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When he made it back it land he was able to send us this report. >> dave and christine, we are standing on not just some small country road that has been flooded out, we are on interstate 45. it connects galveston island south to the city of houston. this interstate has been shut down because of the floodwaters. we were able to get on a bet and make our way into some of the subdivisions back behind the tree line where hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated throughout the day. mainly rescued bay fleet of volunteers who showed up on the interstate and turned this roadway into a boat...

>> again, that moment just a couple of hours ago. cnn's ed is joining us live now from galveston, ed, wow. describe what that moment was like. >> oh, absolutely surreal. you know, we've been standing here, and we are kind of where we started the day. standing on interstate 45, which is just staggering to think about when you -- this is i-45 northbound, pretty much i think about half way between galveston island and the city of houston just over that overpass where you see a lot of the emergency vehicles. all of this area around us just swamped in water. and that neighborhood that you saw we we...

South of houston. follow me over this way, if we can show this. i was sitting here this morning, and i thought to myself, it is monday. a lot of people probably would be headed to work at this time. i visualize this intersection, you see the road signs there. interstate 45 north, ironically the sign on top of it, evacuation routes. while, you cannot go much further north on interstate 45 because it is shut down. and i thought that this would normally be on monday busy with people heading to work and dropping the kids off at school. and now, this is what it looks like. >> leland: worth noting t...

We were able to get on a boat and make our way into some of these subdivisions back behind the tree line where hundreds, if not thousands of people have been evacuated throughout the day. mainly rescued by a fleet of volunteers who showed up here along the interstate and basically turned this roadway into a boat launch, sending their boats, their private boats out into neighborhoods, pulling off two, three, four people at a time to rescue them from their homes. there's been an unbelievable sight to see that rescue effort unfolding. essentially all of this happening because the calls and demand...

Or get out and about to get food and other essentials. >> we're southwest of houston where evacuations are underway right now. ed give us an idea how the conditions deteriorated overnight as a result of tropical storm harvey. >> we're about 20 miles north of galveston. we're trying to make our way to houston. we're standing on interstate 45. this is the interstate, if you look up this way, that takes you straight into downtown houston. it is completely shut down at this point and we've been here for several hours this morning and it is just an endless calvary of people showing up with boats, d...