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>> martha: tonight, texas residents desperately trying to escape the rising floodwaters there. fox's trace gallagher is in the middle of it 40 miles north with an update with us tonight from the ground. hi, trace. >> martha: hi, martha. i can tell you houston got a bit less rain today. they would say the outer areas when get less, but we've seen no signs letting this up. you can see later this morning, this parking lot was dry. the cars were also dry. now, they've got water halfway up. the interstate, they are about to shut this down for a major artery, interstate 45, the unique thing we've se...

It will reflect on everyone, in the end. >> certainly, there is a sense of urgency right now. really, saving lives phase, but also there are other concerns. some with the dams, the reservoirs filling up, the u.s. geological services on the ground looking at flooding models. book >> martha: >> martha: are they confident the dams are going to hold? >> the army corps of engineers are monitoring that releasing water where necessary, and it's by communication. folks on the ground need to listen to the local authorities to make sure they communicate and listen and follow directions. but yes, the coo...

Houston, more than 200 miles southwest, harvey made landfall around rockport, texas, with wins topping out at 130 miles an hour. this was the early stages of this whole thing as we watch it slam into the coast. texas congressman breaks aaron hold her presents the living along the coastline and joins us tonight from corpus christi. we saw you over the weekend soaked to the bone in the middle of all of this. how are you doing there today and what can you tell us about your folks there? >> well, i tell you, some of the towns on the outskirts of corpus christi like rockport and porter porter ranch...

Them out late in the afternoon or early on friday. when you've got a big news story that's dominating it, we are spending more time than we should talking about harvey and less time talking about sheriff arpaio or the transgender reversal at the military and so forth. whether it was intentional or not, it served the purpose of having us pay less attention to these negative items the president laid out. >> martha: the way new cycles go in this administration, i think pretty much everything that's one bite at the apple and if there are ten more things a couple of hours later. >> right. >> martha...

Boy, my heart goes out to them for a tough situation for these families. she's weathering it like a champ. caroline, thank you so much. i know we are going to go back to the convention center a lot in the couple of days. still still ahead tonight... >> i like everything. my house is underwater. bottom levy is underwater. the car? underwater. we lost everything. >> martha: just incredible. this is what the president is going to see firsthand. as we all know, having covered these kinds of stories, until you get there and see this, you can't really imagine the devastation. so he will be there tom...