reservoirs southwest of the addicks reservoir. both roughly 20 miles west of houston, directly north of sugarland if you know the area. the danger here is as you can see where stephanie is, this is overflowing its banks, or it s going to, and it s going to flood a nearby area, so a control release seems to be a better idea. they are going to get up to 8,000 cubic feet per second. right now they are at about 2500 cubic feet per second they are releasing into houston. remember that there s still rain. there s rain that s going to be coming down into houston until thursday night. so this is the problem that we re facing. in fact, stephanie is going to have to get out of there soon because as they continue to get rain the bridge she s on just over the banks is going to be surpassed. the water level is going to be surpassed. this the problem houston is deali dealing with. they have 185 critical rescues to be made and there s more water not less water right now.
everybody but it s also very, very dangerous. our crew and i were trying to get to one of those locations where they are staging command centers for rescues. we couldn t get there because it was too dangerous. we would run into streets that were packed with water and it was just not safe for us to head to any area outside of where we were. that has been the challenge for the first responders. rosa, if we could take her shot full. viewers are wondering what is off to your left? is that a man hole gushing water? is that water hitting a curb or something? what is the source of that water, if you know? that is a man hole. the past hour and a half, we have seen the force of that water increase. right now it s at its highest. the more it rains the higher water is gushing out of that hole. it s difficult to explain just
stranded has been rescued, thank god. you have lived in houston your entire life and lived through tropical storm allison more than 15 years ago. there are some reports from city official there who say this is worse than that when there were 35 inches of rain dumped on houston in some communities. is it that bad? i would definitely say so. you know, we are receiving information that the rainfall totals over several hours, this is outdated a little bit but had already eclipsed the 500-year rain level mark and over 20 inches of water in some places and still rising. hours ago we heard of six feet of water going into some homes and some of the other part of our area. with it happening overnight, it s kind of difficult to really
water. told by firefighters that they are having the same problem the rest of us are and that is trying to get around. if you don t have to get out, i wouldn t. there is, frankly, no reason to be out at 3:00 in the morning. thank you to ryan korsgard with kprc. we want to get to an area we didn t expect necessarily to talk about. everybody s eyes were so focused on corpus christi but rockport, texas, is where things were devastated by the hurricane coming on shore. houston is getting the worst of the rain and rockport got the worst of the wind. show us what you re seeing there. reporter: block after block of rockport a community of 10,000 people have been hit so hard and took a direct hit from the category four hurricane harvey coming through with winds of 120, 130 miles per hour. i m standing what was once a
how much water is running through this hiic downtown houston area. probably as travis and historic district but it s under water. these used to be streets and, right now, it s just completely covered in water. what you see to my left those were banks to a buy u that is no longer there. the area where we were doing our live shots yesterday, we can t get there. it doesn t exist right now because it s completely covered water nwater. the water is rushing toward the gulf of mexico. i can see because of the direction of the water. but until it stops raining, the system is too overwhelmed for it to do its job. it s designed to drain the city of houston but, right now, it s just too overwhelmed. rosa, thank you so much. look. you and the screw stay safe