texas strong, texas one, everyone comes together. hopefully not a loss of life, a lot of loss we could have seen, hopefully not in louisiana either. think about this, rick, if the storm goes easter further out west, you have a cat four or five going into new orleans or houston and that would've been one of the large disasters in american history had happened. this is the biggest storm that hit us in modern times. we don't want anyone to suffer. >> just a few seconds left. your message to residents tonight who are still home? >> if you don't have power, you decide to hang it or a generator, the propane is cranking it, stay where you are. you surely don't want to go out. totally dark right now. if you didn't leave, it's time to hang and get to the highest level you can because you don't know what's going to be happening in the next several hours and the storm should move through quickly by 6:00, 7:00 in the morning the worst of it. if you are there, hang in and texas will be there to help you. your fellow texans will be there to help y

it is been disproven across the entire state of texas. or you may think if you are just with some friends that you typically hang out with that will not lead to the spread of covid-19. again that has been disproven in dallas county as well as other regions across the state of texas. the fact of the matter is again until we have do have treatments that are able to treat covid-19, anybody anywhere has the ability to both spread and to contract covid-19. and can lead to an over running of hospitals as well as lead to the deaths that have been on a dramatic increase in the state of texas. now that said, i want you to know that every single day we are going to work to better elevate the response by the state of texas and responding to both covid-19 as well as other healthcare challenges that may exist. one of those healthcare challenges that is on the horizon is the coming flu seaso season. one of the primary goals that we wanted to achieve today was to have the ability to talk to flu experts at ut southwestern to learn what some of the best s

iss failure of leadership of --st on the electric of texas texa. they are looking for leaders who will prioritize saving lives over politics. are a lot of ideological conservatives in texas. that goes to the question of polarization, which has gripped congress. theiru advising people in 20's to run for national office? do you think you can have a bigger impact at the state or local level than congress right now? >> i think those are false choices. there are a million different ways to serve, and all of them are necessary. i am calling voters across texas to make sure they are ready to turn out for the most important election of our lifetimes. ,here are first-time candidates an extraordinary number who are women, women of color, and black women in a state long known for the racial suppression of voters in texas. wouldn't that be wonderful if one of the most diverse states in the country, one of the most diverse cities, what if we could elect a majority that looks like the state? so it is necessary for those candidates to be running. i am inspired by

in texas. every bit as much a rockhard texan as you do. that goes to the question of polarization, which has gripped congress. if you are talking to people in their 20's right now, are you advising them to run for national office? or is it as awful as it seems it is, and you think it can have a bigger impact at the state or local level than congress right now? rep. o'rourke: yeah, i think those are all false choices. there are a million different ways to serve, and all of them are necessary. i mean right now i am serving in a volunteer capacity calling , voters across texas to make sure they are ready to turn out ahead of the most important election of our lifetimes. there are people running for office first-time candidates, an , extraordinary number of them by the way, statehouse candidates who are women, women of color, and black women in a state that has long been known for the racial suppression of voters in texas. and wouldn't that be wonderful if one of the most diverse states in the coun

you don't have that in texas, you would not allow that in texas. >> no way. pres. trump: ken will not allow the leakers to be doing that. he wanted to make sure it doesn't leak. >> one question about laura. in june of this year, noaa release a report that climate change is in part responsible for increasing sea temperatures that is in part responsible for hurricanes like harvey. how do you balance that with climate change and storms that continue to ravage the gold coast? pres. trump: you've had tremendous storms in texas for many decades in many centuries and that way it is. we handle them as they come, all i can do is handle them as they come and nobody has done a better job of it. we love the people of texas, and governor, it is an honor to be with you. thank you very much. thank you very much, everybody. [indistinct conversations] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] thank you, judge. >> good to see you again. [indistinct conversations] of the national director o

you don't have that in texas, you would not allow that in texas. >> no way. pres. trump: ken will not allow the leakers to be doing that. he wanted to make sure it doesn't leak. >> one question about laura. in june of this year, noaa release a report that climate change is in part responsible for increasing sea temperatures that is in part responsible for hurricanes like harvey. how do you balance that with climate change and storms that continue to ravage the gold coast? pres. trump: you've had tremendous storms in texas for many decades in many centuries and that way it is. we handle them as they come, all i can do is handle them as they come and nobody has done a better job of it. we love the people of texas, and governor, it is an honor to be with you. thank you very much. thank you very much, everybody. [indistinct conversations] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] thank you, judge. >> good to see you again. [indistinct conversations] >> the office of the direc

