nation as flood waters keep rising in houston. officials there scrambling to open up another shelter as the convention center now is reaching capacity. there are also plans to evacuate one of the nation's busiest trauma centers. houston's 911 system receiving 75,000 calls since harvey inundated the city all of this as the first lady planned to visit texas tomorrow. surrounding areas also struggling. mandatory evacuation has been ordered, 30 miles outside of houston. look at these images. this was taken at a nursing home in the city. 15 residents there stranded in waist deep water before being rescued by the coast guard. >> well, we rolled out last year and it was okay. but this was more than we could imagine. >> over five feet in our house. we barely made it out. i'm just so grateful that they

praised god and we were rescued. so we're very thankful. >> you can sense the desperation in their voices there. people using anything they can get their hands on. pool floats to air mattresses. now, people from here in our area, also springing into action to help out. search and rescue teams from fairfax and montgomery counties arrived in texas today. they've got truckloads of equipment and supplies there with them to help. local volunteers moved resources to texas yesterday to provide relief. at the live desk, leon harris, back to you. >> leon, thank you. team coverage continues now with storm team 4 meteorologists amelia draper. >> she is in houston, now, with amazing stories of survival. i know it's got to be humble to see people banding together in the middle of so much tragedy. >> the stories that we're

at this point we've had over 30 inches of rain fall here. flash flood warnings are in effect at least through wednesday, they can be extended flood warnings even longer than that. we wanted to get out today to show you guys pictures not just our location, all around the houston metropolitan area. we weren't able to make it more than five miles in any direction, the stories we saw just unbelievable. >> that's amazing. talk about how people are coming together to help each other. >> we'll be here all day and tomorrow. this is going to last a while. we're about to head north again. we just had to get gas. any way, let us keep going and go get what we've got to do. >> she lives here. we had to come and get her

>> you know, coming up to a roof and one person leaning it down. they were cutting down, they were making holes in the roof for checking if people are inside the roof and actually pulled six people out of the roof that way, too. wu -- we've seen people carrying blow up mattresses and waiting through, we've seen one person that had one of the they were using that to transport stuff. >> well, today would have been the first day of school for us and i mean, now -- today is more like a lesson of survival than first day of school. >> such resounding sound bite there from mark when we were interviewing him. today was suppose to be the first day of school it's more like a lesson in

to put it here, doug. we do have some of the coast guard staying at the hotel. it's been fascinating as they go out and talking about helicopters. and they've actually said they need people to give their exact longitude due in part to the fact that street signs have been blown off, cooled off, or you can't see them any more because of they're covered in water. so, pretty amazing stuff coming out of houston right now. this is going to continue for the next few days. >> yeah, many of those rivers down in the houston area, are going to continue to rise. some could rise another 10 feet in parts of that area right on through the day tomorrow. so amelia, thank you so much for what you're doing down there. tracking a look at the houston area right now. you see where amelia is. she's getting light rain into that area. the heaviest rain is right around the houston area to the west. we're looking at it back upwards houston, center circulation, and i'm watch

right in here really starting to get developed so that's going to be where you have heavier rain and it's going to work its way into the houston area. a lot of flooding around the lake charles area. for us, we have to track this system. it's not the -- that's not the deal for us. it is going to be more of nor easter for us. right now around portions of ocean city maryland. we've got a high wind watch that's in effect. around the dc metro area. i'm expecting rain, likely now tomorrow. heaviest at times east of i-95 over towards the chesapeake bay. wind could gusts up towards -- temperatures may not reach the 70 degree mark. i've got that coming up for you in about ten minutes. >> we want to hear

the majority of people who answered our survey, are saying, no, he's not. >> in the meantime, first lady melania trump will join when they visit texas. >> this is the first major natural disaster to hit. blayne alexander joins us with specifics on what the president is doing to help. blayne. >> doreen, earlier today, you heard president trump make a very strong pledge. he said that any resource that is at his disposal will be made available for his relief efforts. he said that he doesn't want tomorrow's visit to be a distraction, or take away from those relief efforts. that's why the president and the first lady are flying into corpus christi, rather than houston because that area is still bracing for more rain and more flooding. >> today, for the first time since hurricane harvey devastated the gulf, president trump is speaking out about

