This. Reporter water swallowing entire neighborhoods forcing its way into homes. It was more than we can imagine. Reporter and more than many can bear. Rescue people came and took us. Reporter some areas have already taken on more than 20 inches of rain and before it is over that number could double. This is a landmark event. We have not seen an event like this. Reporter every member of the Texas National guard has been deployed joined by state and local law enforcement, federal agents and a volunteer navy scrambling to pull thousands to higher ground. We are still involved in the search and rescue process. Reporter using every available asset, coast guard choppers, boats, flat bed trucks. Five feet in our house. We barely made it out. Im just so grateful that they came. Reporter and the effort is far from over. Its still a very dangerous situation out there. Were expecting more rain. Reporter rescue teams like the nations fourth largest city stretched to their limits but still delivering survivors to safety and shelter giving literally everything they can. And everything is exactly what they need right now. Something they need for quite sometime. Rain is expected to continue for at least two more days and then the difficult recovery begins here. Back to you. Jay gray live in houston. You saw the rain falling there in the live shot. Here is a live look at the radar. As harvey continues to hover over houston, texas and the surrounding areas the rainfall from this storm expected to get worse before it improves. Glenn hurricane schwartz is monitoring the storms movement or lack thereof. And what movement we do see is in the wrong direction, back out into the open warm waters of the gulf of mexico and it is restrengthening a little bit. You can see the bands of moisture coming in from the gulf of mexico. Look at this all the way down in the central gulf. This is a huge storm. The bands 400 miles away in new orleans. That is from the hurricane. You can see the swirl down here. Thats the real center, but the Hurricane Centers latest forecast has it much closer to the coast. So if they saw this last picture they would have adjusted it down here. This is the way it has been coming. Now it is going to go back up towards houston as if they dont have enough problems because they get wave after wave of rain. Up to 45 Miles Per Hour winds. This is the track over the last several days. And its going to continue to move towards the northeast very slowly track just to the east of houston and that is by tomorrow afternoon. That continues to move up towards the northeast. We need it to move faster. The faster it moves the quicker the rain breaks up and they can get in and start doing more rescues because the heavy rain prevents all of that. We will talk more about a system off the east coast that will protect us tomorrow. Waiting for word. The visiting nurse said she had no idea when she will be able to return home. All new at 5 00, Deanna Durante trying to get her some answers. I woke up to text messages. There have been tornadoes. Are you okay. Where are you . Reporter she didnt know it but she and her mom are nearly 1,300 miles away they were taking a quick trip to celebrate her grandmothers birthday. I had no idea we would not be able to get back. Reporter they flew to philadelphia to celebrate. Since then getting information on what is happening back home has been tough. We could see additional flash flood warnings. Reporter spotty internet, no cable and difficult to reach friends. They knew of the weekend tornadoes and thought the worst was over and then today news of mandatory evacuation. We live reporter we went through dozens of social media postings. The news not great. Tornadoes have already ripped apart are now in dangerous flood prone areas. Its still raining. Look at the rain coming down. Reporter carol was there in 2001 when Tropical Storm allison slammed the gulf coast. That storm was called a once in a 500year flood. Today harvey is being referred to as the one in 1,000year flood. It has never been this bad. Reporter they are counting their blessings and are here with family safe out of the storms path but want to know what is happening at home and have no idea when they will be able to get back there. Nbc 10 will host a Hurricane Relief drive this thursday from 5 00 a. M. To 6 p. M. You will be able to call, text and log on to our website to donate money to aid the people impacted. Nbc 10 will provide updates on tv, online and on social networks. Coverage of the impact of Tropical Storm harvey and how you can help the storms victims. Tap the nbc 10 app or head to nbc10. Com. As we monitor the impacts of harvey in texas we are keeping an eye on a storm that will hit our region tomorrow. Take a live look at cape may where it is a cool and calm evening there. Nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist tammie souza is tracking this other storm. Could mean high surf, perhaps periods of heavy rain. And we will also be looking for gusty winds. This is not harvey. I dont want anybody getting excited about that. What we have here is we have a system poorly organized. We didnt get the update that we thought we would get this hour. Later on this evening it will become irma. It is mainly a rain producer, a huge inconvenience for everybody. At this point we are looking at it basically having 40 Miles Per Hour winds. It has winds. There is some discussion. Is this extra tropical . What is it . They havent firmly come up with kicking it off as a named system. Its going to be moving on up the shore past charleston dumping heavy rain up past wilmington. As it approached southern delaware we will see some periods of heavy rain tomorrow evening. Then it veers out to sea. It looks like the track heads away from shore leaving us dry by the time we head into wednesday. Then we