to get to certain areas that they need to get. now there are assets in place just outside of where the storm system is coming down but they re having problems getting that support. those staged assets in place. mira rodriguez is joining us by phone. mya is in houston. there s a three hour flash flood warning that s in effect right now as the sun is about to set on day two of the effects of harvey, what have you been seeing? well, you heard that plea from officials about wanting people to bring their personal boats to rescue others who are trapped basically on the roofs of their home. they ve been working to pluck people that have been waiting since early this morning. we were in one houston suburb where 150 people have already been rescued and other 200 were waiting. fire officials were going to be working through the night trying to get all of these people off their homes. that s when we saw neighbors stepping in bringing their
millions that have been effected by this storm. shawna, explain what people are seeing as this storm still doesn t have anywhere to go. it is just being pushed right in this spot where it s been over corpus christi to houston. you can tell it s spinning in the same general direction. it s been doing this for the last 24 hours with really just a movement of 2 miles an hour going southeast. that s slower than the speed of someone walking down the street. basically seeing this rain over and over again drying that moisture from the gulf and getting a will the of lightning as well with those bands. tornado warnings right off the coastline as that s the source of the moisture. flash flood warning at this hour. it ll be in effect from now will 8:00 p.m. everyone else looking at a flash flood watch which will last through about wednesday. it s not over. once we see this pass, we ll continue to see flooding for the next several days even up to friday now as we watch those
be done. i want to talk directly to the people in houston right now who have water in their home. we are dealing with record water levels on many of our 22 bayous and creeks in this county and the rain continues to fall. we could expect another eight to 12 inches so what that means it s going to get dark here and all of you who have water in your homes now are most likely going to still have water in your homes tonight when it gets dark and we re talking about tens of thousands of homes with water in them. so the gravity of the situation we have right now in houston is one of the most severe and catastrophic event that we certainly ever witnessed in this area. from what you re looking at forecast models, when do you expect the flooding to peak? in some locations the flood waters have peaked and they have receded, in other locations especially in the north and west part of the county and into some of our river systems to the
and the situation in texas. he roughly has 10,000 of his disposal. we ll talk to the nechls governor, greg abbott about the state, the strategy moving forward as it coordinates with federal resources and has to deal with the unpredictability of mother nature and harvey. we re also tracking this storm and just how long will it stay over texas. it was just initiated a little while ago about a three hour flash flood warning that is in effect for the houston area right now. back with more in a moment. the first survivor of alzheimer s disease is out there.
we ve gotten so used to that when we talk about hurricane winds. when it comes to things like water, i think it s a little trickier because water effects different places differently. the wind can be 145 miles an hour across a huge section, right, but not everybody necessarily is going to flood. so i think some people think, well, maybe i m safe here when, in fact, it turns out they re not. we know the president is announced that he s going to be coming to texas on tuesday. we will see exactly what happens over the next several days, if that calculation will change. the next hour we ll have an opportunity to speak with texas governor greg abbott whose going to be joining us. mya rodriguez reporting for us in houston. thank you very much. we ll be back with much more after this. shawn evans: it s 6 am.