anything you d like me to try to find. but i m sure you re happy that he is okay. that s the main thing. that s the important part. he was hunk erred down with four other people, two couples and five dogs in a one-bedroom apartment. they went to the lower apartments in the building, and the top apartment, the roof blew off. they had trees on cars, but they managed to stay safe. and i understand today is your wedding anniversary. today is the day we didn t have our party on this day, but this is the day that we got married. this is the day i was supposed to be home. oh, wow. well, casey, thank you so much. we re glad that you re safe and we re glad that your husband is safe as well. we appreciate you joining us. thank you so much. good luck. amazing stories of survival. listen, before we leave you tonight, i want you to take a look at new york city s tribute in light.
what they were living through last night and this is because the system itself is just spawning off in little pockets. there s enough energy embedded in the system, even though there s no day time heating, we have a lot of that moisture from the gulf is warm water and that s fueling these storms. thank you very much. still ahead, we re having more stories coming in to us, the harrowing res excuse and this is a first account of this video fresh to us of what the city streets look like in and around houston. amazing stories of survival. we ve seen homes submerged, cars literally submerged where the water goes over the rooftop and people have been trying to flee using rafts or anything that will float to take the belongings that they have and find safe shelter. back with more in a moment.
but a large majority of them are just volunteers out here doing what they can to help their neighbors. keep in mind, all of this is amidst flash flood warnings. we were under a warning for most of the day here and lifted just afternoon and people working this. some of the people don t know each other. in this particular house, just like up and down the street, there s amazing stories of survival. it is a husband and wife living in this home. the husband was out of town at the time. the wife, however, was home. she was able to get out on to a garage roof. the water was so high, the boat pulled up to the garage roof and she hopped on. people not only taking stock of what s left and also reliving these memories every time we have these flash flood warnings and these warnings about possible dam fail yurlurefailur. back to you. sarah dallof there in columbia, south carolina, thank you very much. thomas? really such a contrast as we look at how beautiful it is
upsidedown. the ntsb and federal railway administration are on the scene. we re looking at the track, the train signals and the operation of the train, mechanical condition of the train, human performance. we re setting up a multidisciplinary investigation to try and understand the factors that led to this accident. the derailment is impacting travel across the country and raising questionings today about the state of our nation s infrastructure, we ll dig into that as well as what the ntsb is looking for and more of those amazing stories of survival. in fact that s where we begin here in philly with msnbc s adam reiss. rmt tour e as you mentioned earlier, we re now at seven fatalities this is a parallel search and investigation. a search for people who might still be unaccounted for and the investigators are still combing this site.
they re going to and the world they re going to face is unlike how it was when they grew up. they are coming and they re getting great, great education and great front line view of what it means to be an american and to have change and to see all of this unfold here in our city. they have to make it better. kids will have to fix this thing. thank you for being with us. appreciate it. thank you, john. kate? thank you, john. we ll get back to baltimore in just a moment. ahead for us at this hour, the other major story we re following. nepal earthquake its taken thousands of lives. a quarter of the population there impacted. rising from the rubble are also some amazing stories of survival. that and the struggle now to get aid to the hardest hit areas after a break. i m one. i am one of the one s who discovered always discreet underwear for sensitive bladders. it makes me feel secure, confident. i feel protected. i mean i feel comfortable to move in them, they move with me. i lov