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KPIX Face The Nation September 3, 2017

We signed it now its going through hopefully quick. Plenty of praise for recovery officials. What a job. The water is disappearing we have a long way to go but the water is disappearing. The flood waters are disappearing, but the clean up and recovery facing millions ever texans is just beginning. Well get updates from our team in texas as well as the mayor of houston and the head of fema, brock long. Plus well look at the potential health risk as result of harvey and hear from Bob Schieffer about the spirit of the Lone Star State and its ability to get through tough times. As tough as this was, its been a wonderful thing, even for the country to watch for the world to watch. But as Congress Heads back to washington and face battles over funding the government, will that spirit of unity prompted by harvey last . Well talk about that and the president s plan to potentially overturn an Obama Administration directive that protects children of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Its all coming up on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation. John dickerson is off today im Margaret Brennan. There is breaking news this morning as north korea says they successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb capable of being mounted on missile that could reach the u. S. Mainland. If so, dramatic escalation in north korean president efforts to build his countrys nuclear capability. President trump has tweeted the First Official u. S. Response saying, there word and actions continue to be very hostile an dangerous to the United States. North korea a rogue nation that has become a great threat and embarrassment to china which is trying to help but with little success. We begin our coverage with cbs news correspondent ben try see reporting from tokyo. North korea confirmed test of the Hydrogen Bomb on state television. A strong 6. 3 magnitude earthquake was detected at 12 30 sunday afternoon in northeast north korea near the main nuclear test site. The underground test appears to be about ten times more powerful than the last one, north korea carried out one year ago. It came just hours after the country released these pictures of kim jongun, claiming a Hydrogen Bomb capable of fitting on intercontinental booistic missile. Last week, north korea launched yet another Ballistic Missile sending over northern japan. The u. S. And south korea responded by conducting high profile bombing drills on the peninsula. In july, north corey conducted two successful test of intercontinental Ballistic Missiles capable of hitting the United States saying latest test was designed to perfect a Nuclear Warhead for those missiles. Ever since its elaborate military parade this past april, north korea has warned that it was ready to conduct the nuclear test. But said it would have it at a time of kim jonguns choosing. Kim jonguns has significantly designed to cripple his regime. He launched 18 missiles this is now the Fourth Nuclear test carried out since he took over north korea in 2011. We want to bring in cbs News Senior National contributor, Michael Morell for some analysis. Mike, what have we learned today with this test . Kim jongun has been undergoing a pattern of demonstrating capabilities. So in the last six months weve had submarine launched Ballistic Missiles. Weve had simultaneous launches of multiple missiles. Weve had missiles capable of reaching the continental United States. And now we have the most strongest most significant nuclear test to date. So, he wants to demonstrate his ability to put a u. S. City at risk of nuclear attack, that is where hes driving. Can he hold the u. S. City hostage with that . We dont know for sure exactly where hes at. Theres four pieces to this. The first piece is having Nuclear Weapons that actually work, we know thats the case, this is the sixth test. The second is having a missile capable of flying that far, hes now demonstrated that. The third is, having a Nuclear Weapon small enough to put on one of those missiles, we dont know for sure whether he can do that or not, Intelligence Community assessment from late july the Defense Intelligence agency says he has that capability. That leaves us with the fourth, which is the whole thing working under the pressures of reentry. Having separation of the warhead from the missile work having all of the Electronics Work under that great pressure and speed and heat of reentry. We dont know if he can do that or not. So, not sure exactly where he is, but every time he does one of these he demonstrates to us greater and greater capability. What do we know about kim jung union himself. Hes boxing in President Trump to negotiate hon his own terms . This capability that he is after to put u. S. Cities at risk, three reasons for him. One is, he wants to enhance his own political prestige at home. Hes put a lot of Political Capital in being able to do this at home. Thats one. I think hes not, but i think hes somewhat paranoid, he has killed many members of the elite who that suggests to me that perhaps he thinks hes in some peril. But he wants to strengthen himself at home. The second reason he wants to deter us, he believes that we want to overthrow him. He beliefs that we want to reunite the Korean Peninsula on souths terms. We dont. We dont wouldnt to do that but he believes it. He sees these weapons as the ultimate deterrent. Third reason, he wants to be able to extort us. Once he can demonstrate this capability then hell say, come and sit at the table, im the nuclear power, lets have a different