Reservoir about 20 miles west of the downtown area. Southwest of houston officials alerted residents just before eight warning them to get out because one of the levees was breached near a neighborhood. Evacuations and rescues are underway in that area. The president and first lady met with texas Emergency Responders and the states governor this morning to talk about the continuing rescue and relief effort and the work ahead for local and federal officials. We want to be looked at in five years, ten years from now is this is the way to do it. Not turning turning anyone away but we need to expand our capacity. In that railroaded we have made the official request to fema. We need additional help and so we have asked them to provide supplies and cots, food, for another 10,000 people. Reporter that was the houston mayor talking about the need for more space. There is 30,000 people in shelters in the houston area. The city of dallas already opened the doors to its Convention Center and we a
Stay on the line. Do not hang up, because that just expands our trunk system, which overloads it and puts on hold the number of people we cant get to. So stay on the line. What we also initiated last night whats a voice activated system that notifies people if they do call 911, their call is being processed. Thats significant. It what we were experiencing earlier was a constant rain and thinking our system was down. Our system hasnt been down, just the long way to call, so stay on the line. Were also encouraging citizens if they receive any calls from relatives, if they have contacted 911 previously, do not follow up with that. Do not test 911 right now. We are just experiencing an abundance of calling. We do have a good grasp on that. We are encouraging people if they do need help, please call 911 and we will process that call. [ inaudible ]. Extreme emergencies. Status reports is not life threatening, okay, so we discourage those types of calls. We really want to keep those lines ope
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