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20,000 national troops and 20 ships and 240 helicopters. they have to scale up and scale up quickly. as soon as this rain stops, they have to go into every home that was evacuated and see if anybody is there. and you have to provide gasoline. you'll have to provide food and water. all the infrastructure is down. you have to provide emergency power to try to get people to come in and see their homes. you have the provide traffic control. the grid is broke. they don't nearly have enough troops there now or on the way to be able to deal with this. it should be in excess of 100 helicopters operati...

So we definitely need help. >> so you can get out and get to safety, you and your baby and all the kids. >> and be in a safe place. >> yes, leidys shull, thank you so much. i'm talk to the mayor about you and we'll stay in close contact to make sure we get you out of there. leidys is on the second floor of her home and trapped. thank you. south texas is bracing for more water as 50 inches is forecasted before the rain stops. just to get a sense of what this looks like, look at this. 50 inches would mean if you had water up to the neck, if you're a 5-foot woman. and also enough to completely ...

So when you have this much rain, essentially the water just has nowhere to go. so they caught it here for a while to try to prevent flooding down here, but then as it began to wash back up to here and to actually get into other neighborhoods, they have to let some go. so when we talk about manmade flooding, that's what we're saying. when you let that go, whether you hold it or not, it's got to go somewhere and potentially that means more areas down here getting water, even as they wait for it to recede. until this rain stops, that's the main problem. there's just nowhere for it to go. and with...

Here. this is extraordinary. this area has not seen anything like this. i think what's overwhelming to everyone, what we are seeing now is not the story. there maybe another 20 plus inches of rain to come before this is all over the next several days. >> we know lester, the fact that the president has announced he's coming on tuesday, fema is involved in coordination with the governor, this system while we expect it to dump more water over the next several days. this is the type of storm that's going to leave a devastating impact for years or decades to come. >> reporter: yes, absolutely true....

The taxes and the affordable care act. where they end up is what they're calling skinny repeal. i'm worried that what will end up happening is that they will get 51 votes. then they will to go conference committee, fail, and then the house will swallow this so-called skinny repeal. we can't treat it as a weigh station on the way to the conference committee. we have to treat this seriously as something that might be federal law. when cbo tells you that your back-up plan takes 16 million people out of health care, maybe it is time to start over. have some hearings and work through a bipartisan p...