What are you guys going to do now, claudio . Were going to stay here, find shelter. Because weve been hearing the news its going to come back and hit us again. And would have had nobody would have had nowhere to go. So were going to stay here and try to protect ourselves. Try to protect my kids. And try to try to last through this storm. I dont know if its going to get worse or not. But we want to be safe. I want my family to be safe. So i guess were going to stay here until everything is over. Claudio, were glad youre okay. Hug your kids and wife for us. Thank you so much for joining us here on cnn. Good luck to you. Best of luck. All right, thank you, sir. Thank you. Jamie baxter, weve got jamie by phone again. Technical issues, storm, hes stranded in his apartment with neighbors tonight. Havent really tried the police because i know that theyve been swamped and the red cross is swamped, as well. So we dont really know who to call. It seems like we put out the word for help and we si
Rain. This storm is far from over. The National Weather Service Warns lifethreatening flooding is copying. The coast guard getting more than a thousand rescue calls every hour. Tonight well have stories from some of the people who narrowly escaped the raging floodwaters and some who are still trapped. The forecast as the storm gathers strength. Its gaining strength tonight. Lets go straight to derek van dam in sugarland, texas, for us. Good evening to you. The latest on the certainly and rescue efforts where are you right now . Reporter well, good evening, don. The thing about the search and rescue efforts, its complicated by the nighttime. The dark, darkness has set in across houston and with conditions can like this, it is extremely treacherous. Last night we joined some of the search and rescue efforts and we saw firsthand what they have had to deal with. They navigate these flooded neighborhoods with sometimes the streams flowing extremely fast. Almost too fast to cross. In fact, t
know, who are running away from the floodwaters and trying to get to safety. right, right. definitely. definitely. there s quite a bit out there. we ve seen a few. weigh got to witness different ones with coast guard, in fact, just you know, coming down in a basket, picking up another pregnant woman i couldn t get to. i tried, over fences and everything. i couldn t get to her. luckily the coast guard about then pulled down a basket and picked her right up and able to evacuate her. yeah, we re it s crazy how much is going on right now, but a lot of people are pitching in and houston people are just really stepping up. it makes me pretty proud to live here right now. tara gower, thank you so much. thank you. thank you. for ways that you can help those ache bid hurricane harvey, make sure you go to cnn.com/impact. cnn.com/impact. we ll be right back with more on
a lot of hospitals yes, they do. we re transferring not to the biggest hospitals that have a lot of the mouths to feed. we re trying to find smaller hospitals that can take them in that are in a safe environment. i know sugar land, they re evacuating some hospitals down there due to the hurricane. ours right now is more of long-term you know who we can feed and just trying to get people out there that are to places where they can actually take care of them, you know, food wise and just trying to be wise for the next few days. a lot of nurses and doctors aren t going home till at least wednesday if not friday. tara, don t go anywhere. i just want to show our viewers what is going on. can we take this and show? these are live rescue that you re looking at right now. this is in the houston, texas area. these live rescues coming in now, thousands of people, hundreds we know for sure