we are live from sugarland, texas, and kristen, what are things looking like right now? reporter: the rain here is unrelenting and first are saying they are expecting anywhere from 10 to 15 inches overnight. this is not what anyone was expecting. they were hoping this would have eased up and it is competing with the rescue efforts. panic is something we are seeing across the houston area and here in sugarland, people are watching the water rise and another night fall and the rain is continuing to come down. they are starting to panic. there are calls coming in and people trapped in their homes. e cajun navy said they had a hard time rescuing people, as they have been able to get people into their boats, people are rushing a boat that was inoperable at one time. you can't blame them. these are people who did not evacuate their homes and watching the waters thinking this might be their only opportunity to get to safety. and the big story remains, once they do get evacuated, where are they going to go? the mayor of houston said 8,000 people have sought shelter but that the

i'm in sugarland hard hit. yesterday, right here was all water. it was three feet of water yesterday. today, it's dry. my wife is out walking the dog, walking the dogs, but at the same time, other parts of town in sugarland texas, people are flooded, you know, looking for help right now. we're here, i just came from whole food shopping buying milk, two miles away people are fighting for their life right now >> we certainly are praying for all of them, thank you so much for joining us tonight. and my goodness, i mean, i hope there are -- we've seen so many stories of people just like you, civilians going out and rescuing and saving other people and that's what it's about. thank you for your service and thank you for joining us tonight. >> just pray for us, we need it >> absolutely. thank you. >> thank you. >>> that was sugarland texas, these are pictures that just came into the newsroom from bowmont, rescues of residents being made from the high waters in that region. you can see here looks like a woman and a young child in the bask b helicopter. w

check back with palo in sugarland. meantime, residents of the houston area are waiting through incredible situations as you see right there. sometimes knee-high, waist-high even chest-deep water and they are also being rescued from homes by boat and in cases urged to head to the rooftops, because of the rising water. take a listen to some of the stories are survival. >> we saw this lady, told us her situation and tried our best to flag down help, but -- these jerks wouldn't stop. >> here since sau4:00. >> literally walking -- >> no cars, nobody stopped. we yelled for them. >> reporter: where are you coming from? >> third street down. about shoulder length over there. >> reporter: is your house two stories? one story? what made you -- >> one story. >> reporter: it's flooded? >> it's flooded. everything's flooded. >> we're going to try to see what we can selvage. >> somebody he's in medical attention? >> two kids, they're on insulin pumps. the babies are. >> just pray. all i ask. just pray for my -- my babies. >> 316. pl

i know the 26 helicopters that are stationed at the sugarland airport, five miles to my west, are going to start search and rescue operations immediately as we go through the rest of the day today. in terms of rainfall, this storm has moved off the coast and is feeding from the gulf of mexico once again. we've had rainfall totals in excess of 35 inches. it's possible to see 50 inches before this makes another landfall wednesday morning. >> the warm waters of the gulf of mexico feeding what has already been an epic moisture event. tell us a little about what it feels like to be there in that rain. i know yesterday you were telling us that it was so much precipitation. it's hard for us to understand in the warm, dry studio what it feels like out there. >> reporter: my number-one priority before coming to this location was to get the best waterproofing material i could find. the waterproof jacket and pants that i'm wearing isn't even holding up to this amount of rain. it's impossible. it's soaked right through. the temperature, as well. think about the people stranded -- the fact that it's

derek van dam joins us from sugarland, texas, southwest of houston. more than two feet of rain has already fallen. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. in fact, if we go back to june 1st, just in houston alone, 50 inches of rain has fallen. that's more rain than they receive in an entire year's time. it really puts it into perspective what we're dealing with here. rainfall totals have been remarkable, historical. from a meteorological perspective, it's incredible to see what's happened here. and you can imagine that this has been a long, long, treacherous night for the -- for not only the rescue operations but also for the people stranded with the rising floodwaters. we have witnessed it firsthand behind me how quickly the water can rise and how quickly it can fall. it's got ebbs and flows, as various rain bands feed through the city of houston and across the area. historic areas coming from our angles. we've had search and rescue people, efforts rescuing people with medical conditions. we've had pets reunited with their family members, incredible

