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>> as we know, natalie, the rain continues to fall. the floodwaters continue pour in the city in fact there is for the first time ever in about an hour's time, a dual release of reservoirs that are just to the west of houston. the barker and addox reservoirs are meant to help control flooding in downtown houston. they have reached capacity. engineers are telling us in order to prevent major c catastrophic flooding worse than we have experienced in downtown houston they have to release water across the reservoirs. what does that mean for communities around the reservoirs? they have to pay atten...

Amsterdam, rotterdam is real leaders. we're building retention ponds that are good for the environment, that control flooding and make cost effective sense as well for cities. that's just one example. >> real quickly, people are not sold -- not all people are sold on this. science is supposed to be definitive. why is it so hard to get through to people who are skeptics that human activity is causing climate change? >> it's troubling to think that our world is warming, and i think sometimes people feel powerless in the face of that so they don't want to accept that. it's really an overwhelming ...

up the east coast all the way to canada. this is a huge storm, folks. just check out the view from the international space station. we're all over irene, where it is, where it's going. we've got jim spellman riding out the storm in the bahamas. john zarrella is in wrightsville beach, north carolina, and jacqui jeras here in the hurricane headquarters. jim, let's start with you. what's the situation there? >> reporter: good morning. the winds have been blowing like this for hours now. about an hour and a half ago they really picked up a lot. you can see the sea is being blown over the...