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Is heartbroken. their ranch foreman, wayne spears, among the victims. officials going door to door, searching for as many as ten people still unaccounted for here in humphreys county. >> they were on a raft trying to hold on. they hit a tree and it broke. one sister went one way, lily went the other. >> reporter: tarri holderman telling us her 15-year-old niece, lily bryant, is among those missing. lily's sister making it to safety. >> and it's just been tough, because we can't find her and we need to find her. >> reporter: more than 17 inches of rain falling in just a matter of hours over the...

I want to bring in chad meyers here. talk to me about the flash flood emergency. >> it means that flash flooding is occurring. and it is life-threatening over the city of houston. harris county and also just slightly to the west of harris county, too. let me get to what has happened over the past three or four hours. this big purple eruption of cloud cover has gone right over the city of houston. and southward too, all the way down to just about galveston. it's a train of storms. one storm after the other that is going along the same path. that's the same problem and the aim threat that the pi...

35 inches of rain. caused about $5 billion in damage. this will be a storm that has widespread flooding all across the houston area, again, unfortunately, a lot of floods we have seen the last couple years have been training thunderstorms have been going across the area and caused localized flooding in couple neighborhoods. this is going to be a widespread flooding event eventually towards houston as well. todd: let's bring in griff jenkins like we said live from houston. griff, it does look like it's getting a lot worse rainwise where you are. >> that's right, guys. we're just starting to see...

But it was a scene of described by one emergency official here in houston as a madhouse today as about a thousand cars were stranded on roadways throughout the cities as -- throughout the city as people were just trying to get out of the way of these walls of water that were spilling out of the bayous. a very chaotic situation in the overnight hours and into this morning as torrential rain downpours fell once again. these rains could continue. the good news is throughout the rest of this day, we haven't seen any more rain which has given these bayous a chance to recede at least get as much wat...

Now the concern is that streets may flood. >> reporter: at least one tornado touched down, packing near 100 mile an hour winds, battering trees and knocking over a tractor-trailer. northwest in norfolk, nebraska, huge hail came beating down, some as big as tennis balls, peppering houses and shattering windows. the system is now moving east, expected to dump stormy weather in the ohio river valley on wednesday. clayton sandell, abc news, omaha, nebraska. >> as the storm system moves east, flooding could be severe. >> our coverage right now continues with the latest from accu-weather. we have ji...