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Local and county governments also dealing with this, but as the administrator made clear to me earlier today, they are engaged and will stay fully engaged to make sure that all of these challenges from those people that you see at the george r. brown center are addressed. arthel: absolutely, one of the executive actions you have taken is waived the occupancy sales tax, what are the next steps, governor, that you are planning along those lines? >> after we get through with the saving lives and the rescue process, it will be the rebuilding process, and, in fact, we've already begun that where th...

Region are in the early stages of the rebuilding process. the texas char transportation is working to restore the ferry service. right now there more than 250 highway closures in texas. in a triangle region that i mentioned earlier. we have electronic message boards providing real-time information. if you're seeking information about road closures, you can go to drive texas.org, that is drive texas.org. to find out if there are road closures.

Individuals as well as cities and counties for all of us to begin the rebuilding process as quickly as possible. >> right now more than 300,000 citizens are facing power outages, and the city of corpus christi is now giving residents the okay to return to their homes, but they must remain under a water boil advisory. meantime, houston, the fourth largest city in the country, has already seen at least 16 inches of rain. nbc's kerry sanders is joining me now from victoria, texas. what's the latest, kerry? >> reporter: well, alex, hurricane harvey is no more, but the problems left behind continue...

As he recognized earlier, the president has already granted a request for a disaster declaration. texas is already getting relief from fema to help our individuals, our citizens in communities. to help the rebuilding process. >> sean: we covered the issue of katrina. the issue of the levees was another issue. clearly mistakes are made. you feel as governor, having been in touch with the white house, as this goes on for days and days, you are confident the help and assistance, whatever needs people have will be met and be met expeditiously. >> the white house is fully engaged. very helpful. ver...

Declaration. and we have now added 20 more counties for a total of six counties. as you probably know i requested a federal disaster declaration that the president granted last night. this is incredibly important and extremely fast. what the presidential proclamation about our disaster declaration does is it immediately triggers the implementation of fema. and fema's assistance for individuals as well as cities and counties for all of us to begin the rebuilding process as quickly as possible. something else that i did yesterday is i issued a proclamation waiving hotel occupancy taxes for all e...