you don't have that in texas, you would not allow that in texas. >> no way. pres. trump: ken will not allow the leakers to be doing that. he wanted to make sure it doesn't leak. >> one question about laura. in june of this year, noaa release a report that climate change is in part responsible for increasing sea temperatures that is in part responsible for hurricanes like harvey. witho you balance that climate change and storms that continue to ravage the gold coast? pres. trump: you've had tremendous storms in texas for many decades in many centuries and that way it is. we handle them as they come, all i can do is handle them as they come and nobody has done a better job of it. we love the people of texas, and governor, it is an honor to be with you. thank you very much. thank you very much, everybody. [indistinct conversations] thank you, judge. >> good to see you again. [indistinct conversations] c-span's "washington journal," everyday taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and we will discuss policy issues that impact you. discussedning, we ca

president, i did not grow up in texas, one of the things i cultureut texas is the of texas and getting stuff done. have gotten the resources -- this governor has been exceptional in handling disasters, i wanted to say thank you. >> thank you very much. >> yes, sir, thank you for being here mr. president. it is an honor to have you in our district and i can't thank you and the administration enough for the rapid response. we are still actually cleaning up after harvey and other storms that have hit us. your administration has been absolutely on the money. brag a also like to little bit on the orange mayor who is not here, that is larry spears. he has done a tremendous job -- i am a former mayor myself, i appreciate mayor spears and what he does. mr. president, your administration -- am i supposed to get political here, i realize that, it has been like night and day from what we have seen in the past. >> thank you very much, appreciate it. i also want to say one quick thing, chad wolf, i met your dad yesterday. do you grub and orange at all? -- did you grow up in orange at all? >> i did

>> the texas revolution was the defining event of texas history. >> the climatic event of the texas revolution and the subject of mcardle's greatest masterpiece is the battle of san jacinto. let's set the scene. the year is 1836, when the ruthless mexican general santa anna marches into texas, then a province of mexico, to put an end to a revolt by local settlers. the so-called napoleon of the west crushes texas forces at the alamo. santa anna than pushes forward, determined to wipe out all the rebels. a battalion of volunteer texas citizens, led by sam houston, are forced into retreat. >> they're up against an army that was larger, with a european-trained officer corps that had wrought devastation, not just in texas, but also against mexican states that were rebelling elsewhere. >> on april 21, houston leads his ragtag group of troops, about 900 in all, on a surprise attack of the mexican army, which is camped along the san jacinto river. as they charge, the soldiers shout, "remember the alamo!" >> it was revenge time for them. >> the bloody skirmish lasts just 18 minutes before santa anna su

managemen management, texas task force one as well as the texas wildlife officials. as well as lining up 15000 people who can restore power to the region and the list goes on. the key was getting people located in advance and prepared for it also working in collaboration with local officials. in supporting those decisions and assisting them. and always, doesn't matter what type of storm, with its can happen today, next year next decade, that bind with planning in advance is what always leads to better results. as it concerns things like if you want to call it the eye dike or whatever, we've had many conversations about that just today. and someone who knows a lot about it is senator john cornyn. would you like to say more about at this time? >> just briefly. the ike dike is perhaps the best known storm surge protection. and it is certainly very important. as a very complex process for very sophisticated storm surge area. but the army corps of engineers is not scheduled to release their proposed plant until march of 2021. and then it is really up to local officials an

do you think texas can actually be flipped? >> well, obviously we've seen over the last few elections that it's been moving towards that direction but my belief is that really right now i think people really should be voting on their principles. first and foremost. and then their policy and then the person that they feel is best suited to actually lead our of country. jillian: let's take a look at the percentages right now. this is the latest information we have from the first week of august and you'll see president trump there is 46.3%, compared to joe biden, trailing not too far behind with 44.3%. ash, what do you think how this is going to play out? >> sure. i mean, we always see this, the last recent election cycles, we saw this with trump versus hillary, beto versus ted cruz where the democrats look like they're close and the reality is, they're still not -- we've seen this pac situation play out over the last several election cycles, under obama we had battleground texas, wendy davis who was the governor candidate at one

