28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today the impact of Hurricane Harvey, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. So glad to have you on us on a busy monday morning if youre just waking up. Craig melvin is in for matt. Weve been seeing images out of texas they take your breath away, words like catastrophic and historic being used to describe the flooding and damage from harvey and yet those words hardly seem to do it justice. Hard to believe that that part of this country is actually expecting more rain as well. Meanwhile, fema says they expect at least 30,000 people to live in those temporary shelters. We are just at the beginning of this. Heres where it stands right now. At least two people have died, but officials expect that number to rise as crews work that are way through still rising floodwaters. In houston alone more than 1,000 high water rescues
Its a busy morning to say the least. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Im dave briggs. It is friday. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Amid all that, the dow down 1,700 points in five trading days and 14month low. The president will make everybody feel better with this on twitter. Green acres is the place to be farm living is the life for me i feel better. How about you . Here is how Meghan Mullally reacted. If you need me, ill be in a hole in the ground. We are with you, megan. James mattis resigned his position after the president revealed the troops withdrawing from syria. Mattis resignation is a rebuke to the Foreign Policy views of the president. Mattis using his letter of the importance of the u. S. Alliances and unambiguous approach to china and russia. No doubt, the last straw for mattis was the president s plan withdraw for syria. Two officials tell cnn that mattis was quote livid. For more, Cnns Barbara Starr at the pentagon. Reporter alison and dave, an Administra
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