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multiple tornado warnings throughout the stay. >> right now teams of first responders across texas now trying to trek through this catastrophic flooding. ryan is with our affiliate kprc is with the houston fire department and they are trying to rescue people in the high floodwaters and load them on to buses. >> you have people who went to bed last night and, in fact, if we look over here they are still loading up more and more people and bringing in off of the people movers there and loading them up and taking them to safety. good work from the houston fire department. metro is here. houston police as well. loading these people up. you're right. you know, going to bed last night and then they wake up to rising water and trying to figure out what to do next. that is the predicament these folks find themselves in. looks like this bus is full and about to pull it out. again, about seven others lined up right behind it as they

continue to bring people out. let's go over here, xavier, we can see how they are bringing the people out of the neighborhood since, obviously, the suvs can't make it around. pickups can't make it around. people are coming out even with dogs. some have life jackets on, whatever they can. children. carrying them to safety getting them in the bus. and hopefully to safety. long night for these folks. the city and county kept the metro buses and the highway water rescue folks from the houston fire in place. yeah, what originally brought us down here, rachel, a phone call to our assignments desk at channel 2. the call was the rouging water,

glafier, more people brought off now. the call was people climbed into the attic to safety. we can't make into the neighborhood as you can imagine. these folks are being brought in. we are trying to not to bother them because we are trying to get them to safety and out of the rain as quickly as possible but you can see a child being carried in mom's arms to safety to get out of here and hopefully safer place than where they came from, that's for sure. >> wow. imagine what is going through that mother's mind as she is running off with her child in this disaster. our thanks to ryan korsgard of the affiliate kprc. driving through floodwaters, look. never a good idea. the police chief there art tweeted out can't emphasize how much flooding there is on

roadway. you're endangering ourselves and our first responders by being out. stay put. authorities are really warning people, look. please don't attempt to do this. just stay where you are. don't venture into these high waters because at the end of the day, you don't know how high they are. >> we are going to be getting in new video and reports from our cnn reporters. also our cnn affiliates as quickly as we can get that up on air for you and turn it around. we will their with you. houston sheriff ed gonzalez is live tweeting throughout the night with so many people trapped by the flooding, organizing the rescue. he's on the phone bus. sheriff, thanks so much for being with us. i first want to get to the number of people who have been qu rescued. you told our producer more than a thousand. are your team able to keep up with those or are there a thousand more waiting to be rescued? >> well, we are definitely giving it our best to continue to keep up with it.

it's hard to kind of track the number specifically just because we have a lot of jurisdictions, a lot of municipalities in our area. but just in our area of the county, we have at least over 500 just amongst us that include other municipalities like the fire department. but the demand is still out there. a lot of folks are reaching out and different hardshiping have elderly caught up in their attic and unable to get around and situations where children may also be involved, so we are working very diligently help coordinate that. people are strapped right now with everything. >> what are the most difficult phone calls and rescue attempts that have had to have been made overnight? >> well, our rescue vehicle had to assist in transporting someone that was cardiac arrest

in progress. that has been -- was difficult. and then also we have had a few incidents where some women were giving labor and trying to coordinate those as quickly as possible as well. obviously, you have small infants, we just assisted a family with a 3-year-old and an 8-month-old and got them to safety as well. i heard a report of a possibly submerged vehicle where a mother and child may be deceived in the vehicle. we don't know. it's still unconfirmed. those are some of the harder situations. actually all of them are because we know it's an extreme situation for them and our heart goes out to them and we wish we could get to everybody quickly but we have to navigate through the same challenge weather terrain. >> one of the most recent rescues you tweet out was a pregnant woman in labor who was

stranded has been rescued, thank god. you have lived in houston your entire life and lived through tropical storm allison more than 15 years ago. there are some reports from city official there who say this is worse than that when there were 35 inches of rain dumped on houston in some communities. is it that bad? >> i would definitely say so. you know, we are receiving information that the rainfall totals over several hours, this is outdated a little bit but had already eclipsed the 500-year rain level mark and over 20 inches of water in some places and still rising. hours ago we heard of six feet of water going into some homes and some of the other part of our area. with it happening overnight, it's kind of difficult to really

