seeing this as well to give them covering in the firing of james comey. >> thank you very much with those breaking developments at this hour. thanks to all of you for joining us. breaking news coverage continues with "ac 360." good evening from houston. there are new challenges tonight across the area. the entire city of beaumont covered in floodwater without clean dranking water and will be for days. 118,000 people live there and many of those who can are lining up for bottled water. far from the disaster area, people are lining up for gasoline and refineries and major pipelines and the resulting gas shortages and already being felt in a number of states and likely to increase. back here as door-to-door searches begin in houston, the death toll stands at 39. some of the other numbers associated with the storm are staggering. harvey dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of water on the

region. destroyed or damaged 100,000 homes according to officials. teama said more than 96,000 texans have been approved for assistance and explosions rocked a chemical plant and there could be more. the fumes sent responders to the hospital. on top of all of that, as if that's not all enough, in the caribbean with one model towards the gulf of mexico. ing it three and getting stronger. there is a lot to cover ahead in beaumont. talk about the evacuations all throughout the day. >> it's unusual and sad and dramatic, but we are in the middle of a process where 193 patients inside the hospital are being evacuated via helicopter. you would think why are they doing that? because of floodwaters? no. because of no water. a pump station broke because of harvey and the city has no clean

water. 118,000 people live in the city and they have no water and the hospital has no water. the decision was made that the patients cannot stay here. even the sickest patients are coming out every few minutes and this evening and afternoon and this morning, boarding helicopters and being taken to other hospitals in texas for safe keeping. as we are watching, we are watching first a black hawk helicopter and they came in and had five people. the five people were dialysis patients. several were coming in and after the dialysis patients, then they said icu patients on stretchers. you can only imagine what they are going through. they have to be taken outside and go in a helicopter to another hospital. the people here this this hospital are very professional and kind and compassionate. we are told that nine babies in the neonatal unit in the hospital will be coming out and they will go on a helicopter

with the doctor who will keep a close eye on them. >> is there a sense of how long it will take to get the patients out and what happens to other folks in beaumont who need water? >> right. right now it looks like the city officials said it could be four or five days before they have running water again. they are handing out containers and bottled water. other towns have water, but here they don't. this evacuation could take up to 36 hours. it started this morning and could continue. they are being slow and deliver and they can't have lots of helicopters and they keep coming back every 10 minutes to pick up one or two more. probably the last patient to board the helicopter will be a woman in the hospital right now who is about to give birth. she hasn't given birth yet, but if everything goes well, they will board one of the last helicopters tomorrow.

>> i appreciate you being there. disasters of this magnitude frequently take days to come fully into focus. the extraordinary efforts we have seen with volunteers and local police and ems crews and folks with monster trucks and ordinary people doing extraordinary work and joining hands and creating human chains in the danger of being swept away. the helicopter crews in the skies this morning, i went out with the coast guard and so far the coast guard said they aided as many as 9,000 in texas and louisiana. a crew i set out with didn't expect to be busy. the skies over beaumont and other areas in the region were clear. they thought most of the rescues would have been done. that's not how the day turned out. here's what we saw. >> all day the searching

continues. the pilot are flying low over the streets. the flight mechanic and rescue swimmer look for anyone in need of evacuation. >> we have been flying over the area for about 20 or 30 minutes. they just believe they have somebody who has been waving to them. it's a confusing situation. they can't tell for sure if this is somebody who wants to be rescued or not. i diver is rate to go down if necessary. they are trying to figure out exactly -- it's one of the difficulties they are having. it's the lack of communication. they get information based on 911 calls, but a lot of people they have been rescuing, they just see, they get a visual on and hover over the area and they give them a thumbs up or thumbs down to get an indication of whether they need to be rescued.

