What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Announcer this is a special edition of Good Morning America. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now, roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. Right now, so many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right, and the Texas National guard sharing this rescue video overnight saving people from the flood zone, Live Streaming as they went door to door. The coast guard so far has carried out at least 3700 rescues by both boat and air and as weve said those rescues are still continuing at this hour. Fema is estimating as many as climb. We have Team Coverage from texas, louisiana in the storm zone. Our chief National Correspondent tom llamas starts us off. Good morning, tom. Reporter george, those thiures from overnight are so heartbreaking. Ieople and families being loaded into front end loaders and to those dump trucks in the ounding rain brought over here to the Convention Center. This is where theyre processed. He can see the Houston Police department is out here in full theye along with the red cross and right here this is what they call home. S isproblem though, the red cross had planned for 5,000 000 le. Thats how many cots they have. W thright now they have somewhere around 9,000. So just behind me were not going to zoom in here, to give people their privacy, but where you see the police tape there, there are people now sleeping on leepfloor. Its not an ideal situation. T iss far from perfect but it is dry, it is warm and more importantly, its out of the danger zone. This morning, with the death toll rising conditions growing more desperate as the search for survivors continues on the ground and in the air. The entire texas guard activated. Now going door to door during the night. In the air, the coast guard rescuing more than 450 people rvcluding this family of five wading through the murky waters. We are just beginning the g doess of responding to the storm. Is are still involved in the search and rescue process. Reporter officials now releasing millions of gallons from the addicks and barker reservoirs in the houston area, hoping to prevent a catastrophe dam failure, but that is inundating neighborhoods forcing thousands more out of their home. We had to leave so many people behind which is really tough in these situations. Reporter overnight, so many scrambling to safety. Packing into buses, even dump trucks. This convoy of desperation taking people away from their floodedout homes to places like this. We never experienced anything like this. Reporter the Convention Center in downtown houston, its the largest Shelter Housing victims of Hurricane Harvey. The red cross had planned for 5,000 people. Each one getting a cot to sleep in. But now there are more than 8,000 and that number is growing. The red cross insists they can house more but some may have to sleep on the floor. Weve been out there. Its really bad. Do you think youre going to get to a point where theres not enough space for everyone . Were not going to turn people away. If it has to be someplace where we sit in chairs for a little while instead. At least were going to put a roof over peoples head and get them safe. Reporter shelters across the houston area, dozens of them, are filling up. Families coming in waterlogged, hungry and still in shock. The water that i saw, it was so frightening. Ive never seen that much water before. Ee heartbreaking. Reporter but some need more than just a shelter. It said her temperature was rn er 90 so, yeah, so were trying to the baby . Mepl babys temperature is what . Under 90. Ile ts under 90 degrees . Yeah. Reporter the floods took trtheast houston resident jerik lliniams home, she is fighting now to make sure it doesnt take nir family. It hurts to see my baby like this and my cousins and not being able to help them. Saideporter its so weartbreaking. Yffered to help them and take them to a hospital but she says she would be okay. Wiey were going to a hotel and a warm room and, george, that is t an isolated case. Hem. E are several families here. There are a lot of babies here in the Convention Center but the red cross is adamant, they are ct going to deny anyone. They do need a lot of things, they need volunteers, nurses, social workers and donations. They told us yesterday this is becoming very, very expensive. George. All through the broadcast we will be sharing ways you can help back at home. I want to go to our chief meteorologist, ginger zee. Ginger, youve been sounding the alarm bells on this storm from the very start. What can we expect next . Ah, george, the longest named storm to torture texas now in history, and were looking at more than 43 inches. Thats the latest number thats come in from South Houston itself. There are many places reported 20 to 40 inches of rain and its still raining so heres what we can expect. Eduston, you will still see rain our the next couple of hours, moderate to even heavy at times on that outside band. The storm itself is back in the gulf. But the flash flood warnings and watches stretch all the way to mobile. Through biloxi and new orleans and, remember, the outer bands is what did the most damage, the most rain, they have moved into eastern louisiana this morning. I want to take you through the path because this is important to see. Its out in the gulf but, of course, the rain shield is on the north side. By wednesday morning, its still there. By wednesday afternoon, amy, it looks like it makes another landfall, goes north and by friday we can finally see this thing start