put eyes on everything and assess the damage whenever possible, try to do some aerial assessment to really get a better lay of the land but it definitely seems catastrophic and, unfortunately, sad to say that we may be getting some more rain coming our way, so this was very difficult tonight and it's not going to help with more rain coming and taxing our system, our infrastructure here more. >> sheriff, you've been praised on twitter by a lot of people because you've been so available there. there was one tweet in particular brian wrote strong smell of chemicals in the air. any idea how the refineries are holding up. you sent that to houston management. what is the situation of the refineries? is there a threat? >> we hadn't received any concerns, other than that information that brian tweeted to us. became concerning to me simply because i received another tweet unrelated to that one also reporting something similar and i'm just familiar with the

geography out there, the locations were pretty close to each other from where these individuals were reporting from. and so i wanted to make sure we got that to our office emergency management and do an excellent job of getting on top of those things and, obviously, have different equipment in place to assess that, so hopefully, you know, we were able to connect them and they could get that information and verify. >> thank you so much. >> the sheriff of harris county which includes houston. thank you for the work you and your tier are doing. >> thank you. >> thank you for everything you're doing. stay safe. we are thinking about you. we have a team of reporters on the ground in some of the most impacted areas. meteorologist allison chinchar is standing by in the cnn severe weather center and has new information for us. first, we got to houston. >> i understand the water is

rising fast. what are you seeing where you are? >> it's difficult to fathom how quickly this water is rising. we were here yesterday, and we can't even walk to where we were doing our lives yesterday. now, i want to show you around me because it is unbelievable just how quickly this water is rising and how it's overwhelming the system. i'm at the corner of commerce and travis streets. but these streets have turned into rivers. you see the street lights there? cars can't come through this area right now because they are rivers. believe me, we have seen cars today, this morning, trying to get through here and you also see a police officer here behind me who is trying to stop people from coming to this area. because the water is rising very quickly. this street that takes you to i-45 is completely submerged.

yesterday, we saw that public works employees were setting up barricades. the barricades have been taken out by the current because the system is so overwhelmed. if you look in this direction, for people who are familiar with houston, we are near the spaghetti warehouse. so what you're looking at now is the parking lot, except that parking lot isn't there any more. that is how overwhelming this is. i can tell you my crew and i were standing where that camera is looking at right now but probably about 20, 30 feet under into the banks of the bayou -- of buffalo bayou. right now, it's a raging river. we probably have been here an hour and a half and we have seen the water rise during that time. i just got off the phone with the sheriff like you guys did and he was telling me that their biggest worry is just the system is so overwhelmed. you can see that it's still

raining. and the system has to drain. that's what it's designed to, but while it's still raining, it's nearly impossible to do that. i used to live in houston. i've never seen the water this high and rise this quickly. so it's really difficult to fathom. you can see it's a little difficult to see right now because it's dark and it's so early in the morning. but take a look. this used to be a street. it's a raging river now this morning. so as you were mentioning, about 500 to a thousand rescues overnight is the estimate that sheriff ed gonzalez was estimating this morning. it's difficult to count, he was telling me, of course, because so many agencies are involved and so many calls coming in all over the houston and metro area that the system is just overwhelmed and they are very thin in resources right now baugh they are trying to get to

everybody but it's also very, very dangerous. our crew and i were trying to get to one of those locations where they are staging command centers for rescues. we couldn't get there because it was too dangerous. we would run into streets that were packed with water and it was just not safe for us to head to any area outside of where we were. >> that has been the challenge for the first responders. rosa, if we could take her shot full. viewers are wondering what is off to your left? is that a man hole gushing water? is that water hitting a curb or something? what is the source of that water, if you know? >> that is a man hole. the past hour and a half, we have seen the force of that water increase. right now it's at its highest. the more it rains the higher water is gushing out of that hole. it's difficult to explain just

how much water is running through this hiic downtown houston area. probably as travis and historic district but it's under water. these used to be streets and, right now, it's just completely covered in water. what you see to my left those were banks to a buy u that is no longer there. the area where we were doing our live shots yesterday, we can't get there. it doesn't exist right now because it's completely covered water nwater. the water is rushing toward the gulf of mexico. i can see because of the direction of the water. but until it stops raining, the system is too overwhelmed for it to do its job. it's designed to drain the city of houston but, right now, it's just too overwhelmed. >> rosa, thank you so much. look. you and the screw stay safe

there. it's not just the rising water, it is the power of that water when it's rushing the way that it is. it's the movement of that water too that makes it so dangerous so do stay safe, rosa, and to the crew there. thank you so much for helping us understand what is happening there. we will have more for you on the other side of the break. >> we are getting video of the rescues again. these videos coming in from our affiliates there and this is houston with people being loaded on to buses in some cases. more than a thousand rescues in that city overnight. we will bring you the latest as we continue the coverage of what is left of hurricane harvey. s'cuse me. mind if i sit here? not if you want your phone to work. let me guess, you can't livestream your lobster roll. and my mobile pay isn't connecting and i just got an unlimited plan. right plan, wrong network. you see verizon has america's largest most reliable 4g lte network and now unlimited plans start at $40 per line, you know what i am saying? (laughs.) oh this is your seat. definitely.