>> they were going down. >> it is pilots hover above the water. evan is lowered to the roof of the house below. >> he was going down saying there was somebody in the house. he went down stairs to take a look at the guy's wife. didn't sound like they were trouble, but he was trying to figure out how to get him on the roof. >> two people and two dogs. medically they are okay, but want to escape the rising floodwaters. a basket is lowered to bring them up one at a time. >> the driver is sitting in the basket. >> it's clear and they are bringing it up slowly. again, the flight mechanic who is in the doorway has a visual on this and he is giving information. they are covering directly above this and can't see what's going on. the basket is now back on the

roof. now a second person is getting in the basket. eric is telling the pilot a second survivor is in the basket and eric is giving a word to the pilot to move a little bit to the right to hold it directly above where the basket is. they still have not brought back the rescue swimmer. they are asking the second person they brought up to get out and sit here in order to move the basket and make sure there is enough room. put the basket up on the side. and now it's a question of getting eric back up on board the chopper and taking these new ones as well as their pets. i have to say these dogs are

incredibly mellow given what they just have been through. what's the plan now? >> i am not sure. i am about to hop on and talk to the pilots. i was talking to them and they said in the next hour or so, they will have boats come through the channel and there is a drop off point not far from here. they might drop them off so they can get on a boat and they salvage the property. >> amazing to watch. >> i'm sorry? >> amazing to watch. >> it's surreal when you are doing it. >> plans change and helicopters picked up four people and dropped them off in a nearby field. they will bring everyone to a shelled shelleder. >> we will pick up the people they rescued and we have more fuel.

>> the people who just boarded are wet and they are cold. they have been try ing ing to r out the storm and it may rise more in the coming hours. they wanted to get out. now we are going to go to a shelter where they get dry clothes. they can get food and they can rest. they have been through a lot. they are raeady to get out of here. there are six evacuees and four dogs and there is room for more than a dozen people. my cameraman and i would get off if space is an issue. when the evacuees are gone, this chopper heads out won against, searching for anyone in need of help. >> we mentioned at the top of the program, the aftermath of the storm is far from over in houston where the search and rescue continues to the ground.

rescuers going door-to-door searching for survivors and may be trapped by floodwater. we have more on that and you spend a day with rescuers and how was it? >> anderson, it's jarring. we are almost six days after this hurricane hit and look at the neighborhood. rescuers are going door-to-door, but they have to go through neighborhoods in boats west of houston and the water in some of these cases, look at this. this goes past the door sdpep in some cases halfway up the windows. this is shallower than we have seen. back behind us, look at this. this is way steep. six days after the hurricane. active rescues, an emergency response situation. this is a short time ago. we witnessed protection agents to pull a man out of an apartment complex.

we came across one man in an apartment who was holed up since the hurricane. he was rescued by the border protection agents and hoe donned a jacket and packed up a suitcase. >> this was no electricity coming for a long time. it's not draining anyone. >> in some neighborhoods, firefighters are going door-to-door checking if people are okay. tony said the water in his house was several feet high and he started ripping out the walls. >> do you want to stay here? >> not now. >> and that's really because as we see in the neighborhoods, a lot of these houses are uninhabitable and they don't know how many people may be holed up and how many may be missing. when we went door-to-door, they are knocking on doors and they are not getting a response from some of these houses. they say that even in drier

airs, there could be electrical lines that are shot and a lot of different dangerous. that's on dry ground. you can imagine what it's like to come back to a house like this. >> did they think the worst is over in the area where you are? this is water only started to come up at about 1:00 a.m. they are wondering where it's going to end and they don't have a sense of when it will. >> brian todd, i want to look at another e vac helicopter.

that's an urgent situation and clean drinking water. for that town, as if they haven't been hit hard enough. they had no water and electricity and about 10 to 15 foot of water. as we see here the next question is the release of the water out of the dams in the big city here in and around houston. my fear is that we lose the great. >> even in a neighborhood like this, they were affected by the release of the water. >> right because you take the grid out or we have a plant with a major significant event. >> it's one thing to be flooded and stuck home, they have water without electricity. >> without electricity, all of

them are a disaster. i think the prudent thing to do now is to encourage people who can take the extended five or 10-day vacation until this goes down. until the water clears, this met col ban area is at the verge of a major disaster f. we lose electricity, it's a gauge changer. >> some people have been able to move up to the second floor and turn it off in the first floor. they have been able to ride it out. >> the coaching is take a look at the city. what are the most vulnerable parts where people are krounded by water and they caught that part of the grid out or take that part down as they release the water. they start doing selected evacuation or to inform people. you can lose power in the next two to three days.

