Long range missile over japans second largest island. Were in tokyo with the prime ministers angry response. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener your world in 90 seconds. Imminent flooding. Across the Southeast Texas coast into louisiana. Incredible, unprecedented, and historic amounts of rain. Thousands rescued as harvey refuses to let up. The water is still rising. It rained overnight and more heavy rain is expected today. However, nothing is getting in the way of the search and rescue crews here. People holding out hope that this is going to get better, that the rain is going to pass and were going to get through this. The president s been leaning into this disaster from before it ever started. President trump will travel to texas to survey the first stages of recovery. The president asked about his pardon of sheriff joe arpaio, particularly the timing. In the middle of the hurricane, even though it was a friday eve, i assumed the ratings would be higher than normally. North korea has fired another Ballistic Missile, this time going over japan. Defiant show of force trying to let the United States know they have weapons that theyre ready to use. Two people are dead in a shooting at a Public Library in new mexico. A suspect is in custody. All that day one of the u. S. Open, Maria Sharapova playing in her first match since her doping allegation pulled the upset of the day. What a sensational catch look at his eyes. He cant believe it. All that matters. One of the worst storms in history has brought out the best in texans. Theres so many heroes in houston. Texans helping texans, that is what we do and i dont think anybody does it better. On cbs this morning. There was a lot of chaos and destruction in texas this weekend. But it was heart warming to see there was also a lot of this. Were going to save some more lives. Help some more people. People need help. Im here to help. I want to do my part. Im going to go try to save some lives. Its horrible, isnt it . Yes, sir. Those are the kind of people you should erect statues of, those people right there. This morningss eye opener is presented by toyota lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Can we just say a moment that trevor nailed it when he talked about all the hard work people are doing. Heroes who are heroes never want to be called heroes. They make you feel good. They do. They want to do the right thing. Charlie is off today. Norah is in houston, but we are well covered at the table. Margaret brennan, maurice dubois. We wish you v we had better news for you. The flooding disaster in houston is getting worse with every drop of rain that falls and it is pouring again this morning. Rescue crews are working nonstop, pulling out stranded people and taking them to safety. The confirmed death toll is three but that is like i to rise. The official rainfall totals are staggering, 48 inches. Thats 4 feet of rain southeast of houston. 42 inches in baytown, 36 in kinwood and nearly 33 inches in downtown houston. Shelters are overflowing with evacuees. Norah odonnell is outside the george r. Brown Convention Center in downtown houston where thousands crammed in and spent the night. Norah, good morning. Reporter good morning, maurice. Thats right. Crammed in is the right word. As you know, this is houstons Main Evacuation Center and shelter. It is packed with people. The official capacity when they started this thing on sunday morning, they said 5,000. Well, officials tell cbs news more than 9,000 people stayed here last night, many of them without beds. We went in a short time ago and let me tell you, gayle, you and i talked about this, its important for people to know whats going on. Many of these evacuees are grateful that they are in a dry place, that there is some food. But they are also sharing a lot of frustration with the way things are going. We were here just 48 hours ago and there were only 700 people. Now theres more than 9,000 people according to the red cross. As you can see, people are sleeping on the ground. There arent enough beds for everybody. When we were here, they had 1,200 beds. Theyre trying to get 5,000 cots they say. That means about half of the people dont have beds. Thats why theyre sleeping on the floor. Michelle, where did you sleep last night . I just reporter you have three children . Mmhmm. Reporter where did they sleep . On the floor. On cardboard. Reporter on cardboard. Did they not have beds . No. This is disturbing. Why didnt they have enough cots . If not, open up more shelters to put cots. They didnt have enough blankets. Reporter not enough blankets . One blanket. Reporter for you and the three kids. We grabbed this little thing. Reporter what do people need to know about whats going on . This our city, other disaster arias, we should be treated the same way. We live here. This is our home. Reporter they werent prepared . No. And theyre still not. Reporter i walked in there. I just walked through. Did you see the babies . She have a little baby thats on the floor. Dont want to see a baby on the floor. Reporter so think about what you just heard. And were just in the beginning of this. I think there are key questions for lawmakers, for state officials about how you house 9,000plus people. Thats just at this shelter. There are lots of other shelters. How do you take care of thousands and thousands of people for a week at time, for how long . How do you feed them . This morning we went in, it was very orderly and patient but there were about 300 people waiting for some breakfast. There are no showers. No showers inside. And people dont have clothes, they dont have shoes but theres big tables full of used shoes and clothes and so thats where theyre getting and replenishing how theyre living because theyre living inside these shelters. And that comes as this rescue effort continues today. More people, emergency