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Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new ...

Today when he was in south texas earlier this afternoon. he called it epic, he called it historic, he called the response terrific. so he is praising the local response here. this is what he had to say earlier this afternoon in corpus christi. >> you are special. we're here to take care. it's going well and i want to thank you for coming out. we're going to get you back and operating immediately. thank you, everybody. what a crowd, what a turnout. >> reporter: so brianna, at least that clip there in early remarks that he made almost sounds as though he was coming to a small campaign rally of s...

For the president to detract from that. >> reporter: indeed, brooke. good afternoon. the president is making his way here to austin. he's going to be visiting the state emergency command center with governor abbott and the two republican senators from here in texas as well. he is intentionally steering clear of houston and the other disaster zones, no question about that. we are in austin so there are a few protesters here, a liberal city, of course, but after the president made those remarks, he addressed a small crowd outside a fire station. let's take a look. >> immediately. thank you, ever...

Let's go to jeff zeleny. ahead here of the big trip to texas, do we know where he'll be going, what he'll be doing tomorrow? >> well, brooke, good afternoon. the white house has their eyes very much on the storm as it's evolving. so they have not yet set an exact schedule for where he'll be going. we do expect him to fly to corpus christi. was it the center of the first ring of the hurricane damage from the weekend. and then he is likely to go elsewhere. the city will likely head to austin for the state emergency command center. all this is fluid and flexible. but brooke, we are told that he's...