it is been disproven across the entire state of texas. or you may think if you are just with some friends that you typically hang out with that will not lead to the spread of covid-19. again that has been disproven in dallas county as well as other regions across the state of texas. the fact of the matter is again until we have do have treatments that are able to treat covid-19, anybody anywhere has the ability to both spread and to contract covid-19. and can lead to an over running of hospitals as well as lead to the deaths that have been on a dramatic increase in the state of texas. now that said, i want you to know that every single day we are going to work to better elevate the response by the state of texas and responding to both covid-19 as well as other healthcare challenges that may exist. one of those healthcare challenges that is on the horizon is the coming flu seaso season. one of the primary goals that we wanted to achieve today was to have the ability to talk to flu experts at ut southwestern to learn what some of the best s

several state agencies including the texas department of public safety, the texas parks and wildlife as well as the texas military division are scouring every aspect, every zone of the affected areas to provide search and rescue capabilities as needed. we will continue to process until we know for a fact that there is no person and accounted for. as of now, the remains more than 160 power outages throughout the entire texas region affected by hurricane laura. we have almost 8500 people who were provided shelter throughout the state with more than 3000 hotel rooms, sheltering evacuees. sheltering operations are occurring in the county and harris county and those efforts will continue as long as needed. one important. >> , save lives was evacuation orders made by local officials and it was so important for local residents to heed the local warnings and by people getting out of harm's way in an early time, one of the reasons why the loss of life was minimized as well as the damage was minimized. i want to emphasize just as people listen to local officials and knowing when to evacuate, i

, had a pac called flip texas blue. the reality is that, come out, get great media coverage, they promise to raise millions of dollars which they rarely do. when they do raise whatever money they can get their hands on, they spend it on paid advertising, which the blue texas pac for joe biden said they're going to do but the reality is running ads an tv on mtv isn't going to turn a state like texas blue. 89 days out of an election. texas democrats have lacked a personal connection with voters for decades. and that's in direct contrast with the republican party of texas who has recently elected a new chairman, it's reenergized, the republicans are knocking on thousands and thousands of doors every week, they're registering thousands of new voters every week. it's kind of a little too late. sometimes texas looks like it's turning blue.

so it's almost like the isolation of the ranching history is texas, texas, texas, but one of the things we talked about this show, we pitched it as like looking about rather than always looking within. we are in the panhandle-plains historical museum, and the museum is the largest historical museum in the state of texas, if you count it by the number of artifacts and the exhibition cowboys andttle, culture: kansas city and the amarillo, building an urban west. the full-time curator here and i are natives to kansas city. we were always interested in why this place felt so familiar to us as having grown up there. michael started looking at the number of objects in the panhandle-plains permanent collection that related to kansas city. it turns out there were over 1,000 objects on a database that he pulled up.

i'm in texas. texas did not get spared. it was definitely not as bad here as it was going to be. most importantly, it was not add r as bad in the major population centers like houston. a few days ago it looked like houston would be in the track of the storm. texas governor greg abbott was on the "today" show this morning talking about the damage and the assistance that the state is providing. >> we do have search and rescue teams out in the field that are making both assessments, and they will be looking for anybody who may need to be rescued. we have maybe up to about 100,000 people who are without power. savannah, i've got to tell you this, if you look going north in east texas, you see communities like jasper and center and marshall, texas on interstate 20 still going through the ravages of the storm. heavy wind and rain, possible tornadoes. we're not yet out of the woods. >> governor greg abbott of texas. i want to go to allison getz she is the public information officer for jefferson county, texas, that's beaumont and port arthur. allison, thank you for joining us. can you g

this is crystal beach, texas. it's a little hazy there but you can see clearly the water had come up some. some. it's hard to tell, frankly, at this point. the storm surge at least in louisiana coast, not what they had feared, at least not yet. but it was a serious wind event and we're just waiting to see the extent of the structural damage that was in the immediate path of the storm. this was off the side of the storm here in crystal beach near galveston. >>> now back to louisiana. paul hurd lives there and he rode out the storm. thanks for being with us. i understand you had a harrowing, harrowing night. your roof blew off? what happened? >> you know, it didn't blew off -- [ indiscernible ]. it started -- the water started just pouring in. and the winds -- [ indiscernible ]. it seemed like it was -- and then it was a bad way. so i made a decision to go to my car. and which is about 25 feet away. you know, 100 mile plus winds. and my car had been moved by the winds because when i woke up -- when i got up at day b

