captioning funded by cbs it is wednesday, august 30th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." harvey moves in to strike the gulf coast again. heavy rains are pounding parts of texas and louisiana this morning as floodwaters continue to rise, thousands of people remain in danger, the death toll increases, and more shelters open for evacuees. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you.

the record-breaking rainfall that flooded houston is expected to wind down today. but the trouble is far from over. parts of southeast texas are still getting hammered with heavy rain, floodwaters continue to rise, and the destruction and misery are spreading. this morning, east of houston, port arthur, texas, is getting hit hard. the mayor says the entire city is under water. people are trapped in their homes and residents are being told to go into survival mode. and there are reports of an apartment fire. tropical storm harvey makes its second landfall sometime this morning near the texas/louisiana state line. harvey is expected to produce another 6 to 12 inches of rain from east texas to southwest louisiana. in houston, a midnight to 5:00 a.m. curfew has been imposed. new shelters capable of holding thousands have opened. at least eight deaths are linked to the storm. rescue operations continue and so fare

have been pulled from the floodwaters. don champion is in houston. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. some people here in houston finally got a glimpse of the sun before it set last night as those rescues of stranded residents continue, the need in this region is only growing. harvey slammed the beaumont area in southeastern texas overnight with lightning, wind and what the national weather service called catastrophic and life threatening flooding. >> everybody needs to start kind of going into that survival mode and start trying to get yourself to higher elevations. >> reporter: some residents are trapped and in desperate need of help. in the city of port arthur, rescue teams are fighting a fire in floodwaters. cbs affiliate ksdm posted this photo and said the fire spread to several houses and the neighborhood is being evacuated. county officials had

fall and the local sheriff says resources can't get through because of the high water. >> we faced many storms down there, but this is the worst i've seen. >> reporter: in houston, where the rain is finally starting to subside, the danger is far from over. more than 13,000cu reses have haened since harvey hit. here u.s. customs and border protection agents saved a person caught in fast moving water. and here, two people stuck atop their mostly submerged truck got a lifeline from a small inflatable boat. where to house the displaced has become the latest issue. the convention center downtown, the first shelter to open, has been running at double capacity. to help with the overflow, the nrg center convention hall next to where the texans football team plays opened its doors tuesday evening. it becomes the largest rescue center able to hold 10,000 people. and as conditions impre

more out of state help is arriving, anne-marie, including search and rescue teams from florida and california. >> don champion in houston, thank you so much, don. as we reported, harvey is flogging its way over louisiana and is expected to spend much of the day there. the rain in lake charles has been steady for the last four days, the situation for some has turned dangerous. at least 200 residents have been forced to evacuate. meteorologist jeff jamison of our dallas station ktvt has the latest on tropical storm harvey. good morning, jeff. >> good morning. still incredible that we're still talking about harvey as a tropical storm, still over the open waters of the gulf of mexico, but slowly today pushing toward southwest louisiana. should make landfall later this morning in cameron parish, just to the southeast of beaumont, where we have been looking at torrential rains all through the overnight hours, more than 20 inches of rain in beaumont, port

you can see as we get a closer look at the radar, how the rain spins in the same areas and the colors of orange and red indicate where that really heavy rain is falling along i-10 between beaumont and lake charles. in houston, things are slowly drying out. a few sprinkles this morning and that's certainly good news. tropical storm warnings are in effect for the houston area through the coast of louisiana. we do expect to see that landfall from harvey, another u.s. landfall, coming up later on this morning, probably closer to 7:00 or 8:00 local time near cameron. and then continue to push north rather quickly, thankfully as it moves through central parts of louisiana by tonight. and then quickly spinning into a tropical low and moves through the midwest over the weekend, taking all that rain with it. in fact, you can see that rain moving with the center of the storm, but heavy rains today across southern louisiana, by the time we get to tomorrow, it is northern louisiana, parts of arkansas that could see flooding rains and then that rain continues to move up toar

tennessee by friday and saturday. an additional 3 to 5 inches of rain in port arthur on top of what has already fallen and we're looking at western louisiana, possibly seeing more than 10 inches of rain over the next 24 hours. that will lead to more flash flooding in that area. and before harvey finally moves on out, and then we'll get a better idea of how much damage is caused and better weather for folks to try to clean up and recover. anne-marie. >> meteorologist jeff jamison in dallas. thank you so much, jeff. houston's flood control system is no longer in control. two reservoirs overflowed and a levee failed. engineers released water from two reservoirs to ease the strain, and that sent even more water into neighborhoods that are already flooded. the reservoirs are at record highs. one of those killed during the storm was a veteran houston police officer. 60-year-old sergeant steve perez became trapped in high water while trying to get to

sunday. >> it was too treacherous to go under and look for him, so we had a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. >> perez had been on the houston police force for 34 years. president trump is scheduled to return to texas saturday. mr. trump visited the storm zone yesterday, stoppinging in corpus christd i aninaust. >> we're going to get you back and operating immediately. it is epic what happened. but, you know what, it happened in texas, and texas can handle anything. >> the president met with local and state officials, he spoke about the unprecedented nature of the storm and talked up recovery efforts saying we want to do it better than ever before. ahead on "cbs this morning,"

