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WPVI Good Morning America August 29, 2017

Doors of his houston megachurch. What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now. Roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. So many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right. The Texas National guard sharing this rescue video overnight saving people from the flood zone live streeping as they went door to door. The coast guard so far has carried out at least 3700 rescues by both boat and air and as weve said those rescues are still continuing at this hour. Fema is estimating as many as 450,000 disaster victims could seek help and there are at least seven known deaths right now connected to this storm in that number almost certain to climb. We have Team Coverage from texas, louisiana in the storm zone. Tom llamas starts us off. Good morning, ctures from overn heartbreaking. People and families being loaded into front end loaders and to those dump trucks inunding rain to the Convention Center. This is where theyre processed. You can see the Houston Police department is out here in fullh and right here this is what they call home, the problem, though, the red cross had planned for 5,000 people. Thats how man now they have somewhere around 9,000. So just behind me were not going to zoom in to give people their privacy but where you see the police tape there, there are people now sleeping on thes no. It is far from perfect but it is dry, it is warm and more importantly its out of the danger zone. This morning, with the death toll rising conditions growing more desperate as the search for survivors continues on the ground and in the air. The entire texas guard activated. Now going door to door during the night. In the air, the coast guard rescuing more than 450 people including this family of five wading through the murky waters. We are just beginning the process of responding to the storm. We are still involved in the search and rescue process. Reporter officials now releasing millions of gallons from theaddicks reservoir but that inundating neighborhoods forcing thousands more interest their home. We had to leave stomach people behind which is really tough in these situations. Reporter overnight so many scrambling to safety. Packing into buses, even dump trucks. This convoy of desperation taking people away from their flooded out homes to places like this. We never experienced anything like this. Reporter the Convention Center in downtown houston, its the largest Shelter Housing victims of Hurricane Harvey. The red cross had planned for 5,000 people. Each one getting a cot to sleep in. But now there are more than 8,000 and that number is growing. The red cross insists they can house more but some may have to sleep on the floor. Weve been out there. Its really bad. Do you think youre going to get to a point where theres not enough space for everyone. Were not going to turn people away. If it has to be someplace where we sit in chairs for a little while instead, at least well put a roof over peoples head and get them safe. Shelters across the houston area dozens of them are filling up. Families coming in waterlogged, hungry and still in shock. The water that i saw, it was so frightening. Ive never seen that much water before. Heartbreaking. Reporter but some need more than just a shelter. Her temperature was under 90. Yeah, so we are the baby . Your babys temperature is what . Under 90. Its under 90 degrees. Reporter the floods took northeast houston resident jeriks williams home fighting to make sure it doesnt take her family. It hurts to see my baby like this and my cousins and not being able to help them. Reporter its so heartbreaking. We offered to help them and take them to a hospital but says she would be okay. They were going to a hotel and a warm room and, george, that is not an isolated case. There are several families here. There are a lot of babies here in the Convention Center but the red cross is adamant, they are not going to deny anyone. They do need a lot of things, volunteers, nurses, social workers and donations and told us yesterday this is becoming very, very expensive. George. All through the broadcast we will share ways you can help back at home. Want to go to ginger zee. Ginger, youve been sounding the alarm bells on this storm from the very start. What can we expect next . Ah, george, the longest named storm to torture texas now in history. And were looking at more than 43 inches. Thats the latest number thats come in from South Houston itself. Many places reported 20 to 40 inches of rain and its still raining so heres what we can expect. Houston, you will still see rain for the next couple of hours, moderate to even heavy at times on that outside band. The storm itself is back in the gulf. But the flash flood warnings and watches stretch all the way to mobile. Through biloxi and new orleans and, remember, the outer bands is what did the most damage, the most rain, they have moved into eastern louisiana this morning. I want to take you through the path because this is important to see. Its out in the gulf but, of course, the rain shield is on the north side. By wednesday morning its still there. By wednesday afternoon, aim, it looks like it makes another landfall, goes north and by friday we can finally see this thing start to die out. In the meantime, we will still pick up a significant amount of rainfall which i will detail in just a couple of moments. All right, ginger. With that unrelenting storm, the most vulnerable are at risk this morning. Several texas hospitals and medical centers are struggling with the massive