breakthrough allergies with allegra®. >>> live pictures, sugarland texas. from the flood zone. continue to follow the devastation from the flood zone in a moment as harvey continues to inundate texas. with breaking news on another front that i have to tell you about. learning president trump's attorney reached out to the kremlin for assistance in building a trump tower in moscow during the presidential campaign. want to bring in now, senior congressional reporter, manu raju. good evening. thank you for joining us. the president, person attorney, what can you tell us? >> the developments undercut the president's claims of having no business dealings in russia. we are learning that the president on three separate occasions discussed this hotel and condominium project in moscow with his attorney michael cohen. jane 2016, cohen wrote an e-mail to one of vladamir putin's trusted aides, to note that the talks between the two over this project had stalled. the man trying to broker the deal. felix sader russian/american businessman associate of the president. sader

all these bands from the south pumping in that moisture, sandwiching in houston to league city, to sugarlandena, through the bayous, through clear creek. this is phenomenal. and already intercontinental is closed. it will be a mess. you may want to check with your work to see what happens, church event, all kinds of activities will probably be canceled because of the widespread flooding. we have assistanhave constant u keep it here. >> and of course this is a time when people need too look out for their neighbor. there are always heartwarming stories about people coming together and we have one for you. >> one man found a dog after the storm, but he had no idea who or where the owner of the dog was. and that is when aaron turned to twitter. >> hey guys, i'm on my way back to austin from victoria, texas. and i picked up a little passenger here. i stopped for gas and this guy was following me down the road. when i stopped, he jumped into the jeep. i'm trying to get back to austin by 2:00 p.m. so i can pick up my own dogs. they are being boarded and i'd like to get them so i have them for the r

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this is sugarland, texas. look at that, still rising.oesn't tell you what's going on there. imagine if you were in your home and the water is rising like that and it's that high. like the young lady we had at the beginning of the show. as we understand i believe she has lost power now with her 1-year-old child and her cousin there home alone. we'll see if we can get her back on the phone. joining me now is james lee wit, he's a fema director under bill clinton. thank you so much for joining us, i'm sure you've been hearing the stories we have been doing on this broadcast and that have been told on weekend on this show and others. i want you to talk to me about what you think is a need, how the government is responding and what do you think the resources will last for this. >> don, i tell you what i don't know if you ever walked the neighborhoods of a flood, i've walked many of them, and the smell is ho rent does. and particularly when that water goes down it's just awful, and facing that you lost everything you worked for i think it's to

the addicks reservoir and barker, straight north of sugarland, west of houston. the danger is these reservoirs are going to bust their limits and flood areas. they find it's going to be easier to release that water. that's going to cause a lot more flooding by noon houston time, 1:00 p.m. eastern time they are going to be releasing water at a rate of 8,000 cubic feet per second. 8,000 cubic feet per second. 8,450 coast guard rescues that have taken place already. they are in dire need in shelters of clothing, diapers, urban rescue teams heading from around the country to houston. so far we have confirmation new york, massachusetts and new jersey have sent urban search and rescue teams. there are 18 helicopters undergoing right now. nine flood teams. flood teams have flat bottom boats trying to rescue people. this is a very serious situation in houston. let's go straight to stephanie gosk who is covering this. she's at the barker dam. stephanie. >> how are you? let me start by explaining where i am. i am standing on a bridge. we were here saturday morning. this br

you are in sugarland, texas right now. what's going on? reporter: this is a slow-moving storm.or 24 hours we have seen consist spent walls of rain, steady, heavy, violent rain going on and off. we are in shugaredland. there is a fresh tornado warning and fresh flash flood warning that just came over our phones. 9 inches of rain already fell in this area. and the national weather services saying 15-25 inches of vein could fall in this area. this forecast for this dangerous flooding. grocery stores are closed. gas stations are closing. services people need are slowly starting to dwindle. more and more hotels are closing early. there is not a lot of the food being served. services and supplies seem to be dwindling. the storm is being described as a marathon, not a sprint. we have been in and around the southeastern side of texas. everywhere we go people are trying to stay safe and get by in texas. >> we appreciate your reporting. joining me by the phone is the chief of the corpus christi fire department. thank you for being with us tonight. we so appreciate your service and the de

