that s about to change. the city announced news residents have been waiting to hear. let s get out to beaumont, we are outside the water treatment facility. katie, what have you learned? reporter: the water and rivers are too high for a full assessment of the damage to the two intake facilities here at this treatment plant, but the good news, we are just learning of six pumps have been installed. six pumps from a private company, tiger industries, are now pumping water into this facility to be treated and then sent out to the city of beaumont. there s changes in pressure. there will be interruptions to service when you get the water. boil it. it s one step in a temporary fix to a problem that s been so big to so many. i want to bring in colonel paul owen, southwest division commander for the u.s. army corp. of engineer, landed on the ground from galveston. they have six pumps here, those yet not installed.
what do you know about where we are in the process? the pumps are waiting to be moved to a site that s currently not accessible because the water s too high at this point. it s incredible what the local city and engineers here have done to figure out a solution where our pumps are used as backup basis, so it s i mean, again, with local communities and local industry contributing to making this a rapid solution from a local level, i think this is a great example of a community coming together to solve a problem. as you say, so many entities coming together, everyone s working around the clock. what have you heard of the challenges of this particular case? so, for our, you know, our pumps, we originally got assigned a mission assignment from fema at the request of the state a couple days ago, so we worked very hard to fine the right pumps, get them to this location, and then the time that ha happened, i think, you know, the ingenuity of the local engineers had the solution to pum
it was a different process than what they are usually used to, and i think our pumps, once the water is down, potentially works as a backup for the original process. reporter: when you go inside here, talking to the people here the past couple days, what questions are you going to be asking? first thing, congratulate them. they did a great job restoring an social service for their people, so i m going to ask them, you know, just some questions about how they came up with this idea. frankly, i m curious as an engineer how they did this. seems to be going to work good for them. well, thank you so much. we ll let you get in there for the briefing. all right, thank you. reporter: good news for the residents as the water will be more of a flow than a trickle. that is huge, huge. katie, thank you for that reporting. coming up, breaking news we re following, the justice department has announced they have found no evidence to backup president trump s claims that trump tower was w
can t go to because of the water, so once we have the full scope of the condition of all of our schools, we ll be able to decide what we re going to do in terms of housing or co-locating students in other buildings. this is a massive undertaking as i m sure you re aware of, and the last thing we want to do is put students or staff in facilities that are not safe and conducive to teaching and learning. the district says 115 schools have to be deep cleaned, but they will be ready for school to start on september 11th. 53 others have major damage, and 22 have extensive damage. at least one houston elementary school may not open for months. now, one family s rescue from harvey s rising flood water went viral when the mom posted video of her four kids, three-legged dog, and this beloved family pet pig who was saved by first responders. today, the family returned to their home in texas after water
about it, just do it. that s what america is great about. we help our neighbor. we help each other when down. reporter: in east texas, there was a nursing home where they had yet to evacuate the residents there. what happened? we made entry into the nursing home, roughly 65 patients in the first nursing home. we were told we couldn t take them out, and we didn t give it a chance. we didn t give them an option. we took ownership of the nursing home, restrained the director, and we took the patients out. roughly 70 boats, got those people out, got them to safety. stha had been in water for two days, feet in the water for two days, diabetic patients. what i saw was devastating to me as a person and human being. that can t happen. then we found another nursing home own by the same company, same thing again, 75 patients in it. reporter: thank you for the effort, glad you met the president today. stay safe, and thank you for talking to us. reporter: that s a small example.