people is my highest priority. >> joint news conference with the president of finland, president trump speaking directly to those hit hardest by the storm. >> to the people of texas and louisiana, we are 100% with you. >> the president acting as comforter and chief, but also facing questions about his threat to shutdown the federal government over funding for his controversial border wall. but insisting it would have nothing to do with storm relief. >> i think it has nothing to do with it. i think, really, this is separate. this is going to go really very very quickly. and everybody feels the same way i do. >> sinisting that mexico will still fit the bill. >> one way or another, it may be reimbursement, one way or the other mexico will pay for the wall. >> the president defending his decision to pardon joe arpaio convicted of vti

order against racial profiling. >> a lot of people think it was the right thing to do. saying his is hardly the worst. blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. >> north korea has fired another ballistic missile just a few moments ago, american intelligence officials called that launch part of an unprecedented increase in testing the pentagon just confirming what japan's prime minister told reporters that the missile did, in fact, fly over his country, the pentagon saying that this launch was no threat to north america, however. the launch comes days after the north koreans fired three smaller scale missiles also towards the waters near japan. you're greeted by a message of hate. parishioners found these flyers on the front door of their church in

police try to figure out who posted them. pat. >> posted on the front door of this little church, those words have been taken down. you see, now, now the cops are on the case. . police collecting as evidence poison words of hate, posted yesterday on a church in du dumfries. he was away from his office at a meeting but he did talk to me by phone. >> i think it's despicable act. you know, i don't believe racism should be tolerated in any way shape or form. to do that -- it should not be tolerated. >> two posters taped to the front door of the

temple ministry discovered sunday just before the service here. poster one. it says now that's white power. and beneath those words, a picture that appears to be lifted, german satire magazine suggesting donald trump is linked to the kkk and beneath that picture, the words the day of the rope is coming. the words -- the chief says his officers will examine the posters for prints and check surveillance cameras nearby to try and track down person responsible. he says when people learned of these angry words of hate. it actually brought a lot of love to the church.

may think it was bad. one thing when we put it out there, that a lot of churches and a lot of other people came together and for the good because there's good and evil -- and most people are for the good. >> can words of hate act result in friendship, peace and love. that's what they're praying for here. erin, doreen. >> pat collins for us in prince william county, thank you. a former administrator is charged with ripping off the prestee jous washington international school in northwest. the secret service in court filings the secret service said school credit cards were used to buy nearly 50 unneeded computers and quickly return them and accepted the refund on his personal credit cards. the feds said he made off with nearly 100 grand before he was

raising fears about potential flooding here, why some of dcs most iconic buildings could be at risk and what's being done to keep you safe. >> a nation divided as faith leaders mark a milestone in history and call for an end to the violence. >> and comparing costs to save you time and money, suzanne hogan is working for you to

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>> we're tracking the after effects of tropical storm harvey as rescues are still underway of the historic flooding in houston. more than 2,000 people have been brought to safety. you can see the extent of the flooding of downtown in dramatic before and after images taken from an apartment balcony. look at that. harvey blasted ashore in rock port texas as a category 4 hurricane with peak winds at 145 miles an hour. that was friday night. the storms swept through corpus christi. the damage estimates already run into the billions and this storm is not over yet. the question tonight, would our region survive the kind of storm that crippling parts of texas right now. >> tom sherwood takes a closer look at the flooding fears here in dc and the potential fixes. >> my father's family has lived on this waterfront, 150 years. >> 75-year-old carl, has been on

