Proportions. A dire situation expected to get even worse today wednesday, august 30th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special of today, the impact of Hurricane Harvey with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaz and. Good morning. Welcome today. We have craig in for matt once again. Hard to believe this storm is still sitting on top of the gulf of mexico. Another busy morning. Lets get right to the latest on harvey. After making its third landfall just north of cameron, louisiana. More than 51 inches of rain has already fallen, its still coming down hard in places like beaumont, texas opini. That region seeing a years worth of rain. The official death toll is up to at least ten overnight with an undetermined number of people still missing. An overnight curfew is now being enforced in houston, amid disturbing reports that people are going door to door as policemen to lure them out to rob them. Reporter there are concerns that so much rain has fallen so qu
Do, we have a Customer Service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and weve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and its not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. Most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. W we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, were prioritizing them. And also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. Because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the
typically shelter in beaumont. We have three shelters open, they will not at capacity until they started to get at capacity, well look at opening another shelter. A shelter, you dont just put up there and ask people to come. You have to have supplies, cots, blankets, and someone that knows how to run it. And the red cross, because of all the devastation in texas is very, very limited resources for them, too. So i think that would be our biggest issue,
Officer said he acted in self defense and believed smith was reaching for a gun in his car. The shooting was captured on Police Dash Cam as well as an internal vehicle camera and a cellphone video. I must warn you it is graphic. [ sirens ] prosecutors accused the officer of planting a silver resolver to justify the shooting. His dna was found on the gun, smiths was not. We are live in st. Louis, ryan, i want to get right to the scene with you. Whats the latest there, describe what youre seeing. Reporter things are getting tense right now. Most of the day its been very peaceful but right now you see the officers walking down telling everyone to move back. We were on scene just 20 minutes ago when someone threw a rock into a window of a house near by they were screaming for the person to come out, breaking the windows as we were filming. You hear the officers now giving can the command move back move back. Weve been marching about four miles through the hospital through the Business Dist