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Maria: welcome back. back to our top story right now florence has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but the danger is far from over as we told you earlier it continues to dump heavy rainfall on the already flooded carolinas the white house keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation, with all eyes on fema and its response. texas republican congressman john ratcliffe sits on the house judiciary and homeland security committees that committee overseas fema and also a member of the house judiciary committee and former federal prosecutor congressman good to see you thanks for joining us...

Don't make the same mistake president bush made. the white house said the president expects to visit texas next week after the storm dissipates. >> his entire focus has been on making american great again. he is focused on the americans that voted him into office. he's focused on the americans that didn't vote him spew officials. he's focused on effecting positive change this this country and when we go in and brief him on the preparations for this hurricane, he is acutely focused -- which is the right thing, by the way, the americans in the path have what they need. >> the president tweeted a...

Miles and miles. even after the storm dissipates. and it dissipated well before tulsa. so just an amazing, amazing storm. and unfortunately, we have to bring results that are just awful. mile wide damage path. a tornado that's probably going to certainly see winds upwards of 200 miles an hour or more. back to you. >> all right. jim cantore, thanks very much. and what we're seeing here, the sun's just come up and we're completely overwhelmed as we walk around and look around, 360 degrees. >> everywhere you go, you see bricks all over the place p flown everywhere. we talk about these homes here....