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Harvey. word of explosions at a chemical plant has sent police officers to the hospital. overflowing dams are causing new evacuations. we are live in texas. welcome back to "early start." i'm rene marsh. >> i'm dave briggs. 5:30 eastern time, 4:30 in houston, texas. some breaking news right now out of the houston area. two explosions reported at the arkema chemical plant in crosby, texas. that's about 20 miles from houston. at about 2:00 a.m. central team, 3:00 a.m. in the east. a houston county emergency operations center told arkema that there had been two explosions. black smoke was comin...

Here, shana, this was made by sarah dallof and the water table and there's concern of contamination and you have high water levels that gets into either the groundwater table or gets into the -- because you have the overflowing dams and rivers. >> contaminated. >> yes, exactly. so when will the flooding stop? because we still have, it looks like some time, if not days of rain hitting these areas. >> we have another day where we will see the heavy amount of rain, but then after that we continue to watch the flooding recede slowly and streets could receive as slow as 24 hour, but it does take so...

>> are joined live from calcutta where hundreds of thousands have been evacuate to relief camps. can they cope with the huge demand right now? >> reporter: errol, there are still 200,000 at least in these relief camps just in this state of west bengal alone and a lot of the officials were saying they expect the people to stay there for at least the next week or two weeks because the waters are not going to recede any time soon. the main situation right now, the main problem in these parts is the overflowing dams. this part of west bengal it's got some of the biggest rivers in the country, incl...

Six people were killed. giveords and 12 others were wounded. forecasters expecting torrential rains soaking the capitol of the philippines to continue at least another day. the heavy downpour, triggered by a monsoon, overflowing dams in that region, forcing thousands to evacuate in manila. government offices and schools were shut down on monday. the death toll after more than a week of flooding reaching at least 51. i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to "on the record" with greta. thanks for watching. >> greta: new jersey governor chris christie, wisconsin congressman paul ryan and ohio senator ro...