responders, have now helped more than 6,000 people trapped by floodwaters. President trump is in the air right now, hes on his way to texas. He says to check on the relief operation. His first stop is Corpus Christi near the area where Hurricane Harvey first made landfall. Tropical storm harvey is still spinning off the gulf coast. It could make a second landfall tomorrow east of houston. Mark strassmann is here with me and i know youve been following all the incredible efforts that the rescue teams are doing. Reporter this is a search for answers. Nobody knows how many have missing, how many need to be evacuated or rescued. This storm is shaping up as one of the flood disasters in u. S. History. As soaking rains fell mercilessly across Southeast Texas, rescues like this one played out across houston. Emergency responders waded through floodwaters going door to door, helping anyone in need of evacuation. I mean, left a bunch of stuff upstairs. Were just happy to be here. Reporter overnight a new flood of people looking for a dry place to stay. This is going to be a very long event. Youre going to get frustrated, youll be tired youshg routine will be disrupted for weeks. We are striving for a new normal here. Reporter but the new normal for the nearly 7 Million People in the houston area is neverending sight of floodwaters. Officials say parts of this city will be submerged for days. This is if not the largest has to be categorized as one of the largest disasters america has ever faced. Reporter evacuations remain priority number one, but with Law Enforcement stretched thin, city officials also worry about looting. In this city, we can rescue and in this city we can also arst you. And what this means, no looting allowed. Reporter despite this massive rescue effort, some people still wait for help. On monday, jason garcia watched coast guard choppers lift people out of his flooded neighborhood. I cant make it over there, so anything i can do to help, much appreciated. Reporter garcia eventually found the evacuation spot, but he said about 70 others were also waiting to be rescued. A lot of kids. A lot of women. So we aint going anytime soon. Reporter all 12,000 available Texas National guardsmen have been activated and help is pouring in from from across the country. But the rescued need places to stay and the biggest shelter in houston is already packed full. This is going to be a shelter until everybody here has a place go. Which could be some time given the scope of this. Reporter could be some time. So along with search and rescue, emergency officials have to worry about law and order. Houston police have arsted at least seven people, three for looting, four for allegedly hijacking cars in the flood zone at gun point. Hard to believe. Thank you so much. Dickinson, texas, is now under a mandatory evacuation order. That lowlying suburb southeast of houston is home to about 20,000 people. It has been ravaged by flooding and police are telling everyone, get out. Demarco morgan is watching the rescue efforts there in dickinson. Hes been there for days. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, norah. If you look behind me, you can see the rain is coming down but nothing has changed when you talk about the floods. When you mentioned that mandatory evacuation, its partly an order to keep people from trying to get pack to their homes, to get out and do so safely if possible. Adam brown is one of the folks who was coming from ston and some of the other surrounding areas trying to help with those rescues. He put his post on facebook, his personal cell number out, if you need my help, reach out and he was flooded with text messages. I dont know who they are. Im not asking for anything. Im not wanting anything from it. Im just trying to help people and get them to safety. Reporter norah, parts of this area here, the water has started to recede, but not much as changed to my right under this overpass that were standing underneath. We got up to more than a foot of rain overnight. Again, that mandatory evacuation is in order until further notice. Back to you. All right, demarco, thank you so much. President trump and the first lady left the white house this morning headed for texas. He says storm victims will get all the help they need. Right now the single most important thing is the safety and security of those still in harms way, including the First Responders, protecting the lives of our people is my highest priority. Every asset at my command is at the disposal of local officials. Major garrett is at the white house with the president s plans for todays visit. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. President trump confronts the first great Natural Disaster of his presidency. Top advisers fear in the end it could be one of the worst in all of american history. So many tasks. Rescue operations, providing shelter, distributing basing commodities will test federal Emergency Management officials severely for days if not weeks. Those basic tasks overwhelmed president george w. Bush and louisiana officials after katrina with disastrous humanitarian and political consequences. The president and first lady due to alive in Corpus Christi in a couple hours. They will survey damage there, get a briefing from Emergency Management officials and the National Guard. Then its quick trip to austin, texas, to tour the joint Operations Center and get a briefing from texas republican governor greg abbott. There will be no stop in houston for obvious reasons. You dent want a president ial visit siphoning resources from all the important work going on there. One federal Emergency Management official told us back after katrina president bush did not go to new orleans because he didnt think the city was ready for a visit. That decision turned out to have negative political consequences, always a tough president ial decision where to