Were lye in the cnn newsroom. Thanks for being with us. It is a storm for the record books. Harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nations fourth largest city. Around 3,000 National Guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. Some families desperate to get to Higher Ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. Pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. The two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and its only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. Cnn was there when an a dramatic
rescue took place in dickinson. Were live. Ed, what is the latest that youre seeing . Actually were going to show you the video of the moment when it happened.
a lot of folks have power even though their homes are flooded. so they re able to see what the local authorities are sharing with them through the phone alerts, through the wireless networks, that s a big change from past disasters. and i hope one of the outcomes will be a lower death toll than we would otherwise see. all right brian stelter, thanks for joining us. thanks. some live pictures i want to take you to right now as we continue to monitor the situation on the ground in houston and the surrounding area. that has been inundated with flood waters. you see one of the high water rescue vehicles just rolling down the street. one of the streets that doesn t have wateren to at this moment. we know there were 93 dump trucks and high water rescue vehicles that were deployed around the houston area. 35 boats, 22 aircraft, this was according to to the mayor of houston at an earlier press conference. we ll continue to keep you up to date on what s happening right now as tropical sto
challenge of trying to get to some of these remote areas where people are just stranded and maybe you can t get to them by boat or over land. there s a real challenge they re going to be facing and now it s starting to get dark here and it s starting to rain again. it s hard to believe there could be twice as much before this is all over. brian todd, thank you so much from houston and ed has also spent several hours now on a boat in dickenson, texas. he was there as a dramatic rescue took place. watch. okay. how are you doing, sir? yes. reporter: we were about to leave this neighborhood, there was a woman that her and her elderly parents were stuck inside the home. i m going to put the mike down. we re going to help them try to get into the boat so we can get them out of here. i m going to put the microphone
it all adds up to our most reliable network ever. one that keeps you connected to what matters most. okay. these are live pictures right now and you can see more rescues happening, taking place, there s the helicopter that s coming in in to make a rescue. let s just watch this for a moment. again, live right now in houston.
flood, and i can t remember what year that was, but, no, we didn t think it was going to flood. we would have went to my house. we knew it wasn t going to flood. plus they did road work. reporter: you ve been trying to get people to pull you out all day long. yeah, my daughters have been calling. and of course my cell phone reporter: where are your daughters. in the big city. reporter: hopefully they re able to watch this. i m going to call one of them to pick me up us up. reporter: what was it like it s dark. last night no, we had lights all the time. dad has a generator. never lost power? never. air-conditioning all night. they have a generator. and i guess that s what it was. reporter: right. were you worried that we re getting close tonight fall, were you worried you weren t going to be able to be pulled out in time before dark? we were just starting to because we found out there wasn t a rescue, and then we heard the coast guard and take a