imelda s wake. communities cut off by floodwaters from the tropical storm with dozens of rescues carried out in huffman northwest of the center city. we have the latest. reporter: this morning a disaster deja vu for southeast texas. tropical storm imelda turning homes into islands putting roads under water and leaving many like this woman stranded. water up to here. reporter: two years after hurricane harvey flooded her home nearly right back where she started. have to go through it again, you don t want to. you just want to tear your house down and not have to do it again. reporter: residents now beginning to as damages as thousands prepare for a massive cleanup. every room had water in it. every room. so we ve lost just about everything. reporter: the rising waters kept rescue crews busy for days. in one county alone evacuated more than 1,700 people.
skept . parts of southeast texas are completely under water today as the raem naemnants of imelda dun on the region and taking the lives of four people. officials say 500 people were rescued in harris county alone in a single 36 hour-period. parts of highways are buried, trucks are submerged up to their flatbeds and people are wading through chest high water desperate to get to dryer, higher ground all in the same region that was ravaged by hurricane harvey just two years ago. joining me from huffman, texas, gabe gutierrez. i understand even more rain is expected as that storm moves inland, gabe. have conditions improved at all? reporter: hi there, chris. well, i can tell you we did have a break in the rain overnight.
scheduled to begin again a. that, too, as you point out there was a deal offered. prosecutors said if you don t reporter: i asked another gentleman here behind me who is take this, this is as good as it s going to get. striking what advice he would do you think there s any chance at this point they would try to give to the two sides. get a plea? he says he wants them to come up or they is the sense that with a fair deal for both sides. they are just bent on taking this to trial? john and erica? i think the power has now shifted to the prosecution side of the table and i don t know that ignorance if that s their defense is going to be a flurry of finger pointing this morning for the large scale sufficient. because the legal issue here is did they know that money was being used for an illicit or attack. unlawful purpose? and, you know, from the outside looking in, it would seem there s a pretty strong case against them. and even in the phone records that are in the complaint in
the scandal. huffman has pleaded guilty. a woman in a stolen rv leads police on insane chase. tough watch this. the woman with two dogs inside, by the way. crashing into poles and trees in southern california. the right side of the rv was ripped right off. look at that thing. one of those dogs actually jumped out of the front window while the rv was moving. after half an hour the driver crashed into a parked car and tried running away before getting arrested for drunk driving. both dogs will be okay. ainsley: i m glad both dog also be okay. whole chunk of it ripped out. that one jumped out knowing he was fearful. jillian: get me out of here. steve: that s something. quite a picture. brian: that dog had great instinct. so does janice dean. janice: we have wisconsin and minnesota represented today. hi, ladies and gentlemen. stay with me. we re going to check the forecast real quick across the nation. of course we had tornadoes
have for these parents who are edge boil em boiled in this alleged treating scandal? zero. laura: no self-awareness on fraud. this just drives me nuts. the media have to make every story about the earth. a meteor hits the earth, trump should have shot it down. blaming trump for a nonexistent fact, ought to know better than to play that particular card here. really, he should blame lori laughlin and huffman, the two actors involved and not drag in the president. laura: jeff, 10 seconds. yeah, elizabeth warren and the parents of these kids know how to scam colleges quite clearly. laura: still ahead, thanks, guys, using tragedy to squelch speech. tucker carlson is here tonight. he has an answer to that question, plus decoding beto s body language.