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System. The mayor says the city needs to be competitive and some tough choices will have to be made. Altogether, we can reduce the size of our work force by at least 10 a thru a combination of attrition and eliminating vacant positions. We can achieve this all without major lives and without reducing the quality of city services. Reporter also on the mayors list, building new schools and helping to guide the citys finances over the long term within something she says could help lower property taxes by as much as 50 cents over the length of this plan. And well have reaction to the mayors state ...

Of dry skies but the flood waters will continue to rise. Untold numbers of people are still awaiting rescue by First Responders volunteers, anybody with a boat. Still, it was the first day in so many that forecasters promised improving conditions. Exclamation point. In the note that they sent out. We expect a live briefing this hour from fema and Homeland Security. We want to go first to cnns drew griffen in beaumont where the weather has not taken a turn for the better. We just lost drew. The weather so bad right now in beaumont and port arthur that the signal went down. Again, that is where ...

Cities of port arthur and beaumont. The floodwaters are rising and sadly there is no way for people to get out. This is all coming as rescues continue in houston. The red cross says 17,000 people are now in emergency shelters, two stadiums in houston, the Toyota Center and nrg stadium are taking in evacuees which Houston Convention center over capacity. It dumped 51. 88 inches of rain in a suburb east of houston and unloading 15 trillion gallons of rain in texas. The amount of water is astounding and overwhelming. Were on the north side of houston near the reservoir thats overflowing. Good mor...

With all the critical inf infrastructure in the area. secretary perry is leading us. there are two pieces to that we have to keep in mind. one is getting distribution up and then second is getting power to individual residents and homes. that's challenging. the flood -- the high level of flooding requires quite a bit of preparation to make sure it's safe as the electric companies connect their distribution systems to specific points of system delivery. additional, we're tracking the refineries and other gas and oil in the area. very good news is we have seen no environmental issues at this poi...

Area. secretary perry is leading us on the energy sector. there are two pieces we have to keep in mind in recovery. one is getting distribution up and second is getting power to individual residents and homes. that will be challenging. the flooding requires quite a bit of preparation to make sure that it's safe as the electric companies connect their distribution systems to specific points of system delivery. additionally we're tracking the refineries and other gas and oil in the area. the very good news is we have seen no environmental issues at this point because that critical infrastructure...