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Pyongyang. no one has a better perspective and view than you. thank you, sir. back to our storm coverage next. theyve already had 15 to 25 inches. could be in for double that rain amount in the houston, texas, area. "early start" continues right now. this likely is going to be an historic rainfall if not an all-time record. >> 50 inches of rain. parts of texas under water face a devastating few days of more rainfall. months if not years of cleanup ahead. we have loive coverage of the damage,...

The victims of tropical storm harvey with contributions. property damage is forecast at $40 billion, $20 billion in houston alone. big companies are writing checks toward disaster relief groups. caterpillar, walmart, lowes. exxon itself hurting from the storm. floods and rain forcing it to close its baytown refinery, second largest in the country. united airlines is encouraging its customers to give. rewarding members up to three million bonus miles in exchange for donations. united is also matc...

>> uh-huh, yeah. pretty good. pretty good. i think pretty good for the circumstances. its bad. everythings floating. its bad. 11 minutes past the hour. rain and flooding inundating heart of oil industry. oil rigs have been evacuated, and ten refineries shut down. one, exxonmobils baytown refinery. one-third of the refineries on the texas coast. the closures take 2.2 million barrels of oil a day off line. that disruption means higher gas prices. futures hitting a two-year high, up 7%. gas price...

Forwa forward recovery teams. were pushing forces to implement national flood insurance program. were setting up and gearing up for the next couple years. >> now fema and the department of homeland security will have a briefing updating whats happening there. 6: 6:15 texas time. 7:15 eastern. rosa flores joins us live from the flood zone in houston. is the rain still -- has it stopped? does it remain quiet there? awfully dark where you are in houston. >> reporter: were still getting rain this mo...

Cooperation with the united states and south korea. always infuriate the regime. weve seen them show their defines just over the -- defiance just over the weekend. they attempted to launch three short-range ballistic missiles. two traveled more than 150 miles, coming down in the waters off japan. those could hit seoul or u.s. military bases in south korea. we saw new images emerging on state department media of north koreas supreme leader, kim jong-un, overseeing a special forces operation with ...

Go beyond brushing with act®. we continue to bring you the latest on this storm. texas is reeling from harvey as officials warn of potentially historic floods in the next few days. at least one person was killed in the hurricane in the town of rockport. the citys mayor reports there wide spread devastation. youre looking at it there. >> and one woman was killed after being swept away by floodwaters in houston. a flash flood emergency has been issued there, they are expecting a catastrophic am...

If there is permanent or more destructive damage done to the refineries or to the rigs, we could see higher gas prices last a little longer. >> and when the eyewall of harvey hit the coast of texas on friday night, the images were truly remarkable. >> yeah, here are some of the most dramatic moments as the storm made landfall. >> were being hit by a pretty significant band from harvey as it is making lawful here about 50 miles as you mentioned south of where we are, we are hoort in port lavaca. ...

>> and will ripley is the only western journalist inside north korea and he filed this report. all right on the s >> reporter: on the surface, it is a quiet sunday, but just beneath the surface, its described to me as an extra ordinarily tense time, some of the highest levels of tension in years. and all starting several weeks ago with the exchange of fiery rhetoric between the united states and north korea. remember when president trump threatened to rain down fire and fury on this country and ...

And looking at this radar, i was floored by just how broad this rain shield is. extending all the way towards san antonio and austin, edging toward dallas, extending toward galveston into louisiana. a huge broad deep tropical moisture laden area. the ground is saturated. the more the rain comes in, and there will be plenty more associated with this, and the ground is saturated, the bayous are filling up, we have looked at some of these reports and we may even blow away by feet what some of these...

Restraint in the weapons program, and likely not a coincidence that it comes at a time when the u.s. troops are holding joint drills with with the south korean military. cnn has not been allowed ip s e inside of north koreat at the timef of the drills until now. will ripley is inside of north korea and is pyongyang. you have met with the official, and what are they telling you? >> well, they say that even though the things appear calm on the rface, despite the missile launches within the last 24...