start to focus on what could be some of the remnant clouds and rain showers from harvey as they are upward across the Center Portion of the nation. Lets take this hour by hour and break it down. This is what is going to happen. We have on shore flow. That means we are going to be seeing very chilly winds tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow only in the 60s. You will need to break out a jacket. Very different from what we have seen. Well start with the cloud cover and that will continue tonight. Here comes the first of the rain showers early tomorrow morning. Heaviest rain is from delaware extended out along the jersey shore. The latest forecast models are taking it out to sea a little sooner. Last hour they really put a bulls eye over parts of southern delaware up to dover. The digg news is maybe we dodged a huge bullet. The forecast models want to put a pretty good amount of rain in parts of delaware. And anywhere from an inch and a half to two inches along the jersey shore. Back to you. So you stay informed sign up for free alerts. Just tap the nbc 10 app. Turning to other news police in new jersey are being forced to cover neighborhoods without more than half Police Cruisers because vandals slashed more than 52 tires early sunday morning. This is the latest photo released by police. They believe this guy here shortly after the crime is behind all the damage. Work continued around the clock at nearby Auto Repair Shop trying to get nine cruisers back in service. 13 cars were targeted in all including the fire marshalls suv. Got the call at 9 30 in the morning. I couldnt go back to sleep for a couple of hours. It just makes you sick to your stomach that somebody would do that and have the guts to do that in a Police Station parking lot. We are told all Police Cruisers should be back in service by tomorrow afternoon. Coming up at 6 00 taking a look at how the damage is impacting safety. Grenade launchers, bayonets and Armored Vehicles, just a few weapons officers will have access to. President trump signed an executive order allowing the Defense Department to turn over military weapons to local Police Departments. That reverses limitations put in place by former president obama. Nbc 10 investigator will have more on the story coming up in our next half hour. An Alarming Number of sexual and physical abuse cases against nursing home patients are never reported. After sampling cases in 33 states the investigation found that more than one in four cases were never reported to police. Investigators say medicare needs to take corrective action right away. A philadelphia man is facing dui charges after he was arrested. He was taken into custody early saturday. Police say he hit several vehicles. No injuries were reported. This is video of the fire sent to us. You can see flames coming from the roof of the building. Investigators say the fire started around 11 00 last night in a vacant home. One woman living next door had to be rescued along with her cat. Still ahead, computer concerns from one viewer led her to contact harry. One thing she failed to do before getting her computer fixed that could have saved her some money. Back to school for some students. The reason dozens of dads showed up to take their kids to class this morning. Helping storm survivors. We speak live with a woman in houston who is aiding people who lost their homes during hurricane harvey. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com this is nbc 10 news. A live picture from texas where the rain continues to fall as disaster of historic proportion unfolds. Hurricane harvey came ashore here friday. Some 50 inches could fall on texas before it is all over there. You are seeing a live interview. Houstons mayor says the city is working to open another shelter. A Downtown Convention center serving as shelter is already more than half way to its 5,000 person capacity. Houston officials are preparing to evacuate one of the busiest trauma centers. This afternoon Texas Governor praised the federal governments response to harvey. Right now i am joined by a resident of houston who has been volunteering her time at the Convention Center helping people who are displaced by the storm. Thank you for talking to us. I know you live in the downtown area that has become an island. What is the scene like where you live near your apartment . Reporter we dont have power right now and so my fiance and i have decided what better way to waste our time, if you will, than to volunteer at the Convention Center and help those in need and pass out snacks or pass out blankets or donate clothing for them. And i know people there do not consider it a waste of time. I know they have to be so grateful for what you are doing. What is the attitude like for people in the shelters not knowing how their friends are doing, how their homes are fairing, how badly the flooding is where they live . Its a little chaotic right now. Some are in good spirits and some are a little scared as is expected. There are a lot of people here that are helping them and making sure that they are doing all right and fire and Police Personnel that are making sure that they are warm and they are getting the correct medical care that they need. So its a little bit of bittersweet overhere. Absolutely. Our thoughts and prayers are with all people there in the Convention Center and shelters elsewhere as we know much more rain is expected still. Thank you for joining us on the phone. Have a great evening. So good to see people helping people. Survivors of harvey are giving us a firsthand look of what they are dealing with in their communities on social media. We found pictures and videos. This is i believe dickenson, texas. Looks like a main street here. It is full of water. The water coming up to the sign there into the street lights just inundated