in 1845, texas is annexed by the united states, but the texas boundary claim now becomes an american problem. >> and, it turns out, an opportunity for president james k. polk, a slaveholding tennessee democrat who believes god has ordained the united states to expand across the continent. many opponents of war with mexico condemn this idea of manifest destiny as simply the conquest of territory for new slave states -- including a fresh-faced freshman congressman from illinois. >> abraham lincoln is an opponent of this war. he gives a series of speeches blasting the polk administration. >> the war -- the first in history documented with photographs -- breaks out in april 1846. mexico surrenders in 1848, losing half its national domain. >> the united states acquires not just the american southwest, but also california. >> left unresolved -- where slavery will be allowed in those territories. >> the debate over whether those territories are going to be slave or free is going to be so contentious and so divisive that it's ultimately going to lead to the civil war in 1861. >> patrick's bo

god bless texas. that's it. [laughter] [applause] >> there is some time left for questions that i am so old but i don't hear if i don't like the question. [laughter] >>. >> [inaudible] >> are you kidding? [laughter] >> the question is will i jump with him? know. i will catch him. [applause] [laughter] >> i don't have a question. i did read your book and i loved it. i'm a teacher in high school and i wear one red and one blue. >> thank you. [applause] >>. >> [inaudible] >> do i still give my son advice? >> george bush claims that he doesn't but i feel free to and i do because neither one of them take it. [laughter] i have to tell you that all of our children are very nice because they call and see how we feel and one day one called is that i just talked to george and said he took a long walk i thought he was going to say good girl mom. i don't give much advice. >> [applause] [inaudible] >> that's very nice. thank you. >> [inaudible] [applause] >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> you really have to read my book. but let'

coming up shortly, texas governor will give an update on the damage caused by hurricane laura and his live coverage here on c-span2. >> we are opening up the phoneh lines to get your top issue and campaign 2020 if you're supporting the president or joee biden. if you're undecided or third-party candidate. we will get to your calls in a minute but joining us on the boat is mike johnson of louisiana. you were expected to be in washington for the president's speech but you're staying there because of the hurricane. what's the latest on the ground? >> you may be able to hear the heavy winds in the w background through the window here, we stayed here in the district because this is a historical event for us, is being registered, we are being told it could be the worst hurricane that ever hit our state and it's pretty massive. the damage it wide spread, but god is spread grace, we don't have any fatalities. this is a big one. we prepare for it as b best we could but there will be damage and things to recover from first quite some time. >> has the district responding? >> i always say, we are

coming up, beto o'rourke joins me from the battleground texas, or if you prefer tossup texas. that's right, nbc news's first battleground map has texas as a tossup state. we're going to talk to the former congressman about the coronavirus, the economy, and donald trump's slipping grip on that state, next. that state, next ♪ ♪ we've always put safety first. ♪ ♪ and we always will. ♪ ♪ for people. ♪ ♪ for the future. ♪ ♪ and there has never been a summer when it's mattered more. wherever you go, summer safely. get 0% apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. you know when your dog is itching for a treat. itching for an outing or itching for some cuddle time. but you may not know when he's itching for help licking for help or rubbing for help. if your dog does these frequently. they may be signs of an allergic skin condition that needs treatment. don't wait. talk to your veterinarian and learn more at itchingforhelp.com. essential for sewing, but maybe not needles. for people with certain inflammatory conditions. because t

beaumont, texas, 1:13 a.m. local time and, of course, ali to the left of where hurricane laura and if you're just joining us at the top of the hour, the news at this hour, hurricane laura has officially made landfill there in cameron, texas. we'll have more when we return. we're live in lake charles which is expected to take a direct hit from hurricane laura moving forward as it slices toward the shore and makes landfill officially this hour. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the services of the post office plus ups only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. a 4-week trial probinwithout the commission a digfees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you

so it's almost like the isolation of the ranching history is texas, texas, texas, but one of the things we talked about this show, we pitched it as like looking about rather than always looking within. we are in the panhandle-plains historical museum, and the museum is the largest historical museum in the state of texas, if you count it by the number of artifacts and the exhibition cowboys andttle, culture: kansas city and the amarillo, building an urban west. the full-time curator here and i are natives to kansas city. we were always interested in why this place felt so familiar to us as having grown up there. michael started looking at the number of objects in the panhandle-plains permanent collection that related to kansas city. it turns out there were over 1,000 objects on a database that he pulled up. we looked at the objects and we found a good array of -- a variety of objects we thought we needed to do a show that the city sisterhood of amarillo and kansas city. a lot of people don't know that am rillo looked to dallas and to houston. this closeness is basically around the train

