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. >> reporter: the bayou state is underwater. incredible images coming out of louisiana and extraordinary water rescues caught on camera. this woman in baton rouge pulled from her sinking car just in the nick of time. more than 30 inches of rain in just a week triggered historic flooding and a state of emergency. at least 6 people are ted -- dead and 20,000 people rescued from the rising waters . even it was historic levels of rivers and creeks rising. i will tell you we have not seen anything like this in the past. >> reporter: the us coast guard is in the air making daring water rescues. the national guard is on the ground. more than 200 roads are closed or impassable. >> we have road closures all across southwest louisiana. the water is dangerous in terms of the coverage on the roads. >> reporter: right now 12,000 people are in shelters of them grabbed whatever they could and others escaped with the close on the back. >> we got out the back door. there were spiders. >> we tried out the kitchen and there were snakes. we finally

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kenneth: the bayou state under. incredible images of flooding caught on camera. this woman in baton rouge pulled from her sinking car just in the nick of time. more than 30 inches of rain in a week triggered historic flooding and a state of emergency. at least six dead, 20,000 people rescued from rising waters. >> even though it was an unnamed storm, there were historic levels of rivers anything like this in the past. kenneth: the u.s. coast guard in the air making daring rescues. the wii louisiana national guard on the ground. more than 200 roads are closed or impassable. >> we have road closures all across the state of louisiana. the water is dangerous in terms of coverage on the roads. kenneth: 2000 people in shelters. many escaped with just the close on their backs. kitchen, we fought through that and we finally got into the car, tried to leave, but we couldn't. kenneth: president obama has declared louisiana a major disaster. the rivers continue to rise. water levels are not a speck did -- not expected to receive for two more days. kenneth mouton, abc news.

heavy rains have caused historic and deadly flooding across the bayou state forcing entire communities of their homes. >> now president obama has issued a disaster declaration for the region as residents there brace for a longleanup process. abc's elizabeth hur is live in new york tonight with those details. elizabeth. >> reporter: well, rick and sharrie, good evening to you and here's what we know right now. at least six people have been killed and we know 10,000 people are now in shelters but that number is expected to grow because according to the red cross, even at this hour, rescuers are busy at work. >> 911. >> reporter: with helicopters in the air and high water vehicles on the ground, rescuers are working around the clock and resident residents. since saturday tens of thousands have been seeking safety including this woman and her dog rescued just in time. >> i got you. >> reporter: shelters now home for so many wit louisiana intate of emergency. >> it was pretty scary 'cause we didn't know how high the waters were going to rise or how fast they were goin going to rise. >> it's

. >> reporter: the bayou state under water. incredible images of flooding coming out of louisiana. an extraordinary water rescue caught on camera. this woman in baton rouge pulled from her sinking car just in the nick of time. more than 30 inches of rain in just a week triggered historic flooding and a state of emergency. at least six people are dead, 20,000 people rescued from the rising waters. >> even though it was an unnamed storm, it was historic levels of river and creeks rising, and i will tell you that we've not seen anything like this in the past. >> reporter: u.s. coast guard is in the air making daring high water rescues. the louisiana national guard is on the ground where 200 roads are closed or impassable. >> we have road closures all over louisiana. the water is dangerous in terms of the coverage on the roads. >> reporter: right now 12,000 people are in shelters, many of them grabbed whatever they could. others escaped with just the clothes on their backs. >> we shot out the back door. there were spiders. we went out through the kitchen, there was a snake. we got in t

