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Ran off into the valley and all the water came down and ran through one valley. what we have in texas right now i consider to be a terrarium effect. it's wet, it's been wet, it's flooding. every time the sun gets out, you get a little more humidity in the air. you get a little more and it rains. this is the exact opposite of what we had last year when we couldn't get it to rain. we had amazing cold fronts come right through texas without a drop of rain. it was already dry. drought makes drought. floods make floods. that's what we have right now. this never-ending series of showers, storms. eig...

Ocess. as you're talking to all these people how many people actually have flood insurance? >> reporter: you know it's tough for folks here. there's about 1400 structures in houston that have been impacted. all those are people. people that are now in their homes with a lot of water damage. i want to show you the power of the water and the surge specifically. this is what made this particular storm so dangerous. take a look right over here. this is all debris from a bayou that's about 200 feet from where i'm standing. you can see the surge coming through, pushing through those cars and into ho...

Night to the sister of a family who were in this home. the home went down the quick-moving water, hit something, the home separated. dad was okay the rest of the family wasn't. i want you to join me in this next conversation if you will. we're hearing all these different stories and other small towns devastated by the flash floods. martindale about seven miles from san marcos one of the harder hit areas. people also say their homes suffered a tremendous amount of damage. on the phone with me now is paula rodriguez, who lives in martindale. paula, thank you so much for taking the time to jump o...

River where people come but not today. it came up to about 44 feet. look at all of these slabs. these cabins. people were staying in these cabins friday and saturday night until they were swept away. now they're all the way on the other side of the street. they're just tangled, all on each other. crews have been out here cleaning up the mess. you can look at this cabin behind me. you can see the water mark. these are elevated even higher. and look at this. the water marks here three, four feet inside of these cabins. if all of this isn't scary enough they couldn't see a thing. >> you kept hear...

The heat wave in india is so severe, the roads are warping. more than 1,400 people have died in less than a week mostly from dehydration and sunstroke. the most severe temperatures soaring to 117 degrees fahrenheit. many of the dead are homeless or from poorer communities without electricity or running water. we want to take you to india there. our reporter is there. this is the joint capital of two of the worst states hit by the heat. we're talking 117 degrees. how are people coping with this? >> reporter: it's difficult, brooke. we spent the day in one of the villages that's been terribly hi...