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Effort. Houston police say they have rescued more than 3400 people and counting. The red cross says more than 17,000 evacuees are in shelters across texas. Dallas opening a shelter just within the last couple hours. The predictions that harvey would drop 50 inches on houston are coming true. Homes below reservoirs could be flooded for weeks. It is spreading east. Hundreds of rescues last night in lake charles, louisiana. Today, on the 12th anniversary of hurricane katrina, new orleans is under a flash flood warning. Im going straight to cnns scott mclean in houston who spent the night with flood victims under an overpass. What can you tell us, scott . Reporter pam, we are under a highway overpass right now. This is sort of a staging area for lots of firstry responders and private citizens who showed up. Im get out of the way so my photographer can zoom in and show you what we are looking at here. You can see in the distance, there are house that is are quite far away from the road. Thi ....
Walmart, lowes, and soon to be home depot are doing. There is much to do, and those are just the most immediate steps. Importantly, this is a place that texas and fema will be involved in for a long, long time. We will be here until we can restore this region. As back to normal as possible. For as we discussed in our meeting earlier, we need to recognize it will be a new normal. A new and different normal for this entire region. But we will not stop until we get as far as we can. I want to provide some important details, and then passed the mic to senator cornyn and the national fema administrator. I want to explain a couple of details to the citizens that they need to know about. As governor, i have made a state disaster declaration for 54 counties across the state of texas. In order for a disaster declaration to be made a federal disaster declaration, it requires certain financial thresholds to be met. Those financial thresholds have been met in 18 counties. There are 18 counties in ....
Obliterated. Theres very little they could do to respond to the fires when theyre also dealing with a hurricane. Rising water levels already setting off flooding concerns, and so far at least one person has died, 12 to 14 people are hurt in rockport, more than 300,000 people are now without power. And this is just day one of a very slowmoving storm. It is expected to last at least four days as harvey parks itself right above a large portion of the lone star state. Our primary concern remains dramatic flooding. Our biggest concern is the possibility of between 20 and 30 more inches of rain in areas ranging from Corpus Christi over to houston. All right. Joining me right now with the latest on the path of the storm, meteorologist shawna mendiola. Shawna, with a welcome to you. Lets talk about where this thing sits right now and where you expect it to go. Lets talk about the positioning of the storm because its going very, very slowl ....
Good morning, everyone. John berman here. A new day of rain in houston, a city already pushed beyond the limit. Harvey due to make land fall over the next 24 hours. The nearly unbelievable predictions of 50 inches of rain are now a reality in some places. Look at these pictures from that city in that area. Just inundated. We will hear from the houston mayor in minutes to get the latest update on the situation. Houston area reservoirs are at the brink of overflowing. 9,000 people are inside the Houston Convention center. Statewide, the shelters are at 17,000 and says no one will be turned away. I spoke to Governor Greg Abbott about his best guess of how many people are waiting to be rescued . My estimate is over 1,000. We need more people in boats and vehicles going doortodoor. This is a doortodoor process. The president and first lady now on the way to texas. Our li ....
Disaster for the white house and phil rucker from the washington post. What i saw today was a whole lot of traditional sorts of moves for a white house. Really with the safety and wellbeing of the citizens in the path of a Natural Disaster in mind. I would agree with that, nicolle, with one exception. Predicting the president would travel to texas some time next week, before we have seen the actual path and the scale of this impending Natural Disaster struck me as unusual. You know as well as anyone that even the smallest travel package, the Security Team and staff around a president can be disruptive when there is a local emergency because local police are drawn in. Thats the one thing that i thought was different, but in tom bossert you have in the Homeland Secu ....