paolo sandoval reports from wimberly, texas. >> reporter: the clean-up is under way in central texas where weekend storms claimed lives destroyed homes and turned roads into raging rivers. in hayes county the search continues for the missing. the blanco river tore through wimberly, texas, the town's mayor calls it unprecedented. >> 1929 we had a 33.5-foot surge come through. that was the highest on record and this one topped that at 44.5 feet before we lost communications with the gate. >> reporter: hundreds of homes were washed away including a cabin where an entire family had gathered for the holiday weekend. laura mccomb who is still missing with her two children called her sister as the storm hit. >> the house is floating down the water and tell mom and dad that i love them. i love you. and pray. >> reporter: to the east the storm hammered houston which saw more than 11 inches of rain monday night. it pushed the city's many bayous over their banks. texas governor greg abbott declared a state of emergency in 40 counties and deployed the national guard to help with recovery. >> we

reporting live in wimberly texas. channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> right now a local member of the american red cross is on his way to the texas flood zone to lend support. >> there are approximately 700 red cross volunteers on the ground helping folks that are impacted. more than 200 people spent their memorial day in shelters in texas and oklahoma, we are going down to lend support in any way we can sfwh. >> he is joining seven other people from the american red cross helping storm victims in texas and oklahoma. >>> closer to home officials are urging people to get ready for hurricane season that starts monday june 1st. in avalon, the american red cross reminded people how to get ready for the upcoming season. people were able to tour some of the emergency response vehicles. >>> new jersey police need your help finding the man wanted for several burglaries, they released the video of the man breaking into the flying fish store on 9th street. police believe that the day before that same man broke into a cric

omar villafranca, cbs news, wimberly, texas. >> at least five people were killed this weekend by the floods in texas and oklahoma. >>> always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> here we're tracking your holiday installment of the 3- degree guarantee. >> i was forecasting a high of 88. we got to 85. so that is within the 3-degree guarantee. i didn't change it. that is correct, not wrong. yeah, we missed it yesterday. we've only missed it three times the entire month. the warmest may is in 1971. so far we're running in the fifth spot. we'll make no. 2, might make no. 1, but i think that's a tough go. this evening 75, comfortable, south wind at 9, humidity up a bit, dew point at 60 feeling a little bit on the humid side. temps still above 70 degrees, 69 in annapolis, andrews 67 67, 60s in the mountains. more heat and humidity tomorrow and for much of the week with temperatures way above average. thunderstorm threat tomorrow afternoon especially west of washington and scattered storms wednesday, thursday, friday more likely in the metro. want to

nbc's jay gray is in the hard-hit town of wimberly texas. jay? >> reporter: hey, doreen. yeah, the damage stretching for miles. i'll show it how it happened. the blanco river is almost inside its banks at this poinltd as you come across the debris field, you'll see slabs where cabins once stood. this river was climbing at more than 25 feet in just an hour tearing apart homes and families here. from the air and in the light of day, the streets of houston look more like canals after flash floods swept across the area overnight. more than ten inches of rain in some areas in just hours. cars, trucks even tractor trailers were no match for the rising floodwaters that overwhelmed dozens of city streets. response teams carried out more than 500 high water rescues throughout the night and into the day. >> just use good common sense. stay in stay out of the high water. don't drive into the high water. >> reporter: in wimberly texas, the among the missing two family was children. >> my sister will always be my sister. >> reporter: laura mccomb made a trant frantic call to her siste

that's the latest live in women wimberly, texas. >> veronica johnson continues our team coverage. veronica, explain all of this rain. >> a lot of folks know it's wet not just through this area but areas to the north of there. the big question, why? well, it's partially the result of an el nino pattern where you get the water temperatures in the eastern as well as in the central pacific warming so much so that it takes the jet stream and it amplifies it, really dig it'sself down over the southwestern states keeps launching storm after storm system and intensifies those storms as it drives them eastward through texas, a lot of rainfall north into missouri oklahoma, even kansas and arkansas as well as louisiana. and we have seen just that. unfortunately, it doesn't look as though this pattern is going to change very much as we go through the next week and a half to two weeks. now, we'll be getting a short break today with most of the rainfall just east of that area. but of course they need to really have days to dry out and allow the water to recede. unfort flat, just looking at the

