Kim jong un, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. Chris will break down how the administration plans to deal with north korea and afghanistan in an exclusive interview with secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Plus, the president pardons former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio drawn criticism from both parties. We will ask our sunday panel if the president is sending a message to being investigated by the special counsel. All right now on fox news sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington. Hurricane harvey now downgraded to a Tropical Storm continues to hammer texas causing flooding and leaving devastation in its way. At least two people are confirmed dead but officials expect that number to rise. The storm has left over 300,000 without power in 1500 taking refuge in shelters. And with the drenching storm expected to continue for more days, 10 million texans are now under a flash flood warning. In the moment we will discuss the damage and the response from authorities with Texas Governor greg abbott. But first we have hochstein coverage. Meteorologist rick tells us where harvey is headed. Just outside of rockford with how folks are coping there. But we begin with Casey Stegall in galveston with the latest on the storm. The conditions to continue deteriorating out here rather quickly. This is happening up and down much of the texas coast. I will hop out of the way and showing one look at what we are talking here in galveston. You see stuff like this all over the place. A roadway taking on water right up against neighborhoods. Its impassable the water levels are rising fast because these torrential rains simply will not let up. Look at this video shot not long ago earlier this morning of an actual rescue happening in houston, a human chain being formed pulling someone to safety. Galveston county and the city of houston have received highest rainfall totals so far. The National Weather service says the rain has been coming down at a rate of five to 6 inches an hour in some places, in fact 24 inches falling in the houston metro, which is just to the north of us. Local Emergency ManagementOfficials Say area 911 call centers are swamped with people calling in for help either stranded in their homes out on the roadways, forecasters fear the worst may be you have to come in terms of flooding. President trump is monitoring this disaster very, very closely. In fact, he held a teleconference by video from camp david yesterday with key members of his cabinet. He was briefed on the situation on the ground here like people from the new fema administration, brock long. The federal Emergency Management agency says now is go time. This is where we figure out how much they need, how quickly we can get it to them and how to get it to them. President trump tweeted today great coordination between agencies at all levels of government. Continuing rains are being dealt with, thousands are being rescued. While those harvesters are carried out over the recent residents also under a different threat, tornadoes. Amateur video capturing the spirit listen to people screaming. Several twisters have touched on. Multiple homes have been damaged and minor injuries reported. For context of the National Weather service has just between friday and saturday 67 tornado warnings have been issued. 67, in fact we woke up to yet another one here in galveston today. It is starting to look like millions of texans have a very long road to recovery. Chris thank you for that report. Now lets bring in steve harrigan, who is just outside of rockport, a town that may have been hit hardest by the storm. Steve. In this part of the texas coast theres a lot of small towns sometimes with a population of just a few thousand. For them the storm came as a surprise because it went from almost nothing to a major powerful hurricane in less than 56 hours so people here really have a choice to make. To stay put in our homes or to leave. Some made the wrong decision. I see the other family with four or five kids run back in the trailer and the tornado hit it and they were gone. Like to quote more came across the other side coming on the way and they going this way and everybody in that area, theres no way they could have survived. Officials here still dont know just how bad things are. Theres no electric power, no cell phone service. Weve seen some search and rescue operations but they are very basic. It is just firefighters on foot with axes, they knocked on doors, kick them in and say is anybody in here alive. People here walk around really in a stunned days, theyve lost the houses, their businesses. Some of the people weve spoken to say they dont know what theyre going to do next. They have no insurance but after a moment of sadness many admit that they are better off than their neighbors. Ive got friends out there, i dont even know if they are all right. Many officials around her tell people dont come back, we dont have utilities, you would just be a burden. Stay away for now. We are seeing people come back a little at a time in the rain to pick through the wreckage to try to find something thats left. Chris, back to you. Chris steve, thank you. Now with a look at where harvey is headed, rick is at the Fox Weather Center in new york. We have a long ways to go from the storm unfortunately. Resources statewide are certainly being taxed. This is an evolution of the last 48 