2017. this is the cbs morning news. more rain, more flooding spells more trouble for texas. >> i've been here all my life and i don't ever remember it raining this much for this long. >> the need is overwhelming. we as a city entity and government have resources but we don't have enough. >> flood waters have taken over roads, driving thousands of people to emergency shelters.

good morning from the studio 57 newsroom here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne marie green. the water is still rising in houston. it rained overnight and more heavy rain is expected today. harvey has already dumped a massive amount of rain normally seen only once in more than a thousand years. another 10 to 20 inches is in the forecast. the surging flood waters have paralyzed the city. at least two people have died in the catastrophic storm but the devastation is so widespread it is impossible to measure just how many people are missing or still trapped. evacuation centers are packed full. texas governor greg abbott says this is one of the largest disasters america has ever faced and this morning tropical storm harvey is just offshore and is expected to move back inland sometime tomorrow. don champion is in us

don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. today marks the fourth straight day harvey has soaked this entire region. at one point overnight the rain fell at a painful rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour as flooding like this worsens some storm victims are growing more desperate. >> overnight in the houston area, heavy equipment normally reserved for hauling the likes of rock and soil instead saved lives. stranded residents packed into haulers and were drumiven to a walmart parking lot where they were picked up. >> my son is picking us up and we're going to his house. >> reporter: harvey could break a u.s. record for the most rainfall from a tropical system. with 911 call centers inundated with calls for help some flood victims are taking to social media.

was stranded. >> i told him we were going to take a big boat ride and everything was going to be okay. >> he came to pick up some family members. his grandmother, so grateful to be rescued she hugged the constable who she said saved her life. >> monday some parts of the houston area saw a foot of rain. harvey is now centered over the gulf and could dump more than another foot before moving north. >> as people continue fleeing the floods by air and boat, shelters in houston are reaching capacity, many arriving with harrowing tales of survival. >> we tried to evacuate on a boat but the current was too strong so we went back to the house. it was scary. >> president trump will travel to the texas gulf coast today. >> reporter: and the situation is so dire here the governor has activated the entire texas national guard. that means at least

guardsmen will now be on the ground helping with relief and recovery efforts. the coast guard also says nine additional helicopters will be brought in today to help with rescues. >> they will need all of that help. thank you so much, don. first responders worked throughout the night to save people stranded in the rising water. so many people are trapped that private citizens are helping out. volunteers from louisiana helped hundreds in the houston suburb of dick inson. >> they come for us, we'll come for them. we'll help them out as much as we can. >> a mandatory evacuation order has been ordered for the city there. the city just north of corpus christi took a direct hit when harvey blew ashore on friday. the town

140-mile-per-hour winds. yesterday some returned to find their home destroyed. >> i don't know. i just want them to be happy and start over and forget. i want to be done. i want this town to be back like it was. i grew up here. >> 80% of the buildings in rockport were damaged or destroyed. and president trump along with first lady melania trump are expected to arrive in corpus christi later on this morning. after they are briefed on relief efforts they will go to austin to tour the emergency operations center. >> there's probably never been anything like this. >> reporter: president trump publicly addressed the crisis in texas during the meeting with the president of finland. >> we're meeting with state and local authorities in texas and louisiana to save lives and we thank our first responders.

declared states of emergency in texas and louisiana expediting funds and resources to the hardest hit areas. >> the federal government stands ready, willing and able to support that effort. >> reporter: the president will travel to texas tuesday to assess the storm damage. >> depending on where the storm goes we may also go to louisiana on saturday. >> reporter: earlier this year the trump administration proposed cuts to fema's budget but will now likely push congress to provide more money to the emergency response agency. >> the real number which will be many billions of dollars will go through congress. i think it will go very fast. >> reporter: ted cruz and john cornyn are asking for aide to their state. >> plenty of time for politics and i'm not going to worry about political sniping. my focus here is on the tragedy unfolding on the people whose lives are in