grandson southwest. a two billion dollars project rising in the city busy reclaiming its waterfront and aware of rising sea levels. the new river sea wall is more than five feet higher than some of the old ones from the 1960s. >> you'll see that that's much much higher, that, i think, will survive a 500 flood plain, if not higher. >> sandbags around some metro stops to massive flooding at some of the city's most iconic buildings. nbc 4 has detailed how, local, state and federal officials have tried to prepare for major flooding and have more to do. >> i expect in the next five to ten years we'll see a massive effort. >> this map details how even some storm water can flood low parts of the nation's capitol. the world's largest water treatment plant, series of sea walls are being constructed to protect billions in clean water ma

routinely lapse over walkways that should have been built four feet higher. fisherman look for a dry spot. the golf course wonders when it must be inundated with water. carl is hopeful that all the work here will be lasting. >> are we fighting against nature? yes and no. it's a very natural thing. nature has a way of always wanting to reclaim what it once had. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. >> the news 4 i-team has reported on some of dcs most iconic buildings and museums, to see pictures from past floods, click on investigations in the nbc washington app. >> from one tropical system to another that could impact our area. let's check in with doug in storm center 4, now what are you talking about, doug. >> we've got a lot of stuff going on out there. we have another system that's tr

coast, another one way out in the atlantic that we could be talking about in about a week to two weeks. let's start with the big one, that is harvey, a tropical storm, winds at 45 miles an hour. it has increased a little bit in intensity as it made its way back over the gulf of mexico. it has set for days right over victoria, texas. it's moving east southeast, that was over the open waters. one thing i'm looking at. they're looking at lighter rain. look at this right in here, this guy right in here higher rain fall rates that will come back into the houston area over the next few hours. the storm itself going to give louisiana a lot of problems. it's going to be texas and louisiana that get the biggest brunt of this. first off, harvey at 5:00, there it is moving east southeast at 3 miles an hour. it's expected to go out into the gulf and curve back up into the border of texas and louisiana giving some areas well over a foot of new rain, some totals going to be another

parts of the region that's seeing so much flooding. for us, it's not harvey just yet. this is what i'm watching right now. tropical system just off the coast of charleston, south carolina, may not form and become a name storm. may not become a tropical storm. if it does, it will be tropical storm irma. moving to the northeast at 12. it comes up through the carolinas, which have a tropical storm warning and out to see. we could see 40 to 50 mile an hour winds there. the association extremely rough. this is because of the northeast wind. this is going to be much like a nor'easter than it will be a tropical system and nor'easter, as you know in our area, always takes a toll on

>> because of this, and that northeasterly flow, we could see a lot of rip currents during the next couple of days. now, tomorrow, kind of a nasty day here. i'm not anticipating any damage around the area and don't want you to think that. what i am expecting is for you to need the umbrella and maybe a jacket during the day. over night tonight, the clouds move in. here comes the rain by early tomorrow morning. we're seeing the rain in most locations and rain mostly throughout the day here. some rain could be heavy at times east of i-95. yes, it is going to be rather windy, too. take the ul brel lafor sure. we do see this move out quickly. wednesday, thursday, friday, much nicer, look

rain during the day on saturday. i think most of the weekend is dry, but, again, harvey is a big factor in those plans, so we'll continue to keep you posted on that as we get closer to the weekend. confusion after woman collapses. news 4 is getting answers after the calls went to the wrong place. >> the minister's march for justice on news 4, what marching on the 54th

now, a tell of two storms on the left, you see images invoking images from hurricane katrina. how do they compare, in 2005 mandatory evacuations were in place days before katrina made land fall, 1 million people fled their homes, then. with harvey moving, the mayor of houston decided against city wide evacuation. the good news shelter conditions have improved. you see there, it was not enough food or water to go around. in comparison houston's convention center has turned into refuge for evacuees. civil rights act viss say they've come a long way. there's a ways to go.

