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September the 1st. can you believe it's september the 1st? mika has the morning off. with us we have washington anchor for bbc world news america, catty kay, also, national political correspondent for ms nbc steve kornacki, u.s. politics reporter at usa today heidi pridbella, co-author of the playbook jake sherman, in washington, d.c., senior political analyst for nbc news and ms nbc mark hal person. cat catty kay, why done you take us through the news, especially for harvey. >> it's been a business summer, texas is finally beginning to dry out little bit by little bit. we are realizing the ma...

Of relief aid, and, of course, members of congress are going to give him that relief aid to try to seem like they're not as dysfunctional as the republican congress has been over the past nine months. >> yeah. he's offered money of his own, $1 million. they're going to need more. katrina they asked for something and got pledges i think of $60 billion. this is going to run into the billions. normally the kind of things republicans might be worried about, but with the pictures out of harvey, you seem to be getting unity saying they want to get this funded. it is 7:00 on the east coast. with us w...

Particularly and potentially undocumented down in houston, harvey. >> it has a hume undocumented immigrants in houston. it's the city with the third largest undocumented population in the country. what we have seen in the shelter as many of the people are headed home, now is when you start to see undocumented immigrants start to trickle in. i spoke to about who have a dozen yesterday who told me they took their time to come here because there is a lot of of fear in the community that if they come to these shelters, they be be turned down or put into a database even though they've been told the...

Are recedeing, they are finding mud snidz several homes, families are returning to that area. it could be several days until tens of thousands or more can return back home t. weather here across houston is getting warmer. it should get dryer, but this storm certainly has already done a lot of damage. bill, back to you. >> nbc news' miguel almaguer, thanks, to you. now the water level in beaumont is peaking today. it will slowly recede through the weekend, very slowly. i also got an update on the barker reservoirs that protect houston, that i have dropped one foot since their peak height on wed...

Miguel almaguer, he's in port arthur, texas. >> reporter: hey, bill, good morning, this is what so many are waking up to, the flood waters pouring into communities. authorities say if locations like this, it may be several days before they can go door-to-door t. death toll from harvey now stand at nearly 40. but that number could rise in the coming days. it is believed 100,000 homes have been affected by this storm a. storm on the mover that is pounding the heartland today. we also know that 32,000 people are in shelters. we spoke to many of them yesterday, who are now being bussed out further...