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And mayor turners great relationship with the faith community. we have people at a convention center, about 2500 people there. weve had 2000 rescue missions with the police department itself. and we have about 230 left. and were just hopeful that sometime today well be able to finish all the rescue missions and then well go toward a search mission. you see if theres anybody inside the homes flooded to the roof. >> chief, given the sprawl of the urban area of houston and the size of your force an...

Foreshadowed pardon of controversial sheriff joe arpaio, the latter drawing open and direct criticism from speaker paul ryan. >> also over the weekend as the president focused on responding to his first major domestic crisis he took on notable fire, incredible comments from defense secretary james mattis and his secretary of state rex tillerson. >> well play those for you and explain why they are so significant at this point in this presidency, and finally, a brand new "washington post" report t...

Ban bands. it will be minimal amount of flooding around lake charles. now that the storm is coming out over the water, it will drift for two days. its starting to set up south of houston. heres a closer view. heres houston here. new rain bands are developing. the national weather service is saying these bands should shift over houston this morning producing 1 to 2 inch rainfall rates on top of the pictures youre seeing. its adding insult to injury and the water will continue to go up. the other ...

Enough north into central louisiana we start to dry out along the gulf coast. >> bill karins, well be checking back in with you. lets go live to houston. julia, what can you tell us? >> reporter: what bill was talking about, the bayous. im standing in front of the white oak bayou on the northwest side. you can hear -- we can, at least, just the furry of the water rushing over there. while earlier it was rushing over the bridge, its still extremely high. i just talked to police officer. i pointed...

It puts them in a more law enforcement officers in a more tenuous position, makes their job more difficult. and ive got to say, mika, bottom lining this, the worst damage thats been done though has been done to donald trump in the eyes of the judiciary. they once again see that this man acts like an autocrat. he has no respect for judges, certainly shown he has no respect for federal judges. >> the damage to the republican party in my opinion also the damage to the country as this goes on. what ...

Different in these kinds of catastrophes. >> you look at what happened in new orleans. again, that was a man-made disaster years in the making. because of the levies, because of the cheap construction, because of the poor planning, because of the corruption. and here after this, theyll have to figure out how to handle -- how theyre going to handle the next one. >> its going to be a long time. coming up, president trump is promising the governor of texas, the governments full support in dealing...

That on foreign policy. >> after donald trump was talking down nato he said nato is so important if it didnt exist wed have to create it. >> julie pace, before we go to break, give us a sense of the presidents schedule over the next 24, 36 hours, given the fact that this storm and the catastrophic nature of it is far from over. >> absolutely. hes going to be going to texas on tuesday. we havent been given a ton of details on where specifically. it looks very difficult for him to get into houston...

The road, youve got traffic jams, and then theyre trapped out there. >> easier said than done. >> and then you talk about a real nightmare. then that becomes a real crisis even beyond this. >> chief, jonathan swan. you say between one and three deaths which is not as bad as it could have been at this stage. what are your biggest concerns over the next 48 hours what could lead to casualties increasing and what are you doing to manage that? >> a couple of things. first were concerned about the flo...

>> yeah. you hit it on the head. were really worried about all the water thats between texas and the gulf. and were not sure what the flow is going to be. all the rain seems to be subsiding at this point here in this area. we know that the threat of flooding continues, and were keeping our fingers crossed that theres not another wall coming at us. >> what are you most concerned about as more rain comes in the houston area? >> id like to say were concerned about a certain area, but the flooding h...

Widespread over two feet through the region, flash flood warnings and emergencies, why theres so much water all over the place. the breaking news everynight, two dams that feed a bayou that goes through downtown houston they started releasing that water a little after midnight. buffalo bayou is going to go up about four to six inches an hour from here on out until the water level gets lower. all the rivers in major flooding, some record flooding. i want to show you the buffalo bayou that flows t...