Bodies. It was invisible at the time. This is something you have to see to believe. Laura anthony showed us a major freeway leading into houston where 150 feet of the concrete median was just pushed aside. I9 is closed indefinitely through the houston area. Lets go live now to vic lee with a look at how the bay area is ready to help when disaster hits. Vic . Reporter strangers helping victims of the flooding. We have experience, as you know, that same kind of thing here in the bay area in the past. In fact, San Francisco has a very good program that helps people help themselves in the event of an emergency, help their neighbors, and first responders. San francisco fire captain erica heads the citys Neighborhood Emergency Response Team training, a program that stemmed from the 1989 earthquake. People were doing everything from helping us with the traffic lights all the way up to helping us carry the hose. Reporter in february in san jose, flooding trochlt ining pr evacuation of 14,000 r
I am so proud to be a texan today. Out of the flood water and into the air. Happening in texas, nearly a hundred nursing home patients are being flown finally to safety. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. Its a hopeful ending to whats been a trying day in port arthur, east of houston, where people are standing in the flood waters from Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical depression. All day long, weve been watching these evacuations of more than 70 patients, trapped for more than 24 hours. They had to be brought out by boat, many of them in wheelchairs. Neighbors and family members started the evacuations before authorities were able to get there. They alerted a reporter of the urgent need. One of the night nurses saw what was happening on tv and rushed in to help. I saw this on tv. I couldnt believe it, so i waded through the water and somebody gave me a ride on a boat. It just breaks my heart. What a sweet woman to help like that. Military helicopters are flying those patient
and take passenger back to the bay area, starting point. we have a reporter on the scene and hear from him as soon as we can but in the men time we have on the phone with us from the contra costa county fire department chief hue henderson. are you there. yes. i appreciate. tell us what is happening there right now in terms of the injured at least. how many are we dealing with? reporter: okay right now is we currently have 35 victims that are complaining of my nor pain to moderate injuries. we have 10 ambulances on scene that we are working on arranging transport to local hospitals with. we are in a rural area out on an island so getting patients moved and stuff right now is been a little tricky but we are working through that right now to make it work. reporter: okay chief sounds like all the injuries are minor to moderate. no life threatening injuries or serious noychlt life threatening injuries. the driver of the semi truck was uninjured and all the injuries are, were