What are you guys going to do now, claudio . Were going to stay here, find shelter. Because weve been hearing the news its going to come back and hit us again. And would have had nobody would have had nowhere to go. So were going to stay here and try to protect ourselves. Try to protect my kids. And try to try to last through this storm. I dont know if its going to get worse or not. But we want to be safe. I want my family to be safe. So i guess were going to stay here until everything is over. Claudio, were glad youre okay. Hug your kids and wife for us. Thank you so much for joining us here on cnn. Good luck to you. Best of luck. All right, thank you, sir. Thank you. Jamie baxter, weve got jamie by phone again. Technical issues, storm, hes stranded in his apartment with neighbors tonight. Havent really tried the police because i know that theyve been swamped and the red cross is swamped, as well. So we dont really know who to call. It seems like we put out the word for help and we si
there are tens of thousands of people still needing rescue. brian wa todd, appreciates your reporting. i want to go to isis bragg. you heard from her at 10:00 p.m. eastern. she is trapped with her 1-year-old baby and her cousin. the water is rising. now she s very worried about the electricity and she joins us by phone. isis, where are you now in and who is with you? yes, i m still in the home and i still have the same people with me. mys are y my cousin and 1-year-old baby. has the electricity been going in and out? yes, it has. most of the unit s lights have went back out. do you have electricity now or no? yes, i have electricity right now. as i understand, are you seeing a fire nearby you? yes, i am. talk to me.
the loved ones they may have with them. and that s what they leave with. and luckily, these people are alive. those who made it have been so far we know three people have died because of the storm. there you go. you re looking at houston, texas and a live rescue. we ve got tara on the phone. she helped save her neighbor and she s been helping people evacuate from the hospital. there are many stories to tell, tara, for people who are, you know, who are running away from the floodwaters and trying to get to safety. right, right. definitely. definitely. there s quite a bit out there. we ve seen a few. we got to witness different ones with coast guard, in fact just coming down in a basket, picking up another pregnant woman they couldn t get to. i tried, over fences and everything. i couldn t get to her. luckily the coast guard about then pulled down a basket and
military department. colonel, thank you. we know that you re busy. we appreciate your time. your guardsmen are around the state of texas aiding in this evacuation and rescue operations. will they be able to continue working throughout the night and working 24 hours? it s a lot of work. absolutely. the men and women are working around the clock. and they re going to keep working. we ve got a plan to keep it going 24/7. uh-huh. do you have any idea how many people are still stuck and waiting to be rescued? we re hearing a thousand calls an hour for rescues. i don t have an idea how many are still needing rescue. as soon as we get calls, we re still responding to them. we re still getting plenty of calls from local and state agencies, and from other groups out there that are doing search and rescue, and we re helping them. those have not slowed down. so i know we still have a lot of work to do. so what s the biggest problem?
and she s way over on the northeast side. but we re staying in our little west side memorial area. we ve got plenty of people to get off of buffalo bayou. we ve got more guys coming in the morning and bringing their boats. we re just going to get one at a time. safety guys are doing great. the fire and the police, they re doing a great job. they re just i m looking at had website on like people who need rescue, houston harvey rescue or whatever. there s over 1100, 1200 names on this thing. some of them are not correct and you start looking up where map links are, it s not correct. there s a lot of confusion and a lot of it s word of mouth. everybody s chipping in. that s the great story is, we go knock on the door, we don t ask them what their religion is or who they voted for in the last election. none of that matters. you need help? it should not matter especially in this circumstance. this is something as sad as it is it brings us all together.