Were lye in the cnn newsroom. Thanks for being with us. It is a storm for the record books. Harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nations fourth largest city. Around 3,000 National Guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. Some families desperate to get to Higher Ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. Pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. The two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and its only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. Cnn was there when an a dramatic
rescue took place in dickinson. Were live. Ed, what is the latest that youre seeing . Actually were going to show you the video of the moment when it happened.
still need to be pulled out of here, so austin and seth, the volunteer i want to bring in ed now live for us. ed, you re off of the boat. what is the latest? what has happened sense that moment that you brought us that rescue live here on cnn? reporter: well we re out here on interstate 45 now. pam jones and their mother being treated now. they re waiting for a vehicle that can drive them off and get them to safer ground. we re out of the neighborhood. she s finally being treated here. so everything is going to work out just fine. but to give you a sense, the rescues continue. it just isn t the boat that we were on. there are hundreds of volunteers fanning out in this one particular area of dickinson, texas, south of downtown houston. the city of houston. i think we re 25, 30 miles ousoh