Kountze. Hello, steve. When you get 49 inches of rain in five days, you get towns completely surrounded by water. These two men are headed out. To a lake 16 miles away, population 10,000. Right now its completely cut off. The Lone Star State sharing in harveys misery. The storm focusing its energy on golf communities around beaumont near where it may liam fall overnight. Port arthurs mayor says the entire city is underwater. This nursing home in port arthur among the facilities being evacuated quickly. Nurses have said these patients were in the water for up to 24 hours. Tensions were at a high level when i came into this facility from relatives and even some of the volunteers come to try to take these people out. Desperate family members posting on social media photos with pleas for help seeking any information on missing or isolated relatives and friends. Across east texas, touching acts of kindness and bravery. These men, trapped for hours and trees, rescued by an armada of volunteers. This human chain to help a pregnant woman who went into labor get to the hospital. Also to the rescue 24,000 National Guard forces will soon be on the ground in texas. Around houston, a site for soggy eyes, the sun rising for the First Time Since friday, and Officials Say nearly all of the waterways have crested. Search and rescue operations remain in full force. We are still in the Emergency Response phase. At least 21 people have been killed by the storm, including a family of six believed to be writing in this van found today. 18,000 rescued so far across the state. Including this baby airlifted in college station. With damage estimates conservatively pegged at 160 billion in nearly 50,000 homes damaged in the houston area alone. Officials say many residents will not have much to return to. One water sits in a house for several weeks, the house begins to degrade. More than 32,000 people across texas remain in temporary shelters. This one in port arthur is flooded, creating unsafe conditions. People slipping and falling. Very, very, very unsanitary. Another concern is looting. An overnight curfew in houston being strictly enforced to prevent thefts, armed robberies, and those impersonating police officers. Some residents understand the temptation but arent taking chances. Its a combination of desperation. People needing things, dont have cash. A lot of people just taking advantage of the opportunity. I dont typically ride with my pistol, but i have it right now. All day long, these volunteers have been pulling people out of subdivisions. To my left, to my right, men, women. I saw a toddler with a knapsack on her back prepared for a destination to who knows where. Its the amazing stories. We were listening to some of these dramatic rescues as they were happening live just before the show. Lets head to Trace Gallagher. He is in the helicopter performing some of those rescue missions above beaumont. Its a little loud. We apologize. We just took off and we are heading back out. Those were watching earlier might have seen we brought this family aboard and we pulled them off their rooftop. It was absolutely stunning. Mom, dad, son and daughter. We had to get the dog. They lost everything today. Their house, and they lost everything but they have each other. We know they are going to be kept together and taken to a local shelter and they will be together, which is the most important thing. I want to stand over here because we are heading back in this area of beaumont. This is the waterway. This is supposed to have water. You can see the shrimp boats and you can see the fishing boats, the port of entry. As you sweep back over this area, across the river, and did neighborhood is being inundated. We were talking earlier that theres 170,000 people combined in beaumont and port arthur. No one near the 2. 5, 3 Million People in houston but we know at least 1,000 rescued today. If you imagine the context, it gives you an idea of 170,000 people. You rescue 2,000 or 3,000, it means every family, Everybody Knows someone who is affected by this. Thats just the people who were rescued. Many people were taken out on their own. They were able to walk out. They were able to drive their cars out in the early going. Thats just the people who were rescued. This has affected everybody because if you look around, all these towns are underwater. Its not just neighborhood and then dry neighborhood and then white neighborhood. Its everybody. Look at these homes down here. And the refinery, and every Business Aspect of beaumont and port arthur is affected. Its a stunning sight to see. The orchestration of the air here, its amazing. We have beaumont airport. We had a black hawk land behind us. Both of them were back in the air back flying looking for more people. It goes on and on like that from daybreak until dusk. We have been witnessing these guys bone tired going out and picking up people again and again and again. They do it because it makes them proud. Bret let me ask you. Did they see sheets outside homes . Have they been alerted to these people . How are they getting to the rescue sites . Most of them are 911 calls. The 911 calls were flooded. They got 9,000 calls in the early going. What happened is they are trying to followup on these 911 calls. At the time they get to a lot of these neighborhoods, many people have been taken away by boat or other helicopters. They are still going out and checking it out. We havent got to the point yet here in beaumont where they are asking people to put towels out to say you need help. That was one of those things we did in houston because they werent