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Hurricane Harvey's damage can reach 150 to 180 billion dollars. That's what Texas Governor Greg Abbott said.

President Trump visits Houston, the Texan city most affected by Hurricane Harvey. He met in the company of his wife Melania Saturday among the many victims.

President Trump flies to Texas for the second time in a few days. He visits this time, among others, the city of Houston, which is heavily affected by rainfall. Last week he was in Corpus Christi and Austin, Texas's capital.

At a chemical plant near Houston there has been a fire again. CNN images show how flames and black smoke come from one of the buildings. In the same factory, explosions were already in existence.

The Trump government is urging US Congress to make money available for the help of Hurricane Harvey's victims, who made a huge ravage in Texas and Lousiana. That's what Tom Bossert, Internal Security Adviser, said on Thursday.

Rescuers search in Houston and other affected places to victims and survivors of the great floods that Texas has hit. Hurricane Harvey has now suffered from a tropical depression and has traveled to neighboring Louisiana.

US cities like Houston and Dallas boycotting the immigration leader of President Donald Trump can not yet be fined financially. A federal court in Texas has blocked a law that allows this. He believes that the law may be contrary to the constitution.

A chemical plant near Houston is jumping. Due to the hurricanes caused by Hurricane Harvey, the power supply and thus the cooling have dropped, causing the chemical used in the factory to become heated. Without cooling they will catch and explode flames, said the topman of the North American branch of the French chemical company Arkema.

Harvey, formerly a tropical storm, is toned and is now a tropical depression, according to the American National Hurricane Center (NHC). However, the problems are not over yet.

Texas may need more than $ 125 billion (US $ 105 billion) from the US government to re-emerge after Harvey. That said Governor Greg Abbott on a press conference on Wednesday. The tropical storm set a ravage in the southern state, mainly due to the unprecedented amount of rain.

The mayor of Houston called on the US government to provide financial assistance to its city and other affected communities as soon as possible. Sylvester Turner said at a press conference to prevent the municipality from advancing the money for relief efforts around the tropical storm of Harvey and to retrieve it later.

A furniture store just outside Houston has been providing some 200 evacuees of floods for days. Chairs, benches, beds; It is the only hold that the crowded people of the US city still have.

An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 houses in the Houston area are to a greater or lesser extent affected by floods. The tens of thousands of inhabitants see with eyes how water attacks their property.

The death toll due to the extreme weather in Texas has risen to 'at least thirty'.

The local government has set an evening bell in the American city of Houston from midnight until at least 5:00 am.

The elderly who became world famous because they sat in the water by the storm Harvey make the weather good.

President Trump has arrived in Corpus Christi, Texas. The city is about 300 miles from Houston, the city which is by far the hardest hit by the tropical storm of Harvey.

Anyone who clicks the South Texas weather forecast sees the gloomy forecast of the meteorologists. The enormous rainfall that the Harvey storm inflows is still far away, but slides extremely slowly toward the east, towards the neighboring state of Louisiana.

Two major water reservoirs at Houston, which began the many precipitation of the past few days, begin to overflow. The authorities are now forced to reduce the pressure on the pond walls by draining more water through the city's already overloaded sewers.

Certainly 8800 people have found a safe in Houston in a congress center. A Red Cross employee told local media that the complex was overcrowded.

The death toll caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas has been raised to seven people. Six of them come from Harris County, a spokesman spokesman said. The seventh victim is a 60 year old woman from Montgomery County who died after a tree fell on her caravan while she was sleeping. The death toll is still expected.

Now that Hurricane Harvey's damage is apparent in Texas, the American stars are contributing to the victims.

The American congressmen have plagued victims of the tropical storm Harvey, who has hit Texas heavily. That told the spokeswoman of Paul Ryan, the Republican president of the House of Representatives, Monday.

Houston's two largest airports remain close until travelers can be guaranteed a 'safe service'. The George Bush Intercontinental Airports, including the KLM on Airplane, and William P. Hobby were closed after the tropical storm of Harvey caused massive waterfalls.

According to police chief Art Acevedo, emergency services in the Houston city of Houston have saved about 2000 people in recent days. According to him, all agents are running services of at least twelve hours a day.

The price tag that hangs on the tropical storm Harvey is still growing every day. Estimates of material damage have now risen to around 24 billion dollars, more than 20 billion euros. The biggest problem for residents of the affected areas in Texas is that many people are not or too insecure.

The wind has long been the problem for residents of the states of Texas and Louisiana that are affected by the tropical storm of Harvey. The storm, however, moves so slowly that the clouds accompanying him in many places cause heavy, lasting rain. That will be the same.

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The people who lost their homes by a heavy hurricane and big floods in Texas can find temporary accommodation with Airbnb for free. The site brings in contact with the deceased people who open their house to them.

In total, fifteen elderly residents of the La Vita Bella nursing home in the US Dickinson (Texas) are rescued from their troubled position. Due to the heavy rainfall in Houston, the hostel went down and was seized in a penitent situation: the elderly could not get their way through their limited mobility and sat down in the water.