logistical challenge of evacuating their patients while also facing a supply shortage. Abcs Victor Oquendo was live outside ben taub hospital in houston and, victor, tell us what youre learning there this morning. Reporter good morning, amy. This hospital is one of two Trauma One Centers in the houston area. The situation here was dire. So far theyve moved out six critical patients and theyre still working on moving out 60 more patients. Hospitals across houston trapped by flooding facing Power Outages and rapidly dwindling supplies racing to evacuate. Here at ben taub, floodwater and sewage overwhelming the hospitals basement, affecting much needed food and medicine. The situation happening at ben taub right now, for example, where theyre apparently running out of food at one point there and there was also some flooding concerns, what can Something Like that do to a hospital. If you start to run out of supplies and cant feed people thats a big problem. Reporter while the hospital struggled neighbors turning to each other for help. This dramatic moment from ktrk shows one of their reporters trying to help a woman deliver her baby in northeast houston. The pregnant woman received help and was taken to a hospital. Another incredible story of new life at this inundated apartment complex. Neighbors forming a human chain to help a woman in labor through the rising waters. There were at least 15 people in our apartment at one point. All trying to help and lend a hand and bringing supplies and making phone calls and it was remarkable. Reporter and this picture of an elderly stroke victim be floodwaters up to her mattress before being rescued. What can they do if theyre just standing in dirty water. The water is filthy. It contains sewage. It contains runoff from who knows what. You need to get out of the water as quickly as possible. Reporter the flooding here in the basement of ben taub had a major impact affecting the pharmacy, food and supplies. Word this morning theyve been able to restock food and linens, amy for right now they say theyre stable. For right now, Victor Oquendo, thank you. Lets go to abc senior medical contributor dr. Jennifer ashton live at the er at Resolute Health, a hospital in new braunfels, texas where victims are now being taken for medical attention the tell us what youre seeing there. So, amy, this here at Resolute Health is part of an outlying area of hospitals that have received over 700 patients from the flood zone. They are on medical standby. Theyre able and ready to receive more patients. They are running a militarystyle medical operation here. Now its just a matter of getting the Health Care Providers and doctors and nurses to these patients. Yesterday unprecedented, the Texas Governor enacted provisions to allow out of state medical professionals to get emergency medical privileges here in texas. I completed that paperwork yesterday. We are going to try to get in to rescue and help people again today. Yesterday it was unsafe. Im bringing a pretty extensive medical kit including some basic dressings, some antibiotics and, you guys, shoelaces in case i need to tie off an umbilical cord after doing a delivery. Were prepared for anything. So flat you are there to help. We hope the logistics get easier and you get to where you need to be. Well find out more from the houston fire chief, samuel pena. Chief pena, thanks for joining us. Just try to give us a sense of what youre dealing with. Well, good morning. Thank you for having me here. Well, i can tell you that the that the first responders, police, fire as well as Municipal Workers and community in general are dealing with some devastating loss and property loss and at times some loss of life. But were continuing the efforts to address the demand for service and rescues. As of midnight tonight, or last night, weve run close to 700 calls for service. Yesterday in a 24hour period we ran over 3500 calls for service. The majority of those were waterrelated. Over 2,000 of those were waterrelated incidents so its been a very active and dynamic incident and but were continuing to push on. Chief, i know this is changing all the time but as of yesterday you had about a thousand people waiting to be rescued. Where does that backlog stand right now . Yes, were still about a thousand because as we clear those incidents that are pending that are in queue, additional calls keep coming in. You know, we keep getting wave after wave after wave of rain and so thats not, you know, its not calming the situation. And so as we address those calls that are in the queue, we keep getting additional calls so but were working again. We have Additional Resources here on scene from the texas task force. We also have fema, usar teams on scene and we have teams from across the nation are that here to assist and more importantly they bring equipment, high Water Equipment which is critical right at this point. There are some areas that are impassable and thats one of the items and one of the things we have to deal with here moving forward is the not having access to certain parts of town right now because the roads are impassable. Chief, i know youve been going around the clock. Thank you very much for your service and time this morning. A thousand people waiting still to be rescued in yes, sir. The flooding catastrophe unfortunately is not limited to texas. Overnight the race to evacuate louisiana, preparations under way this morning for more torrential downpours there and the flooding that could come with it sparking a new round of fears for residents this on 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina slamming into new orleans and Steve Osunsami is in lake charles, louisiana, with more on all of that. