New evacuations just ordered. More days of flooding rains ahead, the worst far from over. Lives hanging in the balance. The race against time right now. Announcer this a special edition of Good Morning America, disaster in texas, flooding catastrophe. Good morning to our viewers in the west. Youre looking live at a neighborhood in texas. The rain still coming down. Its far from over. More than 2,000 rescues in the houston area. Many residents still stranded. This shows flood victims waiting to be rescued. Take a look at some of these before and after images, truly stunning. This is the interstate before harvey and just a few hours later look at that. The rising water almost all the way up to that sign and then take a look at the runway at Hobby Airport before and now it is completely under water. Heres what we know this morning. At least five deaths so far have been blamed on the storm. Up to 50 inches of rainfall in the storm zone. Fema has been deployed to to the scene. The governor expects to have a thousand more National Guard today. We have Team Coverage across the storm zone in southern texas this morning. First lets head straight to tom llamas in another neighborhood in houston with some of those remarkable rescues that have been going on. People in the area, the neighbors actually taken to their own boats to save some of these people. Tom, good morning to you. Reporter amy, good morning. This rain just wont stop. Take a look at this it all builds up right here. This is hampering the search and rescue effort right now. Teams from all over the current have poured in houston to help out. 50 of the coast guard helicopter fleet is on the ground trying to rescue people. And other people as well. Regular citizens are going deep into these neighborhoods that are flooded out rescuing their fellow neighbors. This morning, houston families trying to stay above water. So many piling into canoes. Rafts and rescue baskets. Standing on roofs waving, yelling, anything to escape the relentless rain and rising water. Producer joe gleason from ktrk broadcasting live as the water inside his home grew from a few puddles to several feet of sludge. When it started coming in, it was just it was just, you know, a couple of puddles here and then it got to be more and then more and then we just said, you know what, lets just get safe. Reporter this traffic cam capturing rescuers pulling up alongside a sinking truck. The driver gripping onto the side desperately trying to hold on. They carry him to safety. The National Weather service predicting some areas here will see 50 inches of rain. And another danger in the sky, the threat of tornadoes. Among those most at risk, the elderly. This heartbreaking image of a group of Senior Citizens trapped in an assisted living facility. The water up to their waists, some in wheelchairs. And this little girl on a ventilator trapped with no power in a flooded home. Sleeping alongside her brother on a kitchen countertop. Some older people that really needed to get medical attention and theyre trying to convince them the best thing to get them out. Reporter thats george jackson. He and his brother alex are now part of houstons citizen navy. They showed us how theyre taking it upon themselves to rescue neighbors. Some of the areas we cant see if its a foot or ten feet. Reporter the road in their neighborhood now canals. Look at that car. Its almost completely underwater. Look at these waves as theyre coming in. We told them about a woman we heard was trapped. All we had was her name, yvette, and a possible address. But thats all they needed. There are six people. Theres like multiple dogs and cats. Reporter the home completely under water. Theres definitely more than two feet in this house. Maybe almost three feet. Reporter the homeowner emotional at the sign of help. Im going to start crying. Its all right. I see your house. I know. Were fine, were okay. Were just really ready to get out. Reporter then yvette who had put out her sos on social media emerged. Hi, how are you . Tom llamas from abc news. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Reporter both women telling us how quickly the water started building. It came at 5 30. Before you know it. Its a foot then two feet and it just it envelopes a house like you can not imagine. Reporter outside they head for the boats with their dogs, cats, even birds, and meet the men who just saved them all. Jackson brother, hello, thank you very much. How many people have you rescued today . A lot. Reporter the jackson brothers have made more than 30 rescues saving around 100 people so far and they tell us theyre just getting started. Thank you. Reporter the jackson brothers are some real heroes, all those families got out safely. As for those Senior Citizens they were rescued by helicopter were told theyre doing okay this morning. And as for that little girl who was on the ventilator she and her family also was rescued by helicopter. She and her family and, george, get this, her name is miracle. Back to you. That is very apt. Tom, thanks very much. Ginger zee, right now on point throughout the weekend and, give us a sense of what we can expect right now. Right now houston does not have rain on top of it. Some scattered showers southwest of it, but Tropical Storm harvey is still rotating and you can see those outer bands and thats going to be the issue. This thing has not budged over the weekend, and it wont budge much the next two to four days. So let me take you through it. You saw that tornado watch that extends into central louisiana, beaumont, liberty, and lake charles and houston, just because youre not raining now doesnt mean youre not raining later. We have flash flood watches and warnings to austin, lufkin too, and the track takes it back to the gulf. We still see circulating feeding off that unlimited moisture of the gulf of mexico and the heat, and then perhaps making a third landfall