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Verve stated neighborhoods. understandably, trying to get back before its safe and authorities are warning them not to do that. a few moments ago, we point out, vice president mike pence land and the ground in texas. there you see him in corpus christi being greeted by the governor, greg abbott of texas. that happened in the last hour. the vice president landed to meet with state and local officials to talk about the rescues and recoveries. well see the pictures of the vice president all day lon...

Texas. well have much, much more on this. but, again, miguel up in that helicopter. and you can see another gentleman has been plucked from the disaster that has become beaumont, texas. nbcs stephanie gosk has been trying to get to beaumont for hours. has not been able to do that, because so many of the roads, so many of the bridges remain impassable. shes at a fire department in coons, texas. coons, texas, again, about 20 miles north of beaumont. stephanie, how does it look there right now? >> ...

Very busy with the search and rescue efforts which is their focus and understandably so. we want to make sure people are out of harms way. its our job to provide them the hydration and feeding as theyre doing their jobs. we want to make sure that theyre able to do what they need to do first, and we come in behind them and start working toward getting the folks moved back into their homes, where we can assist them. >> all right. alvin migez, disaster coordinate in rockport. we very much appreciat...

Then over to my left, this water heater is rising. i spoke to a young woman over here who said she has now abandoned her home, and she is going to her neighbors house a higher. she hopes that will keep her safe and dry. they shut their garage is, understandably. i do not know if you will see them right now. you see the water rapidly rising on the street as well. i guess it would probably beat ways high, shoulder high down there. i venture to go down, but i dont know what it would prove. >> shepa...

Daughter who lives in the next county and her house is flooded for the third time in about 15 years. last night. and she had a lot more water than we had. and she will be in the epicenter even of the next band thats supposed to come through. i think weve been very blessed right now. im really worried about people i know in the rural areas. >> understandably, yes. you have -- you and your family are very lucky. given the circumstances, and yes, houston cannot really take any more rain. because th...

Sorry about. that they are asking people to make sure if they bill their water to prevent any contamination to them. alex. >> okay. very quickly, im looking at this driveway to the hotel behind you, it doesnt lock too wet. does that mean -- whats the rain situation right now there? >> reporter: actually,er with fought getting any rain right now. it was raining a little earlier. you know these things have been coming in sort of spurts. you have these bands making its way around this. it could be ...

On afghanistan, understandably, so many people have, its hard to figure out what a winning strategy or what winning looks like there. before he was president he tweeted a lot about it and he did have criticism obviously for president obama and others, he said, lets get out of afghanistan. our troops are being killed by the afghanees we train, we waste billions there, nonsense, rebuild the u.s.a. this is from 2013. i agree with obama he said we should have a speedy withdrawal. we should leave afg...

As they blocked them, the car, according to witnesses ive spoken to, tipped to one side and that is when a police shooting ensued. five people were killed. first, four of them killed right here by one person. locals tell me it was a female police officer who shot them. and then one individual holding a knife went walking -- went basically running down that lane avenue. and you played that video. thats when the police said -- [ speaking in foreign language ] get down. get down. he got down once, ...

Praises the mayor but thats gotten complicated by the events of the past 24 hours. in a statement this morning, the mayor criticized president trump directly saying there should be no a come days with white supremacists. it was supposed to be come down, praise the mayor but things have gotten more complicated in miami. >> shepard: understandably so. how many people is this affects in miami-dade? >> since january when they reversed it, about 400 people. 173 of those were turned over to ice agents...

Cant defend the presidents initial response to this. >> gillian: i think theres a lot of emotion infused into the situation right now, understandably. this is the most pressing hot-button issue probably of the century so far in the united states. what i would say from a policy perspective, the way i look at it, it is fair to criticize the presidents initial response and the fact that his good response came two days after the fact, but i dont think its fair to extrapolate from that that somehow t...