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The helicopters as they air lift families, mothers, father's, children to safety. unfortunately, we have some more tragic news out of houston this afternoon. police have found that van that was carrying an elderly couple and four great grandchildren. it was swept away by flood waters on sunday. officials say they found six dead at the scene. this news brings the total number of storm-related deaths to 19. the harris county sheriff said a short time ago our worst fierce have been realized, and the victims' relatives are devastated. mia rodriguez joins us now from houston. what's the situation w...

Far as they can, they'll enter the water. they'll then deploy the rafts right out of the dump trucks into the water. go house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood, looking for anybody that may need help, anyone that's trapped. and of course, anyone that needs to come out, ali. >> you're looking at live american heroes right now. i had a puzzling conversation with the mayor of beaumont in the 11:00 hour who said that everything was under control and they had all the rescues that they needed under control. the stuff that you were doing in the plane sort of belies that information. this is stil...

Heading any further south. and we turned around because they now had fears that the body of water to the north was going to block off the north access to the town. they were already feeling isolated in that small town. and their experience is very similar to other communities all along the texas coast, from houston to beaumont. we've been talking about the larger cities, but you really have all of these small rural towns in between those two cities that are struggling with the same levels of water and the same difficulties, having to try to find, first of all, to rescue people from their homes...

Says what we do now is rebuild. that is the beauty on the other side of the horror that you've been seeing all morning. >> yeah. and joshua's father when we were there, i was in the helicopter when he was pulled out to safety. i can tell you he was also a bit shaken as this was happening. i looked over and if he was okay, he nodded yes. he gave me the thumbs-up, but in the beginning he was not able to be as relaxed as he is you no. here is some of the supplies that they have. they've got water, mre's, the meelts that are ready to eat by the military. so they are certainly and ready and prepare...

Because at one point you were shooting out the helicopter and someone seemed to be flagging you down and next thing you were picking them up. were they literally going and just looking for people? >> that was literally the method. we took off from this area in orange, texas, which is right next to beaumont. the water literally cuts off these two cities and has made beaumont an island. up in the air as soon as they got over beaumont they looked for the first sign of a person or people that needed help. they were r where, ali. everywhere. in neighborhoods all across that area. they found familie...