of the march on washington with a rally today ministers, rabbis and people from all marched on the national mall and posted images on social media. kristin wright has our report. >> he marches for equality on the 54th anniversary of dr. king's march on washington. that quest for justice lives on today. >> we have the constitutional right not only to march but to be first class citizens. >> reverend al sharpton's network put together the minister's march for justice, faith leaders from near and far and martin luther king the third gathered steps from his father's memorial. >> and we're going to walk together through the streets of washington to the justice department. >> to demand that the unforgettable words of dr. king. >> i h

>> spoken on the steps of the lincoln memorial be the american way. >> feels powerful. feels wonderful, feels liberating. feels reminiscent when i was there, 54 years ago ♪ >> clara marches today. dc is home now, her thoughts are never far from her childhood and segregated alabama. >> i pray we would be forward moving americans. >> the march ended with a rally at the department of justice, martin luther king the third and reverend jessie jackson talked about the state of our country and the work that still needs to be done. kristin wright, news 4. >> and up next tonight, emotions running high as flood waters rise in texas. >> thousands of people from their homes, we're live on their grounds as people brace for what's next, as harvey makes

neighborhood, which is south of the city. this area has been hit, especially, hard, residents were able to get out. now you can see rescuers are coming back for their pets. they had to leave them

right now at 6:30, president tr

cash for the victims of harvey will arrive quickly. fema, expects nearly half a million people to file for disaster. right now, at least, 30,000 people are in temporary shelters. the president is scheduled to head to texas tomorrow. in the meantime, the rescue effort is still very much underway. our team coverage begins tonight with jay gray. he's in houston with a look at where things stand right now. hi, jay. >> reporter: >> where i'm standing, doreen, in the middle of the neighborhood in the water that is growing here, there are dozens of neighborhoods like this across houston under water. more than 400 people rescued from this community. the rain spinning now. it's still falling. it's pushing into places it's never been before. the rain here just won't stop. >> the people who have lived here 25, 30, 40 years haven't seen anything like this. >> reporter: water swallowing entire

>> this was more than we could imagine. >> and more than many can bear. >> rescue people came and took us. >> and some areas have already taken on more than 20 inches of rain, and before it's over, that number could double. >> this is a landmark event. we have not seen an event like this. >> reporter: every member of the texas national guard has been deployed, joined by state and local law enforcement, federal agents and a volunteer navy, all scrambling to pull thousands to higher ground. >> we are still involved in the search and rescue process. >> using every available asset, coast guard chopper, boats, even flat bed trucks. >> it's over five feet in our house, we barely made it out. i'm just so grateful that they came. >> and the effort is far from over. >> it's still a very dangerous situation out there.

rain. >> rescue teams like the nation's fourth largest city now stretched to their limit, but still delivering survivors to safety. >> all right. >> and shelters, giving, literally, everything they can. >> thank you. >> reporter: and everything is exactly what they need right now. >> and what they'll need for a long time, here. >> reporter: look, the rain still falling right now as we've been talking about, it's suppose to continue for a couple of days and then they start what will be a long difficult recovery. fema says they'll have people here for years. doreen, erin, back to you. >> so painful. jay gray reporting, thank you, jay. we want to turn storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper. she's been talking to a lot of brave people in the houston area all weekend. we think amelia is pretty brave. >> we know you've been on the ground there since friday talking to people

over time. walk us through some of that evolution. >> yeah, so i was just thinking about how to answer this question. so you see the science of the storm change and you also see the people and kind of how they react to it. i want to talk about the science first. we got here on friday, not much going on in our particular area in houston, the storm is still down out around the corpus christi area. and then it was saturday night where we really saw the flash flooding start to happen immense rain fall, 7 to 10 inches per hour, even higher, with that, the waters rose so quickly, it really caught a lot of folks off guard. then after that, we have seen rain but we haven't seen any rain that impressive for that amount of time. at this point, the flood waters kind of just staying where they're at, they might have receded a little bit. it's adding insult to injury.

