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Critical as emergency responders are overwhelmed with calls for water rescues. more than a thousand rescues happening there thus far. houston police evacuated two apartment complexes and rescued more than 50 children in one area alone. residents are being told to shelter in place and stay off the roads. let's bring in bill bedly from the houston office of emergency management. such a busy sunday morning for you, bill. walk us through the magnitude of this. how many people are we talking about who are still waiting to be rescued? >> alex, as you know since the midnight between houston fire depa...

Was devastated. then you have many, many apartment complexes, hotels. i could go on and on. but you get the sense what you see here is magnified a hundred maybe a thousand times over. it is such a huge area that has been devastated. not rain. this is the wind damage. this is the city basically saying if you're here, get out because you really can't exist it here. there's just no water, no electricity. there's basically no modern life. they are working now to try to get electricity to the sewage plant. if they can do that, at least people would have drinkable water. the other thing people are d...

Of the damage is pretty stiff. we have, you know, a lot of houses and buildings have roofs gone, commercial buildings, some apartment complexes they had total structure failures, two-story buildings were on the ground. you had boats sunk in some of the harbor areas, you have a lot of broken windows, trees uprooted, telephone poles down. it's a major disaster. and some areas i'd call it almost catastrophic in certain parts of the area. widespread damage, it's probably about 50 miles, 50-75 miles wide and about 5-10 miles inland it's major damage just mile after mile after mile. i will tell you ...

Destruction. store fronts caved in by high winds. walls falling off apartment complexes. firefighters battling a blaze in the middle of this while the storm is ragingment take a look at this video. harvey is expected to lee behind $40 billion word of damage. president trump has signed a disaster declaration in texas. todd: we will be with you all morning long. live team coverage all along the coast this morning. first we go to matt finn. every time we go to matt his shots are definitely some of the most dramatic. wind is pounding that general area. matt, we will check back in with you one more...

The next eclipse in 2024. pretty awesome images there. >> no doubt about that, for sure. >> what an interesting and cool moment. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. the weather was pretty zeedecen for the eclipse yesterday. >> we had a few spots. carbondale, illinois, was cloudy, and then in the last second came out for some people. we had a lot of people with the longest totality, and also charleston was iffy. at the last second on the yorktown -- just popped out behind the clouds at the last second. we did have some good moments there. i think one of the bes...