so they can reach dry land. i can also tell you that the convention center in downtown houston has more than 1,200 people they're sheltesheltering offering food, cots to sleep in and perhaps most importantly dry clothes. when these people are pulled

from their homes, some showing up without shoes and just the clothes on their backs to make it to that shelter. very emotional time for these families and also we know this morning the army corps of engineers has released water from two flood reservoirs in houston, and that is sending more water into neighborhoods like the one where we are right now. at the same time, doing that effort is to keep those reservoirs from breaking as we head into the next several days where we're expecting more rain and those res noervoirs to hold. >> julia, in some of the images we've been playing, we've seen folks in their cars. we've played the rets queue of the woman trapped in her

vehicle. is it that the water came very quickly and some couldn't make it out. why are we seeing people trying to dry out of what seems to be a very perilous situation. >> i think it's a combination of the two, ayman. in some cases the water does come in quickly. i can tell you we ourselves have been bouncing around like a peng pong ball when we hit each of these water areas that are here. that's what's making this such a dangerous situation for people out on the roads. >> julia, we'll check back with you later in the show. as we heard, this will go on until wednesday. want to bring in msnbc meteorologist bill karins who has been standing by.

>> good morning, yasmin and ayman. in some situations thinls are getting better and in others things are getting worse. the red is the flash flood warnings and emergencies still in place. in central louisiana almost into san antonio. this is a catastrophic flooding event. some of the flash flood watches that go from southern louisiana, and some will last through the middle of this week. as far as the forecast went last week, the heavy rain band did set over the top of houston. it did move in and move out. did every mane stationary. the current radar shows the huge fire hose. torrential rain and thunderstorms coming off the gulf. it is in beaumont and port arthur, picking up four to five inches in an hour's time. that's where the worst of the

tragedies and the worst of the increase in water is happening this morning. up to lufkin, that's steadier rain but also showing flooding between houston, beaumont and lake charles. houston overnight, saw a period of heavy rain, but not like the night before. the forecast models continue to have this area of large rain in and around houston. they don't focus the heaviest rain in the city itself drg the day today. purely showers and thunderstorms on and off. as long as we don't see the fire hoseover them, hopefully the water levels in those bayous won't rise. this is over the next 12 hours. the hurricane center has it coming back over the water this morning and staying out there. it may increase about five to ten miles per hour with the winds. that's inconsequential. the path, wins we start take it north will be better. we will see rain into arkansas. that's an area a little drier.

we'll continue with updates throughout the morning. back to you. >> we'll be checking in with bill. bill karins for us. some of the video we've been getting in from people experiencing the def stabs station firsthand. this is video from someone who flew a drone around the hughes on area. it shows the breadth of the flooding, at least one case water lapping at the bottom of the overpass. the governor says at least 250 roads completely covered in that state and have been closed. unbelievable footage of the highways that look like lakes and rivers. the only way you can see it's a highway is because of the exit side. >> sometimes when you see pictures of vehicles driving, but that perspective from above gives a sense that it's not just one street. >> there's a couple times i had

to look at a perk tour and do a double take, is a river or an actual street. >> the two airports in houston have been closed. yesterday afternoon at the bush continental -- bush reported some water airport, javy airport reports some runways closed. more than 900 passengers had were stranded. >> a news station, people you rely on to bring you dates, cbs's khou has been forced to evacuate their studio due to flooding of the buffalo bayou.

