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Flood-swollen brassos river. polo, what do you see? >> reporter: all the rain that has fall sben continues to fall has to go somewhere, streams and rivers, including here in richmond, texas, looking over the raging brazos river. this is expected to crest later this afternoon right now. communities along this river, which is only about a 10, 15-minute drive from houston were under a voluntary evacuation yesterday. everything changed when authorities actually checked out the most recent forecast and now forced them to upgrade that to a mandatory evacuation communities along the brazos river as i...

Be dealing with this. we're seeing the folks in the shelters who got rescued, but also the rescues that are ongoing. give us where we are right now. >> yeah, i've had to change it up a little bit. i've been telling everyone we're getting 10 to 20 more inches and the river is still going up and the buffalo bayou we have to watch because of the release from the dams taking place. i wanted to pinpoint other areas still waiting for the tragedy to unfold and people still trying to gather they're belongings in the midst of the disaster. i want to take you into the area of ft. bend county, office of ...

Jacob rascon is in fork bend county, texas, where rescues have been going on. jacob, what can you tell us there? >> reporter: i don't know if you can see this, but you have right now a jet ski from a gentleman. are you from here? >> kind. >> reporter: you're from nearby? and you've come to help people. okay. we've got kayaks, jet skis, big boats, big trucks. and they're all just going back to rescue people and bring them this way. the reason i'm talking on the phone, we have some audio issues. do you see how fast he's going down there? jet skiing down this main road in richmond. so this is in ...