The rain is expected to continue into the middle of the week, and some parts of texas could get nearly four feet. Overnight, floodwaters rose quickly in houston americas fourth largest city. More than sixmillion people live in the area. More than a thousand have had to be rescued as parts of houston have been hit with more than 20 inches of rain. Coast guard officials are urging people in danger to get to the roofs of their homes and wave sheets or towels so rescue crews in helicopters can see them. Quijano Demarco Morgan is about 30 miles south of houston in dickinson, texas, with a situation there. Demarco . Elaine and kris teen, you hae people who are rescuing friends and residents in their personal boats. People who are trying to be good samaritans. This is a sanitation truck here. Not sure what they are up to but this is some of the equipment we have been witnessing coming through along with the coast guard. If you pan to the boat there, this is another rescue. They have been bringing them closer to the bridge because were, of course, on Higher Ground. A number of people who have had to be rescued. If you look on the other side of the title max title loans, we are hearing an elderly couple stuck in the at tick. We talked to the son of the couple still on the bridge with us did not want to go on camera. Apparently they are stuck in the at tick because their home is completely filled with water. Their cell phone has died as a result because they dont have any electricity to power the cell phone and keep it going. Norm, can you get the coast guard helicopter . The coast guard has made a number of successful rescues but cant do it alone. We have a number of complete strangers doing the best they can. Just look at this boat coming down the street. This is an air boat that has been taking part in a number of these rescues. You also have people trapped inside some of these buildings as well. Theres a Kroger Grocery store, one of the places people ran to to get dry shelter, and we are told they are at the back to have the store because the store is filling with water. Sorry for all this equipment here, but were on a bridge. Im just going to show you how, if you look to my right right here, you can see that it is almost impassable. We have a number of cars stuck on the side there. This is where we were trying to cross to the bridge to try to get to houston. Now look at this. This is to our left. You look to our left. It is completely covered in water. Weve had emergency vehicles who are keeping people away from going through that area, and you see this charter bus right here. It is now starting to load people who were rescued. We had a truck full of people who had to be rescued by boat. They are now getting on this charter bus and its going to stay there, we hear, just to keep them dry. There was a 90yearold woman, i think you can possibly see her. Looks like, yeah, shes getting on the bus right now. She had to sit in my vehicle and were told she just celebrated a birthday yesterday. We had a boatful of six or seven kids who had to be rescued because the family they were with, they were underneath the bridge. Thats one thing people do when a storm is coming, they choose to go under a bridge for safety. Thats never a good thing especially when you talk about a flood. Were in the town of dickinson about 30 miles east of houston. You see these boat rescues taking place right now . This boat looks like it is actually full of people here. People have been going by. Some of the folks who had to be rescued giving thumbs up, waving, very grateful for the people who have been helping them as well. Before we go back to the boat, look at the current. See how strong it is . See the do not enter sign . That is the current. See how fast its moving . This is very dangerous. Weve actually had to tell people do not go down there and get in the water. People have been trying to get in the water to check on their homes. If we can zoom in closer to this boat here full of people. Looks like they had to be rescued as well. You have small children. Weve even seen dogs, elaine and kristine. Weve seen dogs that have to be rescued with their family members as well. They are excited and happy to be safe. A little boy is waving. Were happy for them as well. But we still have a lot of people who are unaccounted for in this area. Again, that coast guard helicopter is at a standstill, hovering over some area, usually when its hovering, usually means a rescue is underway. Lets see if we can show them the other side of the bridge which is also pretty bad. Looks like dickinson, most of the city is pretty much underwater right here. You can see on the side of the taco bell this bus is about to come through this is the bus here that has a number of the folks whove had to be rescued. Im sure theyre going to try to make it through that water. But if you see right here where theyre crossing the barriers, look at that. Most of those cars, you have cars in the middle of the road just stuck, mostly covered, completely submerged in water here. A number of restaurants, a number of businesses, but there are also full neighborhoods and subdivisions with homes also covered in water. Again we talked about the boat that had six or seven kids on it. We also had to give some of our towels away just to get those babies dry. Its sort of like a collaborative effort where everybody is sort of on thi bridge, trying to help everyone they possibly can. Just look at this dog, this family with the dog, and people are standing by on the bridge because they cant go anywhere as well. We knew that as soon as we crossed this little section on 45, again at 517, that it would be impossible for us to get to houston, so we knew we would be stuck here. Again, authorities are telling people, if you dont have to get out in this mess, whatever you do, listen to them, dont do it. People are still trying to do it, still trying to get out, still trying to check on their homes. Leave your home. You can also get another house. You cant get another life. Heres another rescue boat. Weve seen firefighters out here as well. This looks like Law Enforcement here with this boat. You see this guy pretty much trying to walk it which is