just going to be real hard on them to be embraced not only by their own loved ones but the police force as well to try to help them get through it. they re going to be taken care of and praised. the organizations will help them get through it. unfortunately, law enforcement has a lot of experience, you know, dealing with these tragedies and they know what to do even though the pain remains, but they will get them through it. they will get the family through it. commissioner, i can imagine, and the police commissioner spoke to that saying that in his 44 years, he s been through this before, unfortunately. it doesn t get any easier each time he does it and speaks to the family and has to speak about loss of members of the department too. and what comes to mind, especially with the nypd, the last time they lost an officer was in december of 2011.
yet. hard-hit houston is finally drying out. nbc s charles hadlock is there in houston for us. charles, there s still a lot of work to be done in houston. reporter: a lot of work to be done cleaning up more than 4,000 structures that were inundated by some of the water that fell on monday night and tuesday morning. but take a look at this. we even got an inch of rain this morning. but the bayous are all declining. they are receding right now. this is the lowest we ve seen it since we ve been here. it looks like it s going to keep going that way as long as the skies remain blue as they are right now. this is one of six small rivers that run through houston. they define the area of houston. and houston has grown up around them. this is the major one, buffalo bayous. it goes right past downtown houston and into the ship channel and then into the gulf of mexico. the water is draining away from houston, but the pain remains. the death toll is now at seven.