hours of the storm. The problem is the storm has stalled just in short, just inland but all of this moisture of this very warm gulf, one of the warmest bodies of water anywhere in the world, that moisture continuing to pull up now crossing the eastern side of texas, targeting very directly the houston area and everywhere around it. Already weve seen some spots over 2 feet of rain and we have another three days to go. If we knew there would probably be some spots around the 50inch ring by the end of this. We didnt know exactly where that would line up. It looks like its going a little bit farther east than we had anticipated so we have a very heavy rain in houston. Weve already seen over 2 feet of rain in houston and we probably are going to be looking at about an additional 2 feet of rain by the time this is done. That means the flooding pictures that weve been seeing all day today is only going to get worse by the time we get to wednesday. The storm doesnt completely pull out of the region until thursday into friday. Chris thank you for that. Joining me now with the latest on the storm and its impact as the governor of texas, greg abbott. Governor, what is your latest Damage Assessment both to people into property . Governor abbott chris, it is bad and growing worse. Obviously part of the Damage Assessment is because of where the hurricane hit in the entire surrounding area. Now of course we are dealing with the damage around the houston area because of the flooding. It is large and growing larger, it will be in the billions of dollars but we really will not be able to tell for the next couple of days when better assessments can be made. Chris what is your biggest challenge right now for you and for authorities there . Is at the flooding in the houston area . Governor abbott we have multiple challenges all at one time. As people can see the flooding in houston is dramatic. Some people will recall Tropical Storm allison that devastated houston in 2001 and this looks like someone of a replication of that. Were working to save lives and to keep as many people safe as possible in the houston area, but at the very same time we are conducting search and rescue missions where the hurricane hit near the Corpus Christi and rockport areas. We are doing multiple duties in multiple parts of the state. Chris i want to ask about that because we just had a report about rockport, which may have been a community that hardest hit. I know the damage been so extensive that a lot of First Responders havent even been able to go in and see what has happened to people who sheltered in place. The casualty account at this point seems remarkably low, two debt, a dozen or so injured. I hate to ask this, but do you expect the casualty count to rise dramatically as First Responders get into some of these more devastated areas . Governor abbott we will see. We have First Responders there, we have whats called Texas Task Force one, Texas Task Force to cope doing sir search and rescue missions as well as Texas National guard who were there. They are going door to door throughout neighborhoods and rockport and across the entire region and so we will have some more reports that will come out today but i will tell you in that particular region there were a lot of warnings to evacuate. There was a large number of evacuations from that area and those evacuations likely saved a whole lot of lives. Chris the gulf coast in addition to all these folks in their homes, the gulf coast also accounts for about a fifth of this nations crude Oil Production and almost half of our oil refinery facilities. What can you tell us i hit that your Energy Sector has taken and what impact will that have on supplies and prices . Governor abbott ive spoken with leaders of some of these companies. They are very experienced in dealing with challenges like this. There are hurricanes and Tropical Storms that pass through the gulf region all the time. They were very well prepared for, they hunkered down and were able to contain the facilities and they have the ability to ratchet up back up there quickly. If this will be probably a one or two week downturn. Not but they will prepare for this and they will prepare to wrap up very quickly. Chris i know you are coordinating with federal, congress changed some of the rules for fema postkatrina and part of that is that they were much more able to deploy personnel and equipment in place, in san antonio in the texas region before the storm hit. It has that made a difference, sir . Governor abbott it has made a difference. Ive got to tell you, i give fema a grade of a all the way from the president down. Ive spoken to the president several times, to his cabinet members, secretary of Homeland Security such as the administrator of femur, such as tom price, the secretary of health and human services. All across the board from the white house to the federal administration to fema, theyve been very helpful. We were able to see this storm coming a week or more in advance and get a lot of preposition and taking care of whether it be the federal assets with estate assets or the local assets. So when it comes to preparation with never been more prepared for a storm than we have been this time. Chris what can you tell us about President Trumps personal engagement in this problem and managing the response to a . Governor abbott its been extremely professional, very helpful. He called and said governor, whatever you need