Effort. Houston police say they have rescued more than 3400 people and counting. The red cross says more than 17,000 evacuees are in shelters across texas. Dallas opening a shelter just within the last couple hours. The predictions that harvey would drop 50 inches on houston are coming true. Homes below reservoirs could be flooded for weeks. It is spreading east. Hundreds of rescues last night in lake charles, louisiana. Today, on the 12th anniversary of hurricane katrina, new orleans is under a flash flood warning. Im going straight to cnns scott mclean in houston who spent the night with flood victims under an overpass. What can you tell us, scott . Reporter pam, we are under a highway overpass right now. This is sort of a staging area for lots of firstry responders and private citizens who showed up. Im get out of the way so my photographer can zoom in and show you what we are looking at here. You can see in the distance, there are house that is are quite far away from the road. This, as i understand is one of few entryway points into the neighborhood which extends one mile or several miles inland and there are houses that are under water back there. There are houses that are not under water, but hard to get to. You can see some of the boats going in and coming out with people as well. Theres boats, jet skis. Some people have rafts and dinghies and things like that. This was a very active scene last night in the overnight hours. I spoke to people who came from mississippi with a fishing boat. They arrived and started pulling people out at 6 00. They worked until 4 00 in the morning, got about four hours of sleep and we saw them head back into the neighborhood to pull people out. There were some people they simply could not get to yesterday because of darkness or time. In some cases, these areas are tricky to get to. So, i want to introduce you to donald randall. Donalds motherinlaw, your motherinlaw is stranded out there, is that right . Yes, sir. Yes, she is. She stays four miles inland. The problem is, theres high water to low water. Its very difficult for the boats to get in. Then you have to have an opportunity or avenue for them to get back deeper in there. We are worried about her. She is elderly, 74 years old, diabetic. We want to make sure she has enough medicine to last. Right now, shes working on 24 hours without power. The last thing we want is something to happen and no one get to her. Me and my wife, her daughter, have been down here since yesterday trying to figure something out. Its tough right now. Reporter her house is dry, theres just no way to get in or out . Correct. The water is up to the driveway on her town home. No way to get into there comfortably without multiple options to move her out of there. Reporter how long has she been trying to get out and how long have you been trying to get help . Since yesterday, about noonish. About noon yesterday, kind of figured out the water was getting bad. We worked this way. Not knowing how bad the side roads have been. We stay maybe four miles up the beltway heading north and our neighborhood is fine, you can get in and out. This is a very high flood area, so, they want to stick it out, didnt think it was going to get too bad. Hindsight, we wish we would have got her out saturday evening. Not knowing harvey was going to sit on us like this, thats tough. Reporter have you been able to talk to her on the phone . How is she feeling . Shes feeling good. She is calming down. Her daughter lives with her and shes calming her down more than vice versa. She understands the process. It takes time. So, shes very patient right now. Just hoping and praying that somebody shows up. Were hoping and praying the say. We understand its a process. Where she sits is a very tight neighborhood to get to and not necessarily easily accessible based on conditions. Reporter does she have power and water . Power, no. Bottled water, she has that. We are more worried about the medicine side especially when offices are going to be closed. Not knowing what the situation is on dosage, if she has enough to maintain for a few days. Reporter i understand you did speak to the coast guard and she is on their radar to get . Yes. She is on their high priority list. Once again, we dont know how deep that is. We understand theres a process to it. We have called multiple emergency services. They are working as best and fast as they can. We appreciate all the work they have done. Guys who yesterday helped us get almost close to her. Once we got there, the boats couldnt go any further. It was as hard deal to get right there with an opportunity and had to turn around because the water is not high enough, which is probably the craziest thing to say. Cant get there because the water is not high enough. We are going to keep praying and keep hoping for the best. Reporter well send our prayers as well. Pamela, we have been hearing this over and over again. You heard it from donald and i heard it from First Responders and private citizens with boats, part of the challenge is, its almost like a relay race to hand people off. At some points, the water is too shallow for boats so you need a high water vehicle and other places is too deep for a high water vehicle. People might take two or three boats or vehicles to get from their homes, a couple miles