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That shelter also filled up with water. one person said the water started seeping into the shelter around 8:00 p.m. local time and it was inundated within 20 minutes. in houston today, that city began to see very, very earliest beginnings of the water receding. the rainfall's let up in houston. even though the forecast calls for more over the next couple of days. houston has gotten nearly 52 inches of rain, well over four feet of rain since the storm started on friday. that means they have destroyed the record in the continental united states for rainfall from a single storm. still, the very w...

Storm in terms of new water falling, that part is certainly closer to an end in houston. but with so much of that gigantic city and its surrounding suburbs under water, we don't know how many thousands of homes, or tens of thousands, or tens of thousands of homes there are going to be uninhabitable in the short run. that human crisis, which we're just at the beginning of, that has been evident in shelters in the region all week. the brown convention center in houston can hold 5,000 people. as we reported last night, as of last night, there were 10,000 people inside, twice its capacity. also as...

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Rosenschein, aviation expert. what do you make of this news now that they've called off that search because of the bad weather, alastair? >> it's not surprising anybody who has been in that area during a thunderstorm downpour will know it's quite impossible to even walk down street. you have to take cover because the sheer weight of water falling is immense. then you get the downdrops as well. on the sea it will be even more predictable because of very large waves that conform very quickly in these equally conditions. >> we know that authorities say there's about 100 feet of depth there. even ...

Main breaks along this drive before but this one made an even bigger splash monday afternoon. >> i heard the noise, started hearing rocks flying, some kind of glass noise and i heard water whipping out from the ground. it was like old faithful. >> it was just water falling, gushing through. >> they're going to get flooded down there though, huh? >> it was like a river. i was calling my mom crying. all you could hear was the roar of the water flying past me. >> every day across the united states an estimated 700 water mains break. 700. these water main breaks cause traffic delays, they cause da...