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Then. haven't had a chance to check. yesterday we were at another shelter in fort bend county at the high school and it was bringing in evacuees from a lot of towns. we were in bay city, texas and that one is -- that town is expecting almost 10 feet of water in its downtown. they had a mandatory evacuation where they asked people to go to these buses at 1:00 and if you didn't get ochb those buses, there was one woman we ran into who was in a desperate state and said she had mistaken the time when the buses were coming and didn't know where to go. luckily somebody she knew while we were doing o...

Got a big people on facebook to get together and help folks less fortunate. >> reporter: got on social media and decided why not. >> right. >> reporter: how many -- what did you bring over here? >> i brought kayaks, tubes, we live in a boating community so there's a lot of ski tubes and stuff like that. we brought all of that and we're trying to do the best we can. >> reporter: ever done something like this before? >> never, never done anything like this before. this is probably the worst thing i've seen. >> reporter: how long have you lived in the houston area? >> i've lived here since ninth ...

We spoke with one man, didn't want to be on camera but said he had just gotten there, felt compelled to help. he brought several kayaks and several of his buddies were helping the rescue effort. we hope to speak with some of those good samaritans shortly. >> we would love that. >> reporter: too really tell the story of how people feel compelled to help. they don't even live in this neighborhood. several miles -- >> beauty of it. gabe, here's what we're going to do. i'm going to keep your shot up while you go and talk to some folks. i'm going to have a conversation with another gentleman who is...

To houston, because you're going to be caught, and i guarantee you when you take advantage, including our own criminal element here, you take advantage of people and prey on them, under these circumstances, that's despicable behavior, and we're all going to push hard to make sure you don't see the sunlight anytime soon. so we have got armed robbers last night, middle of the night. and we also got more looters, a handful of looters at a game stop last night. and the chief has been here, helped catch three of them. it is all hands on deck. we're fully operational. we have resources coming throug...

The community to know we're not just in search rescue mod, we're in law enforcement and public safety mode. last night we actually had some arrests made of a crew that was robbing members of our community. community. officers heard about it, they deployed in heavy rain, found them, they went in pursuit and all of those suspects were taken into custody. here's what i would like to say to people that would take advantage of individuals, this is the state of texas. and we're a welcoming city but we're not going to tolerate people victimizing, especially committing armed robberies in our community...