levee has been breached. simon, matt, thank you. >> matt, thank you for making my point. >> simon, you got it. >> sandra: we have this fox news alert. "houston chronicle" reporting that a police officer is matt just mentioned, has drowned in his patrol car while he was driving to work. all this as a relentless rain in houston because two reservoirs the , and the flooding is expected to last until october. chris jenkins live. >> it is devastating, sandra. the addicks reservoir you see behind me as well is the reservoir. the two main systems to keep flooding out in houston are overflowing at a rapid rate. the news that we have just learned from the harris county flood control is that the subdivisions, 3,000 plus homes in the surrounding areas should plan for flooding for the next 4-5 weeks into october. if you live in this neighborhood and you see a little bit of water, you need to evacuate. the gauges on both barker and addicks are broken or breaking. they're having to fix them. to give you some sense, look at

the levee at columbia lakes has been breached. get out now.uation for up to two days. this notice fairly alarming. chad myers is with us to shed light on what it all means. chad, what have you learned. >> this river has been for hours now. zoom into columbia river. it is kind of a retirement area. very popular with people because there's water all around it. it's fresh water. you can see the trees and the little lake people fish in. the barrier, the levee from the lake to this area has been breached. this is probably not truly a surprise to the people that live there because they were told to evacuate 48 hours ago because this was known to be a possibility. so, hopefully they are all out of there and there's not much emergency action going on right now because i have seen signs posted over the entire neighborhood, evacuate now. this place is in danger as the river comes up. i tell you, this is as high as i have seen it. i was in richland in june of 2016 for the big flood there. it was a tremendously damaging flood. the water will be, john, six

catastrophic flooding breaching the levees. the dire warning, "get out now." >> i hate to think there are people in these houses. >> new images of dramatic rescues. the all-out effort from boats and choppers. rising water now reaching the rooftops. police tearfully revealing the loss of one of their own in the flooding. tonight, record rainfall showing no signs of quitting as harvey prepares to deliver another punch to the gulf. >>> swept away. four children and their great grandparents lost trying to outrun the flooding. their van going under. their great uncle, the only one to make it out alive. tonight relatives tell us what happened. >>> shelters overloaded. families by the thousands pleading for help. some emergency shelters running out of room.

coming to get you. >> reporter: levees breached in houston. the devastation described as worst than the worst case scenario. which is why air force one touched down today 220 miles south of houston, in relatively unscathed corpus christi. president trump accompanied by the first ly the ground in texas as soon as possible, assessing the first major natural disaster of his presidency. first stop, a local firehouse. >> this was of epic proportion. nobody's ever seen anything like this. it's a real team. and we want to do it better than ever before. we want to be looked at in five years, in ten years from now as this is the way to do it. >> reporter: after the meeting the president greeted by hundreds of cheering supporters, not unlike a campaign rally. >> i want to thank you for coming out. we're going to get you back and operating immediately. thank you, everybody. what a crowd. what a turnout. >> reporter: and with the texas flag in hand the president leaving the crowd with a hopeful tone. his next and final stop, austin, where he toured the st

dams and levees cannot hold any more water with more on the way. perhaps another foot of rain as tropical storm harvey just won't quit. >>> in the storm zone, president trump gets a briefing on the catastrophe from emergency managers and government officials. inside the zone he is vowing disaster response better than ever before. >>> and all options. the president responds to north korea's latest missile launch with a not so failed military threat, saying that all options are on the table. cnn is the only western network reporting from pyongyang. we'll take you there live. wolf blitzer is off, i'm jim sciutto, and you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. the catastrophic flooding in texas is worsening this hour. water is rising in rivers, reservoirs and bayous and the rain is still coming down. south of houston, police warn residents to get out now following the breach of a levee. more than four feet of rain has now fallen in parts of houston. that is the most ever recorded inside the continental u.s. now tropical storm harvey has been re

