Rita Evacuation News Today

Louisiana. thank you so much for talking to us and appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> reporter: that question of whether or not to evacuate couldnt be more crucial. want to get perspective from bill king, the former mayor of houston. general, its such a confusing situation for people to try to figure out what to do in a face of a storm like this. >> not really confusing. were committed to a doctrine. that says we were a threat. we evacuate. in a flood, we evacuate people in kno...

Mouths and she said mommy, im getting sick, why are we driving against traffic and justin is saying are we going to die, daddy? extremely challenging but god protected us and i think about our own situation but that segment you just gave about the sandoval family, that could have been us or many other people. if youre alive tonight, we should be really thanking god but were still under mandatory evacuation. they just tweeted out ford bend office of emergency management. this is an ongoing emerge...

One of those very fast prayers, jesus help us and we drove across the bridge. it was had hthe most frightenin experience of my life. we were able to exit out of 59, our sixth evac route. and honestly getting out of houston was the most difficult part and it goes on from there. getting to waco, texas was like driving through a scene of the walking dead. there were national guardsman, they were shutting down roads. so evacuation is not that easy to answer your question. >> it it just sounds terrif...

Evacuation for fort ben county for almost all of the levy districts and i know youre in hairice and paris county. fort ben is the second most populous county in houston and thats where our family of seven lives and we were watching sunday night stun because it escalated so quickly from shelter in place to police literally, anderson, if you can imagine going door to door in fort ben county telling people at first light you need leave. now for the audience whos outside of texas who experienced a h...

The rita evacuation for a storm that never hit. >> yeah. i think a lot of people dont realize so many people died during the evacuations. in terms of what youre seeing on the ground and the coming days, how do you assess things? >> this is a big infrastructure problem. some people in this area, the newer part of town have electricity. when you get into rural areas where the grid went down and now the irrigation system is clogged with debris from this flood, the county officials are going to have...

A fact of 6 million people all leaving at once, yeah, that would be a bad doctrine. >> hurricane rita you had millions trying to get out all at once, more than 100 people dying in an evacuation. >> they didnt execute it according to the plan. they didnt do contraflow right, they didnt have gas stations set up. the complex operation and you have to have the logistics set up before you do it, anderson. they did not have that for rita. >> want to get your perspective in terms of your city the lasts...