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Understandably a lot of the questions this week were about manafort. you said this is perhaps the biggest blockbuster week of questions you received, one of them being what is the significance of the 40-month sentence he's already received? >> one of the best parts of doing this is you get to hear directly from viewers. our viewers were baffled and angered by this sentence and i think rightly so. i think this was an unjust sentence we saw from the judge in virginia. the sentencing guideline range, which is advisory, not mandatory, 19 to 24 years. i agree that would have been excessive given th...

Can take their address information and put it in and at least give more detailed explanation of what we think as to how it's going to impact them. that's for citizens that live close to the barker dams and up stream. for the citizens downstream that live along the buffalo bayou, these two dams were built specifically to try to minimize flooding in houston, their purpose is to try to prevent water in the addux and barker, plus cyprus creek. in cyprus creek the water is going to jump and go into these dams. even with releases or going around, people need to know all that water that's still in th...

Weather service perspective, we're working in partnership with the federal, state and local emergency management and water resource management community. we've been working with them since last weekend in anticipation of this storm as the models and forecasts starting showing the potential for this storm. we're standing here today to emphasize that you listen to your local officials. they're there to save your life. please listen to them as the storm unfolds. thank you. >> folks, i will departing after this news conference to be with governor abbott. it's a dynamic situation that will be const...

Not dealing with anything we faced before and making tough decisions and i hope people will understand it. >> congressman, given that, given the unprecedented nature of this, do you think the mayor of houston should have evacuated more people. >> i agree with what the mayor did. i was here when we had rita, when we had millions of people trying to exit the city without proper contra-flow lanes. i remember the heat strokes people suffered. i remember there were fights that took place on the roadways. i remember a bus that caught on fire and there were persons in there -- >> congressman, i'm so ...

Expected to crest, crest, which means reach their top point, until later this week and then they could be there at some level less than that for weeks to come. so this is very real and it's going to continue. joining us now texas republican congressman pete sessions. he represents the dallas area. pete, good to have you with us this morning. sorry it's for this reason. as you heard me say, they don't have a dead count yet. they don't have information about the injured. it's not because anything is going wrong. it's just because it's too hard to coordinate right now. is that your understanding?...