conversation, lets start the conversation by saying you the United States need to leave the Korean Peninsula. He wants to do all thee of those things. I think margaret that people are wrong when they say hes crazy. Hes not crazy. Hes very rational in his own world. He is smart, he is decisive, he is persistent but hes also an attention seeker, paranoid in way that i talked about and extraordinarily violent. This is a different kind of guy. President trump convenes the National Security team today what are his optionn. He has the first option which any president has which is diplomacy. Try to convince this person to step back officer the brink. Thats failed for the last 25 years. Theres absolutely no reason to believe its going to be successful now. I think we need to try, we need to push that. But if that fails, which i think it will, were left with two options. A military option which would be probably not be successful and fully degrading of capabilities and could create probably most likely a second korean war. Thousands of deaths. Or the other option is, acceptance of this capability, containment, deterrence just the way we contained and deterred the soviet union. Tough options by the way. Bad options. Thank you very much. We turn now to the other big story were following this morning, harveys aftermath. The flood waters are receding but the death pole and financial toll continue to climb. At least 45 people have died as a result of harvey and the governor of texas says damages will be much more than Hurricane Katrina with some estimates reaching more than 160 billion. More than one Million People have been displaced, some 200,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in texas and louisiana. And gas price have now jumped 26 cents a gallon nationally since just last week. We begin our coverage of harvey this morning with cbs news correspondent anna warner reporting from beaumont, texas. While houston and some parts of texas may bish recovery mode here in the beaumont youre, there are still entire subdivisions under water and whats worse, residents in beaumont still have no drinking would ther. But last night city officials announced they believe they have come up with what should be a temporary fix. We are not at the finish line but weve undoubtedly regained a second wind. Beaumont meyer told reporters temporary solution should restore the would ther service lost, the citys 120,residents have no drinking would ther are waiting in long lines. But engineers have been working around the clock and now say they come up with a stopgap fix, setting up temporary pumps to provide a water supply. Sounds like you feel like you pulled off a save here. Its like a win. It still does. But we have a long way to go. As the city and private Companies Work to bring up the water pressure First Responders in crosby, texas, are watching the understanded Chemical Plant after two explosion releasing black smoke. The plant owner warned more explosions could come. Officials are monitoring air quality after the release of potentially hazardous chemicals. But some sense ever normalcy returned saturday as Houston Astros played first home game since harvey struck. Players and fans observed a moment of silence and houstons mayor took a break from hurricane recovery to throw out the first pitch. While texans are anxious to return to their daily lives it will be days, probably weeks before many can return home here. Cbs news correspondent has been covering harvey since it made landfall. Hes in South Houston this morning, david, how is the recovery going where you are . Slowly and delicately. Margaret, people have letter from world war ii that are drying in the front yard, pictures of babys baptism, the family lives here a foot of water inside their house nearly everything was ruined. To protect what they have left from loot commerce is a real problem, they have been sleeping in that tent for the last four nights with a box fan to keep them cool. It is hot and humid as you can imagine. But in the air theres also a moldy, musty smell, in fact for folks who have respiratory issues, the air quality is very unhealthy. As you look outside the home the belongings stretch around the sidewalk, as you look down the street which appears to piles of trash or personal treasures, it goes on as far as you can see. Especially as you get into the outer suburb it is unimagable how many homes have been affected. What would have been the gem throughout all of this, the civilian samaritans. People who were recovery workers today were rescuers on monday. Folks who we rode with who took people out of their home in chest deep water have returned to those homes to help people rebuild, ripping out sheetrock. People who dont even know the victims of this National Disaster but showed up at their doorstep and said, what can i do for you . David begnaud, thank you. We go now to the mayor of houston Sylvester Turn who are joins us from the citys convention center. Good morning to you, mayor. I want to know who is houston need right now, what did you ask President Trump for when you met with him yesterday . Two things in terms of immediate needs, housing, housing assistance. We need rapid repair housing because many, many people have elected to stay in their homes theyre now dry but they need to be repaired. In some case may need to be rebuilt. This is earl is hely important for the seniors, low income, but people all over the city. Housing, housing, housing, rapid repair housing and i asked him to expand the rapid repair Housing Program to 15,000 up to 35,000. The second thing, debris removal. Most of the city now dry and