We saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. Now were talking about major highways, i10 south of here. 69 is closed. Beaumont becoming its own mini island, and in very many places across jefferson county, you have islands just trying to get help to them, because there are so many rivers that are passing through. Rivers that used to be streamtr like this street behind me. You see the water coming off the street there. Thats traveling into a drainage ditch, and this is the problem. We just saw a man try to cross the drainage ditch. He thought it was a street. He was almost washed away before our eyes. He was able to swim right back up before the current took him away. That is why police are saying here in southeast, texas, this is not over by any means. The brunt of the storm may be head thing way right now. Drew griffin in beaumont. Emergency services and possible rescues to go into Eastern Parts of texas into western louisiana. We thought new orleans was going to have rain, four to six inches overnight. They did not see it. They were sandbagging in plaquemines parish, theyre not going to need that. It picks up with speed and mov s s out. Thats the best news. The problem again is going to be beaumont, into lake charles, parts of louisiana could see significant rainfall, possibly 10, 12 inches or more in the next 24 hours. So this is where the concern is now coming next. Weve been hearing a lot about the levy today. How bad is the levy situation in houston . Could be really bad. Here is houston. Its hard to see. Well go out to the west. We have two reservoirs right now. The first one, after course, the
addicks holds 65 billion gallons of water. If you look at the communities around this. Weve had 100 subdivisions that have been evacuated. Weve got over 3200 homes flooded. At the apex, its 1400 feet. Theyre looking to have Water Overlap that by a foot. The problem is, all the colors you see, the flood waters that are flooding all the communities, and it continues, community after community. 3200 homes. But ive got to show you this. This really breaks it down and gives you a good indication how bad the problem is. Metro houston, you can see these two areas in green. These are mainly dry areas. Authorities made a gutsy call earlier in the week to release water into the buffalo bayou, even though it was receding. They knew the water levels would rise high and above where they were. This is more of a dog park. Its baseball fields. However, if you look at google street view, you get an idea of just how large of an area this is. John, this is now drowned by up to 30 feet of water. If this this is an earthen levy, not made of concrete. It cannot withstand the pressure day after day. If this gives, it will make this a colossal situation. Its hard to fathom how much water will run down to the east. That area behind tom covered in about 30 feet of water. These pictures weve been showing you along with tom, are crews out and around houston and coastal texas. Theres just water everywhere right now. Every one of our teams seeing scenes like this. You can see the canoers on the water right there. No doubt trying to help people. Before we saw airboats and out in beaumont, you saw people as well. They could get up to a foot of rain in the next 24 hours. This scene being played out again and again and again. So many of the people need to be rescued by boat. You need to have the right kind of boat. Look how high the water is on those trees. Look how high the water is on those signs. Signs are six, seven feet tall and water is near the top of it. This is a neighborhood. This car is parked in what was a driveway. This is simply remarkable. Weve heard estimates that some 30 of harris county, where houston is, 30 of the county is covered by water. Were not talking about a couple inches. As you can see by these pictures right here. Were talking about feet upon feet upon feet. Yes, the sun is now out in houston. The worst of the rain is now over. But a lot of the water has yet to crest. These reservoirs will continue to fill for some time. And when they let out, a lot of that water needs somewhere to go. A lot of it will go down through populated areas. So the danger, very, very real still for this area. One of the reasons why the mayor of houston has declared a curfew overnight. He doesnt want people out in the danger. He doesnt want any threats to property with so many homes evacuated. Youre looking at the water. Weve seen a lot of water rescues. Theres not way to get people out, that is by air. The rescues, the aviation, it is enormously challenging, because the bad weather is no weather to fly in, especially the helicopters. Gosh, look at that car in the garage right there. These Helicopter Pilots have shown themselves to be extraordinary. Cnns brian todd joins us from the George Bush International airport. You have some Breaking News about a local chemical facility
and the danger it may pose. Whats the danger this . Reporter we have an update on that. There appears to be an Emergency Situation developing in crosby, texas, in harris county, the County Houston is in. But this area is east of houston, in harris county, but leer the l near the liberty town. This plant makes peroxide. They are worried about their ability to cool some of the systems. Theyre concerned about some kind of a Chain Reaction that might cause a large fire or an explosion. So they had an 11person rideout team that was inside the facility to ride out Hurricane Harvey and the aftermath. Theyve gotten all 11 of those people out. In addition, local fire and police are evacuating everyone with our 1. 5 mile radius of that facility. So its a fairly significant
