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Growing, and additional perspective is both dams by design and by modifications after construction are providing more than a thousand-year-level of flood risk reduction for the citizens of houston. and so the fact that water is going to go around the -- an uncontrolled manner or this spillway means for addux, more than a thousand-year flood event. >> thats perspective. people now want to make it through this situation. thank god theyre holding. it seems as though youre describing this as a bad o...

Of people who are suffering in texas. we want to make sure you all know we are working right no now to provide assistance as quickly as we can. right now we are focused on rescue operations and will move into recovery operations later in the week. today we are deeply concerned with those in houston and surrounding areas who are stranded and in need of immediate assistance. people need help, and we are working to provide it. while the hurricane-force winds have diminished, i want to stress that w...

With us, well reach out to you as well. see us as an extension of your ability to get the information to the communities that need it. stay safe and thank you for helping the people in that area. >> thank you very much. chris, we should let everybody know we are expecting a briefing from fema, from federal officials to tell us what the plan is to come back harvey. thats just moments away. meanwhile, joining us now on the phone is texas congressman al green. he represents houstons ninth distric...

Toxic chemicals. >> at this time, were so focused on life safety, we understand the environment piece is going to be big in this case. but we dont have accurate information. >> -- hhs secretary price, do you have any -- as far as what youre learning about the potential health impacts for people? >> as brock said, its very early in this. what we do know is the water in corpus christi and in victoria area, recommendation for boiling of the water before consumption. the good news is, the work thats...

What your education is, getting tetanus shots, understanding typhoid. looking ahead from a medical perspective. its what will happen in the next few days after people have been in dangerous water thats going to be the real catastrophe. >> thats part of coordination, too, how do you get the help, get the doctors to them. well stay on this story, congressman. please see us as a resource as you have information you need to get out, come to us. well do everything we can. be well, sir. >> thank you. ...

>> based off our models and what were seeing with the weather prediction, people upstream of the dams that are in the potential inundation zone need to monitor carefully the rate of rise and prepare for a voluntary evacuation that the local elected leadership have recommended. the rate of rise of the two structures is between 2 1/2 and 3 inches. its a slow rise, but a sufficient rise where homes up stream of the dams could either be impacted, meaning water on the property or inundated, meaning t...

Bands. our helicopters have had to set down into open area parking lots. were flying and rescuing around the existing weather conditions. >> we just heard that in the fema update. thats so important. its hard enough after a storm passes through to then rescue all the people stranded by floodwaters. youre doing it in the in the midst of a storm and more rain is expected today. whats the plan today? >> the plan is to stay in the fight. pushing as much capacity into the fight as we can. we are link...

Surprised? can they know the waters were coming? >> they didnt know the waters were coming or would have evacuated. they have erack wags plans and they were told to shelter in place. >> how is your mom? >> shes doing well. shes doing well. we were more worried about the residents. shes fine. it really was getting safety for the residents. >> understood. now, this is just one image were looking at here. in terms of staff, people who were there, is this a situation where people were there left alo...

You dont need two, but you dont get ten. here is the forecast for today. until midnight, theres the circle right there of purple. that is east of houston, thank goodness and back to houston a little bit less. we are still going to see this buffalo bayou go up. it already is a record. it may be four feet above record before were finally done. >> chris, i just checked center point energy, the power company in houston. 86,000 or somewhere around there, people without power. 2.3 million people still...

Texas. right now i believe every local official, state official including us, were operating with the best information weve been provided at the time. atsz i said earlier, the national weather service has done a great job letting people know about the torrential rainfall and the inland event. the problem with forecasting rainfall, its one of the toughest things to do. pinpointing what watershed that rain is going to go into, its dang near impossible to figure that out. unfortunately the city of ...