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Official rescue teams are overwhelmed, and now more civilian groups pitching in. Abcs rob marciano joined a team of volunteer military veterans in saving stranded survivors. Reporter for the fourth straight day the storm that just wont go away dumped yet more water on a state still reeling. Nearly 7,000 people have been rescued. There they are. There they are. Were coming to get you. Oh, my goodness. Reporter First Responders and volunteers alike racing against rising flood waters. Look at that. I know. My goodness. Reporter trying to reach thousands of trapped families in houston and the surrounding areas. Coast guard baskets hoisting so many of those trapped to safety. Helmet cameras showing the whiteknuckle ride to their choppers above. In this suburb south of houston a team of volunteers from galveston used their boats to navigate rivers that were once streets. They scour this area for hours, saving family after family. Whats up, buddy . You all right . Reporter my colleague eva pilgrim was there with them. Okay. Were going to go. Where are they at . Are you okay . Reporter responding to cries for help from stranded families. When did the water start creeping up over here . Sunday. Sunday. Sunday morning we woke up and it was like that and it never went down. Reporter among this team is michael gibson, a firefighter who came back to his Old Neighborhood to help. Hes been rescuing people here for four days. Today gibson is more than just first responder. Hes a worried son. My parents told me they were in the water. Reporter weaving through a graveyard of cars, he finally reaches their home. Hes coming. Reporter and gets them to safety. To the west in another houston suburb we find a team of military veterans now volunteering to serve their country in a new way, traversing flood waters to help families. This is where were comfortable. Were really good at being miserable. Were really good at being dirty. Here you know, were not getting bullets whizzed by our ears. Reporter beau burns is here with team rubicon. You guys good . Reporter a nonprofit that responds to disasters around the world. When you go into a zone like this, youve got multiple teams, you do a rescue operation. What are the risks involved here . Lack of information im worried about. Lack of communication im worried about because waters getting ready to rise and these people dont want to leave their homes. Big family, little family. Reporter in one home surrounded by rising waters we find a family of seven. Theyre emotional. But one by one the team brings them out. They have no idea what theyre going through, but i can imagine. Reporter and brings them to safety. Were coming right back. Yeah. Were coming right back. And you can come back with us if you want to help us. Lend a hand. We could use you. Reporter the emotion there is just palpable. This familys having a hard time with this one. Im glad Team Rubicons here to help them out. Powerful stuff. These rescues are critical. Hurricane harvey has already claimed lives. One of its Victims PoliceSergeant Steve perez, who went missing trying to drive into work. We couldnt find him. And once our dive team got there, it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. Reporter and the death toll is expected to rise as many people are still missing. Six of rick saldivars families, four children, the youngest just 6 years old, and their greatgrandparents, were trapped in their van and swept away by flood waters. Ricks brother is believed to be the only survivor. Rick spoke to my colleague tom llamas. Its been a nightmare just waiting. Hows your brother doing . Hes blaming himself of course. Hes blaming himself. Every time we go to hang up he says im so sorry. Its not your fault. You didnt know. Reporter rescuers using every measure possible to reach the displaced. This grandmother being rescued out of her flooded home on jetski. On rainsoaked streets a caravan of school buses escorted by police. This family had to evacuate their home and a neighbors. We called and we got rescued probably around 11 00. Who took you guys here . A school bus. Reporter they were brought to lakewood church. The 52,000member megachurch founded by pastor joel osteen, who after criticism yesterday as to whether the church would take displaced residents tweeted this morning, lakewoods doors are open and we are receiving anyone who needs shelter. This is the first day that weve really been able to because up until about 2 00 yesterday or maybe a little before that there was nine feet of water around this building. So you couldnt really get to this building at all. And this is the first day that we felt that we could we could actually facilitate a collection point. Reporter clothes and toiletries piling in from volunteers. Air mattresses line the floor of their gymnasium. This will be the first area well stage in, and then well move on to areas, other areas as well. Reporter across the city at the Houston Convention center some evacuees are brought in by dump trucks. Almost all of them have lost everything. Our entire neighborhood was flooded. It looked like a lake. Like we were