something id never suggest because some of these signs are completely covered as well. Look at that. That looks like a boat full of people being rescued. Weve had weve actually heard people yelling for help. Those folks have been able to be rescued. Weve seen people yelling. We actually had a relative, a grandfather and grandmother show up because their grand baby and daughter was underneath the bridge. They got here just in time. They tried to go under the bridge themselves. We advised them not to do that. Somehow we had strangers able to get the 2yearold and childs mother to get to safety. We have a chance to talk to them as well. So you have a lot of good stories coming out of this tragedy, but you also have a large number of people who are unaccounted for. As far as the eye can see, guys, you can see this street here which is 517, those who are familiar with dickinson here, 517 as far as it goes back, it just looks like a river, almost like a lake here just building, trying to peek out at the top. Again, we are keeping our eye on the situation. We have Television Crews trying to get the best shots, but also in the area and the line of danger as well. So youve also got to think about your own safety while covering this story and trying to bring the information to you. As soon as we get more information, well give it to you guys. Reporter Demarco Morgan in dickinson, texas. Incredible images out of that community. Lets turn to another area in texas, bellaire, texas, where our jamie y ucas is standing by. Its coming down at an inch an hour. They have gotten 15 inches. Theyre expecting another 10 inches of rain today and could max out at 50 inches, and that wont happen, were told, till wednesday. You can see where im standing now. Im on an elevated sidewalk in a business area. I want to walk towards the roadway. In a few minutes, you will see what im talking about as to how high the water is. As im walking off the sidewalk up into the street, its up to my knees. If my photographer scott can pan over, we have a rescue humvee coming through asking people on the roadway if they need help. You can see the rescue crews are going up and down the streets. Its like a river. The water goes above my knee. They have been going up and down the signed streets off the freeway to see if people need help. Thats because weve seen a number of people walking down the street. My producer said the water got up to her chest at some parts on here. The car tried to come off the freeway. It came down, things got very hairy. Tried to jump the curve. Talked to the driver. Hit the metal spike in the middle. Didnt see it because it was under water at the time. They are now stuck. We have been told they can wait a very long time for crews to come get them. Weve seen so many cars try to get through these flooded side streets because its so hard to get through this area right now and the biggest problem is, i dont know if you can pan over for just a minute scott, but the freeway, you dont see cars driving on there now, right, because there are so many spots on 610 shut down because the water is simply too high. 610 you may have heard of that because its a beltway around the city city. Theres a large circular area where people are trying to get around the city of houston. So many places are underwater, theyre having to tell people to turn around. It took some of us two hours to get here where it would normally take 15, 20 minutes because we had to keep turning around, finding a side street, finding something that wasnt flooded to try to get to this spot and thats what a number of people are encountering. Right here were in a business area and there are homes and businesses in this particular area, a mall further down from the neighborhood. About two hundred tomes and businesses dont have power. A lot of people working last night had to shelter in place because as rine started falling, it came so quickly they couldnt get out of their locations and had to sleep overnight and a number of these businesses were parked at a gas station that still has gas in the area and people are driving in here just to try to fuel up and see where they can get to. Of course, the warning is to stay put, you can see how fast the water is rising. An inch an hour falling right now in terms of rainfall, and its not going to quit meteorologist gists say till possibly wednesday. Quijano we see the deluge there as the water continues to pour town. Youre 10 miles southwest of houston. Lets go to houston itself where Mark Strassmann has been covering the aftermath, the continuing crisis situation in houston where nearly every major road is closed because of the flooding. Mark, tell us what youre seeing there. Reporter elaine, a section of i 45, a major highway that runs through downtown houston. We have flash flooding here. The roads are impassable. To the left, you will see a line of semis and cars waiting because they know better than to try to go through this water. They dont like it, theyre impatient and like everyone else they want to get to where theyre going. Theyre doing the right thing. This is what happens when you do the wrong thing. About 40 yards from where i am, a little debris left. We have video to show you. At this spot, underneath the water is a pickup truck. A driver in this white pickup truck decided he wanted to barrel through the water and get across to the other side. You can guess what happened next. Right away a lot of trouble. People said get out of the truck and finally people shouting, con convincing him to get out of the truck. Even then he kept trying to go back to the truck probably to try to salvage something that was inside that he thought h needed. Lets face it, this isnt worth it no matter what. At that point youve made a mistake, lost the truck, let it go, save your life, not the truck. Finally, he swam away and last time i saw him about 15 minutes ago, he was using an umbrella to hook his debris out of the water and trying to salvage whatever he could. That is clearly the wrong way to go about this. There are a number of people in the city who have been greatly inconvenienced and even scared and threatened by this water. One measure of how a life has changed here is there is