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aransas county, the aransas pass, locations like that. the power provided there is aep. and the update for aep is there are still 107,000 outages. that is an improvement since the last time i that is an improvement since i last reported what was around the 138,000 level. there are many new power crews that are out working in the region to reduce the power outages. since the last time i reported, there are two other power companies with reports. our numbers show that centerpoint has a little bit more than 90,000 power outage and more than 81,000 power outages.
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they are all working as swiftly as possible to restore power. for the texas tceq, they have been working with the epa on a daily basis to address environmental based issues. they have deployed rapid needed teams to assess needs that have arisen in certain areas. including water teams, focused in that regard on the corpus christi and rockport areas. a report from the texas parks and wildlife, they have 5,000 evacuees at state parts in the state of texas, most of those are in shelters, cabins, or mobile homes.
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a report from the department of public safety, there are more than 2,000 department of public safety who are deployed to targeted regions and they will continue those deployments. to ensure the safety and security is maintained in those regions. from the texas forest service, they continue assisting local fire departments in all the affected regions. from the department of health, they've deployed multiple health care teams to give an example of what they are doing, they have set up two emergency room departments at the george r brown center in houston. the new evacuee center opened up in harris county. new information about transportation is there are transportation buses that are
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available that will be transporting evacuees from the southeast texas region and taking those evacuees to locations around the state. many of those will be transported from the southeast texas region and taken to the talent demand dallas region but not necessarily all of them. the information we've compiled statewide is that there are more than 32,000 people currently in shelters in the state, importantly we have approximately 30,000 beds that are available for sheltering as needed and we continue to work on additional backup plans in the event that more than that is needed. some updated information from fema. it shows how important it is for
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everybody impacted by the storm to register. there have been 210,000 registrations for individual assistance. fema has already approved more than $37 million in individual assistance. and for those who have not yet applied, again, i gave you the address to go to, disasterassistance.gov. one of the things most important for me to help you the best i can, those affected by the storms is to get you the assistance you need as quickly as possible. i strongly urge you to sign up at disasterassistance.gov so you can register to begin to receive the money and other
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resources you need that you can get from fema for the next transition. one thing fema is also doing that is very helpful, though shelters and evacuation centers are intended to be short-term facilities. we want to quickly move people from evacuation centers into a location where there are living rooms and bedrooms and bathrooms that people can use as a family unit. already, there is transition housing which means post evacuation center. for almost 2,000 rooms. we want to provide more as soon as possible. fema has already provided more than 5 million meals. with that i will take a few questions.
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>> doesn't seem overwhelming right now? >> certainly it is overwhelming for the residents and people who live in that region. for the state and responders, it is part of our ongoing emergency swift response. to make sure we addressed and take care of the needs of the people putting protection and safety of life at first. >> other places that have not been affected in the state, caravan after caravan on the roads heading over. >> i'm not amazed because we have seen this before. texans really step up and protect and aid to their fellow texans whether you are a first responder or an individual, neighbor helping a
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neighbor, friend helping friend, stranger helping stranger. texans have really stepped up. i do want to applaud all the first responders, although sheriff's offices, the police officers across the state for doing a terrific job. i applaud the harris county sheriff's office, the houston police department for the way they've handled such an overwhelming demand upon their agencies. the same can be said for a sheriff's departments and all of affected areas. ensuring that they have protected texans and maintained order and when you consider the magnitude of this catastrophe, what they have achieved is stunning. >> price gouging is not only reprehensible, it is illegal and the attorney general of texas is
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taking swift and aggressive action to prosecute price gouging. understand this. if you price gouge anybody you can be subject to penalties of up to $25,000 per incident. if you are a business you can be put out of business by the texas attorney general if you dare try to price gouge. we will not tolerate it. >> what is the amount congress may be asked to appropriate to cover this? >> when you look at comparisons, the population size and size of the area impacted both by the hurricane and the flooding, is far larger than katrina. far larger than sandy. if i recall correctly, i will not have a precise number here. my recollection is that the
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katrina funding was well over $100 billion. i want to say it was over $125 billion. if we go on a parallel standard, it should be far in excess of that amount. i want you to know i have been working the senator that has provided me with funding and we are working to use those as a general outline for what will be provided. i am unaware of there ever being another incident in the history of the state of texas where there's been this much deployment. as you know, i have deployed 100% of the texas national guard
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and on top of that we are bringing in well over 10,000 from outside and understand thi this. the amount of national guard we have in the state of texas now will only grow. we are operating in stages here. we are in their emergency response stage right now. as we go through the process, it is essential that we have as many people as possible to continue to go door to door for the rescue, the recovery mission and the restoration of order mission. the national guard is experienced at doing this. i would anticipate that a number of national guard deployed in the state of texas will increase from here. i would say four months.