that we are protecting behind the levees. there's a reason behind these things. the agency has become the a pity me of politics. every lawmaker has an army corps of engineers project or hopes to have one in their district. has the years, the core molded itself to respond to lawmakers, individual lawmakers and their pet projects. writtenwmakers have thousands and thousands of legislative provisions aimed at advancing their pet projects. with this larger effect they are having on the army corps as a whole. we ended up with an agency that move so slowly. it spends millions of dollars, years upon years studying problems without ever reaching a conclusion, a reaching that conclusion soul -- slowly. then you have a funding problem, which is not an army corps problem, that is congress's problem. keeps getting larger. host: 202-748-8000 for the central and eastern time zones, 202-748-8001 for the mountain and pacific time zones, and for texas and louisiana, 202-748-8002. you can tweet us your spot at c-span. your story to q2 louisian

there is local levees and there is corps controlled levees.tunately we don't have a lot of oversight of that particular levee. but we are certainly willing to help with the county. >> martha: i want to interrupt you for one second. i apologize for that. we are looking at a live rescue on the right-hand side of your screen. i know people have seen pictures and videos throughout the day. this is what we are monitoring happening right now. we just saw someone pulled out of the water into one of those rescue boats and it's 6:15 in the evening. so not too much daylight left in houston. and you just have to give these people so much credit who are just out there looking for that one person who may have made their way towards one of these boats and they want to be there when that person needs them. >> i'm not sure exactly what you are seeing but if, you know, we can give as much credit to the people doing first responders and rescue action and thinking about the people of texas right now. that's pretty important. >> martha: we're trying to figure out

the levee was later fortified. everywhere, storm victims faced desperate moments. a traffic camera captured drivers stranded atop a truck, on a highway that's now a river, a rescue boat arriving to carry them to safety. another man caught in fast- moving water clung to a sign as he waited for help. thousands poured into houston's convention center, filling it to nearly double the official capacity of 5,000. and tempers frayed. >> you really trying to understand, with the microphone in my face? with me shivering and my child wet, and you still putting the microphone in my face? >> reporter: mayor sylvester turner said today the city is working to open more shelters. >> we've certainly made the official request to fema. we need additional assistance, and so we've asked them to provide supplies and cots and food for an additional 10,000 individuals, and hopefully those >> reporter: ed emmett is in charge of emergency operations for harris county. >> even though the storm, today's the last day, it's going to move out, we're still going to have floodwaters, still going

this is where the addicks levee over topped for the first time in its history.h of another one of these volunteers of goodwill, ray driver, and they're helping these people out of this boat right now and you can see they're standing in knee-deep water, more than knee-deep water, and what we're seeing is these people -- these good samaritans have jumped into the breach and helped out however and wherever they could with whatever they could. this obviously is a boat. we've seen them literally come through here, brooke, in dump trucks. we've seen national guard carriers come through here. we've seen so many different scenarios, and you can hear someone behind me clapping right now. the manjat family also just got rescued. quickly, if i could ask you a question, please. what was it like for you when you heard that the levee had been overtop. >> we really never thought it would happen. so we just came to check on our house, and it did. so, it's overwhelming. this is really overwhelming. knowing that maybe your house could be devastated. so, yeah. >> reporter: let's h

what is the impact of the levee breach?he top of the levee, it started an hour or hour and a half ago. it is a subdivision along the river. we have known for several days that the water was going to breach the levee, from the projections. hopefully most of the people are gone from the subdivision. we went door-to-door two days ago, letting them know flooding was imminent. we hope most are out. we have assets on sight to assist with anybody that needs to head out and come to angleton, that is where we will be sheltering folks. they need to come out to highway 35 and head north toward angleton. >> what is your biggest concern now that this levee has been breached? >> caller: the biggest concern is the few folks that may have disregarded our warnings and we don't want anybody hurt. this is a significant event. we are going to see the worst of our flooding is still yet to come and i don't want to see anybody hurt or worse over the next several weeks that we have this event ongoing. >> judge, are there enough resources, enough v

