Firing of a missile over japan, the u. N. Now condemning this latest test but isnt taking any action. Good morning, everyone, its august 29th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin along id Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Harvey will make landfall once again as some towns on the edge have measured 50 inches of rain. With the president s and first ladys visit yesterday, the situation became more dire for many in the city and across south texas. In all, there have been nearly 19,000 Water Rescues across south texas as of last night. The death toll has climbed once more, now to nine. But images are circulating across social media. Along those killed, Houston Police officer Sergeant Steve perez. The chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived
media asking for help, asking for help in their elderly parents or people who live there. There is one house i was able to find the address for. This is a house in beaumont. A street map before the storm. There are people as of an hour ago on the roo
rain, in six hours. i mean imagine getting that much snow in six hours. let alone rainfall. so we have flash flood emergencies for this area. we have first responders that are out, there and boats trying to rescue people, from this area from beaumont to winnie hit the hardest. houston by the way hasn t rained at all. not that far away, very localized and very concentrated in this one little small area and this area of maroon here shows you where we have the flash flood emergencies this morning. now houston to shreveport in the flash flood watch, and in case it shifts a little bit but again, this area in southeast texas has been hit extremely hard. due need a huge hurricane to have, you know a devastating event and we have heard, there is water in homes. so additional rainfall is still possible, and one location, i just saw, has up to 27 inches of rain, for this entire event. so that is going through yesterday and today, and i need to update this, we were thinking 20 to 25 inches possib
rivers. the rivers just get overflowed. and this is the case to beaumont. when we get the pictures at day break, it is an ugly scene. it hasn t stopped. and the flash flood emergency, since about midnight. and this is the doppler radar estimate, and you can see houston, hardly anything, maybe an inch or two, and this area of pink in here is an estimated 20 inches of rain and we have had come dation of one rain gauge with 28 inches of rain in the last two days. 28 inches of rain. it is like, you know, almost a year s worth in a lot of locations. in the northeast. or even actually about half of a year in the northeast. so here is the map that amy was referencing. right now, we have six systems, three in the atlantic, we have imelda we just talked about, humberto went by bermuda yesterday with 100 mile-an-hour wind gusts and still has 125 mile-an-hour wind, it is the strongest hurricane this far north in the atlantic, in about 19 years. so warmer water does give extra
just back off of that and say you know what, as an auto manufacturer, we want to make better cars with better emissions standards just for our goodness and the benefit of the country. forget the federal standards. we want to do better. a sad irony that this is happening in the same week that everyone is trying to put the spotlight on the climate change debate in this country and saying greenhouse gases and gas emissions and co2 emissions are front and center and need to be reduced across the world. danny, thanks for that. appreciate it. with, that let s switch gears and get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. horrible news from the beaumont area, texas, remember, it was a weak tropical storm, we watched it yesterday, we were worried about flash flooding. it has developed significantly overnight. i want you to watch this radar. this is over the last six hours, here is winnie right here, and if i just leave my finger there, all of the bright reds are thunders
good morning, peter. good morning, shannon, and we are starting to hear from some of these pilots who have been out on the rescue missions, we have seen videos of them saving hundreds of thousands of different people in different neighborhoods, something really interesting to think about, a lot of these pilots are coming from places outside of texas, they are not necessarily familiar with the lay of the land, and some of the aircraft that they are flying are older, don t necessarily have all of the newer parts, i spoke to someone this morning who said that they were in an area unfamiliar with it, able to use google maps on his iphone to try to locate someone, and then he saved them, and that survivor is now going to be okay, one of the new aircraft though, is still being used by the air marine operations, cbt, and they are about to start because we are now a few days after the storm, taking the rescue equipment out, the mission is changing, so the rescue basket is going to come out,