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>> based off our models and what we're seeing with the weather prediction, people upstream of the dams that are in the potential inundation zone need to monitor carefully the rate of rise and prepare for a voluntary evacuation that the local elected leadership have recommended. the rate of rise of the two structures is between 2 1/2 and 3 inches. it's a slow rise, but a sufficient rise where homes up stream of the dams could either be impacted, meaning water on the property or inundated, meaning there could be water in their homes. people can contact the galveston district headquarters, and we

Bands. our helicopters have had to set down into open area parking lots. we're flying and rescuing around the existing weather conditions. >> we just heard that in the fema update. that's so important. it's hard enough after a storm passes through to then rescue all the people stranded by floodwaters. you're doing it in the in the midst of a storm and more rain is expected today. what's the plan today? >> the plan is to stay in the fight. pushing as much capacity into the fight as we can. we are linked up with the state emergency operations center on trying to understand where the greatest nee...

Surprised? can they know the waters were coming? >> they didn't know the waters were coming or would have evacuated. they have erack wags plans and they were told to shelter in place. >> how is your mom? >> she's doing well. she's doing well. we were more worried about the residents. she's fine. it really was getting safety for the residents. >> understood. now, this is just one image we're looking at here. in terms of staff, people who were there, is this a situation where people were there left alone or were people there with them? >> absolutely not. they were not alone. there were three nur...

You don't need two, but you don't get ten. here is the forecast for today. until midnight, there's the circle right there of purple. that is east of houston, thank goodness and back to houston a little bit less. we are still going to see this buffalo bayou go up. it already is a record. it may be four feet above record before we're finally done. >> chris, i just checked center point energy, the power company in houston. 86,000 or somewhere around there, people without power. 2.3 million people still have power. these people that are going into these homes to rescue other people have to underst...

Texas. right now i believe every local official, state official including us, we're operating with the best information we've been provided at the time. atsz i said earlier, the national weather service has done a great job letting people know about the torrential rainfall and the inland event. the problem with forecasting rainfall, it's one of the toughest things to do. pinpointing what watershed that rain is going to go into, it's dang near impossible to figure that out. unfortunately the city of houston is huge, 2 to 3 million people. pulling the trigger on that is an incredibly difficult s...