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We watch the situation continue to intensify, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. elizabeth: he talked a lot about the standing water and that's a concern. we talked about the wildlife, there could be chemicals in there, could be sewage. don't know if there's sharp objects beneath. people go back home and think it's knee height and it's more after dangerous situation. leland: you've got everything in the water and power lines down and electrified. casey made a good point. so much of the texas coastline are the outer islands, one way in and one way out. we can see that the road that casey was...

Helicopters, and their blackhawks, the coast guard helicopters and news helicopters as well can often spot these things. the weather is too bad for this. this health care has not moved on and continues to spin, a huge amount of this resources that first responders count on aren't there. and not only the resources, but the backup they count on. as we heard from a number of fire departments you were talking about that it's up until a couple of hours ago, it was too dangerous for them to even go out into these conditions and as casey pointed out, he's been in a lot of hurricanes. even though the ...

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Heavy rainfall. we're expecting rainfall amounts in additional 15 to 20 inches in some locations so we feel it's going to be the flooding is the major short-term threat. elizabeth: a lot of these low lying areas already have this much rainfall. i want to ask you about the additional threat up to feet of rain. and also what casey was talking about, do people get complacent when they think it's a couple of inches of rain and head out not only in the rain, but the threat of tornados? >> the threat of tornados from this system is fairly high. this is the houston area here all the way down to corpu...

Number of other communities there along the texas coast. even the emergency operation centers were cut off from my type of contact with those first responders and we hope now to get an update from the governor about what he's been able to learn as day has broke and a number of these police have been able to move in to some of these hardest hit areas and hopefully reestablish communications. back to austin, and the governor's briefing as it happens. meanwhile, we continue to follow the storm on the ground with our reporters, including casey stegall, who is in galveston, texas and casey, it wasn...