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>> we have been able to get trucks in overnight with water, and we are setting up some points of distribution this morning. well hopefully be starting that distribution in just a few hours. >> we just heard our reporter, miguel marquez, say the natchez river continues to rise. so what does that mean for you? >> well, most of our rescues have come to a halt now. but as we look at the river thats on the east coast -- east line of our city, were looking at -- it should crest today and it will start...

Time. one week after hurricane harvey slammed into the texas coast, the danger far from over. >> anyone in there? >> rescuers still searching to save those trapped by high water. in beaumont, residents faced with a cruel reality, but none safe to drink. >> the biggest water supply is cut off, so what were also looking at is some alternative solutions, a temporary solution to get a pump up and working that would bypass that entire pump station and get water to our water treatment plant. >> report...

Well get through this. this is nothing compared to what a lot of people are going through. hell, we never lost life. we never lost water. we never lost our air conditioning. i lost my carpet. >> you lost a lot of stuff many your house too. >> pump station by now because it was in the ditch. >> you saw alligators here. thank you very much, joe. i know the odom family has to g through what so many are going through at various different levels. hes remarkably saying, look, i had nine inches, people...

National guard which has some 14,000 troops here deployed across the state from corpus christi to louisiana line and former officers, more soldiers on the way according to the task force harvey commander who i spoke with a short time ago, who says they will be here for as long as they are needed and they have plenty of assets for rescues, including these high water vehicles that are used to being pulled people out from the worst of the flooding neighborhoods. particularly, and beaumont. the pres...

Lot is an evacuation zone. they lost running water here. the main helicopter landing pad is here but theres one in the parking lot. in the last hour, there were five helicopters here, a steady stream of choppers coming in, landing, bringing stretchers in the building and coming out with the critical care patients and loading them up and taking them to other locations to get the care they need. the first group to be evacuated this morning were 16 nursing home patient whose were evacuated from the...

All 120,000 people here on very short notice discovered they would have no water coming up. one pump station in the city. north of the city went down because of floding, as well. city officials cant tell. into next week before -- that once it gets down far enough then they can get into the water system and figure out what needs to be fixed. only then can they begin to fix the system. it could be days if not weeks before beaumont, texas has water again. >> suffering for these communities is going...

Securithouston area is looking n 15 or 30 inches of rainfall and the engineers are looking at and were directly tied to the dam which are too large earthen levee structures that are in northwest houston that have protected the city of houston for the last 70 years. so, we are currently in 24 hour, seven day a week operations in those structures to ensure that they form as designed and they will continue to protect the citizens of houston. we also constructed a levee system around the lynchburg p...

Securithouston area is looking n 15 or 30 inches of rainfall and the engineers are looking at and were directly tied to the dam which are too large earthen levee structures that are in northwest houston that have protected the city of houston for the last 70 years. so, we are currently in 24 hour, seven day a week operations in those structures to ensure that they form as designed and they will continue to protect the citizens of houston. we also constructed a levee system around the lynchburg p...

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