their homes. you told me earlier some people back there still waiting for a boat ride to get out of this neighborhood. yeah. more so on these two streets here that just came up yesterday. and, you know, they were going to ride it out. and now they ve got water in their homes and there s no point. jeff, i ll leave you here for now. thank you, good luck. stay dry. hallie, i just wanted to show you what we re talking about here. how quickly the depth has changed in this neighborhood. to my left, you know, it s ankle, knee deep. as you get out into the street here. you see this, i want to draw your attention to this mercedes-benz here floating in the street. this is somebody who came back into the neighborhood yesterday and thought it was still only knee or ankle deep. obviously not. it looks like a scene of a ship sinking here. pieces of driftwood floating by and some cul-de-sacs are just completely under water and unsafe to wade or wander through. we ll try to get further back into
downstream is that all of this water will go to the brazos river or much of it. that s along fort bend county area. that river is expected to rise another 4 feet before finally starting to go down i think on friday. and so while much of houston may be dry by the end of the day, there will be areas along the bayou and especially down in fort bend county along the brazos river that will be flooded and where the water will continue to rise and evacuation orders are still in place through friday. hallie? jacob, it s dramatic stuff on the ground there. thank you very much. i want to go back to garrett hake. you ve been walking these kayakers and other folks in boats going into neighborhoods to help folks. what have you seen in the last few minutes? reporter: yeah, hallie, you re looking at pictures from our truck as we re backing out of this neighborhood to drop off this couple we picked up
situation. the water still rising even after the rain stopped falling yesterday afternoon. garrett haake thank you. live from houston. we ll check back in with you. joining me on the phone is john, former fema director for the southeast region under former president bill clinton. thank you very much for joining us here, john. i know you have been listening to what we have been discussing and it seems like the area of intense focus now is beaumont, in addition to houston with torrential rain happening in the beaumont, port arthur area. can you talk about where fema s efforts need to be focusing right now? hallie s, fema s efforts need to be expanding. they can t stop responding in houston. they have to continue to be there for quite some time. the situation there is, no pun intended, still fluid. still an awful lot of water and rescues that need to be made and much to be done. but as the rainfalls accumulate in beaumont and as the situation
along, so i knew it was bad. do you have any idea how many feet of water in that home? there is a stop sign and my house is roughly the same height as that. it is about a foot below the stop sign. so the first floor of your home is destroyed. probably destroyed. did you ride out any of the storm here? i was up on lake conro which almost flooded. you re on this boat and want to go in and check on your house. go and check on a couple neighborhoods and i have a couple cats in the house. hope they re okay. hallie, this is something we saw over and over again. we saw it in our location yesterday and clay road and highway 6 rather. just a little west of here on the north side of the reservoir. people have been coming over and over again. private citizens. not just law enforcement and coast guard and private citizens
we are back now with continuing coverage of harvey in houston and beyond. you are looking live now at a picture of houston, where we find nbc gabe gutierrez. that flood water rushing past a minivan that has been sitting in the street. gabe, this is the location where yesterday we were watching live on the show as people were coming and essentially a convoy of boats getting rescued from their houses as the waters were rising and compared today with what you were seeing now compared to 24 hours ago now. actually, hallie, this is a different location. this is on the south side of the reservoir. the reservoir where those time releases are spilling all this water into this neighborhood. yesterday there were evacuations we re told by residents. but that was just, so we re clear, this is something that is happening all over the houston area. i ll walk over here pretty quickly, if i can. we have some of the volunteers here that are coming out and starting another day of rescues here. just ra