gabe is in wimberly texas with the fall out from the flood. >> reporter: the number of confirmed weather related deaths in texas and oklahoma has grown to eight. overnight there was massive flooding in houston. public transit is shut down and many roadways are flooded. several hundred basketball fans were stranded at the houston rockets arena after their playoff game. >> we thought might as well stay safe. >> reporter: the city under a flash flood emergency. also overnight in austin many creeks flooded there bringing the state capitol to a stand still. there were dozens of water rescues. while just to the south in wimberly, texas the search continues for 12 people missing include this family. they were among those that were swept away during the memorial day weekend. her sister describes the terrifying phone call. >> call mom and dad. i love you and pray. >> reporter: texas governor has just expanded the declaration to include 37 counties. >>> an early morning fire destroyed three homes. fire broke out around 4:00 a.m. no one was hurt. the cause is under investigation. >>> a 19-year-old

and friends in wimberly texas. rain in the forecast and a chance of rain for the next several days. we saw dozen was tornados over the parts of texas. and looking over the threat to oklahoma and central, texas and midwest and great lakes. and tomorrow the threat extending in oklahoma and kansas and texas again. and severe thunderstorms possible as we go in to thursday. more rain could be in the forecast. 86 in dallas and 83 in little rock and 83 in new york and warming up nicely. and cooler than average in the midwest and all eyes on the friends in the southern plains that have more rain to deal with and hearts and pray ares to all of the folks that are helping with the community today. >> what a challenge. >> we'll continue to watch the forecast and in the meantime a texas man arrested with charge of conspiracy and providing material support to isis and the 20 year old planned to travel to syria to fight for the islamic state. and the iraqi officials announcing a counter offensive against the terrorist group. and the campaign will enclude new weapons. and the planned focus on drivin

heidi zhou-castro, al jazeera wimberly texas. >> the mayor of wimberly texas joins us tonight. mayor what can you tell us about the situation tonight? >> there is not much good news tonight, other than i can tell you we have three confirmed fatalities and the number of missing has gone down to 9. yesterday at this time we had 30 unaccounted for and we have accounted for all 30 of those folks so that's the good news. >> we understand that rain is expected in the next few days. what are your biggest concerns there? >> well, our biggest concerns are being able to get the folks out again if that becomes necessary. i think friday night or friday afternoon is when we're expecting the largest amount of rain to come and we're keeping an eye on that, of course. if the river shows a rise, we will certainly be notifying our residents along the river again and warning them. and if it warrants we will ask them to leave. >> mayor what's the most difficult thing for you? >> the most difficult thing is driving and around and seeing how many of our people have nothing left. this is a small comm

let's bring in the mayor of wimberly texas. steve thur burr. thanks for joining us. at's the latest you can tell us about the rescue efforts? >> reporter: the search and rescue efforts are ongoing. we have texas team one here on the water, air and on the land. supplemented by the national guard that we have here as well. it's ongoing. we have two confirmed fatalities in this part of the river. like you said, 30 are unaccounted for. >> what can you tell us about the mccombs the kerrys the char bas,'s the latest on effort to find them? >> that is the primary concern. we have all of our search and rescue efforts are focused in that area. they were actually in a house that was right behind us here that was swept off the foundation and into the river. we understand that one of the ladies in the house at the time it was in the water was in contact with family members telling them where they were that they were floating down the river. >> tell us about your part of the world there. is this kind of flooding rare? does it happen -- has it happened before? have you ever seen an