in texas and louisiana. breaking this hour, the strongest storm to hit louisiana in a century making landfall in the last two hours. category 4 hurricane laura is expected to bring storm surges that officials call unsurvivable. louisiana has not seen a storm this strong in 150 years. surges of 15 feet or higher could overwhelm coasts in both states. >>> and water levels are already rising quickly, more than 1.5 million people are under some type of evacuation order. coronavirus and the need to maintain social distancing only complicating the hurricane response in louisiana. the state is taking people to hotels instead of shelters. laura is just the tenth hirk hurricane in history since record keeping began. >> so power is already out for more than 200,000 customers in louisiana. conditions are dedo toodooro ti rapidly in lake charles and that is where martin savidge is. i assume it is not safe to be out in the open? >> reporter: that's right. we were out there earlier this evening and then it just became far

and tonight, texas a&m is reporting an outbreak of more an 400 cases. today, the death toll from covid in the u.s. topped 178,000 with more than 5.7 million confirmed cases. we get more now from cbs' manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: colleges are battling both the virus and students' behavior. bars near the university of alabama have been ordered closed for two weeks. >> fall in tuscaloosa is in serious jeopardy. >> reporter: five colleges alone are reporting more than 2,100 cases since the end of july. at the university of north carolina, last week's positivity rate was more than 32%. ohio state university has suspended 228 students so far for violating covid rules. but remote learning for the nation's k-12 students is proving challenging, too. how many computers short are you? >> at least probably between 1,000 and 2,000. >> reporter: tom baumgarten, superintendent of california's morongo unified school district east of los angeles says this affects lower-income students. >> it's almost like i'm taking the pencils and paper away from them, and i don't ha

he is in texas right now, orange texas. it's a very eastern part of texas and he is touring in operations center meeting with greg abbott, senator ted cruz, governor grab abbott, excuse me and other texas officials. he did to her neighborhood in louisiana an extraordinary site to jesse and a neighborhood completely devastated by this after all hurricane laura just hitting two days ago on august 27. president trump meeting there in louisiana with first responders and also talking to members of the cage and a navy, volunteer group that helps people within floods and hurricanes and at least a dozen fatalities in louisiana and texas in one of those sadly to report they are all sad but one a 14 -year-old girl killed when a tree fell on her home in louisiana. the president will be back here at the white house after leaving texas and will head back to louisiana to come back on air force one where he will join staff here at the white house later this evening. eric and arthel. arthel: david, we can now confirm that the office of the

thank you for being there for us in texas. >>> to politics. in search of a second term president trump is using powers of incumbency to make his case. the president announced the pardon of john ponder tuesday a convicted bank robber who works for prison reform. president trump oversaw a naturalization ceremony for five new u.s. citizens and received i had praise from secretary of state mike performance a speech delivered from jerusalem drawing a fair amount of scrutiny for break with decades of diplomatic decorum. >> melania trump used the rose garden for her speech in a break from a lot of the dark rhetoric in the past week. she delivered a call for unity and understanding and at a convention devoid of any mention of the human toll of the coronavirus the first lady offered this. >> i want to acknowledge the fact that since march our lives have changed drastically. the invisible enemy covid-19 swept across our beautiful country and impacted all of us. my deepest sympathy goes out to everyone who has lost a loved one. and my prayers are with th

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en houston, texas, pedro rojas como univisiÓn. arantxa: la polÍtica del presidente donald trump abriÓ otro frente de paquete contra los demÓcratas en medio de sus esfuerzos por reelegirse. condicionÓ la formación de miles de millones de dÓlares para el servicio postal si los demÓcratashacen concesiones en ciertas prioridades de la casa blanca. la preocupaciÓn sobre el servicio postal es que por la falta de fondos no pueda manejar la entrega y recepciÓn de votos por correo durante las elecciones del 3 de noviembre. donald trump rechaza la votaciÓn por correo. pablo gato nos tiene los detalles. pablo: obama dijo que donald trump estÁ más preocupado en suprimir el voto que eliminara el coronavirus, agregÓ. los republicanos siempre han querido eliminar el voto por correo porque segÚn Él, una mayor participaciÓn de votantes en las elecciones favorece a los demÓcratas, pero hoy fue mÁs allá. [habla en inglÉs] pablo: se refiere a las acusaciones demÓcratas de que donald trump no quiere dar los fondos al servicio de c

