Im elizabeth plan. Thousands of people remained without power and dangerous flooding affects much of the state. More than 2 Million People live in the houston area. At least five people have died in the governor says more than 1000 people have dirty been rescued. Caroline shively tracking it all from houston where the waters continued to rise. Hey, caroline. Reporter hi to you, elizabeth. Numbers coming in absolutely staggering. Two feet of dirty hit us in houston. Another 10 to 15 inches expected today. This thing is not running out until midweek. Arena solidly coming down. Take a look in the uptown area. We drove basically as far as we could, drop anchor because it is a river now. You can see some if you peeked out there where they run into each other, still some trucks are able to push through. Certainly a very dangerous time right now. You mentioned about half a dozen people found that. As the rescue teams come from all areas of texas, as they come from as far away as virginia, the
call 311 in the houston area. we will continue to monitor social media as we are getting stunning images from houston. elizabeth: brian, thank you very much. unbelievable. drink your friends and family said their final goodbyes to one of two u.s. soldiers killed in iraq. sergeant alan stigler junior of the 82nd airborne was laid to rest on saturday in arlington, texas. he was fighting isis militants in a month when he was killed there with the army called in artillery missile. the 22-year-old had just one month left on his tour of duty. sergeant rochon brooks was alongside of him and also died good book says in afghanistan on his first deployment to iraq. if you think about that, 22 years old means he was eight years old on 9/11. elizabeth: doctors appointment and it was really devastating. i saw the images from the funeral yesterday. it was really sad. still ahead, latest developments
got video out and it s unbelievable. we could always use more help. lots of land, lots of flood water. it s a bit difficult to get mobilized. elizabeth: can you share with me the stories you are using? some folks starting to see what is really a years worth of water overnight and some of them waking up in the middle of the night. a lot of people like you said are searching for safety and there s a lot of guidance and at the same time difficult to get families, animals up on the rooftop. what are you hearing? how are people getting now? well, by boat. we ve had volunteers not only first responders, the citizens put out a call on face the un- emergency network that if you ve got a flat bottomed boat, please call this number. our great citizens are responding. we never envisioned this kind of
if used in the record flooding continues. how are officials accepting all the dangers? areas hit hard are still soaked by heavy rains today. our own casey stegall is standing by with the very latest. hi, casey. reporter: elizabeth, rosier look like rivers have thousands of people are stuck in their homes and need rescuing. live from the frontlines next. b. it comes when your insurance company says they ll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you d get your whole car back. i guess they don t want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, we ll replace the full value of your car. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.
higher. leland: looks like we just lost the microphone. this happens so often in the storms that the equipment begins to become waterlogged. casey has been out there since her stare friday. that is under the incredibly difficult conditions as the rain continues to come down there. casey has been talking about and you can hear us now in terms of the need for more and more rescue resources to get into these areas. reporter: can you guys hear me now? we are still having problems. this from galveston, texas. sort of a time where they were beginning to get in. some of the that the vehicles before the flooding started yet another concern for these communities. you can be where it is on the outer edge of the texas coastline is where these communities will begin to get