the water is almost overtopping the tires. i guess the issue is, even if you have a foot of water in your house, you have seen enough of the stories of people gaining water quickly. you know the attucks reservoir is overtopping and continuing to release water and the rain will come down until thursday afternoon or thursday night. i think people -- they must be fearful they are going to get stuck, if they don't leave their houses -- >> reporter: that's exactly right. and it's better not to chance it. yesterday we were in bay city, texas and it was a situation where yes, we could get around and there was a highway leading into bay city, but the authorities there were saying, the water might crest in the next day or two and we don't know how quickly it is going to come up. as we were leaving there was a torrential downpour and i mention the rain because we were getting a little bit of rain right now but the west side of houston is supposed to get a little break at least today. right now the east side through the rest of the day i

we are from a national guard planning standpoint, the aftereffect once the overtopping occurs, if you look at the two , on the west side of houston as they overtop and they are releasing -- the corps of engineers reported they are releasing 8000 cubic yards per second, that is a huge amount of water they are having to release to keep them from overtopping. as it heads into the bayous, the water flows through houston, so it is looking at the aftereffect of what that looks like. butnot an expert on dams, it is the overall water affect and a historic record amount of rainfall overtopping the reservoirs is just one of the issues, but it is leading to that overall water issue in the houston area. a question on the estimate of additional national guard forces . is that your estimate or the governor's estimate? >> the governor has not yet requested these forces. what we are trying to do is anticipate that way from the department of defense but national guard anticipate texas -- texas'needs. we are trying to anticipate all the needs and we are posturing up to 20,000 or 30,000 underneath the g

. >> you are to the north of addicks reservoir, that's overtopped it's boundary, and that's why you're seeing all the water coming in there. how many people are coming in on boats right now? >> reporter: i would say about a half a dozen coming in, but you have people coming in, going out, you have high water vehicles, and the high water vehicles have not been able to go back into the neighborhood, because as we understand from the people who have come out, the water is almost to the top of the stop signs on the streets, so some of these particular vehicles could not make it back there, again, it is so high, that water, which is why they are using a lot of the boats out here to make their way into the residential area. ali? >> again, it's a very big residential area and that's why we're unclear how long it will take to get people who want to get out from there, maya will we check back in with you. >> reporter: ali, actually one more thing, it looks like they have rescued a deer here, i don't know if you can see right here, a deer from the floodwaters, we have all kinds of people out her

what was it like for you when you heard that the levee had been overtop. >> we really never thought ito 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 hope for the best for your house. great to see that you're okay and that you're okay. >> that's better, right? lives are more better than values. they can be replaced. but still, it hurts. >> reporter: were you surprised with the level that this water rose at once you heard that levee overtopped. >> yeah, we did. we were really shocked. >> reporter: as you can hear right now, they're trying to make sure that everybody has their medicine. and brooke, this has been a real important part of the evacuations. as you know, there's been a talk that a lot of people were missing important medicines that they left too soon. so they're double checking and he's asking these volunteers to go back to the house. i also want to get out of the way and show you what we told you. here comes one of these high water, we'll call

these are close to overtopping. this is the addiks reservoir. the website tracking where it is. this purple line shows you the top of the spillway at 108 feet. this blue line shows you, as we've gone through sunday, monday, tuesday now how the height of the water has gone. now, they opened up this spillway, remember, about 24 hours ago. that has not stopped the water from going up. we're getting very close to the top of the spillway. they actually update this about every eight minutes or so, and you can see here, 107.39, 107.43. it levelled for eight minutes. then it went to 107.47 and now 107.5. now we're only half a foot away of getting 108 feet where it would spill over the north end of the spillway, and new flooding would occur, and then they worry about the structural integrity because if water is pouring out of it where they don't expect it to, then you worry about soil erecognitiosio things like that. this is a concern. i'm not saying it's guaranteed to overflow, but you look at the trend. it's been going up for the last day, even though

largely that is because, water is overtopping roads. we say that, please do not drive through any standing water if you do not know the depth. that is a very dangerous thing tothat is a very dangerous thing to do. we have seen that play out now in texas where it has been responsible for at least one fatality over there as well. speaking of texas, we do have 40 members of the department of wildlife and fisheries responding to texas with vessels pursuant to a request from texas to assist in search and rescue. there was one team of 10 that was there yesterday, and they partnered up with their counterparts in texas and affected 700 rescues yesterday. last night there were 20 individuals in the shelter where eight of the individuals had come from texas and obviously we want to be the best neighbor as thiscan be to texas disaster unfolds in louisiana and we are able to take care of the year. forward, themoving national guard continues to position assets across the state in preparation for the rain events that we expect to happen over the next

this has been just training, sitting overtop of the same area now for just about 24 to almost 48 hourshe heavy rain is centered itself over houston area and then back down toward coastline as well, we wanted to talk quickly about galveston, galveston is an island, just off the of the mainland and barrier island so we are getting on shore flow, so it is pulling all that water from the gulf of mexico with the windness to galveston and now for the next hour they are in high tide so from just about 8:30 here eastern time to 9:30 eastern time galveston is in high tide with water coming on shore added on top of that rain that is falling, devastating flooding, it is likely to continue if not even get worse in the city of galveston. houston is also now getting a quick, quick break but another round of thunderstorm activity is moving in dumping even more rain on the city of houston where airport is shut down emergency managers are telling people not to go in the attics but getting on top of the roofs so very dangerous situation of course down along texas coastline with now tropical storm harvey

