come here and they actually endured a treacherous day-long journey to get here over flooded streets et cetera. the and they want to help rescue survivors. i was able to ride along with a group of them, and we went to try to find people who were stranded in their homes, still, yesterday, by the flood waters. watch this. what s your role here? what are you doing here? we re try our hardest to find locations that are in dire need. that s been the hardest part of this three-day journey. why did you come here to texas? you came from louisiana, right? yeah. lafayette, louisiana. we re part of the cajun navy. what is the cajun navnavy. held ifl if i know. i went to katrina to do the same
that devastation across the coast of texas and even inland and vice president pence is is going to be getting a view of all of that today. meanwhile, we are entering a new phase here in houston. firefighters are beginning to go door to door, searching for what could be thousands of people who stayed behind stranded or weathered the storm this their homes and there is no idea what they might find. so joining us now on the phone is the houston fire chief, sam well pena. thing you very much for being here. how are you going to start to figure out what region to go to? thanks for having me this morning. we ve already selected the area. we re starting in the south west parts of houston. the it s an area that was devastated by the floods. they had immense innone dags ui.
long time. beautiful. send me a picture. i know every son loves to see their father but this time will be special. send me a picture if you can. i sure will. god bless, be well, thank you for sharing your story. ung that. all right. look, just like you have the situation for that family, you ve going to have good stories as well. thank god these two have found themselves in this family can be reunited. we re so grateful that that happened. power of television and i believe we re actually going to talk to them later on in the date. so we ll bring updates. meanwhile, the military presence is increasing by the day. texas governor greg abbott deployed additional 10,000 national guard members here. i believe that you re looking right now at the flooding that s happening around this reservoir, the barker reservoir, where people are being told to evacuate this morning and the
houston, here in richmond, texas, the river continues to rise, already reaching record levels. still expected to go even higher. so from rivers to reservoirs, they are still posing serious threats for people here in texas. yes, there s all sorts of danger and then complicated because there s all sorts of chemical plants and refineries on the coast and houston as well. that s where we find there as been an explosion this morning at one of these chemical plants. what do you know, paul? reporter: alisyn, they re some what disputing the term explosion. at about 1:00 in the morning and 2:00, they had an ignition of what they call organic approximate sides. these are chemicals. they had been warning for days this would happen. that s because this plant became flooded. these chemicals need to be refrid
interaction was very positive. we feel in texas that president trump has been very interested, very well advised during before and during this entire process. he came down tastefully yesterday. he didn t try to go and disrupt the efforts that were going on. he went to a brief meeting in corpus, a brief meeting with officials in austin, and then he left. and it was tastefully done. it was well executed, and you know, there s federal aid and assistance. i saw it with my eyes in three different cities that back up everything the president s talking about. so it was a successful meeting and we believe we ll see him again soon and receive more and more help from the government as we continue down this long journey. we hope so. we appreciate your time this morning. check back with you in about half an hour. meanwhile harvey is dealing airlines a $300 million financial hit right before one