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Again, could drop up to 15 or so more inches of rain. the rainfall has already set a record for the entire state of texas. cnns scott mclane is in houston surrounded by -- you tell me. where are you? >> reporter: hey, brooke, were in northeast houston with a tiny bit of good news and thats that it is barely raining at this point after getting just torrential downpours all morning. so, whats happening behind me is this is the flooding that you can see thats affecting a neighborhood, about a mile ...

We want to have folks experienced on the water if possible if they can check in to a local staging point that optimizes their effectiveness. >> whats your biggest concern admiral at this hour? >> alisyn my biggest concern is two-fold. obviously the forecast has the storm continuing to sit offshore through today and tomorrow and then slowly start moving northeast. its going to continue to dump more water in the area so we have not seen the likely maximum extent of the flooding and were concerned ...

>> reporter: youre a hero to a lot of people. you know that. >> no. its what we do. its what we do. >> reporter: how long have you been at it? >> oh, just a few hours. weve been protecting our home, you know, up to this point. so, now that the waters up, its time to get out and help. >> reporter: ray, what runs through your mind when you see the cats rescued, the children rescued, these people and the look on their faces when you show up. >> real happy. very happy. proud to be a texan. >> report...

Staging point, and then what? where do they take you from there? >> from there, we never got anywhere. we stayed at the staging point until my phone was dead, larrys was wet. we finally was able to reach my son, and he was able to get to the staging area about 6:00 p.m. and pick us up. they were having the national guard come and take people from the staging area, but they were, you know, they were obviously taking the sick and the children first, and so eventually, we got picked up by them. we ...

There? >> so what youre watching is district one in harris county. the constables with one of the high water rescue boats. they have used this as a staging point for the rescues. they go out to the individual homes. everybody impacted by the rising flood waters and you can see that they are saving anyone from small children to full adults and even their pets as well. the most important belongings, you can see people are relieved to be to dry water. you can imagine what they have gone through as ...

Security service? very difficult to prevent. especially if it is just one guy. he hasnt told other people. in france, they flagged 10,000 people as radical extremist people with sympathy to isis radicals. think about that and think about the challenges that europe, france is now facing. very, very different result from isis inspired terrorism and lone wolf terrorism and direct terrorism where 130 people were killed. the scale of the paris attacks is increasingly apparent. multiple safe houses re...

Was that sound? >> are you the mother? >> yes. >> reporter: she says her child was alone in the car for 45 minutes while she was shopping. and according to the police report the temperature inside the car reached above 120 degrees. child was treated at a nearby hospital and released a day later. her mother was arrested and charged with child abuse. >> that was nbcs stephanie gosk reporting for us. coming up next the piece of the wing fragment that could be from mh-370 now headed off to france ...

Theyve been on one sortie trying to find this aircraft. theyve come back here to refuel. one of the pilots was saying they went inside for a briefing before coming out, and that i going up in the air quite soon once again. and basically this is becoming a staging point. this is the jumping-off point for the search and rescue operation. were seeing these helicopters here. were also seeing on the east of the island some ambulances that have been assembled and also a make-shift morgue so that autho...

Point, where the search and rescue operation is being staged and also we are being told that there are also a make shift morgue being set up in case depending on what the search and rescue operation finds. >> and paula, its my understanding that this broad area theyre looking in is also a very busy shipping lane. with that in mind, with the assets that have been deployed, are you getting a sense theres confidence they will indeed find this aircraft soon? >> well certainly there are a lot of asse...

Do but weve in the past five or six days we have brought up the forces and indeed there is a substantial force on the border with a and if the order is given we are prepared for that type of activity. >> was that the reason that you are leafletting in northern gaza telling folks get out, theres a half million people there. almost impossible that they are going to all be able to escape. what is your goal here? >> the area that weve actually announced that people should leave is a lot smaller than...