the problem is upstream here, there s just too much water. this water hasn t receded in 24 hours. now the guidance from officials is they re going to evacuate some of the neighborhoods in a mandatory evacuation around the barker dam. not because they think it might fail, but because there s just so much water there that it is overtopping its banks in some areas. we re going to be focused on those two dams all day today. again, officials say there s no indication that they might fail or that they re not safe in and of themselves. they re just overflowing with so much of this water still to work its way out of the system here in houston. all right. garrett haake live in houston with that update. we have julia back with us joining us outside of in crosby as close as she can get to that plant. talk to us about the situation there. we re hearing now that people are being hospitalized. what more are you hearing from the ground? well, this is something that we were able to see ourselv
the other major dam in the houston area. we re being told that they re planning to do a mandatory evacuation of a few additional neighborhoods around that dam. even as officials say the dam isn t going to fail. they re quite confident in the structure of the dam and of the rez everybody war, but they re concerned that the dams and the reservoirs continue to overflow just because of how much water remains on the streets out here. it has to go through those reservoirs to get back out into the gulf of mexico. guys, the other change that we re seeing here overnight tonight is that there is has been an increased police presence. lots of police officers out on boats in these neighborhoods concerned about looting of some of the stores and homes. back to you. garrett haake, live for us from houston. we ll check back in in a bit as well. damage from harvey is also forcing the main fuel lines in the northeast to shut down temporarily. the colonial pipeline company, the largest fuel transport
the past week, and that is the 70-year-old reservoirs that have been inundated with water. back again from west houston garrett haake. what more can you tell us about the conditions of those reservoirs, officials, and their concerns about the water levels there this morning? reporter: when this is over we re going to remember the names of the reservoirs and dams. they were built in the 1940s. they weren t ever expected to have to handle this much water. the idea is that all these upstream, if you will, neighborhoods like the one i m in now that have been completely flooded out, all this water is supposed to flow down through the flood plain and down through those reservoirs, and then be discharged out into the bayou. well, the second half of that has been sort of working over the last day and a half. we were in down stream neighborhoods yesterday that have, unfortunately, been flooded by the waters that are trying to get pumped out through the bayou and out to the gulf.