harvey continues to unleash more torrential rain and flooding. at least five deaths so far blamed on the storm. more than 30,000 survivors will need shelter. that's the scope of the tragedy in texas as fema and the national guard arrive on the scene. thanks for joining us. i'm kristein sze. dangerous water continues to rise in texas. communities across the lone star state are bracing for more rain and flooding. new drone video shows just how catastrophic the flooding has been already. this is league city outside houston. bay area rescuers joining others across the country rushing to the region to help. officials say 2,000 people have

been rescued in the houston area alone. abc 7 news reporter maggie ruehly is tracking the latest live in houston. maggie? >> reporter: we are getting hit with more rain and wind here in houston, and we're expecting another band of heavy rain coming our way only adding to an already catastrophic situation. the country's fourth largest city remains under water. with more heavy rain expected, the city could be soaked with up to 50 inches. >> this is a landmark event. we have not seen an event like this. you could not draw this forecast up. you could not dream this forecast up. >> then today a new problem. officials say city dams built to protect downtown houston against a 1,000-year flooding event are nearing capacity. the reservoirs are rising at more than 4 inches an hour. >> we have dam safety experts monitoring these structures 24/7. >> reporter: to control the flooding, the army corps of engineers will begin releasing the dams, but first they have to

evacuate residents whose homes could get flooded. >> those in the neighborhoods that are going to be challenged over the next couple of hours and days. >> reporter: floodwaters are rising rapidly bringing snakes and alligators right to the front door. forcing entire apartment buildings to flee to the roof. >> it's like 30 of us on the roof. the crossing street, the building is caving in, and there's water everywhere and we have nowhere to go. >> reporter: half of the country's coast guard helicopters are in texas, and they have rescued more than 2,000 people already. fema has at least 900 search-and-rescue operators on the ground, but still they are calling on citizens to help their neighbors. >> people were screaming out help, help, help. you know, we'll come back for you. the next thing you know there's 20 different people you've rescued. >> reporter: with more bands of heavy rain expected over the next couple of days the community will have to rely on each other once again. officials say harvey has already impacted about a quarter of

texas. nearly 7 million people, and it's the same communities here in houston that are expected to get hit again. maggie ruehly, abc 7 news, houston, texas. back to you guys. >> maggie, thank you. as rescues continue in texas, neighboring louisiana is also dealing with heavy rain from harvey. today president trump issued a federal emergency declaration for five parishes. louisiana's governor is warning residents to remain vigilant. >> the storm is more or less stationary, but to the extent that this movement is moving east in our direction and that makes this obviously a dangerous situation for our state, especially for those in the western portion of our state. >> the emergency declaration all therizes fema to coordinate disaster relief efforts in louisiana. the historic flooding in texas is causing massive flight delays and cancellations across the country. the new celebration of a new route from san jose is also being affected. abc 7 news reporter matt keller

has the story from mineta san jose airport. >> reporter: today was supposed to be a celebration at mineta san jose international airport. southwest airlines was expanding service, but as fate would have it one. new non-stop destinations is houston's hobby airport. >> we did tone down the celebration here today because honestly it just didn't feel right. >> reporter: this is a before picture of a runway at houston's hobby airport, and this is after harvey rolled through. 500 southwest employees and customers were stuck inside the terminal. >> last night the faa gave us permission to operate five rescue flights out of houston hobby, so we were able to evacuate those last customers and employees to dallas. >> speaking of rescues, help is on the way to houston from the bay area. firefighters from several different departments, including san jose, palo alto and south san francisco packed up five vehicles and ten boats and trailers at the menlo park fire district headquarters.

by 8:00 this morning they had driven to flag staff, arizona, covering some 800 miles overnight. the 14-person team specializes in water rescues and are loaded up with equipment to last them a couple of weeks. >> reporter: success is really measured, you know, by going out there and saving people, and that's what they are looking forward to doing. >> all right. that was matt reporting from mineta san jose. you know, hurricane harvey in the aftermath expecting to affect prices at the pump from coast to coast. that means us. at least ten oil refineries in houston and corpus christi are offline this morning, and that's reducing gas supplies nationwide. gasoline futures spiked 7% overnight. futures determine what gas stations will pay in the next few days. it usually takes about one week for price spikes to trickle down to drivers. president trump is back at the white house after a weekend at camp david where he monitored developments in texas. the president is praising the great coordination. he says the all-out effort is going well.

