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radio station. Okay, here's the show. It's the NPR Politics podcast. President Trump is headed to

Texas where Hurricane Harvey is still dumping rain on Houston. Thousands of people are displaced,

and the Trump administration is facing a major test. How the government responds will in part

decide how people move on after the water settles. I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress.

I'm Danielle Kurtz, Laban political reporter. I'm Dominican Manitano,

political editor, and we are joined on the line by David Green, a morning edition host,

who are you in Houston or where are you David? Yes, we're in Houston. We're actually in a community

called Spring, Texas, that's sort of on the north edge of Houston, about 20 miles from downtown,

right along Interstate 45, which is the big Interstate that comes down into Houston from Dallas.

And we were trying to make our way downtown, and just got caught up because I-45 is much of it

is flooded out like a lot of the roads that head into the downtown area. So we're right in the

thick of it where the rain is just, it's this more rain than I've ever seen in my life. It's

pretty amazing. And that's the big problem, right, that the storm has just settled over Houston

and is not moving and it's just dumping rain over and over again? Yeah, it's just parked here.

And I mean meteorologists say this happens, but a lot of them are saying they've just never seen

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