the bayou state is underway. extraordinary water rescues caught on camera. >> please help me. >> reporter: this woman pulled from her sinking car just in the nick of time. more than 30 inches of rain in just a week triggered historic flooding and state of emergency. 6 people are dead, 20,000 rescued from the rising waters. >> even though it was an unnamed storm, it was historic levels of rivers and creeks rising we have not seen anything like this in the past. >> reporter: u.s. coast guard is in the air making daring high water rescues. 200 roads are closed or i am passable. >> we have road closures, the water is danger in terms of coverage on the roads. 12,000 people are in shelters, many grabbed what they could, others escaped with the clothes on their backs. >> we went out the back door there were spiders. we went out in the kitchen there was a snake. we finally got in the car, tried to leave, but we couldn't. >> president obama declared louisiana a major disaster. i can report that the weather is improving, b

red cross volunteers from our area will head to the bayou state to help the tens of thousands who homes flooded. two days of rain produce water some are calling a 1,000 year rainfall. at least seven people have died and there is widespread flooding across three parishes. crews have rescued 20,000 people. abc's adrian banker has more on the devastation left behind. >> reporter: new video giving us a look at the widespread devastation and what is being called some of the worst flooding louisiana has ever seen. some in baton rouge returning to the dangerous waters to check on their homes. >> this whole town washed away in a night. >> the end of your whole life, your world having to start over. worked so hard for it. in this dramatic rescue a man pulls a woman and her dog from a sinking convertible. >> first thing was to get ahold of her and pull her out and couldn't do it from the boat so i just jumped in. >> reporter: a local sheriff carrying a baby helping lead this family out of rising water, locals with boats being called the volunteer cajun navy. >> we're trying to do whatever we can

. >> reporter: the devastating hoeft of mother nature's power storm weary residents of the bayou state pull together amid the tragedy. while the clean up continues tonight, the obama administration announced the president will in fact visit the storm's the -- region on tuesday. white house saying the president is eager to "tell the people of louisiana that the american people will be with them as they rebuild their community and come back stronger than ever." announcement comes as the president faced a gale of criticism for his handling of the crisis. including some comparisons to former president george w. bush's katrina response. and editorial saying the optics of obama golfing of the louisiana residents languish in floodwaters striking. >> milwaukee is burning and louisiana is flooding, and he is speaking at 8 $34,000 a there is, at a certain point, the optics can be bad. >> reporter: the president has been actively engaged according to the white house. he called governor edwards, made an immediate federal disaster declaration and dispatched fema to oversee the recovery efforts. >>

counted and that of course, will finally happen on tuesday as the president makes his way to the bayou state. we will see firsthand how the recovery effort is going and learn how the people of louisiana really come together in the midst of tragedy. even as the president puts down his golf club and picks up the spirits of the people of louisiana, he will continue to face a great deal of criticism by many who believe he should have been there already. just a sample of that, let me share an editorial from the advocate, a big newspaper in baton rouge. it reads in part the optics of obama golfing while louisiana residents languished in floodwaters was striking. it evoked the precedent of the passive federal response to the state's agony in 2005, a reference to hurricane katrina, a chapter or history no one should ever repeat. it is also important to point out the governor of the state of louisiana told the white house it didn't want the president to come there too soon because his presence may interfere with the recovery process. >> i didn't want to divert these police officers, sheriffs deputy a

. >> the bayou state underwater. incredible images of flooding coming out of louisiana, an extraordinary water rescues -- and extraordinary water rescues caught on camera. >> please help me. >> this woman in baton rouge pulled from her sinkle car in just in the nick of time. at least six people are dead, 20,000 people rescued from the rising waters. >> even though it was an unnamed storm, it was historic levels of rivers and creeks rising and i will tell you that we have not seen anything like this in the past. >> reporter: the u.s. coast guard is in the air making daring high water rescues. the l.a. national guard is on the ground, more than 200 roads are closed or impass south louisiana, the water is dangerous in terms of the coverage on the roads. >> reporter: right now 12,000 people are in shelters. many of them grab whatever they could -- grabbed whatever they could, others escaped with just the clothes on their backs. >> we tried out the back door, there were fires and we tried out the kitchen, there was a snak