of waterhat is because overtopping roads. ,ne of the things i want to say we say it in all of these natural disasters that relate -- that result in flooding. do not drive through standing water if you don't know the depth and for certain that it is safe for you to do so. that is a dangerous thing to do. we have seen that play out now in texas where that was responsible for at least one fatality over there. speaking of texas, we have 40 louisiana department of fisheries responding to texas with vessels pursuant to a request from texas to assist in search-and-rescue. there was one team of 10 that was there yesterday. they partnered with counterparts in texas and affected 700 rescues yesterday. last night there were 20 individuals in a shelter, eight of them had come from texas. we want to be the best neighbor we can be to texas while at the same time, we do what we have to to make sure we are prepared for this disaster as it unfolds in louisiana and we are able to take care of folks here. we stand ready to provide assistance to texas upon request moving forward. the national guard continues t

as i said, logistically they're preparing now for more people to come in because of these levees overtoppingt capacity. we've seen them rise something five feet in eight hours early this morning so incredible situation here it can be very dangerous guys >> yeah. i mean we're sort of mesmerized by some of the devastating photos and footage that we're seeing do they have the capacity in the shelters and are there enough rescue operations on the ground between the local authorities and the federal authorities? >> well, what we've heard from the local authorities is that for people who have not been able to get out yet, they should be putting a towel or a sheet outside a window so that first responders know to come and check the house for people who need to be rescued as for capacity, you know, it's a convention center. has tuj. they had set up with cots and the like for 5,000 people. they already have double that amount they ordered more cots, more sheets, more comfort kits and they say in order to keep the supply southern baptist kitchens is coming in they have the capacity to feed 20,000 peop

of us, high pressure in control and again this dry air will sit overtop us for the rest of the day to day before it could get muggy on our monday as showers and thunderstorms roll n temperatures 60's, 54 in mount pocono. sixty-six in philadelphia lone 70's. rest of the shore points 66 in row. we will see 67 barnegat. sixty-eight out toward ocean city. we will be up to 70 by 9:00 this morning topping out at 81. we will talk more about when that shower, thunderstorm activity shows up in a bit. >> we will continue to follow breaking news this morning a would mains dead after a hit and run in center city philadelphia "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh is live at police headquarters this morning what do we know about the victim here. >> reporter: well, jan, good morning. we have learn that victim is a caucasian woman 53 years old according to police and now they are searching for the person who reportedly hit her. they are looking for a white jeep wrangler with the white top, spare tire on the back and now they say it will have front end damage this happened around 3:15 this morning at co

, they may be topping overtopping, they may be topping over at the moment according to some reports, downstream. absolutely, and i cannot remember having seen numbers like this on the amount of rainfall, they are truly staggering. as tomasz said, the problem is that the storm is sitting on the coast, and there is a debate between scientists at the moment as to whether or not climate change is implicated in holding that storm in its place, and there is no conclusion on that yet. roger, tomasz, thank you both. the government is going to introduce a law to force bosses to reveal what their bosses are paid compared to workers. it is already being criticised as not tough enough, andy verity has the story. ever since she entered downing street, the prime minister has attacked excessive executive pay. we all know that in recent years, the reputation of business as a whole has been bruised. that when a minority of businesses and business figures appear to game the system and work to a different set of rules. i'm putting you on warning — this can't go on anymore. a change has got to come, and

this is actually just north of the reservoir that is overtopping. just on the north side. some of these residents are concerned. hi, ma'am, are you doing okay? how high did the water get, ma'am? >> ten inches. >> ten inches. >> it was ten inches. still coming in the front and in the back. >> you doing okay? >> i'm doing all right. >> you glad to get out? >> i'm happy. glad to be alive. >> thank you very much. this is a developing situation as you see this right a little you see how much water is here, we're not going to walk all the way in, but this -- if we can walk -- let's go over here. attucks reservoir is overtopping, and there you see coast guard, helicopter coming up hipd me. air rescues have been going on over and over again through the morning. the concern is from residents on the south side of the reservoir, how exactly this will affect tens of thousands of people and neighborhoods along buffalo bay bayou. we're on the north side. this isn't a concern so much here but there's still plenty of water and flood control officials say there is no precedent for this. th

now one of the two rez soirs there in that city designed to control flooding has overtopped its banks. the storm so far has been blamed for at least four deaths. that is a number that officials say they expect to rise. officials fearing that it's going to rise considerably higher. at this point still not clear how many people remain trapped by floodwaters. they don't know precisely how many people evacuated. some 9,000 houstonians have taken refuge at the city's convention center, many of them sleep ong the floor. there have not been enough cots to g around just yet. we heard from a news conference a short time ago, houston's mayor said that was one of the things they were working on getting more emergency supplies, including cots, 10,000 more cots was the request made to fema. houston's police chief said a short time ago they've made some robbery arrests. he went on to say they will not tolerate people victimizing people of our community. they've officially asked the federal government for help and everyone sized the enormity of the crisis. nbc's gadi schwartz is in baytown, texas, j

