In houston, texas, but i have to tell you, the outpouring of support from the houstonians and other people in texas has been amazing to watch. I love we rely so much on government to come in and youre finding out here, government can do a whole lot, its the people who are bringing their boats and saving people. Sandra you just heard the mayor of houston wrapping up a News Conference by saying i want to say a very big thank you to all of the First Responders, the place and fire department. Kevin the First Responders are playing a role, but the citizens are really the ones who are coming to the aid of the people. Sandra lets get right to it as we wait for air force one to touch down in texas, we begin with a dire situation in the greater houston area. Homes of nearly 6 Million People, the swamps with nearly e that amount before weeks end. The rainfall now at 49. 3 inches, now surpassing a continental record and it could get even worse from here. A pair of reservoirs protecting downtown houston spilling over for the first time in its history, unleashing more floodwaters and washing away thousands of homes. Residents are urged to get out. Shepard smith continues our coverage in the noon hour from a fox news deck. Breaking right now, as you mention, the alltime record for rain and a tropical system in texas has just been broken. 49. 2 inches in southeast housto houston. Marys creek at winding road, for those who know the area, southeast houston and the tolls around the area are astounding. First, there is a very serious situation happening and resort area county. I want to show you where this is. This is the area. Kind of hard to see, but all of this area is zaria county specifically, its in this area right here, weve been watching it throughout the day and this levee breach has caused an warmest problem. Heres the area of levee right here off of west 26th. Let me check this, all 35. This is all developing news now. This area right here is where it has happened. Southwest of galveston all along the levy is at Columbia Lakes, all residents under a mandatory evacuation right now, Flash Flood Warning through 5 45 this afternoon. Heres a tweet from the locals, the tweet is now up that they sent from the county. The levy of Columbia Lakes has breached, get out now. Theyre telling everyone that it happened very quickly, they believe the entire area is going to flood expeditiously. Its turned into a disaster of epic proportions. The states for largest cities or men paralyzed. Emergency crews say theyve been overwhelmed by thousands of rescue calls. The coast guard reports its rescued more than 3,000 people by boat and error. Local officials have rescued more than 8,000 and thats not to mention, this armada of neighbors helping neighbors and the cajun navy who has helped out so much. They are taking more 1,000 calls per hour in houston. Heres a look at those rainfall totals recorded by the National Weather service. South houston as of midnight, 4. Houston hobby, thats the second airport in houston. 33. 88 inches at houston hobby. If of the major airports, houston hobby and houston bush intercontinental are close until further notice. Baytown is a small town outside of houston thats expected to have 10 feet of water downtown by the end of the day. They have 37 inches of rain. Houston hobby and bush intercontinental, they have 28 inches. Astounding. There was or vars are overflowing. Theyre very concerned about downtown. Officials say the amount of water entering is greater than the amount being released and that can cause more homes and streets to flood. I want to take you over to the big wall back over here and show you whats happening now with the storm. The thing is, its moved a little bit to the east. Yesterday we were on this wall and i was telling you, the storm is going to come back over the water and it would be able to get more fuel. Its like gas for the car, when it goes back over the water, thats what happened. Its now turning over. The expectation now is the storm is going to come back ashore, right along the louisiana and texas border and had to the north. There are real concerns in lake charles, louisiana, theyre getting a lot of rain, over louisiana, a lot of rain. Certainly into south mississippi, all the weapon to arkansas. First, western houston is an area thats supposed to dry out a little bit this afternoon. Griff jenkins is in western houston near the Addicks Reservoir which has been overflowing. What you seeing there . We see that rescue boats and volunteers are turning out here. Early this morning, the reservoirs began to flow, never happened in history. This is a problem that really did not need. Just about 15 minutes ago, the Flood Control tweeting out that its nearly a half a foot over that level. The water im standing income at one a broke that news about 5 00 a. M. This morning, has risen by my estimations 34 inches. Weve seen buses being exported out, weve seen one couple coming out here early and woke up and realized what was going on and they had bags of clothing and belongings and they got out because the situation here has gotten bad and its going to get worse. Its not a levy break that you are mentioning, its just going to trickle. The problem is, because yesterday, as we showed you, they were trying to control the water flow out of here, they now have an uncontrolled spill over the top. They dont know where its going to go. Its going to continue for days, if not perhaps even weeks. Thanks very much, appreciate it. There is a lie rescue underway right now. Pictures coming into us from kr iv. Lets listen in. Pd helping as well. How was the boat ride question requisite scary in your house . Not really, it was wet. This is terrible, its horrible. Where do you live . Im in the riverstone area. Was their water in the house . In the garage. Ill let you get to safety there. Ill let you