of mother nature's power met head-on by prayer and persevere ens as storm-weary residents of the bayou state pulled together amid the tragedy. and while the cleanup continues tonight, the obama administration revealed the president will visit the region on tuesday. the president is eager to, quote, tell the people of louisiana that the american people will be with them as they rebuild their community and come back stronger than ever. the announcement comes as the president was facing a gale of criticism for his handling of the crisis including some comparisons to former president george w. bush's post-katrina response. the newspaper in baton rouge writing the optics of obama golfing while louisiana residents languished in floodwaters was striking. it evoked the president of the passive federal response to the state's agony in 2005, a chapter of history no one should ever repeat. >> milwaukee's burning and louisiana's flooding and he's speaking at a $34,000 a plate fund-raiser for hillary clinton. so there's at a certain point the optics can be really bad. >> reporter: the white house points

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the efforts being made as more extreme weather hits the bayou state. above average temperatures dominate the valley again for another week. how much hotter can it get? that answer in our forecast.. as 8 news now starts right now./// "now, live...this is 8 news now weekend edition." ((nia wong)) >>> thanks for joining us this morning. i'm nia wong. we have a follow up to breaking news we told you about in our 6 o clock newscast. this morning...north las vegas police are still on

this weather system dumped nearly 2 feet of rain on the bayou state. >> help me. >> incredible wateres were caught on camera. this woman in baton rouge was pulled from her sinking car just in the nick of time of the at least 20,000 people were rescued from their homes. re currently living in shelters. this afternoon a state of emergency remains in effect. louisiana's governor calls this flooding historic. >> even though it was an unnamed storm, it was historic levels of rivers and creeks rising and i will tell you that we've not seen anything like this in the past. >> while the rescues continue and aid is administered tottens of thousands of residents affected, there is a bright is spot. officials say the water levels should begin to recede tonight but that could take days. the images are completely believable this afternoon, sharrie, they are under water. >> to say the least. >>> meantime police in milwaukee are bracing for another night of protests after a man was shot and killed by a police officer. today the city's mayor and police chief blamed outsiders for causing the unrest an

of mother nature's power met head-on by prayer and persevere ens as storm-weary residents of the bayou state pulled together amid the tragedy. and while the cleanup continues tonight, the obama administration revealed the president will visit the region on tuesday. the president is eager to, quote, tell the people of louisiana that the american people will be with them as they rebuild their community and come back stronger than ever. the announcement comes as the president was facing a gale of criticism for his handling of the crisis including some comparisons to former president george w. bush's post-katrina response. the newspaper in baton rouge writing the optics of obama golfing while louisiana residents languished in floodwaters was striking. it evoked the president of the passive federal response to the state's agony in 2005, a chapter of history no one should ever repeat. >> milwaukee's burning and louisiana's flooding and he's speaking at a $34,000 a plate fund-raiser for hillary clinton. so there's at a certain point the optics can be really bad. >> reporter: the white house points

louisiana is a state of rivers and bayous that generally stay inside their banks.ular case, we've got -- what's happened over time is that through good intentions, we've gone and occupied some of that space that used to be a flood zone. and unfortunately, a lot of our communities are under water. they include our industry. i mean, our east-west industry, interstate 12 and 10, which is key to the economic prosperity of the nation, and the connectivity and what they all -- key ports between houston and new orleans, all the way into jacksonville, that entire trench system is disrupted. so on top of all of our citizens losing their home and inside those citizens are our first responders. we have lost numerous fire. our salvation army, the biggest -- one of the biggest ones in the south is under water. so it's having an effect on the community, because the flooding is so widespread, all the way from right outside of new orleans to the texas border, we've got people under water along interstate 10. >> since flooding is to be expected in the state, does the government nee