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that's why we built a university for everyone. southern new hampshire university houston waking up under water. look at the pictures. drainage system is overwhelmed and airport is feeling the effects as well. rosa flores, you might have seen

her report earlier. they are scramble to go get to higher ground because the water is starting to overtake where they are. >> on the phone is big bagley, of all three airports in the houston area. thanks for being with us, mr. bagley. fir, tell us the condition of these airports. are the runways under water? give us an update. >> right now, as of a couple of hours ago, water on the taxiways at hobby airport so because of that the airport is closed until the water can be removed and we can safely have air operations at that airport. bush is not closed because of the -- of water in any of the facility. it will be seeing far less air traffic than you would usually see on a typical sunday. united airlines, earlier saturday, announced that it would be cutting back on a number of of its air operations. so we are going to be seeing

considerably less traffic there. probably through monday, today at the very least. we are not seeing anyish at ellington airport but that is general aviation. one of the big things about it, we have a number of of military tenants there, including the coast guard, and so that g-- mot of that was bat one oonened dow before the flood hit. >> so ellington is running for regular purposes, but also for military and rescue purposes? >> yes, well, we have a number of military wings there. texas international guard and army international guard and the coast guard have a station there and they are response of the

team here in houston area. hobby is one of our two commercial airports in houston. it does about 13 million passengers a year. about 150 to 170 air operations per day. so right now, those are on hold until the water issues with the air field are addressed. really not sure how long that will be. i guess it depend how long harvey plans to stay in houston area. >> bill, i asked this question, fully we' fullywa aware you may not have answer for me but i know houston has had experience with this with feet of rain coming down. how long after the storm will it take to get the airports back up and running and getting hobby can you get to normal traffic? >> i will tell you this. this is not the first time that houston and houston airport system has had to address issues from weather. as you know, there has been, in the past couple of years, some

flooding issues. we have had hurricane ike in the past, tropical storm allison in the past. so we have spent the last four or five days preparing our facilities as much as possible to be able to handle the impacts to do what we could to maintain operations, to work with our air carrier partners and all partners of the air force that we have to be prepared as possible. that said, you can be as prepared as you can be, as prepared as you possible can be and still, in the end, the consideration is the safety for the people who are utilizing the airport and for the people who work there. so while we were as prepared as possible, we are going to make the decisions on how the airport operates based on what shapes this decision and working closely with the faa and the airlines there, the people who decide whether or not additions are optimal for safe operations where they are ready to support them as much as possible. right now, obviously, the air

field in hobby's case with water on the runways we can't operate so that air field is closed. we will be ready if there are flights that can take off and are scheduled to continue to take off from bush. we are there ready to support those air operations. >> bill, beyond the standing water at hobby, was there any damage as a result of the tropical storm and i guess category one storm speed wind when they came in yesterday and in to today? >> i don't know of any damage as part what have we did in preparations is making sure that any equipment or any facilities were secured to obtain any wind areas. this has been mostly a water event. this is mostly been a rain and water event. again, we are experienced and prepared for those here but you can only be so prepared when you're talking about the volumes of rain we are seeing here

today. there's not really been damage. it's just been more or less the impact of water and the rain on the possibility of operating the airport. >> no one stranded at the airport that you know of? >> we do have a number of people stranded at bush airport. yesterday, we had about 50 or so. the last update that i had was probably somewhere north of 200 at the airport. >> 200 -- bush intercontinental? >> and doing everything we can to help those passengers while they get rebooked and while they are there at the airport. >> bill bagley speaking on behalf of the three airports there in houston, harris county area, ellington airport and hobby airport which is closed, and bush intercontinental. thank you for the update. >> do take good care.