marco estÁ entrando muy debilitado y casi colapsado y seguirÁ hacia texas. laura llegarÁ el miÉrcoles, cerca de la frontera de los estados, hay mucho temor tras los daÑos de las islas del caribe y se pronostica que podrÍa ser un poderoso huracÁn. un grupo de pescadores planea enfrentar la tormenta juntos y con la guardia en alto. >> pues un poco, pero pues... aquÍ nos quedamos varios a ver cÓmo entre varios amigos... cÓmo la pasamos. >> se pone a pensar, pero si pasa estÁ salir o... ver quÉ pasa. reportero: el gobernador de luisiana advirtiÓ que la marea en la costa del suroeste del su estado podrÍa alcanzar diez pies o mÁs. en parroquias distribuyen bolsas de arena y hospedan en albergues. >> pedimos que evacÚen para jvre no se queden atrapados. nos preocupa que el agua demore en descender, dijo el presidente de una parroquia. >> nuestros canales son vulnerables y recomendamos evacuar. queremos proteger sus bienes personales. reportero: los gobiernos activaron la guardia costera. a quince aÑos del huracÁn katrina. se pidiÓ a la población q

and nbc had a electoral college production and they had texas and ohion in georgia, i think, as swing states up for grab estate so is that or is the map changing a lot? >> host: as you answer that question this is the presidential electoral college ratings from crystal ball. if you need to talk to that map it is therefore you. >> guest: great question. i do think thatt the map of competitive states is relatively large for president and maybe not relatively large compared to a few generations ago but in our few the post- close to the national average but i say texas is definitely showing that the list of competitive presidential states i think georgia is now in that category and ohio and iowa where the two states that voted pretty heavily for donald trump in 2016 and prior to that more classically states voted class to the national average and those dates are competitive too. if you look at our map all four of the states were republican and they are still getting the presidents benefits but honestly if you want to make a case for calling them tossup's or coin flip states i thank you ve

we begin with texas and louisiana. hurricane laura in the two states in a middle of the pandemic that complicates everything. you can see right there destructive force. laura coming ashore overnight as a category 4 storm. we are getting views of the damage. within person is dead in louisiana, a 14-year-old goiirla tree fell on the home. power outages impacting hundreds of thousands into the weekend. the governors say the build back effort takes weeks and this morning there is hope that this worst-case scenario didn't quite develop. >> people did heed the warnings to evacuate. we no doubt saved lives because of the evacuations. >> we are not out of the woods there. the storm surge half of what was forecasted and as you remember that storage surge characterized by the weather service as unsurvivable and looks like we got an assist there, as well. >> officials responding now urgently on the ground to find out what happened and the source of smoke right now hovering over west lake. get straight to gary tuchman in louisiana

cannot win without ohio let alone texas. host: i want to focus on race ratings. bidenap currently has joe votes, the electoral blue states on the map. donald trump winning 204 electoral votes and 66 in the tossup category. you expect these to tighten up a little bit, but i want to compare your ratings to other race rating groups out there. yours is perhaps more friendly to president trump than others. the npr map has joe biden with 297 electoral votes and donald trump with 170. 308 and has joe biden president trump with 187. inside elections have 319 in the joe biden category and 188 and president trump's columns. talk through how you do this and why there's so much difference. guest: short. --sure. beingk we are probably more cautious than others. some of it has to do with polling, but this is the mist of summertime. it is pretty good to take stock. not that i think donald trump will dump mike pence, but he does have a choice even if that is to keep mike pence on the ticket. we are looking at current numbers and thinking th

you are looking live at galveston, texas. we are also keeping a very, very close eye on lafayette, louisiana. both are targets of hurricane laura, now a category 3 storm packing winds in excess of 130 miles per hour. and they could climb as the evening ensues. we have got the latest coming from governor john bel edwards of louisiana who will be joining us later this hour. first to jeff flock in port arthur, texas, what they're looking at and and what they're worried about. it goes way beyond that region. sir? >> you said it, neil. i will tell you, they better start to get out if they are going to get out they better get out now or never because we just had the first squall come through the first finger of the outer bands not terrible but i will tell you overnight it's going to be terrible. behind me you see the phillips 66 refinery. this, a hurricane, is targeting the very heart of u.s. oil refining capabilities. i don't know any other way to say it about 80% of that refining capability shut down including this phillips 66 re