communities like this, people may take the option. let's get out of here and reduce the risk as opposed to ending up with worn 00 or 200,000 people without electricity. then it turns into and without water. >> they talk about trying to get things back as quickly as possible. >> i don't think we are ready for normal yet until the risk of the water has cleared and everybody can say we have the grid at a 95 or 98%. i don't think it's there now. >> appreciate your time. >> how all the water around us is creating a shortage of gasoline and around the country. later another powerful hurricane. the forecasters are looking closely and where it could. jj has an update on millions of dollars he raised for storm survivors. remarkable what he is doing.

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they got the worst of it and how bad conditions are in places like beaumont. one of them is orange county issuing orders this afternoon involving areas along two local rivers. i want to go there and i have more from them on the ground. are you still seeing people despite the evacuation order? >> we are, anderson. part of that is not all of orange county is evacuated. there not very many people in the community. they are these folks in a distance. they had a gentlemen in need of medicine in his house. they waited for things to calm down and realized there were not going to be people getting over there and they brought a boat and launched it and they have been pushing the boat down the

road. but this is vital medicine and they needed to do something drastic. we have seen examples that was all day. folks returning to see exactly what the situation is. they are able to collect their belongings because they are worried about a second round of flooding. here's one of the reasons why. it's shallow where i am standing, but i don't have to walk far far the water level to increase. the problem is that the rivers that are nearby are yet to crest and that could mean more flooding in the community. many people have not been able to breathe a sigh of relief. >> is it known when they are expected to crest? >> according to the national weather service and this is just a projection, they believe that

the rivers may not crest until early next week or monday or tuesday. possibly as late as wednesday. the river levels are both already above flood stage, but could rise two to 2.5 feet. if that's the case, communities like these could be in trouble. there could be a lot more flooding and it could be sometime before the folks are able to begin true recovery effort efforts. >> it goes on and on. that can make things worse and you can see how it might happen and being felt in the pump. today in the dallas area, you do not see much in the country.

joining us now with the latest. what have you been seeing on the ground? >> you make a good point. you rarely see this in texas. if you were working hard and looking to fill up the car, you will see gas stations completely out of gas like this gas station across the street. this texaco is out of gas and no cars looking to get filled up. or if you do find a gas station, you are bound to find this. very long lines. lines that last anywhere from a half hour to an hour, maybe more. we actually were trying to fill up the car with gas. we attracted four different gas stations and had four different prices and it took us four tries and 45 minutes waiting in line. that's nothing compared to what one gentlemen who was driving around for 35 miles to find a

gas station with gas. when they found it, his car ran out of gas and he had to push the car to the pump. clearly not an easy station for drivers. they were not affected by the wind or the rain or the flooding that is happening in houston. you are seeing dallas certainly affected by harvey anyway. anderson? >> any idea how long it will last and how far reaching it could go? >> that's the thing. this can hit not just texas, but wind up hitting across the country. that will hit in the prices. some expect it to up 50 sends a gallon. they have been shut down and there is plenty of supplies and a lot of gasoline. it's in storage at the

refineries. the other vein frantic pictures on social media of those news reports of production problems in making gasoline. that caused everybody to come out in droves and go to get gas and they were not ready to have this inunidation of people buying gas and they ran out of supply. they had their eye on another return and they can see what's happening with it. the latest with hurricane irma. what do we know about this? where is it and how strong? >> last night when we were talking about concerns, i almost brought it up, but i thought let's give it another 24 hours. off the coast of africa, irma. yesterday was a tropical storm.

