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Do anything. the mayor didnt call for even voluntary evacuations. >> do you question that decision right now? >> definitely. he made the wrong choice. he should have at least -- but you know what? nobody can predict mother nature. but he -- we just incident didnt know it was going to get this bad. >> reporter: so i had a conversation with the safety manager from the army corps of engineers, and the army corps of engineers runs and monitors both of these dams. and the conversation that i had with...

Were waiting to be serviced. these were calls that had already got enthrough toe 911. all the information had been transmitted, and they are then put in a queue to determine whether the national guard or the coast guard or the fire department goes and rescues these people. at that time there was a queue just to get through to 911 of about ten calls. and officials were encourage lg people not to hang up because then it causes the dispatchers to actually have to go and get connected to those peopl...

Uncontrolled water either spilling over the dams or over the reservoirs. but the people that live in those homes were telling me today that they actually rarely get flooding there and that some of them even thought they should have been more adequately warned about what was going to happen overnight. listen to this conversation i had with this woman who was rescued today by the coast guard. >> does this area normally flood in the last two years did it flood? >> no. oh, my gosh, it never floods l...

But you and i been working together since late last week and you and r one ive talked to said that this was going to happen and that this was not the weirdest outside possibility that this much rain was going to come to houston. it was actually well within the projections. i just want to keep this clear because people keep saying we didnt know it was going to happen. >> yeah. the case was we knew that the flooding would be the worst aspect of the storm. we didnt realize that it would strengthen ...

Things are being handled really well. the spirit is incredible of the people. the coordination between all of the different services, as you know, has been going very well. great respect for the governor. hes done an i look forward to the trip. so ill be going there tomorrow. were leaving at about 8:30 in the morning. we dont know exactly well be -- well notify you soon. we may actually go back on saturday depending on where the storm goes. we may go to louisiana on saturday. >> are you surprise...

Difference and texas is grateful for the prayers and all the incredible generosity. >> texas senator ted cruz ahead of the briefing by texas governor greg abbott seen there and victoria was just declared a federal disaster area. one of 18 counties that the president just declared in texas and victoria was where we were spending friday night and saturday covering it because that was the population center closest to where that category 4 storm came on to shore. >> reporter: well, victoria has take...

Pounding houston h. 24 to 34 inches reportedly in and around the city. and it is far from over. the national weather service is calling for an additional 10 to 20 inches of rain over the next 72 hours. no let up. probably until thursday night. some areas could see a stunning 50 inches of rainfall by the end of the storm. the big concern today is the buffalo bayou in houston, which is a river that goes west to east across houston. here is the problem. not only is it rising because of the rainfall...

That was texas governor greg abbott. senator john cornyn and fema administer brock long among other officials in texas providing an update on the response to tropical storm harvey. were closely tracking that situation in houston. let me give you a little bit about what was just said. there are 254 counties in texas. abbott confirming that 54 hf those counties are under a sat emergency declaration. 18 counties are under a federal emergency declaration. thats where fema is setting upshot. there ar...

Its catastrophic flooding. that is a word that the national weather service doesnt usually use. harris county police say it has conducted more than 2,200 high-water rescues so far. harris county is the county of which houston is the seat. these images were seeing are reminisce inlt of another close sal storm from 2005, hurricane katrina. anything we can learn from that, help us out from here. take a look at this guy. hes the face -- hes on the phone, actually, so you cant look at them. youve see...