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28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today the impact of Hurricane Harvey, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. So glad to have you on us on a busy monday morning if youre just waking up. Craig melvin is in for matt. Weve been seeing images out of texas they take your breath away, words like catastrophic and historic being used to describe the flooding and damage from harvey and yet those words hardly seem to do it justice. Hard to believe that that part of this country is actually expecting more rain as well. Meanwhile, fema says they expect at least 30,000 people to live in those temporary shelters. We are just at the beginning of this. Heres where it stands right now. At least two people have died, but officials expect that number to rise as crews work that are way through still rising floodwaters. In houston alone more than 1,000 high water rescues
Over japan. And good evening. Thanks for joining us for this special edition of world news tonight this monday. Im tom llamas in for david, and tonight, greater houston remains paralyzed. A region of 6. 8 Million People advised to shelter in place, and stay off the roads as the flooding disaster unfolds. The storm claiming even more lives and just behind me, you can see downtown houston, and where the Buffalo Bayou meets downtown, but there is so much water here. You cant tell where downtown ends and the bayou starts, and with all the help coming in from the federal and state governments and from california to rhode island, its still not enough. Neighbors and strangers pitching in. For a third brutal day, rescues. You see right there, an armada of volunteers with boats. Th tens of thousands of people under evacuations. The rivers still rising and this dangerous development, two reservoirs threatening to spill. Tonight, there have been more than 4,000 high water rescues. More than 30,00
New evacuations just ordered. More days of flooding rains ahead, the worst far from over. Lives hanging in the balance. The race against time right now. Announcer this a special edition of Good Morning America, disaster in texas, flooding catastrophe. Good morning to our viewers in the west. Youre looking live at a neighborhood in texas. The rain still coming down. Its far from over. More than 2,000 rescues in the houston area. Many residents still stranded. This shows flood victims waiting to be rescued. Take a look at some of these before and after images, truly stunning. This is the interstate before harvey and just a few hours later look at that. The rising water almost all the way up to that sign and then take a look at the runway at Hobby Airport before and now it is completely under water. Heres what we know this morning. At least five deaths so far have been blamed on the storm. Up to 50 inches of rainfall in the storm zone. Fema has been deployed to to the scene. The governor
More days of flooding rains ahead. The worst far from over. Lives hanging in the balance. The race against time right now. And, good morning, america. You are looking live now at houston, texas, that is a neighborhood of meyerland. Entire neighbors under water as you can see. The rain still coming down. Thats drone footage of the city as well right now. The rain is coming down. Houses just about submerged. We have never seen anything like this. Incredible all the video and images coming in and, of course, harvey is still wreaking havoc on the fourth largest city in america and as beef been saying it is far from over. Much more rain to come. More than 2,000 rescues. Take a look at this video from overnight. That man just holding on to his car waiting to be rescued as the current threatens to keep him away. More rescues still going on right now. Well talk to the police chief about that in a moment. Take a look at some of these before and after images, truly st stunning. This is the inter