picture tells a story for us. this is live in beaumont, texas. all these flat bottom boats are going back and forth into the flood zone and bringing evacuees in and out of there. while the workers are going in, though evacuees are going out. peter doocy is in kingwood in texas which is north and east of houston. the sun is out at least but still a lot of water there. there s a ton of water, this street which is normally a thorough fare for cars is where we just saw a handful of boats from a variety of different state and city police agencies and they were not state or cities that were nearby. memphis, washington state, tennessee. this is where we understand there watching for both law enforcement and a lot of members of the public, there has been an
look at that freeway. emergency teams say they are inundated with calls for help. they are working with citizen rescue crews to try to pull people out of their homes and get them to safety. the storm has dropped demonstrating amounts of rain, 45 inches of rain already. a mandatory evacuation order in northern houston as local officials worn a levee may breach. thousands of homes are flooded near two of the city s large reservoirs. good news from this radar, the storm came ashore overnight, he had gone back into the gulf and made a barrier island landfall. and then it went out to the gulf and has made another landfall overnight. right along the texas and louisiana border, you can see the center of circulation making
number of deaths in the course of a storm. leland: a fox news alert, the associated press saying the death toll is at least 20 people and as we have heard from officials, that number is likely to only rise in the coming days and weeks. the storm has now made landfall for the second time in six days. the second hour of happening now . molly: harvey now dumping heavy rain in southwestern louisiana. crews have rescued 26,000 people. 32,000 people are in shelters across tech texas. houston s operating at double capacity prompting authorities to open two more to handle that overflow. leland: shepard smith as things continue to develop. shepard: many homes are flooded and many people are trapped, that is the word from the sheriff s office.
and we ve been running ever since. when did you get to the state of texas? we left yesterday around noon, 1:00 and we went to houston initially but there wasn t much going on out there. we normally do this in reporter s ears but he can hear us today. we do have to cut away because the mayor and police chief in houston are speaking. thanks to all of those volunteers and reporters for their great coverage. start focusing on the law enforcement mission. shepard: when you are not in a live shot, please leave your cameras up so we can see your pictures when you are not looking, appreciate it. [speaking spanish
everybody rescued of course needed a warm and dry place to stay. we are hearing most folks from houston have gone to there and many of the shelters are overwhelmed, running low on supplies. people leaving the shelters import arthur texas had to leave the shelter because the shelter it s all flooded joining us by phone is the editor of port arthur news, jessie rice. we appreciate you being here, it is one thing to do your job in a flood, another thing to do your job when you yourself are flooded. we understand you left your house in the middle of the nigh night. we had water coming up onto the porch, we drove to a hotel in a higher part of the city. that also flooded. we had to move on to the second floor and now looking out as far as you can see, all the cars are underwater and there s no electricity. leland: we have a still picture, you sent us this picture, we have a picture on