they can dare on the historical track. tour the caribbean. it puts it up on a category four. the computer models are just like with harvey. they have been in incredible agreement. we will move towards the caribbean and further out, we will start to see maybe some concern. we will need four or five more days. not this weekend, but next weekend. >> do we know -- do you know when it makes landfall? >> 3,000 miles away, but let's take a look at the weather model. fantastically. as it makes its way towards the caribbean, it may lose strength. this model wants to keep it as a storm in a category four. saturday night in between

florida and cuba. now let's look at the u.s. model. that puts it up near bermuda. there is definitely some uncertainty here as we get in towards the weekend. however we are leaning towards the southern track and as it moves into the gulf of mexico, it could. that's the last thing we want. have a landfall between 9/11 or the 13th of september. let's hope it stays to the east of bermuda. right now it looks more and more like it's taking the could you state your name track. not this weekend or next weekend, but another four or five dis. still uncertainty. >> thanks very much. up next, how one family is dealing with what is unimaginable loss of six members of their family. we will talk about where the family is drawing the comfort and helping them get through. just like that? s, uh-huh.

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rescues continue across texas. the scope is unimaginable. federal first responders estimate 10,000 people have been rescued and 1,000 pets, but the work is not over. samuel pena knows that far too well, he knows where people stand. how are the efforts going? you started on the ground searching. >> we started the second base of our efforts. we did a wide area search and go home to home in areas that were affected by innovation and the threshold had three feet of water or more.

we would go in and search. >> they have gotten a look and neighbors know this is a more sift attic thing. >> this is an approach to the search. when there was flooding we did a hasty search, but now that the waters have receded, bee knock on every home in the area that are affected. we have six zones throughout the city that we are going to. we completed the first one today and hope to get through the rest by the end of the day tomorrow. >> the death toll in the 30s at this point. it's impossible to know where things may go. >> correct. >> and just as we saw in katrina, those search efforts were add hock and people created a great and would write on the doors. it's a more systematic approach and we are not going to be putting stickers on any doors. that's an invitation for them to do damage to people who have

lost them. our approach is it's systematic, but we will use a gps system as we track it and quantify what we did and what we searched. that move we started today and we will continue through tomorrow. then we will help with the recovery. that was encouraging. the mayor and that's the flight today. you need to see people out in the traffic. this storm affected the multimillion homes. it's encouraging to see a lot of

communes fighting back. >> in houston, it's not only my favorite city in texas, but it's one of the friendliest cities. they literally bought a boat here. >> it's incredible. you mentioned it. we had people showing up for firefighters and working there for three days straight. without assessing the damage here and people had lost everything and they still found it in their heart to go out. that's encouraging and heard warming and that's an indication of the resiliency and tenacity.

>> the local neighborhood is covered in water days in. for mile after mile in some places. crews continue to search block by block and still making rescues. they make us think how nightmarish it is to have been in the waters as they were rising. we know about some of those whose lives were lost in the awful moments. steve perez died on his way to work and six members of the family coupled with their oldest who was 16. the youngest just 6 years old. the van they were being driven in swept away. the driver made it to safety and he couldn't get the rest out of the van. he said his sister in law virginia joins us now. thank you so much.

thank you so much for being with us. what do you want people to know about the six members of your family? >> the kids were the sweetest kids in the whole world. they were loved by everybody. anybody who knew them could tell you great stories about them. they lived across the street from us and we saw them every single day. our lives are never going to be the same again. ever. my in-laws were the sweetest people. they would do anything for anybody. help anybody. it's so sad. >> your dad took care of your mom. your mom started to get alzheimer's and he started to get it more recently. >> he was getting dementia. he was thinking everybody was after him. he would do anything for you. if he could. >> they're tried to ride it through the storm and they left sunday.