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single texas public library. [applause] >> and you also got involved with the arts and education and family protective services. you came here is first lady and immediately which thankfully we still have going and very involved in literature with those meetings in the white house. and early childhood education and what you learned about and to concentrate. of course we are at the capital ready to testify before the senate education committee on early childhood education and tell us what happened. >> i got in my car that morning to brief the senate education committee on early childhood education. i didn't have the tv on that morning. i was looking at my briefing and i was very nervous. this was the first year he was president in 2001. just as i was getting in the car the secret service agent set a plane has just flown into the world trade center. is getting in the car with my chief of staff and we had no idea what was transpiring when we got in the car and went to the capital it was just a weird accident. but on

en la parte de texas. esto obviamente tambiÉn hay una fuerte alerta en el Área metropolitana de la ciudad de houston, en donde tambiÉn se presentan lluvias y abrÍa la posibilidad de severas inundaciones al igual que hace dos aÑos. vamos a continuar al pendiente de lo que suceda. carolina: te agradecemos por esa informaciÓn en vivo, francisco cobos. hablando de polÍticas la primera noche fue marcada por ataques contra joe biden y kamala harris a quienes calificaron, como extremistas y peligrosos. donald trump alabÓ saqueos y vandalismo".pero una de las voces que mas ha generado controversia es la de kimberly gol-foyle, su novia , - y ex-esposa del gobernador de california gavin newsom - ella se describio como estadounidense de primera generacion, aunque su madre nacio en puerto rico-- ademas, por el volumen alto de sus palabras.edwin pitti desde washington nos cuenta mas de lo que paso.. edwin: buenas tardes, definitivamente un dÍa de la primera convenciÓn nacional republicana, dejÓ mucho de quÉ

it's not about texas electoral votes, it's about trying to affect the outcome in the texas house of representatives races. today, president obama endorsed a number of candidates, democrats down by nine and hoping to flip the texas house and thereby kick it into the federal courts so a federal judge draws a line rather than rep legislature. six people run to the texas campaign, that's just absurd and the idea that biden is going to be serious about contesting texas, i want to come back in a couple of weeks when you next post and let's discuss how serious they are in texas at that point compared to places like arizona or florida or pennsylvania or wisconsin that are actually going to be in play. >> sandra: i will tell martha you said hi. a sander this evening. >> i know. >> sandra: what happened in new york city, i want to hear about the president's concern about mailing voting. this is "the new york times." bby the botched nyc primary has become the november nightmare, nearly six weeks later, two congressional races remain undecided. lots of blame is being thrown around but is there a point of conce

he was the patriarch of an east texas family. he claimed heed be'd been involn a plot to kill nancy. wall and turner wanted to talk to the family members starting with billy's stepson dustin hirams. billy earl didn't seem to think much of him. >> he's so stupid. that dude don't know nothing about nothing. >> dustin hirams, remember, was the young man pulled over in nancy's neighborhood a month before she was shot. >> name is john, okay. we always called him john. that was it. >> the detectives found dustin staying with friends in a trailer. >> we were able to locate him, get him in custody. and then for the next 2 1/2 to three days, brian and i spent talking to dustin. >> you're a good kid. you're messed up in the whole thing, but you're a good kid. >> what was that like? >> the first night he was on meth, crying. he was pretty upset. >> and so it was dustin scared and strung out who provided the detectives with new details about this man named john. a man who wanted nancy howard killed and wasn't shy about suggesting how it coul

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go to texas, incredibly safe. you go to democratic strongholds, go to portland, seattle, minneapolis, chicago and new york city and look at the difference between these states. there is one common denominator in all those states, they are run by radical, radical leftists. both mayors and governors. their policies don't work. we've seen the case studies, they don't work. we don't know how this movie ends. we saw it over the last three months in new york, strip out 1,000 undercover nypd officers in crime goes up by 300%. this isn't a difficult thing to figure out and i don't know why they continue to double down on it, this is not winning issue for them. stripping private health care is not a winning issue, getting rid of the second amendment are not a winning issue. coming after people's religion, not a winning issue. i don't get it, i don't get why this is the policy but you see the speakers lined up including elizabeth warren and i'm so glad you mentioned that she was at the native american roundtable yesterday,