sure if people were still inside. You get, and the rain is coming down so hard, you dont want people standing on the roof waiting for help to come. You tell them to go inside the house, not in the attic but on an upper floor and put towels outside and we will come by with a boat or get a helicopter. When you hear it or you hear the vote, please go outside. We havent seen any of those towels here in beaumont because i dont think they are quite at that point. You can see its a 911 call flurry. Spewing Trace Gallagher with the rescue missions there. Governor John Bel Edwards says the threat of flooding in southwest louisiana appears to be diminishing at this hour. Tropical storm harvey pulls away from the region. Senior correspondent Rick Leventhal is in vinton. Good evening. Good evening, bret. Even though the storm is moving on in this state was spared the worst, there are still streets and communities like this one in southwest louisiana that are still flooded. This neighborhood in vinton, a resident says it hasnt been this bad since the 1970s. Authorities are worried the water can get higher before it receives. Southwest louisiana has been inundated by rain from Tropical Storm harvey, flooding streets, swapping vehicles and isolating homes. Is rising so fast. While the situation here is nowhere near as bad as texas, nine Straight Days of downpours have drenched the ground and filled every body of water up to or over its banks. Every new squall brings more road closures and the need for rescues. Dozens of them in vinton. More than 500 in speed 27 parish since monday. Its a powerful storm. A lot of rain will continue to drop. We know that the ground is saturated. The wind are sufficient to topple trees and any time that happens, Power Outages are also going to happen. The interstate is closed a few miles from the state line but First Responders and some volunteers from the cage and navy are being allowed through to help with rescue operations. At least 40 officers from florida fish and while for among the army of outside agencies traveling through to assist, briefly stating here a mile from the border and then rolling into texas with her airboats and flat bottom tracks. Empty buses are heading west and coming back full of evacuees. New orleans, swamped by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago this week, got less rain than expect about residents sandbagged and officials had Emergency Operations up and running just in case. Back in vinton, despite knowing there will likely be more flooding, gus says he is staying put. I moved here 20 years. Im not going nowhere. We hear that often in the aftermath of disasters like these. People love where they live and they would rather rebuild and relocate. Bret thanks. To talk more about the federal involvement and response to Hurricane Harvey and all the aftermath, the secretary of housing and urban development, dr. Ben carson. Secretary, thanks for being her here. Hud will play a key role. There are people facing a real housing crisis. A lot of times people think about hud further down the road but we are involved at the beginning working vigorously with fema. We have many people allocated to work with them. Recognizing people are in distress right now. Thats one of the reasons we are helping states and local officials reallocate some of the funding they have toward disaster relief. One of the reasons weve put a sensation on many foreclosure proceedings, mortgage insurance. Rehabilitation insurance. Making loans available, section 108 loans. Those kinds of things make a big difference and also determining where the units are that are available. We have staff out making sure where those are, determining where the people are however that helped by hud programs. And then matching those up. Working very vigorously with fema. Bret we have seen Something Like this, but this seems historic. Back when Hurricane Katrina. How long it took to iron out some of those issues, some of them still go on today. You have 80 of the population there possibly who didnt have flood insurance. Thats a lot of folks dealing with housing issues. No question. Its going to be a mammoth issue and its going to be something we are going to be involved in for many months and maybe even a few years. But we are going to be there for the long haul, recognizing that the home is something that is so precious to people. And its not just the bricks and mortar. Its the emotion attached to it. In many cases, the family memorabilia, all these things lost. Its emotionally quite taxing for people. In the last thing they need is to have to go through this incredible bureaucracy in order to get any help. People can go to disaster. Gov and find out about many things available to them but also they can find out what they can do to help others. One of the things thats been very gratifying, as we went down there yesterday, is looking at the cooperative spirit between local government, state government, and federal government. Everybody whos been involved in these things say its unprecedented the level of cooperation occurring. Thats something we want to continue. And its one of the reasons weve got involved early so that the transition can be a seamless transition from the reactive phase and the rescue phase to the recovery phase. Bret will continue to put up the website for people who need the help. I want to talk about your job at hud. We are seven months in. Your thoughts, concerns, your vision for where this agency is heading. Its a bureaucracy. And im not a big fan of bureaucracy. Bureaucrats are people who think the rules are more important