Live Breaking News & Updates on Flood Waters Recede
Stay updated with breaking news from Flood waters recede. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
All right. some live pictures this time from humble texas right now. you can see, again, the scope of the damage with good weather, helicopters can get into the air and see for the first time just how much damage has been done. that s a house. i don t know if it that was a separate house or attachment or big deck that was by that house, but it s clearly all destroyed right now. you can see it as the flood waters recede. while this is up let me point you to the number there where if you have been affected by harvey, you can call. the it s cast assistance dot gov. we encourage all of you to call that number if you ve been affected to find out where you can get the help you need. so many people now with the ....
Or passports. what should people do to avoid this sort of bacteria, et cetera? well, the really serious infections, skin infections from staph and vibrio is from contaminated wounds so keeping wounds covered and clean that s going to be the number one priority. in terms of die rarrheal diseas that s something you have to look out for. if you start having symptoms, if you start very diarrhea and fever, you want to contact your medical professional since you may need an antibiotic. and then what we re now seeing, what we expect to see from katrina is as the flood waters recede, we ll begin probably seeing an uptick in west nile virus infection, and remember, during the time of katrina, we did not have zeke or dengue or chikungunya and now those are added risks in the coming weeks. we have a few more weeks left of mosquitos transmission season ....
Those flesh-eating bacteria. but unfortunately, that s just the beginning. these are bacteria that cause diarrhea, sam moe salmonella, e and there are stressful and crowded conditions and again from katrina, we ve learned that there s very high rates of respiratory infections, upper respiratory infections. there s noro virus, which is a diarrheal pathogen, so we re in for a number of days and weeks of illness following katrina, and then there s the longer-term implications of viruses that are transmitted by the mosquitoses that are going to accumulate as the flood waters recede. dr. hotez, i m still back on flesh-eating bacteria. these people have to go back to their homes. you heard one guy talking about how they re trying to get folks back in to get driver s licenses ....
District kind of making the rounds and today i can t get out until these floodwaters, until it stops raining and these flood waters recede. i know congressman, you want to put your constituents first and so on, i just want to make sure that you and your family are not in danger? are you in need of some kind of rescue? should we be getting people to your home? or are you confident that these waters are going to recede? oh, yeah, i m fine, we re good here, i m just one of hundreds of thousands of people in this district and across our state that are being affected by this tropical storm and hurricane harvey, which has gone back out in the gulf and made landfall now three times. and this wonderful district that i represent has more petro chemical refining facilities down along the coast than any ....
Flood waters recede. this isn t the only refinery off line in the state. the second largest refinery took a hit. exxon mobil shut down just outside of houston. we don t know how long they will stay closed because when plants flood like they did in hurricane katrina, it can take weeks or months to get electrical equipment to get installed. and even if it s opened, they need the ports open. otherwise, the oil doesn t have anywhere to go. for the residents, they don t have anywhere to go either. there s rescue efforts ongoing now and taking them to shelters wherever they can find a roof over their heads. this refinery won t be open any time soon, at least not until the water has dissipated. neil: hillary, thank you. your reports are amazing. you ve put up with incredible odds here. ....