south of here and a handful of new evacuations have been ordered by bayous, rivers and other waterways inundated with water and today the state fire marshal will be going door-to-door here in that instant parish searching for any more victims, officials fear the number of dead could go off as a result of what they are calling the secondary searches. although the fema director has already been here and today the secretary for the department of homeland security , jay johnson will be on the ground, we have talked to a lot of people. there are editorials in local newspapers here saying that they wish president obama would draw some more attention to what's happening here and schedule a visit to louisiana. while he continues to vacation. john? jon: casey siegel in louisiana, that before and after you have on the screen is unbelievable. an aerial view of what that has to louisiana looks like before the inches and inches of rain and then down below the footage, the picture of after is absolutely incredible, and if only they had some of that rain in california, casey, thank you. jenna: coverage of the severe weather story we are fol

bayou. >> my question about the democrat party for you is this -- it is true of the party at a national level. most of the statehouses and stateegislatures, the control of the house, at the moment, but democratic presidential level is rocky. look back for a moment. was there any time when you thought she might lose to bernie sanders? >> i can't say that i wasn't nervous. but i never thought she would lose. in the general, people call and say, did you see this? that come back and think, much of this and that much of that. down the road, we know we will get a bunch of e-mails and we have a bunch of donors whot suggest had access to her. how much of a threat do you think it is, it giving it is the biggest looming political threat right now. how much of a threat is it? running a campaign of getting political advice i would say, shut it down. people are going to die. -- if bob doled , ifthe majority leader george w. bush is raising money for his library when his son was president, that is fine. a lady sent me an e-mail from a charity watchdog group and pointed out that -- started by george h.w. bush while he was still in office. i

bayou manchac. they're detouring traffic. >> these are all major highways, right? and you said i. >> -- i-12 coming in, you can leave the stateut not get back in. this struck me today when i looked at this. someone set me the cover of the advocate in baton rouge saying, state of disaster. is it -- it's a disaster there for much of the state, right? especially baton rouge? >> it really is, because here's the deal. it's a no-name storm. this was something that said, oh, you prepare like a hurricane. no, you don't. this one, it just came upon us and just started dumping massive amounts of water. we go back to our record books, 1983 was record book, you know, throw those records out. because we've surpassed them. so now what the meteorologists are telling us, you're going to have a lot of water and it's going to be deeper. interstate 12 was shut down for 30 hours, over a thousand cars stranded on the interstate. those people to sit there and say, we're going to make this happen, but it was pockets of water, dry land, 12 feet of water, dry land, so we couldn't get to them with boats because you have to pick the boats up and move t

bayou water that was teeming with fish, spiders and mold. louisiana's governor said high waters have impacted about 40,000 homes. he expects half the statedisasters. >> things like this, pictures of my daughters. we'll never get things like that back. >> to put this in perspective for you, chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz said this is the worst flood disaster since superstorm sandy. meanwhile, back here at home, the weather is hot. there's also a threat of severe storms that we're going to talk about. but so is the demand for businesses at the jersey shore. see how the popular spots are trying to keep up with this weather. >>> i'm jacqueline london live in rio de janeiro. everyone wants a medal here at the olympic games, but some athletes are collecting another type of medal. i'll explain next. to win anle ask me wholympic medal, i tell them, "you already know." the medals you've earned are all around you. your bronze. your silver. your gold. and liberty mutual insures them all. liberty mutual is proud to insure every team usa medal won in rio, just like we protect the medals you've earned in life. liberty stands with you.

state's request for emergency assistance. we have more from boris sanchez. >> reporter: we are standing in what used to be a street, christine and alison, this is now the bayouwhat you can see, it covered this neighborhood in 2 to 3 feet of water. what i can tell you, this area did not get that much rain compared to other parts of louisiana. what has happened is the flood water that was on the eastern and northern part of the state has moved this direction and it has caused several bodies of water, swamps and rivers to overflow and submerge neighborhoods. it is really emotional out here. especially when you see people come out in canoes and going into the water with high boots just to go inside their homes to retrieve personal objects. i spoke to one woman who lives here and she told me that at midnight last night, there wasn't that much water. at around 3:00 a.m., she had to rush out the door because a foot of water entered her home. she came back here today. she told me she gotten brand new furniture for her home. she did not care about the furniture, but the photographs she thought would be destroyed. she was able to recover them. that speaks to the emoti

