Rescuers searched painstakingly through flooded neighborhoods across southeastern Texas yesterday for people stranded by Hurricane Harvey's deluge. President Donald Trump asks Congress for 7.85 billion dollar in federal disaster relief. <br/><br/>The storm, one of the costliest to hit the United States, has displaced more than 1 million people, with 50 feared dead from flooding that paralyzed Houston, swelled river levels to record highs and knocked out the drinking water supply in Beaumont, Texas, a city of 120,000 people.Trump to visit the region today.<br/>'<br/>Meanwhile a new storm, Irma, had strengthened yesterday into a Category 3 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. It remained hundreds of miles from land but was forecast to possibly hit Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the middle of next week.