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The bumper of the semi fell off, pierced the door and stepped my friend. a semi and two trucks hit the back of our truck. we had to climb out through the back of our windows an the sunroof. >> in central, louisiana, there are not many sleds around. time forgets to improvise. this isla la, part of a wintry mix stretching back into texas. cnns nick valencia is in houston where people are getting slammed. >> reporter: interstate 45, you no he that interstate if you have lived in houston moves at a ...

Of that today across wisconsin and into parts of iowa. some of these storms are producing flash flooding. minneapolis under a flash flood watch. we also have a flash flood emergency going on with parts of the interstate 45 shutting down. be careful everyone. that is in duluth in northeastern parts of minnesota. a lot going on out there. alec baldwin is the focus on a criminal investigation after allegedly attacking this photographer from the new york daily use. marcos santos you see him on t...

these folks werent rioting like we have seen the past several days. they were there to clean up. now the problem is that the violence, looting and arson has spread to sever other british cities besides london. also a nationwide manhunt for two brothers and their older sister accused much opening fire on a florida police officer, then robbing a georgia bank. youre seeing the three siblings there and authorities do consider them armed and extremely dangerous. all right. wall street d...

Become hype thermic in the water and ice. so the race shot just to get them out of that truck, but to get them to warmth and a hospital was incredibly pressure-filled as you might be imagine on those first responders. hundreds of motorists who were stranded on the interstate have reported conditions along there all week long, but this being the culmination of just some very tough weather throughout the state. theyve closed schools just to give you an idea of how bitter cold it is. but just a mir...

>> reporter: i dont. im sorry. but i can tell you that t.i.r.r. has done incredible work here and i personally know our states attorney general greg abbott treated here after an accident maybe 20 years ago. he was running, not far from here, and a tree fell on him. he was a houston attorney at the tile. he spent many, many months there, and is now in a wheelchair, but made an amazing recovery, far beyond what anyone predicted, and he went on to become a supreme court judge here in texas. hes now...

In houston did what they had to do to get off. >> people are turning around, trying to get off the freeway because they are stuck. >> reporter: driving the wrong way up an entrance ramp to get home. police warn tonight that if you crash on the ice, it can be deadly to get out of the car. a driver here was killed when he walked out of this wreck on interstate 45. he was struck by another sliding vehicle. from the gulf coast to the northeast, at including an 8-month-old child, when this car outsid...

Waist deep in these rushing waters. le another striking image is what is looked like yesterday. these are two bridges. im about to show you here. the this is interstate 45, the first one and you can see on top of it a tree has been depos zitded. theres only one way for that to have gotten there and is that is that the flood waters brought it there. in other words, just 24 hours ago the flood waters were what? 40? 50 feet? higher to bring a tree there. and then, what we keep seeing here, john, ar...

Category 3 hurricane it will be the flooding, the widespread flooding. in some of the areas, some computer models saying 40 inches of rainfall. i think some of the averages are 15 to 20. computer models may be overblowing that 40 inches. not over blowing the impact. this is low-lying area. those roads you saw were jammed today of people getting out on interstate 37, interstate 35, interstate 45 out of corpus christie, out of galveston, they quickly become clogged. where you see the yellow shaded...

Again across houston. we could see record rainfall, we already have in some areas, but epic. this looks to be a situation where all the emergency management people in the world will be struggling to keep things together. you can imagine all the resources that will have to be pulled in across this region to take care of things. i want to point out one other thing. look at this band. its about to move into houston that has already seen record rainfall. we have another band which is across the area...

Interstate usually jammed with car traffic, has essentially been turned into a boat launch for volunteers launching air boats like the one you see in front of me. flat-bottom boats as people make their -- out there in the draft of that airboat here one second. hold on. got the mist. >> obviously -- cars shouldnt drive through this sort of floodwaters, but you can with the team that youre with right now. tell us about that. how are you able to do that as these folks are going on and checking on p...