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These are the two major dams that protect downtown houston from upstream. they release into the buffalo bayou. the beautiful bayou runs through the center of town. it is already flooded. let me give you perspective on why the release of this water is so significant. we spoke with the safety manager of this staff on saturday morning. he told me specifically they were not going to open the gates of this dam throughout the storm because they wanted to give flooding a chance to recede downstream because of the rain. they obviously needed to alter that plan. the water came up so quickly, there was ...

To get out of the way so they don't have new water. all that water will flow towards downtown houston as we go through wednesday and thursday. >> all right. this is taking into account, there is any likelihood that the weather forecast can get better, there's going to be less rain. as it stands looks like rain -- >> that's a good point. the hydrologist that works at the national weather office takes two things into account. they have to figure out how much rain is going to fall, then adding in the amount of cubic feet flowing into the river from those dam releases. they add those toegs when th...

This is what we're afraid of. this is why we said another 10 to 20 inches of rain. center of the storm 100 miles south of them. these rain bands setting up and focusing on the region. they may continue on and off all day long. ali, we don't like these forecasts, don't want more destruction, more devastation, more rescues but as far as buffalo bayou, only the one that flows through the downtown, other bayous lowering, that's the one we're focusing on. sounds like in the press conference that's the one city managers focusing on also. >> thanks very much. bring in phillip, live on the phone drivi...

And now it's coming down again. as we've spoken about, last thing we needed, more rain hitting us. yeah, we are -- the goal is to head down to the brown convention center in downtown houston where they are holding thousands of these evacuees. that's also where -- houston just held super bowl a few months ago and that was the hub. that was the center of the whole experience. so now it's being used to house these thousands of evacuees that are coming in in droves. >> all right. what are -- i don't know if you heard the press conference but they are saying 185 critical rescues pending. they have ...

>> we prayed a lot. we praise god. we were rescued so we're very thankful. >> i was positioning of writing -- thinking of writing my social security on my arm. >> urban search and rescue teams from all across the country descending on houston to help out. police and other emergency workers every major city and state has them. new jersey september them, massachusetts, new york, l.a., salt lake city. we've got a lot of that going on. we have another big issue going on. that is the rain is not going to stop. the buffalo bayou river basically, "wall street" to east of housto -- west to east-of-hou...