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In houston. matt flynn is live in port arthur. what are you seeing there now? >> reporter: hey, sandra, its a very dire situation happening right behind us a fireman just went down. he had some type of health attack. you can see him being treated right now. more and more people just keep being rescued by boat in this situation for about two or three hours now the boats just keep going out into the flooded waters. they keep coming back with families, with elderly people connected to oxygen tanks....

It is almost a worst case scenario in terms of any type of flood. its just a heart breaking disaster here, sandra. >> sandra: matt, youve been telling these stories for us all day. port arthur, weve been showing the images coming out of beaumont. its so difficult to think that the situation there weather wise is still so uncertain. youre not putting any of them on the microphone at this moment. i know its so hard for people to come over to your camera. are you able to speak with these people? >>...

Moments that have stood out to you as as you have been coverig it? >> first and foremost was the fireman last night. we were in huge residential area on the southwestern side. houston police tell us perhaps the hardest hit area. we spent nearly the entire day and into the night there. towards the tail end of the night in the same saturating rain youre seeing right now, out of the darkness came this little boat. on it were three firemen. they were clearly exhausted. they said weve spent the entir...

Members rescued people on all day. you might be able to see there is one fireman manning votes. it seems like they had some trouble getting out of the area. they were given a car ride back to the station. this fireman is waiting for his fellow fighters to return. we didnt interview and they had been rescuing people all day long. they rescued people from the rooftop. take a listen to that interview from a short while ago. >> one of the emotions running through your mind. this must have been an ex...

Incredible people the job they do. in fact, general kelly who was in charge of homeland security where people coming in down 78 and almost 80%. he did so good. i made him my chief of staff, right? that made sense. wheres john? where is he? where is general kelly? get him out here. hes great. hes doing a great job. before anything happened, we did a lot. we respect and cherish our i.c.e. officers and we respect and cherish our police officers and our fireman, but during that

Officers to assault them and dehumanize them. lisa: you look at 2016. we saw a 56% increase in police officers kid in the line of duty and increase to the tune of 167% in term of ambush killing. how do we change the tools? what tools do our police officers need so we can avoid statistics like we just saw? >> thats a great question. for the fir group, the soft target terror attacks. this is a big threat. police officers being ambushed by terrorist-type groups. you have to be an arson tonight, not...

Officers to assault them and dehumanize them. lisa: you look at 2016. we saw a 56% increase in police officers kid in the line of duty and increase to the tune of 167% in term of ambush killing. how do we change the tools? what tools do our police officers need so we can avoid statistics like we just saw? >> thats a great question. for the fir group, the soft target terror attacks. this is a big threat. police officers being ambushed by terrorist-type groups. you have to be an arson tonight, not...

Officers to assault them and dehumanize them. lisa: you look at 2016. we saw a 56% increase in police officers kid in the line of duty and increase to the tune of 167% in term of ambush killing. how do we change the tools? what tools do our police officers need so we can avoid statistics like we just saw? >> thats a great question. for the fir group, the soft target terror attacks. this is a big threat. police officers being ambushed by terrorist-type groups. you have to be an arson tonight, not...

Disavowing all bigotry and hatred i believe is the best thing he could have done for this nation. >> professor? >> first, lets shift the analogy. your metaphor is insufficient. lets talk about a burning house. you come to the house. one person is an arsonist trying to start the fire, another is a fireman trying to put it out. what trump did was essentially reenforce the status quo where the arson is fire bombing the house and another group of people are trying to put that people out. number two,...

Running to the hurt, triaging the injured right on the ground. >> shoes all over the crowd. pools of blood all over the ground. >> clearing the crowd. >> reporter: horrific scene coming in. eva pilgrim joins us now. active investigation and very active scene. eva, what are we learning about that driver in custody? >> reporter: that driver was picked up just a short distance from this scene. not very far away at all. witnesses telling us, whoever the driver was they did not hesitate. they put the...