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Understandably a lot of the questions this week were about manafort. you said this is perhaps the biggest blockbuster week of questions you received, one of them being what is the significance of the 40-month sentence hes already received? >> one of the best parts of doing this is you get to hear directly from viewers. our viewers were baffled and angered by this sentence and i think rightly so. i think this was an unjust sentence we saw from the judge in virginia. the sentencing guideline range...

Can take their address information and put it in and at least give more detailed explanation of what we think as to how its going to impact them. thats for citizens that live close to the barker dams and up stream. for the citizens downstream that live along the buffalo bayou, these two dams were built specifically to try to minimize flooding in houston, their purpose is to try to prevent water in the addux and barker, plus cyprus creek. in cyprus creek the water is going to jump and go into the...

Weather service perspective, were working in partnership with the federal, state and local emergency management and water resource management community. weve been working with them since last weekend in anticipation of this storm as the models and forecasts starting showing the potential for this storm. were standing here today to emphasize that you listen to your local officials. theyre there to save your life. please listen to them as the storm unfolds. thank you. >> folks, i will departing af...

Not dealing with anything we faced before and making tough decisions and i hope people will understand it. >> congressman, given that, given the unprecedented nature of this, do you think the mayor of houston should have evacuated more people. >> i agree with what the mayor did. i was here when we had rita, when we had millions of people trying to exit the city without proper contra-flow lanes. i remember the heat strokes people suffered. i remember there were fights that took place on the roadw...

Expected to crest, crest, which means reach their top point, until later this week and then they could be there at some level less than that for weeks to come. so this is very real and its going to continue. joining us now texas republican congressman pete sessions. he represents the dallas area. pete, good to have you with us this morning. sorry its for this reason. as you heard me say, they dont have a dead count yet. they dont have information about the injured. its not because anything is go...

Hospitals, our physicians, are made available to help. dallas, texas, is opening its doors right now. but the bottom line is, youre laerg people cannot get out of houston based upon the outer ring, all that water flowing in. were going to have to be prepared in 10, 15, 20 days from now, to offer the same assistance that might have been done overnight in the future for some period of time. this is going to be an amazing effort and i think texans are up to helping each other. its going to take all...

Do people need to start thinking about getting out now? talking about another 15 to 20 inches of rain over the next two to three days. >> people need to listen to their local officials right now in the houston area. i dont want to step on the governor or local officials and confuse the message. the most important thing during a disaster is a consistent message down to the public. we need people to listen to the local officials in each jurisdiction. >> the thing is, listen, after every disaster w...

Water. >> the elderly got out. theyre all safe. how about your mother, your stepfather, are they still stuck in that soup? >> no, they were able to get out as well and theyre -- you know, everyone now is at another facility. shes there with them. >> how did you hear about this? what was it like for you to realize -- i know there was a window of time where you couldnt find out what was goin. 9:00 in the morning eastern time i texted my mother and asked if she lost electricity. when i texted her i...

Lives that have been lost. we are facing a major catastrophe. id like to announce if i may, my constituents, a good many of them, are still in harms way. i spoke to the mayor in missouri city in fort ben county. this is where the tornadoes hit, theyll have to move out of that office, its a satellite office. the mayor has indicated theres a possibility of flooding that will take place in an area that would cause a good many people to move out and tough decisions have been made. people are doing t...

Director louie buttelini and from the coast guard admiral paul zong and health and human services secretary price. just to let you know in advance, administrator long will be immediately heading from here to make his way down to texas, so we should end promptly at 7:45 to allow him to get to his airplane to make it to texas. with that, ill bring in our speakers, thank you. >> this fema briefing, we should be updated on the number of people killed, number of people still stranded, what the federa...