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, amy. Because of that anniversary, people are their hearts are beating a little faster this morning. We are live right now outside of an Evacuation Center where about a dozen families have just been moved in and i want you to take a look at this. It is surrounded by water. Theres a ditch here that has several feet of water. This is the Evacuation Center right here where people are sleeping and hopefully getting refuge from the rain. We had to pass through water to get here. There are overpass ramps that are covered in water. We had to circle around, streets that were washed out. You cant see the roads. Its very dangerous driving at night in this condition and theyre going to be dealing with this for some time as the rain continues to fall. Were expecting up to 10 inches in some parts of louisiana, amy. Steve, in new orleans, i understand theyre already closing schools and government buildings. Reporter yes, theyre already closing schools and one of the things that has people hot, hot, hot, hot here is the fact that in new orleans after all of this time, after everything that they learned from katrina, there are still 14 pumps that keep the city dry that are not working. Thats an issue that theyll be to be dealing with for some time now told the repairs on those pumps are ongoing. Incredible concerns there, all right, Steve Osunsami, thank you. That is surprising. Federal Disaster Assistance is flowing to the region. 20 helicopters and 21 rescue boats from the coast guard, customs and Border Patrol adding another 50 boat, two plain, 6 helicopters. President trump will head to the storm zone with the first lady and our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega is on the scene in rockport. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, george, good morning to you. The president and first lady will land here in the Corpus Christi area in a matter of hours and will see for themselves the devastation like this, this right here behind me was a drawn grow mat. The wall is completely blown out. The optics are very important. This is this president s first major natural disaster. They dont want to look like hes headed here in hampering the Recovery Efforts that are still going on. So thats why hes coming to this area, not going to those floodwaters in houston that weve all been watching. He what happenses to see for himself, though, whats happening here on the ground. At the white house yesterday, it was a real tone, a message of unity for this president. Here in texas today he will be on the ground, george, only for a few hours but does say he is coming back to texas this weekend and that he will also head to louisiana, george. His focus yesterday as you said at the top of that press conference was on the hurricane and its aftermath but covered a lot of other ground on russia, on the north American Free trade agreement. On the border wall and controversial pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio in arizona. Reporter that pardon that came, youll remember, late on friday night as that hurricane was barreling toward texas, the president said that he did it at that time, basically to draw attention because he knew the ratings on friday night would be high, george. He says he knew people would be watching tv because of the storm coverage. Okay, cecilia vega, thanks very much. Amy. We turn now to that latest provocative Missile Launch by north korea, the Ballistic Missile flying right over japan. The japanese government taking this very seriously, warning people to take cover. Chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz has much more on this from washington. Martha, good morning. Reporter good morning, amy. This was not only a provocative Missile Launch by north korea, it was very frightening for japanese citizens, they heard blaring sirens and got text alerts on their phones at dawn telling them to shelter in sturd di buildings or underground because the government was so concerned about the possibility of an imminent attack and while we have seen kim jongun gleefully launching missiles into the sea of japan, this tim Korean Leader has launched a missile over japan traveling over the northern japanese island of hokkaido. In response, south korean fighter jets staged a live bombing drill. They also released video of their own missile test, which was conducted last week. Now, japans Prime Minister shinzo abe spoke by phone to President Trump, both agreed the u. S. And japan must increase pressure on north korea, amy. All right, Martha Raddatz in washington. Thank you. Remember george even after the rain stops the threat is not over. Theyre releasing double their rate that they would have in the past. And you can just see that water flowing out. Unfortunately rivers, bayous creeks can take not just days but the rivers can take weeks and weve got at least 50 plus gauges that go into louisiana that are now at major or higher flood stage. Tuesday trivia brought to you by mazda. As expected we have rain pushing up from the south and it is starting to get into philadelphia basically light around the city, a little steadier rain down south. As we take a look outside gray skies across the region and in center city a couple of raindrops on the camera lens. As we take a look at your exclusive accuweather 7day were going from temperatures in the 60s to a high of just 70. Numbers really arent going to change all that much and its going to be cloudy with in

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