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Alex? >> thank you so much for that. let's go to mobile, alabama, from kristen dahlgren is standing by for us. kristen, good afternoon to you. it looks a little windy, i can tell from your shirt. >> reporter: yeah, just a little bit, nothing compared to what we will be seeing. really there are two big questions as we go into this afternoon and evening, and that is whether or not people heeded the warnings. they may have hurricane fatigue. there's some worry among officials that they may have that. and then the other question is if they have been sort of lulled into thinking this isn't going ...

They'll be dealing here. flooding in downtown houston. we will zoom in on what we are using as a flood gate here, you see the fire hydrant. it has dropped 6-inches or so, the rain keeps coming and expectation that the water level is going to continue to rise and certainly state officials and including governor are bracing for what they still have to go through here. >> we are measuring not in inches but in feet, we prepared to deal with that in multiple ways, we sending boats and helicopters and that will be not just in houston, harris county area, the raid all across east texas where you can ...

Base. let the democrats run trying to defend transgender individuals v. chuck grassley and joni ernst, herself a veteran, married to a veteran, the other senator from wai iowa both came out against trump. >> the other thing you can almost see with the president picking this fight with jeff sessions that it's given republicans an excuse to say things that they've been wanting and itching to say for some time because it feels okay and everybody supports that the president has gone too far. >> do you think it's one off ar opening of a flood gate. >> i think we're going to look back at the congres...

Have less support than the current senate legislation. >> i don't think we got the vote and senate to pass that. >> the legislative. >> i did not come here to help people. this week, republicans cautiously suggested bipartisan ship as a last resort. >> the best outcome is a bipartisan bill. >> for some reason, it fails, we then the flood gate would open to reach a bipartisan compromised. with the senate bill, president trump further complicated the process by spending nearly half the week attacking msnbc, mimika. >> you are president of the united states of america, the greatest country on ear...

But there is a kind of group solidarity effect that happens. >> yes. >> and we saw that with ailes. >> yea and of course these things tend to go in waves. there's a safety in numbers, and now that these allegations are so public, i would not be surprised that we see a flood gate of more women. >> you also reported today that in the interview with maria bartiromo with fox business news that trump had something to say about all this on the hot mike at the beginning of the interview. >> yeah. you know, he said that, you know, rupert murdoch has been great for trump and much better than roger aile...