evacuation of everyone in and around the chemical its a chemical facility that produces peroxide. So that could lead to a Chain Reaction and could be dangerous. Theyre not sure if theres imminent danger now, but because they cannot cool that plant right now, theyre getting everyone out of there. Were watching rescue after rescue unfold. Brian, i understand you went out on some air rescues earlier today. What did you see . Reporter thats right, john. This was the air Marine Operations of customs and border protection. Very dedicated Men And Women Flying these missions. We were with them on several missions today. These people pulled people out of the most flood ravaged neighborhoods in very dramatic fashion. In our black hawk, we hover next to another helicopter as a hoist is lowered. Six people and a dog are lifted
out. Other victims rescued by hoist like this rescue on monday of four people. In one of those neighborhoods, we touched down in a liver of a parking lot that. We just landed in a heavily flooded neighborhood. Theyve crammed everybody they can into this chopper. One 80yearold victim told us there is waist high water in her house and she lost everything. She was evacuated by a boat, then by helicopter to there. What would you have done if they hadnt shown up . We would have had to have gone to the attic. Theyre lifesavers. Reporter these Rescue Operations are complicated by the fact that authorities here dont seem to have an accurate count of just how many people are still out there in immediate of rescue. How many people are still stranded. Cnn has talked to authorities throughout this region about
that. They simply cant give estimates on the number of people that need rescues. Calls keep coming in and these operations have to keep adapting. The number keeps changing. Every time they think they have one area contained, a new area no floods. Brian todd, thanks so much. 360s gary tuchman joins us from a neighborhood in southwest houston. Gary . Reporter john, here in houston, the rain has stopped and the sun has come out for the first time in many days. Thats good news. It also allows you to visualize more easily the ftorrents of water that have paralyzed the city. You can see people in the water who are helping to pull in boats. Its important to note that its not just one or two or three different sections of houston
that has flooding. Its the essential part of it. The north, the east, the west, and here in the south. Its been 96 hours since the hurricane entered the state of texas, and as we speak, the search still goes on for people in flood ravaged neighborhoods. Rising water surrounds an upscale neighborhood in southwest houston. Firefighters from the small town of limer, texas, have brought several boats. And joined by Houston Police officers and us. Just a few minutes into the search, a woman opens her door and yells that she and her husband want to be taken out, but cant find their cat. Brenda norwood and her husband steve have lived here for decades. They say its never flooded before. A Police Officer spots their cat. What is his name moochie. Come on out, moochie. Reporter there is little time to bring much else out of the house. Pets and valuables are pretty much it. The home is heavily damaged. They hope theyre able to come back soon. But for now, they board the Fire Department boat and evacuate like so many other houstonians. This neighborhood symbolizes how volatile the situation is. Minutes later, another family makes it clear that they too want out. Opening the door of their house, they dont want to wait for the water to get any higher. You okay . Yeah, yeah. Reporter a father, mother, and daughter live here. They too say theyve never seen flooding on their street before. A little devastated. You know, well get by. Reporter word of the rescue boats arrival brings others out
of their houses with pets and belongings. This couple is engaged to be mare yesterday. And now, very grateful theyre okay. But wondering what will happen next. Yesterday morning, we were dry, and i really thought we were home free. A little devastated, but well get by. Sounds like when reality meets resilience, gary. Any idea how many rescues have taken place in houston overall . Reporter john, theres no way to officially calculate it. Because theres so many different Law Enforcement bodies participating. Right now, theres one happening as you can see. These people just came out of their houses. How are you folks doing . Give me a thumbs up if youre okay. Even the little baby give the thumbs up. This is happening all day. When you hear a number, 3,000, 4,000, we know its way more than that. Since weve been standing here, weve seen like 30 people come off this one street. Civilians are participating in the rescue effort, too. They call them the texas navy. People bring their pickups and come to these neighborhoods and rescue people. They are truly heroes. Every time we turn the camera on, we see more rescues all over that city. Gary tuchman for us in houston tonight. Thank you so much. As we continue to monitor the late developments throughout the program and tonight, we are going to seek with houstons police chief, the department has lost one of its own if the storm. And later, the president s visit. What he saw, what he said, and the reaction to his visit when 360 continues. Each year sarah climbs 58,007 steps. Thats the height of mount everest. Because each day she chooses to take the stairs. At work, at home. Even on the escalator. That can be hard on her lower body, so now she does it with dr. Scholls orthotics. Clinically proven to relieve and prevent foot, knee or lower back pain, by reducing the shock and stress that travel up her body with every step she takes. So keep on climbing, sarah. Youre killing it. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. Tais really quite simple. Est it comes in the mail, you pull out the tube and you spit in it, which is something southern girls are taught youre not supposed to do. You seal it and send it back and then you wait for your results. Its that simple. Come on. Scuse me. Mind if i sit here . Not if you want your phone to work. Let me guess, you cant livestream your lobster roll. And my mobile pay isnt connecting and i just got an unlimited plan. Right plan, wrong network. You see verizon is americas largest most reliable 4g Lte Network and now unlimited plans
