those who choose to stay do so at their own peril. there may not be emergency officials to come help them should they get into a tight spot. now, meanwhile, those dramatic rescues continue, and now the question where to put all of these people who have been displaced. the houston convention center has opened its doors. they said they could take 5,000 people. as of midnight last night, they had 7,000 people. the city considering opening additional shelters. the first flight of evacuees has landed in dallas. that happened last night. they have opened a mega shelter there. it s going to hold about 5,000 people. private businesses, they are also opening their doors. gallery furniture, they house katrina evacuees and now housing harvey evacuees. people actually sleeping in the display beds. pretty amazing pictures that we re seeing as volunteers continue to go door to door to see if anyone is still stuck
talking about accused of things in 2002, 2008 to an affair he admits to. we will be talking again. i think so. thank you. shades of katrina along the mississippi as evacuees from epic floods are moving into a shelter built for victims of the hurricane. 26 families are living in canadaville, a farming community that once housed 200 katrina evacuees. meantime, prison inmates are helping law enforcement patrol levees and flood walls. and a glimmer of good news. the land is absorbing more than expected rain because of drought conditions, slowing the water s rise. that means some people are staying in the flood zone for now. cheapest thing for us to do, to stay until we have to leave. and then spend money. money you can t afford to spend. without a doubt.
asking residents in flood prone areas it leave their homes. officers are handing out bright yellow fliers that read evacuate, you are in danger, with a near record flood of the mississippi but the mayor of memphis says they are ready. we are well prepared for this, have not had many exercises with katrina evacuees, we follow the same routine in terms of housing, evacuation, the whole thing, so, in a way, the troubles we have had have prepared us for what we are dealing with today. shepard: we hope. the west tennessee area is not the only part of the area dealing with trouble, surging rivers threaten thousands of homes and business across the mississippi and ohio river valleys breaking records, sets way back in the 19 30 s, and forecasters say rivers will keep rising in some areas for two weeks, and our chief
displaced from louisiana, a medical clinic here in atlanta actually advertised that they would perform free abortions for katrina evacuees. and they advertised they would do other medical as well. heidi, how do you respond to that? miss davis is focusing on one particular service. at the end of the day we re recognize that women who are impoverished, women who are displaced, have a broad array of challenges and every woman who decides to have an abortion makes that decision consciously, prayerfully, and for the best for the circumstances that best fit her life. and i think to compare abortion clinics to, i don t know, a drug dealer, someone who is actually going up and encouraging people to have abortions, i really