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Miles per hour. paul polasek is the mayor of victoria and joins us now by phone. mr. mayor, thanks for your time. what are the biggest concerns facing your community right now? >> thank you, sir. we are currently, having an issue with our water supply, but its being addressed as quickly as possible. and, of course, the power outages are also difficult. we dont have any estimated time to get the power back on yet, but were working on it very hard. mike: have you seen state resources flowing into ...

Coastal region. what kind of damage are you seeing in your neighborhoods? >> well, mostly, of course, a lot of downed trees and limbs, and then theres also a lot of power lines and different types of transmission lines that are down. so weve imposed a curfew til six a.m. tomorrow morning to keep people out of harms way. theres been some structural damage, some roofs and some other entire structures but not too many. mostly a lot of trees and debris. mike: theres one confirmed fatality so far due...

His disaster professionals. >> good afternoon, mike. i think that hurricane harvey is going to be a real interesting test for president trump. i mean, on paper it looks like he has very qualified people at the helm at fema; brock long seems like a very serious disaster relief guy, certainly not a political hack, eric hyberger, his chief of staff, a longtime veteran at fema from 9/11 and the 2004 hurricane season. so i really think these guys have potential. but the question is what theyre going ...

Home, any advice to folks who may be struggling at this hour, maybe the elderly in your community, what they may be able to do to get some relief and some assistance? >> well, you know, work together. victorias such a wonderful community, we do take care of each other, and id encourage neighbors to help each other out and conserve your resources in water and food until we get everything back on. i think were going to be okay. and our first responders are now responding to calls. the wind has dim...

Response to the exercises, so the fact that it was, as i said, it was short-range missiles and not longer range ones at least suggests for the moment that theres a degree of care being taken by him. but i dont think we can count on that for any length of time. laura: all right. dennis ross, thank you so much for being with us today on this very important subject. >> thank you. laura: more fox team coverage at the top of the hour. eric shawn and arthel neville will be here. mike: and we are await...

Listen to your local forecasts. still flash flood warnings in a all of the areas that you see shaded in groan. the flood -- in green. the flood warnings in green, flash flooding occurring north of galveston, okay? and thats going to be ongoing. here are the models, the forecast models, okay? still dealing with 20, even 30 inches as we go through the next five days. so some of these areas are going to see on and off rain, but with these tropical rain bands you could see upwards of several inches ...

Mike: disaster relief attorney august matisse. thanks for your time. >> thank you. laura: and you want to stay with us for more live fox team coverage of tropical storm harvey, the latest update on the federal response as new images of the damage come in. plus, another high profile adviser out at the white house. whats behind the latest staff shake-up? >> we have to really look closely at the movement and the timing of mr. bannon and dr. gorkas departure. it was right at the moment there was a...

S in some parts of texas. the white house homeland security adviser, however, said to reporters yesterday that a lot of lessons have been learned from katrina. >> what weve done is gotten a lot better as a government. congress has gotten better, passed laws to allow us the flexibility we need to employ not just deploy, which brock long has martialed heretofore. >> reporter: we are still, however, of course, in the early stages and a full accounting of the extent of the damage as well as the resp...

Today. >> thank you. mike: north korea test launching more missiles less than a week after secretary of state rex tillerson praised the country for showing restraint. plus, with a massive effort underway to help those in harveys path, well speak with the mayor of victoria, a community just 25 miles from the eye of the storm. >> you all know the well-known phrase, and that is turn around, dont drown. dont risk your life. still the most important thing that all texans can do who are affected by ...

The voice. is where he is trying to go think about how crucial it will be if this witness has testified, yes, familiar voice recognition is reline. you get someone on the witness stand that says i am familiar with trayvon martins voice that would be very important for the state w. rehearing the defense challenge that premise. >> we continue to be surprised this voice analyst was put on in the first place, we thought to keep voice analysis out of the mix, out of the trial now suddenly this witnes...