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Pyongyang. no one has a better perspective and view than you. thank you, sir. back to our storm coverage next. they've already had 15 to 25 inches. could be in for double that rain amount in the houston, texas, area. "early start" continues right now. this likely is going to be an historic rainfall if not an all-time record. >> 50 inches of rain. parts of texas under water face a devastating few days of more rainfall. months if not years of cleanup ahead. we have loive coverage of the damage, rescues, and what lies in store. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dav...

The victims of tropical storm harvey with contributions. property damage is forecast at $40 billion, $20 billion in houston alone. big companies are writing checks toward disaster relief groups. caterpillar, walmart, lowe's. exxon itself hurting from the storm. floods and rain forcing it to close its baytown refinery, second largest in the country. united airlines is encouraging its customers to give. rewarding members up to three million bonus miles in exchange for donations. united is also matching the first $100,000 raised. the storm posing a major test for president trump. he's set to fl...

>> uh-huh, yeah. pretty good. pretty good. i think pretty good for the circumstances. it's bad. everything's floating. it's bad. 11 minutes past the hour. rain and flooding inundating heart of oil industry. oil rigs have been evacuated, and ten refineries shut down. one, exxonmobil's baytown refinery. one-third of the refineries on the texas coast. the closures take 2.2 million barrels of oil a day off line. that disruption means higher gas prices. futures hitting a two-year high, up 7%. gas prices could rise 5 to 15 cents over the next week especially in the south, southeast, mid-atlantic u...

Forwa forward recovery teams. we're pushing forces to implement national flood insurance program. we're setting up and gearing up for the next couple years. >> now fema and the department of homeland security will have a briefing updating what's happening there. 6: 6:15 texas time. 7:15 eastern. rosa flores joins us live from the flood zone in houston. is the rain still -- has it stopped? does it remain quiet there? awfully dark where you are in houston. >> reporter: we're still getting rain this morning. that's really bad news for the entire houston metro area. as you look around me, we are i...

Cooperation with the united states and south korea. always infuriate the regime. we've seen them show their defines just over the -- defiance just over the weekend. they attempted to launch three short-range ballistic missiles. two traveled more than 150 miles, coming down in the waters off japan. those could hit seoul or u.s. military bases in south korea. we saw new images emerging on state department media of north korea's supreme leader, kim jong-un, overseeing a special forces operation with command ohs -- commandos simulating an tweak. i met with officials in pyongyang. they told me they...