these localized areas causing flash flooding. the night is going to be long and people are starting to heed the call to stay inside if not evacuated. you look at some of the islands that weren t hit particularly hard by irma less than two weeks ago they are the base for recovery operations where a lot of relief workers have been and many people who fled irma took shelter and now they are in the path. clearly a lot of the work done in the last couple of weeks are going to be severely impacted in the next couple days or week or so. it s unfortunate they cleaned up from two major hurricanes and now they re facing a third. and that brings up the fact that some people might be getting storm fatigue. it s like if you cried wolf. we talked about hurricane warnings too much. but we heard nick valencia who talked about how the governor has raised his tone and sense of
they re very impressive. they believe they were ready, even though they weren t hit by anything major many so many decades, again, translator wake up thankful they will not get that storm surge. you will see, there s debris in the streets everywhere, just tree fran branches. we seen some large trees toppled in the street, but on that, we haven t seen anything worse. we re in st. petersburg the tip of the peninsula here in the tampa bay area. we haven t seen much worse dam anywhere in the region and so there s a lot to be thankful for this morning. there certainly s. i imagine you have a cat 5 driving towards your city, it s always safe tan sorry in a situation like that. a lot of people took safety overall measures. jacob rascone, thanks so much. so one of the biggest stories of the storms, particularly in naples. at one point forecast to get 10 to 15 feet storm surge after irma went through.
local residents, griff jenkins has story from booth, texas, south of houston. on the heels of the president s being, we came to fort bend county, ranchers were hit by brazos river, brenda, what has this done to you? well, as you can see, griff, this ranch is about completely under water. we are delighted to have a little bit of gas showing but the cow need to eat constantly, we will have to put out hay and feed to keep the cattle alive and so this is impacting the entire beef market in the state of texas. we are just glad we are not seeing more dead cattle but if we don t get them fed or not able to get in here there will be, thanks to first responders we have been on airboat feeding cattle. have you ever seen this sort of thing before? i have not. we had a flood end of last may and it was bad but this is so much worse and this has affected
live was unbelievably hard hit. arthel: how is your home? our home is fine. thanks for asking. our heart goes out to people. we went to beaumont. arthel: our hearts are definitely there with all of you in southeast texas as well as southwest louisiana, do you like would you like to see changes to the infrastructure or system in houston after harvey? well, i think we are going to have have learned some things by this disaster. the president has already talked about an infrastructure bill, if you will. since our area is such a huge generator of energy, such big economic driver, fuel prices spike because of the refinery that s been shut down. so i think you re going to see infrastructure where we can protect the coast and this is more about rain event, a rain-maker, corpus christi got
waters. steve live in houston. steve. mike, we are on the west side of the city of houston where flood impact is still being felt. you can see the scenes down the street here. some people in kyaks, other people in rafts, other in waiters, what we are seeing volunteers. it s not a rescue effort but a recovery effort. people are going to their houses, putting what they can in their boats and rafts and dragging them back out. one thing that s hard to get across here is just how bad it smells, you can see over here the sewage lines are backed up and it s clear that there s raw sewage and a lot of it in the water. tough smell here and a lot of people are wearing masks. the unusual thing about what we are seeing here, a lot of the flood water is not actually from the storm, it s from a control release from two reservoirs, there were real concerns that dams would break and they released the waters, some of the houses weren t hit by the storm but now they are flooded by the control relief. t