sammy was driving and the water got to you. >> he tried to save the flood coming in. they didn't make it. >> how are they holding up? >> he was suicidal for a little while, but he calmed down now. we let him know this was a tragic accident and we were luck lucky he made it out alive. it's still too tragic for him. >> people know about your parents and grandkids? >> they were great people. they would help you if they could. our grandkids were the sweetest in the world. >> your dad worked hard and raised all of you in the same house? >> yes. five boys all together. it was a handful. >> how do you -- are you going day by day? >> actually it's more like minute by minute. it just takes the slightest

thing to set us off. we found one of daisy's stuffed animals and daniel broke down crying and we have seen a 12 pack of dr. pepper that dominic worked for and paid for himself. it brought 345me to tears. >> he was 8? >> dominic was 14. everything reminds us of the kids especially at our house. they were always with us. always there. i don't know. i don't know how we are going to go through this. it's so hard. my son is so brokenhearted too. he's in prison. he can't see them. he gets out in 10 days. we are trying to see if we can get him out earlier because he hasn't had any reprimands or anything in prison. we are hoping that the warden will give him a furlough and they just let him out for the

funeral. >> you were searching since sunday. >> since we found out they went in the floodwaters and the current was way too swift. they were in the back before we got swept away. there was nothing we could do. we have to wait it out. >> i wish you peace and strength in the days ahead it's not much comfort, but who your parents were. thank you very much for talking to us. >> thank you to everybody who donated to our funds. there is like three or four of them. the only one i can remember is ours which is the memorial fund. thank you very much for helping us. there was no insurance or money to bury my grandkids. i think we are going to be okay now. they are going to get a decent funeral and we have to put my babies to rest. thank you, everybody. >> have you made the plans?

>> we evaporate yet. we are making them because their mom has to be the one who makes the plans. we are helping her along the way and anything she needs we are there for her too. she is going through a tough time too. >> i'm glad you are with each other and taking care of each other. thank you so much. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> coming up, an example of what houstonians are going through and what they are made of. a houston hero on and off the football field to set up a goal to raise $200,000 and raised more than $12 million. also when we come back, one survivor returned home and instational stuff. this moment that went viral.

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in the middle of the heart break of losing much of his home to harvey's rising floodwaters, one man expressed himself without words to music. they picked up a few toys for his seven kids and we realized the piano was not under water. that's when this happened. watch.

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are all going to go through suffering. to do stuff.ering, god is going- then that coupled with this flooded piano just kind of struck a cord all over the place. >> when you were doing that, did you have any idea that would strike this? no pun intended. >> no. just posted it. i knew that my closest friends would be melodramatic and they were. >> one of the things we were talking about is, your neighborhood. what happened since? the response that you have seen. i know some people are not here and are sick of hearing about this.

i had 40 people tearing up my walls and laughing together and filled with life. >> people helping out. >> we get off of a canoe and

show up like guys like this. we knew him, but not well. he's like come on. no one takes seven kids and their dogs. so it's been cool. amazing. >> i appreciate you sharing a few moments. >> appreciate it. >> we'll be right back. more ahead. ♪

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was broke. we were in a situation but i was able to communicate with loved ones and they were able to communicate with the lifeguard with the cajun navy and miraculously, we are here safe. >> reporter: we aren't with them. we were just patrolling and surveying the damage. is this actually a street? >> absolutely. my house is around the corner. i've got three feet of water and, unfortunately, last sunday, the water was enroaching on our house. we got a knock on our door that said, please, you have 30 minutes if you want to leave. we got my wife, our dog, left the cat upstairs with plenty of food and water. she's safe and healthy and everything. today is the opportunity for us, if anything, to try to rescue our cat. there were no boats at the time so a neighbor had a canoe and we actually tested it going the opposite direction and it seemed

the current was fine at the time. fortunately -- or at least unfortunatelily, th unfortunately, that was not the case. >> these are other rescuers that are coming. >> yes. we are the ones. >> reporter: so this is an active situation. he called these gentlemen. he got stuck here. the only way we saw him, we saw this canoe paddle going up and down and he was yelling help and we came and pulled him out of here. now, these gentlemen who have come to -- >> we are good to go. >> these gentlemen have come to -- >> i want to say kudos to the cajun navy. everyone has been wonderful. everyone has helped each other out. it's been a beautiful, wonderful thing. i just can't count my blessings enough that you guys are here to save us. thank you enough. >> ironically, anderson, eric is a meteorologist with the national weather service of all things. we've got to get down. we'll toss it back to you.

