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Again, could drop up to 15 or so more inches of rain. the rainfall has already set a record for the entire state of texas. cnn's scott mclane is in houston surrounded by -- you tell me. where are you? >> reporter: hey, brooke, we're in northeast houston with a tiny bit of good news and that's that it is barely raining at this point after getting just torrential downpours all morning. so, what's happening behind me is this is the flooding that you can see that's affecting a neighborhood, about a mile down. you can see it sort of in the distance and you can see these folks headed out and then yo...

We want to have folks experienced on the water if possible if they can check in to a local staging point that optimizes their effectiveness. >> what's your biggest concern admiral at this hour? >> alisyn my biggest concern is two-fold. obviously the forecast has the storm continuing to sit offshore through today and tomorrow and then slowly start moving northeast. it's going to continue to dump more water in the area so we have not seen the likely maximum extent of the flooding and we're concerned like every other first responder we don't know where everybody is that's out there. we'll continu...

>> reporter: you're a hero to a lot of people. you know that. >> no. it's what we do. it's what we do. >> reporter: how long have you been at it? >> oh, just a few hours. we've been protecting our home, you know, up to this point. so, now that the water's up, it's time to get out and help. >> reporter: ray, what runs through your mind when you see the cats rescued, the children rescued, these people and the look on their faces when you show up. >> real happy. very happy. proud to be a texan. >> reporter: i've observe add l -- observed a lot of this selflessness from houstonian. describe that. ...

Staging point, and then what? where do they take you from there? >> from there, we never got anywhere. we stayed at the staging point until my phone was dead, larry's was wet. we finally was able to reach my son, and he was able to get to the staging area about 6:00 p.m. and pick us up. they were having the national guard come and take people from the staging area, but they were, you know, they were obviously taking the sick and the children first, and so eventually, we got picked up by them. we never made it to a shelter, and my son brought us to his home. >> okay. so you're with your son. an...

There? >> so what you're watching is district one in harris county. the constables with one of the high water rescue boats. they have used this as a staging point for the rescues. they go out to the individual homes. everybody impacted by the rising flood waters and you can see that they are saving anyone from small children to full adults and even their pets as well. the most important belongings, you can see people are relieved to be to dry water. you can imagine what they have gone through as flood waters continue to go. we have heard about the medical concerns. there's elderly woman that h...