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Lose their homes. it's sad to see. cnn's brian todd. thanks for joining me. someone else who knows the repercussions very well. sheriff cena stevens of beaumont. i know the temptation with storms like this can be while the rain has stopped, the danger must be over, but lord knows, your community is still facing a great deal of danger. >> oh, absolutely. the rain has stopped, you allude to do that a little earlier. we still have water rising because of the natchos river and all the water in the area. there are other dangers out there, too, that people forget. our water is septic, so you have se...

That can be said for the thousands of people here, jim. >> i know your drive into beaumont was a harrowing trip because this is one of those communities that was virtually cut off. >> reporter: that's right, we drove through water on route 90 going east from houston to here. our crew didn't have it as badly as other cnn crews that came in yesterday or date before. normally the drive from houston to beaumont, jim, is maybe two hours. some of our teams were taking five or six hours to get in here. we didn't take that long. so that is a good sign. a lot of the water on land is receding, but here'...

Wanted to get rid of comey, including his frustration that comey was unwilling to publicly exonerate him in the russia meddling probe. that letter was replaced by another which instead focused on comey's handling of the clinton e-mail investigation. this all comes tonight as cnn is learning of yet another departure from the president's staff. correspondents, analysts and specialists have coverage of today's top stories. marquez is in the hard-hit city of beaumont. you can see the river behind him still rising. miguel, tell us what the conditions are like on the ground there. >> reporter: yeah,...

The effort to get beaumont's water up and running again. we're here at the water treatment facility. i can show you over here, these crews are unloading these huge plastic mats. they're going to be used to place underneath temporary pipes that are going to be coming from this area over here. just beyond here, we were over here earlier. the natchos river is right here. they set up a temporary pumping station. exxon engineers and other engineers set up a temporary pumping station over there to pump water from the natchos river, which is just over there, into this water treatment facility. these ...