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>> fuel rationing? >> we are working both with the epa as well as energy companies as well as other authorities to ensure we are going to get fuel out as fast as possible. we have authority right now, fuel priority must be for first responders so we can keep people safe and protected and rescued. once we finish with the first responder needs, we can get into other issues. having talked to leaders of energy companies, they are working as swiftly as possible to ensure that fuel operations will be restored quickly. >> some have expressed concerns that it might affect the way people can get reimbursed for
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claims to their insurance. there has been a petition to change the effective date of that bill, can you talk about your concerns? >> any claims along those lines are absolutely bogus. i am going to read it you do make sure you have it, the statement issued by the texas department of insurance. the texas department of insurance is reassuring texas policyholders. the storm claims will be paid and the agency will aggressively enforce state laws and policy provisions to protect victims of hurricane harvey and the widespread flooding that followed. of the claims filing process and deadlines aren't changing september 1st. house bill 1774 does not change how property owners file claims,
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it doesn't change deadlines to file claims or how it ensures process claims. it also does not apply to claims with the texas windstorm insurance association or the national flood insurance progra program. property owners with covered damages maintain the same rights to an insurance claim whether they filed their claim before or after september 1st. the texas department of insurance is sending staff to affected areas this week to help victims file claims and has extended hours for its consumer helpline. the texas department of insurance helpline is 1-800-252-3439 and it is open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. monday through friday as well as
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8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. monday through friday. here's the reality of what is driving all of this. the implementation of this bill does not affect the ability of any policyholder from being able to file a claim or have that claim paid. what it does do is it empowers policyholders to keep more money in their pockets as opposed to paying money to lawyers who may handle their claim. all it really does is require a notification by a policyholder to the insurance company before a policyholder files a lawsuit. what that does is it spurs the insurance company to get that claim paid faster.
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we will defer to the local jurisdictions and what they categorize as death related to the hurricane. we have a list of aid and assistance that they have offered to provide that we are accepting. i don't have the list but i can tell you loosely it involves things like vehicles and boats and supplies and food. >> i know some of the people affected are undocumented. some of them are afraid of even
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asking a police officer to come out and rescue them. what is your response to that? what would you tell those people? >> the director for the department of public safety made clear the other day, when people are going to evacuation centers, when people are seeking help or anything like that, no one is being asked about their status. we are here for one purpose and that is to save and help people who are here. thank you very much. >> molly: that is the wrapping up of a press conference happening in austin, texas, that is the governor of texas greg abbott talking about what is going on there. recovery efforts in search and rescue's are very still ongoin. one thing he said, do not drive your vehicle into flooded water. that has been attributed to a
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number of deaths in the course of a storm. >> leland: a fox news alert, the associated press saying the death toll is at least 20 people and as we have heard from officials, that number is likely to only rise in the coming days and weeks. the storm has now made landfall for the second time in six days. the second hour of "happening now" ." >> molly: harvey now dumping heavy rain in southwestern louisiana. crews have rescued 26,000 people. 32,000 people are in shelters across tech texas. houston's operating at double capacity prompting authorities to open two more to handle that overflow. >> leland: shepard smith as things continue to develop. >> shepard: many homes are flooded and many people are trapped, that is the word from the sheriff's office.
