is now as we said tropical storm harvey as we await a news conference from the governor, we'll be talking with correspondents throughout the next couple hours, let's go to nbc's stephanie gosk live in houston with the latest, these pictures tell the story. that looks like a highway, stephanie, behind you. >> it is, alex, or it was a highway. obviously no one is passing here, we're on the onramp to what used to be 69 south and we were trying to get south of the city because some of the worst flooding is -- had taken place overnight south of the city and we can't get there. in fact, we just saw a fire department crew come down here with a boat and that boat is needed. they had to turn around because there's nothing they can do. you talked about the emergency systems being overloaded. it's an incredible comment from a city official that they have to dwishl between life threatening and just dangerous