and joining me now from wimberly texas. what's the situation there, sarah? >> reporter: the national weather service in fort worth said this month alone, texas has received enough rain to cover the state 8 inches deep. that's video shot by sarah perez who was renting a vacation home along with her cousin when the water began pouring into the home. they were in the second story of that house, luckily survived without injury. they were very lucky. that hasn't been the case everywhere. across oklahoma and texas, 25 people confirmed dead with 14 people currently unaccounted for. here in wimberly we had overnight rains and we saw the river go up a little bit. right now we are lucky. clear skies and some sun giving crews a chance to try to play patch up with their search efforts and with debris remove. in some areas the debris as high as 20 feet. a mix of tree branchs, personal items and we have seen furniture forced together by the force of the floodwaters. this break is not going to last. more bad weather is forecast for the weekend. back to you. >> thank you. so

. >> reporter: in wimberly texas, the search continues for 12 people still missing after the blanco rivermore than 28 feet in just an hour cresting at more than 40 feet saturday night. >> we have 12 missing. we have over 30 people unaccounted for. >> reporter: among the missing, two families with children. >> my sister will always be my sister. >> reporter: laura mccomb made a frantic call to her sister julie as the flood waters took their cabin. >> the house we were in the roof collapsed and we were now floating down the river. called mom and dad, i love you, and pray. >> reporter: her husband jonathan was found almost 12 miles down river. laura and their two kids still listed as missing. >> the blessing in all of this is that she is with her children, and she is with her babies and she will be with her babies always in heaven and we know that as a family. >> reporter: a family like this area torn apart by the water and still searching for answers. >> let's bring in charles hadlock who is reporting from houston, texas. you see the emotional strain that these folks are going through. what

. >> reporter: in wimberly, texas, flooding to this tree from its roots and smashed homes to pieces. heavy in through memorial day means flash flood watches in texas, oklahoma, arkans and missouri. phillip menna, abc news hayes coty, texas. >>> still ahead on "abc7 news" at 9:00, hollywooreacts to the hose of female comedienne. >>> and good evening. temperatures have been below normal in many areas b i'll let you know when we'll be above normal with the seven-day forecast coming up. >>> a pioneering female comedienne and actress has died. ann mira wife of jerry stiller and mother of ben stiller passed away yesterday. she starred on stage, film and television and known for her roles on "all my children," and "king of queens." they worked together for over 61 years. in 1963 they recorded their live comedy album in san francisco. actor steve martin tweeted, stiller and miraave been a wonderful presence in comedy any whole life. now ann is gone and i salute her. and rosie o'donnell said with a heavy heart, she was so real. she was 85 years old. >>> loc world war ii hero celebrated a speci

jay gray nbc news wimberly texas. live in wimberly there is a real sense of urgency here right now. also pushed by the forecast, which shows there will be more heavy rain here through the weekend. tough go alex. back to you. >> thanks for that update. nbc's jay gray. >>> coming up, washington, d.c. just banned all issues-oriented ads from its subway system. i'll tell you why. that's next. here at friskies, cats are in charge of approving every new recipe. because it's cats who know best what cats like to eat. up today, new friskies 7. we're trying seven cat-favorite flavors all in one dish. now for the moment of truth. yep, looks like it's time to share what our cats love with your cats. new friskies 7. for cats. by cats. right now, verizon is offering unlimited talk and text. plus 10 gigs of shareable data. yeah, 10 gigantic gigs. for $80 a month. and $15 per line. more data than ever. for more of what you want. on the network that's #1 in speed, call, data, and reliability. so you never have to settle. $80 a month.

