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We're lye in the cnn newsroom. thanks for being with us. it is a storm for the record books. harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nation's fourth largest city. around 3,000 national guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. some families desperate to get to higher ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. the t...

We're able to caulk to them before the deluge of water came in and that was a pretty good transition. i want to thank the red cross for their participation. and second i want to thank the members of the sait-based community, prior to the rainfall. more than 25 churches for stepping up making their facilities, indicating that they would make their facilities available. i want to thank the members of the faith-based community. and people of the business community and other nonprofits for being supportive. this is not a one-two-three day deal. even when the storm is no longer a storm, we know tha...

Those areas and shuttled to safety in other hotels. these people elected to come. we're tolds that some people are electing to stay at the omni hotel even though the water, as you can see, is past people's knees. and it's -- we're told that it's rising. you can see in the lobby, i can see a staircase with the water going up the staircase a little bit. the water is rising. we're getting a break in the rainfall right now. it has not rained for at least 45 minutes. and so but they continue to pull people out. we're told that between 60 and 80 people were stranded inside here. the hotel staff has ...

Saying quote, historic rainfall in houston, all over texas floods are unprecedented and more rain coming. spirit of the people. is incredible. thanks. brian todd is in houston. she's joining us now. you're with more rescues under way. >> reporter: that's right. we hitched a ride with two of the private rescuers. we've been pulling people out of the omni hotel. this is the entrance of the lobby. you're witnessing a rescue life. they're pulling people out of the omni hotel. look at how deep the water is. here's a group of people being pulled onto the boat right now. this is brian meadows, one of...

We've never seen a system really recent american history that has been so challenging, but yet when you look to the computer models, so accurate. it is something something. in fact, even tracking storms around the world and typhoons, we've never seen one without a steering current that has just been me yandering for days. this is still a tropical storm. it's feeding off the rainfall it's dropped on land. when you look at the bands of rain in houston, there was another band getting ready to move through in about an hour half, two hours, already the rain and severe weather with a few tornado war...