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What's happening now. >> reporter: hi, fredricka. this is dickinson, text, south of houston. we are standing on interstate 45. not a small road flood the out in all this. this is the major interstate that takes you between galveston island and the city of houston, and you can see, there's been a -- a fleet of people who have shown up here along interstate 45 with their own boats and have just deployed these boats out into the water to rescue. we see three there just going down. this would be like the on ramp, a fourth person starting to make their way or maybe coming back from picking somebody...

Left to see who's being rescued here. a peril for motorists. that 18 wheeler got stuck here a few hours ago. the driver got out okay. >> i saw on the other side of your shoulder, it looked like a lot of emergency lights. any idea what kind of activity is occurring over there? is it serving as a barricade? what's going on? >> i think they're trying to get through to the other side where maybe they can pass through that area. we're not sure what they're doing. a lot of people are stopped up there, even a major highway here gets flooded. i-45 got flooded. this is 610, part of it is flooded over h...

With regard to resources -- let me tell you, the flooding has occurred all over. so we have reached out. regards the city of houston, we're operating with 39 dump trucks, high water vehicles. this is from -- who is this from? four from -- 11 boats. then the texas task force one has already provided an additional 20 high water vehicles. those vehicles have already been deployed. for example, ten of them have been deployed at i-45 and edgebrook. five have been deployed at station 34, that's off -- in the lower copy northeast area. five have been deployed at station 21, which is off of

Seen here throughout the day, who have driven up i-45 and used it as a boat launch. and this is just one of hundreds of boats that are out on the water here in south houston, this is one particular neighborhood where this is unfolding. this is happening all across the city here this afternoon. >> we're seeing so many cars in drive ways. talk about how quickly the water came up. >> incredibly quickly. people went to bed thinking this was going to be -- >> i talk with one resident. you park your car up close to the -- right here, if you can point down, theres a car. you can see the car just unde...

Road. and buffalo bayou is one of the many bayous in the houston area that funnel the water into the gulf of mexico, you can see how overwhelmed buffalo bayou is. it's just over here to my left, completely overflowed. you can see what it's doing to the thoroughfare here. we were told this driver of this 18 wheeler saw these other two vehicles were stranded, she tried to make it through, and had a really close call there. we heard the governor say earlier today, that 250 plus highways throughout the state were shut down. we experienced that trying to get from dallas down here, trying to get aro...