we want to share new video with you we are getting in. someone attempt to go drive through water. you don't have any idea how deep this is, let alone how powerful it is once that water is rushing the way it is through houston streets right now. don't even look like streets any more. they look like rivers. as you saw from rosa flores piece when she was out there live. again, the police chief has tweeted out cannot emphasize enough how much flooding is there on roadways. you're endangering yourself and our first responders by being out. keith stone is a public information officer with houston police at the houston emergency center. thank you so much. we appreciate, mr. smith, you being with s. help us understand what is happening there right now. >> as my colleague bill bagley said this is a primary rain event so we are seeing very heavy rainfalls overnight.

as a result, as of about 2:00 this morning, we have collectively, between the fire department and the police department, affected more than 300 high water rescues. that is 300 people who needed high water vehicle to come in and take them from whatever situation they were in. initially, those were people who had chosen to drive on the roadways and found themselves - themselves --." oh, i'm so sorry. >> we lost him there. we have rosa flores on the phone for us. we know a few moments ago we had her shot and she had to move quickly to get out of the way of the rising water because where she was just yesterday was unreachable. she couldn't access it. now the water is moving so quickly that where she was standing about 15 minutes ago, she had to get away from that sp spot. give us an idea of where you are and how quickly this is moving,

rosa. >> reporter: you mentioned, in the past 15 minutes, the water has risen very, very quickly. we were at the corner of commerce and travis in the historic district in houston and you saw the pictures of that man hole erupting in water. it hasn't stopped. the water is creeping closer and closer where we had our vehicles in the high ground so the high ground is no longer. we are just moving closer to higher ground to be in a safer position so we can bring you those pictures. as you mentioned, the areas where we were doing our live shots yesterday don't exist right now. they are completely submerged in water. the banks of buffalo bayou where we were at yesterday don't exist because they have been

overwhelmed by water. the water is running. as it continues to rain and houston continues to get pummeled, the system is overwhelmed. the water doesn't have anywhere else to go other than up. now in houston, city leaders were expecting 15 to 25 inches of rain, 30 inches of rain, 35 inches of rain in some isolated areas. and the last time that i looked at the flood on control district gauges, some areas had about 9, 10 feet in the past 24 hours. so the fear here it's going to continue to rain. these waters are going to continue to rise, and it's putting lives in danger. there has been no evacuation order in the area. people were asked to have plenty of food and water for four or

five days because this is supposed to be a marathon. this is not supposed to be a sprint. but the situation really took a turn for the worse last night as these bands of rain came over houston and just covered over the city. again, as you've been mentioning earlier this morning, authorities here saying that there has been between 501 rescues overnight. those numbers aren't exact, of course, because this involves a lot of different agencies. they are out trying to do their best but it's difficult to obsess the damage. they are getting a lot of calls that they really can't go check on because it's so dangerous for first responders to be out on the street on. we tried to go to one of those command centers earlier this morning to try to get a better picture of the rescues that are happening but we couldn't get

there because the roads were submerged in water, and so we decided to stay in a safer location and bring you the picture that we were bringing you just now. but we are having to move locations because the water is rising so quickly. >> rosa, take good care and get to that higher location. we are going to check in with you later. certainly wishing you and the crew the best. as we see from these pictures how fast that water is moving. that can pick up a car and move it. >> yeah. >> within a matter of inches. >> which is why authorities in houston are saying do not drive. let's head 200 miles down the coast here to nick valencia in rockport. nick, this is the city that really had the worst of the winds and now they are still dealing with the rain. >> this is what a community looks like after being hit by a category four hurricane. i'm nick valencia in rockport, texas. we will have an update here after the break. you're watching "cnn new day."

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go beyond brushing with act®. we are following when is happening in houston this morning. primary with the excessive amount of rain that in talking to allison chinchar earlier this morning she said we expected them to have a lot of rain but not this much this soon and thought it would be more spread out and it's devastating for that community. almost a thousand rescues we are being told. listen to this coming from the sheriff's deputy, they say nonlife-threatening water inside the home is safer than going outside. difficult and scary but we will get to you. pleats shelter in place. be safe. >> we know at least two people are dead. first responders scrambling to get to others stranded in high water. we had the sheriff on. ed gonzalez, a few moments ago,

told us responders have been working all night. listen to a part of that conversation. >> a lot of folks are still reaching out. different hardship situations that are people elderly caught up in the attic and unable to get around and children may be involved so we are working very diligently to help coordinate that. people are strapped with t everybody to the max. >> get to people in their homes. also in their cars. we are told that the flooding is so severe in houston that people are just leaving their car on the road because the water is coming up so quickly. >> they have to. people are trapped by the high waters that had to be rescued by boat. ryan korsgagarorsgad joins us i

