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Aid, and then another year for recovery. i think that's like what we experienced so far with all these natural disasters. and speaking of witnessing, one of our staff actually witnessed the tsunami because she and her child was actually tried to evacuate themselves in a hotel and she saw the water came -- entering the hotel like chest high. and also like houses of our staff were damaged, even torn down. so, yeah, they are actually affected badly. the office has become -- one of the evacuation came almost 100 people there. and the team there already started to provide -- also for children and y...

Major flooding. i'm joined right now by joe fryar. joe, pretty traumatic stuff that you bore witness to, a rescue operation. tell us what you saw? >> yeah, that's right, alex, in the last 24 hours, flooding has become a major issue here. this area where we're in started flooding yesterday. the neighborhood is under water, that car way down there almost entirely submerged. this flooding started yesterday, we wanted to show you video we just took within the last couple hours of a neighborhood that's about 15 minutes from here, this morning, one woman tells us she woke up 6:00 a.m., put her feet ...

Neighbors have also been helping neighbors, asking about their neighbors. one woman was missing so the neighborhood was trying too find her. from the individuals in this house, they say friends are going to be coming hoefr and helping them take all of their soepged stu soaked stuff out of the home. you'll see water lines. people here say that the water was about three or four feet high. the individual from this house, i've been hearing, john, from neighbors here is that he didn't want to leaf until he made sure that other people left. even though the water was about chest high. he was helping ...

Arthur, texas. air rescues are under way. the water out there is still pretty deep. you're in knee deep water, but tamara was saying the water was as high as chest high. that her fiance had to carry her infant son out over his head in the boy's car seat. >> the water just came down so fast and hard, two feet in 24 hours, they had nowhere to go. we talked to some people who said the water was up to their waist yesterday. there is a lot of water still out here. it will be at least another day before a lot of people are able to get back into their homes. right now the rescues that you're talking ...

Very well coordinated response to a very massive disaster. >> eric: going down the line as we look at this. will it cause a re-examination of the flood protection of what went wrong? you've got the gullies and the bayous and still you had this just overwhelming catastrophe. >> i don't think -- we've never seen a hurricane that's hit multiple times feeding in the ocean and returning and hitting again with this massive amount of rain. you are correct, i think we will look at the city of houston and its flood capabilities. i think obviously with a lot of the bayous and levies breaking, i've never...