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I'm just going to warn you in advance that this story, which starts out looking like one of those really touching, feel-good tales flush with the milk of human kindness, turns into a hot mess in short order. I'd actually thought that it wouldn't and allowed myself to believe that for a while.
As people waded in chest-high floodwaters in the United States' fourth-largest city, Houston's mayor announced Sunday that the main convention center would be opening as a shelter, evoking memories of Hurricane Katrina, when breached levees in New Orleans stranded tens of thousands of people in squalid conditions at the football stadium and convention center. Elected officials have vowed to heed the lessons from Katrina in 2005, when about 30,000 evacuees spent days packed inside the sweltering Superdome without electricity or running water.
Two kayakers try to beat the current of an overflowing Brays Bayou in Houston. Rescuers answered hundreds of calls for help as floodwaters from the remnants of Hurricane Harvey began to fill second-story homes.
President Donald Trump monitored Hurricane Harvey from the seclusion of his official mountaintop retreat on Saturday, sending a flurry of tweets before and after the powerful storm made landfall in Texas in an effort to reassure the public that he was fully in control of managing the first natural disaster since he took office. "Closely monitoring #HurricaneHarvey from Camp David.
The Trump administration Sunday ramped up its response to deadly Hurricane Harvey amid reports of Texas families trapped in their homes and a Weather Service pronouncement of "unprecedented" impacts - including up to 50 inches of rain predicted, and elevated highways under water. In Washington, President Donald Trump was headed into a late-morning Cabinet tele-conference on the disaster, tweeting "Even experts have said they've never seen one like this!" Going to a Cabinet Meeting at 11:00 A.M. on #Harvey .
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Mexican soldiers en route to the U.S. border on Sept. 6, 2005. The convoy was carrying water-treatment plants, mobile kitchens and supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Harvey made landfall Friday near Corpus Christi, Texas, as a Category 4 hurricane, bringing 130 mph sustained winds and driving rains. Harvey weakened to a tropical storm Saturday, but fear of flooding that could be brought on by torrential rains remains.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said his agency is already gearing up for a years-long effort to help Texas recover from the damage wrought by Hurricane Harvey. "FEMA is going to be there for years," administrator Brock Long said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
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President Trump on Sunday said he is planning a trip to storm-ravaged Texas, and praised the government response to Hurricane Harvey, including the "thousands rescued" by emergency crews, as storm water rises and strands residents across the state. "Great coordination between agencies at all levels of government.
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Housing surrounded by flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey is seen from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter during an overflight from Port Aransas to Port O'Connor, Texas, on August 26, 2017. Photo - U.S. Coast Guard/Petty Officer 3rd Class Johanna Strickland/Handout via Reuters Housing surrounded by flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey is seen from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter during an overflight from Port Aransas to Port O'Connor, Texas, on August 26, 2017.
As a monster hurricane not seen on American shores in over a decade bore down on Texas on Friday night, a tsunami of news out of Washington was also on its way. President Donald Trump, in the space of four hours, formally announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military, pardoned a controversial sheriff accused of racial profiling and parted ways with polarizing aide and conservative media darling Sebastian Gorka.
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The U.S. Coast Guard has stationed rescue boats and planes at several locations around parts of Southeast Texas affected by Tropical Storm Harvey. The Coast Guard's Houston-Galveston sector protects the coastline near the nation's fourth-largest city, a region home to a critical port and major oil refineries.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Saturday a disaster declaration has been declared for 50 of the state's 254 counties in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, noting that the foremost concern at this time will be heavy rainfall that will result in "catastrophic, life-threatening" flooding. "I have issued a disaster declaration that originally included 30 counties," Abbott said during a press conference in Austin Saturday afternoon.
Late Friday, Hurricane Harvey intensified to a major Category 4 hurricane just before making landfall near Rockport, Texas and remains a dangerous storm. The priorities right now are supporting states with: search and rescue, mass care, disaster medical services, temporary power, and life sustaining commodities " says FEMA Administrator Brock Long.