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Harbor act in texas. and that created the harris county flood control district. and in the 1940s that local authority in harris county, where houston is, and the army corps of engineers, they built two gigantic dams far out west from central houston. they built these two dam to hold back big reservoirs in what was then a couple of unpopulated corners of harris county and ft. ben county. today those areas are no longer unpopulated areas. housing development pushed people that far west from housto...

Then a couple of unpopulated corners of harris county and ft. ben county. today those areas are no longer unpopulated areas. housing development pushed people that far west from houston and beyond. but those two dams are still there. one of them is 11 niles long, one of them is 13 miles long. and when the storms still come and the rain falls and the rivers rise in southeast texas, those two dams are still at the heart of how houston copes. the two manmade reservoirs that build up behind those da...

To assess their damage. >> bill, well get back to you later in the show. thank you for that. i want to go to jacob rascon in houston. we talked exactly 24 hours ago. how has the situation changed there over the last day? >> so yesterday we were in this flooded areas and we know there are still a lot of areas that are flooded and continue to flood. in ft. ben county, the brazos river has crested. we know there are still hundreds even thousands of people still stranded. so the civilian boats will ...