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We'll do everything we can to keep these roads open. we have traffic cameras on every major roadway in the state and are clearing traffic issues real time so we can keep people moving. fdot and law enforcement are work diligently. we're already seeing bottlenecks at major highway junctions which brings up an important point. you d not need to evacuate out of the state or hundreds of mile ace way to stay safe. find shelters in your county. we are coordinating with google's response team to close roads in real time in the event hurricane irma forces a closure of any roads in the aftermath of the...

This -- as we look at this little boy with his family. you know, we've been watching these pictures for days now. and after a while, it becomes very difficult to not be moved by some of these images. the folks in beaumont specifically, stephanie, what are they telling you they need most right now? >> reporter: they need their roads open, craig. i mean, that's the thing. you've got a city of 100,000 people that is completely cut off. and an official from the police department told us that they tried in vain last night to get an 18-wheeler in with supplies, with water and food. and it tried to p...

About in many cases everyday people like you and me going out on the street and using improvised explosives, anything they can get their hands on from home to make the makeshift bombs, these homemade bombs which they'll fill with anything they can. they pitch them at the national guard. the national guard then tries to confront them. this is more than just what you see there, though, in terms of what that national guard is trying to do is keep the roads open. the blockade is about the opposition using any lever of power they can to stop this vote, fre, and that's the key thing that they're try...

Lot of that stuff that will dry out and be fine or do you think you're going to have large-scale rebuilding to have to do? >> most of what you saw across the world in the media today was the interstate system, and that -- most of it is completely drivable right now. we have -- the first thing we did, more than 750 cars, getting them off and getting the roads open, getting mud off the roads and it's fine. we will do a critical infrastructure assessment tomorrow morning. bridge by bridge. overpass by overpass. to make sure that nothing was undermined. our -- it is unusual, however, for there to ...

-- most of it is completely drivable right now. we have -- the first thing we did, more than 750 cars, getting them off and getting the roads open, getting mud off the roads and it's fine. we will do a critical infrastructure assessment tomorrow morning. bridge by bridge. overpass by overpass. to make sure that nothing was undermined. our -- it is unusual, however, for there to be structure flooding, and particularly structure floodings of this magnitude. the area, particularly brays bayou, where we had a lot of the overflow, the army corps of engineers and our flood control district did a maj...