This is Aljazeera America. Good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. At least 12 are missing this morning as flooding pounds the South Central u. S. Five have been killed. The governor of texas declared a 37 county disaster area. Flash floods and tornado watches are in effect in texas arkansas oklahoma, louisiana and missouri. In austin, texas rescue teams evacuated people overnight because of rapidly rising water. 12 people are missing from two families between austin and san antonio, vacationing when their house was swept away. Houston was under a flood emergency for the first time. The city got an unprecedented downpour of six to 10 inches of rain. People waking up for work and school in the houston area have been advised not to leave their homes. Officials want people off the roads, because many are impassable and dangerous. Harris county Officials Say conditions are even potentially life threatening. More than 80,000 people are without power. Many across the accide
Brace for the very real possibility of more. At least 18 people are dead. More than a dozen are still missing. And in houston, where the storms killed at least five people crews continue to rescue those trapped in their homes. At least 2500 waterlogged cars line houstons roads and highways. Look at that. They were just abandoned by people caught in the deluge despite the warnings. Listen to Texas Governor greg abbott. Dont drive in the rising water. You know the common phrase turn around dont drown. It has a sense of reality to it right now that we need everyone in the state of texas to heed. Well, the water rose so quickly, though some people were completely caught off guard. The governor called the flooding the worst texas has ever seen. He declared a diaster emergency in at least 40 counties. Now, in houston, some Officials Say the areas were badly damaged by the flooding while others were largely unaffected. Key to understanding the structure of many bayous that wind through the lo
Carter says iraqi troops were not outnumbered or outgunned, they just did not put up a fight. Hear much more from the defense secretary his sell full comments to cnn in a moment. There is some resist taps to isis iran around ramadi now. We are told some tribal fighters and Shiite Militia are joining iraqi troops in trying to slow down the terror groups march toward baghdad. The capital is only 65 miles from ramadi. Also today, a shocking look at what isis fighters are doing in the cities that they conquer. The Reuters News Agency is reporting isis killed 400 people all n civilians in the ancient city of palmyra, a city of 50,000 people that isis took over on wednesday that number of executed people comes from the Syrian State News Agency who heard it they say from survivors. U. S. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says he is very concerned about iraq and clearly not happy with the Iraqi Military which the u. S. Government has trained, equipped and left in charge of the countrys security. Ca
This really tells the story. You can see the difference in the shade of the brick. You can also see along here the debris the line of the debris. It goes all the around this house. Heres the deal. The owner tells me that water started seeping everywhere. So they jumped on those on the kitchen counters. Now its the cleanup. Theyre bringing everything outside. I want to show you one more thing. Her car, completely totalled. Take a look inside. You see debris lots of debris. The owner tells me, you know rosa im not going to be able to do anything with this because its completely destroyed. But of course in the immediate aftermath, before she left her house and slept with another family for the night, she tells me i tried to roll up the windows. Of course power windows wouldnt work rosa she tells me. But of course people here just trying to figure things out. The good thing, brooke these people tell me that their friends, their family everybody coming together to help them out in this time
Difficult finding them, as you can see. It is now night here in egypt. What were also hearing and very crucial, is that the black box, one of the black boxes, the one that is in the tail section, has been recovered. Officials are now going over that, to try to determine what, exactly, happened to the plane, after it took off from sharm el sheikh, traveling for 20 minutes, and then it disappeared and then the crash. That is the moment that they are going to be trying to discover what exactly happened, fredricka. All right. Ian lee, thank you so much. All right, lets talk more about this with cnn aviation analyst, peter gals. He is the former managing director for the ntsb. Peter, thats pretty significant that ian was able to report that they have located that tail box. So how quickly would they be able to retrieve information there and whats the kind of information they would get from that . Well, there are two data recorders on aircraft like this. Theres a voice recorder that records a