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look at that freeway. emergency teams say they are inundated with calls for help. they are working with citizen rescue crews to try to pull people out of their homes and get them to safety. the storm has dropped demonstrating amounts of rain, 45 inches of rain already. a mandatory evacuation order in northern houston as local officials worn a levee may breach. thousands of homes are flooded near two of the city's large reservoirs. good news from this radar, the storm came ashore overnight, he had gone back into the gulf and made a barrier island landfall. and then it went out to the gulf and has made another landfall overnight. right along the texas and louisiana border, you can see the center of circulation making
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its way north, expected to go over north mississippi into western tennessee. for now dumping lots of rain into the new orleans area to the west of their and points in between, lots of rain along the i-4 corridor. mostly southern mississippi, jackson and below is the attorney general tornado watch box. some of the damage that's been done by the storm, not really amazing. we've got this with permission to show you, the flooding goes on for more than 300 miles. even if the rain lets up there, forecasters are warning that life-threatening flooding should persist for days to come. rick leventhal is live in vinson louisiana, 30 miles north of where hurricane harvey made that third landfall early this morning. >> we are on i-10, just on the
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east side of the texas border. this is obviously a major east-west interstate, cuts from florida all the way to california. the main interstate across the state of louisiana and into texas. this is where the cajun navy, this is the road the cajun navy is using to get into texas from louisiana and where first responders and members of the police departments and other rescue operations are using the highway to get in. important to note, this highway is closed. exit four as you approach the second corridor and louisiana, the highway is closed, they are stopping people from coming this way unless i have a reason to go for rescues. the rescues are happening in that direction on the other side of the bridge which i am not sure you can see in this rain. about a mile down that road is where the louisiana-texas corridor is and that is where
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these folks are headed. minutes ago there were at least 40 officers from the wildlife agency who came from the state of florida stage here in this truck weigh station along the side of i-10. they were here for maybe 20, 30 minutes waiting for orders and then they moved out and a couple of separate convoys across the highway westbound into texas, they weren't sure where they were headed but they knew there was a need for them and their flat bottomed boats and airboats to go in and pull people out of homes. we've also seen -- we watch tractor-trailer pulling a truck out of here. we've seen transport buses with police escorts coming from texas into louisiana and we've been told they were welcoming thousands of evacuees from texas into louisiana because texas had
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been such a good neighbor. there's a possibility they will be airlifting rescued people, possibly to this way station, possibly to another landing zone. they may be flying people here for shelter but they are certainly driving them out. there is a school bus headed this way. these vehicles, most of them have their flashers on. presumably to pick up evacuees and drive them back into louisiana. >> shepard: rick leventhal on a rainy day on interstate ten, right along the louisiana-tennessee border. we have a number of reporters out in the mess today, the
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picture tells a story for us. this is live in beaumont, texas. all these flat bottom boats are going back and forth into the flood zone and bringing evacuees in and out of there. while the workers are going in, though evacuees are going out. peter doocy is in kingwood in texas which is north and east of houston. the sun is out at least but still a lot of water there. >> there's a ton of water, this street which is normally a thorough fare for cars is where we just saw a handful of boats from a variety of different state and city police agencies and they were not state or cities that were nearby. memphis, washington state, tennessee. this is where we understand there watching for both law enforcement and a lot of members of the public, there has been an
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call for boats to come by and i wanted to take you around the corner right here, we are going to try to navigate around these power trucks. there is a very long line of cars. you can see there are a lot of curious people here as well, just about everything in the neighborhood is close, the power is out, street lights are out. as we walk around here, we are going to try to get behind this boat and his pickup truck and a second. if you look down, they have priority for law enforcement but these are all people who just want to help. and from our position there are boats about as far as the eye can see just waiting, they've got their personal watercraft, they paid for the gas, a lot of cases of water out there and they don't know what they're going to find, they don't know necessarily where they are going to go but all these people still want to help even though they do
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not know what's out there right now. >> shepard: that's incredible to see. yet another series of water rescues in port arthur texas, children and pets, it seems unending. >> the boats keep going out and coming back with more and more people, that's all i can say. it's the same system, these poor people get pushed up against this median here and wait for a truck or someone to pick them u up. it seems texas people are resilient, they live up to their reputation. a lot of people are toughing it out, waiting in the rain and waiting for the truck and going from there. i want to introduce a very quick to a gentleman, he said he was one of the first responders here, drove in from louisiana. let me just have you step back for a second. you guys have a boat, you've been doing about operation? >> we got here about 3:30, probably launched around 4:00
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and we've been running ever since. >> when did you get to the state of texas? >> we left yesterday around noon, 1:00 and we went to houston initially but there wasn't much going on out there. >> we normally do this in reporter's ears but he can hear us today. we do have to cut away because the mayor and police chief in houston are speaking. thanks to all of those volunteers and reporters for their great coverage. >> start focusing on the law enforcement mission. >> shepard: when you are not in a live shot, please leave your cameras up so we can see your pictures when you are not looking, appreciate it. >> [speaking spanish" >>
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shepard: back and forth forth between english and spanish. authorities are on jet skis and in the background you can see the rescue boats coming in. they are going house to house. in port arthur, the waters began to rise into people's homes in the middle of the night, 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. 3:00 it is my understanding hearing from the rescue workers and victims themselves, thousands and thousands of people still to be rescued. it back to the news conference. >> we've already cleared about 38 of those. again, we are not even in the recovery phase yet. still in the response.
