how widespread this is, is it isolated to port oarthur, but te mayor has come out and saying that the levee has not breached. they have huge sandbags saying that the levee has not breached. we re waiting for daybreak to see how bad it is. here s why we have all of these issues, beaumont, texas, this is at the airport, in between beaumont and port arthur, in six hours they had 11 inches of rain. that s equivalent to what houston had saturday night into sunday, everybody woke up, what happened. that s what happened in the beaumont area. 24-hour unimaginable rainfall total of 26 inches of rain. that s one of the highest we ve ever had recorded in our entire country in one calendar day. 24 inches in a day. the rainfall moved northward. here s beaumont, still raining.
absolutely. we re keeping a close eye on two overflowed reservoirs, still causing problems for houston despite the emergency releases from the army corps of engineers. garrett haake joins us live from the addicks reservoir. garrett, what are officials telling you about the situation there? reporter: yeah, ayman, i m about a mile from the addicks reservoir is post to start, here on highway 6. these reservoirs weren t designed to handle this much rain. the army corps is going to try to do these roled releases all day today. they re going to to try to balance two concerns. first, they don t want to send too much water down the addicks or the barker, if they take the water out,s sshlgly they re sending it down the bayou, they risk flooding other
firing of a missile over japan, the u.n. now condemning this latest test but isn t taking any action. good morning, everyone, it s august 29th. i m ayman mohyeldin along i d yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. harvey will make landfall once again as some towns on the edge have measured 50 inches of rain. with the president s and first lady s visit yesterday, the situation became more dire for many in the city and across south texas. in all, there have been nearly 19,000 water rescues across south texas as of last night. the death toll has climbed once more, now to nine. but images are circulating across social media. along those killed, houston police officer sergeant steve perez. the chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived
another day of rain is set for the gulf coast today. harvey has made landfall once more in cameron, louisiana. already yesterday, there was some spot flooding in new orleans, but the mayor and state governor thinks so far within the range of what they ve been expecting. it s a far different story, though, in texas, beaumont seeing some of the worst flooding of all. houston has put in place a midnight to 5:00 a.m. curfew joining other nearby counties and towns. the president, of course, visiting yesterday and said this in corpus christi. take a listen. thank you, everybody. i just want to say we love you. you are special. we re here to take care. it s going well. and i want to thank you for coming out. we re going to get you back and operating immediately. thank you, everybody. what a crowd. what a turnout. this has been a total cooperative effort, again, we will see you soon. i will tell you, this is
media asking for help, asking for help in their elderly parents or people who live there. there is one house i was able to find the address for. this is a house in beaumont. a street map before the storm. there are people as of an hour ago on the roof of this house asking for help. asking for a boat to come get them in the beaumont, texas area. just to give you perspective of how high the water is there in some of the locations. i m going to show you on the radar here. this is the center of the storm. just made landfall. final landfall, heading up to lake charles. on the city of orange, on the border of texas and louisiana. this thunderstorm has sat here. probably about five to eight inches of rainfall in the last two hours recently. here s the beaumont area. i want to show you the rainfall totals, these are stagger. in three hours last night, they picked up six inches. in six hours they picked up 11 inches of rain. this is on top of the rain they already had. 24-hour rainfall total. 2