get out of the way. Again, we have game wardens out here, we have some civilian set of come out to help, brought their personal vehicles, their personal boats out here. Everybody pitching end, thats what his stony ends do. Take a look at this. That is a neighborhood with several feet of water in it and water rising, unfortunately. We see this seemed to me times in the houston area. Here we go, another rescue coming this way. Jenna meant on a jet ski, a rescuer on a jet ski pulling a john boat full of family members. A lot of people, were seeing smiles and just happy about being out of this water, as you can imagine. I cant even imagine what its like for these folks to go through this, but thanks to the work, again, texas parts and wildlife, the game warden, and civilians who are all pitching in. These folks are being rescued, theyre coming to safety, theyre coming to dry land. You do turn a couple of the folks talk about, they got a little but of water, but they knew it was coming and they wanted to get out and they had the chance to get out my things to these folks. Not the same story for a lot of the homes you can see in the shot because you can tell that the water is considerably higher there. If you take a look at any of the fence and, you see how high it is on this side and he can see the windows from the other side, so that would give you an idea, thats halfway up on the first floor. Thats a lot of water. Were waiting for another rescue to come to shore here. Im going to move back and then these guys time on dry land because we are standing in some really mushy stuff here. Well keep an eye on it at riverstone and southwest houston. It will keep you updated, keep it tuned. Where your Gulf Coast Weather Authority houston. Thanks to fox 26 and the rest of our affiliated stations there where theyre helping cover this. We just got an alert in from the writers new agency. Total u. S. Oil Refining Capacity has just shut due to harvey, exceeds 3 Million Barrels a day. That means a 16 of the United States oil Refining Capacity has been cut off following the shut off in beaumont, texas. The storm has been moving to the east. Beaumont is east of houston. Beaumont is one of the areas thats been having a lot of trouble today and sandra smith, as you know, the oil Refining Capacity goes down, most often, the price of oil goes up and usually gases followed by it. Theres a trickle down on all of this and we are experiencing it. Sandra huge Economic Impact that could last for days. Thank you very much, Shepard Smith. Were watching houstons largest shelter, its a way overcapacity. At last check this morning, they took in more than 9,000 evacuees. Thats thousands more than the shelter was originally set up for. They are no longer taking on busloads of evacuees. Caroline shively is their life for us right now. Caroline . It is almost double what we were told yesterday. They have run out of cots, they have semi trucks full of cots stage outside the city, they cant get here because the water is simply too high. Take a look inside. That is the rim that used to be the lunch room and the rec room in the place he went to get donations. Today, its been turned into more of a bedroom. No cops in that room, their lang out cardboard, the wrapping up in blankets. We saw whole families just cuddled up together. That was the only place they could get some sleep. The mayor has officially put an a request to fema saying we need houses more cots, we need more food and we need by tomorrow. Take a look out here. The donations are indeed pouring in. We got close, take a look at this amazing pile. This is what local his stony ends are bring to the table. We have kids clothes and diapers and everything you might need. People are coming end, they have nothing to their name, maybe a backpack with a couple of things, maybe a cell phone, but this is what we are seeing, the generosity is pouring out of the city and coming down here to the Convention Center. Pets are allowed in here. We talked to many people today who said they would not have left their homes that they werent allowed to bring their dog, their bird. An amazing story here at the Convention Center. Sandra thank you. At the Convention Center, meanwhile, that live shot youre seeing on the righthand degree screen, that is kingwood. As you just heard that press conference, just before the top of the hour, you heard the mayor and achieve a police talking about kingwood, saying this is a focal point for water rescue right now. You are watching one of those water rescues happening right now on a fan boat as you see all of these people coming together to save these people in this community, kingwood, texas peered the live water rescue happening right now and again, this is a focal point as you just heard from authorities where they are committing to these water rescues of large magnitudes. Harris this is a change and i was talking with my father a little earlier because we do have relatives in this area. Kevin, i know you do too. These are neighborhoods that havent flooded until overnight because of the reservoir and because of a rain so these people seem to have their things and plastic bags and have had a little bit more time. Thats going to be critical as they are running out of space to put people in Higher Ground when the Convention Center. What that means is youre going to have to take more resources with you because its more difficult to get things. If you have items gathered and your home, thats why these pictures will be a little bit different because people have had a little bit more stuff. Its a hardship. I was reading this morning that ben carson, hes going to be of the president today, that particular agency of government is going to be so critical because theyll have to house some people north of a year. It could be 12 years that theyll be in some sort of public housing. Theyll