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i think the mayor would like to address that issue. >> i don't want to answer hypotheticals, we want to make sure everyone is safe and we will address those situations as they arise. as i would hope we are out there in every community and neighborhood, if anyone is in their homes and needing assistance, especially when it relates to seniors and people who are disabled, please let us know and we certainly will be very attentive to them and get to them. we certainly will let you know if things unfold. >> [inaudible] >> we are back to normal
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operations on tuesday. all city employees are due back at their post on tuesday. >> [inaudible] >> municipal court took in some water, water was taken in in the garage area for the annex and city hall, the electrical circuit. that was impacted so we don't -- we were on generator power from the annex to pumping out water it now. we expect to be back in operation by the end of the weekend, monday at the latest, people are going to be working through the weekend and that is why i am saying on tuesday we should be fully operational.
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where is robert? robert can speak to that. >> city schools may be closed until september 5th, still evaluating. so many of our local colleagues are working amid the tragedy that is their own lives. >> you can see how much water is coming from the river, it is massive. when you have a problem, explain one more time, obviously the neighborhood would be alarmed by this. it would be a whole lot larger. >> once it starts and goes through, both sides of the breach until it finally gives way, it will just get wider and wider.
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the levy management services, immediately started addressing it. a thousand sandbags, we have another thousand sandbags. i believe they found out through facebook on this situation and if they are willing to help they can do it, they will find out about it i get on facebook. >> those are just some of the sandbags. out beyond that where the water is located, there is a golf course over there. that is whole number 16, the water is running straight through it. i think we are in pretty good shape, let's just confirm one more time, there is no breach, no breach in the levee.
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>> i'd like to thank the community for coming out here, i am telling you there are probably 150 plus people with shovels and snacks and drinks and water doing everything they possibly can to help as well as the ones over here. the community, thank you very much. >> i can't thank you enough. >> shepard: we can't thank you enough, we know what all you alr people are going through, reporting in the middle of your own disaster is a nightmare on earth. back to port arthur texas, the high water rescues continue. reporters on scene are talking about more than 1,000 people who have been taken out today. for a moment the rain had stopped. you can see in the background on the right just above the cut out, more people coming in and then they line them up against
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this median in the middle there and wait for another high water vehicle to take them. they are staying in bowling alleys and parks just to try to get them away from their waterlogged homes and back to a place where they can get them something to eat. again, these municipal vehicles have been taking people in and out of there. you can see a muddy, horrible mess and authorities, so many are already in the water. you can see one guy starting up his engine there on the back, getting ready to go out and fetch some more rescues. so many people across the eastern portion of texas, we don't know rescues happening in louisiana but we know they did overnight. the storm system itself is getting north up the mississippi-louisiana line. they will get them high and dry
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along the gulf closed. you know they are suffering down there. >> thank you. back to you in a couple of minutes, we have a fox news alert here. crews have conducted tens of thousands of rescues, you've seen many of them alive from the catastrophic floods brought on by tropical storm harvey. volunteers working around the clock to say people and their pets that have been stranded by the rising water. >> my house is completely underwater, we left my cat at home because we couldn't get her out, the fire department when in and got our cat. >> we've got to get out and lend a hand. >> the vice chair of the national guard joining us from the pentagon, nice to see you. i'm sure it's been a lot of days of a lot of work for you and obviously for those on the ground, we heard from the texas