that water's going to get into the river and head down towards sugarland and the lake. corpus christi, he talked about that, somewhere between 10 and 12 inches already on the ground, already has fallen. and guess what, this thing only made landfall 14 or 16 hours ago. so we have a long way to go. and we've had this much rain already as the storm came onshore in the overnight hours making all that wind damage and then now i think the real threat has changed from a wind damage maker to a flood maker where there's the latest number 14 inches of rainfall in one city. not every city. it just depends on if you're getting lucky or unlucky under one of these bands. right here was our ed lavandera. if you would have went to ed lavandera 20 minutes ago, he was getting pounded with thunderstorms. but right now that storm has moved just far enough to the east and now ed's in the clear. every time one of these bans comes onshore, that's when you're going to see the wind pick up and the heavy rainfall pick up. in between the bans we're going to see basically nothing. sky's clear, win

i have been to sugarland many times. new it looks like they shrink wrap it at night. the fact is it's very affluent area. very prideful area. very patriotic area. i know they are going to be looking to get right back. in as soon as they saw that water down behind rob roble, you know there is going to be a massive push to get to see what's left of their belongings. ainsley: houston is the fourth largest city in the country. have you got these neighborhoods, these suburbs like have you sugarland and the wood lands to name a few. there are these beautiful homes. pete: houston is as wide as a metro area as we have in this country. described right now almost the sixth great lake as it was described by the red cross. gives you the sense of the scope of how wide it is. ainsley: tropical storm harvey is making -- did make a second landfall overnight just across the texas border in louisiana. in cammeron, louisiana, slamming the gulf state with even more heavy rain. brian: while we look at houston and not the aftermath but the ch

harris: you got a break in sugarland. you said if they start to close things down, as at least people can't run out and get anything. sylvester turner is the mayor of houston. he was on a while ago with that pop-up knowledge warning about people. and was working to confirm the first fatality in the houston area would be the second for harvey, for all of the storms so far that we can confirm. there are a lot of areas we have to see once daylight comes back tomorrow whether people are okay in corpus christi and rockport, texas. the mayor just tweeted this out. turn around, don't drown. the texas department of transportation is working to shut down underpasses to keep people off the roads. he tweeted there is rain and high water all over the city. please stay put. reporter: we have seen some of that high water driving here. and the rain continues. as you look at it, you keep saying to yourself, this is going somewhere. some of the southeastern portions of the state, we ran into the flash flooding. you find your car directly

(steve) kristen holmes is live in sugarland texas..about 20 miles east of houston where forecasters say, more rain is coming.

in sugarland, texas. >> i this will be hit hard.an see rescuers are coming back for their dogs, for their pets. they'll leave them behind when bos folks, now people are coming back to rescue their dog. i'm hearing that the flooding has actually gone down. this area is going to see another foot of rain through the end of the week. today we could see three to four inches. but its images like these neighbors helping neighbors and saving animals that are just so wonderful. >> this amazing video of a hawk taking refuge from harvey inside a houston, texas cab. the taxi driver said the hawk refused to get out despite several attempts. today we're happy to report that an animal rescue person has taken that hawk to a local wild life rehab facility where it's now being cared for. beautiful bird. >> she was spooked. >> and the effects of harvey really hitting home for one of the whi this is footage of flooding and rescues taking place today in richmond texas, richmond. sherree has more on the reaction and his special gesture to honor his homet

rob: in sugarland, texas with the latest. >> clear skies today, we can see the stars, sunshine, an incredibleight to see, it boosted the spirit a lot of people in texas, one of the most are matter pictures we have found, hard to see at night, and intersection down there dipped down here and you can see how deep it is. let's put up daytime pictures to show how bad it was yesterday, pumping this out right now so it is receding fast as they pump this out. you could have swung through the red light and jumped off the top of the overpass into the water. 20 feet deep, incredible to see that much water, we have never seen anything like it. the president came to texas, he was in corpus christi, he came with a message of support, waived the texas flag which the people loved. >> we love you, you are special, we are here to take care, it is going well and i want to thank you for coming out, we will get you back and operating immediately. >> the numbers are incredible, 50 inches of rain in southeast texas, we have had 13,000 rescues using helicopters, boats, fishing boats, a whole community trying to pul

