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The American Red Cross is working around the clock to provide shelter, food, comfort and other emergency support to victims of Hurricane Harvey across Texas overnight. The Red Cross is also assisting the Louisiana state government with an emergency shelter which hosted nearly 1,300 people last night.
Among the most vulnerable in a region on the mend are Houston's estimated 575,000 undocumented immigrants, the third-largest population of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. Harvey wreaks havoc on Houston's undocumented immigrants Among the most vulnerable in a region on the mend are Houston's estimated 575,000 undocumented immigrants, the third-largest population of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. Check out this story on ydr.com: https://usat.ly/2eD4sWM Hurricane Harvey hit Houston's undocumented immigrants especially hard, with some not being able to pay rent because they haven't been able to go to work. Father-son activists Robert and Zakary Rodriguez donate their time, and a mattress.
It has been a deadly 24 hours on Kansas City roads with two people killed and one injured in auto-pedestrian collisions. The first one happened just after 10 p.m. Saturday.
The agency is working to identify locations for additional centers, where residents affected by Tropical Storm Harvey can apply for aid, ask questions or solve problems, said agency spokesman Peter Herrick Jr. FEMA has received more than 507,000 applications for aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and it has approved 114.7 million U.S. dollars in aid to 161,000 people so far, including for assistance with housing, paying for transportation, as well as medical and dental assistance. In a Sunday morning update, FEMA officials said President Donald Trump's approval of disaster assistance authorized the federal government to pick up 90 percent of the cost of debris removal.
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans return to work this week facing enormous pressure to achieve major policy victories and fulfill such basic acts of governance as providing disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, avoiding a default on the nation's debt and keeping federal agencies open. On Sunday, a proposal from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to attach recovery aid to legislation raising the nation's borrowing limit quickly drew objections from conservative lawmakers.
Martha Raddatz, host of ABC's This Week , spent most of her interview time in Houston with Texas senator Ted Cruz deliberating on North Korea's bomb test, but when it came time to discuss Hurricane Harvey, she only asked about his feelings . Raddatz asked, "We are getting to a huge segment on Houston and the flooding.
Melania Trump looked stunning in a pink dress she wore to St. John's Church on Sunday for a National Day of Prayer service for the Hurricane Harvey victims. WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 03: U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
The before-and-after imagery slider on Woolpert's website allows local, state and federal officials and the public to navigate and enhance sites in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. To help the millions affected by Hurricane Harvey and subsequent flooding in the state of Texas, Woolpert has collected, processed and delivered high-resolution, before-and-after aerial imagery and made it available to the public today.
An NPR reporter publicly criticized the U.S. Border Patrol Sunday, arguing their presence at a Houston shelter would prevent immigrants from taking advantage of the facility. I just spotted @CBP immigration agents outside the main flood shelter in downtown Houston.
Governor Greg Abbott and Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott today greeted President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as they landed in Houston, Texas to survey the the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. The Governor then joined President Trump visiting Houston communities affected by Harvey, speaking with victims of the storm as they begin the recovery process.
All eyes were on Houston this week, and Connecticut hearts went out to the thousands of Texans displaced by Hurricane Harvey. The "Flying Yankees," otherwise known as the 103rd Airlift Wing, took off for Texas in a C-130 Hercules cargo plane to help bring emergency supplies, and the U.S. Coast Guard sent a dozen reservists from the Long Island Sound sector to help.
With funding to relieve the impact of Harvey on Texas rising to the top of the priority list, it has the potential to affect everything from the border wall to the threatened government shutdown. And with so many people in Houston and other communities in Harvey's path needing help, all eyes will be on Congress to see whether it can put aside partisan tendencies and tackle a daunting to-do list.
An upbeat President Donald Trump landed Saturday morning in Houston to get a firsthand look at a flooded and mud-choked metropolis devastated by Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall and storm surge, declaring himself "very happy" with rescue and recovery efforts. Officials in Beaumont, Texas, which lost its drinking water system because of Harvey, struggled Saturday to restore that service, and firefighters kept monitoring a crippled chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, that has twice been the scene of explosions and fires since the storm roared ashore and stalled over Texas more than a week ago.
Jerry Brown, who has twice in my lifetime been the two-term governor of California , once said something that I love. He said he learned more from James Taylor's song "Fire and Rain," than he learned in Yale Law School.
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President Donald Trump and Melania Trump meet people impacted by Hurricane Harvey during a visit to the NRG Center in Houston, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017.
President Donald Trump cupped a boy's face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips.
As Hurricane Harvey survivors struggle with the aftermath, the cleanup, with power outages and portable generators, reporters far away in comfortable offices in New York think they have a solution to their problems; a new carbon tax. Imagine that after the 9/11 attacks, the conversation had been limited to the tragedy in Lower Manhattan, the heroism of rescuers and the high heels of the visiting first lady - without addressing the risks of future terrorism.
President Donald Trump handed out box lunches and hugged children in a Houston emergency shelter on Saturday, as he witnessed the devastation wrought after Hurricane Harvey unleashed apocalyptic floods on America's fourth-largest city. The sprawling Texas city was taking tentative steps back to normalcy after a week of flooding that damaged 40,000 to 50,000 homes and sent tens of thousands fleeing to emergency shelters.