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Land. >> in galveston, texas, thank you. let's get back to houston where nbc reporter julia bagg is standing by at the nrg center. julia, you've been with us the past couple days as we've been having special coverage of hurricane harvey. you've been at the shelters as well. hour the evacuees faring at the nrg center considering that it just opened late last night? >> reporter: that's right, things up and running in a hurry here. just in the last 5 1/2 hours or so, they went from zero to 900 evacuees here in the shelter right now. this, a much bigger center than that convention center in down...

And you can't really see it here in this light. but you can feel the water flowing past me as it's going down through the reservoirs and hopefully out through the gulf. it's something that the army corps of engineers and others here in houston are going to be watching. >> garrett haake, thank you. let's turn to the center in houston opening as a massive shelter. julia bagg is with us. officials saying the conference center could hold up to 10,000 people. a lot of people now funneling in through there. >> reporter: that's exactly what's happening, yasmin. just in the past few minutes four bus...

They tell me most people when they get here, they just want to go to sleep. they're expecting many more evacuees to continue arriving here in the next several hours. back to you, ayman. >> i'm glad to see that he was able to bring his pet into the evacuation center. i think that can be sort of a comfort for people when they've lost everything else. >> absolutely. >> julia bagg for us. and the houston megachurch pastor joel osteen said it's officially open for those needing shelter. he tweeted this after 5:00 a.m. yesterday after coming under intense criticism accusing osteen for opening its ...

The caption, all hands on deck. rescue of a 71-year-old vietnam vet with muscular dystrophy taken to safety along with his three cats. the you can see one official swimming in what is reported to be eight feet of water. the person being stranded there for about eight hours. you can see all these efforts to save lives. for more, let's bring in nbc reporter julia bagg live in houston. what have you seen in the last couple hours in terms of rescue efforts, evacuation efforts by folks and how it's unfolding right now. >> reporter: ayman, it's been raining off and on in the

Who told me they just got a call for a burglary in this neighborho neighborhood. that is a fear that some people have is about looting should they abandon their homes. we saw people in the last 12 hours who did not want to leave their homes. some boaters in the rescue team offering to give them a ride to higher ground but them wanting to stay. >> to julia's point, with the rain being a factor, we may not get a sense of how widespread this devastation and destruction is until the rain stops and the water recedes. julia bagg, thank you. >> i will say to julia's point, when i was covering hurrica...