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In houston did what they had to do to get off. >> people are turning around, trying to get off the freeway because they are stuck. >> reporter: driving the wrong way up an entrance ramp to get home. police warn tonight that if you crash on the ice, it can be deadly to get out of the car. a driver here was killed when he walked out of this wreck on interstate 45. he was struck by another sliding vehicle. from the gulf coast to the northeast, at including an 8-month-old child, when this car outside new orleans crashed into a canal. >> if we can, you know, use this as a lesson or a reminder to st...

Waist deep in these rushing waters. le another striking image is what is looked like yesterday. these are two bridges. i'm about to show you here. the this is interstate 45, the first one and you can see on top of it a tree has been depos zitded. there's only one way for that to have gotten there and is that is that the flood waters brought it there. in other words, just 24 hours ago the flood waters were what? 40? 50 feet? higher to bring a tree there. and then, what we keep seeing here, john, are just people's lives sort of floating by us. here's one stark example. i don't know if you can se...

Category 3 hurricane it will be the flooding, the widespread flooding. in some of the areas, some computer models saying 40 inches of rainfall. i think some of the averages are 15 to 20. computer models may be overblowing that 40 inches. not over blowing the impact. this is low-lying area. those roads you saw were jammed today of people getting out on interstate 37, interstate 35, interstate 45 out of corpus christie, out of galveston, they quickly become clogged. where you see the yellow shaded area, the texas/louisiana border to port la vaca, we could see a threat of tornadoes. yes, another ...

Again across houston. we could see record rainfall, we already have in some areas, but epic. this looks to be a situation where all the emergency management people in the world will be struggling to keep things together. you can imagine all the resources that will have to be pulled in across this region to take care of things. i want to point out one other thing. look at this band. it's about to move into houston that has already seen record rainfall. we have another band which is across the area right now. and then there is moisture being tapped from the gulf. and this area between hus to hav...

Interstate usually jammed with car traffic, has essentially been turned into a boat launch for volunteers launching air boats like the one you see in front of me. flat-bottom boats as people make their -- out there in the draft of that airboat here one second. hold on. got the mist. >> obviously -- cars shouldn't drive through this sort of floodwaters, but you can with the team that you're with right now. tell us about that. how are you able to do that as these folks are going on and checking on people? >> reporter: no. it's very difficult. we've seen, lost count how many cars we've seen stran...