living on a lake. Reporter 5,000 cots line the conference floor but there are 9,000 people here. City Officials Say they have things under control. Weve had a very quiet night. With 9,000 people youre going to have a couple minor incidents. But they have all been minor this evening. People are sleeping well. Even the people who are out on cardboard and blankets. Reporter theres a heavy Police Presence to protect the precious lives inside. Children, covered in blankets, their families trying to get some milk and some rest. After the nightmare theyve lived through. My one objective is to take care of the women and the children. And yesterday we didnt have any of this. So to see how far weve come in 24 hours has been amazing. Lots of babies . Lots of babies, yes. We had a twoweekold. We had morltthers in labor yesterday. Reporter for nightline im rob marciano in kirkwood, texas. And you can tune in to gma tomorrow for an interview with joel osteen. The pastor of that houston megachurch. But we turn now to abcs matt gutman, who tells us even in the midst of a devastating storm life goes on. Reporter for the weekes family the hurricane came precious few days before another arrival. You are pregnant and youre going to have a c section with reporter after being forced to evacuate their home in port aransas, texas five days ago danielle and william if you can open that door, that would be great. Reporter are ready for a longawaited procedure. All right. Lets go have a baby. Reporter we first met them on friday. Danielle was nine months pregnant. Like tens of thousands of residents that night, she was rattled. But were just hoping for the best. And what about your home . We actually live in an rv. Were pretty worried that we wont have a home to go back to. Reporter by saturday it was safe to go outside. So the weekes piled into their truck determined to find out what happened to their home. Trying to check on our home. Weve got an active search and rescue going on right now. No ones allowed in until after we get that taken care of. Reporter news the weekes cannot go home to see if they even have a home is an emotional gut punch, one that has everyone in tears. So were going to go check this out for you. And youre okay with that . Yes. Reporter but authorities would allow us as members of the press past that roadblock to see the mindnumbing wreckage. Oh, my god. Thats the trailer park. Reporter every trailer gutted, ripped open, contents strewn on the soggy turf. It took a few minutes, but eventually we found the weekes home, or at least what was left of it. This is the worst that they could have hoped for. Reporter later danielle and william asked us to show them the video. Youre okay to see this . Yeah. The worst part is seeing all the kids stuff on the ground. Reporter the closer they looked, the sharper the pain. Theres a musical toy right there. And that was in the house. Thats the babys blanket that i was making for her. Reporter but this morning a little jolt of joy. Its okay. Reporter laura lynn weekes born 7 pounds 12 ounces and 21 1 2 inches tall. Shes beautiful. Reporter shes swaddled and snoozing. I got her out and instantly started crying. It was a great moment. Reporter best cry you ever heard, huh . Yes. Yes. Shes definitely got some lungs on her, though. Reporter still pale and in pain from the c section, danielle says the family will return to port aransas. The place they live is still surrounded by loss and destruction. But this time theyll go back with something even more precious in their arms. You guys have weathered your worst nightmare. And now you have this. Yes. Whats that like . Definitely the blessing that came out of everything. Shes safe. She held through the storm. Shes a blessing. She is. Reporter im matt gutman in corpus christi, texas. When we come back, President Trump flying in to his message of hope for the lone star state. And on this anniversary of katrina, new orleans now preparing for a powerful punch from harvey. My belly pain and constipation . I could build a small city with all the overthecounter products ive used. Enough ive tried enough laxatives to cover the eastern seaboard. Ive climbed a Mount Everest of fiber. Probiotics . Enough avo if youve had enough, tell your doctor what youve tried and how long youve been at it. Linzess works differently from laxatives. Linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. It can help relieve your belly pain, and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements that are easier to pass. 