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Bit about the situation in beaumont, specifically, the police are saying that the city is essentially on an island. what does that mean? how does that change your rescue efforts here? >> most importantly the concerns us the most with all the first responders in the texas division, emergency management, is the water situation. we're getting a status on whether the generators can come back up at the pumping stations and restore water. in preparation for that, we're moving tremendous logistics assets to be able to provide water as we rescue people and as the water starts -- the floodwaters start ...

Charles convention center where they are moving families from other shelters to this one because of the rising water around those buildings. but just outside is another body of water, a lake, that they're going to have to watch tonight. >> reporter: and the concern here in new orleans, problems with 14 water pumps last week. this is one of the main pumping stations here in new orleans, you can just see how the rain water drains into this canal, and then is pumped into the lake. one of the pumps, overheated earlier and now engineers are working around the clock to make sure as many pumps as pos...

And had stopped breathing. the infant's mother, identified as 17-year-olds harriet ohio of spay, is charged with attempted murder. that is horrible. >> yeah. almost 17 minutes past the hour. the governor of louisiana declaring a state of emergency in new orleans. the city's water-pumping system is malfunctioning after last week's torrential rains, flash floods, and more storms are in the weekend forecast. new orleans officials scrambling to repair equipment that was damaged by a fire at a power plant wednesday night, causing multiple pumping stations in the east bank section to fail. new orl...

Allowing officials to investigate. at least one canadian diplomat suffered unusual symptoms. the canadian embassy is about three miles from the u.s. embassy. a woman in an orlando daik center arrested in the -- daycare center arrested in the death of a 3-year-old boy. she left the boy inside the daycare van all day. the temperature surged as high as 144 degrees. the 51-year-old was not an approved driver, did not do a proper head count. miles hill was found dead on the floor of the van monday. >> gosh. the governor of louisiana declaring a state of emergency in new orleans. the city's wate...

Not going to get from here to there, a 21st century transportation system for a 21st century economy without money. i'm open to public and private. we've done some of that. but it doesn't replace public. i'm for an increase in the gas tax. it's real money for real problems that will solve real problems. 1994 was the last time the increase in a gas tax and we did index it to inflation. if you ask president clinton, he would have told you that was a mistake. a lesson when i became mayor, we raised the water rate over a four-year window and indexed it to inflation. i don't want another mayor or c...