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Do anything. the mayor didn't call for even voluntary evacuations. >> do you question that decision right now? >> definitely. he made the wrong choice. he should have at least -- but you know what? nobody can predict mother nature. but he -- we just incident didn't know it was going to get this bad. >> reporter: so i had a conversation with the safety manager from the army corps of engineers, and the army corps of engineers runs and monitors both of these dams. and the conversation that i had with him over the weekend, on saturday morning, was that they were going to close the gates of these d...

Were waiting to be serviced. these were calls that had already got enthrough toe 911. all the information had been transmitted, and they are then put in a queue to determine whether the national guard or the coast guard or the fire department goes and rescues these people. at that time there was a queue just to get through to 911 of about ten calls. and officials were encourage lg people not to hang up because then it causes the dispatchers to actually have to go and get connected to those people again. this is a problem for people using their cell phones because they're running out of power w...

Uncontrolled water either spilling over the dams or over the reservoirs. but the people that live in those homes were telling me today that they actually rarely get flooding there and that some of them even thought they should have been more adequately warned about what was going to happen overnight. listen to this conversation i had with this woman who was rescued today by the coast guard. >> does this area normally flood in the last two years did it flood? >> no. oh, my gosh, it never floods like this here at all. this is a rater. probably once in a thousand years maybe. >> i mean, you live ...

But you and i been working together since late last week and you and r one i've talked to said that this was going to happen and that this was not the weirdest outside possibility that this much rain was going to come to houston. it was actually well within the projections. i just want to keep this clear because people keep saying we didn't know it was going to happen. >> yeah. the case was we knew that the flooding would be the worst aspect of the storm. we didn't realize that it would strengthen into a category 4 before landfall. that was a bit of a surprise. the rainfall amounts we knew thi...

Things are being handled really well. the spirit is incredible of the people. the coordination between all of the different services, as you know, has been going very well. great respect for the governor. he's done an i look forward to the trip. so i'll be going there tomorrow. we're leaving at about 8:30 in the morning. we don't know exactly we'll be -- we'll notify you soon. we may actually go back on saturday depending on where the storm goes. we may go to louisiana on saturday. >> are you surprised at the magnitude? >> it's the biggest ever. they're saying it's the biggest, it's historic. ...