i live just across from the police headquarters in a condo in downtown dallas. just a couple of miles away from the event. i had just told the second in command some but this is about to be over, peaceful. i'm going home. call me when the last protester gets in the car and drives off. so we want you to stay to the end to make sure no fights broke out as people walk to their cars.so i had taken off my gun belt and i get this call in my second in command. he is frantic and out of breath. i was a something and just hit the pavement. when he said to me made my heart drop. it really did. >> what is the aftermath of an event like that? five policeman killed and one day?>> it is gut wrenching that you have to explain to widows and officers kids why this happened. and you have to do it many times on a national stage. you have to try to maintain that caring, intimacy that you convey the right message and the families are paying attention to when you are in television or radio or just interacting in the public. with how you are expressing how you feel about the sacrifice

i lived right across the street from headquarters in a condo in downtown dallas a couple of miles away from the event and i had just told the deputy and command that is peaceful and i'm going to go home. stayed to the end to make sure no fighting or anything broke out as people walk to their cars i had taken off like a bell that my uniform and i got this call. he was frantic and out of breath. what he said to me made my heart dropped. it really did. >> host: what is the aftermath of an a vat like that? five policemen killed. in one day. guess who it is gut-wrenching that you have to explain to a widow and an officer's kids why it happened and you have to do it meantime on the national stage so you have to try to maintain that intimacy to carry the right message when you are on television or radio or interacting with the public and how you were expressing how you feel about the sacrifice that their husband just made. it was beyond painful having to stay composed. >> host: david brown in your new look called "called to rise" you talk about losing your partner early on in your police care

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this is the kay bailey hutchison convention center in downtown dallas.vacuees from hurricane katrina back in 2005 where about 2800 folks were housed here. the convention center can house up to 5,000 evacuees. so, again, yesterday they spent the day preparing, laying out those cots and other supplies here. now, between dallas and fort worth, also another suburb the city of irving, we have about 1,000 hurricane evacuees from the houston area already in town and, again, expecting thousands more in the days to come. the city of houston saying that, you know, if they can't house the evacuees there, then they will be bused here. we do expect more folks. the doors open here later on this morning. the local school district already preparing to bus some of those students to local area schools as well. so, a had the of folks pitching in. again, neighbors helping neighbors. ainsley: thank you, saul. brian: there is enough supplies and enough room right now, right? >> yeah. right now we have plenty. in fact, a lot of folks are volunteering and asking how can i help?

they opened up the convention center in downtown houston as a shelter here. and there's a megashelter in dallas. four hours away. they're urging people to drive the distance. >> so much uncertainty and fear. but the helping hands of so many. >>> nbc10 traveled to houston today for the firsthand look of the damage sdp destruction. earlier today he went along with volunteers who came in from austin, texas with their boat. to help those left stranded in flood waters. randy will have more live from houston tomorrow. >> right now tracking irma. another tropical system heading our way that will bring rain to the region. >> tammie souza is timing out this storm for us. >> i'm going to time them both out. we could see rain from both before the weekend hits. let's look at what's going on. once again with harvey down here along the gulf coast. it's drenching houston right now 45 miles per hour winds moving east southeast. it's over water. pulling more water and rain in across the houston area rmt look at what happens. it will make another land fall up along the texas and louisiana border. and then it's g

in downtown houston, they have opened up the convention center, and dallas is preparing to open the doors to what it is calling a mega shelter. it will hold about 5,000 people. kris? >> thank you very much, sarah. you stay safe out there as well. >> you know, we all have been watching that video, watching people be rescued. harvey still dumping rain right now. some places might get as much as 50 inches in total from this storm. >> we'll correct ourselves, we said 50 additional, but it's 50 total. meteorologist kari hall, it doesn't make it much better even after we correct that. >> no, and when you think about how much rain we get in the bay area. in the whole year we get maybe 25 to 30 inches, and they're getting this all within just a couple days, and they didn't really need it to begin with. and to see that there's no movement with this system means there will be more bands of some heavy rain. but it has spread out and covering pretty much the whole state of louisiana and now stretching into mississippi as well. so this will bring more catastrophic flooding as the forward movement of t

dallas has five memorials. the confederate war memorial in downtown includes statues of robert e., stonewall jackson accidental better johnston and jefferson davis. it's more than 120 years old. nbc talked to one of the rally organizers about why the monuments need to go. joins me now for more on this. because we've seen the examples of other state leaders removing confederate monument, do organizers for this rally feel optimistic that local leaders are going to take action at their request? >> good afternoon. well, the organizers of this rally do hope that within the next couple of months some of these confederate memorials might come down. this confederate war memorial in dallas, as you mentioned, it has statues of robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. the march that's going to happen in just a few hours is going to take place a little bit away down there in city hall just a few blocks down. and organizers expect, at least according to facebook, several thousand people have said they'll shown up. although from prior experience the actual people that do show up will be much less.