you c-span for allowing me an update of the news on texas.und in fort kenny, i'm in my office in sugarland, texas. the epicenterbeen for harvey's record of positioned it is an hour ago 70 miles south of galveston, over the gulf, moving toward the texas-louisiana border. becausegood news for us northeast quadrant of any hurricane like harvey is the worst. is past us, it is moving away. the first time since the storm guess what, p and my street wasn't flooded. host: good to hear, congressman. i want to ask you, we were alking to your fellow congressman al green, talking about the devastation he's aid he would kely need, about $100 billion he will need to s help recover from harvey. do you agree with that? is that number something you think is in the right ballpark, well? guest: our neighbors, we -- missouri city, we work lock step this issue. democrats and republicans. i have no idea about the number, be really big. it is hard to estimate because it is not over yet. while the storm is moving way down, the big thing left behind rivers and streams and bayous are about to overflow the banks. th

you already have eight inches on the ground for sugarland and katy, hobby, about five inches there. the ground's wet. the water's already running off. if we get what is forecast here, this is now a model, i'm going to show you what the radar may look like over the next 18 hours. this is now. now for the next few hours, the rain moves through houston, maybe toward pasadena. and at that point in time, bay city, you're really going to get pounded. later on tonight, it redevelops and goes right back over houston. the model i'm about to show you should scare you because you should have a noaa weather radio on, your ala clock on. somewhere around 2:00 in the morning, get up andook outside because brooke, this purple area right there, houston and even beaumont over there, that is ten inches of rain by 10:00 tomorrow. and not a place in america can get ten inches of rain in ten hours and not flood. there might be flash flooding in a major metropolitan area by morning. that's the forecast and what i'm warning people right now. >> there is the fair warning as you mentioned as you're pushing t

(grant) kristen holmes is live in sugarland texas.. about 30 minutes away from houston...cking the latest. ... '

i want to get you now to sugarland, texas and that's where we find cnn's martin savidge. people are having to evacuate with their clothes on their backs and now having to brace for more flooding. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, tonight we've seen the last of the boats came out of here just around sunset. they don't like to work after dark. there were a couple high profile trucks that did work through the darkness but it is quibt hind us. as you point out, it might look like i'm standing at the edge of a lake with lights in a background. this is a subdivision. river stone is a huge community. there's hundreds of homes back here and many of them have water right up to their doors or inside of their homes and this was the area of intense evacuation over the past two days. people were told they were given a mandatory evacuation but by the time they received that order, the water had had already cut off their escape routes. you had hundreds of families trapped inside their homes. through the night as they saw the water continuing to rise, today many of them hit the pan

be watching for over 30 inches in houston, galveston is not far behind with 27 inches, and notice sugarland continuing with 27 inches. more to come by sunrise. >> thank you for that report let's head to houston, texas, rising flood waters force thousands from their homes, many ended up at the george r. brown convention center. contessa brewer is live with the latest conte >> reporter: i am in the theater district, behind me hard rock cafe and buffalo bayou which has overblown its banks. you see this all throughout downtown houston, the center of the city is like a ghost town. to add to flooding woes, we had torrential rain overnight, flash flood warnings, and they released from two dams, they said it was better to do that than risk the dams breaching and overflowing, strange the system. we're getting strong wind now and more rain, all of this is adding to worries for people that had to evacuate homes we saw bus loads of families arriving at the convention center yesterday, parents holding their children, even some of them shirtless, one little girl holding, cradling her puppy. the conventio

tuesday was really where i think myself and a fellow agent of mine, steve yang, he's actually there in sugarland, where i thi think we made the biggest difference. i woke him up at 6:30 because he had a friend who commented on one of his posts -- and i didn't sleep at all monday into tuesday. i saw that, i woke him up. and he immediately said, pick me pu up, and we're going. this is 6:30 in the morning. we head out, picked them up, got her family out. then he while -- while we were doing that, he sent a message to a big group of people he knew and actually got responses. the pregnant lady we rescued in the group, within about two hours later, her friend was the one who directed us to her. we got there got on a boat -- they hooked up to my truck to get in the water because theirs wasn't sitting deep enough. we got it in the water and immediately got out there. channel 13, we were pulling away, and channel 13 asked we jump on, we heard where you're going. we said, absolutely. as long as you don't get in the way. we headed out there. she was -- by the time we got there, she was very ready to go. sh

