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Play out. brian: all right, griff. we will check in with you in a little while. ainsley: griff about one of these water rescues in one of the small boats we will play that story coming up. unbelievable. todd: why wasn't houston evacuated? we knew that this was coming, maybe not 100 percent to the degree that we are seeing right now. but why wasn't the city evacuated? ainsley: the mayor is under a lot of fire for that he says he doesn't have any regrets. he is pleased with the way everything panned out. he said it's so hard to evacuated 6.5 million people. this is what he said. this is mayor sy...

The decision that we made was a smart one, it was in the best interest of housans, it was the right decision in terms of their safety. >> in the real story here, the thousands of rescues yesterday, many of them from volunteers who used their boats in very difficult situations as you can see it's not raining hard now but we are expecting a lot more in -- and historic flooding and now the discussion of what to do with residents and new residents that are facing flooding come manager in the hours of this morning. heather: truly amazing. >> artificial flooding not what you want to hear right now w...

Will create chaos in his words. let's hear what he has to say. >> to try to put forth some sort of evacuation in a couple of days, i mean, the logistics would have been crazy. city of houston 2.3 million people. when you combine that with harris county you are talking about 6.5 million people where are they going? the decision we made was a smart one and best interest of houstonians. >> when there is 50 inches of water pouring ton a city, hard to blame someone. i remember when we lived in south carolina in 1999 we went through that in our state people trying to get out of charleston when hurri...

Communities are underwater. streets are impassable. i have -- the decision that we made was a smart one. it was in the best interest of houstonians. no regrets. >> he is probably right. there is no getting in and out of houston now. for the time being, every road around there is blocked off, and in fairness to both sides of the argument, nobody expected this. just like in 2005, we did not know what hurricane katrina would be like until he saw. we did not know what this would look like. we never had a heart can come in, category four, and sit there in rain like this dropping 50 inches of rain e...

Bayous turn to rivers. this is an urban site in houston except it is completely flooded with water. normally you'd see a hill that goes down to the banks of buffalo bayou, that flows out to the gulf of mexico. right now a raging river. testing the infrastructure of this city and also testing the decisions made by politicians here because early on there was disagreement between the democratic mayor and the republican governor in the state of texas regarding evacuations. local leaders asking people to shelter in place, the governor mentioning that maybe people should evacuate. but the mayor defe...