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now. Really in big and small ways, character does come out. In this case, raw, immediate grieving for a fallen colleague. Sergeant steve perez died answering the call to duty sunday morning. He was 60 years old, a 34year veteran of the Houston Police department. A dive team recovered his body. The police chief of houston spoke about this, this afternoon. We called for our dive people. We even used one of our what do they call them in louisiana, god bless them. Our american cajun navy. They helped us look for him. So it was too treacherous out there to go under and look for him. So we made the decision to leave
officers there, waiting until the morning, because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put nor officers at risk. In addition to the loss of sergeant perez, many members of the Houston Police department are dealing with other strains. Moments ago, houstons mayor include damaged homes indeed those of 200 Houston Police officers. The cheep joief joins us now by. Let me express our condolences to you, and the members of the family of sergeant perperez. What do you want people to know about this 34year veteran of the force . I want people to know this is a man that served 34 years old. While many would be retired, he had the heard of a servant. And he died doing what he loved to do best, which was to protect
the people of this city. Like i told his life, i dont think theres another way he would rather go if he knew the good lord was going to take him this week. Theres a Picture Showing you and members of the Police Department holding an american flag. How are your Officers Holding up with the exhausting hours theyre dealing with right now, the death of their beloved colleague, and the fact that their own families and own homes are in constant danger . I think moments like this define the heart of an organization, moments like this define individual officers, resiliency and their careers. They know that this is an event thats going to be talked about for generations to come. And i cant tell you enough about the collective heart of this organization. They shed some tears. They shed some blood. Theyve shed a lot of sweat. Theyve gone hungry. Theyve gotten wet. Ive had officers in the same uniform for three days. But were still here and were not going to give up on our communities, just like they Havent Given Up on us. The scenes weve been seeing hour after hour are unbelievable. And inspiring. What is your latest sense, though, of how many residents still need to be rescued, how many might be unaccounted for . Well, we in our department have a couple hundred calls still pending. But were hopeful that now that things are oepg up and were getting more assets in theater, my biggest fear is what were going to find once we go into secondary searches of these neighborhoods. Right now, were still doing a response to active calls for help. So our fear is what were going to find once we start doing our secondary searches and our hearts are broken, because weve
seen so much destruction and so much suffering. But people thwere going to con were not going to stop. The sun did come out tonight. You could almost hear the cheer all over the country coming from houston when they caught the first glimpse of that. I do imagine its going to pose a challenge for you in the coming days. When it stops raining, people are going to want to go home, if they can. But most people shouldnt even start trying yet, should they . No, they shouldnt. Theres a lot of things that still have to be done. The water has not gone away from a lot of these infected neighborhoods. There are a lot of threats and hazards. Until we declare the area safe to return, they should not go there. They should wait and they must wait until we can have an orderly return. I know its frustrated and its for their safety, and we urge people to be patient. Lastly, theres a lot of tributaries and rivers upstream. A lot of water wicking ining i over to the gulf. We still dont know how much more water is coming our way. One reason you have to be so careful. Chief acevedo, thank you for take thing time. Please, our best to everyone on the force tonight. Thank you very much. And to the chiefs point, were just hearing from officials saying between 9,000 and 10,000 people have been rescued in the region so far. As for the Houston Police department, men and women have rescued at least 3,000 people. Next, well speak to a woman who lost six Family Members in the storm and how shes getting through this terrible ordeal. Be. Lease the 2017 rx 350 for 399 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Gloria always went big. So we helped her plan a Memorial Service that no one would soon forget. This ones for you, gloria. Only a Dignity Memorial Professional can celebrate a life like no other. Find out how at sanfranciscodignity. Com. The president had a chance today to see what some of you are seeing firsthand right now. He toured the destruction and oversaw the federal emergency response, while staying far away from the Disast