that devastation across the coast of texas and even inland and vice president pence is is going to be getting a view of all of that today. meanwhile, we are entering a new phase here in houston. firefighters are beginning to go door to door, searching for what could be thousands of people who stayed behind stranded or weathered the storm this their homes and there is no idea what they might find. so joining us now on the phone is the houston fire chief, sam well pena. thing you very much for being here. how are you going to start to figure out what region to go to? >> thanks for having me this morning. we've already selected the area. we're starting in the south west parts of houston. the it's an area that was devastated by the floods. they had immense innone dags ui.