decon. the other issue, don, is mosquitos. a ten-day breeding cycle for mosquitos. you start counting from the day out this thing made landfall, all this fresh water from corpus christi all the way over to lake charles and back into houston is going to be quite a contest. in katrina, we brought in the air force c-130s and sprayed south louisiana literally and that takes several days. so that s a mission they will have to start thinking about. right. when they start doing that because the mosquitos will wreak havoc on the population. elizabeth, there are also a lot of health dangers for when people go back to their homes and start surveying the damage. what are you learning about that? right, so there are several things people need to be careful about, don. first of all, your home is not probably structurally sound, if it was affected truly by the water so you might step on a stair that looks solid but it s not. people get injured like that. unfortunately, with some frequency. a
you spread it out over all that ground, that s why it s shattering all the records. here s another way to look at it. think about hurricane katrina, very different. broken levees. a lot of water in 80% of new orleans. places 10 feet under water, 20 feet under water. if you took the new orleans area and went ahead and said in 80% of it it was 20 feet, it would look this deep next to me. put all the water from harvey in the same area and suddenly you have a column that is taller than a 12-story building. a tremendous amount of water out there. even as it goes away, think about what s happening. this isn t pure water. it s water full of petrochemicals and agricultural runoff and toxins from homes and businesses and raw sewage, meaning even as it drains, it will still be a very real danger. don? my goodness. tom, thank you for that. let s talk about just how dangerous these floodwaters could be. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here. cnn contributor and retired ie e
people. that s what we need. we need help down here. we have families that can t get out. we re surrounded by water. and no one can get to them other than a boat. yeah. so it s been very difficult, man. you know, i hope that i hope people realize never to play with waters like this or hurricanes. i mean, because i m a testimony, i went to my own house and it s totaled. my cars, i have no cars and i m living just like everyone else. it s not about titles. it s not about who you are. it s about helping people overcoming this particular event that we have. councilman, i want to show our viewers, this is video you took outside your house. we re going to talk on the other side. watch this. we can pull up to my truck, i m going to see. that s my house. submerged. cars submerged. that s a hard, hard thing. you okay, mr. green? you ready, you want to go? let s see. yeah, we got people all over.
then we go through how we re going to do it and then major wolf will have his guys lower down the cable to us. we hook them up and go back up into the helicopter. so when you guys one of the things we re obviously cognizant of sorry, don as we pick people up, it s important we coordinate together and cooperate so we can effectively help these people then obviously as they get into the aircraft, it s really important to work together to make sure that they re calm. obviously, this is sometimes the first time that they re seeing all the devastation potentially in their neighborhood, their neighbors. we ve sort of been flying around for the last several days. we ve seen quite a bit of devastation and destruction. a lot of times people are thankful to get out of it and this is their first scene where they re seeing their homes and neighbors homes completely under water. it s important for us to be able to be there for them and help them through this. and then obviously as we tra
very, very helpful. all my friends, the hurst family, my kchronicle family n houston, texas, everyone on facebook reached out and connected, we had helicopters surrounding the house and able to rescue miranda and take her to safety with my sister who s also a nurse, piper stark, rode with her. i mean, every day, i watch the coverage and i can t take my eyes off it and you think it s going to get better because you see the sunshine or it stops raining but then it just appears that it is getting worse at least with the survival stories. explain, can you explain to our viewers what it s like? i mean, there s no water. some people, you know, ended up in shelters. exactly. it happened so fast. i open the front door and five minutes later the water was coming into the house and it was just rising up to our kneecaps. it was it was quick and it