>> reporter: the sandy bill had too much spending he said that was unrelated to hurricane relief. >> the enormity of the devastation in houston is hard to imagine. this drone video captures just how widespread the damage is. it is estimated that some 15 trillion gallons of rain have fallen. parts of houston are expected to break a 40 year record for total rainfall. 30,000 people may be forced from their homes before the storm subsides. jeff jameson of our dallas station is tracking tropical storm harvey. good morning. >> good morning, anne marie. we are still looking at that heavy rain rotating from the southeast. the center of circulation of harvey is still out over open water. it has plenty of that warm gulf water to work with and it's throwing a lot more rain at houston this morning. the heaviest rain is from houston east ward back toward

possibly another 5 to 10 inches of rain in some of those locations. the system is going to be moving a little bit faster up to the northeast and that will begin to dry out houston by tomorrow. but still, another day of heavy rain on top of what has already fallen. you look at some of these rainfall reports, south houston, 36 inches of rain. pasadena, 35 inches of rain. suburb west of houston, katy, 30 inches of rain just unheard of. maximum sustained winds 45 miles an hour, so it's also pretty gusty as well. here's that track i was talking about. by tomorrow we're looking at that track moving in toward sabine pass and picking up speed as it moves toward tennessee and kentucky by the weekend. the rain will come to an end as early as tomorrow. you can see that on the forecast. late tonight, still dealing with heavy rain, but now

to the east. on thursday we are looking -- wednesday and thursday we are looking at the rain beginning to push more off into louisiana and arkansas and houston should get a break from the rain on thursday. of course they're still dealing with quite a bit of river flooding there as well and several creeks and bay yous have yet to crest. ga galveston may see more rain as well. we make our way through the end of this upcoming week and finally a chance to dry out as we get into the weekend for the folks there in southeast texas. >> it is going to be a long week for folks in that area. thank you so much. ahead on cbs this morning norah o'donnell has the latest from houston including the look at the emergency response to this catastrophic storm. and still ahead, tensions escalate after north carolina flies a ballistic missile

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entered the building. >> he just started unloading pretty much the whole clip at what i don't know. i kept my head down and i threw the table against a table and i barricaded myself in there and i thought he was coming my way and by then, the cops got there. >> the mayor of clovis said things could have been much worse had it not been for the quick response of police. the washington post is reporting that north korea launched a ballistic missile that flew over a japanese island this morning. it splashed into the pacific ocean. it prompted an angry response from japan's prime minister shinzo abe. he spoke on the phone with president trump after the missile launch. a business associate of donald trump's boasted a proposed real estate deal in moscow could get mr. trump elected president. he was born in russia and he wrote a series of e-mails

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forecast in some cities around the country. a food bank in san antonio is producing 4,000 meals for harvey evacuees and first responders. the city is housing first responders from around the country and hundreds of evacuees. as many as 10,000 people fleeing the flood waters in houston are eventually expected to seek shelter in san antonio. on the cbs money watch, how a beer giant is helping. >> reporter: good morning. it's too early to accurately gauge the economic impact of hurricane harvey, but the disaster is likely to rank as one of the nation's costliest. that's according to the new york times. houston accounts for 3% of the

most of the loss will come from property damage totaling tens of billions of dollars but the damage is likely to be a fraction of the 130 billion caused by hurricane katrina. fema is encouraging flood victims to begin filing their claims. the national flood insurance program is running a $25 billion deficit and set to expire in a month if congress doesn't act. the early estimates for recovery and rebuilding are at $40 billion and climbing. and beer giant anheuser busch is bringing water headed to the red cross relief station. the company did the same thing after superstorm sandy. >> thank you so much. still ahead, how thousands of animals are surviving harvey's historic flooding and how social

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. harvey's historic flooding is putting thousands of pets and livestock in harm's way. rescue efforts are underway along the texas gulf coast to save them and their owners. reports from corpus christi, texas. >> reporter: on boats and in air lifts passed through a window and perched on a shoulder, pets are making it out of the devastating flood waters. congress passed a law requiring the rescue plans.

during katrina have helped get these four legged family members to get a lift from harvey. still, countless pets and their people have been separated. local officials, volunteers and neighbors are trying to help. >> if my dog was lost i would want somebody to do this for me. >> reporter: crews are actively searching for animals and taking them in. calls to report roaming pets are nonstop. >> we are seeing a lot of lost animals and these are the owned animals that, you know, they're walking around with their collar and their tags. >> reporter: many of these pets have tags or microchips making it easy to find out who owns them but getting in touch with all those people after a hurricane is the tough part. social media is helping, corpus christi residents are using this ce

to reunite their families. and some have deployed to help animals that may have been trapped like this cattle that are now looking for a way home. cbs news, corpus christi, texas. the preseason game will be played at at&t stadium in arlington, texas. details on tickets, parking and other game day logistics will be announced soon. and coming up on cbs this morning we will take you inside the houston area 911 command center that's getting tens of thousands of calls for help each day. i'm anne marie green, this is the cbs morning news.