i'm not surprised the levee breached., five days. it's still raining today. we're just hoping and praying the rain will stop and co—get back to some sense of normality here. in the meantime, there's lots of people who need lots of people. it's difficult, but we'll be ok. it's fantastic that you are giving them that help. well done on your efforts so far. and good luck with the rest of this unfolding tragedy. i want to stay with the story and also stay in houston, becausejohn falco is on the line to us now. he lives in south—eastern houston. i wonder if you mightjust describe the scene around where you are. yes, actually i'm in south—west houston and, well, about a mile from where i live, there are homes that have three feet of water in them. i live in an area that is, it's the mireland area. it's known for being, for having flooding issues. but nothing of this nature. so your house has not been flooded? no, it has not. fortunately our house is at the higher point of the area, of the subdivision. there are people down the

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that levee was later fortified but officials are keeping a close eye on other reservoirs.'s clayton sandell shows us. >> reporter: the rain has stopped but the waters are still rising. the addicks reservoir in west houston is so full it's spilling into nearby streets. people and pets evacuated on boats, humvee, even this garbage truck. right now you're trying to figure out when this critical point is to call for help and get out. >> it's actually now. we decided we need to get out. >> reporter: neighborhoods downstream of the reservoirs are flooding too as officials are forced to release water to relieve pressure on the dams. >> the dilemma is to try to balance the inflows that we can't control based off of that unparalleled level of rifle that's he kurred upstream and the outflows we can control which is what you see here. >> reporter: the man in charge of monitoring the dams says he believes they will hold. >> these dams are currently performing as expected. you can see that the releases are performing as we would expect them to be with this amount of rainfall that's unp

good, good, good, levee, levee, levee. bad back here. the first row of homes does have a levee on the back side of this. they never thought this was going to flood. they would have never built houses i think at 107 feet if they knew it was going to get higher than that, or even 97 feet. let's zoom in right here. you can see how many homes are going to be affected here. the levee, a back side levee, at 101 in most spots. the water will pour over and some of these houses are at 97 feet. you can do the math. some of these houses will be under six feet of water. they thought they were protected by this, but they're not. now it's a mandatory evacuation, alisyn. >> it sure is, chad. thank you very much for the update on all of that. sometimes you have to do whatever it takes. that's what dr. stephen kimmel said as he canoed through treacherous floodwaters with a little help to get to his hospital to perform a lifesaving surgery on a teenager who was suffering. dr. kimmel joins us now. doctor, wow, that is going above and beyond. you were canoe

here's the levee, right here, same projection right there. this is addicks levee. see all these things, buildings, commercial buildings, residences, let me take you back to when the reservoir was made? can you find a building? not really, this was range land, this was farm land, west of houston, houston had 250,000 people when this was built and now it has a cabout a 100 million. this is the place where the water could have soaked in. how can it soak in if you have paved it all. and there's all those homes and all those businesses. >> one of the many conversations about the growth in the area and the new steps they're going to have to take to protect that area. the houston area has been hit by more than 50 inches of rain, no matter where you live in the country, it's hard to fathom, just how much rain that is. the "new york times" put together this match, the data in noaa. take a look closely if you can. it shows how long it would take your home on average to get the same amount of rain. if you live in that blue area, the mid-atlantic area, it would take 16 months

the levee there has been breached. what more can you tell us?> well, jim, our emergency response team had gone out two days ago asking everybody to leave that area, because we knew the floodwater is coming at urr. and now those who didn't leave, first responders making sure absolutely they know what's happened and are getting out. they're very, very pro active at this point. >> why is it that you think some folks decided to hold on? just a few moments ago talking to a reporter who said there is some undocumented people worried about being picked up because of their immigration status, if they seek relief. i'm told by dhs that's not going to happen. i suppose there's a variety of reasons why people don't want to get -- don't want to leave their homes at this point? >> well, absolutely. texans of resilient, we're used to hurricane and some flooding's this is being called the worst flooding event in american history now, but people want to stay close to home. they think they can ride it out. texans are very, very resilient but i don't think they an