location, we've gotten 12 inches of rain. a foot more of water has fallen here today. when you talk about the people, when we arrived we were watching on friday, number one priority was getting food and water. we knew how bad it was going to be. people were saying we're getting ready from around here we know what's happening. you see what happened to them and to their homes and they're just kind of exhausted right now. they're in disbelief. they are saying, well, what comes next. we're still dealing with more water. i have to think about how to deal with my home that's ruined. i will say half of the people that we talk here at the hotel unless they're with the coast guard. half of the people here are -- they've lost everything. so you've really seen that transformation over the last few days and just seeing what this water can do, where it goes, guys, is absolutely incredible. >> amelia, we really appreciate that you and your photographer, beth, have stayed safe and have been cautious as you'veov

we saw your reporting on friday. you guys were stocking up on bottled water. how are you doing, how you -- do you have food available? do you have electricity where you are? >> reporter: well, we have electricity. we have food. we had a lunch of spaghettios. there's one restaurant that was open here. it was the only restaurant open. but we're not complaining. i mean, you see how wonderful here the people here at the hotel have been and it's just incredible to see in our sound bites and the sound you're hearing, people saying, it's amazing how people kind of come together in a time like this. >> all right, we appreciate the work that you all are doing, thank you. much more coverage from amelia all week long as she continues to track the threat there in texas. we also have information on how you can help the victims in texas in their c

the information right there. >> other news now, let's say you need help or have an emergency of some kind, from a young age, we're all trained to call 911, but what if that number takes you to the wrong person. somebody who can't actually help you when precious seconds count. darcy spencer is working for you in getting some answers to those questions. >> she tells me she was at the starbucks in tacoma park dc sunday when a worker collapsed. she says witnesses called 911 and that's when the confusion started. 911 calls went to nearby montgomery county dispatchers instead of dc. and she says people were panicking. the woman was having a seizure on the floor. >> you're also trying to remain calm for the people around you and that's hard to do when someone is meeting you with a lot of questions. >> we went to holmes for answers. she'sad

communication center, she said this is an issue that just doesn't effect dc. she said it's with the towers that direct calls to 911 center. if you're in a border area like along the dc line, it can happen. >> yeah, unfortunately it is out of our hand. we do have a voice in it, which is great. but it is on our carriers, which we're partners with. we have a relationship with them. they're all very open to getting this rectified. >> she says dc is also working on a campaign called help 911 help you, aimed at making sure callers know where they're calling from? >> just knowing where you are and knowing a better location. knowing what city or state you're in, helps. >> here in the region they're working on new technology called next generation 911 in the future when you call 911, they'll be able to know where that phone is that's making the call. that should eliminate some of the confusion like what happened here. in the district, darcy spencer,

susan hogan doing what she does best, she went shopping to show you how the promise of lower prices at whole foods stacks up against other grocery stores in our area. plus tropical storm harvey could drive up prices at the pump. first, here is doug. >> tracking the storm off the southeast coast, that one is going to have a big impact on your tuesday. we'll talk about that and the impacts of

in case you haven't heard, amazon bought the grocery chain whole foods and promised to cut prices starting today. >> how deep are the discounts you ask, susan hogan working for you. she went shopping to try to figure this all out. >> such a tough day today. you know, we always -- avocados they are so differently priced at deferent places if you look at all three,

same. they're all priced totally different. we'll get you the price comparisons in just a second. you know, the whole purpose of this, really, is to make healthier food more affordable for everybody. if you think you're thinking you're going to cut your grocery bill in half, that's not going to happen. a handful of products are marked down on the select list of best selling staples. let's take a look. a healthier alternative to peanut butter is almond butter. we found whole foods selling one bred. $6.99. at giant we found a big difference there when it came to almond butter $9.19 and safe way $7.99. so that was a big difference. >> and you've got some bananas. >> that was another big comparison that we did, as well. so there were a lot of fruit and veggies on sale today at whole foods, fuji apples had a pretty good di

