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>> reporter: i want to show you, alex, the business that karen -- come on, karen. just tell us the business that you came to look at today. its just in such bad state. can you tell us about this business? >> this business belongs to scott jordan, who is a friend of our grandsons. we came out here to see where the water was, to see when they could get back in here to start restoration. >> it looks like thats not going to happen any time soon. >> not too soon. >> not too soon, alex. and again, we ...

Already devastating flooding downstream in houston and its western suburbs. but now its a different matter. now its the reservoirs overflowing. its no longer a matter of deciding to let the water out of the reservoirs, its getting out on its own regardless of what humankind decides to do with it. the attics started overflowing. the barker reservoir is expected to start overflowing tonight. tonight this giant storm will make landfall for the second time. its had an unusual and sort of cruel patte...

Not be letting people know that theyre in distress. im concerned with people who are disabled, again, who may be living by themselves. we want to make sure we meet their needs. im concerned about individuals, low-income persons, who may be living in communities, for example, that are prone to floods. we opened up one of the shelters very close to one of those communities last night before the massive rainfall came, and that worked out extremely, extremely well, learning from an event that took p...

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Falling so far on this area with reports of 30 inches in harris county, the most populous county here in houston with much more to come. this is an all-hands-on-deck rescue effort. an additional thousand national guard troops has. the authorities have been telling people to shelter in place, if flooding starts in their homes. they are telling them not to go up in the attics because they skould get stuck there. theyre saying get onto the roofs so the helicopters q see yo you. what it means is the...

Weather channel where houston is receiving the brunt of the storm right now. >> good morning to you, reverend. unfortunately, this is the worst case scenario weve seen he overnight. people are dying in the houston area from the catastrophic floods. weve had five reports of fay talgities fatalitie fatalities, weve had 1,000 rescues of people. they have sent outay fatalities, weve had 1,000 rescues of people. they have sent outy fatalities, weve had 1,000 rescues of people. they have sent out fata...

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Water from barker and they are releasing as of an hour ago about 2600 cubic feet per second from attics and about 2000 cubic feet per second. they are going to gradually increase that up to about 8,000 cubic feet, which will go up to about noon. the reason is, thats behind barker and attics. if they dont release it, then it will go around. specifically attics, it will go around and it will create a major problem. when the water is released, it will come downstream and add water. the whole buffal...

Theres a creek that runs through here. just a few minutes ago, people had brought their private boats here. they were launching them into the creek. what theyre doing is theyre trying to help out with some of the water rescues going on in this area. as you can probably tell, it is raining. its been raining here for a very long time. we did see that family who is carrying a lot of their possessions basically in plastic bags. someone had come in with a pickup truck and was basically going to ferry...

Ladder to scaleup on top tof the are roof. they had an american flag they were using to wave down for help, a box of blankets, sorts of things. the garage still open to their home. as weve floated through this neighborhood, ana, weve seen a number of homes where you see holes through their roof where they had chopped their way out of their attic. this is where we see with a number of homes where people had escaped into the their attics and used their ax or some sort of heavy tool to sort of punc...