Minutes. Were focusing this morning on what is happening with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. And this morning, a lot of that focus is in houston. Lets take you there and just in the last 30 minutes, houstons police chief has said they have completed 2,000 rescue missions. Fema officials estimate at least 30,000 residents will have to stay in shelters temporarily because of the catastrophic flooding. And that flooding is expected to persist. Its going to recede slowly. Rain has been pounding up to 50 counties throughout texas since friday. Officials also say refineries have voluntarily shut down. Flash flood watches have been issued in austin and also in alexandria, louisiana. A Tropical Storm warning remains in effect in houston and victoria, and parts of texas are still expecting another 25 inches of rain. Meanwhile, President Trump is at the white house this morning after spending the weekend at camp david, monitoring the latest developments in texas in the aftermath of harvey. The president plans to travel to texas tomorrow. Abc News Reporter arlet signs is live in washington. Good morning. Good morning. President trump is facing a defining moment in his presidency as he deals with the first nature Natural Disaster hitting the u. S. Since taking office. President trump back at the white house as the remnants of Hurricane Harvey bear down on texas. Whats your message to the people of texas . The president spent the weekend monitoring the hurricane Via Video Conference from camp david. It marks a major test seven months into the trump presidency, from the floodravaged region, the Texas Governor is offering words of praise for the president s response. We could not be more appreciative of what the federal government has done, from the president on down. The president is touting the great coordination, tweeting, we have an allout effort going and going well. But as harvey pummeled texas, he also turned to other twitter topics. Ranging from the border wall to his election victory in missouri, and even his pardon of controversial sheriff joe arpaio. President trump says he wants to travel to texas as soon as possible without causing disruption. The white house says that trip will happen tomorrow. In washington, abc 7 mornings. Back to you, jessica. Thank you. Meanwhile, the bay area is sending plenty of help to those in texas. Right now, another task force is on the way to houston from menlo park. Theyll join other bay area groups already there. Matt keller is live in menlo park this morning with more. Matt. Reporter good morning, jessica. Yeah, a lot of crews from the bay area are headed to texas right now as we speak. They packed up yesterday here at the menlo park Fire Protection district headquarters. And now theyre on the road, and theyre hoping to get there some time today. A lot of preparations, though, yesterday. Took a lot to get all their gear and equipment together. The states urban search and rescue task force out of menlo park spent the afternoon packing for the trip to texas. A 16person team specializes in water rescue. Obviously, thats very much needed there. The task force is bringing five vehicles and ten boats and trailers. Enough equipment to last a couple weeks. Last time this team was called out was during the flooding in san jose earlier this year. Menlo parks fire chief says its the most significant deployment since Hurricane Katrina when his team saved a lot of lives. 501 in one day. You know, had 66 helicopters come in. Unbelievable, right . Im not sure if these guys will eclipse that. I hope they do, because that means were doing what were supposed to be doing, moving people out of the inundation area. Task force three will join rescuers from all over the nation, including Task Force Four, who left oakland on saturday night. Theyre in contact with other teams on the road ahead of them, hoping to find the best travel route to get there as quickly as possible. Reporting live in menlo park, matt keller, abc7 news. Thank you. It could be days before flights are back to normal because of Hurricane Harvey. All commercial flights have been grounded at both of the citys major airports. These pictures from javy airport show one of the runways under water. The roads getting to the airport are also flooded. More than 4,000 flights into texas have been canceled into tuesday. The effects being felt nationwide. More developing news from the houston area where pets are also the focus of rescue efforts in floodravaged parts of the state. People used kayaks, boogie boards, and coolers to save stranded animals from the rising floodwaters. The Animal Defense League of texas says they will provide an official count today. They estimate hundreds of pets have been rescued so far and brought to shelters. Our coverage of harvey and the devastation that lies in its wake continues later with a live report from houston, and of course, you can stay up to date on all the developments on our website, abc7news. Com, and our news a. M. Make sure you enable push alerts. Back here at home, counter protesters of an antimarxist rally in berkeley claimed victory. They plan to meet at city hall this morning to discuss whats next. Police say about 4,000 people attended sundays counter demonstration at civic center park. The counter protesters clashed with,000,000 people who showed up for an antimarxist rally even though the organizer canceled it days ago. Six people were injured during fights. 