move them from the shelters and then theyll move into public housing. Sandra as they watch this rescued by boat happening right now, some other details that we just heard at that press conference happening at the pentagon with a National GuardMajor General james witham. Over 3,500 people have been rescued by boat, over 300 helicopter rescues, roughly 300 pets also rescued and texas for harvey. Abby, youve been covering this all weekend. On believable to see this life before our eyes. Abby its really heartbreaking. This all broke friday night into saturday morning and at that point, the hurricane had been downgraded to a 1, but we were sitting there realizing that the reality is the aftermath of the storm and what happens from there and the flooding, houston is not prepared for this. Now we see the rain has now hit that 50inch mark which they were very concerned about. The parts of houston that youre talking about, not everyone had that ability to take that time to grab their belongings. Harris early evacuees didnt, they were mandatory and they had to get out. Lower income areas had to wait for buses and other Public Transportation before the boats when and before he got that high to try and get out. The mandatory evacuation was difficult. Kevin it always is, but houston is in a flood zone. At that sea level. Of course, the city, no offense to the mayor, but its not laid out for rain. Sandra as you see the water rescues happening in texas, we see air force one in a blue sky coming down. Weve been waiting for President Trumps arrival in texas as this historic flooding has been worsening. Sarah Huckabee Sanders did a brief meeting with reporters aBoard Air Force one just a short time ago. She confirmed that secretary tom price is on board along with elaine duke, ben carson is on Board Air Force one as well as Linda Mcmahon. She also said the president will be joined by senator ted cruz and john cornyn for most of the day and Corpus Christi to oxon texas and reiterated he will return to an unspecified location and texas on saturday. The purpose of the trip, she said, for the president , to lay the foundation of what we unknown will be a long recovery effort. Thats a big part of what today will be all about. Trish, air force one landing in texas just moments away. Trish its good to go for him to be rare right now. Its critical that he show his support for the state, for the victims there. Dont forget and katrina, all the criticism that president bush suffered because he was late to take action and he was late to be there with resources and i can remember, i spent a lot of time there covering the aftermath of katrina and there were trailers lined up for miles and they couldnt get the trailers because fema was so disorganized to the people who just really needed them. This is a real test for him to show the country how hes organized and how he can make sure that the resources get those that need them. Its going to be a very difficult process, but this is his background, he is a builder. Theyre going to need so much help. This before the coordination that you have of local officials and the president of the United States and ben carson, not just to coordinate harris hes got to oversee some of the funding allocations in terms of giving help. Because so much of what we will see will be the structures to house people. We didnt go back and do a lot of the reporting after katrina when those people were still post a shelter living in government housing. Thats a difficult spot to be i in. Kevin i still believe, were talking about checklists 101, with the the president is going to do is within the fema guidelines and congratulations to him for doing all the pomp and circumstance. And making sure that every feels comfortable, but lets face it, that jet landing isnt going to take anybody out of the misery theyre suffering right now. There are people leaving behind memorabilia and things that theyre never going to get back. Their lives are complete he ripped apart and its the people on the ground that are bringing these people in. Sandra its interesting to watch private business and their contribution, Bass Pro Shop just at donating a bunch of boats to the rescue efforts there. Its also been interesting to see them stepping in as well. Air force one has touched down in Corpus Christi, texas. We know this about the president s schedule. Although they said the schedule will be fluid throughout the day, the white house, the white house will be touching down and Corpus Christi, meeting with governors abbott and his wife, he will also be meeting shortly after landing with fema administrator brock long and hell be receiving a briefing from local authorities, police, fire chief, the mayor of course. The schedule is fluid. Harris i went to lean and on what kevin was talking about. The president cant be everywhere, but he can trigger, just like you see in Church Communities that love. He can trigger from the heart and that can reverberate like ripples on a lake. Youve got all these people coming from other areas, they need to be organized now. Thats a helping hand that abby was talking about. I think the president can generate that. Sandra Governor Abbott is up early making her march onto reporters. He heard about the needs down here. Ive talked to him about those needs personally. I was here yesterday and after my meeting with local officials, i had a telephone conference with the president and let him know specifically what the challenges were by the local businesses here that they need to address after listening to the needs for power down here, i made a phone call and we got 1,000 more people involved in getting power going. What do you want to tell everybody watching who has relatives in houston right now . I know its one of the most devastating floods of all time, and american history, what you want to tell them righ