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Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new ...

Evacuees shouldn't go home yet. he just said we have never seen a storm like this calling it epic, disastrous and widespread. florence blamed for at least 36 deaths. cnn's nick watt is live in wilmington, north carolina which is basically cut off and turned into an island. give us a sense of where will the president be going after this? what will he see today? >> well, we are not being told exactly where the president is going. perhaps some of the plans are still fluid. lots of roads are still closed here. this is still a fluid situation on the ground. some of the rivers are still cresting. we...

Buy just to move all of the epic amount of water sitting in the streets here. >> garrett, thank you very much. >> thank you. there are so many shots. that's an interstate. i saw this last night on twitter. here's a shot. >> oh, my gosh. >> that's it-10 with white caps. >> that should pretty much tell you. >> yeah. >> the amount of water is just -- it epic. it biblical. >> i think people are probably very happy that the president came to visit but as the days turn into weeks, it's the response and the governor and the first responders and then those in the weeks to come, how quickly they can re...

Today when he was in south texas earlier this afternoon. he called it epic, he called it historic, he called the response terrific. so he is praising the local response here. this is what he had to say earlier this afternoon in corpus christi. >> you are special. we're here to take care. it's going well and i want to thank you for coming out. we're going to get you back and operating immediately. thank you, everybody. what a crowd, what a turnout. >> reporter: so brianna, at least that clip there in early remarks that he made almost sounds as though he was coming to a small campaign rally of s...

In orlando. even for donald trump, this was intense. >> you called it epic. that's how you describe it. and there's three points to make here about how to follow of this. when ben carson starts slipping in the polls -- this is nothing unusual. this is out of character for even donald trump. but i should note that from our nbc polling, ben carson is one of two candidates who plays well among tea partiers, the libertarians and moderates. the second point to make is that donald trump, we haven't been talking about him over the last few days. we've been talking about marco rubio and ted cruz and r...