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Incredible stories. after making landfall for a second time, harvey has now basically swallowed another texas town, port arthur in east texas along the louisiana border. harvey dumped more than two feet of water there in just 24 hours time. the citys mayor says the entire town is under water, even some shelters have been flooded, and the nations largest oil refinery there, shut down. life-threatening flash flooding, of course a major concern and its still raining. people are being asked to use...

The storm did make landfall overnight, so we do know that. thats good. now were trying to move it across i-10. look at the poor people in beaumont and port arthur. they continue on the back side of the storm with the rain bands. houston has been dry. we still have another couple of hours of additional rain to deal with. flash flood watches continue. we have new flash flood warnings for the mobile area, these are thunderstorms coming in here off the gulf. later tonight into tomorrow as the storm ...

The mayors house got flooded. its awful. >> all right. were rooting for you. i hope you get through the night there safely and get out of there quickly and those waters go down. thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> jesse waters, the managing author for the news. were at the top of the reservoir to show you how fragile that situation is right now. rescues happening on live tv this hour. we will go to that with you. and then a doctor literally walking through waist high water for a mile ...

Up in speed. this is good news because last week when we had had land fall on friday, we had thursday and friday places still in texas. so the models did change and pick it up. we had had localized flash flooding but nothing like were seeing down here. >> how long have i known you for fre years? i just called you slater. im sorry. that last story with the mom just broke me up. >> thats maybe one of the greater fears everyone should pay attention to. this is houston and weve heard so much about t...

Out there busting their tail and volunteers doing the same to save peoples lives while he was on the airwaves trying to score cheap political points. >> martha: very strong point. well-taken. congressman brady, as you say, theres subjects for another day. i know youre passionate about tax reform and the president spoke about it. hope you come back when youre focused and have the luxury of turning to other things. obviously you have a strong focus right now. >> this was a good day, too. i appreci...

With hurricane ike and rita. they have never seen even in those the flooding that they have today. so were still seeing evacuations, the flash flooding, the rescues over there. in our communities, we were plucking people from rooftops yesterday. today the water is receding. our focus is helping people in shelters, how to assessor that damage and what to do to take care of them. our focus continues to be on that. >> martha: no doubt. when you do return to washington or when this bill comes up, i ...

Houston. most of this rain soaked in because there was no concrete. there were no buildings. there was no rooftops to get into the creeks and streams. never did they ever estimate how much water could runoff. thats where we are now. 1953, theres the top. here is where brian todd is. i will show you again. here is where the water is going around and down here where brian todd is, there is not even businesses there yet. let me change the picture. take a look whats happened over the past 50 years. ...

Can. as this boat is playing out behind me. its a mix of public and private. they all seem to be getting along really well and working together at this point. >> kat: is there any word on how many people still need to be rescued from those areas? >> because power is out and cell phones are out, its a worrisome statistic, especially when you think about places like beaumont where theres been 50 inches almost of rain since friday. flash floods and thats causing deaths. the mayor has said she is wo...

I certainly should. he was on the way to our institution and im glad i was able to make it. >> i know you must feel so grateful to dr. kimmel. but you must have been afraid. i mean, you were facing an energy. were you scared? >> yes. i was really scared. >> i know you didnt have an easy time getting to the hospital either with all the flood waters rising. tell me how you got there. >> well, we were in the paramedics truck and we were going down i guess the feeder and we were telling them -- well...

This is a different moment and a lost their homes and now different test for this new officials are eyeing potentially president, brooke. >> it is. it is indeed. dangerous flash flooding. jeff zeleny, thank you. kaley is live for us in lake in austin for us. coming up next, more than 9,000 people have already streamed into the houston charles, louisiana. tell me about some of the convention center. stories youre hearing. many with little more than just >> reporter: brooke, a couple of soaking ...