anna cabrera, cnn, wimberly, texas. >> incredible amounts of water. in fact, there's been so much rain in wimberly texas, the river is spilling over its banks and straight into people's homes. incredible. a couple shot this video as the water flowed into their home. you can see how strong it is knocking -- i'm not sure if you can see, it's knocking over furniture, flowing in the room. >> still to come here, we'll have more on the massive corruption scandal surrounding fifa. find out what fifa's president has to say about these unprecedented charges. >>> also ahead, singapore airlines is launching an investigation following a heart-stopping moment during a flight. details on this close call, coming up. making a fist something we do to show resolve. to defend ourselves. to declare victory. so cvs health provides expert support and vital medicines. at our infusion centers or in patients homes. we help them fight the good fight. cvs health, because health is everything. body pain? motrin helps you be an unstoppable, i-can-totally-do-this- all-in-one-trip

. >> reporter: in wimberly texas, the blanco river receded enough for kelly to come home even as she assesses what to save she is haunted by the waters that swept away her neighbors. >> the sound of houses hit ago houses, hitting trees people screaming, was deafening. >> reporter: near houston the water is still rising and evacuation orders are in place forcing residents to rely on volunteers to save that they can. >> they came to any wreckage. >> everybody chipping in and doing a little bit. >> dallas texas. >> dramatic images of high water rescue coming out of texas tonight. you see here a police officer being rescued near dallas. it's raining right now in the southeast part of the state. drew tuma is falling the weather. how long is this going to last? >> incredible images out of texas and tonight they're under the gun again for wet weather live doppler 7hd will show you we're tracking an area of low pressure over the state of louisiana, dragging a coal front through the southeastern portion of the state and that's where you're seeing the wet weather at this hour. we we we're righ

paolo sandoval reports from wimberly, texas. >> reporter: authorities in texas are ordering voluntary evacuations along parts of the colorado and brazos rivers. they are worried that predicted heavy rain will cause more flash flooding that could spell disaster in already devastated areas. >> we're very vulnerable right no so we are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. our grounds are saturated. the river is still up. >> reporter: crews are pushing ahead with clean-up from major flooding earlier this week. more than a foot of rain pushed rivers over their banks, houses torn from their foundations and cars pushed downstream like toys. this is video of the powerful blanco river breaking down a door and pushing into one family's home. this tornado touched down all the way up into texas panhandle. it damaged a gas drilling rig and injured three people. two of them quit cloudy. meanwhile, the search for nine missing people continues. one family outside houston spent wednesday searching for the body of 73-year-old alice reported missing when she didn't show up for work. >> she's

and in hard hit wimberly texas, it's starting to dry out. more than 70 search teams, 1500 volunteers in all, intensified their efforts to find several people still missing. we begin there tonight with janet shamlian in wimberly. janet? >> reporter: good evening, floodwaters across texas are receding you would not know it to look at the fast moving blanco river right now. the storms are moving out. right now we're in the middle of a deluge tomorrow it should be dry. finally some relief for people who need it. >> as rain moved out of hard hit wimberly more than 1500 volunteers came in, many with no connection to the community. >> we're just all devastated at what happens. >> this week's historic flood destroyed homes and lives. and with five people still missing, those wanting to help arrived from as far away as atlanta to a local church turned command center. >> we take all the real dear to our hearts. >> tackling everything from search and rescue to clearing the tons of debris still littering this central texas town. >> it's just all walks o

nbc has more from wimberly texas. >> reporter: as the water rose the horrifying calls. >> i knew something was very very wrong. >> julie licensed to her sister on the line. she was with her husband, two children and another family on a memorial day weekend when the blanco river swelled, and then the stunning revolution. >> we're in a house that's floating down the river. call mom and dad. i love you, and pray. >> laura hung up when she saw a skplieth thinking that she was going to be rescued. she and her children are now missing. 6-year-old andrew and 4-year-old and favorite vitactivity dretsing up. also from the same house sue and ralph. the cabin was the long time vacation home. >> they were dear people and very friendly. >> as the neighbors rose he ran out to start the suv but ran back inside and he never made it back. the engine still running the next day. >> my wife heard what she thought were fireworks and we assumed that was about the time that the house came off and went down river. >> the house came free and was swept down river. laura told the sister that the families were inside

