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Tall so let's add almost double this on top of the old record. so we have thousands of new homes that are going to flood in the region. just really pain to feel even say that to these people. the forecast path drifts it over the water today. lit get a little more organized but not a lot stronger. winds not an issue. just a rainfall problem throughout the area. thursday, finally north of houston, finally north of lake charles in beaumont, by the time we get to wednesday at midnight, we'll be done with the heavy rain and then just watch the rivers slowly begin to recede. the rainfall forecast of...

Feet of water downtown. again, chris, this is something that this area has never seen before. the nation's fourth largest city paralyzed. back to you. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you for that. to galveston, another city feeling the intense wrath of harvey's aftermath. it was in galveston county where 15 senior citizens were rescued from a dickinson assisted living community hours after this photo showing them sitting waits waist deep in water went viral. jbs nbc's joe fryer was there. what's the biggest concern in that area? you're on the road going from place to place. >> reporter: we're heading...

>> enjoy. hot meal. hef bacon. we have eggs. and we have waffles. all the works. >> reporter: great. as you can see, even the littlest here -- how old are you, honey? how old are you? she's 3 years old? how is she doing? she okay? >> she's okay. >> reporter: you holding tot? sfwhoo e e . >> we're staying all in one house. >> reporter: best of luck to you. the line continues way back there. we have more people coming in. the shelters here in victoria have started to shut down, but the problem is some people who went into the shelters are leaving and going back and finding that their homes have ...

Going to happen during the day today, why we thought today would be the beginning of what should be a heavy round of rain, possibility today 4 to 8 inches on top of what they've seen. the flashflood warnings, the biggest thing that happened overnight some of the bayous started coming down, slowly, coming down, because it hadn't rained that hard in the last 12 hour, but they also had to release water out of the two dams and all of that water from the two dams comes into the buffalo bayou which goes through downtown houston and that will have a lot of issues. yesterday it hit 67 feet after the e...

Can you give us a sense of place. where are you? why are you there? what is going on where you are? >> i am in the northwest part of houston near jerseyville and jerseyville is northwest part. it's been picking up here and there throughout the morning. it was pouring last night when we came in. it's, you know, going sideways now and we're under an awning now and not getting completely pummeled but you can see how strong the winds are blowing the rain. this is such a problem because all the bayous and all the rivers and everything around here are just so full. there's no where else to go. we he...