i think they should move to texas. texas would be a great place for it. to another state of their choosing. but i would say that texas would be a great place and an appropriate place for the nra. this has been going on for a long time. they've been absolutely decimated by the cost of that lawsuit, and it is very sad, but i would suggest that's what they should be doing. thank you. >> harris: the president of the united states, from just moments ago, boarding marine one and also getting on air force one just a few miles away. he is headed to cleveland, ohio,

leland: charles watson's there in orange, texas. one of the cities that the president is going to visit. air force one has just touched down in lake charles, another place the president's going to visit. unfortunately, because of all the cell phone towers that have gone down, we're not getting a great signal, charles, from either you sometimes or from the president's team. back to you both as news warrants. gillian? gillian: yep, and we will bring you the president as he disembarks air force one, hopefully we'll get that picture back up and running. in the meantime, texas democratic congressman, member of the house appropriations committee, henry cuillar, thanks so much for joining us today. tell us, first, we want do you about the campaign trail, but first let's talk about your con stretch wents in the great state of texas. tell us what you're hearing from the folks in the path of the storm about what they need most right now. >> you know, first of all, texans being texans, you've got people just helping out, food banks are helping

it is taking aim at the texas/louisiana host. hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate. we'll have more on this in a moment. another alert. our fox news crew capturing gunfire erupting on the streets of kenosha, wisconsin, overnight. a warning, the video is disturbing. >> get down, get down, get down. >> sandra: a gunman opened fire hitting two people and killing a third. police confirm they are searching for a man armed with a long gun. it happened during a third straight night of violent protests in the city following the shooting of jacob blake by police on sunday. much more on this. meanwhile it is day three of the republican national convention. it will get underway soon with the theme land of heroes. melania trump urged the country to come together amidst all the unrest. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. tonight's lineup includes outgoing counselor to the president kellyanne conway and vice president mike pence who will officially accept the nomination from fort mchenry. last night's program featured two s

it's right now about 100 miles or so from galveston, texas. but take a look at where this is 's aategory 1 with nothing but open water in front of it. norah, that water is so warm, it's going to get stronger with each passing hour. we think it's going to make landfall as a major hurricane, a category 3, winds 115 miles-per- hour, and the circulation around that storm, wherever the landfall is-- and this is the third model run in a row that puts it right on the texas- louisiana border, so our confidence is high on that's where it's going-- if you're on the left side of the track, you're going to get the water heing pushed away from shore, but if you're on the right-hand side, you're getting storm surge up to 13 feet. right now it's saying for portions of western louisiana, but the whole thing could wobble by 15 miles and then galveston, you could be catching the worst of it. in terms of what will happen if with the storm surge, we think the worst of it will be tomorrow night into early thursday morning, that's when it really gets bad out there.

i was going to texas. i was going to louisiana, maybe arkansas. i just spoke to the governor, i will be a pretty good shape. but they'll need some help. the noah turned out, we have a little bit lucky. it was very big and powerful but it passed quickly. everything is unscheduled will probably probably be going on saturday or sunday. and we will be heading to texas and louisiana. and maybe an additional stop. maybe on saturday a little bit in the afternoon or on sunday. and we will be ready. i think you will be prepared by the time. but i just want to thank all of the people from fema in particular. and everyone else locally. because they have done a fantastic job. we will be going saturday or sunday . reporter: mr. present could you also comment what's going on with the mba violence response. pres. donald trump: i can tell you that wisconsin, i appreciate the governor set calling and saying that he wanted this regard as you know. ninety-four was not buried and the reason it wasn't, they did not have proper protection. but i respect the governor's

. >> next, texas governor george w. bush except the 2000 presidential nomination at the republican national convention in philadelphia. he would go on to defeat vice president al gore in one of the most closely contested presidential elections in american history. ♪ [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] gov. bush: mr. chairman. [cheers and applause] mr. chairman. [cheers and applause] thank you all. [cheers and applause] thank you very much. thank you. [cheers and applause] mr. chairman -- mr. chairman, delegates, and my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination. [cheers and applause] thank you. thank you for this honor. thank you for this honor. together, we will renew america's purpose. our founders first defined that purpose here in philadelphia. ben franklin was here, thomas jefferson, and, of course, george washington, or, as his friends called him, george w. [cheers and applause] i am proud to have dick cheney by my side. [cheers and applause] he is a man -- he is a man of integrity and sound judgm