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What are you guys going to do now, claudio . Were going to stay here, find shelter. Because weve been hearing the news its going to come back and hit us again. And would have had nobody would have had nowhere to go. So were going to stay here and try to protect ourselves. Try to protect my kids. And try to try to last through this storm. I dont know if its going to get worse or not. But we want to be safe. I want my family to be safe. So i guess were going to stay here until everything is over. Claudio, were glad youre okay. Hug your kids and wife for us. Thank you so much for joining us here on cnn. Good luck to you. Best of luck. All right, thank you, sir. Thank you. Jamie baxter, weve got jamie by phone again. Technical issues, storm, hes stranded in his apartment with neighbors tonight. Havent really tried the police because i know that theyve been swamped and the red cross is swamped, as well. So we dont really know who to call. It seems like we put out the word for help and we si ....
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Just now getting to dry land after seven days in water-logged neighborhoods. as long as we have food, now we are running out of food and water so i m ourt here. reporter: in west houston officials strongly urging those with water in their homes to leave now as water is planned to be released from stressed reservoirs. flood waters in the homes is a hazardous situation. there s dangers of electi electrocution. it is not a safe place to remain. reporter: but homeowners in the region are going to get help in assessing the hazards and damage to their homes. a federal official tells cnn there are about a thousand housing inspectors from the federal government on the ground in texas with maybe 200 more on the way and, jim, they are going to desperately need help to assess the damage and some of the dangers around their homes. no question, brian todd there. we re going to go now to another part of beaumont, texas, one of the hardest hit communities from harvey where the river is stil ....
Expanded. they want people nowhere nearer than a mile and a half and we are seeing a measure of that right now. i want to talk more about the crisis unfolding in beaumont, texas. we have the jefferson county commissioner reverend bo alfred. i ve had the opportunity to speak with you a couple times this week as your community has gone through what it s going through. as we look at new pictures now from a chemical plant, either on fire or an explosion, i know beaumont has a lot of refinery services, et cetera. what s the level of concern where you are? well, you re right. beaumont has a lot of refineries, et cetera. but i m very confident in their expertise and their safety records, one. number two, those plants are the ones helping the city with their expertise and the engineering section to get us past the point of not having water. so, i feel comfortable with where we are moving at this present time. you can t gauge some things happening and we just have to ....
Belief that they will do it in a short order. well, listen, commissioner alfred, we re rooting for you. we ve got confidence in you. we wish you the best of luck. we appreciate you. thank you. well, please stay with us. we continue to monitor the smoke rising above a chemical plant near houston, texas. will the u.s. get hit by another hurricane? just days from now. we ll bring you the newest forecast on hurricane irma s power and its path towards the u.s. another day of work. why do you do it? it s not just a pay check, you actually like what you do. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. you re developing ai applications on the cloud. finding insights hidden in decades of medical documents. and securing millions of iot sensors. ....