an enormous backlog of phone calls to the 911 emergency centers. The message from officials, if youre in a neighborhood with a couple of inches of water, it takes more than that to get emergency people to save you. It is one measure of how life has changed that, like these waters, the standard for what constitutes an emergency keeps rising in this city. Also for folks who have no other place to go, the city just opened up the george r. Brown Convention Center in downtown houston, so the site of the 1988 Republican National convention is now housing of last resort for flood victims who have no other place to go. Again, the message is stay inside, find high ground and stay if you can. If it really is an emergency, they have a shelter downtown but its going to be very difficult for many folks to get into downtown because so many roads like this are impassable and they wont be able to get there. Elaine. Quijano the video of the pickup is dramatic and a reminder of how dangers these areas can be. I wonder, mark, have you had a chance to talk to some of those folks who are in those vehicles just behind you or folks who are attempting to make their way on the roads. What is their plan . Where is it they intend to go . There was another white pickup truck elaine and the guy came out of the truck, said how deep is it . They were going to make the same mistake the guy in the video you saw just made. I said that water is 10, 12 feet deal. He said, really . I said, there is a pickup underwater you cant see. That convinced him to head back the other way. There really is no excuse at this point for any of these cars to go through here. If anybody saw the video, not a mistake theyd want to make. That guy is lucky to be alive. A truck started to sink and a man started to climb back into his truck to salvage something he really wanted. He wanted people to understand life has changed in houston and will continue to change for the next three or four days. This isnt going to get better till mid week, this is going to get worse. Mark strassmann in the city of houston that continues to be under the threat of catastrophic flooding. Mark, thank you. The Coastal Community of rockport was one of several to take a direct hit from harvey friday night. David begnaud shows us the devastation. Reporter rockport took it on the nose, a direct hit to this Coastal Community of roughly 10,000 people. Youve gotten one home that has fallen into the water, boats started to sink, people who wanted to ride out the storm on their boat, one man got wise before the storm made landfall and got out. The eye of the hurricane was 10 miles wide at one point. So the people who were here say they got three hours of what seemed like a living hell. Then an hour of a lull, and then three more hours of rocking and rolling. In the historic part of town, buildings flattened. One death reported but not actually in the town of rockport. Behind me is the marina with boats. Behind me an apartment complex thats flat. Its like somebody swatted the town and did damage everywhere. There hasnt been such rain in the last few hours, and thats a relief. Rockport is on the gulf. Right now there is very little cell reception in rockport, and there is no fuel. Trying to get in is nearly impossible and trying to get out is equally tough. Police officers are trying to go door to door making sure nobody are left behind. The same officers doing door to door surveys are riding around in vehicles with windows busted out because just about every patrol car in town was damaged by the hurricane that made a direct hit on this gulf of of coast town. Reporter bringing in scott padgett, chief meteorologist in our station in dallasfort worth. What is the latest . Max winds of 40 miles per hour. Thats latest update from the National Hurricane center. Look at this forward movement, southsoutheast at 2 miles per hour, meandering all morning long and will continue to do so as you take a look over the last 12 hours. Just seeing it meander over 3 miles but the feeder bands have been staying over houston as weve gone through the morning even last night and looking through the last four hours continue to see more feeder bands pushing over houston, dropping a tremendous amount of rain and seeing southwest sides of louisiana seeing a lot of the flooding rain. The other threat, tornadoes. Look at the Tornado Warnings for Harris County, including the houston area, until about 11 15 central time. The concern is as meteorologists, we tell you to get to the lowest level of your home when you have a Tornado Warning. A lot cant do that because its flooding out. If thats whats happening if youre in the Tornado Warning area, the lowest level, get in a bathroobathroom or abinterior hl weavment flooding and tornado concerns in the morning and afternoon. Estimated 48hour rainfall, you can see as much as 20 to 24 inches of rain including the houston area down to near gavels. So were adding to the totals. You can see forest oaks 22 inches, South Houston 21 inches, friends wood about 22 inches, near clear creek about 19 inches and were not done as we go through today, tomorrow, even as we go through probably the mid week, were going to add an additional potential of 22 inches of rain in houston to near 15 of gavels as harvey will slowly drift to the north. You saw the latest track. Take a look, what has changed with harvey is right now the National HurricaneCenter Remains as a Tropical Storm sunday, tonight and then possibly out in the open water, if that happens, i wouldnt be surprised to see strengthening, but the latest package keeps harvey at a Tropical Storm at least till tuesday and then center of circulation to the north and northeast texas as a tropical depression. It will continue to rain in the next two to three days adding to the flooding concerns. Elaine . Scott padgett, chief meteorologist at our station in dallasfort worth. Omar villafranca, we see the floding is as apparent there as with mark. Absolutely, i lane and christine. Were outside the river oaks area, and there are multimilliondollar homes inside of that neighborhood and right now they are starting to see a lot of water on their streets. I talked to run resident who said this remind