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all of the suffering and damage gone up -- arthel: congressman, what are your pressing needs at this moment? >> well, here is the thing, arthel. we have five ports in our district. we need to get those ports moving. it was out, beaumont and port or they are was devastated, beaumont water system went out. port arthur was under water. the ghost cared surveyed the damage, it's incredible, we will have to get shelter and begin to help rebuild. >> where are you right now
congressman weber, and what are you seeing? >> well, i'm in friendswood. i was in beaumont this morning. three pallets of bottled water to beaumont, it took us six hours to go 89, 95 miles, it only takes a mile an and a half. shelters packed with people, you look at the properties where the water is up, some cases the windows, the cars are submerged. you heard it say, this is the most deadliest flood in american history. >> we are showing images on the screen as you and i are talking, i know -- you probably don't see this but this is the president's motorcade, he's leaving chennault airport and i may
live was unbelievably hard hit. arthel: how is your home? >> our home is fine. thanks for asking. our heart goes out to people. we went to beaumont. arthel: our hearts are definitely there with all of you in southeast texas as well as southwest louisiana, do you like -- would you like to see changes to the infrastructure or system in houston after harvey? >> well, i think we are going to have have learned some things by this disaster. the president has already talked about an infrastructure bill, if you will. since our area is such a huge generator of energy, such big economic driver, fuel prices spike because of the refinery that's been shut down. so i think you're going to see infrastructure where we can protect the coast and this is more about rain event, a rain-maker, corpus christi got
contingency has arrived in lake charles, louisiana. and we have live pictures for you, we we will bring them to you. these are live pictures that you're seeing, group of people awaiting the arrival of the president and the first lady and bob if you can standby for us throughout the show. thank you. joining us now patrick hamilton, status commander of the hurricane harvey relief effort for the texas national guard and, sir, how are things, the status of everything from your advantage point? >> well, thanks for having me on and i've got to tell you that identify spent most of the day in beaumont watching the rescues and some folks in orange still very much into some rescue operations and evacuation of folks that just couldn't get out, but what i saw was
to continue -- actually i have along with me is dr. sapphire, nicole sapphire, dr. sapphire, i may have to interrupt you again if i i need to. >> of course. >> bare with me, we were talking about the issues facing the first responders, talk about the issues the hospitals and doctors will be confronting as well. >> we have, i have many colleagues in the area and have been working around the clock. what receive seen a hospital in beaumont has had to close down because they lost water supply, they have been operating nicu, premature babies that were just born, evacuated. all patients had to be evacuated out. the far majority in hospitals maintained activity, you have doctors, nurses, working around the clock and they did have flooding in lower levels and first level but the top floor is all maintained an they have been able to thankfully take care of
answers with reporters and some the people who are there were he praise the government and the mayor of houston. president trump saying he hopes the multibillion-dollar a package will be approved quickly by congress. >> as tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing. i think even for the country to watch of the world to watch. were signing a lot of documents now to get money. 7.9 billion. we signed it, now it's going through a quick hopefully a quick process. >> kelly: quick processes what everyone is hoping for. we have live foxton coverage. meteorologist adam is in the weather center tracking hurricane irma in the tropics. something where watching. madison beaumont, texas were search and rescue efforts enter the eighth day. we begin with peter who is following the president at this hour. he's live at the nrg stadium in houston. peter?
energy center in houston, taking selfie's and serving hot docs. we have coverage on all of this. the meteorologist adam is monitoring the next potential threat in the atlantic. madison beaumont, texas where fema is still conducting search and rescue missions. we begin with peter clive with the energy center in houston. >> as a second trip to the in packs zone has went on, the president has had a chance to thank some service members who braved some of the possible conditions to save lives over the last few days. in louisiana he greeted the national guards a few minutes ago. in texas he saw the coast guard but the commander-in-chief was curious about the way he saves so many people. >> how is the weather out there? not too pleasant. >> 50-mile an hour winds.
interrupt you but we are looking at the president's motorcade leaving all the way to national guard as i said. i want to ask you about houston, a couple of people sent me tweets asking about particular areas in houston, the fifth war, the big nickel as it's called there as you well know, the green point area, northwest houston, i know you can't get in every point of the city but do you have any ideas how those areas that i just asked about are doing? >> i do not. i have the three coastal counties that come from louisiana, beaumont, galveston. so much entry here, arthel, jet fuel is produced in our district. almost 20's% of the nation's gasoline, we are focused on those three counties and people get back to work and lives
hit by the high winds of harvey, we got hit with all the rain, the rain that went up in central texas, the rain is getting in those rivers and coming back on us and rained on us again and jefferson county, beaumont to get the bad flooding, i think you will see discussion about infrastructure, we have dams, levees and things of that nature so we can be on top of this if it should ever happen again. arthel: houston definitely is such a great economy and moving city, metropolitan area but it also is very spread out, you have got a lot of property that normally in the past would absorb some of this water. >> well, houston is a very diverse area, 6.2 million