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Outside -- that are bedroom communities, lovely places but unfortunately under water. >> is that where beaumont baptist hospital is? the entire hospital is being evacuated at this moment. >> theres a reason. i know -- about the situation and thats one of the things that obviously hospitals need water and we got two great hospitals here, baptist and saint elizabeth. and they both do exceptional jobs for our community. but without water, this is what the flood can do. weve got nearly 50 inches of ...

And the marines and the navy in beaumont. got a lot of friends out there. i want to give people a sense or to tell you that people are working. and local and state government are working. it doesnt mean were perfect. >> do you worry it didnt rain today that maybe some folks who arent here or are from here thought the rain is done, the worst is over? >> absolutely its not. i lived through hurricane ike, an extended manner through rita and katrina. katrina because so many of those guests, we call ...

>> im like so relieved now. you dont know. were on dry land, aint walking in water. >> reporter: but singletons mother like so many others is still stranded, desperate for help. >> my mom is still stuck in her house, please, somebody go get my momma out of there. shes old and cant move around like that. >> reporter: even for the lucky, safety almost seemed out of reach, whipping winds tossed rescue baskets. jaketa clung to 6-year-old bella, they thought the worst had already passed. >> we were w...

Our nursing staff is going around giving those shots. that is just something that rescuers as well as people we are rescuing needs to be worried about. i did have both of my shots. >> when you talk about a community still two-thirds under water each home is a family with tremendous loss that they are facing now if they are lucky enough not to have lost loved ones and not to have lost lives. do you see the community able to come back from a blow as hard as this one? >> well, we have had several b...

>> we were talking about it during the commercial break. just incredible, the similarities. yes, 12 years ago, were here in the gulf again. and were here dealing with people going through so much heart ache and we know what will happen to a lot of them, they wont be able to go back to their homes. >> we worked in port arthur 12 years ago during rita which i hadnt remembered. >> and hurricane rita was so scary, it happened in the middle of the night and so many people were panicked and left homel...

Nonemergent citizens. we started that at daybreak. we had stopped it at night fall last night due to the darkness, because its so dangerous to do that. weve continued to rescue emergency victims, and theyre just doing a great job. its in the hundreds for sure. and a lot of this was done in the last few days without any assistance. so i have to take my hat off to our emergency operations team, who was the team -- im sorry. >> no, no. go ahead, please finish. >> i was just going to say its the sam...

We, because we have as a team gone through ike and then rita together, we do have contacts that are coming through for us. we can always use more federal and state assistance. the resources are very, very limited right now because of the devastation of this storm starting close to corpus christi, making its way all the way down the coast and now going toward the coast of louisiana. so i mean theres really just nowhere to go. everyone just -- i mean its just -- even if -- nobody can leave. i mean...

Record rainfall. its expected to continue through labor day weekend, but schools and government offices are reopening today after rainfall was less than oer originally predicted. joining me by phone, thad allen who directed the federal response to hurricanes katrina and rita. that is one little silver lining that were hearing out of louisiana, that they may get half or less of what they originally expected. but as somebody who understands how this works and as someone who dealt with katrina, whi...

Hours in a region already inundated with life-threatening floods. joining me two mayors in the area, mayor nick hunter of lake charles, louisiana and mayor derek freeman of port arthur, texas. good evening to both of you. i appreciate you joining us here on cnn. mayor free man, harvey is set to make landfall in your community just hours from now. are you ready. >> were ready. port arthur has taken a few major hurricanes, hurricane ike and rita. were ready. you cant of course, fight mother nature...

Human dimension. a large disaster for the country. 200,000 being cared for by the government. officials reminding us these are people undergoing a crushing life changing emergency unfolding before our eyes. mike mccaul joins us now. our hearts are with you. are you confident that they have a handle on it despite the overwhelming challenge that they face? >> i do. ive been in charge of oversight of the department of homeland security since katrina, rita, sandy. this has been the worst disaster in...