many showed up to do these rescues and speaks to the spirit of the people around you, these are really good people, listen to one of them talk about that. >> here it is about saving lives. we are from ground 0 but we get these people out of houses for the next couple days anyway, we get home and rebuild. >> reporter: that guy we went out with from rockport where the storm's i his, they came back after having damage to their house to save lives. we have 3000 rescued in the houston area. 3000 lives and more, that is the number of rescues and 1000 of them in a eight our span yesterday, ramping up, the governor talking about how this started. >> just beginning the process of responding to the storm. we are still involved in the search and rescue process.