>> all right, brian todd. alex was also returning someone home today. let's watch. >> reporter: this is the first time that bill wolf has been able to get back to his house since being evacuated. >> surreal is probably the understatement of the century here. you know, watching a 30-foot fishing boat drive down your street is something that you've just never seen before. this is my intersection here. and i don't know, this is crazy. >> reporter: we'll see how high the water is. >> yeah. >> reporter: they are taking him back. >> one minute you're stressed about your gutters and then everything you have is ruined. >> reporter: it was evans who rescued the wolf family along with their cat and dog in the middle of the storm on monday. >> oh, lord. after navigating the boat to the

door, we waded into the living room. furniture now floating through past the pictures of his sons. >> i'm really proud of them. i'm really proud of them, my wife and my family. they're tough little kids. >> reporter: they're holding up? >> yes. yeah, i'm not an emotional guy. i'm pretty calm. and this has been too much for me. to be honest, i don't know if i want to be here very long. >> reporter: back in the office, the real loss becomes clear stacks of photo albums, baby albums and sentimental items. is this the worst part, the photo albums? >> yeah. this is the stuff you can't replace. this is my son's birth announcements. i mean -- >> reporter: upstairs where it's dry, wolf throws his son's toys

and sheets into garbage bags. you think there's a possibility you may never live in this house again? >> i don't know. it's going to sit here for a month or two. it's got six feet of water in it. >> reporter: people taking stock of their belongings and their lives. 86-year-old ed is back for the first time. with captain evans, we found him on monday in his dark bedroom alone with no power. he needs his medicine so evans heads inside past countless possessions now suspended in the dark floodwaters. >> this is his office, all of these papers piled high on his desk and now they are all totally ruined. the water in here is so high that back there in the kitchen the fridge is now floating on its side. >> reporter: on the boat, he tries to take it all in. >> it's just very confusing. can't get it wrapped up in my mind what's going to be next. what i'm going to need to do. >> reporter: they are two of the countless people who captain evans has helped this week and

his work is far from over. >> it's not even real. you see this stuff on tv but this is total devastation, physically, emotionally. >> that was alexander reporting. j.j. watt, a football player, was going to be here. we're going to bring you j.j. at 11:00 eastern for when we're on live for another hour. he's now raised more than $12.7 million for flood relief. he posted this video. take a look. >> we started out on sunday with a goal of $200,000 and just now surpassed the $10 million mark. i'm going to leave the link open. i can't say thank you enough. celebrities, athletes, kids with lemonade stands, businesses

donating. i cannot thank everybody enough. what is happening right now is getting the money directly back to the people. we have the semitrucks being filled up as we speak, donating the supplies. that's phase one of our operation to get as an immediate impact as we can. we have things like water, food, clothing, generators, baby supplies, cleaning supplies but if there's something i'm not thinking of, please leave it in the comments because we want to make sure to get people exactly what they need so we can help rebuild as quickly as we can. thank you so everybody who's donated. >> well, i'm going to speak with j.j. at 11:00 eastern time here tonight. we'll interview him then. also, before we go, i want to thank everybody here in this neighborhood which is wilchester west. they let our crew hang out on the lawn and broadcast. thank you for letting us be here and stay strong. you guys are incredibly present

and represent the best of the houston. thank you. folks in wilchester west. that's it for us. we'll be back at 11:00 east coast same for another live edition with j.j. white. cuomo primetime starts now. thank you, anderson. we'll check back with you in just a few. i am chris cuomo and this is "primetime." harvey may be gone from texas but in some areas the situation on the ground has only gotten worse. rescue teams are on the lookout both from the ground and from the air. a cnn crew spotted what you're looking at right now on your screen. a swift water rescue in progress. a man clinging to a tree for