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All the time. >> i don't know of anything else, really. i've been up there helping my parents. >> it has to be surreal seeing your neighborhoods like this. >> it is. it's shocking. >> have you been able to take your neighbors at all? >> no, i was helping my mom and dad. >> so they're going to be okay? >> yeah, i think so. >> well, they did a great job jumping into the boat, especially your mom. ana, i'm going to toss it back croto you. we're going to getthet back to interstate 45, which is kind of in the launching pad area. you have bussess that have been picking people up. so anyway i'm glad ...

These areas. an incredibly captivating scene here as many people jumping into action and help out where they can. >> just as the gentleman just described to you, he said as far as he knew there were about 1,000 people in the area he lived who were still in high water. the only way to get to them is by way of boat. the weather is horrible and we know that local authorities are trying to get to people by boat, by chopper, et cetera. but because of the conditions, how much more complicated does it make it-to-for first responders to get to people like the man just described? >> i would imagine at ...

Wrong direction. driving through what is standing water here. this is just a very dangerous and difficult situation that's playing out right now on interstate 45. a major highway in the fourth largest city in the nation. as you come back to the south side of 45, what you see is it is completely under water at this point like so much in houston by the way. a car that's been stopped there and a truck that's completely submerged and you got the 18 wheeler cam there that did not make it through. this is why so many are on the other side trying to get -- it speaks to the desperation of a lot people...

Boats showing up that have low clearance through some of these floodwaters. these are good boats to navigate. the problem is you're loading these boats with a lot of people so they sink into the water rather quickly, and that can be dangerous because some of the current in these floodwaters starts getting strong. as we look here north on interstate 45, you can see the emergency lights there at the top of the next overpass, and after that we're told that the water just completely takes over the interstate. that's why we can't go any further north from where we are. so they're busy trying to get...

Just a little bit ago we saw a coast guard chopper flying over the scene. there's a series of communities around here that are devastated. many quickly flooding under water. we've had a chance to speak with several people. some people who evacuated a low-lying area, then the area they evacuated to was under 3 or 4 feet of water already. the fear is this water is going to keep going up. you can see how intensely it is raining this afternoon as the visibility is really cut down by the rain showers along the interstate. we're on the south edge of houston, the south edge of harris county in housto...