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20,000 national troops and 20 ships and 240 helicopters. they have to scale up and scale up quickly. as soon as this rain stops, they have to go into every home that was evacuated and see if anybody is there. and you have to provide gasoline. youll have to provide food and water. all the infrastructure is down. you have to provide emergency power to try to get people to come in and see their homes. you have the provide traffic control. the grid is broke. they dont nearly have enough troops there...

So we definitely need help. >> so you can get out and get to safety, you and your baby and all the kids. >> and be in a safe place. >> yes, leidys shull, thank you so much. im talk to the mayor about you and well stay in close contact to make sure we get you out of there. leidys is on the second floor of her home and trapped. thank you. south texas is bracing for more water as 50 inches is forecasted before the rain stops. just to get a sense of what this looks like, look at this. 50 inches wo...

So when you have this much rain, essentially the water just has nowhere to go. so they caught it here for a while to try to prevent flooding down here, but then as it began to wash back up to here and to actually get into other neighborhoods, they have to let some go. so when we talk about manmade flooding, thats what were saying. when you let that go, whether you hold it or not, its got to go somewhere and potentially that means more areas down here getting water, even as they wait for it to re...

Here. this is extraordinary. this area has not seen anything like this. i think whats overwhelming to everyone, what we are seeing now is not the story. there maybe another 20 plus inches of rain to come before this is all over the next several days. >> we know lester, the fact that the president has announced hes coming on tuesday, fema is involved in coordination with the governor, this system while we expect it to dump more water over the next several days. this is the type of storm thats goi...

The taxes and the affordable care act. where they end up is what theyre calling skinny repeal. im worried that what will end up happening is that they will get 51 votes. then they will to go conference committee, fail, and then the house will swallow this so-called skinny repeal. we cant treat it as a weigh station on the way to the conference committee. we have to treat this seriously as something that might be federal law. when cbo tells you that your back-up plan takes 16 million people out o...

What youre saying, i was saying this is a place holder to get a conference. no. this actually becomes law. this is where the train stops. this is what they can get to. they then force the house. and it would raise premiums. are you concerned, it would blow up insurance markets? at least theres a chance would it do that. >> i think it is a certainty. would it eviscerate the markets. to the extent that people recognize that there is a real problem with the affordable care act in that we have these...

Of drunk driving. her first hearing is tomorrow. officials say chambers barreled at 50 miles an hour hit a police officers motorcycle before plowing into the crowd of parade watchers. four people were killed. 44 others were injured. forecasters say there are storms that are moving on and dangerous flood warnings are coming to an end. the powerful storm system combined with remnants of hurricane patricia have done some damage. once the rain stops, officials will have to worry about the creeks a...

Than a dozen deaths in the carolinas. >> just because the rain stops, does not mean that we are out of the woods. >> reporter: this road collapsed in lugoth, claiming the life of a man driving with a female passenger, the vehicle careening through barricades. she survived, pulled from the overturn wreckage amid rushing water. in ridgeville, a chilling rescue of a different kind. flood waters unconcerning caskets from a nearby cemetery. >> we have to respect the dead. >> reporter: this man riskin...

About 550 roads are closed. >> this is dangerous. this is very real. >> reporter: governor nicki haley urging residents safe in their homes to stay put. >> we dont want to have to come out and rescue. much worse, we dont want to have you added to this number of fatalities. >> reporter: 40,000 residents without water. more than 26,000 have no power. the red cross has opened about 25 shelters to take in victims. >> what i got on my body is what we have. pretty much everybody down there hill there ...

Into the rivers and the valleys and the water is still rising in some spots. chris? >> chad, important distinction you make. the rain stops, trouble doesnt stop. thats why we have to stay on the story. ill be back with you in a little bit. lets get word from the ground right now, mr. becker, you hearing me okay? >> good morning. >> wish it were a better morning for you and the people there in south carolina. weve been hearing about the totals. weve been hearing about the ongoing nature of the ch...