back to the underpass where they are taken to friends houses or local shelters. Sounds like a lodgist cal nightmare. Scott mclean, thank you for that. We expect houston officials to update us on the flood situation and the rescue efforts. As soon as that begins, we will take you there. Lets go to rosa florez where 10,000 evacuees are staying. What is the latest from there, rosa. Reporter i want to introduce you to isaac sandoval. He and his wife were rescued, but their family was separated. They have four children, ages 3, 7, 10 and 11. He was telling me about how they were rescued and the stress involved when your family has to be separated. He said they took the women first. Can you share with us how you were rescued . In advance, he said his english is broken, so hes asking for people to have a little kindness with him. Ill translate if you have any issue. Well, first thing i was rescue after six, seven hours when we started asking for help. When we got help, a boat, the people where we were living called friends and one of those friends came with a boat. But, they it was they trying to save children and women first. We had to be separate. Thats the stressful part on my heart because to see my kids and my wife going and not be sure they were going to be safe. After that, we have to wait eight more hours to be rescued. Reporter tell me about that wait . How difficult was it, not knowing if your children and wife are okay and knowing you havent been rescued . In that situation is real hard. My heart broken because its pretty hard to think that you cannot do anything for them. Its hard. Its hard. Reporter your wife was describing seeing people wanting to get on boats and not being able to get on those boats because the boats were already full. Share with us what that was like. Reporter when we got when we meet at the convention center, she told me what she saw on the way. One thing that i saw, too, later, when i went on the boat, it was a lot of people swimming, trying to save the kids. They try to reach a safe place. Its pretty hard. Its pretty hard. What she told me, too, families, you know, trying to get family in safe place, but they couldnt make it. So, they, they were they were swims in the water, they had to leave the family in the boat. They dont know. See people dying that way is real sad. Real sad. Reporter isaac thank you so much for sharing your story. Your english was perfect. Thank you for sharing that. Pamela, back to you. Wow. What a heart wrenching interview to see the emotion when his family has seen witness through this. Thank you so much. I want to go to cnn meteorologist chad myers at the weather center. Where is harvey . Where is the storm heading . The storm center of harvey is almost due south of galveston. Thats why ed lavandera is so bad. That is one of the new inner bands of the tropical storm. It is not gaining strength, but its gaining humidity and moisture and rainfall potential. Still raining in houston and new orleans and along the gulf coast. This is what the da radar is looking like. Minor flooding as far east as pensacola or mobile, alabama. Beaumont, you are the center of the bogey together. We talked about the reservoir situation going on in texas. Im going to take you through it again in case you werent with us. You have heard Buffalo Bayou for five days. Here it is. There are major reservoirs to the west of houston, built when houston had 250,000 people. Here they are right here. The Addicks Reservoir holding back billions of gallons of water. Back here, barker is holding back a lot of water. Eventually, the water spills out over the spillway control and into the Buffalo Bayou. We have been controlling this spill for days now, pushing the water out controlled. But that has all failed. Theres not enough water coming out and the reservoir has filled up. It has filled up and flooded all the neighborhoods on the well be right back here that have been built since 1930s when this reservoir was built. Get rid of this real quick and i will show you what else we want to talk about. Here is the reservoir, an earthen dam built on dirt, big piles of dirt. Above sea level here. On the north side we have 108 feet, ending right there. Thats where the water now, at 108. 3 is spilling over and into areas that have never seen flooding before because this barrier, this dam, this earthen dam has always been there. Now, its not failing. This is just how high its ever supposed to get. Even at this point in time, all of these neighborhoods are all full of water. Now, the water is finally spilling over here, going to be flooding different spots, different places and back into the Buffalo Bayou, uncontrolably, so rosa florez may see more water coming up in downtown houston because of this water has to go right through the city. That is certainly not good news for people there. Chad myers thank you for breaking it down for us. I want to go west of downtown houston. The river there is rising. We heard chad myers touch on this. The sheriff of the county joins me now by phone. Sheriff, thanks for coming on. Several neighborhoods in your county are under mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders. What is the situation. Caller that is correct. We have had an enormous amount of rain. We have evacuated more than 5,000 people from their