mr. trump says he's ready to travel to texas as soon as he can without causing disruption. the white house now says that trip will happen tomorrow. if you would like to help the victims of hurricane harvey, we have resources on our website, abc7news.com. you can also text harvey to 909999 to make a $10 donation right now and join us here at abc 7 on wednesday when we host a phone bank in a show of bay area support. right now our meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storm as well. he's here now with a closer look at the impact. mike? >> kristen, hi, everybody. we'll go straight to live doppler 7 and zoom down on the texas coast there. you can see the circulation is just about to come out over the water once again, and it's close enough now that it's picking up that noich and hurling those heavy thunderstorms into louisiana. really worried about the southern half of louisiana as we go through the next couple of days because of the cold front you see coming down from the high plains. that's going to slowly nudge, and i mean slowly nudge what's left of harvey which will be a

tropical storm which means we'll have winds faster than 39 miles per hour, but it's the rain that it's going to dump, and you can see by thursday morning it's just passing through the througe shreveport/bosier area and then accelerating off to memphis and another foot of rain is possible. back here at home, our own issues to deal with. most of us around the bay shore and north bay under a heat advisory and the rest of us away from the coast excessive heat warnings. 95 in the orange and 95 to 109, and i've got several more days of this heat coming up in my accuweather seven-day forecast. kristen? >> mike, thanks. you can track the heat where you live with the abc 7 accuweather app. we're looking live in walnut creek right now where the hill is building and the cars cruise along 670 from there to the south bay and all across the bay area. you can get the forecast with just one click but downloading the abc 7 accuweaher app.

developing news in alameda county where a grass fire is 40% contain. this fire started on mines road south of livermore. cal fire says at least 44 acres have burned. the fire department tweeted these pictures of the fire overnight. officials say the steep and rugged terrain are making the fire fight difficult. no injuries have been reported, and no homes have been destroyed. new developments. activists are declaring victory over hate this morning after thousands turned out yesterday in a march against a planned right-wing rally that never really materialized. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is like at berkeley with the latest. amy? >> reporter: hi, kristen. these organizers who spoke out this morning say you may have seen or heard that a group of anarchists dressed in black violently turned on a right wing demonstration. well, they came out here this morning because they wanted to change that narrative. >> we're just here to claim a victory against forces of white

supremacy, alt-right and neo-nazis. >> reporter: a group of sympathizers proudly say that their resistance yesterday worked, those who came to berkeley for an anti-marketism rally were sfully run out of town. >> we will not tolerate or normalize white supremacy in this city. >> reporter: the group takes issue with the media showing video of fights that broke out calling most of the day peaceful. police say six people were hurt, two of those were taken to the hospital. they arrested 13 people. >> it seems to me that the news media is very interested in portraying to people who were not sfphysically here that ther were only acts of skirmishes which is there is no clarity about who started the skirmishes or who were involved. >> reporter: they thanked the

masked-wearing members of anti-if a for protecting them. >> we want to thank everybody who stood up yesterday and defended us. >> reporter: there were demonstrators here from the right who say they are tired of being labeled because they have a different viewpoint. >> we keep getting called a white supremacist. i'm a latino and the woman who is throwing the event a transwoman. >> we asked the group with him. >> reporter: there shouldn't be one white supremacist or one nazi in berkeley period. some of the groups here include surge which stands for showing up for racial justice. also the national lawyers guild of america was here, and they say they are all planning another march for september 23rd. live in berkly, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. new this morning, another twist in president trump's proposal to ban transgender people from the military. the aclu has filed a lawsuit challenging the move. the american civil liberties union filed a suit in maryland this morning on behalf of several service members who are

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uber has a new man in charge. the company's board of directors has picked the travel site expedia to take over at the ride-hailing company that's been struggling. dara khosrowshahi will take the top job. there's multiple reports that he and meg whitman were in the running. uber has not formally announced the decision. top investors demand that former ceo travis kalanick step down earlier this summer because of claims of sexism and several lawsuits against the company. new this morning, amazon.com is slashing prices at whole foods. today markets the first day that the online retailer officially takes over the high-end grocery chain and customers will notice. just can a castro from abc 7 mornings has more on the savings you can find. jessica? >> reporter: hi, kristen. amazon.com spent its first day as owner of whole foods dropping

prices by as much as 43% which is definitely a change you'll see in your wallet. when you walk through the aisles you'll see signs that read whole foods plus amazon. those signs that the old price and new price of items, and amazon is promising more savings to come. some of the slashed down items include bananas. they are down 38% from 79 penalty a pound last week to just 49 cents this week. also, organic avocados. those are down 29%. down from 2.79 last week to 1.99 this week and then one of the biggest savings that we found organic fuji apples. they are down from 3.49 a pound last week to just under $2, 1.99 a pound. this week that is a whopping 43% so you can really find some big savings this week. it's not just changes that are going to be happening at stores. those changes are going to be