harris: you got a break in sugarland. you said if they start to close things down, as at least people can't run out and get anything. sylvester turner is the mayor of houston. he was on a while ago with that pop-up knowledge warning about people. and was working to confirm the first fatality in the houston area would be the second for harvey, for all of the storms so far that we can confirm. there are a lot of areas we have to see once daylight comes back tomorrow whether people are okay in corpus christi and rockport, texas. the mayor just tweeted this out. turn around, don't drown. the texas department of transportation is working to shut down underpasses to keep people off the roads. he tweeted there is rain and high water all over the city. please stay put. reporter: we have seen some of that high water driving here. and the rain continues. as you look at it, you keep saying to yourself, this is going somewhere. some of the southeastern portions of the state, we ran into the flash flooding. you find your car directly

(grant) kristen holmes is live in sugarland texas.. about 30 minutes away from houston... tracking the latest. ... ' sen. john cornyn: -r- texas: we're trying to save people's lives, we're trying to make sure they have a place to live, safe water to drink, sewage, electricity and the like, but this is going to be a long challenge."as the waters continue to rise, so does the death toll. well over twenty inches of rain have fallen in texas since harvey made landfall late friday, and there are no signs of it letting up any time soon.parts of the state could receive up to 50 inches of rain by mid week... and eighteen counties have been declared federal disasters.thousands have been driven from their homes, and many more are trapped, waiting for helpreporter:"what did you just go through back there?" flood victim: "hell."governor abbott has deployed every member of the texas national guard to help with search and rescues.gov. greg abbott/ -r- texas: "we are still involved in the search and rescue process. the goal is still protecting and preserving life and rescuing every perso

we want to go to cnn's paula sawn de val in sugarland texas. what are you seeing?reporter: just a few minutes ago we row located to richmond texas. this is a river now. slowly making its way into the neighborhoods in richmond. it is expected to reach record levels on thursday. yesterday we told you it was expected this week or rather today. however, it seems that rise is a little slower. there are many people that chose to evacuate. some though staying behind including this man. you have stuck around for now, but seems like you're going to be packing your bags pretty soon. >> i love a proximately not even about five blocks but i think it's time for us to leave. no one wants to leave their home, but, it's about safety. it's about family. i know that last night, came over here to take pictures and there was no water back here. so, it's really time to pack up and leave. nobody wants to leave their home. but it's a wise decision. >> it's getting worse. you seem to live right on the flood line so you've healed out as long as you can but looks like you don't want to take

but what's going to happen tonight that feeder band will sit right over houston, whether it's sugarlandn, no one knows. when you wake up tomorrow is where the real flood lg occur. this is what the radar looks like in about 15 or 20 minutes. then tonight it will continue to spin. see this feeder band right here. there could even be tornados in parts of louisiana tonight as some of these storms roll on shore. now, they're water spout type tornadoes, ef-0s, ef-1s, 105, 100 miles per hour. not like the tornadoes you see in oklahoma in the spring. these are storms that roll off the ocean. they're spinning already because the whole thing is spinning, they hit land and decide to put down a tornado. it happened today, it lot happen again tonight. now get real close to the tv set. focus on this. this is what scares me for tonight. this is what scares me for houston tonight. see this purple area here. oh, we have beaumont, too. that purple is the ten inches of rain. there's no place in america that can take ten inches of rain in 16 hour. if this is over the western part of the state, there will b

the heaviest stuff is set up from houston to beaumont to a little lighter heading toward sugarland. that's where the heavy rain was last night. we've already added another 10 inches from the heavy rainfall totals we had from last weekend. i'm going to show you rainfall totals. these are off the charts. look at webster. we're closing in on four feet of rain to the southeast of downtown houston. south houston almost to 42 inches in downtown. we're almost at three feet of rain. these rainfall totals are just incredible. we have now had three of the rainiest days in houston history just in the last four days. think about that. this storm has produced -- these records go back for thousands of days and three of the wettest days have just a been in the last ten. it's crazy. as far as a lot of the extreme flooding that continues throughout the region, the worst of it, again, is from about catty toward beaumont and toward areas around lake charles. the river gauge is the next tour. the bayous flooded over the weekend. now we'll be watching rivers. some of these will crash. there were record