state just overexplode in her area. where we're standing, the rain has begun to fall again, this is still a very dangerous situation. they're expecting that bayou that essentially took over a neighborhood to go up by at least another foot before it's all said and done from what we understand, there are more than 15,000 people still without power. about a hundred roads and highways are still shut down and we're getting confirmation that rescues are still ongoing. more than 7,000 rescues have taken place across the state. it's really a staggering number when you consider there were only three fatalities and that so many of these areas got hit by very quick flash flooding and very little advanced notice for these communities. we have seen at lot of rescues, many of them are volunteers, people coming from different parts of the state to the evacuated areas so they can help those who need it most, fred. >> boris, among those rescues, again, you can't keep your eyes off that extraordinary video of you described earlier, volunteers that came upon that red convertible that was submerged in the water, they tore open the top and they pulled out a woman a

bayou criticize the president for playing golf on martha's vineyard louisiana governor explained he specifically asked the presidentin not to come at least not yet. i didn't want to divert the please officers and state provide a security for the president while they we're needed in this region to undergo those response activitiesen andi asked him if he could wait intel response was over we get into the recovery phase which are i w predicted we would do over the weekend i survey next week a better time for us to visit but the president is welcome to come to our state anytime he wants to. white house says present obama is scheduled to fly back to washington tonight and had to with the governor as well. the latest on the devastating wildfire near los angeles authorities are lifting the evacuation orders flying thousands of familiesev to retun to what'sil left of their homes total of 82,000 people who live in the fires line we're forced to flee the flamesli more than a thousand firefighters working around-the-clock to control the fire it is now about 85 percent contained. for families can return to their county they must show proof of residency. much-needed rain over the past few days they question is w

bayous and rivers raging quickly past record levels. overnight, rescue crews in louisiana worked relentlessly. after days of historic rain triggered epic flooding and a state of emergency leaving at least six dead and thousands trapped. more than 20,000 people rescued across the state since this friday. some of the stranded saved from the air. the coast guard hoisting this woman and boy to safety sunday. >> get out. >> reporter: and many more rescued by boat. >> give me a knife. give me a knife. >> reporter: watch this dramatic water rescue in baton rouge on saturday. >> oh, my god, i'm drowning. >> we're coming, we're coming! >> reporter: volunteers doing all they could as this woman's car filled with water. >> i need help, please help me. >> reporter: the rescuers freeing the woman just in time. >> get my dog. >> her dog? >> get my dog. >> reporter: and going back for her beloved dog. >> i can't get the dog. >> maybe she's gone. >> no. no, she better not be. >> i got your dog. >> reporter: hundreds of pets rescued as well over the weekend. nearly 5,000 people spending the weekend in red cross shelters so overwhelmed some people sleeping on floors. busine

state has to go somewhere. so rivers and wetlands end up overflowing into neighborhoods. this is actually the bayou behind us.erged this neighborhood almost entirely. neighbors were coming back yesterday to try to salvage what they could. it's a really dangerous situation to put yourself in, especially when you don't know how deep the water is. we've seen some really incredible rescues. one of them was a woman in her car. it became submerged. she was unbelievably fortunate there were volunteers nearby to help her. watch this. >> please help me. get my dog. get my dog. >> i can't get the dog. maybe she's gone. >> no, she better not be. >> i got your dog. swim to the boat. >> reporter: incredibly brave and selfless actions by those volunteers. it's something we've seen again and again across the state. people coming out with their boats, going into neighborhoods like this one to try to rescue people and get them out of harm's way. i can tell you, again, it's supposed to keep raining here, so the situation clearly not over. there still may be more problems ahead, and here is why. where i'm standing right now, th

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