the station was live when water started seeping in making et cetera way to a live broadcast. at one point a reporter in the field was apparently carrying their coverage. however, the building had to be completely evacuated as you can imagine, as if flood waters continued to rise. some good news though, the station is back on the air today, but imagine that. you near the middle of the broadcast and the water is coming in, pretty terrifying stuff. >> joining us live from victo a victoria, nbc correspondent kerry sanders. if you can, bring us the latest on the situation where you are on the ground. >> reporter: here in victoria, there are power crews that have arrived here. that is good news. in fact, they've already done some work in the downtown area, restoring power to what is

essentially the command and control of the recovery effort here. the real focus, however, is something that, just like in houston can't be controlled. as the rain continues to fall from harvey which has parked itself over the region, the rivers and bayous are swelling. you can see the debris floating down the river. as we look at the footage, you can see it's well beyond its banks. it's expected by wednesday that the guadalupe river will be 32 feet above its flood stage. that means all the residents who live alongside the river are going to have to get out. we were in the area talking to residents, and they told us that police had gone door to door telling them about what was going on. because ofd the power outages, people dealing be all of this have not been able to watch the

television, listen to much radio. so they really didn't know what was coming. by wednesday the authorities say anybody along the river is going to b have to be out of there because of what's happening with the amount of rain that's falling. at this point, folks are dealing with some semblance of recovery only to discover there's another problem heading their way. >> kerry sanders live in texas, obviously a question on a lot of people's minds, particularly those in the area watching this, the american red cross has opened 34 shelters for those impacted by the storm. the organization is urging people to text 9099 to make a $10 donation or visit red krots online.org. people are in desperate need of a lot of material. >> much more on the

unprecedented flooding. >> plus how president trump is responding and a another check on your weather when we come back. special coverage.

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welcome back. we're continuing to follow the latest on the aftermath of hurricane harvey. as the city is dealing with so much water, they're trying to figure out how to deal with it, where to funnel it and make sure the rivers don't overflow even more. joining us on the phone is nbc's phillip mina. i understand they're trying to open up dams to try to decide the direction of the water so as not to have even more catastrophic flooding.

>> good morning. it's a suf situation, a tough decision to have made. essentially by making this decision, this controlled release of the two dams, they are putting in jeopardy several thousand homes right along that release point. just to give a little background, i think two dams are basically what protects half of houston from being flooded and underwater if they would break. they're trying to alleviate that pressure. they're seeing unprecedented levels. we're talking about the 25 inches that fell and they've facilitied those reservoirs to the point of failure. this dam on the west side of houston and funnels through buffalo bayou which cuts through the center of downtown and spills out into the gulf of mexico. that's how the water is released. when everything is filled up to that point, they have to make that tough decision to essentially make things worse for the greater good. >> philip, i know you're

familiar with the area. i want to ask you the question and i'm not sure if you'll know the answer to this. talk to us a little bit about the drainage system in houston. i know this is an almost once-in-a-lifetime event and surely that is a decision weighing heavily on the minds of officials and authorities there, as you mention whether or not to relates these dams and the impact it will have on homes. historically, has the city experienced something like this, was it prepared from an infrastructure perspective? >> it's hard to say. in defense of the city, they've never seen anything on this level. they had a tax day event and a memorial day flooding event. we have the bravo river in the south end of town. it will be tuesday evening when

it reaches its worst point. i'm in the northwest point and talking to you on a phone instead of in front of a camera because i couldn't get to the crew because all of downtown houston is cut off from the outside. it's cautioning major problems. we know hjave airport is closed. this entire metro area is at capacity. they can try to drain it in all the ways they've come up with. when the water continues to fall and it was that much that quickly -- >> they're not getting any relief from the weather. philip is in the north part, kerry sanders in the other end, and you get a sense of how

widespread that is. it's not just concentrated in the one part of the city. >> think about the difficult decisions these officials have to make, these homes, they were dry, but because of the releasal of this dam which is to help save the rest of the city, they're flooding. >> philip, we'll check back with you later in the hour. president trump says he'll be traveling to texas tomorrow. the president spending the weekend monitoring the storm from camp david sending a flurry of tweets. many were focussed on harvey. in one tweet he says he wants to travel to texas but doesn't want to -- he also tweeted about nafta saying the trade deal may have to be terminated. the president also promoted a book by controversial milwaukee sheriff david clark. that book plug came a day after

