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Far in part of this area, 49.02 inches and counting. how much more rainfall are we talking about? >> yeah, absolutely. so, you know, 49.2, by the way, is the highest weve ever observed across the continental united states so were getting into historic values from any storm weve ever seen. in fact, thats the highest. another location picked up the second highest so that kind of gives you to scale. as far as what is in store here, at least another two to three inches left, the vast majority of wha...

>> yes, the water has gotten higher. from the front end of my to the back end of my apartment. >> and you said one of your neighbors, you told us last hour one of your neighbors was trying to go upstairs to another apartment and what happened? >> the lady had told her that if she had $300 to come into her apartment she would let her. >> wow. unbelievable. >> yes, sir, it is. >> and so how high is the water in your apartment now? you said its coming in? >> its different levels in the apartment. t...

In your apartment now? you said its coming in? >> its different levels in the apartment. the highest the water that im reaching is to my thighs. >> weve been trying to get folks to cop help you. have you been abe to get anyone on the phone? have you heard anything? >> no, sir. we even, my cousin, she even went and stood at the end of the road. she did get three city of houston trucks but they had drove off by the time we came back out the house. >> so tell us where you live and how much -- im wo...

The evacuations for yesterday. theyre still trying to evacuate people because they dont want to try to rescue people. the river will rise five to eight more feet in addition to where it is now. the record crest previously was 54 feet. were going up to 59 feet. five feet on top of the highest that anyone has ever seen it or recorded it and water is already in homes. so, add another five to eight feet and then you get water in the second stories of homes and thats when they get worried about peopl...

What im going to do. >> so many heartbreaking stories. katie, thank you for all of that and thanks to all of our reporters who have put themselves in harms way to bring us these stories. lets bring in meteorologist bill karins. we keep hearing about how this is going to go on and on and on. this has been described in apocalyptic terms. whats next? >> you notice the reporters today, different from yesterday, winds higher, raining once again as the tropical storm gets closer. youll notice that i...

Tragic for them but a little less than houston. well sfee that develops or not. its a close call regardless. finally, our friends on the east coast, we have a tropical storm watch for the carolinas, but this will be a very minor event compared to what we of been dealing with in the houston area. >> so for the next 24 hours as officials look at where they have to sort of train their resources and we know that preserving life is number one, but is it in that area around the buffalo buy you? is it ...

Everybody but its also very, very dangerous. our crew and i were trying to get to one of those locations where they are staging command centers for rescues. we couldnt get there because it was too dangerous. we would run into streets that were packed with water and it was just not safe for us to head to any area outside of where we were. >> that has been the challenge for the first responders. rosa, if we could take her shot full. viewers are wondering what is off to your left? is that a man hol...

My last name is not castillo. its pacheco. were getting ready to leave the house. weve moved some of our valuable stuff like upstairs and hopefully it wont hit the second floor. but we have cars that are under water outside and the water is the highest weve ever, ever seen. just catastrophic. >> you said youre going to neighbors because they still have power. do they not have water issues yet? >> well, they do. their house is kind of up on a hill. their street is flooded. its about knee to waist...

That is set to double under this plan. you have small businesses who are bearing a great burden of the taxes in this country. they employ nearly half of the private sector work force but their tax rate ali is 46%. >> thats because big companies dont pay taxes. we have a very uneven tax -- corporate tax application so president trump likes to talk about how its the highest in the world, statutorily it is, but thats noting a recally real. >> well, look, our tax code is outdated, you bring up a gre...

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