Which has caused such devastation in texas, is now heading towards neighbouring louisiana. Record amounts of rainfall have fallen across the region. Large parts of houston the countrys fourth largest city are still under water. More than 20 people have died and nearly 200,000 people have registered for financial help. Laura trevelyan is in houston now. Welcome to houston and you can see behind me the chaos that the catastrophic flooding has caused in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. As you can see people have had to abandon their homes, abandoned their cars. These are extraordinary scenes and just this morning i witnessed dramatic rescues, people have come from all over texas and even alt of texas with boats just to try to do whatever they can in the face of this extraordinary situation. The flooding behind me has been worsened, we are in houston where reservoirs on the outskirts are full to capacity and they have been overspending. The authorities have had to do a timed release of w
Welcome to bbc news. Tropical storm harvey, which has caused devastation in texas, is now heading towards neighbouring louisiana. Record amounts of rainfall have fallen across the region. Large parts of houston the countrys fourth largest city are still under water. More than 20 people have died and nearly 200,000 people have registered for financial help. 0ur correspondent, laura trevelyan, is in houston for us. Welcome to houston, where you can see behind me the absolute chaos that the catastrophic flooding has called in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. As you can see, people have had to abandon their homes and cars. These are extraordinary scenes. This morning, ive witnessed dramatic rescues. People have come from all over texas and even out of texas with their boats, just to do whatever they can in the face of this extraordinary situation. The flooding behind me has been worsened by the fact that we are in houston, weather 2 macro reservoirs on the outskirts are full and have bee
Ill have the all the details. In sport, its transfer deadline day. And an early deal should see confirmation of alex 0xlade chamberlains move from arsenal to liverpool. And carol has the weather. Good morning. It is a bright start for many. Chilly as well. Show is in the west. Through the day, they will develop widely. Showers. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may says she wants to lead the conservatives into the next general election saying shes in it for the long term. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has given his support, but backbench conservative mps have told the bbc theyre sceptical shell be able to serve the full term. The Prime Minister is currently on a three day trip to japan. There has been an awful lot of speculation about my future which has no basis whatsoever in it. I am in this for the long term. There is a realjob to be done in the united kingdom. It is about getting brexit done right and getting a Proper Partnership wi
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Tampon tax go to an anti Abortion Group . The group says it is providing essential Housing Support for women who decide to keep their babies, but the mp who champion the scheme says they should have to give the grand back, let us know what you think about that. Our top story today, detectives investigating an attack on a teenage Asylum Seeker which left him seriously injured have released images of three people they want to question. The two men and a woman are being sought about the attack on the 17 year old boy at croydon in south london on friday night. Anisa kadri is following the story for us. What is the latest . Well, eight people are actually in kas today now, police are questioning them on suspicion of attempted murder, and as you mention, three images have been released this morning by police, people they want to speak to. Police believe up to 20 people could have been involved. As for the victim, 17 years old, kurdish iranian, police are treating it as kurdish iranian, polic