Is that correct . I heard the sheriff say that and the chief say that. I dont want to necessarily compare the intensity of the smoke of this in spanish, the sheriff said theres no more dangerous than a barbecue. I heard the comment but i dont want to make any comparisons on the smoke coming from our fire gl so we cant be sure its just a campfire smoke . What i can tell you is that from the toxicity of the smoke will certainly cause an irritation to your eyes, irritation to your lungs if you breathe it. Just like any smoke. We encourage people to avoid getting exposed to that. Can you go over what the status of the plant is right now . Give us an update right now. The plant continues to be shut down. One of these nine containers have experienced degradation of the material inside the container. The water levels in the plant are starting to recede slightly and thats the current state of the plant as we know it. No one is in danger based on the fire that we expect. Is it possible for your
Neighborhood since, obviously, the suvs cant make it around. Pickups cant make it around. People are coming out even with dogs, some have life jackets on, whatever they can. Children carrying them to safety, getting them in the bus. And hopefully tol safety. Long night for these folks. The city and county did not put down their guard. They kept these vehicle, these metro buses and the high water rescue folks from the houston fire in place. Yeah, what originally brought us down here, rachel, a phone call to our assignments desk at channel 2. The call was the rising water, more people brought off now. The call was people climbed into the attic to safety. Thats what brought us here. We cant make it into the neighborhood as you can imagine. These folks are being brought in. We are trying to not to bother them because we are trying to get them to safety and out of the rain as quickly as possible but you can see a child being carried in moms arms to safety live pictures now. Lets look to thi
So they can reach dry land. I can also tell you that the Convention Center in downtown houston has more than 1,200 people theyre sheltesheltering offering food, cots to sleep in and perhaps most importantly dry clothes. When these people are pulled from their homes, some showing up without shoes and just the clothes on their backs to make it to that shelter. Very emotional time for these families and also we know this morning the army corps of engineers has released water from two flood reservoirs in houston, and that is sending more water into neighborhoods like the one where we are right now. At the same time, doing that effort is to keep those reservoirs from breaking as we head into the next several days where were expecting more rain and those res noervoirs to hold. Julia, in some of the images weve been playing, weve seen folks in their cars. Weve played the rets queue of the woman trapped in her vehicle. Is it that the water came very quickly and some couldnt make it out. Why ar
What you and i are now discussing and thats the all important aspect that why the reservoirs, why they had to let water out in order to safeguard not only the homes but the families, the animals and everyone there in the houston area. What will they have to do in terms of recovery and rebuilding, sir . Well, in 2006 after ca transcriba we developed a flood Bridge Management program and, of course, we put Public Safety number one and then we based on approach of idea of buying down your risks. Everybody has a certain level of risks and you can never eliminate all the risks totally there. You do activities, zoning, evacuation plans and then you build levees or canals to convey the water out, bring the risk down to a level that one, you can tolerate and, two that you can afford. Its always a balancing act between how much you can tolerate and afford and when houston begins longterm recovery, they would all take a look with federal, state and local Government Agencies and the people and de
Before completely empty. Officials estimate many home the damaged in the houston area. Across the region more than 72,000 people have been rescued. As of right now 47 deaths tied to the storm. In beaumont, the water system is out. Floods have disabled the pumping stations and a hospital had had to transfer its patients and shut down. On top of all of that, there is ir ma. A category 3 hurricane churning across the open atlantic getting stronger heading toward, well, no one knows exactly for sure. And that is a serious problem. We are watching all of this but we do have some breaking news this morning. I want to get to Miguel Marquez in the Baptist Hospital in beaumont texas where evacuations began yesterday. Reporter yeah. Were about to see the evacuations get underway. Expecting a helicopter any moment. They have 11 babies, two healthy babies born here in the last 24 hours. They have nine that were born prematurely that they need to get out. Just a short time ago we got seconds ago, r