cnn's stephanie elam is live for us in houston. what are you learning from people about what is next for them? >> reporter: i can tell you what's next here is that the president is now just arriving to this evacuation center. looking off cam are because trying to determine if he's coming in from this door or another door. we understand he's coming to this sent or the meet with some of the people who have been deeply affected by hurricane harvey. there are some 1,700 people that are still here in this evacuation center. at its height there were some over 4,000 people that have made their way through here. the numbers have been going down but coming back up some and that is because they're consolidating from other evacuation centers that may have been other businesses or maybe a place of worship or a school. as those businesses are starting to make their way back to normalcy, some of those pool are being brought here. we are seeing the numbers go up a bit. but we are now seeing here, though, right now, fred, people starting to line u

cnn's stephanie elam has a look at his life and career. are. >> reporter: he was one of the original american playboys, a magazine tycoon who helped spark a revolution. >> i have cell braided the romantic connection between the sexes. >> hugh hefner was raise in a strict household. >> i felt there was something more to life than the world i saw around me. >> in 1953, with just $8,000 the aspiring publisher produced the first issue of "playboy" magazine on the kitchen table of his chicago apartment. it featured marilyn monroe. >> i never thought of playboy as a sex magazine. i tried to create a lifestyle magazine for men. >> during the early days of the magazine's success he decided not only promote the fantasy he helped create but live it as well. audiences got a taste of his good life in an early 1960s television show called playboy's tent house. >> having already established himself in chicago. he made the move out west. in the early 1970s when the magazine was selling 7 million copies a month he made his permanent home in the playboy ma

>> let's go to stephanie elam. you've got people, we pray that no one was inside this home as these flames and this smoke is kicking up, stephanie. but you've got people who had to leave their, their home, although the size of this building maybe it's something else. but had to leave this building because of the flood. and now they go back and they see that their house is on fire. stephanie elam at the nrg center in houston. give us an update what you're seeing there. 9:00 local time there i'm sure people are up and trying to figure out the next step after this storm. >> right. and what we've been seeing here for the last few days is this evacuation center opened up late tuesday night. they were able to get it open within six hours when they realized the need was there. as there are other shelters. this one is huge, they can accommodate up to 10,000 people here. right now at the max they've had over 4,000 people here. what you can see behind me are volunteers. we saw a big rush of volunteers coming in, checking in,

i want to turn now to cnn's stephanie elam. she was inside that building and saw it all happen as it was unfolding because it was a surprise to most of the people at the nrg stadium that the president would be visiting that relief center. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, fredricka, it was a surprise here at the nrg center that the president was coming there. some little differences that we notice, but for the most part it was business as usual all morning long. then we saw the president make his way in first to the kids zone and play with some children there along with the governor of texas. we saw them there and then they left and we thought they may be leaving, but they didn't. they came here. and it was here that he was serving the food that you saw, the pool video you were able to see closer than we were able to get, but one woman we spoke to actually saying that this took her mind off of things a little bit, the fact that the president did show up here after this week that has just been so tragic and hard for the people he

stephanie elam is out in the thick of it. stephanie, what are you seeing out there? >> well a couple hours ago, i couldn't even stand and look up the street here because it was coming down at me so much. now it is reverse and the wind is coming the other direction. it is a bit like a car wash in the sense that it started off with a lot of water and now it is more winds. i feel like i might be drying out my jacket here a little bit. an bad thing. this is a much better outcome than what they expected would happen here in tampa. i know for a lot of people, it may seem like it was much of an overdone example and people saying you have to get out of florida, you have to get out of tampa, you never know how you will get hit. i came here directly from texas after harvey. i think the images out of texas for a lot of people, it influenced them not to take the chance. you never know what storms can do. but yes, now that we are -- the storms past us, the winds have shifted direction and now it is more aftof a spritzing of rain. least where i am in tampa. and it is way more abou

first, though, let's go to stephanie elam who joins us in houston. nie, it's dry but the disaster remains. >> oh, very much so. the work is still very much ahead for people in neighborhoods like this one, where i am, poppy. as you can see behind me, this is all of the rubbish that these folks have had to pull out of their house because hurricane harvey ransacked through their homes in the middle of the night. at some point some of the houses getting as much as five feet of water. one family getting their kids out by putting them on an air mattress and finding a boat going down their street. imagine how surreal that is. now to fight the mold in the heat. they're pulling everything out of their homes, pulling out the drywall to hopefully get it to start drying. scenes are up and down this area here. the scenes are getting in touch with fema and starting to work that process of putting their lives back together. for many of these people here, as you would imagine, poppy, all their worldly possessions were in these homes and now they're out there on the s

