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These are the stories he's going to hear from people directly about their rescue attempts. losing everything in places like dickinson texas. these are the images you're seeing right now. ed lavandera is reporting from these locations. the water is very high. >> we found a gentleman gracious to bring us out. he drove up from lake jackson today. he's taking us out in the neighborhoods where he's rescued about 10 people here today this is one of those subdivisions off i-45 that has been flooded out by the floodwaters that came in overnight. and this is an area where we've seen boats criss-crossin...

Moments for the residents of the metro houston area. we know that more than 1,000 rescues happened overnight. more than 2,600 calls into the offices of first responders. it is unclear how many cars are submerged and look behind me. streets and bayous are raging rivers. the images are unbelievable to see, fred. we are -- i'm at -- at the loss of words to describe just how much water is in the downtown houston area. i mean, you see signs to the interstate that you can't see anymore. that you wouldn't be able to drive to. you see the traffic lights that were working earlier this morning that are ...

Area just lost power as we were live just now. the ramp into i-45 is not passable. you can see that it is all a raging river. houston, of course, expecting between 15 to 25 inches of rain. the last time that i checked the gauge in the downtown area, the highest rain level was at about 15 inches. and it's still raining. that's the big worry. i was just listening to air as you were showing some of those live rescues. it's incredible to see how much water is in houston right now in the last hour we were a lock away. right now we can't go there because the water is rising so quickly. stay safe. ...

In through the windows, the furniture, tossed around inside the floodwaters, this is a little neighborhood just adjacent to i-45 in the town of dickinson. there is not -- you can see over here, one of the -- another group of -- he's asking if we've seen any people. >> we haven't seen any around here? >> in the subdivision? >> not since earlier this morning. i think most people out of here are gone. if you go back to where that bridge is, where everyone's launching their boat. run up whatever road that is, the neighborhoods on the left still have some people in them? >> hughes road? >> yeah. >>...

Underappreciate just how quickly water levels can rise. derek, thank you very much. we'll speak to you throughout the night. now our focus is houston and the wider path of this storm because karen maginnis joining us with that. and you all were warning us when this storm was approaching that the national weather service using rare words to explain what houston could be in for. >> yes, we were all really floored when we saw that as well. we are seeing things with this particular system we have not seen ever or very rarely. and to have six tornado warnings out in a very small area around houst...