moment. here is his report earlier. the pickup we showed you on live television trying to make it through there. hopefully, for his sake it will go up a little bit. that's not worth. . it's not worth it for your vehicle and certainly not worth it for your life and where you're going to get. we can tell you from our drive in on the gulf freeway, several car lots along the bayous here, some cars were high and dry but many of them you can imagine were sitting down there in the water. this is the last in the line here. trying to get people out of their vehicles, out of the neighborhood and hopefully loaded up into safety. this is kind of the last in the line here with the fire and rescue operations down here. again, three boats that we know of from this location in the

water. told by firefighters that they are having the same problem the rest of us are and that is trying to get around. if you don't have to get out, i wouldn't. there is, frankly, no reason to be out at 3:00 in the morning. >> thank you to ryan korsgard with kprc. we want to get to an area we didn't expect necessarily to talk about. everybody's eyes were so focused on corpus christi but rockport, texas, is where things were devastated by the hurricane coming on shore. >> houston is getting the worst of the rain and rockport got the worst of the wind. show us what you're seeing there. >> reporter: block after block of rockport a community of 10,000 people have been hit so hard and took a direct hit from the category four hurricane harvey coming through with winds of 120, 130 miles per hour. i'm standing what was once a

local eatery and craft story. somehow the velocity of that wind brought a mattress to the front entrance. behind me a jewelry store owned by a local resident here, ruben, who has been here 15 year and he doesn't have insurance. somehow yesterday while we were interviewing him he was able to keep a smile and you get the sense from talking to the people here that they are going to be okay. this is a community that is, without question, a very tight-knit community, a generational community and people here have lived here six, seven generations. they say they wanted to say. an estimated 50% decided to stick out the storm an ominous evacuation. at one point before the storm hit, they told local residents who decided to stay to write their name and social security

number on their forearm. there is nominal signs of progress this morning. however small, they are inching toward getting back to normal. on our way in this morning we didn't notice any road blocks. the road were cleared and not flooded like yesterday. as a matter of fact as i'm talking, something we should speak to, there is no wind or rain here and all of that has moved north toward houston and that seem to be the most hard-hit area right now. this area it will take sometime to recover and, obviously, no time line but you can only imagine block after block as i mentioned looks exactly like this. you can only assume that it's going to take weeks, if not months, for things to get back to a sense of normalcy. >> thank you, nick. stay with us. new pictures coming in what is happening in houston. very difficult situation there this morning. more than a thousand rescues. 300 of them we are told by the

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live look here. this is our affiliate tkrk. we are using their live shot here to show you just the amount of water there. you see a car that has been stranded. i'm told alongside a river. that is a hotel parking lot. if this time out well, she will swing around and show you all of the traffic that is on that overpass many there. some cars karked there and some with their emergency lights on. they should be able to or at

least being asked to stay off the roads. that is ktrk. this is the airport in houston. one of them tlesat least. we know george bush intercontinental is open. we spoke with a spokesman for the three airports there in the houston area and says that hobby is closed. ellington has no issues. there are about 200 people stranded at bush intercontinental and they are working to try to get them some assistance and hopefully get them home soon. >> what you're seeing outside the sheriff's department is saying that is different. one houston resident took video after water flooded his how. take a look at the video that he is posting. there it is. his dogs apparently, i don't

know if we can drop the banner. there they are. just running around and fused by the rising water. you can imagine what their senses are thinking. we do want to point out, jesus was rescued soon after this. >> jesus is on the phone bus right now. give us an idea how bad it got and how quickly the water came up. >> pretty bad. bayou i live by is pretty full. got to my house and got into my garage. cars are out there. over halfway full. they are literally flooded up. >> is everybody okay at your house? and when you were rescued, where did you go? >> everybody is fine. we are actually not rescued. we are still stranded out here. luckily, everybody okay and my whole family is inside. the water went down in my house.

