david begnaud is in meyerland, a neighborhood in southwest houston.>reporter: we're in the sharpstown area of meyerland, this is denise and her little baby santiago. were you able to call for help? >> yes we were, we called my in- law and brother-in-law, they were able to help us, our apartment got flooded with 3 four inches of water. >>reporter: where will you go? do you have a place to go? >> i have a place to go-- reporter: watch the baby ma'am. people are driving through like this, and you start putting people like denise and her baby in danger. we've seen in the last hour people bringing children out on little dinghies or rafts, a city bus is stuck in the water, multiple vehicles, apparently people tried to drive through it and got stuck. back to you. >> strassman: thanks, david. if you'd like to help the victims of harvey, you can go to redcross.org. we'll have more storm coverage on your local news on this cbs station -- on our streaming channel cbsn at cbsnews.com, and first thing tomorrow on "cbs this morning." i'm mark strassman in houston.

rick: we are going to go to rick in meyerland dealing with the aftermath of this storm.t's dumped 9 trillion gallons of water. >> we are in the southwestern portion of meyerland. as we were preparing for our live shot we had fema pulling out into a boat shouting out into homes. >> x drove from utah. our initial assignment was to collect people who are medically sick and couldn't get out of the house. we checked the houses, now we are moving back toward the collection point where we'll pick up children or people who are sick. we were just asking, is there any sick or young children who need toer go. we are heading back in right now. >> what have you seen the past couplewe hours? >> a lot of people take together freeway. most of of the people like i said earlier, they were injured and could not get out. taking a lost animals, a lot of dogs and cats. whatever we could get in the boat. reporter: you are here from utah? >> p. yes. reporter: what happens if you find a woman or child who need assistance? them in the boat and go back to the collection point. our task force prior

because we've gone back into the meyerland neighborhood on bridgewood, and they had said they didn't and that, you know, they were worried about calling for help. how high were you flooded when they came to get you? >> it had just subsided a little bit, but it did make it into the apartment, and -- but no inches, just a lot of soaked carpet. arthel: and who rescued them, grif? >> reporter: now i want to ask you had you known that it was going to be like this, would you have evacuated? >> yes. yes, i would have. we -- >> helicopter. >> reporter: what's that? >> i was scared we were going to have to take the helicopter. >> reporter: all right. i know it's coming down. thoughts and prayers with you guys. all right -- arthel: and there the rain, it's starting up again. >> reporter: a few more people coming in. arthel: go ahead, grif. eric: we'll wait. >> reporter: well, i was just going to say there's more and more people coming in and, you know, this rain as, since we've been talking, it's starting to come down, and these bands, if i kept talking to you another 5 or 10 minutes, you're g

. >> we couldn't actually get as close to meyerland as we want, so we're on the line. you have these homes in this area that are surrounded by water. in fact, they lost power in this area a short time ago. you have the local belaire fire department that has rescue boats in front. the guys are now taking a break because some of them have been going 24 hours. however, the are crews rolling around the clock. i can tell you this, right now, for nonlife threatening situations, they are not responding. we have confirmed that. in other words, if you're in your home and there's water and you can't get out but you're okay, you're not going to get help right now. they're going to resume that rescue operation at daybreak, but they are continuing as we speak rescues involving life-threatening situation. we have heard they have had a large number of medical calls. all right, let's talk about the rescues. the coast guard has come in from around the country. resources arriving here in houston. helicopters have been used to pluck people from their rooftops. but it's not only military

and meyerland, which is everyone to have flooding, the house we live in has never been flooded.e prepared the night before. i expected heavy rain. i expected water to maybe come up on the lawn. when my wife woke up 4:30 in the morning, and i was up already, we talked. discussed it. and she said brian, i think we have to get the girls out. i have three daughters. they had packed bags the night before just in case of emergency because we understand how bad it can get. so we decided to leave about ten minutes later. i looked out the door and the water was up to the door. it started coming in the house and all the, the toil toilets and the bathtub started backing up. we were worried about health and-already made arrangements to go down to a neighbor's house about a half a block away. we started to go half a block away and my littlest girl tried to cross the street herself. swimming across. the waters came across and swept her under and she caught a little current. got one of our dogs and i grabbed her and i dropped the suitcase and we were able to save her. basically, we're lucky sh

david begnaud is in meyerland. >> reporter: the rain will not let up. in fact, there's a guy who just flagged me down and said we got here, where should we go? you have people showing up by the minute with boats ready to help out. the city of houston this morning is still asking folks if you've got the time and you've got a boat, come on down. the cajun navy, the good old people from south louisiana, instrumental during hurricane katrina, are here in houston. it is a mass effort of civilian samaritans doing everything they can to help. to. >> okay. we'll try to get a boat out here. >> reporter: around the clock search-and-rescue teams have been working to take stranded victims to safety. more than 50,000 911 calls have come in. the coast guard has only responded to fraction of those requests. on sunday, localofficials pleaded for help. >> i ask for volunteers to come forward with boats and high-water vehicles. a lot of people just did it on their own. >> reporter: enter jeff chase. >> if everyone did this, weed have a lot less to worry about. >> he and

you are looking live now at houston, texas, that is a neighborhood of meyerland. entire neighbors under water as you can see. the rain still coming down. that's drone footage of the city as well right now. the rain is coming down. houses just about submerged. we have never seen anything like this. >> incredible all the video and images coming in and, of course, harvey is still wreaking havoc on the fourth largest city in america and as beef been saying it is far from over. >> much more rain to come. more than 2,000 rescues. take a look at this video from overnight. that man just holding on to his car waiting to be rescued as the current threatens to keep him right now. we'll talk to the police chief about that in a moment. >> take a look at some of these before and after images, truly st stunning. this is the interstate before harvey and just a few hours later look at that. the rising water almost all the way up to that sign and then take a look at the runway at hobby airport before and now it is completely under water. >> so much cleanup to come. here's what we k

la autopista 610 en meyerland en houston se convirtiÓ en el centro desde donde se coordinaron cientoson cientos de llamadas de personas atrapadas en sus casas y no ser atrapadas. poco tiempo despuÉs llegaron los socorristas con motos acuÁticas y botes inflables. a partir de ese momento presenciamos uno tras otro rescate. el primero es de un seÑor de avanzada edad atrapado en su carro que finalmente fue puesto a salvo. poco tiempo despuÉs trajeron a una madre hispana y a dos hijas. >> nos pudimos refugiar en el segundo piso pero cuando vimos que las aguas se elevaban demasiado llamÉ al rescate. ilia: las autoridades hicieron un llamado a la comunidad porque necesitaban ayuda y en cuestiÓn de minutos hubo respuesta. botes privados se sumaron al rescate. >> habÍa mucha incertidumbre de lo que podÍa pasar pero afortunadamente estÁn a salvo. ilia: a pesar de toda la movilizaciÓn de autoridades y civiles todavÍa hay personas atrapadas en edificios y casas. Óscar: jamÁs en esta zona se habÍa inundado. ellos nos salieron de repente. el agua comenzÓ a brotar de las alcantarillas. ilia: uno de