our correspondent, stephanie elam is in houston with the latest. it's dry, but the devastation cannot be overstated. what are you seeing and hear sng. >> reporter: that's right. it is true. when you are in downtown houston, it does look like business back to normal after the long holiday weekend. the businesses are open. the highways were filled with cars heading to work this morning. that's true. for a lot of people, the work is at home. if you look behind me, you can see there is so much devastation in this one neighborhood where we are in north houston. you can see these folks had major flooding on their house, some had five feet of flooding. this is how it looks throughout the neighborhood. people coming and having to rip out everything down to the dry wall to try to get as much as they can out to try to avoid that mildew and that mold for settling into their homes. moat of these people, they don't have the option of going someplace else. this is where they are going to be. they need to rebuild. they have done demolition of how much they can an

i want to go to stephanie elam who is also in tampa. there is of course this curfew here that was enacted yesterday during the evening hours. are you seeing people defying that curfew? are they out on foot? driving around? what are you seeing where you are? >> i did see one car. here's the thing. the first responders are out here now. you see the pleat cars out here now. see them in every direction now. every direction i've looked i've seen them out here. they are out responding to calls that are coming in, as it fire rescue as well. and they are not playing around. the mayor made it clear, do not come out here. while it is not really raining on my side of tampa where i am rite now, victor, they are still very much concerned about downed power lines. fences, trees, blocking roadways. the smallest of puddle could be completely energized. that could be devastating. it could end your life. it is not worth being out here unless you -- you don't need to be unless you are a first responder or perhaps the news. we can tell you to stay ot home.

stephanie elam and miguel marquez are with us. stephanie, what do you see?> reporter: fred, we are in a neighborhood that flooded here. they were told it shouldn't be that bad. thought if they put cars up and lifted them off the ground a little, that would be enough. turns out they got about three feet of water in their house, and this is during nighttime when this happened. you can see the aftermath here. folks on the street coming out and just pulling everything out and getting it out on the curb. they did say they started to see some of the cleanup begin. as you can see, it's up and down the street. there's more out here on the street, and at this point, go inside some houses, they are already starting to rip out the walls, ripping out all of the old furniture, bringing that out, and that old drywall and fans in there blowing. their concern now when they'll be able to meet with fema. find out what help they'll get to help them rebuild after all of this. at this point, the houses are uninhabitable. working to get things figures out, helping neighbors. the

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cnn's stephanie elam in one of the centers right now. stephanie?> reporter: we are in the nrg center here. they had 3500 people who evacuated at the center. they are now at 3100. some people were able to go home, some able to move in with family until they are able to get back in their homes and on their feet. to show how nimble they have been about getting the centers open in houston, they planned on opening wednesday. they realized on tuesday evening they needed to open up. in less than six hours, they opened up tuesday night. to show how much heart there is here in the city, 7:00 a.m., there were 3,000 people here volunteering to help how. that was more than they had in the shelter at that time. take a look behind me. these are people checking in for their time spots. they have locations where they come in. 400 people were working in the shifts. they are saying they are planning to be open here for as long as they are needed. they say they have plenty of the physical items you need if you evacuated from your home. if you think about it, john, yo

cnn's stephanie elam is live for us in houston. you're still at the nrg center? >> this is one of the last evacuation centers that opened up in the houston area, fred but we can tell you that they could accommodate 10,000 people. they said so far they've had about 4200 people come through here. what's also been really just phenomenal has been the turn-out of people who maybe their homes are fine, but they felt a need to come here and volunteer so if you look behind me, you see more volunteers coming in. they come in in three different shifts, even an overnight shift. they've had people showing up here. we got updated numbers for this location in particular. where they said that they're currently over 1700 people that are here in this facility currently. not only are they getting a place to sleep, showers, food, all of those things that you need. but they're also getting help from fema. they're also computers in here to help them work out what their next steps are. they really have learned from different natural disasters, from katrina and rita, to here, harvey, l