these are pictures from sug sugarland texas, a pizza hut delivering by boat to people trapped in theiromes when she heard there were families in needs she told her husband to gather the kayaks and meet her at the restaurant. >> that's my kind of rescue effort. >> your kind of food. >> from the floating fire ants, has me terrified think of it. >> what do you say >> i like visa, that's ticker v, we like it because trading platforms are changing way people consume and pay for it but that doesn't hurt, it helps them they put together a great international company. we like the growth rate over 15% this year. we continue to like it right here. >> dr. jay. >> i'm going with vz, verizon wireless why? mainly because with the apple news today, somebody scrambled in and bought 6,000 or 7,000 calls quickly. could be a stop substitution that they are doing or straightout bet on the september 12th meeting but i like that, i'll be in these calls which i bought today as well for maybe two or three weeks. >> you think this is a direct result of the apple news that came out this hour. >> i think it coul

you're looking at boat right there making its way across sugarland, texas, earlier today. not far away a new mandatory evacuation orders in place. some because of rising floodwaters. others to keep peoplero

with republican congressman pete olsen representing some of houston's suburbs and on the phone from sugarlandongressman, put up advice from the sheriff's office. priority one at this moment, continue to find people. what is your sense from talking to local officials on the ground of how that effort's going and what is the biggest complication or need right now? >> thank you, john, for having me. that effort is going very well. i have some good news to report from houston, texas. for the first time since harvey made landfall friday night, the new track came out taking the most powerful part of harvey away from houston, meaning we can move quickly from rescue to recovery. that's a great progress coming up here, john. >> we certainly hope that remains the case, sir. appreciate that. when you think about it, your job back in washington and keeping in touch with your governor, your county officials and sheriff, any guesstimate how big this will be in terms of damage to your community. >> no idea, john, about the damage. as you know, this is the third flood we've had, 100-year flood in the last 18

it comes down near sugarland. that's where a lot of evacuations were ordered yesterday. we think it's going to crest wednesday and thursday at about 59 feet, which is about five feet higher than the previous record. no one has seen water like this. i mean, there were pictures on this river with water in houses yesterday, and it still has to go up another ten feet from those images yesterday. as far as the track of the storm goes, 24 hours more of this for houston and beaumont and our friends in louisiana and then as we go through wednesday and thursday, we take the storm finally to the north. >> bill is talking about these numbers, and sometimes it just takes you a second to kind of compute what that means. another ten feet on top of that. incredible. >> you think at this point we would be on the other side of it, and we're not. >> thank you for that, bill. well, fema administrator brock long said yesterday this disaster is going to be a landmark event, which we've already seen it play out. he has also added that recovery efforts are going to take years. joining us on th

let's go straight to derek van dam in sugarland, texas, for us. good evening to you. the latest on the certainly and rescue efforts where are you right now? >> reporter: well, good evening, don. the thing about the search and rescue efforts, it's complicated by the nighttime. the dark, darkness has set in across houston and with conditions can like this, it is extremely treacherous. last night we joined some of the search and rescue efforts and we saw firsthand what they have had to deal with. they navigate these flooded neighborhoods with sometimes the streams flowing extremely fast. almost too fast to cross. in fact, the braise bioyesterday prevented the majority of rescues from taking place for some of the neighborhoods because the current was too strong for the boats that are in place here across the area. we've talked to a lot of the rescuers who have volunteered their boats, their time. and just to do their best to help this community. and they have told some harrowing stories including just navigating the waters of these neighborhoods and helping people with me

you're looking at boat right there making its way across sugarland, texas, earlier today. not far away a new mandatory evacuation orders in place. some because of rising floodwaters. others to keep people from trying to get back to their verve stated neighborhoods. understandably, trying to get back before it's safe and authorities are warning them not to do that. a few moments ago, we point out, vice president mike pence land and the ground in texas. there you see him in corpus christi being greeted by the governor, greg abbott of texas. that happened in the last hour. the vice president landed to meet with state and local officials to talk about the rescues and recoveries. we'll see the pictures of the vice president all day long and with him, energy secretary rick perry, former governor of texas and other officials. now fema officials and houston firefighters are going door-to-door. we mentioned that a few minutes ago. brian todd has been there throughout the storm and with one of those crews right now. the weather is a lot better but still have to go house to house, br