heidi zhou-castro, al jazeera wimberly texas. >> kevin corriveau joins us, the the whole region is expected to see more rain in coming days. >> that's right hot spots heunt, sanhouston, san marco a little bit of circulation, that is going to be our next shot of energy that's going to kick off some more storms as we go towards the next couple of days that we think are going to be fairly significant. tonight we've seen storms here across parts of kansas kansas, oklahoma and texas. we have siege 19 tornadoes being reported across that region earlier this evening. they are starting to subside as the heating of the day starts to go down but tomorrow unfortunately we expect to see more in terms of active weather there. oklahoma has seen amazing amounts of rain as well as parts of texas. oklahoma city has seen just 20 inches of rain. so we're still looking at watches and warnings in this area flood warnings are still in effect for much of this area as well, rain coming into play most of it is going to be up here towards northern texas and oklahoma. we do expect to see four to six inches here. down

chris martinez, cbs news, wimberly, texas. >>> whole foods is helping businesses damaged by the massive flooding in texas. the company will issue up to $1 million in emergency no interest loans. back in 1981, whole foods survived its own flooding disaster with help from the local community. >>> another dead whale has turned up on a northern california beach. it washed ashore near point reyes yesterday. scientists are trying to identify the species of the whale. this is the 12th whale carcass found on bay area beaches in just the past few months. biologists do not know what is killing these whales >>> the nation's highest court has led a drug disposal -- let a drug disposal law in alameda county to stand to cover pickup and disposal of unused prescription drugs. yesterday the high court turned down a challenge from the drug industry. it's the first law of its kind in the nation. >>> san francisco police are looking for a suspect in a violent attack. they just released this composite sketch of a man who assaulted a woman at grant and geary on may 9. investigators say the man called the wo

omar villafranca, wimberly texas. >>> one child is in the hospital in florida after a bounce house the child was in was lifted up with a water spout on the beach. >> oh bounce house! >> the inflatable playhouse was sent flying by winds up to 85 miles per hour monday. it was blown off the ft. lauderdale beach and over four lanes of traffic. four children were inside. one was tossed backwards. >> i thought i was about to die. i was going to die and then the bouncehouse flew out with the wind and i fell in a boat. >> she was released from the hospital after treatment for an injured lip and wrist. >>> and the storm system caused severe rip tides along the florida and mississippi coast. at least three swimmers are missing at florida beaches and one in mississippi. numerous others got caught by the powerful water and had to be rescued. meteorologist larry mowry was our dallas station said the risk isn't over yet. >> it's been a stormy night through louisiana and arkansas that large amount of thunderstorms moves through. hearts of ohio down to the southeast and alabama and mississippi, we've

in wimberly, texas, this is one of the homes washed away. this six flags amusement park looked more like a water park. tonight high winds in houston took the roof off an apartment building and a firefighter in oklahoma was swept away during a rescue and drowned we have a series of the reports tonight beginning with omar villafranca in wimberly. >> torrential downpours have deluged central texas. >> oh my god, oh my god. >> reporter: some areas have seen more than ten inches of rain in the last 24 hours. the storms have toppled trees, knocked out bridges and submerged cars. swollen rivers, streams and creaks are running through communities that have already been pounded by weeks of rainfall. in hays county, the blanco river has risen to record levels causing significant damage to the town's of san marcos and wimberly. 1,000 homes have been damaged. 300 are gone. the sheriff's office has issued a 9:00 p.m. curfew in an effort to keep residents safe. there has been at least one death in san marcos and three people have been reported missing. fi

