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Or move home are finding the situation, hi, steve. >> leland, its tough to get home and gasoline are one of the challenges, many stations closed down and other seen prices to go up 30 or 40 cents a gallon from a week ago. if you take a look, you can see a common scene all across the state, large piles of what was furniture out in front of peoples houses. blankets, tables, dressers, mattresses all soaked, ruined by the water in front of each house, a large pile of junk and clothes hanging and a t...

Neighborhood today brian, where water was rising even after the rain stop so people thought they were clear and they could return. >> don, they thought they had dodged a bullet. in a lot of these neighborhoods after the brunt of the storm passed they werent too badly flooded because of the control release of water out of the reservoir and the bayou just overwhelmed this place, most of these poem were taking by complete surprise. they were telling me water started to rise in their homes about 1:0...

The canals and what not, water will overtop the levees, and it will spill into a community thats surrounded by levees, so, the water just kind of sits there. what a control release is, and when they go in with heavy equipment and even shovels at times and they put intentional holds, or they do whats called cutting the levee, and what that does, it allows the flood waters to drain out of the community much faster than if the pumps were just working by themselves. they have pumps there and pumping...

And in the devastation, and in the rising floodwaters, we are witnessing the worst of nature and the best of humanity. a lot of the boats saving people from hatheir homes are voluntee. and help is needed. >> helping texas overcome this is going to be far greater than fema coordinating the initiative of the federal government. we need citizens to be involved. texas, this is a landmark event. we have not seen an event like this. >> we have reporters spanned out all across the ridge. we began with ...

Rescue effort across the city. national guard, coast guard, authorities asking local residents, specifically people who have boats to go out and try to help rescue people. some of these rescues are very complicated. we spoke to a fireman who came out to check out that vehicle to make sure there was no one inside it. there isnt. he said he was called out on 25 different calls yesterday and was only able to reach two of them. that gives you an idea of how complicated many of these are. those two r...