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stephanie elam joins us where storm debris is clearly piling up. >> reporter: it's unbelievable, ana, when you see what the families have been doing. many were able to get back in wednesday night after the storm, look at this. talking about everything. baby clothes out here, baby furniture, memories, and for many of these people, this home is all they have. every memory, everything they care about is inside these homes, and you look at where it is now on the side of the street. there's still water here. i heard a conversation, trying to figure out how to wash clothes that may have survived the flooding, with all of that murky, dirty water you have to wash it a certain way. everything you don't think about before a natural disaster they're taking into account and trying to figure out what the next steps are, when fema will get out here to help people figure out how to get money back to rebuild. some places here, they ripped out the drywall, water went up about three feet in some homes. this home about my height, i am just over five feet tall. you're

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stephanie elam in tampa. stephanie, when we saw you last, you were out there stephanie, right there. stephanie rb out in the street in downtown tampa, what are you seeing now? >> yeah, winds picking up there. i took a beating. i'm getting to know what ryan is talking about in clear water. it surprises you when it happens here. wind is so strong that i'm watching water going down the side of the street here. the wind is so strong it changes the direction of water flowing down to the drain. pushes it back and wind stops and it pushes back the other way. that's how strong the wind is when it comes through here. and for the most part, i can tell that you downtown tampa, folks have heeded warnings. i did talk to folks yesterday who said they would stay here in their high rise building and just ride it out. they may feel the swaying more but they are planning on staying here. but for the most part, people have heeded warnings. take a look down here. look down the street. you can see, hopefully can you see, rain comi

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stephanie elam is live outside a houston shelter. is everybody doing there, stephanie, first of all? >> reporter: the one thing that's been helpful is they have a concerted effort to get the shelter up and quickly. they planned on opening wednesday, but they opened tuesday with six hours notice because the need was there. what we can tell you is since the shelter has been open, they have had over 4,000 people that have been staying here. right about now, the numbers are 1600 people. they are saying they have seen people who are here who have been able to go find relatives they can stay with or friends. some found out their homes were okay and they were able to make it out. another thing that's been happening, there were a lot of shelters throughout the region, smaller shelters at a place of worship or a school. they are getting ready to go back to normal business, hopefully. they are seeing some consolidation from people coming to the locations here. what makes this such a useful location is fema is inside. you have the public library

i want to get to stephanie elam because stephanie is in tampa as well. you're moving around. where are you now and what's happening? >> don, i'm downtown. i've moved over here so you can get a better look at just how it looks. i think if you look down this street here, you can see that the lights, how they're glowing and how the rain is coming in in bands. sometimes so strong i can literally lean into the wind and it holds me up. kind of a bizarre feeling here. because you've got sort of this pointy area of downtown here, you can feel the wind kind of swirl in a couple of ways through these tall buildings. once you get to this other cross street here, you see more of that coming across. but it's definitely picking up in intensity and in strength on this side from where i am and a bit on the other side from where anderson is. there's one person out here who i just really don't understand why people would come out here. it's not pleasant at all out here. everything about being out here, there's no staying dry. you are completely wet. the wind can come up and throw you off your

appreciate that stephanie elam here in tampa, florida. we came to tampa early yesterday morning, to tampa from orlando because we thought tampa was going to get hit harder than orlando. because of the movement of the storm going inland like it is, orlando is getting hammered. how is it now? >> reporter: well you don't have to be on the coast to really get hammered but the storm. it's just enormous and covering the state and everyone really in its path. we're in the downtown part of orlando where there's tall buildings and that's just creating wind tunnels where sheets of rains are coming at us with these strong wind gusts. earlier we had a fracture of what we're experiencing, and i can tell you in the distance we saw a bright blue skylight. then a transformer blew. we saw a bunch of emergency vehicles because at that time it was safe for them to go about the street. we inquired what they were racing towards, it was someone was in their car and crashed and when emergency vehicles responded that person had died. it was one of orlando's fata

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let's go to stephanie elam. before this calm period started, the wind was rough, rain was heavy and we know it is going to start again. >> yes. no doubt about it, victor. when we first came out i was soaking wet and now that we are are in this eye part of the storm my jack set drying out. it is like i'm in a blowdryer. which is kind of nice because it has been kind of cold. we never lost power in downtown tampa. i've been out here all night and power has been here the entire time. the fear is it might be out not just for a couple of days but for weeks depending on how severe it was. that's not the case. didn't even see it flicker. i did see earlier tonight a couple of "transformers" blue. but there hasn't been an issue with the power. i've been watching these puddles and it is picking up enough to blow bubbles off of them. you feel a change in weather where it is feeling like okay maybe the next wave is coming towards us. wind kicking up and very calm for a few minutes. we also know that here in tampa they were

