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Louisiana. thank you so much for talking to us and appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> reporter: that question of whether or not to evacuate couldn't be more crucial. want to get perspective from bill king, the former mayor of houston. general, it's such a confusing situation for people to try to figure out what to do in a face of a storm like this. >> not really confusing. we're committed to a doctrine. that says we were a threat. we evacuate. in a flood, we evacuate people in known flood areas. areas that normally flood and then we offer people voluntary evacuation and then ...

Mouths and she said mommy, i'm getting sick, why are we driving against traffic and justin is saying are we going to die, daddy? extremely challenging but god protected us and i think about our own situation but that segment you just gave about the sandoval family, that could have been us or many other people. if you're alive tonight, we should be really thanking god but we're still under mandatory evacuation. they just tweeted out ford bend office of emergency management. this is an ongoing emergency and that's why i'm so grateful you're there asking people to support and pray. >> jeremiah jo...

One of those very fast prayers, jesus help us and we drove across the bridge. it was had hthe most frightenin experience of my life. we were able to exit out of 59, our sixth evac route. and honestly getting out of houston was the most difficult part and it goes on from there. getting to waco, texas was like driving through a scene of the walking dead. there were national guardsman, they were shutting down roads. so evacuation is not that easy to answer your question. >> it it just sounds terrifying. your kids during this. obviously the triplets are one years old. obviously wouldn't have known...

Evacuation for fort ben county for almost all of the levy districts and i know you're in hairice and paris county. fort ben is the second most populous county in houston and that's where our family of seven lives and we were watching sunday night stun because it escalated so quickly from shelter in place to police literally, anderson, if you can imagine going door to door in fort ben county telling people at first light you need leave. now for the audience who's outside of texas who experienced a hurricane, it's not very easy to evacuate. my wife, audrey, we saw there were six different possib...

The rita evacuation for a storm that never hit. >> yeah. i think a lot of people don't realize so many people died during the evacuations. in terms of what you're seeing on the ground and the coming days, how do you assess things? >> this is a big infrastructure problem. some people in this area, the newer part of town have electricity. when you get into rural areas where the grid went down and now the irrigation system is clogged with debris from this flood, the county officials are going to have their hands full, anderson. to bring the grid back up because when you lose power and we've been ...