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President then stepped across the line of demarcation into north korea. becoming the first sitting american president to do so. you have been watching history as we covered it here live on fox news channel. the president is heading off now to speak to some of the troops. there are more than 20,000. somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 u.s. troops on assignment in south korea, and that has always been a grave concern to their families and the pentagon. obviously they are within range of the artill...

Tonight what this shows is at least some of what donald trump has been doing is resonating with the north korean dictator and all his allies are saying this campaign of maximum pressure is working but from my vantage point it is remarkable less then a year ago we were listening to all this talk about donald trump pushing the us to the brink of nuclear war with north korea. i was reporting on all these tweets about little rocket man and how he was going to rain down fire and fury on pyongyang and...

Threatened to rain down fire and fury on north korea. and now donald trump is the first president of the united states to refer to a north korean dictator as honorable. >> were having very -- very good discussions. kim jong-un was -- he really has been very open, and i think very honorable from everything were seeing. now, a lot of promises have been made by north korea over the years, but theyve never been in this position. we think it will be a great thing for north korea. it will be a great t...

What the president was saying here. >> shepard: if youre in new orleans or in gulfport and you say this is the calm before the storm that means theres a tropical storm or hurricane headed and hell coming. when you say it with your military leaders behind you, this meeting of the leaders is the calm before the storm, youre suggesting that some sort of conflict is brewing. are you not? i dont know what else it could mean. heres the military leaders, calm before the storm is coming. its not exactly...

Picture frame, the president emerges, and the president hopefully is the person who gives the country a way to understand this, a way to grieve together, a way to move forward together. and it is one of the most difficult assignments a president has. you can think about after 9/11, for example, president bushs speech at the national cathedral. or his comments on top of the fire truck in new york, the whole world can hear you, pretty soon the people who did this will hear from all of us. there is...

Very strong. were in the right here. but if we promise to rain down fire on the north koreans, youre going to worry a lot of japanese and south korean civilians, and you want that public support for what were trying to do as well. >> gordan, you have a clear-eyed view of north korea. you see through the rhetoric through the years because you understand that country so well. how concerned are you right now about the level of rhetoric and the ability of north korea now to back up what far long tim...

You may recall two weeks ago the north koreans following those remarks issued a plan to potentially launch missiles over guam. >> right. >> they said in advance, they would overfly vjapanese airspac and -- >> and the missiles would land just short of guam? >> exactly. that plan was really an effort to try to call the presidents bluff. he said if the north korea threatened the united states again he would rain down fire and fury upon him. the north koreans said weve got something in our back pock...

Just short of gaum. >> that plan was really of an effort to try to call the presidents bluff. he said if the north korea threatened the united states again he would rain down fire and fury upon him. the north koreans said weve got something in our back pocket we can use if you want to take it further. >> right. >> and it seemed that things calmed down and things were deescalating. but north korea shutting the window on the period of calm saying we can make good on threats too. they did not launc...

Texas time. this morning the fourth largest city in the united states mostly under water, and its only going to get worse. the national weather service calls the flooding unprecedented and "beyond anything experienced before." the catastrophic flooding from now tropical storm harvey stretching government resources well past their breaking point. >> authorities in and around houston now scrambling to save those trapped by the high waters after 24 inches of rain fell there in 24 hours. officials...

Now, i think when it came to hurricane katrina in 2005, the big complaints were in the aftermath of the hurricane. i think thats where the big test is is in the rebuilding phase. you know, rain is still falling on houston and is projected to keep falling for several days. i looked up the ten-day forecast. still a 40% chance or higher of rain through september 7th. this is not stopping any time soon unfortunately. >> we will get in just a couple of hours, there will be a press conference that wel...