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Her husband on the trip to texas. they are not likely to go to the heart of the disaster zone, more likely to go to san antonio or austin, texas. the reason being, the president is concerned whenever he travels, he has contingent of public safety personnel who have to assist him and he doesn't want to destrakt from the ongoing response effort. the administration trying to show a bit of sensitivity to the situation on the ground in texas right now. as far as the presidents' day goes today, he is already signed an order declaring an emergency in the state of louisiana, also hit by this storm tha...

Remember, anytime the president travels it is a massive undertaking. it takes a lot of planning and resources, and at this point resources are already stretched extremely thin in texas as local a agencies are focused on saving folks' lives and getting them back on their feet as well. arthel: meanwhile, governor abbott of texas, he gave the president and his administration an a+ on federal response. can you give us more details about the federal response, garrett? >> reporter: yeah. leading up to and throughout harvey, the administration's priority has been making sure state and local officials...

Feels totally vindicated. this is a little bit of an unusual relationship to see the republican national committee sort of playing the rapid response effort for the white house because the white house could be at the zmaerlt of this investigation and so they they would have felt better standing up this arrangement allowing the committee to spearhead this response. the that's what we're going to continue to see on the hill tomorrow. >> thank you very much. let's go to republican senator susan collins. it's nice to have you on the show. thank you. you just heard the presidents feels completely a...

When we can or immediately after the storm instead of focusing on recovery. you're actually putting responders at risk to save you in the worst part of the storm and sometimes we can't come. now you're going to divert resources away from speeding the recovery as we're having the search and clear areas because people didn't evacuate. we cannot urge people enough evacuate. if it's not bad, go home, it was an inconvenience. if it is that bad, it may be you and your family's life at risk. this is the one thing we can prevent by getting people to evacuate. we won't stop the damage. that will happen...

Began the chairman at the house homeland committee who gets regular briefings told fox news the numbers of americans affected will go higher than the current estimate of 21.5 million because of damage assessments are ongoing. >> i think we're going to discover that more have been compromised. we didn't know for months that the systems had been compromised in first place. when homeland security went in to do the response effort, that's when we found out how widespread the threat and the damage was. >> some on capitol hill are not buying the obama administration's explanation that it was a coinc...