to rebuild and recover from this. mia rodriguez live in houston in the kingwood neighborhood. we ll check back in with you. thank you very much. we want to talk about what she s discussing. the idea of mold in peep was s homes. joining us now, dr. finklestein, thank you for being with us. i have a bunch of questions for you. but i want to start with what you are seeing now in your emergency room. what you have been seeing over the last week here. well, first, i would like to certainly thank all the thousands of houston methodists hospital employees. we run eight acute care hospitals in houston, texas, here. as well as seven free-standing emergency departments. due to the diligence of the employees and those physicians and those dedication who are performing recovery efforts we couldn t have done it without them. but we kept them all oepen to service those patients needs. plenty of acute care needs. the things you re seeing such as
welcome back to viewers here in the united states and around the world. our continuing coverage on cnn. the aftermath of hurricane harvey. i m george howell live in houston, texas. the backdrop here one of the city s evacuation centers. one of the larger centers. only volunteers and police really out and about right now. but if you look at the other shot we have just behind where we are now, you see that the work continues around the clock, the sorting of donations to help people in need and the people who need they need so much. let s get the latest on this storm that has now moved on. we now know the confirmed death toll stands at 47 people who were killed. a week ago the storm made landfall as a category 4 hurricane and 70,000 people have
the problem is upstream here, there s just too much water. this water hasn t receded in 24 hours. now the guidance from officials is they re going to evacuate some of the neighborhoods in a mandatory evacuation around the barker dam. not because they think it might fail, but because there s just so much water there that it is overtopping its banks in some areas. we re going to be focused on those two dams all day today. again, officials say there s no indication that they might fail or that they re not safe in and of themselves. they re just overflowing with so much of this water still to work its way out of the system here in houston. all right. garrett haake live in houston with that update. we have julia back with us joining us outside of in crosby as close as she can get to that plant. talk to us about the situation there. we re hearing now that people are being hospitalized. what more are you hearing from the ground? well, this is something that we were able to see ourselv
reporter: a lot of people on the outside world worry that your future will be much harder because your country does things like this. what would you like to tell them? she pauses as if she is searching for the right answer. with our army and the leadership of marshall kim jong un she says we can conquer any enemy. unsurprisingly, everyone we spoke to here said they are 100% behind their supreme leader kim jong un. they say launches like this won t leave their country isolated or impoverished, but in fact will make their country stronger. what else would they say? will ripley, cnn, pyongyang, north korea. thank you for joining us this hour. i m john vause in los angeles. and i m george howell live in houston, texas. cnn s live coverage of the aftermath of hurricane harvey continues after the break with early start next. it s the sears semi-annual
is now as we said tropical storm harvey as we await a news conference from the governor, we ll be talking with correspondents throughout the next couple hours, let s go to nbc s stephanie gosk live in houston with the latest, these pictures tell the story. that looks like a highway, stephanie, behind you. it is, alex, or it was a highway. obviously no one is passing here, we re on the onramp to what used to be 69 south and we were trying to get south of the city because some of the worst flooding is had taken place overnight south of the city and we can t get there. in fact, we just saw a fire department crew come down here with a boat and that boat is needed. they had to turn around because there s nothing they can do. you talked about the emergency systems being overloaded. it s an incredible comment from a city official that they have to dwishl between life threatening and just dangerous