this is the scene above cuero texas. this country s fourth largest city under water, feet of water, and this rain is going to continue for a few more hours, at least in parts of houston, not just houston proper, but surrounding houston as well. you can see the radar, louisiana also going to get their fair scherff rain as well. that s going to wrap up this hour. katy tur picking things up here. today the 12th anniversary of katrina, louisiana doesn t want to see that. president trump and first lady melania are on the ground in texas, they re in corpus christi, where they toured affected areas and met with fema and the national guard. we heard from the president and governor abbott just last hour.
times over the last few hours. this is a scene that s been playing out a few thousand times over the last couple days in houston, texas. i want to correct some information we shared a few moments ago. i gave out two websites. it s disasterassistance.gov. if you are watching right now or listening and you are in one of these affected areas or you know someone who s in that area, they re asking very simply, how do i get help that is where you start according to the administrator from fema. also nvoad.org. if you are interested in volunteering in a small capacity or a lrcharge capacity, that is website that was also give b out as well. go ahead, bill. i want to point out what we re watching with the big video on the left of your screen, this is not fast-rising water. it s e stadly rising water.
mike pence s office a short time ago. the vice president was there the vice president says he is going to be there with his wife as well late nr in the week. maya rodriguez is stand big in houston. i believe we have maya. maya, are you there? if so, what do you see? reporter: hey, craig. yeah, we are near the addicks reservoir neighborhood called glen karin. as you can see, there is a ton of water here. people are coming out here with their private boats. we have the sheriff s office. we have national guard. everyone trying to get into this neighborhood, which is experiencing a severe amount of flooding. you can hear all the sirens in the background. people have been coming out here with their pets, with their belongings, any way that they can get out of here. a lot of the people have been coming here and basically walking out of the flood waters if they can after being dropped off. you can see over here in this parking lot, there s a makeshift area where people are being
office, helping out the national guard. again, this water has risen so quickly, it was not like this yesterday from what residents are telling us and now all of this is unfolding here and people are just doing whatever they can to sort of come out and help their fellow neighbor out. so many neighbors helping neighbors. maya rodriguez there for us in houston. do stand by. we have to pause for just a moment. when we come back, what happens next? how v thousands of evacuees at shelters around texas are wondering about missing family members, they re wondering if they ll have noig g back to once the floodwaters recede. they re wondering how to get help, how the get certain types of help. we re going to answer some of those questions when we talk to a former fema director about what s being done for the people hit hardest bihar vie and how these people move forward. toiletries. i think my girls washed their hair if the sink. and so, i mean, there s socks.
houston near clay. this is where this to situation is unfold being they re going back out. they just came in with a boatload of people about five minutes ago but they re heading back into the flooded areas. we have another boat further ahead. they re going off. it looks a lot deeper than five e foot from where i m standing especially the further back you go down this side street. this is an area that is a residential area, there are some office parks around here, but what s so interesting is the contrast because there s a main road up here and a couple businesses are open, some fast food places. outstanding you can so watch water around these areas yet still some semblance of functioning businesses and people going to the supermarket. meanwhile, a few blocks away, you have all of this unfolding. people are out here in their kayaks. we have inflatables, things you would expect to find in someone s pool as to flotation device, people are bringing anything they can out here, helping out