they were on sell for $1.99. we bought six and down to three because leon and everyone else have been eating them. at giant the price was listed per apple at $1.49 each. so the price for six there was $8.94. i know. and at safe way $1.12 apiece for a total of $6.72. let's take a look at those avocados at whole foods today, they were priced, at $1.49, which is actually really good. normally they're over $2 compared to giant, $2.25 and safe way at $2.19. whole foods bananas are 49 cents per pound. they were not organic and they were originally 59 cents. giants bananas are priced at 29 cents that is the better and safe way they price their bananas individually. again we bought five, i'm

ate this, as well. this is just the beginning of the price cuts and we're going to see more as the days and weeks go on for you. the promise is, quality will not suffer. they say they will continue to support local farmers and source them from the trusted vendors that they've always been working with. >> you'll go back and track that. >> it's hard to do apples to apples, no pun intended. we did some storm brands and they didn't always have organic. we did the best we could and we really, you know -- >> you don't need these. >> fine, everyone else has been taking our foods. >> there you go. >> thanks. >> sure, guys. well, next up, the impact tropical storm harvey is having at the pp aumnd

. harvey could mean more pain at the pump for all of us. one expert told cnbc that he foresees slow but steady climb and gas prices that eventually becomes, in his words, eye popping. gas prices peeked at a two-year trading high today at $1.77 a gallon. gulf coast refinery shutdown as the storm approach and question about workers will be able to get to the refineries this week. >> in the meantime, doug, you've been watching this storm sit still almost over texas over the last couple of days and more rain to come. more days of just sitting still. >> right now, it's moved a little bit. but it's off the coast now and that just means it has more chance to get more moisture. some areas could see six to

said and done. some locations 40 inches of rain, 40 inches of rain into parts of texas that's why they're having so many issues down there. let's take a look and show you the latest on harvey. just south and east of the bay city area. you see houston right in the middle of the screen. i'm taking a look at some of the latest bands of rain coming on in here. they've been seeing heavier rain, and now lighter, heavier here. then it was a little bit lighter. look at this, that's going to have higher rain fall totals, the center of circulation, down to the south. take a look. this is the visible satellite picture. look at the center. there it is right there. you see it coming out across from the gulf or into the gulf right around the islands there, pretty close to where it made land fall coming back out into the open waters of the gulf, enhanced rain fall, more enhanced around the houston area and over towards louisiana. it's going to be devastating scenario for weeks and months to come for

it could become a tropical system. it could be named by this time tomorrow. if it doesn't get a name and doesn't matter, high wind watch in effect for areas of ocean city, with some beach erosion expected. for us, it's going to be a pretty big deal. it's not going to be damaging storm at all. we're talking about gaithersburg, dc, breezy and cool, half inch to about three quarters of an inch, some locations around an inch. if you're closer to the bay, right along the bay, down towards the patomic. windy at times, winds gusting at 30 miles an hour. costal flood, watches an warnings will be out. rain can be heavy at time well over an inch and if you're headed to the beaches the next couple of days going to have an impact there, too. not just breezy and rainy, cool, highs only in the upper 60s to around 70 degrees, kind of a nasty tuesday. better wednesday, thursday, friday. on saturday, tracking harvey. harvey will make its presence around here during the day on saturday. looks like a best chance

conditions sunday and into labor day. we'll continue to monitor that, though. >> doug, thank you. out with the old and in with the new. this building was torn down today to make room for maryland's new purple line. demolition work came after ceremonial ground breaking and signed promise of $900 million of federal funding for this still controversial project. the 16-mile rail will connect bethesda with new carrollton with 21 stops along the way. tracee wilkins is working for you with new reaction from the community. >> i guess it's going to be good. i'm not really sure. >> reporter: some people who live here don't know what to make of the coming purple line. they just know some of their neighbors are gone, their homes purchased by the state. >> i was a whole row of houses that got knocked down. >> some of the front yards here belong to the maryland department of transportation. >> they purchased a corner of it. i'm not exactly sureha

