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This is the cbs evening news. Odonnell good evening. Along with Anthony Mason in new york, im Norah Odonnell in houston, texas. We are outside the george r. Brown Convention Center. It is the citys primary shelter where thousands who fled harvey are jammed together at double capacity. Were going to have more on that in a moment. But some of the other headlines from today. 17,000 have sought refuge in houston. Preparations are now being made tonight to try and open larger shelters. Also today, two reservoirs overflowed, sending more water into neighborhoods. Mason the preliminary death toll is ...

Sergeant steve perez, a highly respected 34 year veteran of the Houston Police force. We cant find him, it was too treacherous. To go under and look for him. We made a decision. To leave officers there waiting, because as much as we want to recover him last night, we cannot put other officers at risk for what we knew in our hearts was going to be a recovery mission. Juan for the latest lets go to Trace Gallagher in kingwood texas. We are about the last rescue boat out tonight, we are on lake houston. This is the barrington subdivision, its a golf community. Weve been out here for two hours, we...

Its may be some day going to disappear. We have our great congressman here. Were going to be working with congress helping out the state of texas. Its going to be a costly proposition. Again, probably ted cruz is here. Senator, thank you very much. Senator cornyn. Will be working with these characters over here. I think we will come through with the right solution. But probably theres never been anything so expensive and our countrys history. Theres never been anything so historic and terms of damage and in terms of ferocity is what weve witnessed with harvey. Kat the president expected to hea...

Cities of port arthur and beaumont. The floodwaters are rising and sadly there is no way for people to get out. This is all coming as rescues continue in houston. The red cross says 17,000 people are now in emergency shelters, two stadiums in houston, the Toyota Center and nrg stadium are taking in evacuees which Houston Convention center over capacity. It dumped 51. 88 inches of rain in a suburb east of houston and unloading 15 trillion gallons of rain in texas. The amount of water is astounding and overwhelming. Were on the north side of houston near the reservoir thats overflowing. Good mor...

Again. Some towns have measured 51 inches rain. Since the storm began and the situation has become more dire for many in the city and across south texas. As of last night there have been nearly 19,000 water rescues across texas. The death toll has now climbed to nine confirmed but the images of the missing are circulating across social media. Among those killed was a Houston Police officer, Sergeant Steve perez. The chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived yesterday. Unfortunately in the darkness Sergeant Perez drove to an underpass thats about 16 1 2 feet, drove into the water...