. >> so the historic flooding from harvey is pushing levees and dams to this limits.ending water into homes. >> a levee breached out, prompting an urgent tweet from authorities prompting authorities to get out now. the levee was later fortified, but officials are keeping an eye on other reservoirs. abc's clayton sandell has more. >> reporter: the rain has stopped but the water is still rising. the addicks dam reservoir is so full it's spilling into nearby streets. people evacuated on boats, humvees, even this garbage truck. you're trying to think about when that critical point is to call for help? >> it's now. we decided we need to get out. >> reporter: neighborhoods downstream from the barker and addicks dam reservoir are pressured too. >> the idea is to balance the inflows that we can't control, based on the unparalleled level of rainfall upstream. and the outflows that we can control. which is what you see here. >> reporter: the man in charge of monitoring the dams says he believes they will hold. >> these dams are currently performing as expected. you can see that

so you've got the levee at columbia lakes that has been breached. the brazoria county levee that is breached and threatening residents in surrounding areas, 3,000 homes in houston have been swamped by water. jeff flock showed you a house in the last hour, i'm fearful to see where you are. the massive floods are probably heading louisiana's way. tell us what you are seeing now? >> reporter: i want to continue to tell the story of this one person in the flood as it unfolds. that is brandon, the guy we met last hour who let us take a first live look inside his house. he's taken some of his stuff there, whoopsy, out of the house, that we showed and you maybe if we -- i want to show you what the outside of that house looks like. maybe take a look at the pictures from inside, an extraordinary look. he hasn't been back since he left the house on saturday. you open the door and this is some of what he saw, it is incredible devastation, and this is repeated all over houston, and not only that, liz, if we come back live here, this is one of the reasons why hi

right now at 4:00, levees are breaking just outside of houston. michelle: some rainfall told to get out now. nancy: the rainfall unlike anything the country has seen before. 49 inches from one storm. breaks a record for the continental united states. jonathan: keep in mind that is happening in the last few days. a couple howevers ago president trump arrived in corpus christi where the clean-up efforts are underway. michelle: lana zak begins abc7's team coverage now from houston. lana: president donald trump and first lady melania arrived in corpus christi to receive a briefing on the flood. >> this is of epic proportion. >> nobody has seen anything like this. >> many of the officials present told the president recovery is just beginning. >> recovery is a slow process. rest assured we are doing everything we can. >> in houston, epic rescue effort continues around the clock to save people trapped by rising floodwaters. this man stuck on top of his car waited for crews on a dinghy to take him to high ground. we saw shelters beyond capacity. >> we are

this is a levee on the river in the county. when that levee breached, this county could not have been more clear in that instruction or more urgent in what they needed people to do in order to save themselves. that said, the spokeswoman later explained to reporters that despite the danger posed by the levee breach, despite the urgency of the instruction to get out, the county didn't have any unflooded evacuation routes to which they could send people in the county when they ordered them to get out. this is unsubtle. get out is a direct command whether or not it's followed by multiple exclamation marks. but it's and obstruction if there are no means for you to get out even if you want to try. local officials say 20% to 30% of all of harris county is under water. harris county is gigantic. it's the county that includes houston proper. houston is a gigantic city. the only cities larger are new york, l.a. and chicago. and houston is next. houston is also magnificently large in terms of its geographic area. it has a gigantic sprawli

the levees are designed to withstand a 500 year of event. those are the kinds of hard decisions leaders have to make, and they have to make it in conjunction with discussion with their constituents. host: let's go to sacramento. caller: bill smith, sacramento. you had a commentator on here a couple weeks ago. met -- i'vean i been operating more stealthy and less disruptive and greener than anyone i have come across. i have had to learn to stay alive. world'sy said the records and lots of things like baseball. japan, he was in my buddy in katrina, is american rescue team international. traveleddoug copp around the world and had a ticket to fly. a business imploding buildings. they learned what firemen's learn around the world. my point is that chinese tv gave an interview with my friend in canada and he was given the management of the military at every disaster. he was a constituency of one. he said he did not want to run fema. host: i'm going to have michael brown jump in. contracting out, does that happen? happens andsolutely it has to happ