the president pardoned joe arpaio who was found guilty last month of criminal content. the president made news friday evening. sebastian gorka left his position. one white house official said he resigned. another said he did not resign but confirmed in he no longer works ot the white house. on friday president trump signed a directive banning transgender recruits. chairman john mccain criticized the move saying it would be a step in the wrong direction to force currently serving transgender individuals to leave the military solely based on their gender. some calling the ban inexcusable. >> obviously this was all unfolding as the weather in houston was playing out and that's evacuation was getting

under way. the question across the country is what is next in terms of the weather, how is that going to play out as some of these rescue and recovery efforts are under way. let's get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> we still have dire concerns, extreme flooding that's happening, that's going to happen. we want to start with the forecast path. the storm is almost where it came onshore and then will loop up here over the next two to three days. we have three more days of this where add deshl flooding can occur. we have extreme flooding northbound beaumont, port arthur, and almost into the houston san antonio areas which have been pretty much spared by this. we had a band of heavy rain overnight right at the top of houston at about 10:00 p.m. we were scared it would sit there overnight and produce more flooding. that has shifted a little bit

and has stalled out. these folks in the beaumont, port arthur area, these area has two converging bands over it. this is an area that already had 20 inches, unheard of totals. there's only been scattered showers over the houston area. we still have the possibility of new development of showers and thunderstorms over the next 24 hours and that will continue maybe another five to ten inches in houston. as far as additional rainfall goes, it's focused from lake charles, beaumont, port arthur and a shield of rain into lufkin. the buffalo bayou that goes through downtown, the one where the dam releases are going to go into, they're predicting the buffalo lie ybayou will be six

higher than it was yesterday. because of the am release and additional rainfall, six feet higher than yesterday. so new flooding, new evacuations, new problems in the days ahead. >> think how disheartening it is as houston res didn't, it looks like there's somewhat of a break right now, not a ton of rain coming down. but we see what feasibly could be ahead. >> as bill was saying in the houston area, some scattered showers, but now with a release of these dams, six feet. bill karins, thank you very much for that. still ahead, one congressman takes a shot at fellow lawmakers in the wake of hurricane harvey. we'll explain back in a moment. '9 introducing listerine® zero alcohol™. it delivers a whole mouth clean with a less intense taste. so it has the bad breath germ-killing power of this... with the lighter feel...

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. everybody is bringing their 3er7b8 boats out here, personal four wheelers, trucks, to try to rescue people living along beamer in southeast houston who are stranded in their homes. ces cesar, we can see on kirk ridge and beamer just how dramatic these rescue efforts are.

the water levels are very high. it can't even believe what i'm looking at right now the. >> one of the remarkable things we've seen, not only donating time and money, but putting their lives on the line. that man taking his personal boat out on the streets to try to help rescue others. it was bound to blow back at some point. senators ted cruz and john cornyn of texas being blasted after requesting federal help for harvey despite voting against the relief package for victims of super storm sandy back when it hit new york and new jersey. congressman peter king tweeted out directly at cruz and texas cohorts, voted versus new york and new jersey aid after sandy

but i'll vote four harvey aid. senator cruz's said, quote, unreal, two-thirds of sandy bill wasn't emergency spending. it was chocked full of pork. senator cornyn's communications director says he supported sandy relief, just not the package that contained law, again, because it contained spending unrelated to the storm. a lot of people saw this picture over the weekend, 15 senior citizens were successfully evacuated so good news there, from a nursing home in dickinson, texas. water up to their waist, not knowing when help would arrive. the galveston oem and coast guard were eventually able to rescue the residents thankfully by helicopter. >> if you have loved ones in

these homes or senior homes and just being concerned about them, not being able to do anything to help them. >> thinking you would see this picture and say, oh, my god, that's my grandmother. joining us live from dickinson, texas is northbound's saybc's s >> that shocking photo repeated all over this community in all sorts of populations. we are still under a flash flood warning here in dickinson this morning with more rain on the way. that is bad nous to people waking up to this, their neighborhoods flooded. this is one of the areas that when officials put out the call yesterday for volunteers with boats, people responded en masse. we saw people in the community launching jet skis, canoes, flat bottom boats, airboats, pretty much anything that could traverse these complicated