to die out. In the meantime, we will still pick up a significant amount of t infall which i will detail in just a couple of moments. All right, ginger. And with this unrelenting storm, the most vulnerable are at risk this morning. Several texas hospitals and nidical centers are struggling with the massive logistical asallenge of evacuating their patients while also facing a supply shortage. Abcs Victor Oquendo was live outside ben taub hospital in houston and, victor, tell us what youre learning there this morning. Reporter good morning, amy. F tw hospital is one of two Trauma One Centers in the houston area. The situation here was dire. So far theyve transferred six critical patients and theyre still working on moving out 60 more patients. Hospitals across houston trapped by flooding facing Power Outages and rapidly dwindling supplies racing to evacuate. Here at ben taub, floodwater and sewage overwhelming the hospitals basement, affecting much needed food and medicine. Ap the situation happening at ben taub right now, for example, where theyre apparently running out of food at one point there and there was also some flooding concerns. What can Something Like that do to a hospital . If you start to run out of supplies and you cant feed people thats a big problem. Reporter while the hospital struggled neighbors turning to each other for help. This dramatic moment from abc affiliate ktrk shows one of their reporters trying to help a woman deliver her baby in northeast houston. The pregnant woman received help and was taken to a hospital. Another incredible story of new life at this inundated apartment complex. Neighbors forming a human chain to help a woman in labor through the rising waters. There were at least 15 people in our apartment at one point. All trying to help and lend a hand and bringing supplies and making phone calls and it was remarkable. Reporter and this picture of an elderly stroke victim, floodwaters up to her mattress before being rescued. What can they do if theyre just standing in dirty water . The water is filthy. It contains sewage. It contains runoff from who knows what. You need to get out of the water as quickly as possible. Reporter the flooding here in the basement of ben taub had a major impact affecting the pharmacy, food and supplies. But word this morning theyve been able to restock food and linens, amy, for right now they say theyre stable. For right now, Victor Oquendo, thank you. Lets go now to abc senior medical contributor dr. Jennifer ashton, shes live at the e. R. At Resolute Health, a hospital in new braunfels, texas, where victims of harvey are now being taken for medical attention. So, jen, tell us what youre seeing there. So, amy, this here at Resolute Health is part of an outlying area of hospitals that have received over 700 patients from the flood zone. They are on medical standby. Theyre able and ready to receive more patients. They are running a militarystyle medical operation here. Now its just a matter of getting the Health Care Providers and doctors and nurses to these patients. Yesterday unprecedented, the Texas Governor enacted provisions to allow out of state medical professionals to get emergency medical privileges here in texas. I completed that paperwork yesterday. We are going to try to get in t today. Yesterday it was unsafe. Im bringing a pretty extensive medical kit, including some basic dressings, some antibiotics and, you guys, shoelaces in case i need to tie off an umbilical cord after doing a delivery. Were prepared for anything. Wow, we are so glad that you are there to help. We hope the logistics get easier and you can get to where you need to be. Dr. Jen, thank you. Well find out more from the houston fire chief, samuel pena. Fire chief pena, thanks for joining us right now. Just try to give us some sense deahat youre dealing with. G. Well, good morning. Thank you for having me here. Well, i can tell you that the that the first responders, police, fire as well as Municipal Workers and community in general are dealing with some devastating loss and property loss and at times some loss of life. But were continuing the efforts to address the demand for service and rescues. F mif midnight tonight, or last night, weve run close to 700 calls for service. Yesterday in a 24hour period we ran over 3,500 calls for service. The majority of those were waterrelated. Over 2,000 of those were waterrelated incidents so its been a very active and dynamic incident and but were continuing to push on. And chief, i know this is changing all the time but as of yesterday you had about a thousand people waiting to be rescued. Where does that backlog stand right now . Yes, were still about a thousand because as we clear those incidents that are pending, that are in queue, additional calls keep coming in. You know, we keep getting wave 00 or wave after wave of rain and so thats not, you know, you not calming the situation. Nd so as we address those calls coat are in the queue, we keep on. Ting additional calls so e quwere working again. We have Additional Resources here on scene from the texas task force. We also have fema, usar teams on scene and we also have teams from across the nation that are here to assist and more importantly they bring equipment, high Water Equipment which is critical right at this point. There are some areas that are impassable and thats one of the items and one of the things we have to deal with here moving forward is the not having access to certain parts of town right now because the roads are impassable. Chief, i know youve been going around the clock. Thank you very much for your service and thanks for your time this morning. A thousand people waiting still to be rescued. Yes, sir. And the flooding catastrophe, unfortunately, is not limited to texas. Overnight, the race to evacuate louisiana, preparations under way this morning for more torrential downpours there and the flooding that could come with it, sparking a new round of fears for residents on this 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina slamming into new orleans. And Abcs Steve Osunsami is in lake charles, louisiana, with more on all of that. