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Is that wind gusts what are we looking at? >> in this radar, shows where the heaviest rainfall is. >> and those are the areas we could expect to see 50 or 60 inches of rain. >> were looking at storm totals of about 40 inches, in some places ten or 15 have already fell. >> elizabeth: thank you for joining us. we hope people stay safe out there. >> an update coming in a couple of minutes from austin, texas. you can see the podium for the governor of texas and behind that the emergency operations center where there gathering more information. it will get a lot worse before it gets better in terms...

And infrastructure to have to repair. we appreciate your time and obviously your service through some difficult times in america. we appreciate it, sir. >> thank you very much. leland: a little bit later in the show, current fema administrator who he just talked about, brock long, been on the job just a couple of months, joins us with the latest on his agency's response and what they're working on right now. obviously, this is now just beginning in the very couple-- the first couple of hours day break there in texas and then they start rolling things in. elizabeth: absolutely, we know that the...

Request for fema assistance. the fema administrator brock long is currently here at the national response center with the representatives from the hall of government and also region six of fema is there in texas leading local operations. elizabeth: i want to ask you a little about the resources. we obviously see them behind you, but i'm curious about the resources on the ground. what is physically taking place right now and what will physically take place over the next couple months? >> well, a lot of that is dictated by the storm itself. right now we're limited by the storm's staying in the a...

To be. leland: may not know for a number of months or a number of weeks. elizabeth: we have a new statement from fema and read it in part, says the priorities right now are supporting states with search and rescue, mass care, medical services, temporary power and life sustaining commodities. the reason i want to bring up that statement. there's a lot that first responders are doing right now and the president said, well, i could be down there as early as tuesday. that may be a high-risk situation and he could be bringing down a lot of resources and when we're bringing out search and rescue ope...

Shuts down travel. >> you can make the case that a presidential visit there actually hinders recovery. if he is not seen there though, or if the federal recovery is seen less than effective, mainstream media and his political opponents will be hammering away. take note for sure that regardless of what the response is, it will be in some way, shape or form politicized. to the extent that the federal government can help here, it generally happens over the long-term and we've seen the initial stages with the travel disaster, and home repairs, low cost loans to cover uninsured property losses to h...