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Other. theres actually three pushed in this direction. you can see debris just littered all over the roads. and then about ten yards ahead of me you cant see that yet well show you when the sun comes up there are just three empty slabs. it just gives you an idea of what went on that day. the river has gone down quite a bit, but it rose so quickly. it rose to over 44 feet just this weekend. and so the fear in people was just remarkable. weve also talked to people around town. we talked to a colle...

River where people come but not today. it came up to about 44 feet. look at all of these slabs. these cabins. people were staying in these cabins friday and saturday night until they were swept away. now theyre all the way on the other side of the street. theyre just tangled, all on each other. crews have been out here cleaning up the mess. you can look at this cabin behind me. you can see the water mark. these are elevated even higher. and look at this. the water marks here three, four feet ins...

This is actually a bit of good news. 450 people were here during the time of the flood. they all evacuated, and theyre all safe. that is the best news we have heard. look behind me. you can see the debris littering the bank. these slabs were once cabins. people were staying here friday night and saturday night before they were evacuated. you can see how much the river has gone down. it is still raging. just on the other side of that tree thats a concrete bridge. water is now just rushing right o...

>> reporter: dozens of counties throughout texas were under emergency disaster declarations while thousands evacuated in oklahoma. in densely populated houston, over 11 inches of rain turning many streams into rivers. flooding residential areas and leaving over 80,000 residents without power. >> i kept calling them over and over and i was like, are you okay, are you okay? >> reporter: in the tourpwn of we rememberly southwest of austin over 400 homes is swept away. >> we have roadways like i jus...

These just expected a couple weeks ago expecting a summer rush. you can see the water line that was here. as we move down and through this debris across the area what youll see is where the blanco is now. well move back down and show you the river still rushing very quickly here but it is well within its banks at this point. theres a concern just like in houston that more rain is on the way here and not just tomorrow but for the rest of the week. see these slabs, there were cab bins there as wel...

Hundreds of people waking up homeless. local officials calling this flooding historic and catastrophic. >> we do have whole streets that have maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs. >> reporter: one more survived but wife and two children along with five other people are missing. they were staying at a house along the blanco river saturday night when a wall of water lifted the home off its foundation. the river reaches flood stage at 12 feet but it took just one hour to...

Away. lets listen in to more. >> seeking shelter with neighbors or friends or maybe a non-registered shelter that they call into our main emergency operations center line and identify that they are okay that they are staying with a friend so that we can maintain a record of those individuals. so again, our main eoc operating line is 512-753-2180. and we are asking that anyone that is staying with a friend or a non-registered shelter call in and let us know that they are okay if they may have fri...

Scares. >> this is home. >> reporter: its where i meet john. he shows me the homes of stone and straw he made with his bare hands for his wife and children. when a truck full of meat rolls into town, everyone turns out. >> what does it mean to you? >> means everything to me. its a big part of being a conservationist, caring about the environment. >> giant slabs of rhino meat unloaded as dozens watch smiling. >> this whole village is going to live off this rhino meat for a while. >> the village i...

>> let him finish. >> then dont. you can talk about the type of materials theyre using. have they used any of these weapons? no. >> they have. >> i would rather them have them than not have them. where did they use a m happen? >> ferguson. theres in land mine. no need for it. >> i asked kevin if they need to equipment. remember in baltimore where they were throwing concrete huge slabs of concrete at the heads of the cops and the firefighters as they drove by to try to protect the community. i wo...

Rubble alive. we have that story. >> reporter: when rescue teams arrived, they couldnt believe what we were hearing from deep beneath the slabs on concrete a faint voice, a boy buried alive for five days crying for help. search and rescue teams from virginia and california among those called in. >> the floors are within feet of each other. its floor after floor within a five foot span. so safe the boys life crews could risk their own. >> reporter: the buildings above us several stories high are ...