we drove in from dallas and my photographer and i, we drove around trying to get into downtown houston, which was almost impossible. every highway we went on was inundated with water. they are asking for more volunteers and asking for people to be patient. if you have called 911, they're asking you not to call again. you are in the queue and they are trying to get people to safety as soon as possible. veronica. >> 75,000 911 calls coming in. rescuers obviously overwhelmed responding to all these calls. have you seen any examples of ordinary citizens stepping up? >> reporter: veronica, as we were driving in from dallas today, it was like the cal valerie was driving in next to us. you saw trucks towing fishing boats behind them. one man drove for 9 hours today. they're all coming here saying this is much more important. we even saw a new york police department van that drove all the way in to help as well. >> a lot to be said about the kindness of strangers. meg oliver live tonight in houston. >>> president trump publicly addressed the crisis in texas for the first time today. >> i think

downtown houston. thousands are being evacuated to other parts of the state including dallas. four hours away which is where we are at the walnut hill recreation center. people aren't arrived earlier, but now it's got a lot of people there, marianna. >> okay -- >> reporter: actually, at this school that's been turned into a shelter there are already 300 people. it is already over capacity. the fire department, they have been helping here. i don't know if you can hear me, ali. what i was saying is that the shelter is over capacity with families that have come from houston. some have been here as early as thursday. and they don't know when they will be able to go back home. for many latino families in the state of texas, it means being displaced with their young children. it also means dealing with potential language barriers. i want to talk to stephanie here. this is your family, stephanie. what's been one of the biggest challenges of being here with so many young children in the shelter for so many days? >> i mean -- oh my god. nothing really but challenge, challenging. it's j

downtown, but could not reach them because of the floods. describe the situation where you are at the moment. it was extremely frustrating. we drove in from dallasouston, right outside come at the floods were everywhere. the highways we re floods were everywhere. the highways were blocked. the side roads were blocked. it is virtually like a ghost town. there are sheriffs department officials directing people in and out. we saw big rig trucks trying to get in and out. in the meantime, there are all these rescues going on, nonstop. the us coastguard has rescued 3000 people, so far. their rescued —— they rescued a thousand of them in the last few hours. we have seen hundreds of volunteers driving in to houston. they are towing fishing boats. they coming to help with the search and rescue efforts, because authorities very overwhelmed. they are doing theirjob and stay on top of it, but there is any so much they can do. and they do they need the extra help. as you said, it is a fluid situation, with many predicting that the worst of the rental and flooding is to come. —— rainfall and flooding. that is right. at the moment, it is steady, but we are exp

downtown public park. on sunday, thousands poured into the streets of seattle, denver, baltimore, sacramento, san francisco, los angeles, san diego, dallas, washington d.c., miami, and in charlottesville, virginia, to protest white supremacist violence and mourn the death of 32-year-old heather heyer, who was killed in the attack. courts it is interesting made a big point in his campaign about naming radical islamic terrorism and made this huge show of denouncing ms 13, but he can't come out and announce white supremacy. that is outrageous. amy: at least three people were arrested at the protest in new york city. across the country, many of the protesters also condemned the trump administration for its ties to far-right and white supremacist figures and president trump's refusal to explicitly denounce the neo-nazis and kkk members for carrying out the deadly violence . this is nino brown speaking at a rally organized by boston feminists for liberation. >> martin luther king, eliminated. the ku klux klan? in the white house. right? lines are being drawn. it all comes down to which side are you on. which side are you on? amy: in seattle, w

17,000 people in shelters, including downtown where we have the convention center being used as a makeshift shelter. and then they've already flown people, thousands, to dallasto try and ride this thing out. today the mayor of houston, sylvester turner, has said that he expects to need 10,000 more secure places for people to stay. for 10,000 people, i should say. i didn't say that very clearly. he expects there to be 10,000 more evacuees and he's asking fema for help with that. not a lot of rain right now. great news. kris, marcus, the real news here is that there's more on the way and this is far from over. >> jay, i saw a tweet from the city of houston earlier today saying we will not be asking for people's immigration status or immigration papers. have you heard people talking about that, being fearful about going to the shelters because of that? >> reporter: yeah, kris, it's been a concern for a lot of people. if i show up somewhere, are they going to ask me why i'm here, where i'm from? is this going to be an immigration issue? all of the leaders have stressed repeatedly, we want you safe. we want you to survive and we don't care where you're from. we d

dallas for their shelter there, and louisiana is offering to take people in. all of these days of rain, historic rain, put a strain on infrastructure. downtownouston are currently spilling over, even as workers continue to release water from them. at least nine people are reported dead, including a police sergeant who drowned in his vehicle on his way to work. many more remain missing. officials say for now, efforts remain focused on rescues, but they will switch to recoveries in the coming days. >> sarah dallof live in dallas, thank you. storms like this remind us not to take simple things for granted. amelia draper is in texas, showed us how hard it is to find food. look at this line outside a grocery store in webster, texas. people waited more than two hours to stock up on basics. back at the hotel, she sat down with coast guard lieutenant to talk about what flying during harvey has been like. >> it has been weather like i've never seen, flying through, torrential downpours, limited visibility. noee evacuations, people needing medicine, people that are diabetic, need dialysis. where can we move them, where is there dialysis available. >>