youve got. This is the quickest turnaround ive ever seen from the time that a governor made a disaster declaration to getting that granted. What that means for the layperson out there is because the president so swiftly granted my application for disaster declaration that means it triggered all the resources of fema to help texas and what you will see over the coming weeks and months is a tremendous rebuilding from all this damage and a large part of that will be because of fema helping out. We are very appreciative of the way the president and the white house has responded to this catastrophe. Chris from all the forecasts that youre getting, sir, how much longer is texas, the people, the millions of people there going to be under the gun from harvey, whether its a hurricane or Tropical Storm . Governor abbott understand that what im about to tell you is not precise in perfection but for multiple reports im hearing that we can expect torrential rain and the greater houston and east texas area for days to come. Remember this, the focus on tv right now is the houston area. There are miles upon miles outside of the houston area were a lot of people will face a lot of challenges because of rain, flooding and rice and water. We got a big task on our hands for at least several days if not a week. Chris when you say torrential rains are we talking 3 feet, 4 feet, and if so, what to do about that . How to try to help save those people . Governor abbott chris, measuring rain these days not an issue and tell and just putting feet. We are prepared to deal with that in multiple ways, for example overnight are National Guard deployed to houston, texas, multiple highlevel vehicles that are going to be manned by the National Guard. We are deploying boats and helicopters to be involved in swift water rescues and that would be not just any houston or Harris County area, but that would be all over east texas where you can see all the heavy flooding. All we can do is to provide as many resources as possible to achieve goal number one, that is to save as many lives as we can. Chris Governor Abbott, i want to thank you, especially for taking the time to talk to us in the midst of all this, sir, please know that the rest of the country has the people of texas and our thoughts and prayers. Governor abbott thank you so much. Chris up next, north korea launches more missiles. How will the u. S. Respond . Secretary of state Rex Tillerson joins a foreign exclusive interview. With full Service Brokerage firms. Again. And online equity trades are only 4. 95. I mean you cant have low cost and be full service. Its impossible. Its like having your cake and eating it too. Ask your broker if they offer awardwinning full service and low costs. How am i going to explain this . If you dont like their answer, ask again at schwab. Schwab, a modern approach to wealth management. Youre hetruck, suv. Used car, thats smart. Truecar can help. 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Secretary tillerson my wife and i are both native texans, we still make our home in texas and our families are all in texas. We have many, many friends, family that are in the affected areas in both her in mind thoughts and prayers go out to those that are affected, 12 million is what i understand now in the state of texas are being impacted. I think with respect to the response of the state of texas, Governor Abbott doing a remarkable job dealing with the ongoing problem and i think its important for people to understand and recognize, President Trump has convened in all cabinets meeting yesterday. They were going to have another one later this morning to ensure that all agencies were doing everything they can to support the state of texas and its response. With respect to the gas industry, they have been through this many, many times, probably among the most repaired for these types of events so they do a lot of prestaging of capability but there will be challenges that are created by a storm of this magnitude and a storm thats going to last as long as this one is. Im confident that they will respond capably and the government have facilitated that with early action as well. Chris lets turn to your day job. North korea fired three shortrange missiles on friday. What message do you think the regime is sending . Secretary tillerson the firing of any Ballistic Missile is a violation of resolutions but we do view it as a provocative act, a provocative act against the United States and our allies. We continue to want the kim regime to understand is a different path that he can choose. The International Community has been quite clear with the unanimous 150 approval ofs account Security Council resolution imposing extreme sanctions on north korea. Theres also a unified international echoing our messages that no one wants to see a Nuclear Korean peninsula. We are all unified in our mission to Safety Nuclear rise the Korean Peninsula. We look forward to an opportunity to how we might engage with them. Chris this week before the missile test both you and the president suggested that kim might be backing off of his missile program. Here both of you are. Kim jong un, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. I am pleased to see that the regime in pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that we have not seen in the past. Chris or both of you wrong about kim . Secretary tillerson i dont know that we are wrong, chris. I think it