. >> in wimberly, texas, the blanco river is slowly receding, but in other parts of the state the risk of dangerous flooding is just beginning. a voluntary evacuation is underway in wharton where the colorado river is expected to crest early tomorrow night and many residents are heading out. >> the best thing to do is just leave. >> 3 inches of rain fell today in shallowwater, texas. the same system drenched lubbock. scientists say texas rivers are so swollen they may not return to normal levels until july. >>> some of those towns actually wiped out a four year drought in less than two weeks. that's a little too fast. our wakeup weather, pretty much the same deal, 60s and 70s to start and warm in the 70s by 9:00 9:00 under partly cloudy skies. we'll come back, give you the 3- degree guarantee and look ahead to the weekend. >> up next we dig deeper into the secret world of biohazard risks >>> the cdc is investigating how the u.s. military managed to send live anthrax spores from a utah army base to a civilian lab in maryland and possibly many others. >> cbs news confirmed the defense de

omar villafranca, cbs news, wimberly, texas. >> state disaster declarations have been issued for 46 texas counties. >>> an arrest in a wild hit-and- run in newark. police say this man chased down his ex-girlfriend and intentionally rammed into her car. scott o'neill of fremont is facing charges of attempted homicide and violating a restraining order. police say he threatened his ex- girlfriend at a bar. the woman was picked up by two friends. the officers said o'neill chased three of them in his car and then hit them on cedar boulevard. both cars flipped over. o'neill tried to confront his ex again but bystanders intervened. the suspect then took off, officer caught him yesterday and took him into custody. >>> devastating news to hundreds of people on the peninsula. city of palo alto has okayed plans to evict every tenant in the city's last remaining mobile home park. some 400 people living at the buena vista park will have six months to clear out. before the final vote last night, the tenants argued the owner wasn't paying them enough to find other housing in the pricy bay area. >> with

just what they saw in houston, that's what we saw here in wimberly,texas. the waters rose at an incredible rate and people had such little time to get to higher ground. when it comes to weather, more people die from flooding than anything else. you have to take this seriously, especially as we're expecting more rain at the end of the week and the weekend. we have complete homes washed off of their foundation. this is not the only one. we have sites all across the city. we have 400 homes in this area completely destroyed and 1,000 that are heavy damaged. this is more than 43 feet wolf above where the river normally sits. and so you can imagine the fear in people when they see the waters coming up and they're just raging at such an incredible rate. and the force is just enough to wipe trees out. residents told us there are sigh cypress trees so big around incredible trees completely uprooted and the force to wipe a home completely off its foundation. if you're in a low lying area and we've expecting more flash flooding this weekend, you've got to seek higher

and sadly it probably won't stop there because 11 more people have been missing for a week in wimberly, texas, near austin. today a slow-moving storm threatened to dump as much as five more inches of rain on central and south texas where rivers are still rising. we begin tonight with don dahler who's in carrolton, texas. >> reporter: for the second day, dallas-area residents woke up to storms. for the second day floodwaters surged on to roadways and into homes. and for the second day people had to be helped to reach dry land. >> the 100-year flood i've heard it all my life. >> reporter: residents were evacuated from this trailer park north of dallas this afternoon. it's been an exhausting two days for first responders. yesterday, hundreds of people had to be saved from the rapidly rising waters. a police officer was blocking a flooded road when his s.u.v. became trap. >> so many things can go wrong and it's just like with the power wires overhead, there was still pretty breezy. there's, obviously, a lot of trees in the area. they did get him pretty high off the ground, you know, at the end of

than a dozen missing. 4,000 homes in the houston area are damaged or destroyed, and 1,200 in wimberly, texas outside austin. omar villafranca begins our coverage. >> reporter: it's the worst flooding this region has ever seen. this aerial video shows the remains of a bridge come -- completely washed away by catastrophic flooding from a raging blanco river. the river rose 26 feet in just an hour, uprooting home, snapping trees washing away cars and creating massive piles of debris up to 20 feet high along an 87-mile stretch. wimberly, a popular bed and breakfast getaway has taken the biggest hit. a dozen still remain missing. will conley is the county commissioner. >> we have over 150 personnel continuing to scope the river through air, by boat and by land looking for any survivors. >> reporter: 33-year-old laura macomb and her two young children six-year-old andrew and four-year-old leighton are among those still missing. they were separated when their vacation home was swept off its foundation, slamming into a bridge downstream. julia shields is laura's sister. >> she called me. she said "i

