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It says a lot about the heart of the department, i'm proud. >> all right. thank you so much of the police department and men with women who do fine work. thank you so much. so, ha visit has caused an untold amount of damage already. officials are warned thing could get worsism our brian todd has this report. >> reporter: flooding nursing home in port author, texas. because of the the flooding it's inaccessible by vehicle or air. patients had water in the hospital for hours before they were rescued. also men -- they were in the water for five hours. the port author mayor says the entire city is...

Charles and alexander ya. >> i was able to talk to governor abbott before i left baton rouge and he found out about what happened here in port author and he called to tell me how he appreciated what we were doing. >> the scope and scale of the flooding in houston is only rivalry from the precinct images in new orleans, left new orleans entirely under water when katrina left the town under water a couple of decades today. there are fears harvey could be even worse. >> when you look at comparisons, the population, size and square mile size of the area impacted both by the hurricane and the flood...

They saw such heavy rainfall, 26 inches in 24 hours, it is still raining there. not not those types of rainfall amounts. here's the latest regarding tropical depression harvey. so an inclination from a category 4 hurricane made rainfall around corpus christi, around houston and galveston and all those areas and transitioned that broad rain field over towards louisiana/texas border where we're seeing high level rescues in beaumont/port author. some of the refineries and oils and they've had to pull back or stop production. you've no doubt seen the gas prices at your local gas station rise. and ...

Afternoon. and then it kind of lingers and loops in houston. we all know how flood-prone houston is this is like a nightmare forecast for that region. 100% chance of it becoming a tropical system in the hurricane center. 90% in the next two days. one of our computer model, the american model takes the system friday between corpus christi and visitoria. again, rain impact will be huge for this. we'll wait and see how strong it gets with the surge. this is our european model. the more active long range model. the pink coloring, that's seven inches of rain. widespread, over a half a foot of rain....

Begin to improve in many areas of the keys and south florida as we go throughout the night. that's the story down there. right now, very close to key west, florida. still a tropical storm. what's going to happen next? we have 48 nervous hours to see how strong isaac can get as it approaches the northern gulf states. we still have a window from port author to beaumont, i'm including them now, all the way back to pensacola in the target zone possibly with significant impacts for isaac. an inconvenience for south florida. it has a possibility to do destruction in the north central gulf. they can'...