What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Announcer this is a special edition of Good Morning America. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now, roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. Right now, so many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right, and the Texas National
Doors of his houston megachurch. What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now. Roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. So many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right. The Texas National guard sharing this rescue video overnight
With that new requirement and californias governor reimposing sweeping closures in most of the state. With me this entire hour to help us take a closer look at the crisis in texas is msnbcs david gura, outside the worlds medical system, backlog of ambulances amid a shortage of hospital beds. Bring us up to speed on the situation there. Reporter yes, this is the heart of the medical community here in houston, eamon, a busy place. The latest data on icu bed capacity. They can handle 1,330 icu beds on a regular day. Yesterday 1,350 were occupied. They found new space for the patients and a plan put in place by the administration of this, the Texas Medical Center to find new places in hospitals that make up this complex that can be converted into wards for icu patients. The 1,350 number is astonishing. Not all of those patients are being hospitalized and treated for covid19. About 480 of them are, so that gives them more flexibility yet, but you talk to and listen to executives from the He
You dont know. Nobody knows. This is impossible youre going to propose a plan to the American People and youre not going to tell them what it costs . Blast waves. An explosion rocks a houston warehouse. Killing at least two windows blown out. The blast felt miles away. Why are police now calling it a homicide investigation. Grammy awards fallout the superstar singer who wont perform sunday night. Plus the new backlash after accusations the awards are rigged. And Steve Hartman makes a boys dreams come true. Its music to our ears. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west. Theres a lot of news as we come on the air. Well get to the president s impeachment trial in just a moment, but we begin with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in china. Tonight, a second american has been diagnosed, this time in chicago. And the c. D. C. Says they are investigating more than 60 possible cases. In china, th
Region. Destroyed or damaged 100,000 homes according to officials. Teama said more than 96,000 texans have been approved for assistance and explosions rocked a Chemical Plant and there could be more. The fumes sent responders to the hospital. On top of all of that, as if thats not all enough, in the caribbean with one model towards the gulf of mexico. Ing it three and getting stronger. There is a lot to cover ahead in beaumont. Talk about the evacuations all throughout the day. Its unusual and sad and dramatic, but we are in the middle of a process where 193 patients inside the hospital are being evacuated via helicopter. You would think why are they doing that . Because of floodwaters . No. Because of no water. A pump station broke because of harvey and the city has no clean water. 118,000 people live in the city and they have no water and the hospital has no water. The decision was made that the patients cannot stay here. Even the sickest patients are coming out every few minutes and