tsunami on tape. incredible new images out of japan like you ve never seen before. why there could be thousands more like these to come. that and more right here, right now on cnn. good evening, i m don lemon. tonight, you re going to meet some of the people mind images of destruction that you won t soon shake. you ll hear stories of survival from americans who through quick thinking, luck or divine intervention will live to see another day. we begin in henryville, inn inl. if you re ever this close to a tornado, run to a safer place. luckily our i-reporter did survive. [ bleep ]. we ve got to get in the house. [ bleep ]. look at that. my friend lives right over there, too. oh, good! come on, nick. that is nuts! [ bleep ]! same town, same storm, but a different man who has to duck into a gas station for cover. a fearsome sight of a swirling mass tearing up the landscape. he says he was driving when the twister started bearing down. he picked just the right place to
that does not include all the rescues by civilian volunteers. yeah. and harvey was massive. it dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of rain on texas and louisiana over a six-day period. that is enough to fill the san francisco bay more than ten times over. it s a huge storm there. hard to fathom the scope of this storm and the size, the amount of water that poured in. skies are clearing over texas. that doesn t mean the flooding threat has passed. let s bring in meteorologist derek van dam at the site of all the flooding when the storm hit. good morning to you. it s hard to fathom that the storm is still producing heavy flash flooding rains across the central parts of the u.s. this is where it s located now. you see the swirling mass of rainfall just to the south of nashville. it s tropical depression now. it s cleared from louisiana and texas. as you mentioned, the flood threat not yet over. let s talk about the immediate