we know for instance there where you are are, in dallas, that city opened its mega shelter there at convention center downtown for evacuees. but in the houston area. metro sections of that region. what are people doing? once they get out of their homes and they walk safely now? >> yeah. really it has to remain a fluid operation. so as shelters go up, we will continue to move further and further from houston. the ideal case is to make sure that people are far enough away that they aren't secondarily affected but, yeah, just it continues to move through the rest of texas where we have to open shelters just to make sure we have capacity for everyone. >> this is affecting a lot of people. texas is my home. i have a lot of friends and family there. everyone in some form or fashion that i know has been affected by this flooding. and here's the thing, we look at images. there are so many people who are still trapped in their homes. and that's the terrifying thing about it right now. >> the difficult part of all of this. >> dennis, thank you so much for being with us. >> still ahead here on newsroom, catastrophic wea

downtown atlanta to the tune of martin luther king jr. and that happened yesterday. that was just one of several rallies in major cities including in dallasmany speaking out against confederate symbols and monuments were heavily, i'm happy to tell you. >> in boston a free speech rally of about 100 alt right supporters were dwarfed by thousands of counterprotesters. they were surrounded by protesters and a lot of them carried signs that read hate speech is not free speech. president trump tweeted this. >>> in stark contrast with the president, boston's mayor and superintendent praised the counterprotesters for remaining peaceful in the face -- >> to thank all of the people that came out to share that message of love, not hate. to fight back on racism, to fight back on anti-semitism and to fight back on the white supremacists that come into our city. >> as you look around, nothing is burning. nothing is stalling. nothing is looted. that the young people of boston, their parents, their loved ones, and especially the young people of boston, you know, this is a victory today to stand together and drive away racism. >> so boston police departme

i drove from dallas down to houston yesterday and i got basically stuck on an island here in the northwest corner of houston, impossible to get down to downtownown area. and people who live here always talk about allison in 2001 as being really the benchmark for being the worst that they've seen it here. and that, in terms of rainfall, had about 30 inches of rain and we saw in parts of houston that have hit over 30 inches just this weekend. so, as you can see, it is not over yet. and the forecast, i'll say, a couple more days of this. so, this is a long road ahead for this entire community. >> give me a sense of what you're seeing. what are some of the scenes you've happened upon and some of the people you talked to. >> well, again, just last night driving in, you see cars that are abandoned on these streets. it's so odd because such a packed city. gridlock everywhere usually almost any time of day. no one on the road because of the flooding or abandoned cars. you see people walking against the grain, just who knows where they were walking to. there was no where for miles, but they just needed to get out of there because of how scary it is. y

dallas because they are flooded. >> completely flooded. >> the water went into the lobby. they're in downtown houston. i'm not surprised. >> the main dam there is houston dam. >> i believe so. >> they are releasing water. >> nowhere for it to go. >> nowhere for it to go. >> the bayous are flooded. flat as a pancake. >> yeah. some of the pictures coming in now. >> hard to see. >> unbelievable. we will get to it. our weather will be -- thank you, gasia -- will be cooler for just about everybody. steve, there is fog out here in livermore. if fog makes it to livermore, that means that just about everybody will cool off today. it looks hot for the weekend. until then, low clouds and fog. it is surging northward. past santa rosa and napa. it looks like it's on its way to st. helena. over parts of san pablo bay. but not past the strait yet. it does not look like it yet. filling in parts of the east bay as well. really getting good coverage peninsula and also santa be clara valley and santa cruz and monterey. west, northwest, we have an on shore breeze out on the delta. it has been rocking and rolling out the

downtown -- it's like being in a shrinking island. why? because this water keeps on creeping up closer and closer to us. you can probably see the i-45 north ramp that goes to dallas. the sign only. the ramp you can't see it anymore. the water is gushing. we can only show you the tree tops in that area because the water is so high. now, we have moved multiple times today to bring you pictures from a safe location, because it's very difficult to maneuver in the downtown area because water is coming from everywhere. as we turn around this way you can see yet again that's another street, another outlet, yet it's creeping -- >> losing that signal. this is what happens when you have floodwaters. got a lot of cable that also gets drenched why high waters as is the case there in downtown houston. >>> look at these other images we're seeing there around the harris county area. you see those air boats, motorboats used to traverse the city. trying back with rosa flores. the signal is back. roada, continue. >> reporter: as i was saying, feels like a shrinking island here in downtown houston because we're surrounded by water, and water keeps on creeping up closer and closer t