this median in the middle there and wait for another high water vehicle to take them. they are staying in bowling alleys and parks just to try to get them away from their waterlogged homes and back to a place where they can get them something to eat. again, these municipal vehicles have been taking people in and out of there. you can see a muddy, horrible mess and authorities, so many are already in the water. you can see one guy starting up his engine there on the back, getting ready to go out and fetch some more rescues. so many people across the eastern portion of texas, we don t know rescues happening in louisiana but we know they did overnight. the storm system itself is getting north up the mississippi-louisiana line. they will get them high and dry
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
east side of the texas border. this is obviously a major east-west interstate, cuts from florida all the way to california. the main interstate across the state of louisiana and into texas. this is where the cajun navy, this is the road the cajun navy is using to get into texas from louisiana and where first responders and members of the police departments and other rescue operations are using the highway to get in. important to note, this highway is closed. exit four as you approach the second corridor and louisiana, the highway is closed, they are stopping people from coming this way unless i have a reason to go for rescues. the rescues are happening in that direction on the other side of the bridge which i am not sure you can see in this rain. about a mile down that road is where the louisiana-texas corridor is and that is where
residents of louisiana are still not out of harm s way. first responders, state and federal teams, emergency shelters, providing meals and offering comfort, we will still be here working the issues we have here. i have a team working against the floods, we will continue to coordinate our counterparts in texas. press conference there from the governor in baton rouge, louisiana, . saying they are already opening up shelters in louisiana to take people from texas even as the storm continues to ravage louisiana.