Evening Edition: After record rains in Texas, Harvey now menaces Louisiana

Disaster relief agencies ready to help Harvey victims, but they can't get in; A clockmaker, a first responder and a family of six: Harvey's death toll rises amid surging waters

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Top Stories After record rains in Texas, Harvey now menaces Louisiana Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the total National Guard deployment across Texas would reach 24,000 troops, with about 10,000 of them deployed there from other states. By Arelis R. Hernández and Mark Berman  •  Read more » Disaster relief agencies ready to help Harvey victims, but they can't get in Mobile kitchen units, truckloads of tools and thousands of supplies are ready to help, but there is one problem: They are hundreds of miles away from Houston. By Katie Zezima  •   Read more »   A clockmaker, a first responder and a family of six: Harvey's death toll rises amid surging waters Among the confirmed dead was a family who was swept away while trying to flee the storm and a 30-year veteran of the Houston Police Department who found himself trapped in floodwaters as he made his way into a rescue shift. By Wesley Lowery and Avi Selk  •   Read more »   Wet, so wet, with little hope of getting dry For those affected by Harvey, every day blurs into the same long surreal state of being physically wet, of feeling, hearing, smelling and even tasting water that was not only flooding roads and invading homes but inundating people. By Stephanie McCrummen  •   Read more »   What 500-year flooding could look like in five cities Hurricane Harvey has been called a "500-year flood" — a flood event that has a one-in-500 chance of occurring in any given year in that location. Hundreds of thousands of people live in flood-prone cities such as Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Tampa Bay and New York. Here's a look at how 500-year floods could affect them. By Leslie Shapiro, Armand Emamdjomeh and Ted Mellnik  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT A $99 case of water? Texas stores accused of price-gouging in wake of Harvey. The Texas attorney general's office has received nearly 700 consumer complaints, most of which involved price-gouging of basic necessities. By Kristine Phillips and Hamza Shaban  •   Read more »   Kremlin says it got the Trump Tower email but didn't respond "We don't respond to business topics, that is not our job," a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said of the January 2016 email. By Andrew Roth  •   Read more »   In Minnesota, four swing-seat Republicans decline to back Ryan for speaker Public polling has seen House Speaker Paul Ryan's favorable rating and approval rating tumble since the start of the Trump presidency.  By David Weigel  •   Read more »   Trump voting panel apologizes after judge calls failure to disclose information 'incredible' A federal judge tore into the Election Integrity Commission for reneging on a promise to fully disclose public documents before a July 19 meeting. By Spencer S. Hsu  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT With his tax effort in peril, Trump to pressure Congress for swift action Republican congressional aides and several tax lobbyists said Tuesday there is no consensus within the GOP about how to proceed. By Damian Paletta  •   Read more »   Diana's final hours: Dodi's yacht, a Ritz suite, a diamond ring and relentless paparazzi Twenty years ago, Diana was on the verge of getting engaged to wealthy playboy Dodi Al Fayed in Paris when they tried to escape a pack of photographers. By Michael S. Rosenwald  •   Read more »   Trump questions need for North Korea talks after successful U.S. missile-defense test near Hawaii The president tweeted "talking is not the answer!" hours after the military took out a mock medium-range ballistic missile using guided missiles launched from a U.S. destroyer. By Dan Lamothe  •   Read more »   Trump says Finland is buying Boeing fighter jets. The Finnish president called that news a 'duck.' What wasn't lost in translation is that Finland's President Niinistö said that his military is still in the early stages of determining which plane it would buy and hasn't made any decisions. By Aaron Gregg  •   Read more »           Share Evening Edition:    Twitter     Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Evening Edition or because it is included in your subscription. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071