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The hang hishanghai slightly lo. In europe, green arrows across the board. The dak x is up by 0. 4 . The cac up by 0. 3 the ftse up by 0. 2 . The dollar, which has been under so much pressure, you look and you see today the dollar sup against the euro, back below 1. 20 this morning it looks like the dollar yen is at 109. 89. Check out crude oil and gasoline prices, crude Oil Yesterday at a onemonth low. Its down once again this morning at 46. 18 rbob gasoline up nearly 6 yoed yesterday to a twoyear high of 1. 82 sits at 1. 83 this morning as we quont to watch the reficontinuec those refineries...

Event. Flooding in houston, dallas and to the north. Houston received more than 15 inches of rain in may. We could get another foot with Tropical Storm bill. That is definitely unfortunate news for all of texas and this will be spilling into oklahoma arkansas and points north. I was in the red river valley last week. They said the worst Case Scenario is if we get a tropical system. There you go. Here it is. This is bill. It will cause 1012 inches of rain. They are watching this closely. Highway 87 just to the east of us has been shut down. Theres already flooding. Its a low lying area. Anywher...

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...

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We can't get to all of them as quickly as we'd like, but we have been able to initiate rescues where people call and said we have a group of people, a lady's in labor. those kinds of things, and it allowed us to deploy resources perhaps in a more misht manner. >> ed emmitt, director of the harris county office of emergency management. we appreciate your time and do hope to that that weather forecast gives you relief as well. thank you very much, ed. by air and by boat, more than 2,000 people rescued in the houston area, the coast guard plucking people off of rooftops. we'll take you inside t...