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We watch the situation continue to intensify, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. elizabeth: he talked a lot about the standing water and that's a concern. we talked about the wildlife, there could be chemicals in there, could be sewage. don't know if there's sharp objects beneath. people go back home and think it's knee height and it's more after dangerous situation. leland: you've got everything in the water and power lines down and electrified. casey made a good point. so much of the texas coastline are the outer islands, one way in and one way out. we can see that the road that casey was...

State operations center. leland: last night, as the storm was coming to shore, we talked to some folks in the texas emergency operations center, they couldn't get a hold of the police in rockport. they couldn't get a hold of the police in port aransas. there was a lot of communication that had gone down. we're looking at various pictures and what's always striking to me, is you see this damage, then comes the flooding and you also have the issues of all the utilities that are down. you've got power lines now in these flood waters. you've got gas lines that often times park off huge fires, and ...