Members rescued people on all day. You might be able to see there is one fireman manning votes. It seems like they had some trouble getting out of the area. They were given a car ride back to the station. This fireman is waiting for his fellow fighters to return. We didnt interview and they had been rescuing people all day long. They rescued people from the rooftop. Take a listen to that interview from a short while ago. One of the emotions running through your mind. This must have been an exhausting day. Its sad. A lot of devastation. I dont think the city was very prepared for it. Weve taken our personal stuff out here. You dont think the city was prepared. Not at all. Why not . They just werent. Theres never any email sent out, no evacuation orders. The magma say much more about it. I just dont feel like it was very prepared of all. This area is the southwestern portion of the city, a very large residential area. We spoke with police and they said this is one of the hardest hit area
Rockport. Some building are gone almost entirely. You can look in through broken walls. See children toys and see their whole life scattered all over the place. Right now First Responders are on the way. Help is arriving in the area. The National Guard set up a staging area. They are giving out meals ready to eat as well as water. Initially the First Responders were largely volunteers. It was a lowtech operation. No cell phone service, no electricity. Power lines down, difficult to move around. Firefighter, sometimes two or three at a time with no communication. Just with axes going from door to door. Using their axes knocking down the doors shouting inside, is anyone still alive in we saw volunteers coming to the aid of people they didnt even know. A man and his wife going door to door with a flashlight. After a few minutes he said i have no understand but at least im alive. They haveno seen a devastation, they see their own lives in tatters. You dont see a lot of whining along the co
Answers with reporters and some the people who are there were he praise the government and the mayor of houston. President trump saying he hopes the multibilliondollar a package will be approved quickly by congress. As tough as this was, its been a wonderful thing. I think even for the country to watch of the world to watch. Were signing a lot of documents now to get money. 7. 9 billion. We signed it, now its going through a quick hopefully a quick process. Kelly quick processes what everyone is hoping for. We have live foxton coverage. Meteorologist adam is in the Weather Center tracking Hurricane Irma in the tropics. Something where watching. Madison beaumont, texas were search and rescue efforts enter the eighth day. We begin with peter who is following the president at this hour. Hes live at the nrg stadium in houston. Peter . The motorcade just left your few moments ago. We saw the president with key members of his cabinet in toe to go meet with people who need help from various d
The road. That is dangerous. For houston, Harris County. Harris county got a lot of rain. A lot of flooding. Combine houston and Harris County you literally cannot put 6. 5 Million People on the road. If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare. Especially when its not planned. And many of us in this city remember when the Evacuation Order was ordered before and learned our lesson from that. Has to be very well coordinated all the way from houston to the destination point. You have to make sure that you have proper gas stations, make sure you have the proper lanes that are flowing in the right direction. It has to be coordinated. If you do it or attempt to do it and its not coordinated, not done right, you are literally putting people in harms way, and you are creating a far worse situation. In this particular case, the hurricane, we were not in the direct line. It is true, we anticipated a lot of rain. And a lot of rain, but
Harvey went from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm. Now, greg abbott, the governor of texas, was expected to have a press conference in the last hour, and now we are getting information that hes going to be holding one in this hour. As you can imagine, with the impact of harvey, the fact that the governor wants to get as much information as possible before he comes out to give an idea to the press of just what the state faces, but the issue with harvey is the fact that this is going to be a camper, basically, this system is going to stall out and be a major rain disaster event for the state of texas. So it really adds insult to injury for this storm, which typically, you know, an event like this would not be such a drencher, but thats what is going to make harvey so infamous. Shana is ready with us now and i want to go. Shana, explain, i was trying to do the best to explain the infamy of this storm and the downgrade of harvey doesnt really take away the impact that folks are going to fee