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You have there, you're right in the middle of a rescue? >> reporter: that's right, they just brought an elderly couple out, are you all right, sir? sorry about this, we got to narrate while he help these guys out here. this is the lakeside forest section of houston. if you take a look at the water, this is chest high in some areas, but it's waist high here. this is a situation where there's been late rising waters. can you slide over there? there you go, all right, so they're just bringing an elderly couple out of this house, we have been with this airboat operator, melba and his partner joe. ...

Being deployed along the 600 nien -- 690 marines to east. we're talking about beaumont and port arthur hit be more than two feet of rain. martin savidge has been out and airborne over east texas throughout the day today. he's been capturing remarkable images. you just got off that chopper and came back from a rescue mission. talk about what you saw out there today. >> reporter: it was a four-hour flight flying the seahawks to blackhawk. the water is incredible. and the desperate need of people is equally as striking as well. for three 1/2/four hours i watched as the search and rescue team woul...

Because they couldn't go that way and not that way. keep that in mind. you can't get down. it looks like this and they have these big massive trucks so you guys have kids. just -- i would say stay put, honestly. >> do you know if -- a shelter? i'm going to look that up here in a bit. but if you could just hold on tight for a little bit. >> i don't know what shelters are around or anything. >> all of them are flooded. >> nobody has put out information what shelters there are. we have one at live foot but i haven't had contact with any of them. >> thank you so much for sharing your story. >> rep...

Hot lines and no one answered. so we came. >> reporter: what was going through were mind. it's chest high? >> yes, it's chest high and freezing and snakes were on our mind! no. i don't know. adrenaline was pumping so it wasn't really anything. we are getting a workout. our calves were burning. >> people still in their mohammed homes in your neighborhood? >> people chilling out in the truck beds and everything. no one really left. >> the water walking through it rough to walk through. the current was okay? >> there was only one current over there but it's not that strong. it didn't take us -- p...