by flood waters. Lets take you to some video here on the northeast side of houston. This is the coast guard helicopter. Imagine in your neighborhood you are waiting to be rescued and see this helicopter what a great feeling to have them snatch you off the roof. Many people are being told to go to the roof tops and not stay in attics because authorities wont know you are inside that house. This is just a major downtown part of houston. I used to live there. You see here is a boat in the middle of your screen on what would be part of that parkway. Just devastating images from houston, texas. For the latest on the track of harvey and another storm headed our way tomorrow lets head over to nbc 10 chief meteorologist tammie souza. It is bad enough when you have a storm parked along the shore line. It is another thing if it makes another run at you. Certainly this wont be as bad as the first one. 45 Miles Per Hour winds and expected to stay about that intensity. It comes offshore and loops around and then makes another path at galveston which will kick plenty of rain before this whole thing finally is able to break away and we get something that will kick it out of there and makes a run then at the ohio valley, midwest. We may see clouds and remnants from this. That is not going to be for a couple more days. Lets break down what is going to happen here at home. We talked so much about harvey. We have that system off the carolina coast that could be named irma. We are going to be watching the temperatures fall. We will end up with on shore flow. It will be quite chilly tomorrow. A lot of the area will remain in the 60s. We will see what could become irma. Tropical rain musk up and could be pockets of heavy rain for all of you. Look at the numbers. Just raw. Just going to be raw all the way into wednesday. We get back into the 70s and back to the 80s by the time we get to thursday and then we look at we might see a little bit of cloud cover and a few sprinkles from harvey making their way. Right now it is 72 out there at cape may. Winds out of the east at 13 Miles Per Hour. Feels like 72. It isnt too chilly. In philadelphia at 73 and we have an east wind to 11 Miles Per Hour. Neither of these will be warm winds. It will be raw for tomorrow. Tomorrow 69 in fair mont. A chance of showers. Easton 69 with shower activity. Lets go to 69. Wildwood 74. Warmer along the jersey shore. You may see the heaviest rain in delaware and the jersey shore. Dover at 71. Lets check out the next ten days because im sure like me most of you have plans for the holiday weekend. 69 tomorrow. That wild, windy blustery day and then 78 on wednesday. We start to get our sunshine back. We could see extra clouds on thursday. 76 on friday. The best chance of seeing leftover rain may be from harvey. Might be showers on saturday and sunday. At this point we are just not going to touch your holiday weekend. We will revisit all of this with the latest forecast models as we head through the evening hours tonight. Could Police Officers start using Armored Vehicles and high caliber weapons to keep you safe . President trump lifted a military gear ban for police. What the change means for you and your safety. This is nbc 10 news. If you play new jerseys lottery check your numbers. Someone won last nights 360,000 jackpot. The ticket was purchased at the 711. That store gets 2,000 for selling the winning ticket. Uber is teaming up with the university of pennsylvania in a new Ride Sharing Program on campus. Now through sunday ten students, faculty and staff can use uber pool for 99 cents. All trips have to begin and end on campus. The University Offers free bus and shuttle services. The school says this is about improving Transportation Options on campus. Get ready for a traffic headache starting today the northbound lanes are closed between walnut and chestnut streets for the next two years. Drivers and pedestrians will be detoured. If you drive near 30th street station often you need to give yourself extra time. Crews are repairing bridges over the expressway. Women from across the area got a chance to play ball with the phillies today from the batting cages to bullpens. A firsthand look at what it is like to work and play for professional sports teams. All part of luncheon for women. Highlights included interactive sessions with the coaches and surprise meet and greet with some of the players there. Thats a lot of fun. A price hike at Liquor Stores across the state. Its the first increase in nearly 25 years. Why now . Images out of texas are tough to see. We hope that kind of flooding doesnt happen in our area. Im with delaware firefighters preparing as if it is going to happen. And later an nbc 10 exclusive. A south jersey toddler killed and his father enters a guilty plea. Tonight the father says he is not a murderer. Only we get to hear his side soft story from the attorney who defended him all new at 6 00. Nbc 10 breaking news. Harvey takes a tol on the nations fourth largest city. Record flood waters have inundated homes, bridges and cars. Crews have rescued thousands and it is only going to get worse. At least seven people have died. The flood watervise swallowed entire neighborhoods. 450,000 people are expected to seek federal aid. Every member of the Texas National guard has been deployed. It is a race against the clock to pull thousands of people to higher ground. Five feet in our house. We barely made it out. Im just so grateful that they came. Authorities estimate about 30,000 people will need to be put up in shelters. What if we received flooding of this magnitude here. Tim furlong shows us how they get ready for the worst. Reporter on the river firefighters learning and improving water rescue skills. Brothers and sisters along the gulf coast are using right now. Manpower in texas you need a lot of equipment a