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Ray valleja joins us. >> reporter: you can see cars are trying to get through 610 right now. all the water that has swamped over this, all the lanes of traffic are covered in a pond of water. this isn't the only highway in houston that looks just like this. if you look next to me, this is a service road. you can barely actually see that service road. the truck, there's a truck right down there. we talked to a woman that was rescued from that big rig. she said she turned the car off and it started sucking the truck right back down into the water, she thought she was going to drown. another citi...

In water. i'm not just talking about the cars and parking lots. i'm talking about the houses around there as well. folks have been running to get their stuff, trying to get as much as they can out of there and into hotels. this is the problem we're talking about, getting to hotels that are on dry land because of highways that look like this. to give you an idea how much help are calling in, the 911 center has been maxed out. they've had so many calls, they're asking people to stop calling unless it's a life or death situation. for some people it has been. there have been thousands of rescues h...