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governor that there are more national guard troops coming in from other states. what are they bringing with them, what capabilities do they have? >> thanks for the opportunity, our thoughts and prayers go out to all the people of texas. we are working very closely with the texas national guard and the governor to identify what specific capabilities they would like. you are going to see a high demand for aviation, high water vehicles and boats. as we go to the recovery phase, we see a lot more engineering aspects. whatever the state of texas needs we will be there to help. >> leland: the governor noted this is the beginning of the influx of troops. there is a saying i'm sure you are familiar with, oppression general says no plan survives initial contact with the enemy. the enemy is a storm we unlike any we have seen before, was there a plan we can pull off the
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shelf or have you had to go day by day, hour by hour. >> that's a great question. i don't think any of us predicted this but i think in light of katrina, the way fema and the states and u.s. commanders have stood up, they've developed a program and we do this every year across the entire country, we practiced for events like this. the scale and resulting consequences are very similar. by doing that we can help prepare ourselves to respond and we will focus specifically on the needs to that specific event. event. >> godspeed to you and your men, they themselves are victims of this. as we had to louisiana, the governor there on the conditions
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of louisiana. >> when it needs to be a good neighbor, speaking of that, louisiana wildlife and fisheries, those officers have teamed up with their counterparts in texas, i think 126 pets. we are appreciative for the work they've been able to do over in texas. we are going to continue to provide assistance they need including offering additional shelter space. we will shelter as many as 3400 texans, we are ready to do that should they take us up on the offer. harvey is going to continue to make its way north, as you know it made landfall early this morning. sometime over the next number of
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hours it will exit the northeast corner of louisiana. we know the ground is saturated in many places. power outages are also going to happen, we've had a spike in power outages across louisiana today. as the winds knocked down, those outages will be corrected. i do want to ask people to continue to be vigilant, there are hundreds of roads where we have standing water. it remains imperative that people not drive through if they do not know how deep it is or how strong the current is.
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the people continued to remain up-to-date on road closures, you can do that at 511la.org. it also links to texas road information now. if you are traveling through texas, authorities have asked that you not do so through south texas and in fact commercial traffic, we are sending that traffic north on i- 49 two i-. we had try not to send more traffic and the necessary along i-10. once you get into the state of texas, i-10 becomes completely unpassable in certain areas. i would ask that individuals continue to go to
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volunteerlouisiana.gov to see what the state of texas needs. and to better coordinate our efforts here to deliver those resources to the state of texas and as always you can go to emergency.la.gov for more information on this disaster. i will be followed by a bill from fema and he will be followed by the lieutenant governor. then i will come up and we will take a few questions before we head out to southwest louisiana for the remainder of the afternoon. >> thank you governor, appreciate the partnership. our friends in texas and my colleagues are appreciative of what louisiana is doing for texas right now. top priority for the federal government is protecting lives.
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residents of louisiana are still not out of harm's way. first responders, state and federal teams, emergency shelters, providing meals and offering comfort, we will still be here working the issues we have here. i have a team working against the floods, we will continue to coordinate our counterparts in texas. >> press conference there from the governor in baton rouge, louisiana, . saying they are already opening up shelters in louisiana to take people from texas even as the storm continues to ravage louisiana.
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sitting with these folks in louisiana know an awful lot about the destruction that hurricanes can cause on the suffering and they are certainly repaying to texas to help them so much during katrina. >> molly: they are offering shelter for some 3400 texas as they are in the midst of the storm. we are continuing to track the storm for harvey as it makes its second landfall. we are getting some new images out of texas. we will talk with one man from a very hard hit port arthur who had to leave everything behind as private citizens and good samaritans are using their own boats boats and trucks to bring evacuees to safety. stay with fox news channel.
