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>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. a chemical plant explosion, contaminated water, and more evacuations in texas tonight. thousands still fleeing the devastating effects of hurricane harvey. for all the developments today, fox news trace gallagher joins us live from houston. a lot going on, trace. >> we should note, tucker, vice president mike pence was in corpus christi this evening, where hurricane harvey made landfall six days ago by thent vice president is doubling down on the presidents p...

National guard which has some 14,000 troops here deployed across the state from corpus christi to louisiana line and former officers, more soldiers on the way according to the task force harvey commander who i spoke with a short time ago, who says they will be here for as long as they are needed and they have plenty of assets for rescues, including these high water vehicles that are used to being pulled people out from the worst of the flooding neighborhoods. particularly, and beaumont. the pres...

Snow, a mixed bag of precipitation, perhaps some ice near the portland area. another storm system lining up across the pacific. yet another cold front that will bring more wet weather, helping end that long-standing drought for the state of california. a very busy and active radar at the moment. but lets talk about what happened in january. first and foremost, looking into california, we had exceptional amounts of rain. the pump stations that bring the water across the sacramento valley southwar...

Quickly. no injuries, no deaths. very organized. our emergency preparedness training that has gone on with our emergency crews have really paid dividends. >> all right. you have been manning the pump stations of the last six days. everybody on alert you have an active emergency operation center. youre really prepared. mr. mayor, good luck to you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much for having us. >> were learning more about the man charged with planning a new years terrorist attack ...

From the state, or are you on your own? >> well, right now, were out on our own. we have the help and emergency management from our county. we have other towns that were higher altitudes and didnt have to -- so we have the call to respond, equipment, manpower, whatever we can do. until the water recedes below the homes and below our treatment plant facilities, and the pump stations are submerged right now. until it goes down there, where we can get a handle on, theres not a whole lot that people...

>> reporter: now toyotas will be delivered to customers starting later this month. even toyota isnt putting all its eggs in this one basket. its only going to build and sell 3,000 of these hydrogen powered vehicles before the end of 2017. if this is the future for all of us, the future looks a ways off yet. >> as long as youre living close to one of those pump stations, could work. potential new discovery in one of the most ancient places in the world. king tuts tomb could be concealing anothe...

Board. weve been tackling with you as a partner all sorts of major challenges, fighting poverty, supporting our homeless veterans. as a result new orleans has become a model for the nation as the first city, the first major city to end veterans homelessness. which is a remarkable achievement. s youre also becoming a model for the nation when it comes to disaster response and resilience. we learned lessons from katrina. the u.s. army corps of engineers advanced stricter standards. here in louisia...

>> the storm surge was coming in from the east. my name is michael park. i was the acting chief of operations division for the new orleans district army corps of engineers. the flood wall catastrophically failed. and released a torrent of water into the lower ninth ward. in jefferson parish in the kenner communities, the parish president made a decision in the interest of the safety of the operators of the pump stations that they should be evacuated. >> i remember everybody thinking we really do...

School bus and he came down looking for us because everybody thought we were gone. >> the storm surge was coming in from the east. my name is michael park. i was the acting chief of operations division for the new orleans district army corps of engineers. the flood wall catastrophically failed. and released a torrent of water into the lower ninth ward. in jefferson parish in the kenner communities, the parish president made a decision in the interest of the safety of the operators of the pump st...

The assistant chief was in a school bus and he came down looking for us because everybody thought we were gone. >> the storm surge was coming in from the east. my name is michael park. i was the acting chief of operations division for the new orleans district army corps of engineers. the flood wall catastrophically failed. and released a torrent of water into the lower ninth ward. in jefferson parish in the kenner communities, the parish president made a decision in the interest of the safety of...