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Charl schultz, commander of the u.s. coast gord atlantic area. we spoke almost exactly 24 hours. tell us what happened since that time. >> good morning, alisyn. harvey still remains an extremely dangerous storm with catastrophic flooding. the weather reports are indicating 10 to 20 inches of rain in the coming days. the storm is sitting 90 or 100 miles south of houston and continuing to sock the area moving very slowly. in the last 24 hours i believe we had about 150 additional air rescues, almost 2,000 rescues with our flood teams on the water, if you roll those numbers up i think it's about ...

Nine flood teams. flood teams have flat bottom boats trying to rescue people. this is a very serious situation in houston. let's go straight to stephanie gosk who is covering this. she's at the barker dam. stephanie. >> how are you? let me start by explaining where i am. i am standing on a bridge. we were here saturday morning. this bridge when things are normal is about 10 feet above the reservoir. you can see where i'm standing right now on the bridge is a couple feet up. that was obviously a fire truck that rolled into our shot. let me explain what you're looking at. you have the barker dam...

That are work. and there's been a little bit of national forward. and, of course, the -- national guard. the volunteerings. that volunteer, joe, actually lives in meyer land. he's in a part of it that was not flooded, and he has a john boat, obviously, so he jumped in. but i believe what is happening talking to some of the authorities is they're conquering, they're trying to conquer and divide with resources. i haven't seen the coast guard but, of course, we know that they've pulled out all resources. they have at least six helicopters operating as well as nine coast guard flood teams. those c...

And i can tell you there's 100 or more people on rooftops and coming out of second-story windows that still need help as we head into dark. and it's also been a few hours since we've had really heavy bands of rain. and in the case of the volunteers, you know, joe that we rode with, he has a little john boat. i said what to you do in a torrential downpour? he said i've got to get off the water because it's flooding so fast, it'll flood my boat, and i'll go down, and that's not helping anybody. so we're in the meyer land neighborhood, the highway we were on, this is the intersection of breezewoo...