watery streets was out yesterday pulling people from their homes. women describing having to put their children on air mattresses to push them to safety. like i said, the worst is still to come as we continue to receive more rain fall, some areas in houston expecting up to 50 inches when all is said and done. it's pretty unbelievable in the nation's fourth largest city even in these low lying areas that are used to flooding. >> let me ask you about some of these evacuations and the people helping each other. do you get a cents of where they're going, are there any shelters in the vicinity where you are or are people using makeshift shelters wherever they can find a piece of dry land? >> it's a little bit of both. you have people checking into hotels and hotels up the street. you have people checking into the red cross shelter. their web side very helpful.

hundreds of people in these shelters, others able to stay with family. keep in mind it's really hard to get anywhere. this community was really flooded in yesterday. we passed through some boughter to get here. just a few minutes later many this heavy rain, they were stopping cars and couldn't come further in. people can't go that far. it's not like, if you necessarily have a relative an hour away you can guarantee you're going to get here. people even with friends and family in the area that they'd like to stay with can't quite make it there. we've seen postings for people offering up their homes, believe it or not, people coming to one ood's aid, helping neighbors and even strangers in the midst of complete chaos. >> officials telling people only dial 911 if your situation is dire.

sarah dallof we'll check back with you later in the show. more about the aftermath of hurricane harvey after this. stay with us.

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welcome back everybody. you're following special coverage of hurricane harvey. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mow dean. houston, the nation's fourth most populated city swamped and under water. >> two people confirmed dead. 262,000 waking up without electricity. equipment coming from as far away as maine. they've spent the weekend plucking people from cars and homes to safety. >> we currently have 19 coast guard helicopters in the region and one fixed wing aircraft. we have already assisted on the air side, executed over 200 rescue missions. also, we have, on the flood side, they've actually rescued over 1,000 people at this time.

>> today was supposed to be the first day of school in houston city school. >> it has been postponed and called for more national guard. a case that is already drawing questions. dallas is going to open, quote, a mega shelter. there have been tornado warnings overnight and we may only be halfway done with the rain which is pretty unbelievable to think about. the warning from the national weather service was ominous. this event is unprecedented they said, and all impacts are unknown beyond anything experienc experienced. the national hurricane center said the houston area could see 50 inches of rain. we'll get bill karins weighing in in a moment. joining us live in victoria is nbc's kerry sanders. give us an update.

>> reporter: good morning. we or standing at a location which is a good sign. we have power company trucks over my shoulder here. that means they're not only in town, but fortunately for the command and control center of what's going to be a good part of this, they've already been able to restore electricity. for those in shelters, and the shelters that are closing down here, in some cases they're going home and finding they have no place to stay. see here, this is an apartment complex that during hurricane harvey's most furious winds apparently caught fire. it may have been a lightning strike. the bottom line is, even though the fire department tried to control this fire in the midst of a hurricane which is no small feat, it burned to the ground. folks leaving the shelters today are in some cases having to look

for long-term solutions elsewhere. the big part of what's started to happened has started to unfold is lines, lines and more lines. people lining up for gasoline, lining up for food. heb, which is the largest grocery store chain here has established an emergency kitchen where they're providing hot food for folks, cooking hamburgers yesterday. they'll have more food today and they brought in trucks and restocked the grocery stores. with all of this where it looks like things are going to perhaps start getting better, there's the threat, very similar to what's going on in houston along the guadalupe river. as the rain continues to fall, the bayous, the streams, the creeks, they're overflowing their banks an going into the river. as you can see here from this individual e i don't that we took with our drone, the guadalupe river, not only filled with debris but well beyond its banks. p the forecast is correct, by

wednesday this river will be 32 feet above flood stage. all the residents who live along the river are going to find themselves with water there. and so yesterday the police went door-to-door and began warning the residents. interestingly, because of the power outages and nobody has television and because of just the crisis of the moment, people not spending a whole lot of time listening to radio, folks told us they were very thankful that the police came by and talked to them, they had no idea the river was rising quickly and by wednesday they may have to evacuate. >> kerry, i have a two-part question. a, are residents getting out, listening to the authorities and evacuate? talking about the decision making, restoring electricity, only if they're restoring the electricity only to the homes that are able to be lived in or in blocks of areas that could have uninhabitable homes.