>> others are worried they may lose much more. >> way too much stress. >> it will sit directly across the street from the purple line. the train will go down the center just steps from her front door. >> it's going to do a lot of damage on this house, just the traffic itself, now. does a lot of damage. >> the gas station has stopped selling gas and may soon be closed to make way for a purple line depot. >> it's disaster, you're losing business and we have a prime location. >> there was a plan to take some of the lanes at the bowling ally, that's no longer the plan. but they are expecting construction work to seriously impact their business. >> if they are working right out in front, how are you going to get in that house. >> former college park resident, karen has spent 20 years advocating for the purple line. she lives in bethesda where the line will end. >> for me it means instead of wasting another hour getting up and down. you g

going to silver springs straight over to bethesda. and makes so much sense in so many ways. >> construction is going to be moving fast and hoping to have this project complete by 2,022. i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. we've got some breaking news in the russia investigation here. the special council is asking if president trump tried to hide the purpose of that meeting between his son and the russian lawyer with connections to the russian government. the meeting happened during the campaign back in june of 2016. more than a year later the washington post reported that the president himself helped to draft an explanation for that meeting, claiming it was about discussing adoption policies between russia and the u.s. the series of e-mails that trump, jr. thought it was about digging up dirt on hillary clinton. in fact, he said he loved it if

and there's so many great storylines for the nationals tonight. of course, the nats starting the series with the marlins. jayson werth is back. >> strike a pose, got to capture the moment. werth is back after missing every game since june 3rd

tonight batting seven. led to longer than expected coverage of the 38-year-old. he's a man on a mission, and his season goals remain unchanged. >> i feel good. i'm here to help. you know, my eyes are still and i'm going to win and i'm going to win a world series. i think i've got the team to do it. and i'm trying to get into shape. and just kind of fall back into my normal routine and be with the guys. we've got a long way to go. we've got a long hard road. i'm excited and i'm thrilled to be back. >> also returning tonight, the two-time cy young award winner will be back. he's been dealing with the neck spasms, guys the first started on august first, that eventually led to a dl the despite the absence, he leaves in a batting average and he's

the national league in -- these are the custom and anthony ren done's locker. before hurricane harvey to wear during player's weekend. now they have extra meaning, hails from richmond, texas, actually from richmond, here, all the nats with connections to houston. this is a tough time thinking of their family and friends. >> it's frustrating just hearing the voice of my mom and my dad and my brother. just knowing you can't get down there. they hit me this morning just because they were saying that the water is creeping up to their garage now. >> my wife is eight months pregnant. she was a little nervous about being in town. last night right before the game, got a text, if you're in the subdivision, there's a creek pretty close to the house. she got out of there and she went to dallas, actually, t

morning. it's been pretty crazy, to see the devastation. >> and nats park, a welcome site, owner mark returns from the first tiechl after battling cancer. he is now cancer free. and he really wanted to be there for ceremony tonight to honor former nats pitcher. earlier today, a welcome -- today the washington thagsnatio dedicating the newly renovated field at mason district park this morning. it's part of the dream foundation legacy field which renovates one baseball or softball field in the dc region each year. this is the second field to be completed. the first was ryan zimmerman field just a few blocks in april of last year. the first former nats to enter the hall, oh, we're showing you, number

here today. it confirmed it's a torn quad muscle. he's going to be out for the season. he's been trying to make an amazing come back.

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tonight, a deepening flood disaster here in texas. a rising toll, a family feared dead while trying to escape. also a race against time to save people trapped in their homes. dramatic rescues on live television as the nation's fourth-largest city is paralyzed. >> this is a landmark event for texas. texas has never seen an event like this. >> the entire texa national guard now activated. with no end in sight, an epic storm expected to make landfall again bringing a massive amount of rain on top of already historic devastation. >> the house is flooding, and it's rising way too fast. >> and tonight, banding together. the worst of times bringing out the best of humanity deep in the heart of texas. "nightly news" begins right now.