people are putting out their heavy debris. The city of houston started thursday picking up this debris built we have to get it done like now. Cant be sitting around, 30, 45, two months from now and so advanced funding for debris removal, he understood it. But those are the two things that im highlighting up at the very front. Housing, housing, Recovery Centers so that people can register, go through the fema process and third thing i dont want to leave this out. We have First Responders that have been out here assisting everybody else. But many ever my First Responders over 300 have had serious flooding problems themselves. So i ask for an expedited fema registration, of Processing System specifically for First Responders and he really gave a thumbs up on that. Sir, houston is the center of the petrol chemical industry, youve got so much stagnant water there, what kind of contamination have you seen and what kind ever help is the epa giving you right now . Well, thats still being assessed most of those superfund sites sites are immediately outside of the city of houston, we would hope that the epa would be on the ground now to take a look at those superfund sites to make sure that contamination is contained. And limited. But i cant specifically speak to that, many of those areas are outside of the city of houston. Can you say that houston is safe now or that Drinking Water is safe now . The Drinking Water was never a question, our plants continue to function. No one had to borrow any water. Water is safe. The electric grid is pretty much sound, only about 12,000 people in the city of houston without power. The airport system is up and bring, the Transit System is up and running. Weve started picking up heavy debris. Let me be very clear. The city of houston is open for business. Anyone who is planning on conference or convention or sporting event or concert coming to this city, you can still come. We want to you still come. We can do multiple things at the same time. Now, were checking on our seniors, low income communities, houses across the city of houston to make sure that we are repairing those homes but we can do that at the same tame time. Only two areas under water in the city of houston in the northeast in kingwood, that is getting better. Then in west houston, those homes didnt flood because of the rainfall they are flooding because of the release of water from the reservoir. And right now we are only talking about 26 homes in west houston, what ive said to them if you have water in your home, were asking you to requiring you to evacuate if you dont have any water in your home youre fine. I want to be very clear. Yes, it was a very serious storm, historic, unprecedented but the city of houston is open for business. And so if you have a conference, convention, concert, any of those things that were planning to come to this city we are still ready to welcome you. On tuesday, we are getting back on our feet and im expecting employees police to open, employees to go to work all City Employees are due back at work. Important message given that houston is the fifth largest economy, i know you want to drive that home. But can you give me a sense, yesterday you were trying to send that message clearly with this baseball game you had in your city, you threw out the first opening pitch. What did that feel like, does it feel like recovery is where you are now . Look, it felt good. People were cheering. There were smiles, by the way, i want to appreciate the new york mets because they came down and they were at one of the First Responder site serving them lunch, i appreciate the Houston Astros won both of those games let me say that, we won both. People are feeling good. Even at this shelter where we are right now, there were 10,000 people in this shelter, the number is down to significantly less than 2,000. And just mat are of five days. So, theres city of houston just like the surrounding region, was seriously hurt and its going to be a very expensive proposition, we take it day by day, but at the same time, this is a cando city. That is a cando city, were not going to engage in a pity party, were going to take care of each other, neighbors are taking care of each other, businesses are responding, community is responding but we are getting back on our feet and we are open for business. We do want people to continue to come to the city. The port of houston is now open. Mayor, so Many Americans thinking of your city this weekend i want to thank you for joining us today. Well be back in one minute. Pray for us. We will. We we will. We head of fema, brock long, will join us. And we covered it, july first, twentyfifteen. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum im vern, the orange money retirement rabbit, from voya. Im the money you save for retirement. Whos he . Hes green money, for spending today. Makes it easy to tell you apart. That, and i am better looking. I heard that. When its time to get organized for retirement, its time to get voya. Brennan the head of the federal Emergency Management agency, fema, brock long, joins us from washington. Its been a very busy time for you, sir, i appreciate you making the time. Can you tell us the white house already asked for 7 billion expect billions more to be needed in houston, quite soon. How much money does fema need to help this recovery . Thats hard to estimate right now. Obviously not only is the president fully engaged, his staff, tom bossert, secretary duke, all of us are working together to correctly inform the congress on how to give us the enduring authority

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