it was up to six inches but went down all the way to one inch right now. but the streets out here are still like waist deep. we can't get out. we are still stranded out here. >> so feet of water there where you are. what part of houston are you in? >> right now, we are southeast next to bellway and 45 right close to 30. over here down southeast. it's pretty full. we are all standing over here. the whole block is over here. >> are your neighbors out and what conversations are you having? are you helping each other? >> my neighbors actually talked to them. they had they are okay. they are safe but, like i said the whole block is just full of water. we were all stranded over here. >> jesus, have you had awith th

communication with the sheriff's department and have they given you any estimate when they can come and help you and your neighbors get out of this? >> i called all types of numbers. imagines. 311 and all that for houston. they said that everybody is calling them so they are kind of busy. i understand. we are safe. luckily, we are safe. there is a lot of other people out there and a lot more worse conditions than i am and i just pray to god we are okay on that. just pray to god that everybody else is out there safe. i really wish the best for everybody. >> we are wishing the best for you, jesus. thank you for helping us understand what is happening in your neighborhood and showing us what is going on there. we hope you can get to higher ground soon. thank you and take care, you and your family. >> more than a thousand rescues overnight. the national weather service has

issued a flash flood emergency for life-threatening flooding. you're seeing over the overpass. left side of the screen you can see many parked vehicles along this overpass. and on the right side in the center of your screen you see some people who are driving or trying to drive through the standing water and end up stranded. the water is rising so quickly. up never really know what is under the water. you think on just a normal day you know where the road is and where the curb is but no guarantee the road is still there with this much water and the water moving so fast. >> meteorologist telling us this is just the beginning. this rain event is something they anticipate is going to last for several more days. they just didn't expect to be as inundated as they have been in the last 24 hours right out of the gate. they thought it would be more elongated rain event that wouldn't dump so much right away. it makes you wonder what is

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it has been a really rough night for the people of houston. take a look here at some of this video we are getting in. people are scrambling to get on a bus after they were rescued. you see a dog there. you see a couple of women carrying babies. look at this woman as they apparently, i think one report said tried to hide in an attic. people are hiding in attics to get over the flooded water rising inside of their home. these folk have been rescued up to a thousand rescues overnight. it's only 6:00 a.m. there right now. >> these people are rushed on to city buses where they will be taken to some shelter. this video is courtesy of our affiliate kprc.

we are getting new video in throughout the morning showing the disaster happening in houston. the water coming down and coming up from these manholes as they have shown you very quickly and creating an emergency for hundreds of thousands of people there. the danger is not over. this will go on for days and could become even more life-threatening. >> reporter: as the storm lingers over texas, the attention now turns to the dangerous rain. remnants of harvey are dumping up to 6 inches of rain an hour and it will not be over any time soon. >> this is a serious storm. it's going to last four or five days and, quite frankly, this is day one. >> reporter: the national weather service has issued a flash flood emergency for catastrophic flooding for three counties, including the city of houston. >> it's going to be interesting to how far he can make it. hopefully, for his sake, it will go up a little bit. that is not worth it. it's not worth it for your vehicle and certainly not worth

if for your life. >> reporter: the harris county sheriff says hundreds of people have be rescued overnight. houston police have confirmed one woman's death when she drove her car into high water. >> the streets are treacherous. it makes absolutely no sense for anyone to be out on the road. >> reporter: hurricane harvey slammed ashore friday night near corpus christi as a category four. in rockport, one person died and at least a dozen others were injured. as many as 5,000 people stayed as the storm came ashore. >> we heard a big thump. we had a chimney made out of brick and it collapsed part of the roof there. 45 minutes later, the garage had lifted up and slammed against the house. >> is there a lot of damage across rockport. this is a before and after picture of a huge boat storage facility demolished by windiest at more than 130 miles per hour. >> we are going to try to see what we can salvage from the

wreck. and hope follow best, i guess. >> reporter: the storm also spawned tornadoes. at least 12 have been reported by the national weather service. >> one resident reported seeing the tornado running toward him and he said it expanded out and contracted back in. it's pretty terrifying. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news! >> so grateful to have you with us as we watch this morning what is happening in houston. it's tough to see. >> more than a thousand people have been rescued in houston. tropical storm harvey now pummeling the city with rain and hundreds more of rescues are happening right now. >> take a look at the video we are getting in here how high this water is. people trapped in their cars and homes. this is a flash flood emergency. not a warning, but an emergency.

>> these rescues are happening right now. they are trying to get people through this rising water. our affiliate kprc is ryan korsguard. they are loading people on buses. >> had you people that went to bed last night and, in fact, if we look over here. they are still loading up more and more people. they are bringing in off of the people movers there loading them up and taking them to safety. good work from the houston fire department. metro is here. houston police as well. loading these people up. you're right. you know, going to bed last night and then they wake up to rising water and trying to figure out what to do next. that is the predicament the folks find themselves in. looks like this bus is full. they are about to pull it out. seven others lined up behind it as they continue to bring people out. let's go over here, xavier. we can see how they are bringing