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First responders were capable of handling. so they called in essentially a fleet of volunteers to help with these boat rescues. and here you see interstate 45 here are some of the boats people showing up in wave runners, boats on their own, trucks, cars, as many people out as possible. as we went through the neighborhood, a few hours ago, and saw inside that neighborhood, dramatic to see the number of people who had clearly made their way to their rooftops to be able to get away from the floodwaters. several of them had cut holes and chopped their way through the attic to get on to the rooftop...

This is the exit ramp off of interstate 45 headed north towards houston. you can't even get passed here because the water is so high and it is covering the roadway. you can only reach the area by boat. and one of our photo journalists jeremy went out with rescuers yesterday through the neighborhoods and the streets of dickinson looking more like rivers as people were just waiting patiently to be plucked out of there to safety. we have a whole mix of people here. you've got search and rescue professional teams. the professional first responders, but you also have a whole lot of volunteers who a...

Higher ground, but they are waiting to start moving this convoy in to the neighborhood here in leak city. you get a sense of -- how all of this will work and some of the trucks that will be used. these covered trucks. we're in an open-air truck but this one here we've seen over the last couple of days the soldiers transporting evacuees putting them in these types of vehicles, getting them to higher ground here along interstate 45. and generally there have been either a number of buses that have been moving evacuees to shelters or ho tto higher ground they keep going back for more. we've seen t...

Way through some of these neighborhoods, and we are definitely -- we're heading noth no north towards that area of leak city. not sure how long it will take to get there, but these are all kind of shopping centers just along the service road of interstate 45. you can -- see what the parking lot conditions are. and this gets much worse once you get beyond this road. buildings and into those trees you see in the distance, that is the areas where these bayous and these creeks run through in the southern houston county area. and that is wa all of that water's rushing through there, coming out of i...

Go to cnn's ed lavandera, seen one rescue after another from his vantage point. with the national guard headed into league city, south side of houston. tell us more about what you've seen. >> reporter: we are in this convoy with national guards soldiers. a unit deployed oust dallas known at the wolf pack. we're in a convoy of four of these military-style trucks. we are standing along interstate 45 right now. this is in the town of dickinson, that's been, this area, several towns, dickinson, leak city, friendswood, communities and subdivisions devastated by flooding here. this is a unit that is...