in wimberly texas tonight. vincente. >> jeff, the river here in wimberly rose some 40 feet with so much force it caused houses like the ones you see behind me to lift off their foundations and crash into each other. the number of homes damaged here is still being counted. >> powerful floodwaters swept down the blanco river this weekend destroying a bridge and ripping homes from their foundations. he lives on the banks of the blanco which rose 126 feet in one hour. he provided shelter for his neighbors moments before the home was swept away. >> you could hear the house move off the foundation and gordon said here comes my house. and within a matter of minutes, his house floated by. >> carly smith is the hays county emergency management coordinator. >> we have roadways that are just a road full of slabs now. we don't have any structures on them at all any more. >> reporter: the town of wimberly was hardest hit. more than 70 homes were destroyed. rescue crews are still searching for 12 people who have gathered in

>> reporter: this is what many residents of wimberly, texas experienced sunday night, a relentless wall of water. the force of nature that caused that tragedy has also hampered efforts to find its victims. >> we've got a big cell pointed right at us. we're right on the northern tip of it. >> reporter: but when the storm broke the search continued, with some special equipment. this group of searchers from texas a&m university corpus christi got permission from the f.a.a. to experiment with the use of drones in search operations such as this one. if they spot something out of the ordinary, a team of searchers go in on foot or by boat. some of the drones use thermal imagery. >> if there was a person in there, they would stand out because their body temperature would be different from the surrounding vegetation? >> right. that's right. >> reporter: for chip urban the search is personal. he knows many of the missing. >> when we heard about it, our hearts sank, and immediately, like so many others in corpus christi, first thought is what can we do to help? >> still missing are laura mccomb, a

is now smoldering, they are hoping this will never happen again gabriel elizondo, al jazerra wimberly, texasco's president enrique peÑa neito has been surveying the damage caused by monday's tornado that ripped through a town near the border with texas. at least 14 people killed and dozens injured and severe winds pulled roofs from buildings and cars across streets -- cat putted cars across streets excuse me. a rescue operation is still underway and the death toll there could rise. >>> britain's queen elizabeth ii will layout the agenda. in a fetch mark the opening of parliament the. plans include more spending us and proposal to his take back more powers from the european union. lawrence lee has more. >> reporter: five more years of david cameron. and an amazing opportunity for the conservative party to impose its will on the population of the u.k. entirely unopposed. after all around the cabinet table now are only conservative allies the first time that's happened since 1997. the conservatives made it clear that they will portray themselves as a party that speaks for the working classes. >

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heidi zhou-castro is in wimberly texas tonight. heidi. >> 46 foot tall wave of water came down the blanco river. lifted off its foundation. here in wem wim ber li wim wimberly is where this started before memorial day but is not where it is continuing. >> this will allow everyone to respond even more festival to the challenges you face. >> homes have been swamped. >> homes have been completely wiped off of the map. >> every part of the city hit. >> the defining feature of houston, is the many rivers that run through. and many of them overflowed their banks and overtook the neighborhoods. >> rescuers said they had to save over 500 people from high water. stranded in their vehicles. 2500 trucks and vans abandoned as drivers scrambled to higher ground. further north the search continues for two families whose vacation home was swept into the blanco river. fell apart into pieces. at the time the water was not only over my head but over the height of the bridge. in all several people from hayes county are unaccounted for, a body remains

