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Flooded with water. what are people doing the most, are they apart of the evacuation plan or shelter is in place? >> reporter: i think there is frankly a confusion here, i am standing in the middle of interstate 45. i want to show you why. take a look behind me, you can see this is completely covered at this point. there is a car that tried to make and did not. a truck submerged and the 18 wheeler could not make it through here. you are toobt sabout to see wha have been watching here all day. yo...

Filled up tanks as they head out on interstate 37, 35, interstate 45 out of corpus christie and houston. this is so impactful, we could see some areas, computer models saying, about 40 inches of rain. >> unbelievable. >> the next 1995 days -- the next five days. >> thank you. she mentioned gas there, not being able to get gas. gas for everyone else is probably going to go higher. around the country -- hurricane harvey heading straight to the heart of oil refineries. that means higher prices at...

>>ing a at this perfect littlifies. a candlelight vigil is expected today for this four-year-old girl. she was killed during what police are calling a road rage dispute. this comes days after tony torres was arrested in the case and he has since, we are told, i believe, confessed to pulling a gun and firing it on an interstate. one of those bullets shot and killed little lily garcia. torres is facing among other charges, an open kound of murder, aggravated battery, is held on $650,000 bonds, leg...

Situation here. emergency teams waiting for the sun to come up to get a better handle on what theyre dealing with. now interstate 45, portions of the interstate tarting to reopen. but the backup has been for a while. its going to take a while to clear it up. >> ed lavandera, thank you. the mudslides, one of the biggest dangers right now, as patricia dumps use amounts of rain over the mountains of central mexico. thats where we find cnns sara sidner. shes in guadalajara there. were a few hours ...

The north. it starts going behind the tree lines or behind that broom. we do know the u.p. official mentioned there were teams out here. we do see a nm of officials that are walking up and down the rail line. they are kind of tucked behind sop of the cars. i have seen five or six different people here since we arrived a short while ago. we can also tell you that this is the water. it was rushing from the other side of that train line back over this way. we have seen that on the other side of int...

Along the same tracks to assess the situation there. but so far, no real work being done to begin the process of getting the train back up and out of this area. clearly waiting for these flood waters to recede, which is going to take some time. it has dropped considerably. the onslaught of water that this area has received, fredericka, has been simply staggering. nearly 20 inches of rain in the last day and a half is falling here in the area around, caused the shutting down of interstate 45 for ...

Has dumped 5 to 7 inches of rain here in dallas. you go just to the southeast of here in the town of corsicana, they have had around 18 inches of water. the interstate 45 between dallas and houston is closed in that section through corsicana because the water is now over the roadway. its even over the railroad tracks in parts of that town. so theyre having to deal with that as even more rain tips to fall. the rain should taper and lighten just a bit over the next 24 hours or so. 24 this is the t...

While ago to make this incredibly heavy train come off the track. fredricka. >> a couple things, ed. you talked about how you are off i-45 and able to get to that location but you are still a distance from the train. you sio figureses there who are responding to it. whats your best understanding as to how they will be able to get this train back on the track or haul it out? what is the next plan? >> thats hard to say. where i am standing here now, zoom out a little bit here. this is a dirt road ...

Soaking cities across texas, this is corsicana where high water shut down interstate 45. around the city, rescue after rescue. >> i was pretty much holding her around the waist and holding on to the metal on the bridge. and then just trying not to let go. >> i have a female and her 3-year-old daughter, saying they have the water in the vehicle. >> reporter: across the north and eastern parts of the state, a deluge. some motorists ignoring the warnings, attempting to drive through the rising wate...

But we cannot discount this. experts saying this is still a very threatening storm. we have live records from sara sidner in mexico. and ed lavandera in texas. and a flood threat thats happening there. what are you seeing today? >> reporter: hello, its been a treacherous night here along intestate 45 that is the major that are row fair that connects the cities of houston and dallas. were about 15 miles west of a town call corsicana which has been covered in water for much of the night. and the i...