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Were leaving this now to go live to Texas Governor greg abbott for the latest on Tropical Storm harvey. Governor abbott intermission music, here. [laughter] Governor Abbott i just love the pause, they are feeling, lord, why is this happening . Exchange, learning about what they need. Also, focusing on their the way that the leaders of the coast of the great state of texas responded to this horrific hurricane is immeasurable, courageous, and heroic. Part of the way that they responded, im grateful about the way that they were enabled to evacuate so many people and minimize the loss of life. Imp...

We are leaving this program to take you live to a briefing with greg abbott. We had an extended briefing. During the briefing, i received a telephone call from the fema administrator as well as the secretary of Homeland Security. Talked, in the phone call, about more ways in which the state of texas will be collaborating with fema and with the federal government. That will be part of the material i cover today. We had a long briefing that i will like to break out in a lot of detail because, as you know, there is a lot going on. I will be discussing what is going on in houston, but also coverin...

County sheriff for so many years. The phoenix new times, the weekly there, points out tonight on twitter that theyve been covering joe arpaio for 20 years and want to remind them of the things he did. He ran a jail he described as a concentration camp. Prisoners there died at an alarming rate, often without explanation given. One of his jailers nearly broke the neck of one of the inmates there. A paraplegic man who had the at the mert to ask for a catheter. Another time, he marched latinos into a segregated area with electric fencing. He arrested New York Times reporters for covering him. The ...

The road. That is dangerous. For houston, Harris County. Harris county got a lot of rain. A lot of flooding. Combine houston and Harris County you literally cannot put 6. 5 Million People on the road. If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare. Especially when its not planned. And many of us in this city remember when the Evacuation Order was ordered before and learned our lesson from that. Has to be very well coordinated all the way from houston to the destination point. You have to make sure that you have proper gas stations, make...

Because victims of crimes or witnesses to crimes wont feel free to talk to the police for fear that someone will get arrested and deported. Right. In Los Angeles County alone where i live, for example there has been a 25 decrease in 911 calls to report Sexual Assault crimes. This is directly from the l. A. Police department. What we see is that when an individual, regardless of the immigration status is afraid of calling 911 because they dont know if by calling 911 they will be arrested and put into deportation proceedings, then all of us are harmed. That means that all of our Public Safety is...