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>> leland: a fox news alert, the rescues continue across east texas. there was catastrophic flooding in and around houston and
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everybody rescued of course needed a warm and dry place to stay. we are hearing most folks from houston have gone to there and many of the shelters are overwhelmed, running low on supplies. people leaving the shelters import arthur texas had to leave the shelter because the shelter it's all flooded joining us by phone is the editor of port arthur news, jessie rice. we appreciate you being here, it is one thing to do your job in a flood, another thing to do your job when you yourself are flooded. we understand you left your house in the middle of the nigh night. >> we had water coming up onto the porch, we drove to a hotel in a higher part of the city. that also flooded. we had to move on to the second floor and now looking out as far as you can see, all the cars are underwater and there's no electricity. >> leland: we have a still picture, you sent us this picture, we have a picture on
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the screen that you sent us of your view out of the motel room. how did this happen so quickly? was this the new rain coming in, was there a levee break, what happened? >> there was no levee breaks, this was all a product of tropical storm harvey. i would say this is unfortunately the new normal around here. >> leland: you are a community that is used to flooding, the mayor put out a urgent facebook message overnight that said "my entire city is underwater, please send boats." and then put up his own facebook video of him giving a tour of a home flooded as he himself evacuated. the best you can tell right now, where are we at? is it to rescue everybody that
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needs rescuing or are things still happening? >> things are still happening, the coast guard is here with rescue choppers, the water isn't going anywhere, the rain has stopped for the time being. there are a lot of folks who need a lot of help and you don't really know exactly how many that is, into the hundreds is what i've heard, i would not be surprised if it was into the thousands. >> matt finn was saying he had seen 1,000 people just they're being rescued, many without shoes on as they had no notice, it sounds like you did not either there in port arthur. this is becoming a little more -- it is happening with more frequency that you are being flooded in port arthur. or were they ready for this? was the city ready for this or not? >> baton rouge had torrential rainfall that lead to
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catastrophic loss, this is more of that. this is unfortunately what i think our region can come to expect. >> leland: we appreciate you joining us, we are glad you and your family are safe and i admire your dedication to your reporting to be with us, obviously a lot of work to do for the port arthur news. >> record rainfall in houston, 52 inches, the rising water can pose a very very, very serioust for a lot of people. urkey to pe, and make stuffing from scratch. so that you can spend time on what really matters. marie callender's. it's time to savor. people would ask me that we traveled,ntries what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results
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>> molly: a fox news alert on the flooding disaster that is
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still unfolding in texas with beaumont and port arthur getting the brunt of it right now as there is a desperate effort underway to rescue people that have been trapped in the rapidly rising waters. matt finn has been live on the ground there in port arthur today, give us a sense of an update. we've been watching streams of votes coming in, are we still seeing the same sort of numbers coming in? >> the boats are still coming in, the same numbers. one of the people who got off the boats was reginald and his family. talk to us about what happened at your home. >> at about 1:30 this morning, i woke out of bed to go check the weather. as i stepped onto the floor i noticed there was about an inch of water. at that time me and my family moved to an upstairs apartment, we had been there. 15 minutes ago we were rescued by one of the boats here.
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>> how high was the water when you left your house? >> it was coming in very rapidly. >> we have seen so many people here without shoes and without clothing, it seems like people did not have a lot of time to prepare. >> it didn't. it seemed like the rain, you were aware of it but you weren't sure about the magnitude and the speed that it came up on us. it was kind of surprising. >> you left your home in the boat, where do you and your family go from here? >> we are trying to get transportation to maybe get closer to them or be at their house. >> it was difficult for us to drive in here, do you think people can make it with cars and other routes we are not aware of? >> i don't think they can, i've been hearing on the news since
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last night, main highways to get out of this area were completely shut down. >> here you are, there is about backing up to go back into the water to rescue more people, what is running through your mind right now? i'm very shocked. i have seen things like this on television but you can never grasp the full magnitude. this is a mind-blowing to me. >> we wish you and your family well, take care. >> one of the stories we are seeing here, they keep coming back with more people. we've seen elderly people with oxygen tanks. texas people are described as resilient and we wish all these people well. >> the folks are backing their boats up, putting their own lives at risk.
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how far are people traveling in these boats? >> we spoke to a gentleman who o is here from louisiana, he said he got to texas within the past 48 hours and when he got to houston, that recovery was dying down. the rain was rapidly falling here, they started rescuing i think they said it dozens if not hundreds of people. now they feel better to see many more resources and boats here. we have spoken to people and texas from all over the country. >> molly: thank you so much for sharing, we appreciate it. matt, thank you for those stories, we appreciate it and we will be checking back you throughout the rest of this
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coverage. >> leland: we will be right back, president landing right now in missouri.
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>> thanks for joining us. >> america's news hq starts now. >> sandra: mass evacuations in two east texas towns of beaumont and port arthur as tropical storm harvey makes a second landfall in louisiana. hello everyone. i'm sandra smith. texas governor greg abbott giving an update just moments ago, saying 14,000 texas national guards men are now activated for harvey response and thousands more are coming from other states. the governor also saying the defense department is supplying 200 boats for flood response efforts. the death toll is up to at least 20 people after authorities reporting that two men drown in separate incidents. and president trump just arriving moments ago in missouri. you're looking at a

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