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Nursing home. now, i happen to be at the airport here in beaumont when the coast guard, the national guard, and the customs and border protection brought in those nursing home victims who they had rescued from the rising waters. they brought them here because of their age, because they're infirmed and need special attention now. this is difficult for somebody who is older to have gone through all of this, some of them taken out on boats because it was too dangerous to put them up on the hoist. others hoisted into helicopters and they have gone through a lot of just disorientation and trauma to...

Will require a tremendous effort and people need to understand it is not going to happen immediately because of the demand for housing is that wrought. >> how would you grade the federal response on a whole so far for this? >> i think the level of coordination and the amount of effort being put into this is basically extraordinary. the problem is the challenge is extraordinary. compared to katrina, the geographical scope is so wide, there were three landfalls, the amount of different jurisdictions that are evolved make this really, really complex and will challenge everybody that is involved. ...

This community. no one expected the kind of rain that they got here. >> blake, can i ask you, as we were trying to get a sense over the last few days of what had happened in houston and they -- we thought that the flooding was maybe subsiding, got sunny, but released reservoirs, the water kept rising in unexpected places. i see there is blue sky over your head. what is the lay of the land in port arthur from that perspective? do we expect there to be more rising floodwaters there? or is there a sense that the worst is over and they still have to get through this rescue phase? >> we have been w...

In houston, they were the hardest hit. a lot of the incidents here i guess, just the flooding, has been the primary concern, there is areas that are just not passable and the forces that are coming in, the marines bringing a lot of boats and amphibious assets that we can use to get to them. but overall, i mean, here it is just the weather, the flooding and the rain and the winds. >> all right, thank you, both, gentlemen, very much. i'm sure there are a lot of people happy to see you here on the ground in beaumont. you know, casey, not just the texas national guard. you have the marines who are...

Compare it with 2008, it goes exactly to the point that carl was just making there. here is santorum in red and romney in orange, with 84 terse of --% of the vote. you see in the western half of the state. southwestern part, santorum is taking all these counties. if this holds, and it likely will at the moment, santorum will likely win more counties than romney, but overall romney could take the overall vote total and will increase his vote total over four years ago. we will examine this now from 2008 between romney and mccain. just a reminder romney won four years ago just by 9 points. but lo...