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Absolutely. were keeping a close eye on two overflowed reservoirs, still causing problems for houston despite the emergency releases from the army corps of engineers. garrett haake joins us live from the addicks reservoir. garrett, what are officials telling you about the situation there? >> reporter: yeah, ayman, im about a mile from the addicks reservoir is post to start, here on highway 6. these reservoirs werent designed to handle this much rain. the army corps is going to try to do these ...

Firing of a missile over japan, the u.n. now condemning this latest test but isnt taking any action. ♪ good morning, everyone, its august 29th. im ayman mohyeldin along id yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. harvey will make landfall once again as some towns on the edge have measured 50 inches of rain. with the presidents and first ladys visit yesterday, the situation became more dire for many in the city and across south texas. in all, there have been nearly 19,000 water rescues across s...

Another day of rain is set for the gulf coast today. harvey has made landfall once more in cameron, louisiana. already yesterday, there was some spot flooding in new orleans, but the mayor and state governor thinks so far within the range of what theyve been expecting. its a far different story, though, in texas, beaumont seeing some of the worst flooding of all. houston has put in place a midnight to 5:00 a.m. curfew joining other nearby counties and towns. the president, of course, visiting ye...

Media asking for help, asking for help in their elderly parents or people who live there. there is one house i was able to find the address for. this is a house in beaumont. a street map before the storm. there are people as of an hour ago on the roof of this house asking for help. asking for a boat to come get them in the beaumont, texas area. just to give you perspective of how high the water is there in some of the locations. im going to show you on the radar here. this is the center of the s...

Of the houston rockets and seats almost 17,000 people. he said the plan was to always use the church as a shelter. lakewood is also being used as a distribution center for those wanting to drop off donations. and it has seen a giant influx of donated items. to get a deeper sense of what its like on the ground. i want to read a little bit from matt pierce, a los angeles times report who wrote his account of driving through texas. he writes its hard to explain the stupefying effect of harvey. un...

Toiletries. despite days of rain, the sun broke, if if forth a brief moment last night in houston. here it is setting over the city, still immersioned deep in floodwater. president trump once again expected to tral to texas this saturday after making two stops in the lone star state yesterday. the president and first lady visited corpus christi for an update on efforts as they arrived in austin. during his stop, president trump thanked officials for his response and promised federal aid. >> we...

The sink center. weve got a couple images here. some of the people decided they didnt care, theyre on the cots sleeping in about a foot of water. this is happening now until port arthur because of tremendous amounts of rain. now, weve got video that we want to show you, theres in the sink center. people had to evacuate their homes, maybe under mandatory evacuatio evacuations, maybe they decided to be safe. port arthur civic center. i have reports theyre using dump trucks to evacuate those people...

Im upstream from the addicks reservoir, the addicks and barker are built and designed to keep downtown houston from flooding. this is what it looks like if theyre working. you can imagine the reservoirs have been taking in tons of water. theyre designed to fill up and be discharged into the buffalo bayou and out to the gulf. but the rate of rain over the last couple of days has just been far more than the reservoirs can handle. theyve been overflowing up in the neighborhoods around highway 6 whe...

Port arthur is located here not raining quite as hard there. is this is going to exit and head out during the day. we do have saturated ground. we do have flash floods throughout the region. this is the flash flood emergencies where people are being rescued as we speak. and we could still get additional areas of concern. will it be as bad as beaumont and port arthur, likely not. we still could get five to seven inches today. up in the hill country in western tennessee were predicting seven inche...

Hundreds of miles of interstate highways closed in north dakota. some still seeing snow today. there may be white-out conditions, for folks drivic back home today, be careful. it will be windy and the snow will be blowing, reducing visibility. back here in chicago, were expecting a pretty good travel day. checked a while ago with midway. they have about 25 to 30 flights canceled so far. a little trouble there, but ohare, which is obviously much, much busier, just a handful of flights canceled. i...