addicks is close to overtopping. this is the water going up.probably in the next hour water will start overtopping the north end of the reservoir and heading to areas that have never seen it before. that's one of the stories developing. other stories are the major rivers throughout this region. the brazos river and other rivers in the north. those are going to be some of the worst. when you break records and get these things, you say we break the record. that's bad enough. we're going to break the record by five feet. >> jees jeez. >> that's incredible. >> we'll be back in touch. let's check in with julia bag live at one of the shelters in houston. julia in. >> reporter: hi, mika. they've reached more than 9,000 people now at this shelter. a shelter meant for 5,000 people. but they've had to expand. they're collecting clothes from the largest to the smallers. there are families who are cold and wet and they want to give them something dry. this lady was asking for dry clothes. she's getting shoes now and help from volunteers. this has been an e

and rescue areas, some areas that were not flooded yesterday, are flooded today with the levees overtopping and coming down with more water. and these are the hats and uniforms, so some of these appear to be first responders, but a lot of people we have seen doing this are people who are good samaritans. miguel, take us through what you're watching. >> reporter: in what you're looking at is people who were stranded in the cypress area of houston, near the addicks reservoir, there were also individuals who had previously refused to leave their home and are now getting out of their home. so the way they're doing this, we're in a 5 ton vehicle here, you can see the people here getting in the vehicle. and the fire department that run this is area, is able to drive out. we're about 300 or 400 feet down state highway 6 and then smaller boats are then bringing people to them. and this is basically just a way to get around. i want to talk to david, if i could, you're with the cyfair fire department. >> we're just making sure that all the resident who is didn't want to get out before and want to get

that's where the reservoirs have overtopped the banks process. that water is spilling into the communities. you talked about three to five feet of water actually impacting house there is. i have a personal connection to this. i found out my cousin sees me on cnn, calls pay up and says we just moved to this region. we had to be evacuated we were forced out of the homes. he got his family to safety and then he decided because they are dry and safe i'm going to volunteer my time and help in the buffalo bayou region. he went door to door with several members of the community. 40 boats he described to us going door to door to rescue people today. they are still ongoing. >> and do you have any sense for the people who do need help? i mean, are they able to get through to 911, to communicate that? or is it one of those things where someone just has to be the right place right time they see a boat and call for help? how is that being coordinated? >> renae, we were on a swift water rescue just 36 hours ago. and the way that we were coordinating the rescue

it did eventually run back overtop of houston bringing more rain.learing out on wednesday, thursday or friday. we've still got a long stretch of time where we will talk about this rain falling. that's why we can say were only halfway through this thing. these, it looks exactly the same as what i just showed you. it's not the exact same. this is what still to come. we've seen 25 inches, our indications are we could see another 25 inches. again, only halfway through. >> so often we hear forecast and no offense to your profession but they often don't lift up to the prediction spread how did harvey compare? >> we knew fairly early on that we would see spots getting up to 50 inches of rain. it was hard to believe because we saw those numbers and you never see those numbers. if anything, they have shifted further off toward the east so they may be making an area like houston a little more of a bull's-eye but these numbers have been verified for what we've been seeing a couple days ago. >> do you think we will see flooding in louisiana. >> it's going that

the meantime, the bands keep pivoting in overtop of houston and piling on.here's a chance that the storm starts to intensify and pulls the bands back in towards it and try to stop the rain -- >> sean: how many more inches are you talking about? i don't want to interrupt you. how bad does louisiana get it? >> they're pumping is 85% in new orleans itself. it looks like a three to five inches rainstorm in new orleans. i don't think louisiana gets it that bad compared to texas, this is continuing to pivot over there. that pivoting process is going on. the wind over galveston bay is turning to the north and northeast. i've been talking about this. my worry because of this water coming to galveston bay, the bay is enhanced because of the storm surge, that that water comes to galveston from the north. they have the winds. we also have a problem on the mid-atlantic coast tomorrow. the virginia capes, 40 to 60 miles an hour winds. it's not named but that will go out very quickly. but it's texas. this storm still has another 24 hours. will make landfall wednesday and

they're saying it's going to overtop the spillway on the north end. that's never happened before. one of my meteorologist friends on social media just told me they built this in the 1930s to withstand a 1000 year flood. it's mind boggling. that's one of the stories that we're going to see new flooding in areas that haven't had it yesterday as the water continues to head into the addicks reservoir at a more rapid space. that's one of the stories. the other issue is what's going on on the brazos river. that's where a lot of the new evacuations happened yesterday. we have numerous flash flood warnings. the purple shows you major and record. all the rivers are in near record or heading for a record flood stage. i want to show you the brazos river. the record crest is 54 feet. all these people headed into shelters yesterday. with their pets, kids, the elderly. we're going to 59 feet through wednesday and thursday. here's the thing. look at how long it stays above the record. all the way through the weekend. these people in these shelters, they're there for like a week at least. and who