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right now at 4:30. relentless rain. thousands of people still looking to be rescued and find some place to stay as tropical storm harvey continues to pound the houston area. more on texas in a moment. first though it's a yellow weather alert day for us here. here's meteorolo

rae. >> starting off with rain in our area. this is from tropical system still developing up the east coast. so we are juice looking at a windy -- just looking at a windy rainy day and starlet to taper off for the -- start to taper off for the evening. rain showers moving in for the morning commute. we have a yellow weather alert. light showers around the beltway and now still dry right now north of the beltway in rockville and germantown and laurel. not going to stay that way for a very long time. we will have the showers move in as early as 8:00 in the morning. so by 10:00 taking over the region, we're talking about light to moderate rain with a few areas of heavier rainfall. the farther north and west you go the drier you will be. you will get some showers just not as long as and not as heavy. where the rain will be the steadiest and heaviest is southern maryland. delmarva and also through the northern neck. it will be windy on top of that. this is all from a tropical system. so we are going to see winds 20, 25 miles per hour at times. it dries out for the evening so we might even get the in the' game in -- nats' game in with a quick delay but the rest of the evening will be drier. ita

system. here's the rainfall totals, about an inch maybe a little more for d.c.. but then an inch and a half up to 2 inches for parts of virginia. ellen? rain for my sister's birthday. not good. we have two closures on route 1. one yesterday as well. northbound, this is for construction. so told you yesterday between university boulevard and cherry hill road. they had shut down that portion of route 1 up in maryland. they've done it again this morning. but then we have a bigger problem. up by washington boulevard, route 1 between route 100 and amberton drive. there's been a dump truck that hit a power pole and there are wires that are down too. cut off power to a lot of people waking up in the neighborhood. if you are in the -- neighborhood. if you are in the area, if you're there, you're going to have to stay there. if you are outside you cannot get? . mike and jan? good morning, all eyes are still on houston. at least nine

first responders have already rescued more than 6,000 people in houston alone. they are overwhelmed though by the calls that keep coming in. thousands and thousands of more people are still waiting to be rescued. good morning and thank you for joining us on "wake up washington." i'm mike hydeck. >> i'm jan jeffcoat. some places around southeast texas have already gotten 2 feet of rain from harvey. crazy video by the time the week is over they may get double that. >> and the devastation is so widespread. it's impossible to measure just how many people are missing or still trapped. don champion is in houston with more on the massive rescue operation that's going on around the clock. >> reporter: overnight, in the houston area, heavy equipment normally reserved for hauling the likes of rock and soil instead saved lives. stranded residents packed into haulers and were driven to a wal-mart parking lot where they were picked up by loved ones or bused to a shelter. >> thank god. we're here. my son is picking up us and we're going to -- up us and we're going to -- us up and we're going to his house. >> reporter: meteorologistings

a u.s. record for the most rainfall from a tropical system. with 911 call centers and the coast guard inundated with pleas for help, some flood victims are now taking to social media. >> on facebook, i seen that she was stranded and i was like oh my god. >> i just saw that we was going to take a big boat ride and everything was going to be okay. >> reporter: francisco came to pick up several family members including his grandparents and a 4-year-old cousin. his grandmother, so grateful to be rescued, she hugged the constable who she says saved her life. monday, some parts of the houston area saw a foot of rain. harvey is now centered over the gulf and could dump more than another foot before moving north. as people continue fleeing the floods by air and boat, shelters in houston are reaching capacity. many arriving with harrowing tales of survival. >> we feel like there was no hope and we tried to evacuate on a boat that our neighbor had. but the current was too strong so we went back to

it was scary. it was really scary. >> reporter: president trump will travel to the texas gulf coast today. don champion, cbs news, houston. >> the president and first lady will tour damage in corpus christi where the hurricane came ashore and going to meet with government officials at the texas command center in austin. >> you can join us. we're trying to help the tens of thousands of texans who really need help right now. we made it easy for you, go to wusa9.com/texascares, right there make a donation directly to the american red cross. hurricane harvey disaster relief fund. now remember, all donations are tax-deductible. again wusa9.com/texascares. yellow weather alert time around here too. plenty of rain headed our way. good morning allyson. >> yeah, we have two tropical systems still occurring across the u.s. now harvey of course still occurring. every time i look at the radar, and it's still pouring, my heart sinks just a little bit more. we're still dealing with this rain. it's been raining really e