you see downed power lines, complete and utter destruction there, that could present more danger if you're restoring electricity to an area in which you have water in a home, that could cause more damage all around. talk to us about that. >> reporter: let's talk first about the electrical restoration. the crews set up grids and work through the grid. if there's an area where people are not going to be living, then they're certainly not going to be restoring the electricity there. it takes a long time to rebuild an electrical system after a hurricane like this. one of the biggest concerns, of course, is people go out and get generators. they turn the generators on and back the less trisity through the system into their house using the generator. the electrical company has to make sure before they turn the electricity on that those generators are disconnected because the back feed from the

generator going into the house and the surge coming from the electrical company can cause a surge, an explosion or at a minimum spark a fire. nobody wants that. you've got a lot of learning curve here for people with electricity. because today is monday and they believe the river will hit the high stage likely on wednesday, residents say they are making plans. in fact, the local law enforcement tells us that they have done an extensive effort to tell people to get ready to leave, and they're finding that people are indeed listening guys. >> good to hear that. kerry sanders, we'll check back with you later in the show. >> houston is, of course, the county seat of harris county with more than 4.5 residents, the third most populated county in the nation. the sheriff ed gonzalez tweeted this picture using a kayak with

the caption, all hands on deck. rescue of a 71-year-old vietnam vet with muscular dystrophy taken to safety along with his three cats. the you can see one official swimming in what is reported to be eight feet of water. the person being stranded there for about eight hours. you can see all these efforts to save lives. for more, let's bring in nbc reporter julia bagg live in houston. what have you seen in the last couple hours in terms of rescue efforts, evacuation efforts by folks and how it's unfolding right now. >> reporter: ayman, it's been raining off and on in the

northwest side of texas. we've been able to move closer to the bayou i was telling you about before that has overflowed into this neighborhood and what's caused so many problems here and so many high waiter rescue. ayman, you mentioned ordinary people helping one another. we saw just sort of improvised rescue teams that we've seen in the past 12 hours. a couple of roommates in one case who got together on a boat and started floating around this neighborhood. what we did not see in this part of town, the timberbrook neighborhood, we didn't see the coast guard or police officers doing the rerescues. they got help from folks using inflatable mattresses to try to help people, in some cases elderly people. we saw one man who had to use a walker, had to be helped out of his home with the high water here.

i can tell you, wow, as the rain continues to fall here, that's what brings so much uncertainty to people in this neighborhood and makes it so a dangerous right now as it's so dark and difficult to see. we did see a short while ago someone in a jeep drive right down this street and have to back up and turn around. it's difficult to tell how deep it is. at first it may look like you can get by, even when the rain stops for a while and things start to recede. but the rain now picking up again and that's what makes things so troubling here. in downtown houston our experience, just trying to get out of downtown houston, we ran into so many barriers of streets, highways looking more like rivers just in the past couple hours it's even difficult to figure out how you can get your way around anywhere which is why authorities have pressed people to stay in their homes if possible. we can also tell you, i also just spoke with police officers

who told me they just got a call for a burglary in this neighborho neighborhood. that is a fear that some people have is about looting should they abandon their homes. we saw people in the last 12 hours who did not want to leave their homes. some boaters in the rescue team offering to give them a ride to higher ground but them wanting to stay. >> to julia's point, with the rain being a factor, we may not get a sense of how widespread this devastation and destruction is until the rain stops and the water recedes. julia bagg, thank you. >> i will say to julia's point, when i was covering hurricane sandy and my family experiencing flooding during hurricane irene.