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Now on the anniversary of that storm harvey is poised to hit the city. Tonight the lingering question, are officials up to the challenge . Day 4 and the flood waters of Hurricane Harvey still rising relentlessly across Southeast Texas tonight. First responders and everyday neighbors struggling through rescue after harrowing rescue. There they are. There they are. Coming to get you. Reporter levees breached in houston. The devastation described as worst than the worst case scenario. Which is why air force one touched down today 220 miles south of houston, in relatively unscathed corpus christi. President trump accompanied by the first lady wanting to be on the ground in texas as soon as possible, assessing the first major Natural Disaster of his presidency. First stop, a local firehouse. This was of epic proportion. Nobodys ever seen anything like this. Its a real team. And we want to do it better than ever before. We want to be looked at in five years, in ten years from now as this is the way to do it. Reporter after the meeting the president greeted by hundreds of cheering supporters, not unlike a campaign rally. I want to thank you for coming out. Were going to get you back and operating immediately. Thank you, everybody. What a crowd. What a turnout. Reporter and with the texas flag in hand the president leaving the crowd with a hopeful tone. His next and final stop, austin, where he toured the states Emergency Operations center. The president of the united states. Mr. President. Reporter just days before he had assured that texas would be upng very quickly. But during his visit today a slightly different forecast. The sad thing is that this is long term. Nobodys ever seen anything this long and nobodys ever seen this much water. Reporter at no point did the president directly address victims. But the white house saying tonight that he will return this saturday. As brief as it was, President Trumps visit a sharp contrast to a previous president. When george bush 43 detoured over new orleans on his way back from vacation from his ranch in texas in this now iconic photo. But he didnt land. It was called a metaphor for an out of touch administration slow to act in the face of disaster. We want help all the people you see are dying. Reporter today marks 12 years to the day since Hurricane Katrina slammed into new orleans. The images from katrina now burned into our collective memory. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound Bus line in the country and get their asses moving to new orleans. Reporter thousands making their way to the superdome, which had been turned into a makeshift shelter. This is not a shelter. This is a hellhole. Reporter people in deplorable conditions waiting for days to be evacuated. Ive been on my feet now for about 48 hours straight. They fed us a little bit, but still its not enough. Its no coordination right now. You look at what we see. Its total chaos right now. Reporter katrinas devastating impact on below sea level new orleans was compounded when the levees broke, representing a catastrophic engineering failure. Then head of fema Michael Brown became a National Punching bag for the failure to anticipate the extent of the disaster. You knew it was going to be a force 5 storm that was going to hit in that region. Why didnt you . When the levees did break, we were already moving in and then had to move back out. And as we began to do the evacuations from the superdome, all of a sudden literally thousands of other people started showing up at other places. And we were not prepared for that. Reporter words that would prove prophetic 12 years later for houstons own hurricane. Though the levees here have been breached, they have not broken. Thousands of successful rooftop rescues have taken place in texas. Lessons perhaps learned from katrina and other hurricanes already having an impact. One of the most important changes that has happened from katrina to today has been an important change in the skill, competence, and expertise within the federal agencies. Reporter this time around fema and a variety of search and rescue operations in houston seemingly better prepared. Here at the Houston Convention center 9,000 people crowded in with just 5,000 beds to share. Some sleeping on the floor. But there is ample clothing, food, water, and heavy security. This is not the superdome. All eyes are on houston, and so are mine. Reporter in the end katrina cost 100 billion in damage and took the lives of nearly 2,000 people. Hungry. Reporter kate beard is a katrina survivor. She was just 16 when her home in new orleans was destroyed by the hurricane. And i came home to an empty house with every content on our front yard. It was one of the hardest things ive ever seen. Reporter she and her husband moved to dickinson, texas last year. But as fate would have it, as harvey approached she was forced to evacuate again. Today on the 12th anniversary of kain btracak in new orleans, now six months pregnant. But she may find herself in harms way yet again. I came to new orleans, and now were under a flood watch over here right now. Reporter back in texas rescue missions continue. In houston this evening for the first time no rain. But folks there bracing for the worst, unsure of what might lie below the flood waters. Well be right back. With pantene 3 minute miracle daily conditioner. S. A super concentrated prov formula makes hair stronger in just 3 minutes. So its smoother every day. Because strong is beautiful. W. I was always searching for ways to manage my symptoms. I thought i had it covered. Then i realized managing was all i was doing. When i finally told my doctor, he said humira was for people like me who have tried other medications,. 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