to eat a hot meal they would give it to them here. the market basket food store is actually open today, but there s a line out front. they re letting people in one at a time or families in one at a time. a police officer is a the door to make sure there were no issues, apparently there were some before they had the police officer. that store is running on a generator, i m told and other members of the cajun navy coming out to assist and they re continuing to go into the neighborhood to pull people out as needed all coordinated by cajun navy and other volunteers and you see the state police and others here trying to manage this massive relief effort. i do want to point out that while all of this has been handled by volunteers for the last 48 hours here in vidor and given out a lot of food and water, the guy running this operation told me they really need generators and they also need ice. not sure if it can get here because the highways are still
pretty bad, but they need generators and they need ice in vidor. i was just handed this by the national guard. they have two distribution set up in orange right now and they ve activated a third here in vidor to the middle school, 2500 highway 12 in vidor, texas. they don t have ice, but they have water and mre s for the folks who need it. a massive operation. where you see the inflatable boats, that s main street. to the right, down that road is where the flood waters are. and that s where you see that state police m-wrap, the military vehicle headed in that direction. the high water vehicles can get through. pickup trucks can only get so far and that s when they put the boats in the water and we found out yesterday rick, we have to cut you off, rick. we ll get back to you. we appreciate you being with us in vidor, texas, north of beaumont and pretty far east, a couple hundred miles east or so of houston where we re seeing
to grade, and of course, catch fire. the company warning the remaining six trailers could catch fire. that area has been evacuated and they are continuing investigations into that plant. leland: yeah, and there s a lot of other infrastructure in houston that they are very worried about in the coming days and weeks. in some places in texas, the flood waters continue to rise. evacuations continue. in other places, people realize they do not have a house to come home to as the waters have receded. the common thread, thousands of volunteers ready to help. rick leventhal on the ground in vidor, texas. leland, the water is slowly receding here. we want a quick look at main street downtown where it s flooded. many neighbors are still isolated by flood waters. there s patches of dry payment