when people are watching, people are saying get out. but it's an emotional decision to leave your home even when people are telling you to do that. now to nbc meteorologist bill karins who has been standing by. >> good morning to you, yasmin and ayman. we are watching the storm carefully. for the last 48 hours, the storm has sat within victoria texas, within 60 miles of there. 000 we'll watch it drift today and tomorrow. we start to move the storm throughout the week, then we'll start to see the rain heading out of the flood zone around houston and into other areas. let's give you that forecast there. this is over the week. by tuesday and wednesday starting to send the moisture further to the north and that will help areas to the south. rain bands continue to develop off the gulf. the torrential raen will continue throughout the midweek. hopefully we can put it in a

different spot than it was all weekend long. rainfall predictions, we're still thinking 10 to 15 inches from victoria, through houston, beaumont, port arthur. totals could reach 26 inches especially in the feed ir areas. as far as rain far totals, this area of the darker purple is ten inches. 15 is the red, 20 inches is that pink shading. look how widespread that's been, through the north of i-10, through houston and down into galveston. highest rainfall totals are 28 to 30 inches already. that's why some areas have the possibility of getting near 50 inches. isn't that unimaginable. over four feet of water. this is the rainfall totals around the city, already up 15 to 20 inches. all these flood gauges in major

record flooding in the days ahead. our friends from the carolinas, a weak tropical system impacting you in myrtle beach area. we don't think it will cause any huge impacts, just rain on the forecast in the coastal areas and windy conditions along with those high waefgs. can again, conditions in houston a million times worse than what we expect in the carolinas in the day ahead. back to you. >> bill karins, live for us, thanks so up many. special coverage of hurricane harvey. it's not over yet folks. we'll tell you what's coming up we'll tell you what's coming up next. with a less intense taste. so it has the bad breath germ-killing power of this... with the lighter feel... of this. try listerine® zero alcohol™.

that's video provided by the u.s. coast guard. the video shows what has been happening on an almost hourly basis. mission after mission of coast guard personnel there hoisting down members of their crew, lifting people up to safety. the national weather service is warning people that if your home is flooding, try and get to the roof of your home, don't stay in the attic, do not stay on the lower floors in case you need to be rescued. understandably, one of the safest ways to get to people is using helicopters and coming down from above. it makes the rescue efforts

easier. >> if their phone lines are down and don't have electricity. a group consisting of an armada of volunteer boaters after hurricane katrina hailed as heroes, sailing through swamped neighborhoods on non-stop search and rescue missions saving thousands of lives. one member says he knows what the victims are going through having lived through katrina himself and felt an obligation here. the group's facebook page updated with a new banner, prayers for texas. this is port lavaca, texas, battered boats there. unbelievable site, sinking several vessels while others were just tossed along the shore. >> as you have seen, images have been breathtaking over the weekend. miles of flooded areas impacted

by both the hurricane and flooding. nbc's gabe gutierrez explains why houston is so vulnerable to that. >> in the nation's fourth largest city, floods are a way of life. >> it's pretty scary. i've never seen anything like it. >> in 2015 a memorial day flood racked up almost half a billion in damages. last year houston led the u.s. in flood-relate ld deaths mostly due to an april storm that took eight lives. the metro area's development has exploded. one study found the houston area has added 25% more pavement over 15 years, replacing soil-rich wetlands that could absorb water with concrete-covered suburbia. >> the urban development is what's driving and exacerbating flood losses over time. >> professor same brody from texas a&m galveston spent years

ref researching houston floods and says it's mostly a man made problem. >> we're adding about 100,000 people a year. with those people come parking lots, pavements, rooftops rjs roadways. that makes it very difficult for the water to drain slowly and into the bayous and into the bay. >> houston is unique in it has no formal zoning laws. new structures are required to be built 12 inches above 100-year flooding levels. chuck blank has lived in this neighborhood for 20 years and says he's never seen rising water like this. >> we've got too much concrete. the water doesn't have anywhere to go. >> fascinating report, the aspect of the construction and development of houston being a factor with the water not being able to be absorbed into the

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