no power. we want power. i hear that. that s like a lot of people out here. the first is the danger and then there is just the misery factor. look at this. look at that. haven t seen that in a while. it came out there behind that cloud for a second and you know, now hiding again. that s okay. we re on the right track. bill: there is hope. thank you, jeff. best to that lady there with you as well. sandra, trying to make their way through that stream there. you can go slow enough and ride the wake but you go into quarter mile or half mile or mile you ll come across another one and then another one and it is just surrounding. you call up google maps and it s chock a block of red no-go zone around the southeast. the eastern half of the state. sandra: everyone you talked to on the ground there, and i lived through many of these
you combine all of the water coming down, so all of the flooding. all the storm surge that is coming and all of the rain, getting the power back on will be a goliath effort over weeks if not months. we re in the beginning hours of the storm. as rick said it will stall here. that will increase the misery factor so, so much for the folks who stayed and those inland who evacuated. all they can do is watch the destruction here from the wind and rising water over the next couple of days, guys. leland, i have a question. you re heading into the evening and over night. how do you continue to track and monitor when it s dark? great question. we have a incredible crew we re out here with. we have generators and lights. we will pull back a little bit from this position here. it s pretty hard to see all the way out this distance at night. we have a low cation we scouted out for a sense of the storm
with the chemical plants around this flooding area, and now it s happened. there s more breaking news. the flood-ravaged city of beaumont, texas, has lost both water supply sources after the main pump and a backup failed because of the rising floodwaters. that s where we find cnn s drew griffin live in beaumont. give us the latest there. reporter: to just add to the misery factor, i turn on the spigot this morning to brush my teeth and air came out. at 12:30 last night or early this morning, the city of beaumont sent out an alert to all the residents that the main pump for the water supply on the river has failed. they don t know why yet. so 118,000 people in the city of beaumont now without water on top of everything else they have to deal with. many of them did not have time to do the precautions necessary because this alert came out in the middle of the night, fill
there was nothing but air coming out. you couldn t brush your teeth. that is going to add to the misery factor for the 118,000 or so residents in beaumont. plus all evacuees. not much of beaumont left. so all of those people are here. and all of those people are dependent on the water supply. here s here s the issue. the main pumping station is in the natches river. they can t get to it because of a flood. they don t know if the pumps are broken there, if repairs need to be made because they just can t get there until the daylight hours. it s still dark here. they re going to take a boat out to there and see what s wrong. if any repairs need to be made, if this is more than just a quick fix, then they are going to have to wait until, as karen said, the river goes down. and that could be a long, drawn-out, extra misery in this event. so far the power and water were
tonight. they just issue add extreme weather emergency trying to keep people off the roads. there s no reason to be out. basically, shelter in place. local authorities here say they are only going to respond if it is a life-threatening emergency. any of those volunteer rescues, those are done for the night because it s just toot dangerous. most of the roads in jefferson county are covered somewhere in this county making it very hard to distinguish a road and a drainage ditch and a rafer. that s where people have been getting into a lot of trouble. tropical storm warning headed this way. we re expecting to get worse overnight. the misery factor is just continuing. i m afraid stories like the people you just talked to, that is going to be magnified because the food is running out, water is running out. people who are food for two or three days, that is now coming to an end, don. i understand, did you see