happening on amazon.com as well, and customers will soon be able to buy whole foods items on am zorn's web page. the tech giant's purchase of whole foods could be a game-changer for the supermarket industry because amazon is going to compete with stars like walmart and costco. i'm jessica castro, abc 7 news. >> thanks. if you're planning a getaway, listen up. one bay area airport is adding new service with eight non-stop flights. the list is next. and a live look across the bay. you can't tell yet, but it's going to be pretty hot and getting

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relief for some. check out this time lapse i put together from sutro tower. clouds are just about in full retreat as we take a look from our tam cam, but they have left plenty of haze behind. we'll call it a hazy day with heat and air quality concerns. now tonight we'll have more cloud cover signifying milder lows and temperatures tuesday and wednesday and then the heat spikes again thursday, friday and possibly saturday with some more 100s inland. we're at 80 already in fairfield and brentwood at 82. sam ramon at 11 and livermore 95 and gilroy is 88 already. everybody else in the 70s until you get down to oakland, san francisco, half moon bay and san mateo, 60s there.

this is the way it looks at san jose, one of the areas inland that could have poor air quality later on today and that's why we have a spare the air day. temperatures, triple digits in los gatos and 16 in san jose and 80 in milipitas. 81 in santa cruz. 990 in redwood city. we'll be in the mid-60s along the coast today, possibly getting to 67 in daly city and 721 in downtown san francisco. across the golden gate 74 in sausalito hand look at the 16 to more than 100 up through the north bay valleys. along the east bay show, low 80s, 82 at berkeley to 83 at oakland to 90 around union city and fremont and 92 in hecklers and inland this is where it's going to be melting hot. nice look from emoryville. you can see the clouds off in the distance. that's why the coast is going to be in the low to mid-670s.

even as we head towards 8:00 and midnight. 59 and 57. 12-hour day near 90 inland at noon and 102 at 4:00, so if the kids have outdoor activities make sure they find shade and drink plenty of fluids. 70s and will 0s by the time we get to midnight. we'll drop down to the 50s and 60s in the valleys, but we'll stay in the 70s and 80s up in the hills once again. a look at my accuweather seven-day forecast and what you'll see is the temperatures tumble just a little bit tuesday and wednesday, and that 12--degree drop means we're down in the mid-90s instead of the 1 is hundreds and heading towards thursday, friday and saturday you can see once again we'll start to hit the 100s inland and even 770s at the coast so the heat could leak there and 70s at the coast. i would go there. >> we'd all go there.

>> thanks, mike. >> new this midday, southwest airlines is expanding service at mineta san jose international airport. abc 7 news was at terminal "b" for this morning for the new announcement. they are adding eight new non-stop flights to celebrate 25 years of service in san jose. >> it will be the first airline to serve the state of florida, so dust off your ears and you can go to orlando and visit mickey mouse. >> other non-stop destinations include albuquerque, boise, houston, new orleans, spokane and st. louis. also new is the carrier's first ever international service from sap jose to cabo san lucas, mexico. in all, southwest says it will be increasing average daily flights from 73 to 91. a texas woman says show was not expecting to see an alligator in her backyard, but there it was swimming outside her house, and that's not the only surprise visitor hurricane harvey washed up.

coming up at 4:00, the warning this morning from authorities for uber and lyft riders. beware of what substances your driver may or may not be use, and young people making a difference and their recognition for taking on big problems. the story tonight on "abc 7 news at 5:00." a texas woman says she's

dealing with turtles, frogs and now two alligators after the rain from hurricane harvey flooded her backyard. >> so here's the gator moving along. there's the top of the fence, the low part where he is able to get into our backyard, and now it looks like there's not only him but now him. >> look at that. this is missouri city, texas. arlene couch took this video. she spotted the animals when she went to check on her property. she said okay, hurricane harvey, one was enough had. i don't need two. we're glad that she's okay and that the animals are fine. >> could be much worse obviously. >> for her certainly. our coverage of hurricane harvey and its aftermath continues on the abc 7 news app and abc7news.com. we leave you with a look at the satellite radar. >> looks like harvey is right

along the coast and will make it rain for several more days in southeast texas and louisiana. >> so not out of the woods by any means. >> more flooding, absolutely. >> download our app for the very latest. thanks for joining us. bye-bye.

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