overtopping.his it's up to this guy's niece right here they told residents if you had stayed behind you have to get out now and clearly that's a message that is just being ignored in a lot of these neighborhoods. >> i'm seeing this way there's a vehicle. we're sort of stuck in this military vehicle just shooting out the back my photographer is doing his fwoest stay safe while getting some of these pictures. >> contessa, you're on the east side of the city i want to remind everybody about an hour ago, a harris county official said houston reservoirs to the west of the city have flooded over 2,000 homes so just wondering if that's adding more water where you are, if this is just what we're still seeing from the storm >> you know, so it's hard for me toe say that, kelly, i know a lot of neighborhoods were worried about seeing more flooding on the west side of the city so it's hard to say whether they are getting more or less flood will go because this is the first time i've been in this neighborhood,

in addition, two large water containment areas have been overtopped and our own griff jenkins is at one of them. a griff jenkins is live for us. griff jenkins, are you there? to you for your live report now. >> that's right. just behind me, the reservoir is spilling over, it's never happened before. what it means is that the water is overtaking the immediate neighborhood some 3000-4,000 homes. we watched earlier a few rescue rescues, volunteers putting in votes. we saw a convoy of the miami-dade urban search and rescue guys came in. but it also means for downtown houston as they are now a target because these are all created to to flood water away from the city, away from downtown down to the southwest part of the houston ship channel. you have a dire situation of the immediate subdivision surrounding these reservoirs and dams as well as a new threat that has already besieged downtown houston. >> shepard: thanks very much, we will come back to you. we are waiting for the president now, governor abbott of texas has just walked into the room, as are a number of local officials. there is t

the bayou has overtop the bank. this is what it looks like. apartments flooded.se are all volunteers. they're all from the houston area. they have calls. they normally go duck hunting in this vote but they put it in the water. various calls coming in. the latest one is this woman with the baby trying to evacuate. another call they just got pa , the person is stuck in the attic. they are headed there now. >> where is this area? >> breezewood. it's down in the southwest corner. a beautiful area. gorgeous stately homes, it's amazing to see this water is the deep. they are negotiating to where we can take this woman. there are some folks with the brewery and their driving people to safety. if you have a relative they will try to take you there. this vote is all the volunteers trying to get these folks out. >> thank you so much for your coverage. were looking on the video with some people helping out. we appreciate it. let us know if you get anything else and will check back with you. >> thank you. >> recently, we want to go to politics. we have to talk about that. jo

they are overtopping that. we don't know what to expect because we have never seen flooding on this level. national weather service saying we have days to go with the rain bands off the gulf into the same area. it will keep dumping rain in houston. the only chaps for a break in between rain bands. that's it. >> this is a dire event. when i spoke this morning to the police chief in houston, he said it's a 500-year flood for them. thank you for joining us for this special report. abc news will stay on top of this unfolding crisis throughout the day with all the latest developments coming up later on world news tonight. and of course at any time on abcnews.com. i'm dan harris in new york. >>> this has been>>> this has bn >> the following is a sponsored program. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to "bay area buys." we're at russell's fine furniture in santa clara, where they are celebrating the new year. happy new year, guys. >> i think you misunderstood. >> no, you said that the end of august is the end of your year, so we're celebr

it did eventually run back overtop of houston bringing more rain. clearing out on wednesday, thursday or friday. we've still got a long stretch of time where we will talk about this rain falling. that's why we can say were only halfway through this thing. these, it looks exactly the same as what i just showed you. it's not the exact same. this is what still to come. we've seen 25 inches, our indications are we could see another 25 inches. again, only halfway through. >> so often we hear forecast and no offense to your profession but they often don't lift up to the prediction spread how did harvey compare? >> we knew fairly early on that we would see spots getting up to 50 inches of rain. it was hard to believe because we saw those numbers and you never see those numbers. if anything, they have shifted further off toward the east so they may be making an area like houston a little more of a bull's-eye but these numbers have been verified for what we've been seeing a couple days ago. >> do you think we will see flooding in louisiana. >> it's going tha

cars are flipped overtop of each other, trees down, they who power, huge mess of buildings, no peopleere hurt but the weather service will go out there today to figure out if that was a twister that slammed into that area. >>> also lets take another look at down the shore we had rain, ocean city there, lots of flooding by back bay area they always fluid down there some people say they think it is getting worse so they would like that city to do more to pump out excess water that they have, always a problem, down there. >>> so sue, we have a smidge of the weather system in our area but heading out. >> right, on its way just taking its time this morning. couple of rainfall totals from yesterday. millville, new jersey 5.5 inches. little over two in cape may. selbyville delaware in sussex county they had 3 inches of rain yesterday but they are getting more today. is there a le pressure system passing by to the south and this whole cold front wilsonk south today but all happening very slowly, so as this passes by, we are get something rain, from it, and this morning, but eventually high pr

