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Released slowly as jacob rascon explained. what it mean more people will, essentially, have to get out? well, that s a very important point. the dam. there s two major dams here. and they are on the west side of town and they are slowly releasing some water, controlled release. because they re filled. all of the water that has come in from all the rivers and the lakes, the surrounding area that all dump into here. that s where these dams are holding it back and preventing the city of houston, downtown houston, from being completely flooded out. so, it releases into the buffalo bayou, which is the main bayou right through the center of town and then goes to the east side, which is the houston shift channel and that s how this area gets rid of the water here. when you re seeing 30 plus inches of rain so quickly. everything is filled up so quickly. so, they have to do these controlled releases and it s going to be, basically, sacrificing some of the homes that are right near these dams ....
To do that, they would have either laughed at us or ignored it. jacob, this speaks to what you are talking about. regarding people who are leaving their homes or not leaving their homes at this point. you know houston. i m not speaking out of turn here. this is your town. i want to get a sense of what the expectation is over the next couple days. i think some dams are set to be released soon. i believe one has already, right? right. so, they started releasing one at midnight, but slowly. i forget which measurement they use. but whatever pace they re releasing the dam at, it s going to multiply by like 10 or 20 later this afternoon and then they ll start releasing a second dam. so, a lot more water will start coming midday and early afternoon even as we expect a lull in the rain. the evacuation issue is so interesting because back in hurricane rita, there was the expectation of a storm surge. and, so, the county judge who ....
Room at the white house for us. thank you very much. want to see if we can bring back the live picture of houston where we expect the mayor to come out and give an update on what s happening there. you have been seeing the images from houston on msnbc. dramatic photos. people getting rescued even today. philip is there live in houston for us. philip, you are from this area. this is a place that you know. you ve seen these kinds of storms, nothing like this, but at least flooding in the past. can you put this in context based on your personal experience? well, yeah, i lived here for several years and this is the most devastating flood out of all the ones that i ve seen in recent years. i wasn t here in 2001 for allison, which to this point, had been the benchmark for the worst storm that this area had seen. but in terms of total rainfall, we ve already surpassed it just this weekend. so, this, by far, especially the scope of it all, if you think ....
Taken to allen, texas. everyone is safe. while we re talking with you about the rescue yesterday. i wanted to point out we re watching live now, north harris county. this is actually happened at this moment. people getting rescued. you can see this young woman getting the rain out of her boots at this point, tim. just so our viewers know where this is going down. trudging through the streets with streets flooded. tell us what happened with your mother and the people at that assisted living facility. how did they get out? who came in? walk us through it. my wife said the previous night everything was fine. a little bit of rain. we said we d check with her in the morning and about 8:00 her time she text us and said that things were getting very scary there. and text that picture. ....