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Been calling for our assistance, we have more resources in the field now than we did earlier. as we get more partners join in to help us manage the situation. if you do not have to leave your home, if you do not have to get out on the roadway, please do not do so. call us. well be there. we have more boats in the water. we have more high water rescue vehicles now. weve almost doubled our ability to respond and well get to you. and again i want to also emphasize, please do not go up in your attic...

Staying patient and staying calm, and using some common sense as well and we will try to get out there as soon as we can. >> you talk about people who are in their home and trying to get out. your office tweeted out last hour nonlife-threatening water inside home is safer than going outside. difficult and scary but we will get to you. please shelter in place and be safe. one can imagine just how scary it is when the power goes out. and youve got water up to your knees in your home. >> its dark a...

Where there is water and people have had to be evacuated. houston police department, the fire department and first responders had to respond to about 3,700 calls, so its quite a number. and so now we are going throughout the city of houston using high water rescue vehicles, high water rescue boats, getting people off roofs in some cases. some people went to their attics. we dont advise people to do that. and some people are stranded in their homes. so were trying to get to as many of them before...

Their situation. try to gauge how quickly the water is rising. one of the alarming things i see is people are talking about taking shelter in their attics and thats an incredibly dangerous place to be because theres no way out if the water keeps rising. youd rather be on the roof top. thats the kind of flooding were talking about here. >> extraordinary, weve had many people be rescued. theyve even asked people to put a way to mark so they can be seen if they need to be rescued. like towels or wh...

Second story. attics. its not recommended because they could be trapped in there but if they have a way to bust out, you know, part of the roofing or something with an ax or something, then that might be an option to just be able to get onto the roof and hopefully the water can subside a little bit. by the time we get there. its a matter of just trying to be resourceful and survive until we can get there. >> sheriff, we are seeing video here of a pickup truck that was stranded there. we have see...

Reports, that if they believe there is high water coming their way not to go to their attics, instead go to roof tops. more rescues are expected throughout the day because more rain is expected for a period of days. despite the reports from meteorologists, it did catch a lot of people by surprise nonetheless. and despite the devastation, many are trying to help their neighbors. here are some of the stories. >> are you all going back inside? >> yes, theres still elderly people out there. >> do yo...

That they want to get as many people out of here as they can because there are other people in residential areas behind this hotel who need rescuing from their homes. of course its been a recurrent theme all day here in houston. people needing to be pulled out of their homes. officials telling them dont go to your attics. get to your roof top. if you have to go to the attic, bring an ax or another heavy piece of equipment to punch a hole through. thats how dramatic it is here. there are some oth...

Into the field as we speak. so hopefully we can get to those areas quicker and quickly but not the case where we have to confront that. we are just going to have to adapt. we are moving quickly. its dynamic and as we clear other locations we can get to them quickly as well. a matter of moving through the call volume as quickly as we can but we are confident we get to them in safe time. >> we want to update people who are watching for the latest information citywide. houston mayor sylvester turne...

Deep in some of the community, lets go back to these live pictures. we have got more people in the water here. coming through chest-high. youve got people just trying to save each other. >> what alarmed me is when they said they do have neighbors, there are small children in that neighborhood so you have to wonder if emergency vehicles can get to them. >> we received a tweet from the national weather service in houston. if you really want an illustration of how urgent and dire the situation is b...

In disstress. those who are on the roofs, those in the attics, in their homes, we want to get to them as quickly as possible. can you imagine the worst thing is to be out of your home on the roof, in the attic, in a house in water. i mean you want out of that situation as quickly as possible. so we want to get to people as quickly as possible. so in order to do that you can have the personnel but they also need to equipment. [ inaudible question ]. >> the goal is to stabilize their lives and to ...