a pair of old reservoir dams are now overflowing their levees adding to the rising flood waters. the flood gates are releasing water at twice their normal weight trying to leave the pressure. five consecutive days of rain has set a new record. one station reported over 49 inches of rain as of tuesday morning. more than a trillion gallons have been dumped here on top of harris county and to give you some perspective what all of that means, it's enough to fuel niagra falls for 15 days. >> countless neighborhoods in and around the city remain under water. civilians are using their own boats to get to those stranded. boats to gete caught a happy rer earlier today. >> just talking to your sister here. >> i can't believe this. >> i just love these reunions when you get a chance to see families reunited. >> take a look at this rescue posted by houston residents. her neighbors formed a human chain to help get a pregnant woman to the hospital. she said as the water continues to rise lots of people showed up to get the woman to a truck where rescuers were waiting to take her to the hospita

with levees failing, we're seeing with the city of houston, levees are breaking.situation. this is president trump, first lady getting briefed this is few moments ago. this is the briefing on harvey with texas officials. >> doing a fantastic job. brock has been incredible. from your standpoint, nim, steve, who i just met, steve, the job they have done, getting along. number one they like each other, very important. number two they respect each other and the job all of these groups have done getting along in terms of coordination has really been incredible. everyone is talking about it. the sad thing this is long term, nobody ever seen anything this long and nobody ever seen this much water in particular. the wind was pretty horrific but water has never been seen like this to the extent. it is maybe some day going to disappear. we keep waiting. we have three or four of our great congressman here. we appreciate you being here. we'll work with congress helping out the state of texas. it will be a costly proposition because again, probably ted cruz is here and senator

levees and reservoirs are overflowing. the floodwaters rising by the hour, and officials scrambling to rescue countless stranded residents. this has been going on since thursday. it's almost unbelievable. >> eboni: and it's not over. that is the most devastating part, when you hear that president talk about the extent. such an enormous capacity issue. we know when the levees break, as they did in new orleans, that's really the entry of the grave devastation. >> this morning on "fox & friends," we were talking about one being exceeded. it's fully overrun. an important trip by the president to go out there. believing his understanding, respond to, pushing past partisanship. we know washington, d.c., is flooding with partisanship. when you see the citizenship and courage and compassion of the people on the ground who don't see a race or gender or creed. they are looking out for each other. it's the spirit of america. america lives in texas. there's a reason texas has its own pledge. in texas, you believe in yourself and you b

was this the new rain coming in, was there a levee break, what happened? >> there was no levee breaks, this was all a product of tropical storm harvey. i would say this is unfortunately the new normal around here. >> leland: you are a community that is used to flooding, the mayor put out a urgent facebook message overnight that said "my entire city is underwater, please send boats." and then put up his own facebook video of him giving a tour of a home flooded as he himself evacuated. the best you can tell right now, where are we at? is it to rescue everybody that needs rescuing or are things still happening? >> things are still happening, the coast guard is here with rescue choppers, the water isn't going anywhere, the rain has stopped for the time being. there are a lot of folks who need a lot of help and you don't really know exactly how many that is, into the hundreds is what i've heard, i would not be surprised if it was into the thousands. >> matt finn was saying he had seen 1,000 people just they're being rescued, many without shoes on as they had no

steve says there may have been a levee breach as well in houston.e will watch that. >>> in 20 minutes, how a northern california shelter dog is joining the search and rescue effort in texas. >>> it is not just people being displaced by the storm in texas. the concerns about alligators getting loose and lurking in flood waters. ♪ keeping up. it takes hard work, tight budgets and a little support. and pg&e is ready to do our part. our care program can save you 20% or more on your monthly bill. it just takes a few minutes to apply and you'll see the savings on your next bill. when having a little extra can mean a lot ...turn to care. go to pge.com/care and enroll today. >> the armed forces are preparing to move in to help with rescue efforts in texas during tropical storm harvey. boats are ready in houston. the coast guard is at work carrying out rescues in flooded areas of the city which is what you see here. more than 60 military aircraft are also helping in the government's disaster response. the governor of texas has also activated the entire texas