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. >> cnn's stephanie elam joins us live in houston. city the mayor says that houston is open for business and hopes everything is on track to move forward after labor day. what do you see on the ground there, stephanie? a lot of debris behind you? >> reporter: yes, jim. you're right. most of this, driving around, seems you can get in. still parts under evacuation in west houston and neighborhoods like this one where they are just completely gutted by the floodwaters that came through their house in the middle of the night. imagine the waters rising so fast you have to use an air mattress to float out your grandchildren. what one couple had to do. how much water was here. going up to five feet in their house. now that everyone's able to make it back to this neighborhood, this is what they're dealing with. having to pull everything out of their house, from their carpets and furniture, to the toys, to the drywall. everything. pulling it out hoping to get ahead of the mold setting in. this is what it looked like in this northeast houston n

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stephanie elam has a look back at hefner's life and legacy.he was one of the original american playboys.....a magazine tycoon who helped spark a revolution -- one that challenged the nation's views on sexuality. hugh hefner:"i have celebrated the romantic connection between the sexes that's part of what playboy is all about." 19:47:11hugh m. hefner -- who liked to be called "hef" -- was born in chicago in 19-26 and raised in what he said was a strict household by conservative, protestant parents. "i felt there was something more to life then the world i saw around me."in 19-53, with just 8-thousand dollars, the aspiring publisher produced the very first issue of playboy magazine on the kitchen table of his chicago apartment. the cover featured a photo of marilyn monroe and sold more than 50-thousand copies when it hit newsstands in december of 19-53. hefner now had the funds to finance another issue -- and the playboy empire was born."well i've never really thought of playboy as a sex magazine. what i tried to do was create a lifestyle magazin

stephanie elam is life for us in tampa this evening. stephanie, take us there.l us what you're seeing. >> reporter: as you can see, like you were saying and like you heard ryan talking about, those bands of winds coming through, starting to really see that. i went out earlier today to take a walk along the river walk in tampa, down the hillsborough river, out towards the hillsborough bay into tampa bay. as you're walking down there, it was amazing to see that sort of draw of the water being pulled away and out because of the hurricane. so, because of that, there was a lot lot of marshy, swampy part no one has ever seen before. it's been over 90 years since a hurricane hit here in tampa. a lot of people were going out to look at that. i did check in with the police department. they said they didn't have any issues with that. they didn't have to do any arrests since the curfew has been enacted since 6:00 p.m. eastern. that's going to be as long as the storm is raging here in tampa. obviously, we vaebt even gotten the brunt here. i also checked in with the county.

cnn's stephanie elam is live in houston. what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning.take a look at most of houston, it is dry as the mayor has said. what is happening now for people who were flooded out by harvey is the cleanup. you take a look behind me. this is one home, the home of john and andrea harris. this is where all of their worldly possessions were. they said in the middle of the night water started coming in through the back and they had to use an air mattress and even found a boat to get their relatives out of here. take a listen to what they said it was like coming back to their house. >> we're seeing a whirlpool. that's what my house looked like, it was something in here spinning things around. i had things i thought were safe, my room, for instance. my colognes and personal items up on a dresser were in my pantry. i'm finding shoes in my tub. >> nobody know how it feel z because i'm homeless. i have no home to come to. i have no bed to lay in. i don't have nothing. >> and these folks also losing their cars because they all got flooded out as well. as y

stephanie elam, thank you so much. >> reporter: he won't take credit.st tell you that he wouldn't take all the credit himself. he wanted to spread it out to all the other military that was there. but they really think it's all about him. >> i got you. stephanie, thank you so much for sharing that with us. i appreciate it. >>> coming up next here as the waters slowly begin to recede, families are getting that first glimpse back home of what remains, what survived the storm. coming up next, see the heartbreaking moment a houston woman returned home and found out her dog made it through the storm. >>> and one week after harvey, we are keeping an eye on a powerful category two hurricane churning in the atlantic right now, an update on its track coming up here. special cnn coverage after this. s'cuse me. mind if i sit here? not if you want your phone to work. let me guess, can't livestream your lobster roll. and my mobile pay isn't connecting and i just got an unlimited plan. right plan, wrong network. you see, verizon has america's largest, most reliable 4g