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Over in the United States.

Texas is hit hard by Harvey... a category 4 hurricane with winds well in excess of 200

kilometers per hour.

While it's downgraded to a tropical storm, rain is still coming down in record amounts.

Lee Ji-won give us the updates.

Hurricane Harvey, which has so far killed two people, has lost a lot of its wind speed

and was downgraded to a tropical storm late on Saturday.

But the heavy rain brought with it has resulted in what the National Weather Service is describing

as "unprecedented flooding."

With parts of Houston seeing over 60 centimeters of rain in 24 hours on Sunday morning, the

service tweeted on Sunday that the full impact is unknown and the flood is beyond anything

experienced.

But forecasting that isolated storms could drop a record-breaking 130 centimeters of

rain on parts of Texas over the next few days, it added that "rainfall of this magnitude

will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flooding."

Amid continuous downpour, rescue operations continued day and night.

Houston 911 got over 56-thousand calls, 7 times more phone calls than an average day.

3-thousand national and state guard service members, 500 vehicles and 14 aircraft have

also been deployed to the area.

The Red Cross is serving about 130-thousand meals a day, and large shelters have been

opened to accommodate the thousands of people displaced from their homes.

The White House announced that President Trump will be visiting Texas on Tuesday,... and

the president showed his concerns over the disaster, tweeting that he would travel to

Texas "as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption".

But with the slow-moving storm expected to continue pouring 40 to 60 centimeters of rain

over the Texas coast through Thursday,... the natural disaster is likely to take a greater

toll on the region.

Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> Two dead, thousands rescued as Texas hit with widespread flooding - Duration: 1:59.

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Chicago Volunteers From American Red Cross Head To Texas To Offer Help - Duration: 1:53.

For more infomation >> Chicago Volunteers From American Red Cross Head To Texas To Offer Help - Duration: 1:53.

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Texas flooding 'Catastrophic' floodwaters trap Houston residents - Duration: 1:59.

For more infomation >> Texas flooding 'Catastrophic' floodwaters trap Houston residents - Duration: 1:59.

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Local Volunteers Help With Relief In Texas - Duration: 0:24.

For more infomation >> Local Volunteers Help With Relief In Texas - Duration: 0:24.

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Tiendas en Victoria, Texas, abarrotadas de personas que buscan amainar la crisis - Duration: 1:53.

For more infomation >> Tiendas en Victoria, Texas, abarrotadas de personas que buscan amainar la crisis - Duration: 1:53.

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Rain in Texas continues after Hurricane Harvey, residents face pest filled flood waters - Duration: 1:49.

For more infomation >> Rain in Texas continues after Hurricane Harvey, residents face pest filled flood waters - Duration: 1:49.

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Taxes and Texas: Two Big Challenges for Trump This Week - Duration: 3:18.

BENNETT: Get ready for what promises to be of course another wild week at the Trump

White House. Last week ended with a Friday night flurry -- a news dump after

8:00 p.m. -- with the president of course pardoning former Arizona sheriff joe

arpaio. A very controversial pardon -- this president's first pardon. And trump... and

yet another move on Friday night pivoting toward his base. As we've said

here before it is all about the base. He knows he needs it for re-election and he

is doubling and tripling down every day to try to keep the base happy. On Tuesday

the president is scheduled... scheduled.. to travel to Texas to view the hurricane

damage in Houston, Corpus Christi of course -- that entire area on the Gulf

Coast where it was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey over the weekend and continues to

be hit hard. Interestingly, on Twitter over the weekend, the president

essentially declared victory -- really on Saturday morning -- that his administration,

local authorities, state authorities, had defeated the storm. So with heavy rains

continuing in the Houston area and really all across Texas and Louisiana,

the president is going, even before the storm is over -- it will still be

raining on Tuesday in the Texas- Louisiana Gulf Coast. So is the president

going to go soon? Will the president even be able to go? It's a huge huge logistical

footprint when any president goes anywhere, be it across the street to get

coffee or to view hurricane damage. So it's a very open question as

the rains get worse, especially in the Houston area, if the president

prematurely declared victory here. The next day, on Wednesday, the president is

scheduled to deliver what will be one of his first major domestic policy speeches.

He'll go to Missouri, in Springfield. He is going to talk taxes. Now the president

will be there to sell ideas -- not a plan, because there is no Republican tax

reform plan. We know what it will be centered on, what

its main focus will be: lots and lots of tax cuts for businesses, for the

middle class, but also for the wealthiest Americans. That will be controversial

That will hurt chances of getting Democratic votes. But the president will

not be selling a bill. White House officials and the tax writing committees

on the Hill have only begun to start talking about a plan.

There is no plan. So the president will be laying down markers and expect the

tax riders on the hill including the chairman of the committees to be

listening closely to what the president might demand be in a bill. This is a big

moment for the Republican effort. They struggled on health care, taxes should be

an easy one for Republicans to put something together and pass -- especially

because tax cuts are really, really a cornerstone issue for Republicans. They

didn't get it done on health care. If they can't get it done on tax cuts, let's

see if Republicans start to move away and really distance themselves from the

president.