wimberly, texas. >> sandy patel is here on the sere weather it's been unrelent unrelenting. >> it has been. you will see strong thunderstorms pounding texas and oklahoma and severe thunderstorm watches are still going and going to run until the wee hours of tomorrow morning. that report at at the top of our forecast was west of the sticity at 6:32. numerous reports ofownl cloudsunnel clouds and flash warnings in texas as well. and thunderstorms rolled through that area. ey will be seeing severe weather outbreak tomorrow and potential for tornado and hail and morehis week as well. >> thank you. back in the bay area residents and officials can't figure out why water is seeping into a yard and down a street. every little bit of water counts. abc 7 news repter laura anthony has more. >> these are the worst o times when it comes to lack of water. she has to put rubber boots on in herackyard and the source is unknown. >> it's mystery water. we can't idenfy the source or where it's comi from. >> the water has flowed from he hillside beyond the home. it flows in the front too. down the street

gabe is in the hard hit town of wimberly texas. >> good morning. ated deaths has grown to eight. today in haze county the search continues for people missing. new water rescues were overnight to the north. >> this morning austin texas is drying out after flood waters swamped some of the busiest downtown streets. more than 4 inches of rain fell in one hour. nearly every creek overnowing its banks stranded drivers and prompted dozens of water rescues. to the east. >> look at that tornado. >> several tornados touched down like this one in legrange. the wild weather makes it hard for the forecasters across the state to keep up. >> in my 25 years i've never seen anything like this. tornados touching down right and left today and flash flood going on all simultaneously. >> and the death toll rising. the homecoming queen was on her way home from prom and her car got swept away. in hard hit wimberly texas. >> i would describe it as a flood of biblical proportion. >> the national guard has joined the serchl the search for the missing. >> we are in a house fl

this is a small resort in wimberly texas. it's more like a tornado than a flood. this small resort may not be able to be rebuilt because it's on a flood plain. this is the river that crested saturday night into sunday at about 43 feet. it's flood stage is about 12 feet. you can still see the debris on some of these tree tops and the family was in a cabin that was pushed down the river. the family has been split apart. it's a tragic story here in texas. the governor has expanded the disaster declaration to include 37 counties. today the search for the missing continues in wimberly. >> thank you. joining me now is harris county judge ed emmett. he oversees the county. thank you for your time. >> good morning. >> let me ask you what's your concern right now. >> our biggest concern is the number of cars that remain under water and as the waters reseed we're just hoping and praying we don't find anymore people inside. >> as we mention at the top of the show you're in an unprecedented situation, so much so that a flooding mrnl has been declared. that's extremely rare. y

thousands of homes are damaged and flooding is threatening more neighborhoods brandy is live now in wimberly texas. >> reporter: in this area along the blanko river, it's good news, now you see all the damage, that home behind me ripped from its foundation from floodwaters that reached well above my height and even putting a ladder up into a tree people are going door-to-door and they are hoping at this point to find survivors. >> another round of storms is striking texas pushing dam over this part of dallas and they are trying to salvage what is left of these homes and find 10 people still missing. >> some homes are totally loss. >> laura mccomb and her children are not seen for days after their vacation home broke apart and floated away and broke into pieces, it raged at 333,000 cubic feet per second twice that of niagara falls. >> it came over the river in probably 45 minutes it came up fast. it wasn't pretty. >> among the calls for water rescue this this was called on a cell phone steven shannon saved a woman and her children trapped if their car. >> there was hail creating a swath of tornadoe

we are in the town of wimberly texas in between san antonio and austin, and we are in this town right now small town of 2600 people on the banks of the river a river that was absolutely in the words of one resident here hell when this overflowed it's banks and as you can probably see behind me all of the trees that were behind me just totally got flattened. not only that but just behind me over my right shoulder are the remains of one of the cabins in the rio lodge, a resort that we are at right now. they say they lost 11 of their cabins there were cabins that were made out of brick that just got completely washed away when a wall of water just came through. it just lifted up the cabins and just tumbled then down the river, so they are looking for ten people that are missing over ten people that they think are missing here. this is a city that has been hit by far the hardest but the entire state and the entire region has seen some of the worst flooding now in decades. this river that you see behind me, it had not joan flown banks like this for over 30 years. the worst part is that for