you would use either to get in or maybe get out if you have had enough are becoming more and more overtopped by water. so these are the problems that will compound on top of the tragedy that has already hit this community. and they are struggling. and first responders are the ones struggling right now. take a look. you can tell this is very much a town that is still caught up in the shock of the storm. they are still trying to organize their first response. they have emergency teams that are starting to arrive, a lot of them have come from outside the area. but they have a lot of problems here. number one, no sign of any electrici electricity. no sell service. and it's pretty clear that they also have water problems.csell . and it's pretty clear that they also have water problems.ell se. and it's pretty clear that they also have water problems. s so sanitary issues, drinking water. and then just plain law enforcement. this is the rockport police department vehicles. and you can see what the wind and pressure did, blew out just about every one of the windows in their vehicles there. and there

that is why this big ridge of high pressure right now will remain overtop of us for the next couple ofours or so but then it will break down as we get through nighttime hours tonight and that can allow, for a little bit of cloud cover for us tomorrow. if you are waking up just now temperature are in the 60's. they are seasonal. it is not overly hot, but it is warm here in philadelphia coming in at 69. still 70's as far as wildwood. that land breeze keeping those temperatures up. dover at 68. reading coming in at 65. dew points are lower then yesterday, we had 70's around this time yesterday for our dew point. right now we have 50's and 60 's. dew point this is afternoon still staying in the comfortable range but monday, we are back up in the lower to mid 60's for our dew points, maybe even some 70's and then for tuesday. so muggy weather is back in the forecast especially with some showers and thunderstorm activity out there thunderstorm chances tomorrow are scattered, low and they will be until the evening time frame 88 degrees our high on monday after 87 today. ninety's back in the f

not because they think it might fail, but because there's just so much water there that it is overtoppingks in some areas. we're going to be focused on those two dams all day today. again, officials say there's no indication that they might fail or that they're not safe in and of themselves. they're just overflowing with so much of this water still to work its way out of the system here in houston. >> all right. garrett haake live in houston with that update. >>> we have julia back with us joining us outside of -- in crosby as close as she can get to that plant. talk to us about the situation there. we're hearing now that people are being hospitalized. what more are you hearing from the ground? >> well, this is something that we were able to see ourselves. the plume of smoke just early this morning coming up from over that chemical plant, and i saw some of those deputies driving themselves off. they were here at this roadblock on the highway between houston and beaumont where this plant is. some of them did refuse that ambulance ride, but one of them was taken to the hospital. they were c

damage is becoming more intense because the dams here, two of them, outside of houston have now overtopped their walls. they're at capacity even though, just to give you a sense, they were rising five feet in eight hours overnight. the rain just won't let up even now we're what they describe here as a lull and the water is coming down it's just not that it's a day lu deluge six neighborhoods being inundated with water even when the rain first started collecting and they told families there, if you're still trying to shelter in place, you have to get out. hang a towel or a sheet outside your window so the first responders know to come and get you. can you give a sense of where we're sitting? this is the united states armed forces museum and these are historic vehicles that they're using to get around and giving elected officials a chance to come and talk to me a little bit. what have you seen when you've been out and about >> it's scattered in som neighborhoods and in others it doesn't look as bad but then you'll get into some areas and a lot of the lower areas definitely getting hit hard.

three of the organizations that are overtop of the hbcus that represent them are saying this is not the time to have the summit because of charlottesville and some of them feel they didn't get what was promised from this administration and there could be an at mitt summit by a congresswoman. what is going on here? >> the hbcu summit has been going on for over 30 years. we have no intention of cancelling it. right now it's at complete capacity with a waiting list. with that type of engagement, it's best that we move forward. >> can i see the list of schools and the names? we're hearing from schools that are saying that they're not coming. a lot of leaders -- >> i can only tell you who is registered and certainly that we're at capacity for the convention center with a pretty lengthy waiting list. in terms of whether or nots we release that, i'll have to get back to you. >> what the are the president's thoughts in cuba? we understand 19 americans have been injured. >> i know that they have been going through the process of bringing the majority of those people back to have thorough testing

the meantime, the bands keep pivoting in overtop of houston and piling on.here's a chance that the storm starts to intensify and pulls the bands back in towards it and try to stop the rain -- >> sean: how many more inches are you talking about? i don't want to interrupt you. how bad does louisiana get it? >> they're pumping is 85% in new orleans itself. it looks like a three to five inches rainstorm in new orleans. i don't think louisiana gets it that bad compared to texas, this is continuing to pivot over there. that pivoting process is going on. the wind over galveston bay is turning to the north and northeast. i've been talking about this. my worry because of this water coming to galveston bay, the bay is enhanced because of the storm surge, that that water comes to galveston from the north. they have the winds. we also have a problem on the mid-atlantic coast tomorrow. the virginia capes, 40 to 60 miles an hour winds. it's not named but that will go out very quickly. but it's texas. this storm still has another 24 hours. will make landfall wednesday and