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catastrophic flooding breaching the levees. the dire warning, "get out now." >> i hate to think there are people in these houses. >> new images of dramatic rescues. the all-out effort from boats and choppers. rising water now reaching the rooftops. police tearfully revealing the loss of one of their own in the flooding. tonight, record rainfall showing no signs of quitting as harvey prepares to deliver another punch to the gulf. >>> swept away. four children and their great grandparents lost trying to outrun the flooding. their van going under.

there are a number of dams and levees being damaged.breached, there are other homes that remain in danger and still could flood yet. >> leland: we said before, we'll sit again. this is going to get much worse before gets better. president trump is adding to texas right now to get a firsthand look at the damage from tropical storm harvey. the president's visit to corpus christi comes after he promises swift action. you can see him leaving the white house earlier. peter doocy 11 corpus christi where he's scheduled to touch down in a few minutes. high hi peter. >> the white house says they know this is going to be a very long recovery effort. that's what the press secretary just said on air force one. we got word ahead of them landing. we expect this scheduled to be fluid because the white house said they want to be very careful that the president and all of the security and all of the resources that are required when he goes anywhere, they do not want to interrupt any ongoing rescue or recovery efforts. what we know about the visit, he's

i guess the strain of all this historic rain is just pushing reservoirs, dams, levees to the brink and those rescue operations i know are still under way. you're at the addicks reservoir. what's the latest from there? >> reporter: chris, the addicks reservoir was built in the 1940s. it was never meant to handle this much rain. now that the rain stopped we can show it to you. my photographer is on the top of this earthen dam that makes up the ring around the addix recks reservoir. i'm only halfway down this wall. those trees you see out there in the distance, i'm told by people who live in this neighborhood that those trees are 20 and 25 feet tall. that is how much water has shown up in this reservoir which is normally essentially a dry creek with a little band of water running through it. but now so much rain has fallen they are discharging, chris, 60,000 gallons of water per second out of this reservoir and the barker reservoir, which is really only a few blocks to a few miles away from here, trying to dump all that water out into the bayou system so it can make its way back into the

back out here, there is a levee. a small levee of about 101 feet high.here, there are neighborhoods that are 97 feet high. the water is going on the backside and over the wrong way because it isn't going this way because there's a levee here. zoom into the neighborhoods. all of this completely under water. not the rooftop. certainly the grass and all the areas, especial think streets. farther north, rosa florez was here an hour ago. the streets are flooded, but the homes are dry. they are trying to take all the cars out of here. this is the mandatory evacuation area. this is not going to flood much higher. the water is going the other way. water goes up, water goes down. it depends on where you are in the bubble, john. houston is way out. the buffalo bayou is not going to go down for a few weeks or two before people can get back there and throw away. that's what you do. tear out the sheet rock. >> two weeks before they can start to rebuild. thank you so much. >>> u.s. coast guard starting rescue missions in louisiana right now. they are taking off right

and breaching a levee. good afternoon, i'm kenny choi. >>> live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. >> now at noon, president trump touches down in texas as tropical storm harvey brings record rainfall overflowing a reservoir and preaching a levy. good afternoon, i am ken each way. >> and i michelle griego. get out now is the message one houston suburb welcome -- woke up to as a levee breached. this, as another 10 inches of rain could fall of more than 6000 rescues and counting. shelters are overflowing. more than 9000 evacuees held a convention center, nearly double its capacity. >>> president trump is in texas as local officials briefed him on the recovery effort as crews rescue those still stranded in the flood ravaged state. weijia jiang is live in corpus christi. i understand the president is going -- isn't going to houston just yet. >> reporter: president trump says he wants to be very cautious not to disrupt the ongoing recovery and rescue efforts still happening in houston, but at th

