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The ocean to avoid getting arrested during a traffic stop. what? one problem though, a shark was closing in on him. you cant make this up. it took police more than three hours to convince him to come to shore. a look at your headlines on this friday. i dont know how to follow that up with anything, guys. i will send it to you. brian: great endurance. pete: shut them down. as floodwaters recede in houston, people return to see whats left of their homes. >> like i told the guy across the street ne...

City not in the clear yet. >> rescuers in boats going door-to-door searching for survivors after harvey dumped 52 inches of rain. rob: donald trump issuing this message of hope to the lone star state. >> no one has ever seen this much water. >> it happened in texas and texas can handle anything. heather: more shelters opening as thousands seek refuge. >> live team coverage, we begin with rob schmidt, live in texas. >> it finally cleared out. we have seen some sunshine yesterday, the stars out to...

States away and her mom is in a nursing home. she said my mom needs help. brian: they did get help. navy came and saved them. literally picked them up. take a look now. they are dry. they have a fresh set of clothes and they are safe. pete: focus it takes to -- brian: social media saved the day. first major storm where social media is playing a major role. 911 just cant possibly handle all these emergency calls. pete: even the texas national guard is monitoring it and getting a sense. ainsley: t...

And you have got people setting off house alarms, car alarms, trying to get out of these neighborhoods. anything they can do. incredible situation and amazing to see the efforts going on to help people out. brian: rob, its amazing. but its expected. they are actually saying now we need your help. you have a boat if you can get around. help us out. rob: yeah. you wouldnt believe all the boats that came. in hard to coordinate all these boats to get. in some of them were air boats. some of these pe...

People. >> what did you see back there? >> a lot of water. a lot of families have stayed that dont want to come out but they have to come out. rob: they dont want to come out. >> the power there is what is going to take them out. when they lose the power they will want to leave. i never thought this place would flood like this. >> they probably had at least 150. >> you pulled 1 auto people out of these neighborhoods? >> yeah. we came from rockport. we loaded up on fuel and brought our air boats ...

>> how long were you guys waiting to get out. >> we waited like four days. >> four days? >> my wife. we just come out. heard a noise. rob: going to the hospital? >> were about to right now. rob: unbelievable stuff. its almost like rescues at sea here. thats how much water we are talking about. we are moving through these neighborhoods on an air boat. how about the guys from rockport. their homes sustained damage. the eye came through their town. first place got hit by category 4 hurricane at the...

Help their fellow texans who are trapped in their homes. officials are saying we need your help. we cant do it ourselves. pete: citizencitizen helping. rob schmidt is in texas and he got to see many of those rescues happen firsthand. rob: a lot of sad news coming out of houston from this storm. this is a great story. shows you there are awesome people in texas. they come together as a community. they dont just do the talking. they do the action. this is pecan grove part of richmond on the west s...

Governor greg abbott with 50 counties under a disaster declaration is absolutely catastrophic flooding. >> when the people returning to neighborhoods that look like war zones. rockport, corpus christi the hardest hit. rob schmidt now in corpus christi, texas at the latest in that area. good morning. >> good morning, guys. we are in a marina off downtown corpus christi which is the biggest city in the area where the hurricane came ashore, about 25 miles tonight use. it came very close but just th...

It stalls out and dumps brain and water for four days it could be a dangerous situation for millions of people to live in south texas. theres a lot of people that live in this area and it could be a really bad thing if we see feet of rain dumped in the month of august when its already raining a lot and very wet down here. that will be the big story of where it goes on and will have to see how that develops. back to you. jackie: he is taking off the hood and there, folks. things are changing at l...

Bulletproof like nothing can happen. leeland: as we often say theres a fine line between brave and stupid and you try to stay on the brave side rather than the stupid side but, as you point out, there are so many people who dont have a house to come home to and as we cover these things and our reporters, lauren blanchard, rob schmidt, mattson, casey steagall, we all get to leave "after words" and its residents like you have to come home and deal with it. one thing that is striking when we look a...