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Exacting. houston officials are keeping a close eye on a chemical plant that was rocked by explosions and fires this morning releasing a plume of acid smoke. the plant's owners are warning more explosions could follow. a major pipeline that carries gasoline to the south is expected to remain shut till sunday. gas futures up 24.5% in the last eight days. meanwhile, harvey also hitting folks at the pump. regular gas is up 10 cents the past week. there's a delay between the effect at the pump and the futures market. the house will act on a disaster relief bill early next week. they're not giving ...

By tomorrow. so we're continuing to bring more and more forces in. boats that we didn't have out before we've got out now. we're going to continue to focus on it until we get everybody ha needs to be rescued rescued. >> thank you very much, colonel steven metz, i appreciate your time. i want to go to tom seder now live for us in the weather center. you heard what the colonel said and you've been listening to folks on the air and reporters, as well. harvey has dumped more than 15 trillion gallons of rain so far. >> 15 trillion. >> what can folks expect on the ground. >> 10 to 15 in houston. i h...

Author of "the land of america." i have so much to ask you guys. please, if you could keep it short. there's so much ground to cover here. general, i want to start with you. it's about 72 hours since harvey first slammed texas. how do you think the response is going? >> i think it's going in the right direction. i've been a proponent from day one that we needed to go in big and it took the governor -- he's doing a good job but he only fully mobilized all of his national guard. whiches about 12,000 he has to date, and been operating with 3,000 or less. i think that's important. they've got to g...

So we're continuing to bring more and more forces in. boats that we didn't have out before we've got out now. we're going to continue to focus on it until we get everybody that needs to be rescued, rescued. >> thank you very much, colonel steven metz, i appreciate your time. i want to go to cnn's tom sater now live for news the weather center. tom, you heard what the colonel said. you've been listening to the folks on air and our meteorologists out in the field, reporters as well. harvey has dumped more than 15 trillion gallons of rain so far. >> 15 trillion. >> what can folks expect on the gr...

Is it equipment or what? do you have enough equipment to get to people? what's the biggest problem you're facing at this hour? >> well, i mean, we've got boats there now. we've got high profile vehicles there. we're bringing in more and more helicopters to help us all the time. i think the biggest issue right now is just time. getting to everyone that needs to -- that we need to get to and covering such a vast amount of area. we're still fighting deep waters in some areas. but i think we have the equipment we need now, and i think you know, we're not going to rest till we can make every effort...