Which has caused such devastation in texas, is now heading towards neighbouring louisiana. Record amounts of rainfall have fallen across the region. Large parts of houston the countrys fourth largest city are still under water. More than 20 people have died and nearly 200,000 people have registered for financial help. Laura trevelyan is in houston now. Welcome to houston and you can see behind me the chaos that the catastrophic flooding has caused in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. As you can see people have had to abandon their homes, abandoned their cars. These are extraordinary scenes and just this morning i witnessed dramatic rescues, people have come from all over texas and even alt of texas with boats just to try to do whatever they can in the face of this extraordinary situation. The flooding behind me has been worsened, we are in houston where reservoirs on the outskirts are full to capacity and they have been overspending. The authorities have had to do a timed release of w
In venezuela has voted to put opposition leaders on trial for treason. This is the assembly that elected in a vote that opposition voters boycotted. Among the accused are the Louisa Ortega she was chief prosecutor before being sacked. A major critic of the government. One of the members of this assembly has called her scum. Also, head of the opposition controlled parliament, julio borges. Here is his reaction to these accusations the only one responsible is maduro and its time he takes a look in the mirror and accepts he has ruined venezuela. This is the reaction of the un high commissionerfor human rights. With respect to maduro, the president was elected by the people. But since then, there has been an erosion of democratic life. Very clearly, as was pointed out, he and his colleagues have noted the wave of repression. It must be barely alive, if still alive, of repression. It must be barely alive, if stillalive, is of repression. It must be barely alive, if still alive, is the way i
Good morning. Its 6 01. Im reggie aqui alongside Jessica Castro, mike nicco and alexis smith. Were following a major emergency talking about at least five fires that are burning. Here is a look at where they are. We have been talking about this fire, these fires, since 11 00 p. M. Nonstop coverage until now and were continuing on. Yes, we are sending out push alerts so please follow along if you have your phones with you, if you sign up for push alerts we are trying to get you the very latest updated. The Evacuation Centers keep changing as those continue to fill up and grow as well. There are so many roads stuck. Full closures of 101, state route 37 is closed from 101 all the way over to interstate 80. Major closures across the north bay. And those are the major ones. Small streets are clogged up as people try to get from their homes and air quality issues for the entire bay area. Thats when i knew it was serious when i got the push alert that said 101, it had jumped. Were in for a lo
Being forced out of their homes and some of the centers, as weve been reporting, ellie ms. Was, that center full. Right now we want to check in with ktvus allie rasmus. Tell us where you are and what youre seeing. Okay. We might have lost allie. She is headed into the area, hopefully checking on some of the evacuees as well. Shes still on the move. Well get back to allie rasm,s as soon as we can. What were going to try to do now is talk to the busiest person in our studio now, is steve co,lson. Im getting information. Im trying to get this out on social media. Well get there and people from santa rosa sending information and pictures. Just hard to believe. Lets get to it here. Also up in clear lake oaks. I know theres let me get this, because Clear Lake Park estates. Thats what i want to say. Thank you, chloe for that. The wind as well northeast, east for most or northeast. Humidity very low. Its in the teens for many. Not only there, but also into napa county. Youre not seeing any rel
Where is your family home at . From the fire just around zero but maybe one mile from here. What did you see . I was sleeping my brother woke me up at 10 34 so i walked outside and we had a fire about 12 years ago but it was brighter and hotter than this. I just went and packed up my stuff. Outside, it looks like you were at a concert with a red ambience light just huge orange lighting. So you were hiking toward the fire . First of all why and what did you see . I like to take photos and videos so i thought it would be nice to get this perspective. So i hiked up about two miles and the fire was raging along the northridge so i took photos and videos but the wind was blowing down the ridge and all of a sudden the wind changed. So we heard the wind was blowing really hard. Yesterday earlier in the day we were talking about this was probably the windiest day. Reporter how bad was the fire across the ridge line . It was all the way from the base of the houses two miles to the top of the pe