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Tampa three days ago, miami was worse and now its inching closer and closer to the tampa area. let me go to a couple other maps. this is going to show us when wind damage is. the two things that are going to cause the most damage is the water surge. by the time we get to saturday afternoon, this is when we start getting the power outages and damage in the keys. watch what happens in marco island. look at the keys, 127, 127. even miami is starting to get up there. key largo, 108. sunday afternoon...

And then just swirled around houston for days. and then walloped port arthur with a tremendous rainfall there. well, for hurricane irma, it is a major hurricane. major being category 3 and above. it may reach category 5 by the time it apreached the leeward islands. we want to show you whats happening outside of los angeles where a fire has been raging. temperatures have soared here over the last five days. theyve been between 38 and 42 degrees celsius, between 100 and 108 degrees. this is just t...

Attics, this is a big concern and right now in the northern area were seeing the over topping, its 108 feet and over topped by a foot. thats why we have a problem of the flooding there. but the pressures got to be so intense. let me show you a picture can back in 1953. it was all ranchland. so they developed the levies to help protect the flow in the buffalo bayou and for the most part what theyve done is try to protect houston but all the rivers flow into this area so you have a build up of wat...

Overnight that wont shut off. the heaviest raen today is somewhere near memphis. even nashville could see six synchs. thats not 40 or 50 like they saw in houston. getting back to houston, we have 30 reservoirs, 30 rivers, 30 gauges that is above major flood stage. so lets get to this evacuation were talking about. its a new evacuation. here is the barker reservoir. you see all the brazos river. we ear talking about barker and addicks. ive been talking about addicks most of the week. here is addi...

Making loans available, section 108 loans. those kinds of things make a big difference and also determining where the units are that are available. we have staff out making sure where those are, determining where the people are however that helped by hud programs. and then matching those up. working very vigorously with fema. >> bret: we have seen something like this, but this seems historic. back when hurricane katrina. how long it took to iron out some of those issues, some of them still go on...

Flooded and the water is high enough that ets agoing around the levy anyway on the top end on the northeast side. now, lets get back down here and show you barker. awe the people live back here. water is rushing out here. again, flooding this entire neighborhood here, as you go down the buffalo bayou to houston. it is backing up because they cant let it the water out fast enough. there are hundreds if not thousands of homes that are right at the top of the levy mean sea level or in some cases as...

About, addicks, barker in good shape. they are not breaching, they are not breaching. whats happening is out of addicks water is going out of the buffalo bayou and into houston. thats what they expect. theyre letting the water out on purpose. what is wrong is that the end of this right here is the end of the water, and the water is spilling around the top of the damn at 108 feet above sea level. if its above 108, it will spill. it was planned to do that. thats not good for the neighborhoods ther...

Whats the number one thing thats on your mind right now that we should be aware of? >> well, the first thing that i would like to say man, its pretty amazing what the first responders are doing in this area. and we feel a kinship with soldiers with first responders. really amazed what those guys are doing. our biggest area of emphasis right now is the reservoirs at addicks and barker, in particular the addicks reservoir. the dam height is about 108 feet. the water is 109 feet. we are seeing. so ...

Reservoir. take you to google earth. houston proper, we talked about this, buffalo bayou, it goes right from houston into these two reservoirs. the reservoirs were built because back in 1940 there was 250,000 people living in houston. they said lets hold the water back because this is farmland. its no longer farmland. people live there. this is addicks. the dam here its 108. here its 114. the water is pouring around the dam this way because right now the level is 109. top of the levee is 108, th...

Southern most edge youre talking about 114 feet tall but on this northeastern edge, were only about 108 and thats where were starting to see some of that spillover thats right here. this is, in 2016, google earth, here you can see that reservoir, okay? notice whats around it, though. all of this. these are homes. businesses that were built up around it. however, when the reservoir was originally started, notice, back in 1953, there wasnt anything really around there. its a lot of the extra build...