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However, if you have a home in that neighborhood that did not flood, you are okay. you're allowed to go back there. another bit of good news that we have that chemical plant that is in crosby, texas, to the northeast of here. they had an evacuation zone that had been put in place about 1.5 miles around the plant because of all those organic peroxides. they burned them off and that evacuation order has now been lifted. >> maya, thank you. mark, director of recovery at hagerty consulting is here with us on set along with our panel. white house reporter for politico. mark, to you first. in a we...

And you guys know that. >> we're still in the response phase. we still have flooding going on, we still have concerns about rising water and so, we're not past the danger, we're not past the challenge. after we're done with that the primary searches we have to do secondary searches to make sure nobody's sitting in the homes and tragically lost their lives and we need to recover the bodies for families. >> reporter: one more question i want to ask you about this convention center. i saw some of your police officers singing and dancing with people here making them feel better given what they los...

Obviously, the reference couldn't be more clear. this is not another katrina. you said very eloquently, that was with this president had to avoid. so far, he seems to have avoided it. >> i think he has and i know he's getting criticized for going to texas some people say too early, some people say you shouldn't be down there. but this is such a huge storm that i don't see anything wrong at all with this president, oh whether it's a republican or democrat going to another part of texas that was impacted by hurricane harvey let's be honest, may not be that drastic but it was pretty much destroye...

Experts thought? >> the company of resource today but you always need to be looking one or two days ahead particularly while you are in the response phase. want to emphasize again we are still in the response phase. we need to be looking maybe 72 hours ahead and start calculating how many assets you need to respond because the thing that drives me crazy about firefighters and i love firefighters, we saw them on ground zero. they are worked to the bone. but what they do as they work themselves until they're so tired but to actually become a danger to themselves and others. you have to force the...

We're going to push hard to make sure you don't see the sunlight anytime soon. we've got armed robbers last night in the middle of the night and we've also got more looters. we got looters at a game stop last night. it's all hands on deck. we are fully operational, we have the resources coming out of texas from other major cities. we're beginning to task them, we are beginning to give them specific missions, they will be doing two things. first, they will be conducting security at some of our locations where we have evacuees and secondly, they will be relieving some of our officers in the near...