severe flooding. mass transit, rail and bus service was suspended while the houston independent school district closed all its schools and offices today. according to the weather channel, the houston metro area got nearly a foot of rain in 24 hours. city s downtown area was submerged while in of houston s roadways were completely flooded. after last night s win over the warriors the houston rockets advised fans to wait out the storm as the game ended around 11:00 local time. a few hundred fans did. remained at the toyota center until early this morning. for years now texas has been suffering from a major drought. in the last few weeks hurricane-like rains but an end to tothat. the relief has come at a tremendous cost. joining me charles hadlock. charles, what is the the latest there in texas? reporter: hi, chris. well as you mentioned, houston got hammered overnight with 11 inches of rain. 6 of those inches fell in just one hour alone. it filled this basin of the
basically we ve taken a step back because you people, you know, didn t like what we were doing, you got in our faces, you videotaped, screamed at us. this is what happen when you take a step back. okay. there s an argument to be made maybe there s something going on in baltimore like that. that happened in new york as well. we had an almost exactly similar kind of slowdown in new york after the protests following eric garner incident and what happened? nothing. so i think it s very difficult to draw conclusions. the craziest thing is something you mentioned before as a parenthetical, no one knows what created 20 years of decline in crime. right. at the heart of this whole conversation is this huge sociological mystery. right. academics all across the country will tell you the same thing. yeah. we have no idea. no idea. why it s been dropping for two decades. the population, prison population has been expanding during this time and no one knows why crime is going down.
here in buffalo bayou and other bayous around houston are beginning to subside quite a bit. so there s not going to be the travel problem tomorrow that there was today. it was gridlock as you mentioned. freeways were under water. but now all the main lanes are open. houston is back open for business. school will be in session again tomorrow. and houston maybe can get back to normal tomorrow. back to you, chris. all right nbc news reporter charles hadlock, appreciate it. thank you. joining us to talk about if the severe weather in texas is indicator of el nino its return, radley horton scientist at columbia university earth institute. so, i saw this news then i saw a bunch of people saying this is another indicator we may be in store for an el nino this year. i had seen people writing about a month or two ago saying we re getting some indications. what is el nino? and how do we know if it s coming? el nino is a global phenomenon, it s basically a situation where the upper ocean chan
when the cabin she was staying in with her husband, jonathan, and two kids was carried away in the rushing water. nigh sister will always be my sister. the conversation ended when laura thought she saw a light from a helicopter above there to rescue them. and i just expected to go to the wimberley high school the next day and find her, and then when she wasn t there, i knew something was very, very wrong. two families were vacationing together in a small texas town over the weekend when flash floodwaters swept their vacation house off the ground. house reportedly smashed into a bridge as it was swept downstream. today eight of the nine people who were staying there are still missing. in all 13 are listed as missing. 18 people are confirmed dead as a result of the severe weather in texas and oklahoma this holiday weekend. huge swaths of houston, america s fourth largest city, brought to a near standstill by severe flooding. mass transit, rail, and bus service was suspended while
battle. too many wars too many days and nights of killing islamic people on global television, too many people whose instinct is to exploit positions to pursue their ideological madness. that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. all if with chrisn with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. an alarming number of shootings this holiday weekend. nine people are dead, and 3 in 32 shootings in baltimore s most violent weekend in over a decade. meanwhile, tensions flared in cleveland in the wake of the acquittal of two cops who shot and killed two cleveland residents. and the doj steps in to overhaul the police department. today may 26th 2015 marks a new way of policing in the city of cleveland. plus the 500-year flood in texas. as the water receded we ll start to tow cars. to get those roads open again. a flash flood emergency in houston as the search for survivors continues and the