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, amy. On this anniversary, hearts are racing. Just a little bit faster as the rain continues to fall. Theyre expecting up to 10 inches of rain in some parts of louisiana. I want you to take a look at where were at right now. Were live outside of an evacuation center, where there about 12 families inside and its surrounded by water. Theres water on this entrance, water over here, water over there. We had to drive through water to get to this place. Here was high water in some of is the streets that we pass over here, there was an overpass over here, so high that cars were stuck in the water. That stalled out because of that. This rain as it continues to fall is going to force more people to leave their homes as they get surrounded by water. These evacuations will continue. Steve, in louisiana, theyre already closing schools and government buildings. Reporter thats right, amy, something in new orleans, after everything they learned from atrina, there are still 14 of the city pumps, meant to keep the city dry arent working. Repair on those pumps are ongoing. A situation theyll have to watch as the rain falls. Amy. All right, incredible concerns there. All right, steve, thank you, george. That is surprising. Federal Disaster Assistance is flowing to the region. 20 helicopters and 21 rescue boats from the coast guard, customs and Border Patrol adding another 50 boats, six helicopters and two planes. And Texas Governor greg abbot has activated the National Guard. President trump will head to the storm zone with the first lady and our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega is on the scene in rockport. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, george, good morning to you. The president and first lady will land here in the Corpus Christi area later this morning and theyll see for themselves the devastation. This right here behind me was a laundromat. You can see that the wall was completely blown out. The optics are very important. This is this president s first major natural disaster. They dont want to look like hes headed here in hampering the Recovery Efforts that are still going on. O thats why hes here and not in those floodwaters in houston. At the white house yesterday, it was a real tone of unity, today hell be on the ground here in texas for a matter of hours, george, he said hes coming back to texas and louisiana this weekend. His focus yesterday, at top of that propress conference was on the hurricane aftermath. But he also covered a lot of other ground on russia, on the north American Free trade agreement, and on the border wall and the controversial pardon on Sheriff Joe Arpaio in arizona. Reporter that pardon came late on friday night as that hurricane was barreling toward texas, the president said that he did it at that time, basically to draw attention because he knew the ratings on friday night would be high, george. Okay, cecilia vega, thanks very much. Amy. We turn now to that latest provocative Missile Launch by north korea, the Ballistic Missile flying right over japan. The japanese government taking this very seriously, warning people to take cover. Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz has much more on this from washington. Martha, good morning. Reporter good morning, amy. This was not only a provocative Missile Launch by north korea, it was very frightening for japanese citizens. They heard blaring sirens and got text alerts on their phones at dawn telling them to shelter in sturdy buildings or underground because the government was so concerned about the possibility of an imminent attack. A missile over japan, traveling n er the northern japanese island of hokkaido. In response, south korean fighter jets staged a live bombing drill. They also released video of their own missile test, which was conducted last week. Inw, japans Prime Minister shinzo abe spoke by phone to President Trump, both agreed the u. S. And japan must increase pressure on north korea, amy. All right, Martha Raddatz in onshington. Thank you. Okay, lets go back to ginger for more on the storm. Remember, george, even after the rain stops the threat is not over. This would be lake conroe, texas, where theyre releasing double their rate they would have in the past and you can see that water flowing out. Unfortunately, rivers, bayous, creeks can take not just days but the rivers can take weeks and weve got at least 50plus gauges that go all the way into louisiana that are now at major or higher floodstage. Coming up, all the latest on harvey all morning long. The hazards hiding beneath rising waters. Were live from the flood zone. Plus, that mother of three who made a desperate plea for help on air yesterday, she is now safe and sound, and this morning she is reuniting with her rescuer and sharing her harrowing story when we come back. Unstop right there im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer with unstopables inwash scent boosters by d