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there are reports of price gouging. some stores are allegedly charging $100 for a case of drinking water. gasoline in some places is going for $10 a gallon. and hotels are reportedly tripling and quadrupling prices. the attorney general's office has received more than 600 complaints. on the cbs money watch, harvey continues to batter the oil and airline industry. hannah doba has that and more. >> reporter: it is estimated flooding from hurricane harvey has shut down nearly a fifth of u.s. oil refinery capacity. the u.s. gulf coast is home to nearly half of this country's domestic refinery capacity. more refinery closures are expected. major pipelines that carry gas, diesel and jet fuel have started to shut down due to lack of supply. retail gas prices like you mentioned are rising, the average cost of a gallon of gas is now $2.38, that's acc

that's five cents higher than a week ago. airlines are taking a big financial hit because of hurricane harvey. it is estimated united airlines which has a major hub in houston could lose $256 million from flight cancellations. southwest could lose $77 million. and spirit airlines could suffer $11 million in storm related losses. anne-marie. >> the impact of this storm is quite stunning, far beyond the gulf coast region for sure. hena doba at the new york stock exchange, thank you. there has been an about face for televangelist joel osteen. he's opened the doors to his houston megachurch to people seeking shelter from hurricane harvey. he faced criticism for not allowing storm victims to use his massive lakewood church. it can seat 17,000 people, three times the capacity of the city's convention center. osteen tweeted,

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here is a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. there is unrelenting misery this morning for dickinson, texas, where tropical storm harvey left behind shoulder high water. the devastation has left many with little more than hope. >> got to enjoy the day as it comes. i got clothes on, dried up.

i got food. i'm living. that's all it is. you got to live with what you got. >> pretty good advice. dickinson is in galveston county. that's about 30 miles southeast of downtown houston. the historic flooding along the gulf coast of texas caused by tropical storm harvey is causing billions in damage. but many people have lost their homes and it appears most of them do not have flood insurance. rita jiang reports. >> reporter: rising floodwaters for thousands in and around houston to evacuate and leave behind their homes and possessions. >> there is water in all of the beds in the house. we lost every strip of furniture, every couch, everything. >> reporter: but it appears for most of the victims, insurance will not cover the damage. >> a lot of uncertainty now. >> reporter: chuck watson with end key holdings tracks the financial impact of natural disasters. he says most mortgage companies require government flood insurance only for homes within

maybe as much as two-thirds of the damage happened outside of the flood zones. >> reporter: the insurance information institute says only 15% of the homes in houston's largest county have flood insurance. after previous storms like katrina and sandy, the government stepped in to help uninsured homeowners, but it can be difficult to get paid. >> it is agonizing. it can take weeks and months. in some people in sandy it took years. >> reporter: jill schlesinger says anyone at risk of flooding should be prepared for the worst. >> every single person should have an inventory list of the contents of their home, with pictures. >> reporter: that can could speed up a claim or government aid and help those who lost everything rebuild. rita jiang, cbs news, corpus christi, texas. the owner of the houston rockets is increasing his donation to hurricane harvey relief efforts. leslie alexander says he will

relief fund set up by houston's mayor. that's up from $4 million alexander pledged on monday. for information on how you can help the victims of hurricane harvey, we have collected important links and other information on our web side. all you have to do is go to cbsnews.com/floodhelp. coming up on "cbs this morning," the series a more perfect union tells us about a furniture store owner in texas who opened his doors to hundreds of flood evacuees. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news."

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here's a live look outside. things are looking okay for orale john today. -- our region today. a little bit of humidity out there and visibility is okay but we could have a little fog develop. keep an eye on that through the morning. temperatures this morning we're into the 60s. i have to say i think it's cool out there. cool enough to not feel like august. 60 for german town and august. so here's -- harvey still tropical storm status. dry for us today and cloud cover will be an issue. but it breaks apart more than what we're indicating here. high temperatures near 80 degrees and only a stray shower off to the

we have two separate closures down here for you. while you are heading northbound, here's 95. quantico and route 610. now the problem here it involves some heavy equipment and some trucks, there's two tractor-trailers and a box truck that are involved in the accident right here, the first one. then there was a second accident further down on the road. but this one involved heavy equipment type of trucks as well. so you're going to have some slow traffic as all lanes are shut down. they're actually diverting traffic to get around this i know it's a dark shot but the cars are not moving hardly at all. diverting traffic of course on to route 1. i pulled up route 1 and put the sen sons on here -- sensors on here. everything is moving okay, it's around exit 148 exit off of 95 to head northbound on route 1. mike and jan?

sol definitely historic and not nothing we wanted to see -- something we wanted to see. now the rain continues they saw 40, 50 inches of rain in the houston area. and now it moves over to beaumont and yeah, they're seeing over 20 inches of rain. and that area. and now it's moving into louisiana. so it will make its way on shore later on this morning. here's the latest information, still tropical storm status and i believe this is the longest