it did eventually run back overtop of houston bringing more rain.inally clearing out on wednesday, thursday or friday. we've still got a long stretch of time where we will talk about this rain falling. that's why we can say were only halfway through this thing. these, it looks exactly the same as what i just showed you. it's not the exact same. this is what still to come. we've seen 25 inches, our indications are we could see another 25 inches. again, only halfway through. >> so often we hear forecast and no offense to your profession but they often don't lift up to the prediction spread how did harvey compare? >> we knew fairly early on that we would see spots getting up to 50 inches of rain. it was hard to believe because we saw those numbers and you never see those numbers. if anything, they have shifted further off toward the east so they may be making an area like houston a little more of a bull's-eye but these numbers have been verified for what we've been seeing a couple days ago. >> do you think we will see flooding in louisiana. >> it's goi

i think that's a bayou that's overtopped and has taken over the road. harvey just won't go away. usually they hit you, they go. this should be to north dakota by now, but it has stalled over the city. the other problem is the basic makeup. you're talking about a swamp with miles and miles of concrete, and it cannot absorb this water, and that's when you wind up with scenes like this all over the city. so stay home if you're in houston if there's any way possible. arthel: if that's not bad enough, someone sent me a photo of a sinkhole, so lots of problems that they're dealing with right now in houston and much of southeast texas. thanks so much, caroline shively. eric: eric for more on what the people are going through in houston, senator ted cruz. our thoughts and prayers are with you and your state at this moment. what are you thoughts on the overwhelming magnitude of this disaster, and what can you tell the people of your state? >> well, eric, it's good to be with you. the state of texas is hurting right now. my hometown of houston, we've got flooding. we've got about 2,000 hig

we will see dry air sitting overtop of the region making it very comfortable. 9:00 this morning we will be up to 68 degrees, have your coffee outside, sit on the back patio, sunshine for us and then we will be up to 81 degrees this afternoon. i'll update you on some things with harvey and what we can expect for week ahead coming up. >> all right, looking forward to it, thanks, matt. >>> this morning is what left of hurricane harvey is causing devastation in texas. the storm is now being blamed for a second death in houston, woman drowned after driving in high water. first death happened in the coastal city of rockport person died in the house fire during the storm. harvey is a tropical storm after making land fall as a category four hurricane, it is still dropping a lot of rain there in texas. houston's mayor says rain will continue, for another three to four days, the flash flood emergency is in effect, officials still don't know the full extent of the damage, the severe weather is making it hard for crews to get to the areas hardest hit. quarter million people are without power, and c

all of them are overtopping. this area, like much of houston, is still under the gun and still underwater. by the time the mandatory evacuation was ordered of this subdivision, it was too late. high waters had already cutoff escape, leaving hundreds trapped in their own homes. >> people are starting to scream for help out of their houses. that's when we realized how many people were in here. >> nearly a third is under a mandatory evacuation order. meaning it is already flooded or close to. by morning, families were being rescued by the boat load. >> what was it like coming out by boat? >> it was very scary. this is a neighborhood that we walk with our children. we ride bikes. this is a very safe environment and to go through that area on a boat and have it kind of wobbling with the children very cared was unnerving. >> we join a volunteer boat. >> i know these communities because i run back in here and i used to live back in here. >> the team passes by waving at anxious homeowners wanting to get to those deeper i

a lot of that water overtopping the reservoir, far more than they expected with all of this rainfall all of the floodwaters that you're seeing right now, we see some elderly people who are up there right now in that dump truck, some more folks behind them, really they're using any kind of high water vehicle they can possibly use to get people out of these areas. it is far more flooded from where we are standing right here, further down this road. you can see the cars are submerged further down. right now there is a lot of activity going on. they're trying to help people get out of this neighborhood. we saw people come out earlier, carrying their possessions, what they could on an inflatable mattress, kind of walking alongside the inflatable mattress and moving that along. right now it looks like this is some kind of medical equipment that they're trying to unload from this air boat right now. they're going to try to put it back here into this pickup truck, the cab of this pickup truck. all this as they're trying to make room for the people in the dump truck to be able to get further

know how much we can see in the dark, these are not flooded yet, the water is close, it could be overtoppednext hour we will be right by the addicks reservoir down the way on the buffalo bayou, everything is in jeopardy now. hopefully the dams hold on the addicks and same with the barker. we had a tremendous amount of rape and we are still getting it, dagen, what can i tell you, you know, there's only so much water you can handle and then you lose control to have environment and that's where we are right now, dagen. dagen: jeff, thank you so much for the reporting, jeff flock for us on the ground, be safe, jeff. tropical storm harvey weighing on energy sector, gas line prices climb to go two-year high. gas futures pulling back this morning, but this comes as exxon mobile shut down baytown oil refinery, one of the biggest in the country. the company saying now that the roof partially sank due to heavy rain, 15% of our nation's oil refining capacity is shut down at the moment, it should reach maybe 30% as this storm moves east into louisiana, joining us now is former shell oil president john