in galveston, or close to galveston as it moves up, we will still see bands of rain around this thing that could drop another 15 to 25 inches of rain. I stopped it there 6 00 a. M. Tuesday just to give you an indication how long were talking about it. A lot will be east but still 6 to 12 in houston. Amy. Ginger, thank you. Joining us now is wendy waterman. She is currently in a home with at least perhaps more than 20 other survivors who have weathered this storm altogether there. Theyre in the dark and, wendy, i want to first ask you, how youre holding up and how are you doing . We are doing good, fortunately, for these wonderful people here that have taken us in. Their house has not flooded. We dont have any water inside the house so were doing good. Tell me what happened when the floodwaters started to rise. What did you do . I was at my grandmothers house and the house in back of us and she is 93 years old and, you know, of course, being that age she didnt want to evacuate right away and then my aunt was there too and she said, no, youve got to get your pills. Weve got to go and they have a hole cutout in the fence that joins their houses, so we got our 93yearold grandmother, we brought her through the hole and these lovely people took us in. How many people are in that house with you all . We have about 20. Ranging from age from 7 to 96. All different abilities and were just trying to make things work. You have no power right now . We dont have any power. Wow, and what about water . Are you all safe from the water . Youre high enough up and what have you seen out around you at least as things were really deteriorating yesterday . The whole neighborhood is inundated with water. We have no access on either ends of the street. Theres several feet of water, maybe ten feet or more of water. It goes up to the tops of the sorry, the bottoms of the stop signs. And you know, weve seen people rescuing neighbors on boats, weve seen the coast guard constantly fly over. They were rescuing people for hours yesterday and there were helicopters everywhere. It was an amazing sight to see. I mean, so incredibly frightening, and i know houston is an area that is used to seeing a lot of rain but can you compare what this has been like over the last 24 hours to anything else youve ever seen or witnessed . Never. Simply because we only had id say two hours of rain and then all of a sudden the roads were the roads were filled with water. Then it stopped for awhile. Rain came again. And then it was up to our doors. So it was so quick. Thank goodness we had a warning and people predicted it so people were prepared but you never are prepared when it comes that quickly. And some people thought theyd get out when it gets worse but people didnt. And water has never really even come up our lawn before and it was basically at our door today. We have neighbors who have been in their homes for 51 years and they said theyve never flooded. This time not only did they flood they got feet of water in their house. Wow, well, thank goodness for the kindness of neighbors and you are all there together helping one another. Its one of the bright spots of an otherwise horrible situation. Thank you all for joining us and we wish you the best of luck. Thank you so much. Thank you. So many stories just like that going on right now as we speak. People hunkered down together. So encouraging to see them reach out and help one another. Want to go to our senior meteorologist rob marciano. He is just outside of houston. We just saw, rob, people have never seen anything like this but houston is prone to flooding. Yeah, george, houston is no stranger to flooding. For one thing its the fourth largest city in america so the sheer size of it contributes to why it floods so much. Houston defines urban sprawl. We are 40 miles outside of the city. Just on the other side of this road you have a massive shopping center. And a lot of concrete. That does not absorb water so that all flows into small bayous and creeks. This was a small creek yesterday that tried to get underneath this roadway but the culvert could not handle the pressure, the volume of the water so a huge sinkhole. Those rivers will drain painfully slow into the gulf of mexico. Many will be over their banks next week. Now that harvey is back over the water the winds are starting to pick up as well. A remarkable, remarkable storm unfortunately. George. Thats tough to watch. It certainly is. And we want to thank rob for all of his incredible reporting and many of those flooding victims as the rain is still coming down evacuated their homes. They sought shelter at the Houston Convention center, lining up overnight just to get some dry clothes. Abcs victor oquendos there with the latest on whats happened there this morning. Victor, good morning. Reporter good morning, amy. After they leave their homes this is the first room they come to inside the Convention Center for the dry clothes, the food and the water. More than 2500 people have already come through here. A lot of them are actually in a separate area with cots finally getting some muchneeded rest as the red cross puts it, this is their home now, so you can think of this area as their living room. We were here, we watched as people came in in droves. So many of them being dropped off on the back of city dump trucks taking with them only what they could carry. The red cross says theyre set up here inside the Convention Center to take as many as 5,000 people. Theyre halfway there and with more evacuations, more rain in the forecast, theyre expecting the numbers here to grow. They show up hungry, tired, some in need of medical attention, some with pets. Theyre in a separate area for them. The red cross says they will be here for as long as theyre needed. Amy. So many incredible volunteers throughout this catastrophe. Victor oquendo, thank you. George. Thanks, amy. Were joined now by the Houston