you mentioned those levees. you heard another government official tell people in a residential neighborhood that levee will break some time tonight and urging them to leave their homes. it is in the middle of the night. they don't have a way to get to safety. so the best that the city official could recommend to them is that they move to a neighbor's house that is slightly up the hill. it is a chaotic fluctuating situation, kimberly. kimberly: thanks for the latest. we need to return to breaking news here in our area from the potomac river. a second person has been pulled from the potomac near the keel bridge. you're taking a live look at the scene the river earlier and was take on the the hospital in critical condition. this is actually videotape from earlier. as we get more information we'll bring it to you. but we did talk to one of our reporters, q mccray. he talked to a sister-in-law of the victim that died. the victim had been drinking and fell into the water. this is coming from a family member not coming

that is the stark warning to folks just south of houston as the river levees breached a short time ago and as harvey is now circling back over land, officials say river water is just pounding down, tributaries and creeks and that they are, quote, at the end of the line. dire predictions of up to 50 inches of rain quickly becoming a reality. last rainfall estimates, a staggering 49 inches of water in some areas. that is more rain than houston sees in an entire year. just extraordinary rescue scenes have been playing out for days now. here you have two women caught in a wild flood waters, swimming frantically before being dragged to safety by a member of the customs and border protection unit. another instance, an elderly woman evacuated out on a stretcher. >> reporter: woman who's in her 80s has just been rescued from the house. the houston fire department, paramedics and volunteers are carrying her through the flood waters on to another stretcher and then they're going to transport her via that ambulance right there. took a lot of people to make this happen. >> let's go to richmond, to

they have huge sandbags saying that the levee has not breached.k to see how bad it is. here's why we have all of these issues, beaumont, texas, this is at the airport, in between beaumont and port arthur, in six hours they had 11 inches of rain. that's equivalent to what houston had saturday night into sunday, everybody woke up, what happened. that's what happened in the beaumont area. 24-hour unimaginable rainfall total of 26 inches of rain. that's one of the highest we've ever had recorded in our entire country in one calendar day. 24 inches in a day. the rainfall moved northward. here's beaumont, still raining. port arthur is located here not raining quite as hard there. is this is going to exit and head out during the day. we do have saturated ground. we do have flash floods throughout the region. this is the flash flood emergencies where people are being rescued as we speak. and we could still get additional areas of concern. will it be as bad as beaumont and port arthur, likely not. we still could get five to seven inches today. up in the hi

in brazoria county a levee breached. some of the people, just normal people in the neighborhood built a makeshift levee of their own in that county. the floodwaters, they went over the top of a 108-foot spillway. something that never happened before. jeff flock was there as it happened. and sent us these pictures you are seeing as the water started flowing into the nearby neighborhoods. a number those neighborhood were already flooded. jeff and his crew moved into those neighborhoods where people are losing just about everything they have. >> this is the first time we'll get a look inside one of these flooded homes. brandon has not been in since this happened. i want to up there. go ahead. i want to give you that look. oh, my lord. oh, my god. i don't know if you can see it because it is dark in here. oh, my lord. you tried to get things up. it's obvious. >> i didn't think the water would get this high back here. but you can see. it's going to get higher and higher. you can see a fish still floating in there. if i had to

and in fact, in texas where the levee wall system exists is a duel use tool to provide border patrol to tactical infrastructure they need and allow local communities to get the flood control they want. and so, really, in consultation with local officials and stakeholders, it is possible to come up with win-win solutions which actually are welcome. this bill also sets up enforcement of our current laws by ending catch and release, by enacting kate's law, and holding sanctuary cities accountable. we facilitate faster and more efficient ports of entry so trade can continue to flourish. and if you think about it if you , are talking about controlling the borders, facilitating the free trade is important so you can focus on the problems that exist through illegality. this bill causes the department of homeland security and law enforcement to consult with local officials at each step of the way. a point i just made. the folks who live in the communities know them best and must be part of any successful border security effort. it is important to note that border security is not a one-size-f