in showers or thunderstorms in store today, just dry air, high pressure overtop of us.se dew points are in the 50 's and you will feel that here on the morning hours and then we will be continuing to see temperatures, that slowly, rise, but right now, again, you will need a sweat shirt reading at 57, allentown at 57 as well, here we are at 646789 our lone70 wildwood where we are there at the dot. ac airport 63. definitely a very nice morning albeit cooler start. we will be up up to zero seven by 9:00. seventy-six around noon time, plenty of sunshine, enjoying the lower humidity, we will get up to a high of 81 degrees for our sunday. showers, thunderstorms start to move in tonight and then they will peak as we get through the day on monday, jan , we will talk about that and nicer weather for mid many of the week in a bit. >> thanks, matt. >>> we will continue to follow breaking news this morning a woman is dead after a hit/run in center city philadelphia "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh is live at philadelphia police headquarters, so, do we have any lead on this drive

are down in the 50's and even mount pocono, at 48 degrees, for our dew points, so lots of dry air overtop of the region. when we have clear skies, and you add in that dry air, check out these morning temperatures sit fall or beginning of the august. 49 degrees our temperature right now in mount pocono. down to 63 in philadelphia. sixty in millville. sixty-one in wilmington. look at these 50's coming in at 58. so again, very, very nice this morning. but we will be rising throughout, maybe 70 degrees by early as 9:00. once sun does come up and air dry it tend to heat quickly. we will be up to 70 by 9:00 this morning but we will stay below average later this afternoon we will get up to 81 h temperature. we could see some showers, and thunderstorms as we kick off our workweek. we will talk about monday's forecast. >> today is incredible, thanks , matt. >>> we will begin with break ing news this morning, a woman is dead after she was hit by a car in center city philadelphia and now police are looking for the driver. "eyewitness news" reporter anita oh is live at philadelphia police headquarter

they've been overtopping. there are houses under water right now with 100 developments and neighborhoods that have had mandatory evacuations. my cousin was one of them that was evacuated, brought his family to safety then decided once they were safe to join the swift water rescue teams today. there were 40 boats patrolling up and down the neighborhoods across this area, knocking on doors. making sure people were okay. rescuing the ones that needed it. and getting them to dry ground as quickly as possible. the weather forecast going forward, chris,s almost worst-case scenario because the storm is still out over open water, it is still drawing in moisture from the fwufl gulf ofo and means more rainfall for places east of houston. galveston, baton rouge, to new orleans. that's where we're expecting the heaviest of rain as this storm makes yet another landfall overnight and into wednesday morning. >> imagine those people in new orleans marking 12 years since katrina with harvey coming back into the coast. it is go

does the rhetoric overtop the policy or what he meant, what his administration meant. >> is it harmless rhetoric, richard, or do you have concerns? >> i don't have any concerns at all. look, political types are going to say keep trying to message locked and loaded, but they're missing the rest of the sentence. and i think it's really disingenuous and shameful to not continue the rest of the sentence. as margaret pointed out, he's talking about a missile defense program at this point. he's talking about playing defense. he's saying if they should act. i want to ask chris cillizza, what does he expect the president of the united states to do if north korea should act? should he not use language that warns them? i mean, look, we have to remember that barack obama used language like we could destroy north korea. that seems to be lost here. that seems to be lost on the left that we had fiery language from president obama when his whole policy was strategic patience. that failed. we have to understand that over the last two administrations, three administrations really, this policy has failed

concern is there will be so much rain, such an accumulation of it that eventually the river could overtop its banks and flood the town. that is something they're keeping a very wary eye on at this hour, alex. >> thank you so much for that. >>> we are going to hear from a houston emergency management official and bring you all the latest on the rescue efforts there. coming your way next. down by one. championship on the line. erin "the sharpshooter" shanahan fakes left. she's outside of the key, she shoots... ...she scores! uh... yes, erin, it is great time to score a deal. we need to make room for the 2018 models. relive the thrill of beating the clock. the volkswagen model year end event. hurry in for a $1,500 in available bonuses and 0% apr for 60 months on a new 2017 jetta or passat. can make anyone slow downt and pull up a seat to the table. that's why she takes the time to season her turkey to perfection, and make stuffing from scratch. so that you can spend time on what really matters. marie callender's. it's time to savor. 40 million americans are waking up to a gillette shave. and

they pictured on television overtopping. they've been in a controlled release environment, a lot of water through the affected populated areas of houston, and you want to know if they're safe and if there's any additional funding needed. was that the question? okay. i'm going to answer that question. i think that's a "yes." so the answer is -- and it just so happens that earlier this morning almost before i came out here, i was in contact with general, in charge of the commander of the army core of engineers. and three answers here. first, he's got engineers monitoring this systems right now for instruct integrity. so what you don't want to have is water come over the top and then eat away at the side of the wall and then have the structural integrity be undermined that we've seen in previous events. as of an hour ago, there was no structural integrity determined by any of the engineers standing there watching the facilitate. so that means nobody is in immediate harms way of damage and additional property loss. but then last

they have been pictured on television overtopping. they've been in a controlled release environment allow ago lot of water through the affected populated areas of houston. you want to know if they're safe and if there's any additional funding needed. i'm going to answer that question. i think that's a question. the answer is -- just so happens earlier this morning, before i came out here, i was in contact with the commander of the army corps of engineers. three answers here. first, he's got engineers monitoring those systems right now for structural integrity. what you don't want to have happen is water coming over the top and eat away at the other side of the water and have the structural integrity undermined that we've seen in other events. as of an hour ago, there was no structural integrity determined by any of the engineers standing there watching the facility. that means that nobody is in immediate harm's way of damage and additional property loss. lastly, the question is, do we need additional money to shore those facilities up

