- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The president and first lady were in Corpus Christi, Texas; they go to Austin next before a return to DC
- Trump told a crowd of Texans who'd lined up outside a Corpus Christi firehouse he was visiting before he left that the recovery effort is 'going well' and his administration is 'here to take care of you'
- President lauded state and federal officials for their response to Harvey this afternoon during his first of several stops in storm-stricken Texas, a firehouse in Corpus Christi
- 'We want to do it better than ever before. We want to be looked at in five years, in ten years from now as, this is the way to do it,' Trump told Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a Corpus Christi briefing
- Trump said: 'This was of epic proportion. Nobody's ever seen anything like this'
- The president and first lady left the White House this morning just after 8:30 am for Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, he in a windbreaker sporting the presidential seal, khaki pants and brown boots
- She wore classic black stilettos from the White House to Air Force One during the trip to Texas' flood zone
- By the time the president's plane landed in Texas she was wearing white tennis shoes instead
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