homes. For the next 2448 hours, even 72 hours, we are extremely concerned about these water ways running through the county, exceeding their banks, then even further, exceeding the levees protecting the neighborhoods. I know, sheriff, you, yourself, have helped to carry some of these residents to higher ground. Tell us what you have been seeing. Caller i have access to an airboat. I have been on it the last 24 hours just removing people from their homes that are asking to be rescued. Its a daunting task. Something about ft. Bend county and texans, we are all working together. We have had individuals coming from freeport and rockport and assisting in the effort. We really, really appreciate that as well. All right, sheriff. Best of luck to you and thank you so much. Thank you. Any moment now, we expect houston officials to update us on the flood situation and the ongoing rescue efforts there. As soon as that begins, we will take you there live. Plus, all ongss are on the table. 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They are expected to touch down in Corpus Christi in an hour. They will see the widespread devastation firsthand. We expect houston officials to update us on the flood situation and the ongoing rescue efforts as soon as the News Conference begins, we will take you there. First, President Trumps stern warning to north korea, quote, all options are on the table. This is after the Missile Launch to japan and the fourth Missile Launched in four days. Ambassador, nikki haley says, enough is enough. No country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 Million People in japan. Its unacceptable. They have violates every single u. N. Security Council Resolution we have had. I think something serious has to happen. I think something serious has to happen. [ inaudible question ] we hope china and russia continue to work with us like they have in the past on north korea. I think enough is enough. Cnn correspondent Barbara Starr joins me now. What is the pentagon saying about the missile and the launch . Pamela, the u. N. Ambassador saying enough is enough, the president saying all options are on the table but here at the pentagon, i would say they are taking a very cautious approach to this because they have seen it before. Is there really a realistic military option that the president might engage in . It doesnt appear so. At least not right now. This missile, what they are tracking here at the pentagon is the fact when it launched out of north korea, it did fly over the northern japanese island, over hakaido and they woke up to warnings to take cover. Thats a serious matter. It was so high, the trajectory was so high, it didnt pose a threat to japanese territory, per se. It flew over japan and what to do about that because the north koreans will continue to engage in these provocations. A lot of language, the japanese leader, shinzo abe calling it grave and serious, the south koreans engaging in a show of force, practicing their bombing runs, but it comes back to the fundamental question, what would change kim jonguns mind, change his behavior and all the threats, rhetoric and possibilities of military action simply dont appear to be changing his mind. Pamela . Clearly, the recently passed u. N. Resolution did not change his z mind and the missile test continue. Barbara starr, thank you very much. I want to bring in former state Department John kirby, a retired admiral in the navy. I want to ask you, it seems we hear it time and time again that all options are on the table after north korea tests a missile. At what point do those words seem hollow or do they already seem hollow. Barbara starr is saying its rhetoric more than reality. When we say all options are on the table, we think military options. Thats what we gravitate to. Clearly, barbara points out, threats and bluster, those kinds of things arent changing the calculus of kim jongun. When i hear all options on the table, what i hope it means and the Administration Means is diplomacy is still an option, there are ways to work through it in a diplomatic, peaceful way to deal with the crisis. You have to remember, kim jongun thinks the United States is a threat to him and his regime. That is why he pursues this program. As long as we give him reason to believe that, hes going to continue to perfect his program. Im not saying we reduce military exercises or reduce or presence on the ground, but we need to look for opportunities to get on the table. Thats hard. Theres no reason for kim jongun to go back to the table. Clearly, the sanctions and military rhetoric is not working. You think diplomacy might be key here, the president of council on Foreign Relations tweeted this. He said, lets see here, the rest of assumption raises new questions here, increasing odds of u. S. Preventive strike. Do you agree the changes of a strike by the u. S. Have increased . I dont think it has to increase, pamela, i really dont. I hope thats not where the administration is leaning. I dont disagree with him when he talks rationality and deterrence. Thats one of the reasons why we havent seen the kind of positive outcomes we tried to seek through the various deterrence capabilities we put to the peninsula and the regime. Again, they view us as a threat. For kim jongun, this is about the United States