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I want to pose this. we have 47 confirmed deaths. that number will go up. it will still never come close to katrina, 1800. sandy was about 70 deaths in the united states proper. so, the death count here versus just the scope of the devastation and the images here, relatively low. one death is too many, but still lower than it could have been. what went right? >> let me put my comments in context. in a disaster, governments dont have control of what is going on, they are responding. my irritation...

Moldy, wet furniture and clothes and books out to the street corner, things they cannot have a more because of harveys high waters. >> sandra: i cant tell you how important those images are and were of the refinery that you just showed us. thats the largest oil refinery in this country. it shut down as a result of this flooding and by the latest reports, it could be shut down for up to two weeks. thank you for those pictures. peter, if you could stay with us and doing your newsgathering, well ke...

So theres very much a sense here that were moving from the emergency phase of this into the recovery phase. >> but as we know from katrina and from sandy, years later it feels good to be able to go home, but people are going to go home to homes that are inundated by water. even if just for a few days. then you end up with mold, structural damage. were learning that so many people in texas dont have flood insurance. so the worst may still be yet to come. >> p exactly. theyre going to have to go i...

Homes once essential services are restored and making those homes habitable again. its hot and humid in texas and mold is going to be a problem. a wide variety of issue as. were counting on fema for temporary housing for folks whose homes have become uninhabitable. were counting on our neighbors to take in their friends and were all working together. that was what im most impressed by. neighbor helping neighbor. >> i hope its not going to be too big a challenge but with what we saw with sandy, i...

Cruz, senator from texas, was one of the outspoken opponents of the sandy bill which ted cruz claims had too much pork in it for him to support. i think politically it will be difficult, but it doesnt seem that lawmakers are prepared to hold the money hostage. >> it was a spat between cruz and christie yesterday. the "washington post" reporting there is a meeting between trump and that republican and democratic leadership regarding federal funding for harvey victims. that is september 6th after ...

>> theres going to be extraordinary damage here. with sandy, it was in the tens of billions of dollars. we need to make sure that we do that for the people of texas like sandy aid was and from quite frankly a lot of people that represent texas in the united states congress. >> neil: what do you think of that? >> well, while i think he has it wrong, the truth is theres a time and a place for that discussion. but it isnt now when we are in beaumont evacuating people in critical condition, trying t...

At some point when we get back to washington were going to have to reauthorize the program. i have a bill i put together with elizabeth warren and marco rubio and bob menendez and others to try to do that. we have to have flood insurance but our main concern right now is first, lets get the situation stabilized in texas and get people out of harms way and then lets help them get whack on their feet. new orleans did recover from katrina. but we had a lot of help from the american taxpayer. i can ...

These things, and to those who end of it benefiting who may be have-nots met that criteria, but the minute you start talking about it, people get very touchy and worried about what is actually going to play out, and it is a tough political call to make it, i will read a piece from "the washington post," sing recent history does not make us optimistic, congress did reform the program on a bipartisan basis in 2012, only to see much of that undead under pressure from a lawmakers in 2014 after sandy...

Out ted kroocruz. how do we avoid this. >> you just dont do it. the folks in texas, just like new york and sandy, bayed a lot of money in taxes for the federal government. they worked hard for in a money. in a catastrophe like this, theyre entitled to get some of it back. its just that simple. the first role of government is to protect people and property. le and part of that means when bad things happen to folks, through no fault of their own, their fellow americans help them. wasnt there when ...

Assist people there when there are reportedly a number of members of congress, some, you know, right there in texas who were not big advocates of the same kind of funding for superstorm sandy victims? >> caller: well, i think there will be an appropriations bill specific with harvey and the devastation from corpus to louisiana in dealing with that. what is going to be in that appropriations bill, that relief bill, i do not know. fema is spending money that they have for this purpose. what this b...