we know that our friends in sugarland are facing a possible overflow of another water tributary and we are praying for them. i think what you have to understand is that this gulf region is 50 feet under sea level. we are used to living, unfortunately, with this flooding. however, in the 21st century, we should be advanced. we should have our projects advanced. we should make sure that every aspect of technology be used. we're not at that point. and so what you are seeing is the actual response to all of this water bayous, rivers, lakes, converging on each other. the word atypical is not appropriate. it is an episodic episode, if you will, that we have never seen before. >> houston obviously you have now the convention center, 9,0 0 people. they will open another shelter. >> yes. >> rivers are rising. and when the rain stops, they will keep rising. is there enough space right now, congresswoman, and this is a crucial question. are these locations safe? >> well, that is our chief concern and our chief effort. that is, that the large venues that we are assessing right now and that will be

sugarland down here. this is the ft. bend county area.his is the area where the brassos river will travel through. this river still has about 48 hours before it peaks. they are expecting, what i just read, an 800-year flood event on the brassos river. the previous record is 54 feet. this is expected to go up to 59 feet. this is 5 fight higher than the previous all-time record flood at this area. so water is going to be going places they have never seen before. so for that reason, the ft. bend county sheriff, office of emergency management, has now ordered a mandatory evacuation for pecan grove. it was voluntary and now mandatory because it's going to flood areas it never flooded before. and that's about 12,000 people. you start to look, and they're trying to recommend where to go. because these people really can't flee now to areas like dallas or san antonio. it's too late for that. so they're headed to the shelters and some of the shelters are filling up. they said that terry high school is still open. they're accepting pets. they said p

houston, there could be flash flooding in your city -- anywhere around the city, sugarland, katy, i'm talking houston proper, by morning -- >> press conference right now with the mayor of rockport, texas. sorry, chad, to interrupt. we want to take you live right now as the mayor of rockport, texas, is briefing everybody. >> -- organized, getting better organized and taking care of the people that stayed. >> what's the extent to your county, judge? >> i would say it's bad. i'm not an insurance man, but if i was i'd say several hundred million dollars. >> judge, you're talking 12 to 14 injuries, what were the nature of those injuries? >> minor injuries. slip, fell. >> scratches, cuts. >> broken leg, things like that. >> any reported fatalities? >> yes. one. so far. >> can you talk to us about that? >> it was someone caught in a fire and his house in the storm and we didn't know about it until today. [ inaudible ] pardon? >> are you iddi'ing the person? >> you seem to be getting emotional about it, judge. >> well, i hate losing anybody. >> we're not here in the business to watch people's

but houston proper from-k.d., sugarland, pasadena, you had a storm, west of the city fairly try driveut i believe another rain band will come in and the poenial for tornadoes. anytime a storm comes in that's a pretty strong storm, it can spin and that can create a tornado, not a large tornado but ask katy, the people in katy, texas, what a small ef 1 or ef-2 tornado last night did to them. take cover if you hear or see the warning that's on your phone. don't take it lightly. there will be many tornadoes. the houston weather service office has issued 50 tornado warnings since the storm came onshore. the storm doesn't move, that's the problem. seeing the pie you buy yous going from nothing to something. it could rain for another 71 to 120 hours. everywhere you see that's white, that's 20 inches and that's the size of south carolina. >> and its neighbor, north carolina, folks there remember what floyd did as it sat and just sub merged and caused an awful lot of damage. this hurricane is really unique too. that it sits and just looking at your map, it is substantial. very wide. but there'

if you're familiar with sugarland, richmond is next to it. these are rescue workers taking children off their parents hands while the parents carry their belongings and get to safety. these are active rescues under way, gabe gutierrez is standing by. he has been nar rating this for us. for those viewers who have just joined us, tell us what we're looking at. >> reporter: here, ali, we're here on the northwest side of houston just north of i-10 near highway 6. highway 6 is shut down. it's north of the attucks reservoir. a lot of these residents are wondering how the overtopping of that reservoir will affect them. forgive me, we're trying to navigate around high water here -- >> be careful. >> don't want to step in the wrong direction. night cameraman aaron sasen is keeping us all together. i want to try and speak with these family members but being very cognizant of the fact that this is very difficult situation for them. >> we'll stick with you, you do what's necessary. >> reporter: hold on one second here. let me try and find out -- i'll wal