13 were arrested. Police say overall, the level of violence was nowhere near what they have seen at other rallies in the past. Developing news just south of livermore, where Alameda County firefighters are battling a large grass fire this morning. Infire department tweeted these pictures of the fire overnight, as of 4 30 this morning, they say the fire burned 44 acres and is 20 contained. The steep and rugged terrain is making the firefight difficult. Calfire expected to provide up dates later this morning. Happening today, the San FranciscoPolice Officer arrested on a child pornography charge is expected to make his first court appearance. Officer joshua enea is suspended without pay. The tenyear veteran was taken into custody last month. He lives in antioch. Officials say the investigation began in february after the child porn was found on one of his electronic devices. His arraignment is set for 8 30 this morning. Happening today, an attorney from los angeles announcing his candidacy for the u. S. Senate in 2018. Pat harris plans to launch his campaign in front of San Francisco city hall at 10 00 this morning. He is running for senator Dianne Feinsteins seat. Senator feinstein has not said whether shes going to seek reelection. Ubers board of directors has picked the ceo of expedia to take over at the ride hailing company. The man will assume the top job at uber. He has been heading expedia since the year 2005. There are multiple reports that both he and the ceo of hewlett packet enterprise, meg whitman. Were in the running, and whitman interviews with the board this weekend. No decision has been formally announced. Top investors demanded Travis Kalanick to step down earlier this summer because of claims of sexism and several lawsuits. Speaking of uber, theyre launching a new feature on the app for drivers. Share my trip allows uber drivers to share their cars location with loved ones. Uber says it created the feature to address safety concerns. Its available in 140 cities starting today. It will expand to every city uber operates in by early fall. Happening today, amazon will seal the deal on buying whole foods and the online giant plans to cut prices. The first markdowns will include bananas, eggs, salmon, beef, and other products. Amazon is taking over whole foods in a nearly 14 billion deal. That means whole Foods Products will also be sold on amazon. And some stores become pickup and dropoff locations for amazon. Com. Prime members will also be able to cash in on some special instore deals. Some of the most comfortable temperatures in the city. Look at that. West portal, 56. Weve got the same thing at glen park. We have 57 in financial. Sunny side, lake merced. 58 in park presidio, crissy field, the marina, the ferry building, heading to the mission, petrero hill, bay view. Castro is at 58 right now also. And union city at 62. Heres a look at some of the minor tweaks well have in the forecast for today. Cant really see the Golden Gate Bridge, can you . Its so thick with fog right there. And thats the way its going to be. Fog to sunshine around the bay. Beaches, refreshing highs in the 60s today. If youre going to be outdoors anywhere else, spare the air alert. Poor air quality. Heres a look at our east bay valleys. By noon, at 96. Well over 100 through at least 4 00. Even near 6 00, 87 degrees still at 8 00. Check out these temperatures in the north bay. 90 at noon. 96 at 2 00, and 4 00. Still about 90 at 6 00. So be careful today. Heres sue. Were getting first reports of an overturned accident. This is in the Fairfield Area involving a big rig. Apparently, the accident happened in westbound lanes, eastbound 80, flipped over into the eastbound direction right before north texas. Im seeing slow traffic in the eastbound and westbound directions here as well. An overturned big rig, eastbound lanes. Traffic should be slowing and we will also be back with this in more details coming up. Thank you. Up next, a medical mystery. The popular vitamin now being linked to an increased risk of lung cancer in men. And the reason the Lgbt Community is rallying and the reason the lgbt as with Natural Disasters in the past, ordinary citizens in the houston areas are doing extraordinary things to help out their neighbors. In this mornings gma first look, houston heroes in their own words. We went in there with a military grade fiveton vehicle, and it was able to get in the neighborhood pretty quickly. And we were able to rescue a lot of people with that. So far, just coming in, helping people get in the boats. Helping make sure theyre safe. There was an elderly couple, one of the neighbors was nice enough to take them in. So they could have somewhere to be. Yes, just call people and ask if they needed help, and a lot of people were like, yeah, we need help right now. I got the kids. I made them laugh, helped them get over the anxiety of being in the cold water or seeing a large amount of water in their front yard. Coming up at 7 00, full Live Team Coverage of the catastrophic flooding. And more from those helping its victims. With