, thats just west of the city. there was a treat a couple of minutes ago from the county just south of houston by about...

Moment. griff jenkins is out among at all. a foggy and rainy day in houston, hows it looking? >> its really driving rain here. i wanted to give you a look for the first time at the reservoir, one of the two reservoirs where they decided to release controlled water to keep the reservoirs from flooding the city beyond belief. for our viewers, houston is one of the flood prone areas of the country and they have a system of reservoirs and values to keep that from happening. for the first time they a...

Noted in a book. some companies actually hire or employ outside auditors to ensure ta these factories these contracters who are not directly working for them are using best practices. >> thats right. thats becoming really common. two decade ago or something, nike had this huge sweat shop scandal. and increaseingly since then theres been an interest in american shoppers knowing their clothing isnt made in exploited conditions and workers are being treated the right way. when you see a company tha...

Nike had this huge sweat shop scandal. and increasingly since then theres been an interest in american shoppers knowing their clothing isnt made in exploited conditions and workers are being treated the right way. when you see a company that isnt investing in those over sight mechanisms. its surprising. a lot of people we talked to were stunned that ivankas company this many years on is sort of committing to a level of very low transparency and now that shes in the white house and grazing a prof...

As i look way down there, you can see the stair well there. thats where you could normally walk down. all of this water thats here in lake pontchartrain has been pushed up by the winds and while we have a lull in the winds, it doesnt mean the winds are pushing the water forward. as you see that green kind of hill over there, thats a man made hill and called a levy, if you remember in katrina, it was the levees that failed. a levee is all of that earth built up on the wall on other side that keep...

Carry out an attack. so we want to look at that. because when we can study these attacks, we can figure out how to stop them. from the law enforcement perspective, lone shooter attacks, if this is that, which we dont know, but these are hard tore predict. its usually those individuals, the families and friends, and even colleagues or co-workers around these persons, who send to see certain behaviors or hear things that that person is saying. theyre the ones who tend to get those red flags. i thi...

Does not exist. i would think that now, i would think they would start thinking differently about how they do security. and this is our, you know -- gifford was the last congressional shooting we did have. that was a number of years ago. but this is surprising, as far as when it comes to security. manpower and resources are also an issue. how can you protect all these political figures? >> yeah. thats a great question in the modern era. evy, thank you. right before we went to the president, ki...

Qatar. heres what some of our affiliates recovering. fox 25 in boston, with opening statements and the bench trial of a massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself. shall carter charged in the 2014 death of 18-year-old conrad roy, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup truck. fox 5 anymore, investigators should try to find out why a subway train lost power and was stuck for more than an hour last night w...