period. that is enough to fill the san francisco bay more than ten times over. for the latest from the disaster zone let s bring in george howell. he is live at houston s convention center. good morning, george. reporter: renae good morning to you. the mood here at this convention center that serves a shelter quite frankly home for so many people. the mood is patient but also uncertain. you know so many people uncertain what the next steps will be. the numbers here. just the other day some 8,000 people at the shelter. the numbers diminishing. many people going back to neighborhoods and communities to see how badly brad damaged the homes are. but so many people here lost so much. as they go into the community and even here at the shelter, renae there is another problem. people who are unaccounted for, missingpeople we found the texas center for the missing they have
sfloos right you re looking at more than 300 texas roadways covered in wert. so difficult to get around. jornl howell live for us in houston. as if one hurricane wasn t enough. yet another major hurricane has its eye focused on the united states. let s bring in meteorologist derek van dam good morning. what s on the way. good morning, dave, renae. it s important that we keep this in check here because we are still 7 to 10 days out from any potential threat to the lower 48. but nonetheless this major hurricane which is formed across the atlantic in and out a capturing 3 sustained winds of 115-mile-per-hour does have its eye set on the east coast or perhaps even into florida, perhaps the gulf of mexico. all depending on the computer models you look at. again i want to reiterate we are several days away, several thousand miles away from the storm making any formidable threat across the united states. something well monitor.
not be rid of the water for maybe weeks. look at the if you look at this these people will be up against it and may not get into homes any time soon. dave and renae. devastating. in the last week more than 6,000 people and at least 1,000 pets rescued by the u.s. coast guard. the work goes on. air crews searching for people stranded by the storm. cnn kayleigh hartung took a flight looking for survivors. kayleigh has more from across the border in lake charles, louisiana. reporter: rescuer missions in the air are ongoing for the u.s. coast guard and so many other military assets in the area. for a group of coast guard helicopters taking off from louisiana not far from the texas state line the focus for the past days has been port arthur. but on thursday afternoon when i loaded wup a five-man yew in a
jh helicopter there was an area where waters were quickly rising ten miles north of beaumont. we headed there a call for service saying 20 people drapd trapped on a roof when we got there we saw the 20 people and a house you surrounded by boats. those people loading up to boats and getting to safety quickly. the trained men aboard this helicopter with me very quick to prays the efforts of the volunteers with their boats. the cajun navy if you will have who have come out in mass numbers. our crew headed over to orange texas another place where the waters continued to rice on thursday. there an elderly woman was rescued she told me i lost my car, my house but i have my life i m thankful for that and the u.s. coast guard. her story, one of thousands just like it and there will be more. dave, renae. thanks so much kayleigh. as flooding slams the texas gulf coast most homes under water don t have the insurance needed to rebuild.
you can see the differences in the computer models we look at. earlier the european model had the storm making a pass across the florida straits late sunday next we can. 7 to 10 days away from any formidable threat from the storm. but let s talk about now. because we still have our remnant of what was harvey that continues to churn across the ohio and tennessee river valley. that is going to bring our flood threat to that region. but we can t forget what s still taking place across southeast texas and louisiana. we still have 28 rivers at major flood stage, including the brazos river which we reported on from 24 hours ago. this thing will stay at record level territory for the next four days. dave, renae. that is frightening, derek to think some of the rivers haven t crested we are not even halfway home. thanks for the forecast. thanks. now this process, the