Jeff Eling News Today

I know we have two people confirmed dead. people missing. when you hear about about, it puts it into -- hear about that it puts it into perspective. >> its devastating. >> reporter: thank you very much for letting me into your house. thats the situation not just in this home but all sorts of homes around the area. i know the homes left to us, right of us behind us, all of them had water inside. dozens of homes in our area. >> please tell randy we feel hear him. were thinking about all the kmubts...

To our breaking news. air raid sirens are sounding in israel. heres what we know right now. according to israeli police spokeswoman, one rocket hit an area, this is outside of southern israel right around 9:00 9:10 p.m. local tuesday time. orrin lieberman is our correspondent in jerusalem. orrin, tell me what you know and where there came from. >> reporter: from the spokespersons office at least one rocket was fire friday gaza into israel. that rocket landed in a small town which is to the east ...

More than ten inch of rain swamped the city in less than 24 hours. even the president of the united states he spoke today. he said help is coming to texas. >> i assured governor abbott that he could count on the help of the federal government we have fema personnel on the ground they are coordinating with texas emergency management authorities, and i will anticipate that there will be some significant requests made to washington, my pledge to him is that we will expedite those requests. >> joini...

Virtual standstill. multiple school districts have had to shut down. heres the mayor on the danger still facing the city. >> weve got cars littered all over the city. as the floodwaters go down, thats one of the things were doing to make sure that no one was trapped in those vehicles. >> its still a dangerous situation along the bayous, theyre full of water. the waters moving very, very rapidly. and a lot of folks want to come down and look. a lot of kids particularly want to come and toss som...

Than it was inside. we couldnt even get out. and then i had gotten a call from my cousin who said there was a water rescue of a young couple her cousin with a newborn baby in the 4900 block of south breezewood. >> reporter: down the street. tell us about when you first came in this morning after the sun rose and the power got back on. and just kind of your reaction to what your house looks like now. >> well, its shocking. its not like losing our lives. its just -- not the way i wanted to remodel...

I dont know how long youve been in the houston area. we covered a lot of drought, the big story in parts of texas. this is obviously the polar boot. im wondering -- ploor, -- -- polar opposite. im wondering in homes that are damaged or destroyed, have people ever had to well do this problem before? >> reporter: you bring up a fantastic question. i have been here for 16 years. i was here for tropical storm allison, hurricane ike. this area of town you might get water on the street. but in the hom...

Said there was no damage no injuries. and there has been no claim of responsibility yet from the organizations within gaza, hamas and islamic gee had. thats what we know -- jihad. thats what we know. one rocket landed outside one of israels major southern cities. no injuries and no damage. >> i recognize that as a place that have received fire before. why is that? >> reporter: it is one of the main cities outside of gaza. it has short-range rockets. it often comes under threat of attacks of atta...

Was their first introduction to cnn. >> reporter: yeah. and i think its fair to say we were obviously the only 24/7 cable news network. we were the only one broadcasting live from baghdad. you heard peter on that and bernie shaw and john hollaman. they were there, risking their thrives bring us the story live. people all over the world were glued to their tvs as operation desert shield turned into operation desert storm. it did put cnn on the map as a legitimate news organization. >> you have a ...