g and where not to g. The president says he may return to texas and louisiana on saturday depending on the aftereffects of Hurricane Harvey. He also said, norah, hes confident congress will provide the tens of billions of dollars once the recovery phase of this operation begins. All right. Major, thank you so much. Texas republican senator ted cruz will try to meet the president during his visit here to texas. Cruz was here at the Convention Center yesterday visiting the thousands of people seeking shelter. Earlier he joined us on the phone and i asked him what he wants the president to know and how the situation is right here in the city. The city is hurt right now. Were still in an active crisis situation, and houston as you know, the rain is coming down. It rained all night. This is now the fourth day in a row of pounding rain. And if flooding is unlike anything we of ever seen before. This has been a 500year flood. I grew up in houston. We of soon a lot of hurricanes in houston. What we havent seen is a hurricane that just parks over the city and dumps 4 to 5 feet of rain on the city. And the flooding, theres stale lot of people who are in dangerous situations. The First Responders are truly demonstrating heroism. The firefighters, the police officers, the emt and the coast guardsmen and National Guardsmen, were seeing very high water rescues, one after the other after the other, but isle tell you even more incredibly, were just seeing neighbors rising up. You know, when this started, the county and local officials put out a call to city rez didnts. The off flat bottom boat to help, please do so. Are you concerned that there wasnt enough preparation . Well, im certainly concerned that the burden of the storm is exceeding all of the projectionings, no one anticipated the flooding would have this magnitude and continue for this long. Usually when you have a flood event, it occurs and you have rescues but then youre very quickly moving to the rebuilding because the water is receding. What is different is were sitting here now and its still raining. You know, you mentioned that the president is coming to Corpus Christi. I hope to come down to corpus and visit him, but its very much up in the air if i could physically get there. But you talk too the people at the shelter, the overwhelming sentiment from everyone i spoke to, just relief that, you know, theyre sad that their homes, their possessions are damaged but overwhelmingly relieved that their lives are safe, their families are safe, and theres a real appreciation that at the end of the day theres what matters most. Senator, youre exactly right. Thank you for joining us. Stay in touch with us. Thank you. God bless. Weve also just learned here that officials inside are actually discussing about opening up another mega shelter because there are too many people inside this shelter behind me. We of listened those trucks with additional cots so people dont have to sleep on the floor, theyre having trouble getting into houston because of the floodwaters. Gayle . Norah, thanks. You really painted quite a picture, you and the mother you talked to. A shelter for 9,000 people that normally holds 5,000, thats recipe for disaster waiting to happen of a different kind. Good to hear more is on the way. Thank you very much. Another big story. This morning President Trump said all options are on the table after north koreas latest missile test. The missile flew directly over japan yesterday and smash dound in the pacific open. Ben tracy is in tokyo. Ben, good morning. Reporter good morning. So millions of people here in japan woke up to a message on their cell phones that said missile passing, please take cover. Even some of the famed bullet trains in this country came to a screeching halt when north korea launched this missile with no warning. Sirens blared through the streets in northern japan early Tuesday Morning telling people to get inside and take cover. The japanese woke up to warnings that north korea had blaunched a Ballistic Missile that flew directly over the island. The missile was launched near the north korean capital possibly from a mobile launch pad near the pyongyang airport. It flew more than 1,600 miles, krots crossing over the japanese island of hokkaido before splashing down over the pacific ocean. Shinzo abe called the launch an unprecedented and brave threat. South korea, another u. S. Ally, responded by conducting live fire drills with f15 fighter jets. Releasing this footage of its own missile test conducted last week. North koreas Missile Launch is the latest show of force from leader kim jongun. The country successfully tested two intercontinental Ballistic Missiles last month, capable of reaching the United States. That led to a war of words with President Trump who last week suggested his tough talk on north korea was working. Kim jongun, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. I respect that fact. Reporter now, since kim jongun became the leader of north korea he has launched more than 80 missile bus never a single one over japan, so this was literally a warning shot of some kind, although message is not entirely clear. Margaret . Ben tracy in tokyo, than. Tens of thousands of calls have overwhelmed houstons emergency call system. Ahead, we go inside the 911 center to find out how staff are managing the cries is and the worst thing people do when they call in. But first ts 19 after the hour from the kpix studios in san francisco, you will feel the difference this morning. 5 degrees cooler than 24 hours ago. Livermore, 60. Down from yesterday. It is 54 and overcast in santa rosa. Later today, sunshine away from the coast. 90s, inland. Same wednesday. Excessive heat warning in effect thursday through the holiday. Thousands of life saving efforts are being directed from houstons command coast. 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