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the strain of five days of historic rain is pushing the reservoirs, the dams, the bridges, the levees, all of them to the brink. a record-shattering 51 inches of rain. president trump visited the region today meeting with emergency officials as the rescues continue around the clock. at least five people are confirmed dead, including a houston police officer. and tonight they're bracing for the next hit, harvey preparing to make a remarkable third landfall on the texas/louisiana border. we have all buof it we have all buof iof ic t oco covered tonight starting with nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: one by one, hundreds more swept up in houston's massive rescue effort, swelling to an epic scale tonight. >> we've been here 25 years, and we've never been close, never even been threatened with high water. >> reporter: u.s. customs and border black hawks helping others stranded in water. the catastrophe taking its toll. and claiming more lives. >> we couldn't find him. once our dive team got there it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. >> reporter: houston's police chief brea

>> so, no damage to the levees so far. in the one in houston and the other ones that we constructed and transferred over to other sponsors in the city of freeport, texas and port arthur. to date we have had no impact in the structures that help protect the citizens of the state of texas. mike: colonel, any success stories? it seems that galveston has held up well so far. >> we have been fortunate here in galveston unlike the previous storms. we definitely feel for our fellow citizens across the state of texas that have been negatively impacted by the storm. our success stories are our communications between the various levels of our governme government, local, the county, the state and federal government. the sharing of information and preparing for the response and recovery for the people of texas is one of the biggest successes we've had so far. mike: what are your concerns in the coming days with signs that the rains won't let up anytime soon? >> the concern there is to continue monitoring and to respond as appropriate.

. >> reporter: continuous rain is raising water levels higher and a levee near houston breached this morning, sending more water into neighborhoods. so far, emergency crews have plucked more than 6,000 people from rising flood waters. ismael martinez is grateful, after a volunteer pulled him from his 18 wheeler. >> i never thought i'd go to sleep and wake up with my truck full of water. >> now in the first test of his administration during a disaster, president trump went to texas today. the president waved a texas flag at a firehouse there in corpus christi. inside he was briefed by state and local officials. >> we want to be looked at in 5 years, and 10 years from now as this is the way to do it. >> president trump says he plans to return the area on saturday. and vice president mike pence says he will visit southeast texas later this week. >>> we've been asking a lot of questions about whether or not these natural disasters are more foreseeable, and we all know our region could be the next one to be pounded by a hurricane, a flood, or a blizzard. our reporter, scott broom has been

got so bad there. >> the levee has been broke for three years.he army corps of engineers and jefferson county were debating who should pay for it. when it broke and they tried to put sandbags there, but it has been broke for three years. it has been like that. they were arguing who was going to fix it, but now it is devastatin devastating. >> you were going to show photos of you and your family showing us getting rescued. >> yeah, it is five or six feet deep in the house. >> do you have any long-term pl plan? you can't get back in that home, you to gut that first floor. >> right, we will, and like i said, we got it for ten days, just today desperately needing it, but we know we need it longer than that, but my postmaster, i work at the post office, he said that he had a good contractor that can help us fix the house. so i called these insurance companies and homeowners and flood insurance, and the other insurance we have that went through a wind storm, you call them and then they give you another number to call and we were not declared a county t

for example, new york city would have to theoretically held a massive array of levees to keep it dry, just like new orleans and st. louis has. my question is what do you do for a place like houston where -- how do you keep the water out of a topography like that? host: michael brown, what are your thoughts on the development of a city like houston, the fourth largest in the country? do the same have to things, for example, the state of florida has done this. i can give you examples from the 2004 hurricanes where the governor jeb bush at that time, were at the school campus, at an elementary school or middle school for example, and the elementary school had been built to old building codes, and was completed mollis. the middle school -- was completely demolished. the middle school, with newer codes had minimal damage. so i think it is a matter of building codes, and i would give you an example from houston. tropical sandy in 2001, i remember going to the texas medical center and being astonished to see that they had put their laboratories and all of their most expensive project -- hadm