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Scary. >> is it fair to say they were scoffing at you sort of and making you sound like an alarmist and were you trying to tell them about your own personal history and that they should take heed? >> absolutely. i know from experience that once, even a voluntary evacuation is nothing to play around with. its just serious. everything happens so fast and people go into panic and then thois of people need to be rescued and they wait days as more people need to be rescued. its just horrible. >> kate...

Katrina and for louisiana. its being marked by more rain and danger. tropical storm harvey is bearing down on that state. eight expected to make landfall tonight. theres already a lot of water on the ground, and the situation is worse than we even knew. joining us is louisiana governor john bell edwards. governor, thank you for joining us. you were telling -- >> thank you and good morning, chris. >> always a pleasure to speak with you, governor. you were telling the producer you had to rescue pe...

After katrina i realized anything can happen. we were in a very low flood zone. we flooded and i lost my house so i wasnt taking any chances. i have an 18-month-old and im six months pregnant so i was ready to leave. >> oh my gosh, kate. how is your 18-month-old doing? >> hes doing okay. weve been staying with family so hes good. has no idea thank goodness. >> and so when you decided to evacuate before things got bad what did your neighbors in dickinson, texas, say to you? >> theyve never floode...

Who helped rescue the folks in this neighborhood last night and said this is nothing like katrina, nothing like what youre seeing out of texas but this is the first visual example we have of the damage of harvey in lake charles, about 400 to 500 homes flooded behind me as a drainage canal overflowed with all of the rainfall weve seen. the concern is how much more rain will fall? we have a respite from it now but 10 to 15 inches of rain have already fallen in this area in the last two days. were ...

To dump a lot more rain over houston, and louisiana. cnn meteorologist chad myers has the latest rainfall totals, and forecast. not the news they wanted on the 12-year anniversary of katrina that more rain could be making its way to the gulf. >> more rain will, not maybe, absolute chris. this is just another devastating part of this story. there is the center of harvey right now, moving into the gulf of mexico. it will eventually get up here somewhere around beaumont port arthur. what is that go...

Message, a message of defiance because theyre furious and officials here on the ground have told me theyre furious about ongoing joint military drills now in their second week happening just miles from what where im standing in south korea, thousands of troops training alongside american soldiers and also furious about the fiery rhetoric from president trump when he threatened to rain fire and fury like the worlds ahas never seen and said north koreas arsenal is locked and loaded. a week ago he ...

Everybody and taking care of them while theyre there? >> well we have two big restaurants, we have a restaurant in each store so thats pretty easy. sunday was difficult because every restaurant and store in houston was closed with the hurricane but we got back in business yesterday. we feed all the folks breakfast, lunch and dinner and try to take care of them like theyd be taken care of at a hotel, if we can make life easier as they try to get something back together maybe weve done something r...

Course the rain continues to fall. scott, whats the latest? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. that death toll now standing at nine deaths that are potentially storm related. there are also estimates that say there may be tens of thousands of people still stranded in their flooded out homes across houston. every single national gadsman or woman across texas, thats about 12,000 of them has been activated to help try to get people out and that is why president trump will visit texas today, but he ...

Rescue operations are under way at this moment in houston where epic, devastating flooding has put much of americas fourth largest city under water. it is a race against time as some areas in the south texas disaster zone have already received an astonishing two feet or more of rain, with another two feet or more likely to come in the coming days. that is 15 trillion gallons of water so far and still counting. with first responders, the coast guard and other agencies stretched to the limit, the ...

For responders being overwhelmed. brian, good having you there. i want to get the opinion of chad meyers at the severe weather center. chad, you and i spoke about this on the air on friday. you said then, and were seeing it play out, the trouble with this storm is its staying power hanging over those areas. how much longer can we expect it to happen? >> its just not moving. this thing is going to move 2 miles an hour for the next 48 hours. still just lingering around. everywhere you see white al...