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Vice President Pence Surveys Harvey’s Wreckage in Texas

Vice President Mike Pence, center, with his wife Karen, left, greet residents effected by Hurricane Harvey during a visit, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, in Rockport, Texas.
(AP Photo/Eric Gay)
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Harvey’s path of destruc- before.” whose wall was blown out. tion could be measured
Associated Press tion Thursday and pledged Pence visited Rockport, He prayed with residents in the piles of garbage
ROCKPORT, Texas (AP) — that the Trump adminis- the small coastal town before taking a walking heaped outside nearly ev-
Walking door to door in the tration would help bring where Harvey first slammed tour of a street where re- ery home.
hurricane zone, Vice Presi- southeast Texas back “big- ashore as a Category 4 hur- pairs are underway. Continued on Page 3
dent Mike Pence surveyed ger and better than ever ricane, and saw a church The extent of the destruc-

Rescuers Start Block-by-Block Search of Flooded Houston

By JEFF AMY of Houston homes Thursday, floodwaters, which have police officers and mem- “fire department!” as they
MATT SEDENSKY pounding on doors and now heavily damaged bers of an urban search- pounded with closed fists
Associated Press shouting as they looked for more than 37,000 homes and-rescue team fanned on doors, peered through
HOUSTON (AP) — Rescuers anyone — alive or dead — and destroyed nearly 7,000 out across the Meyerland windows and checked
began a block-by-block who might have been left statewide. neighborhood for survi- with neighbors.
search of tens of thousands behind in Harvey’s fetid More than 200 firefighters, vors or bodies. They yelled Continued on Page 3