than the goals. We are actually reimagining the way hud works right now from the bottom up. Including the vision of many of the people whove been there for 10, 20, 30, 40 years rather than just imposing things upon them. We want to reduce the Regulatory Burden so that we become somebody who is responsive to people when they call us. We want to develop people. In the past, hud has been a little bit of a place that puts people into a shelter. We recognize that our people are Human Capital to be developed. And thats what strengthens our country. We think there are things we can actually eliminate, like homelessness. Theres been a great deal of progress made in that area. I think we can make some tremendous inroads. Lead in some of the environmental issues. The health and housing, there is a nexus there. Bret you have a budget where hud has been cut for 2018 from the Trump Administration. 13 reduction from 2017. You have programs being cut. Community Development Block grants, homes, choice neighborhoods, selfhelp Home Ownership programs, native hawaiian home programs. The recipients of some programs saying, what am i supposed to do . I have seen the allegations theres going to be a lot of the evictions and people out on the street. Let me just say first of all our conviction is no eviction. We will do what is necessary. Do recognize that with some of the reorganization that weve done already, we have realized some tremendous savings. This is a concept thats foreign to a lot of people in washington. The whole concept of efficiency and saving. Having said that, the budgets are not final. And we will use whatever money we have in an extraordinarily efficient way. But i think we cannot only shelter the people weve been sheltering but we are going to be able to recreate the way communities are done. We are rethinking how communities are done too. They need to be nurturing places. They need to be places that will help children to be able to maximize their potential. And not have a goal of just staying where their mother or grandmother was. Bret part of the issue, secretary carson, the people below you, spots have not been filled. And the president tweeted the other day we are not looking to fill all those positions. Dont need many of them. Reduce size of government. This is in response to a statement by laura ingraham. There is an issue filling those spots for hud to work effectively. I dont have a deputy secretary. Who is generally the person who runs the operation. While the secretary is doing other things. I havent been able to travel as much because you are involved in doing what everybody else i dont have a general counsel. A lot of top positions, and a lot of it is politically motivated. Be that as it may, a deep bench, a lot of people willing to step up to the plate and help to fashion things and keep things moving in a positive direction. Its been good. Bret you are optimistic. I was told i would be met by a lot of hostility from the residual Previous Administration and the people who tried to torpedo everything. There are a few people like that but the vast majority of people have stepped up. They are professionals. They recognize what their response abilities are. Bret the new York Magazine piece that was really kind of attacking you. Is anybody home at hud . The dismantling of the Administrative State is taking place under secretary ben carson. You would say thats not right. I would say you should ring the doorbell before you conclude no one is at home. [laughter] i dont think they did a very good job of journalistic investigation. Bret secretary carson, we appreciate your time. Youre welcome back anytime. Thank you so much. Bret up next, President Trump tries to rally the heartland on tax reform. You need the best equipment. For the best ride. The best fit. And the best nights sleep. 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Good evening. The president s helicopter landed in a short time ago here at the white house. He chose a location in springfield, missouri, is a metaphor, using the birthplace of americas main street route 66 to promote economic renewal for main street america. As President Trump kicked off the campaign for tax reform, a new fox news poll finds his Approval Rating at 41 . That is down four points from april. 55 of registered voters disapprove, a sevenpoint rise since april and a record high. 50 of registered voters think President Trump is tearing the nation apart versus 33 who believed he has drawing the country together. His highest marks were on his handling of the economy. 49 gave him a thumbs up. We hit 3 in gdp. The president s speech in missouri was all about why tax reform is important for the economy, not how he plans to do it. A particular focus of the people who put them in the oval office, middle income americans. We go we believe ordinary americans know better. Then washington how to spend their money and we want to help them take home as much of their money as possible and then spend it. Stick out the president s speech set the table for meeting the white house next week. The tuesday will strategize with the big six on tax reform. Mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, orrin hatch, kevin brady, steven mnuchin, gary cohn. Wednesday he will meet with the bipartisan congressional leadership. Tax reform not officially on the agenda but likely to come up. After the appeal of obamacare shelf fell flat, he laid out a plan. I am committed to working with congress to get this job done. I dont want to be disappointed by congress. Do you understand me . He took specific aim at majority democrat