your gma first look, im candice gibson, abc news, new york. Thats the hope in all this, that people are helping each other out. Other news now, crews have recovered the body of a missing kayaker from san leandro who vanished at lake tahoe in june. They found the body near emerald his body was found by a Nonprofit Organization that specialized in underwater searches. President trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of socalled dreams. Children who were brought to the country illegally when they were young by their children. Republican lawmakers set a september 5th court deadline. They want the Trump Administration to stop the deferred action for childhood arrivals or daca program. Advocates for both sides are preparing for the possibility mr. Trump may stop issuing work permits to dreamers. It would phase out an obama era initiative. The Lgbtq Community is rallying around a russian violinist who fears he may never return home. He got married in San Francisco and is planning a new life in los angeles. Michelle gallardo reports, people want to help the man stay in the u. S. Reporter the music is beautiful. The artist talent there for all to see. For the 160 people who fill the center on haul steads auditorium coming out to watch him play to violin was as much about the music him themselves. He moved to canada to study music seven years ago. Hes been in chicago for two. And was recently married. His mothers reaction to the news her son is gay convinced him to post this Youtube Video as part of the russian children 404 project, which invites gay teens to thel their stories to a country that is still notoriously homophobic. I realized that my church is so homophobic because they dont know anyone who is openly gay. I thought if i could be that person, at least i know that they will listen for a little bit to me. The minute i saw it, i just was moved to tears, quite honestly. Went home, showed my husband. We shared it with a friend. And we all just said, what can we do to help . He and his husband will move to california next week. It is there he hopes to continue his career as a violinist. In lake view, im michelle gallardo. Abc 7 news. 5 18. A warning if you take vitamin b supplements. A new Study Suggests taking vitamin b6 and b12, increases the risk of lung cancer in men. Researchers found men who use those vitamins at high doses for ten years had about double the risk of developing cancer. The risk is three to four times as great for men who smoke. Vitamin b is set to boost energy. Time to get a check of weather. It has been very hot the past few days. And that trend should continue, right, mike . It will, absolutely, jessica. Hi, everybody. Heres a look at san jose. 280 at 17 where its clear this morning. Temperatures running in the low to mid 60s. Our big concern today, heat and air quality. Tonight, a few more clouds as the marine layer starts to take over more. That means its going to be milder tomorrow morning. We have one more extended heat spike before the weekend. Lets take a look at temperatures. Well start in the south bay where were going to jump to 96 in san jose. Triple digits in los gatos, morgan hill, and gilroy. 90 in milpitas to 81 in santa cruz. 90, redwood city. Most of us in the 80s on the peninsula today. Maybe only 79 in millbrae. Mid 60s along the coast with those stubborn clouds. Maybe a few upper 60s if you see a little more sunshine. 72 around downtown. 78 in south San Francisco. And also sausalito. Well have mid to upper 60s in the north bay beaches. 90s to 100s through our north bay valleys. San rafael at 96. Along the east bay shore, 82 at berkeley. 83 in oakland, 90 in fremont, and temperatures 104 to nearly 110 in the east bay valleys. It will be around those same temperatures through the central valley. Palm springs, 115. 90 in l. A. 86 today in tahoe, and 98 in yosemite. Heres good news, you can sleep easier tonight. 55 to about the mid 60s. Maybe a few upper 60s out around antioch. My sevenday forecast, a little cooler tuesday and wednesday. Hot again thursday and friday. And the weekend, much more tolerable than the one we just lived through. Hey, sue, you have a new sig alert . I do. Were going to vacaville where we were mentioning last time about this overturned box truck. Its a moving truck, and it is the accident happened westbound 80 near Lagoon Valley road, that the truck flipped over in the eastbound lanes. We have eastbound left lane blocked, westbound, seeing a lot of slow traffic from vacaville headed into fairfield. So they have issued this sig alert. Department of transportation is on scene, and theyre going to be closing several lanes there. So headsup, once again, sig alert in vacaville, and a stall still out there, southbound 101, leaving petaluma, and the Construction Zone there. Back with more on the sig alert in a few minutes. 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Number two, california setting a special Water Rescue Task force from menlo park to help in texas. Last time this team was mobilized was in the flooding in san jose earlier this year. Number three, gas prices expected to climb in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. At least ten Oil Refineries iptexas are out of commission this morning. Experts say well