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Attics, this is a big concern and right now in the northern area we're seeing the over topping, it's 108 feet and over topped by a foot. that's why we have a problem of the flooding there. but the pressure's got to be so intense. let me show you a picture can back in 1953. it was all ranchland. so they developed the levies to help protect the flow in the buffalo bayou and for the most part what they've done is try to protect houston but all the rivers flow into this area so you have a build up of water that they have never seen before and you have all of this sprawl. 100 subdivisions have been...

Attics. >> all right. appreciate it. one of the benefits being where we are when we are is we get to see the best moments in an otherwise impossible time. he told us he was worried for his uncle. they called frankie, said they thought they could ride out the storm but the water in this area started rising faster. frankie drove over here. he thought he could drive to their homes, so he asked both crews that are still here and packing up, they'd already stopped for the night. he asked if they could rescue his aunts and uncle. they went out right before we came on air. the boat came back. there t...

Of elderly people, so they actually picked up about probably three or four people before hovering back over my house. and by that time my uncle pulled up in a boat in the front yard so i came off the roof and got in a boat with him. >> so all these people are they up on the roof or in the attics? >> yes, my mother was in the attic, my stepfather was still downstairs getting things ready to leave. i was upstairs on the roof of course. >> and now you're rescuing people? >> yes, sir. really that was my plan before i needed rescue. when i seen people looking in twitter and instagram that needed he...

4:00 this morning. because we grabbed like three pitchers that we had in the icebox, and some lunch meat and bread we had but we ate all that because we were so hungry. that's been hours ago. and i could sure use a meal. >> i can't imagine. do you mind if we share your address, cynthia? i mean, i know you're calling 911. can we share your address live on tv so hopefully somebody's listening and can come find you. where do you live? >> i live at 500 naches avenue in port arthur, texas. >> that's 500 n-e-c-h-e-s, neches avenue, port arthur, texas. have you been able to see if you hang your head ...

Build up behind those dams that they built in the 1940s, to have still what protecting houston from the uncriminontrollable in dags of flood water. and those reservoirs are now famous nationwide because of what's happening in houston with the largest rainfall event in u.s. history. the two reservoirs behind the two dams. today the attics started overflowing this morning. that's the first time it's ever happened. the other one, the barker reservoir, they thought it might start overflowing tomorrow. authorities say they expect that to happen tonight. and everybody has been reporting for the last...