flow as the r army core of engineers releases water from two reservoirs that they worry could be overtop it's less of a risk to know that they could add additional flooding to nearby neighborhoods than to risk having the water over top at this place we have seen the water recede the flood water was going into the lancaster hotel. we talked to some of the employees camped out inside but a guy said he has been here for two days and has no idea how he's getting home. no woernd. take a look at the street. major interstate shutdown. roads flooded. intersections flooded. the phone maps are trying to reach around the flooding but we found one way in yesterday only one to get into downtown houston. so it's no wonder that employees can't get in buses aren't running people's cars are flooded. when we went into the convention center where there's thousands of people taking shelter we met a doctor and his speech pathologist wife and he said i need to be at the hospital but my car and home are flooded and i have no way of getting there and that scene will be repeated throughout the day some of the po

mandatory evacuation of levee overtopped or breached.reek, green bayou, all at or close to seriously flooding over. >> coordinating with the national guard bureau to deploy an additional 10,000 national guard who are being deployed here from other states. so that will take us up to a total of a total of 24,000 national guard deployed here in the state of texas. now some of those will be arrayed across the greater harris county area. we're immediately deploying far more to southeast texas, to deal with the emergency conditions that people are facing in southeast texas, and we will continue to deploy more west of the harris county area all the way through victoria, to the coastal bend region. we are also getting immediately 200 boats and 200 vehicles from the department of defense to be assigned where needed. as you might imagine, the most urgent location for that is in the greater beaumont, southeast texas area as well as ongoing needs in the greater harris county area. i have asked for and received an expansion of the number of counties

we now know that the attic's reservoir has overtopped they've had so much rain, water coming in thathey can't keep up with it anymore we are expected to see more evacuees coming in as additional neighborhoods flood even more. we'll keep you updated about that situation we are expected to go out and see some of the damage outside here the reservoir simply can't keep up with the amount of rainfall that houston is getting now, guy guys. >> contessa, brewer, thank you very much. as we head to a break, take a look at shares of best buy, the company sinking following earnings that did see a beat on the top and bottom le.in we'll tell you why the stock is reacting the way it is stay with us >>> shares of best buy getting crushed this morning despite earnings, raising guidance stock is up by 30% but this morning down more than 11. let's bring in michael asner at ubs. what was said on the call that spooked investors so much after what was very decent results >> i think there's three reasons the stock is down. it's had a nice run as you pointed out. two, expectations have moved off. in the wee

. >> reporter: and in the meantime we have had a couple of levees kind of overtop just outside of townthat is going to make the situation even worse. these weren't breaches necessarily. the levees still held. but they just, you know, reached their capacity. that will add to the flood waters that houston will be dealing with in the days to come. now, the forecasts seem to indicate that the rain may start slacking off and ending perhaps tomorrow. but it will take a little while then for all of this flood water to then recede. back to you guys. >> doug, live in houston. thank you. >>> members of the air national guard, california national guard are also heading to texas. more than 90 members of the 129th air rescue wing are called into service yesterday. they packed a cargo plane with two helicopters, walkie-talkies and food last night. the main focus is saving lives. unit members say responding to this kind of emergency is exactly what they trained for. >> it is what we live and breathe for. and you can't put a price on a life. so when we get cast out to do these missions, no matter how

there should be a wall that you see here but the water has overtopped the wall. that is one of the refineries shut down here i guess the good news is the water is -- and contessa as hey better view, it's beginning to recede down. you can clearly see the high water mark and unfortunately the high water mark is marked by a lot of garbage the water here slowed down but i think this is probably representative of a lot of the cleanup that is to come, this is just one small sliver. we'll come back in a few minutes and talk about the chemical plants, not just oil and gas. >> thank you very much for that. now to contessa brewer in houston where some businesses are starting to reopen contessa >> reporter: yeah, and the businesses that are reopening are seeing a lot of people lining up for their services we're at the walmart now south of houston, a packed parking lot here, steady line of traffic then look at the line of customers waiting out in the hot sun, waiting to get inside first day of sunshine so probably a lot of people are grateful for this opportunity to be out i

amount of water, as much as possible, from these two reservoirs to make sure that they don't breech or overtopexpect as the water makes its way through the boyious a bayous and neighborhoods. >> let's head over to corpus christi where residents are dig out. jackie deangelis with the details on the area devastation. jackie. >> reporter: as contessa said, taking care of the people seems to be a central three all the way from houston over here to corpus christi governor abbott just concluding his briefing, and that was part of his message >> there is a reality that we have to come to grips with, and that is we are just beginning the process of responding to this storm we are still involved in the search and rescue process. >> reporter: so, of course, governor abbott mentioned the fact that this search and rescue position eds is going to cake place and he also pleaded for people epatience because this is a difficult time whether you're underwater and waiting for to be a to be restored 40 minutes from here is where the governor andsenator cornyn are headed now to take a look at the damage we were a