the evacuees at the bob bauer civic center had to scramble up into the bleachers as water completely flooded that build g building. they're now being evacuated to the carl parker center in another part of port arthur and more rain is coming. we've got our team of reporters in the hardest-hit areas so we start with stephanie gosk currently en route to beaumont. stephanie, what are you seeing along the way? >> reporter: hey, chris. en route is sort of a generous description of what we're trying to do right now. i don't know how much forward progress we're making. this is a lot of flooding in the road. you know, there are concerns this morning that the rain has dropped so fast and there is so much of it that the flooding in beaumont will actually end up being worse than what we've seen in houston. they're talking about over 26 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. it is still raining. we are outside. we are west of beaumont and it is a torrential downpour. to just give you an idea of how logistically difficult it is to travel on these roads, we just came to a tiny town on this backcountry road. the fire chief that we met up with here said that down the road there i

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