Police chief art acevedo. Thanks for joining us. I know how much youre dealing with and i know youve been out there trying to rescue people trapped in those floodwaters. Give us a sense of what youre seeing and what youre dealing with. Well, i mean, were seeing really widespread flooding that we havent seen here in a while and so far weve rescued or actually completed 2,000 rescue missions. Im happy to report were down to about 215, 220 folks that are still waiting for rescues or locations and so weve made some great progress and we just are really grateful that despite the power of this storm we havent had more loss of life. You only have a couple hundred left to be rescued. How long is that going to take . Im hoping that as soon as this sun comes up or some daylight comes up that its a couple hundred more rescue missions so were hopeful that well be able to get that done at some time today before the sun goes down. You have all the boats, all the vehicles you need . I think by the time this day is over, well be able to get it done and were going to be able to finish these rescue missions that have been so heartwrenching for our officers. Ive had officers tear up thinking about the things theyve seen with these little children in the middle of the night in such fear and five feet, four, five feet of water being rescued by our Police Officers and its just been a heck of a few days for us. Whats your advice to people out there who may still be waiting to be rescued . Just hunker down. Hold tight. We hear you. We feel you. Believe me, but when you think about just the numbers that weve been dealing with, we have to do it safely. We want to make sure that, when we get you, we get you out safely and that we dont hurt you during or you get hurt during the rescue operations. So we know where youre at, know that were coming. And this morning, sometime today everybody should be recovered. Even after the rescues, youll be dealing with the fallout from this for days, weeks, even months. Whats your biggest concern Going Forward . Well, you know, the biggest concern sometimes is when people are out of their hopes and businesses and people think they can loot. Weve already arrested a handful of looters but weve made it real clear to our community were going to do whatever it takes to protect their homes, their businesses, and when we will come from the outside of houston, texas, know well be out in the city and we wont rest until people restore their lives. Chief, thank you for your good work. Appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, guys. President trump is expected to head to texas tomorrow. Conditions permitting. Its been getting disaster briefings at camp david and the white house, on twitter with updates, and our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega is at the white house with more on the president s response. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter good morning to you. This is the first major Natural Disaster this president is facing as you said, he was at camp david this weekend and the white house released photos of the president monitoring Hurricane Harvey from there. You could see him video teleconferencing with his cabinet and the president also issued a number of tweets over the weekend. One of them saying the spirit of the people is incredible but some of those tweets, ive got to tell you, did spark controversy as they hit on topics other than the storm like promoting a book for an ally of President Trump, a controversial ally. The federal response has received early praise from Texas Governor greg abbott but details of this trip, the president s trip tomorrow to texas is unclear at this point, exactly where he will go. The white house says the president does not want to get in the way of the rescue efforts that are under way right now. Were not expecting him to go to the heart of those floods there in texas but a big test for the presidency. Most controversial tweet around 10 00 p. M. Friday as the hurricane was coming in, the president decided to make his first pardon, Sheriff Joe Arpaio out of arizona, drawing a lot of criticism. Thats right. This tweet came right as the storm was barreling at texas, george, on friday evening. Now, of course, this is the former sheriff there in arizona who was found guilty of criminal contempt for continuing to illegally profile latinos suspected of being undocumented. The president facing a lot of criticism even from republicans. Including the speaker of the house paul ryan. And george, we know that harvey is impacting so much across the country, including air travel. Hundreds of passengers stranded at houstons two busiest airports on sunday with roads to both airports underwater. Southwest airlines was able to evacuate. Many of them to dallas but overall more than 1500 flights have been canceled. Houstons Hobby Airport is closed until at least wednesday. And Officials Say bush intercontinental airport could reopen today depending on whether theres transportation access and available staffing at this point. United airlines has been hit very hard by this storm with 18 of its flights canceled. So lets turn back now to ginger with the very latest on this historic rainfall in that area. And beyond the rainfall, amy, 50,000 homes have been asked for mandatory evacuation by 4 00 p. M. Because even when the rain slows down the rivers, the creeks they all and bayous start to fill up. The select cities brought to you by sprint now. Good monday morning, im mike nicco. For today, heat and air quality concerns. Clouds a little milder tonight, the heat will spike into the 100s. Today theyre all over the place, north bay, south bay, east bay. 60s and 70s along the coast. Well be mainly in the 50s and 60s tonight, 70s in our coming up, much more of our special coverage as this catastrophe continues to unfold. This piece is so you. 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