so pasadena, sugarland over two feet, houston hobby, 24 inches and, again, the rain continues.nter of circulation is west and south of houston, we have the potential for heavy rain to set up in and around the houston area. the heaviest rain now moving towards louisiana. and there's the track. finally, as we get towards the end of the workweek, we'll see the system lift north and eastward. but for now over the next 73-100 hours, we're still going to deal with the threat for heavy rain. also want to point out the threat for severe storms. these are tornado warnings now moving into louisiana, and some of these outer bands could see anywhere from 4-6 inches ap hour. so not only the net for tornadoes, but we're going to see the flooding threat heading towards louisiana, coastal louisiana. so that's going to be a concern. taking a look at forecast totals for the area that have received epic amounts of rain, so houston anywhere from a foot to 18 inches. we could see a bull's eye of another additional two feet north and east of houston. not only the houston area, stuart. i mean, southe

sugarland, 9 inches. it has only just begun.dditional rainfalli coming in with this. even if it moves back over the gulf and restrengthens, we're still pulling in the moisture. if it stays over the state of texas, still pulling in the moisture. we're looking at rainfall totals that could include in this white shaded area here upwards of three feet of rain. perhaps as much as 40 inches of rainfall. i want to show you the national hurricane center track. if you've ever looked at a hurricane before and you look at the track, what we often see is a cone. we call it the cone of error. this time around, it does this. the cone is more like a circle. it is just going to sit and meander over portions of texas. tapping into an unlimited source of moisture. we're talking about days on hen of rain. could top 40 inches in spots. >> megan, thank you. >>> as we reported, about 7 million people live in harvey's path, and they are going to need help in the days, w stephanie is a spokesperson for the american red cross, already mobilizing eh toff

in wetland areas nearly six point five million people currently reside in the houston woodlands sugarland area that makes up the metropolitan area including and surrounding the city of houston up from around four million people just twenty years ago more people coming to houston to pursue jobs in the booming energy health care and aerospace and biomedical fields meant the need for more housing and construction workers who would also need housing despite federal regulations governing need destruction of wetlands or saturated lands made up of marshes or swamps he used it has seen over fifty thousand acres of wetlands destroyed or paved over in the last twenty years houston's fort bend county saw fifty three percent increase in impervious surfaces like asphalt and concrete between two thousand and one and two thousand and eleven during the same time period harris county saw twenty six percent and crease and the k.t. prairie area saw a seventy. percent increase of course houston needed homes no one can deny that but where and how those homes were built and the infrastructure around it has put

kristen holmes with the latest from sugarland, texas. sen. john cornyn: -r- texas: we're trying to save people's lives, we're trying to make sure they have a place to live, safe water to drink, sewage, electricity and the like, but this is going to be a long challenge."as the waters continue to rise, so does the death toll. well over twenty inches of rain have fallen in texas since harvey made landfall late friday, and there are no signs of it letting up any time soon.parts of the state could receive up to 50 inches of rain by mid week... and eighteen counties have been declared federal disasters.thousands have been driven from their homes, and many more are trapped, waiting for helpreporter:"what did you just go through back there?" flood victim: "hell."governor abbott has deployed every member of the texas national guard to help with search and rescues.gov. greg abbott/ -r- texas: "we are still involved in the search and rescue process. the goal is still protecting and preserving life and rescuing every person that we can find."president do

katie, pasadena w, sugarland. we were watching this as it was taking place live. there was man. not sure where it was but in and around houston. his car stuck in floodwaters. not just floodwaters up to the top of the tire. but it was up to the windshield. water is rushing. this isn't just standing water with no motion. there has a current to it. then this little rescue boat came through and rescued that gentleman. i just saw one gentleman. like i said, i'm not sure where that took place. but it was nonetheless illustrative of what has been taking place across houston and all of the suburbs surrounding houston. what is tropical storm harvey doing right now? hanging in there. doesn't look all that good. but that is very deceptive. southern edge of this system, really kind of washed out but all of that deep tropical moisture is further to the north. and harvey will move out in the gulf. start it make its way back towards the north and george and rosemary, now it looks like it shifts a lot of that moisture, little bit further over to louisi that's the next spot tha watch. but we're