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>> ed: at the death toll this morning from harvey now rising to 39, this as tens of thousands of people are still stuck in shelters, but now that the floodwaters are receding, we are looking to temporary housing for those people. jeff, there is a huge job ahead, obviously, how's it going so far? >> it has already started, ed, take a look at what houston has been doing, particularly in a neighborhood like this, where water came up fast but went down fast, this -- take a look, almost every house on the street had some sort of activity, people are throwing stuff out, throwing a drywall out, carpe...

Take a look. >> hi, lassie. hi. i know that storm scared you. but i'm glad you made it. >> it's okay. it's okay. [ crying ] >> reporter: now, on top of all that, that was willie marie's birthday. she just turned 66 yesterday. imagine all that emotion, losing everything, reuniting with her dog. she is a symbol and sign of resilience. she and her family have been in there trying to get stuff out, trying to recover. you can see the mounds of furniture and tables and

So forth, that we're really at the mercy of whatever trouble the russians or chinese want to make. and in the case of russia, there's a lot more concern about the cat and mouse game going on in the air over the baltic or what putin may try at a moment of american weakness in the ukraine or elsewhere. the fact is, donald trump came into office disparaging nato, disparaging the idea of strength in russia. now he's got himself in a situation where he's in a confrontation that he is not strong enough to control, it doesn't seem to me. and i think vladimir putin is fully aware of that and will take...

Anything, so there have been many many weeks of no comment from him. what i found fascinating about this latest story is the reporter matt tate's posting and talking about peter smith's claim that he had sources in what's called the dark web in this very shadowy, sometimes quasi legal part of the internet who might be able to help offer information about hillary clinton, about these missing e-mails, et cetera, and it suggests, again, we don't know a lot about what smith was doing or whether his assertions were real, but it suggests there was a real effort to pull stuff out, perhaps that the ru...

Pulled in different directions, this story was the first story i read in a long time where i could see a line, sort of emerge. they wanted smith at least, i'm not just talking about smith in reporting. they wanted the hacked e-mails. >> yeah. >> they thought that was the game, the silver bullet, hillary clinton's hacked e-mails are going to be the thing that brings down hillary clinton. >> think about the time line here. he's convening this group of experts and a russian language speaking security -- all the investigators on labor day, by that point if you are not at all suspicious or bothered...