I have to turn it over to ali velshi who will pick up. Well keep this up because this is this is dramatic. The story that has been playing out again and again in houston as you see this rescue worker, this Police Officer see that little girl being brought over in floaties. Gabe, thank you and please, stick around. Gabe, stay right where you are. This is very compelling. Were not going anywhere, were staying with this picture. These are rescues in houston, were monitoring rescues in how fast houston and nearby richmond. If youre familiar with sugarland, richmond is next to it. These are rescue workers taking children off their parents hands while the parents carry their belongings and get to safety. These are active rescues under way, Gabe Gutierrez is standing by. He has been nar rating this for us. For those viewers who have just joined us, tell us what were looking at. Reporter here, ali, were here on the Northwest Side of houston just north of i10 near highway 6. Highway 6 is shut down. Its north of the attucks reservoir. A lot of these residents are wondering how the overtopping of that reservoir will affect them. Forgive me, were trying to navigate around high water here be careful. Dont want to step in the wrong direction. Night cameraman aaron sasen is keeping us all together. I want to try and speak with these family members but being very cognizant of the fact that this is very difficult situation for them. Well stick with you, you do whats necessary. Reporter hold on one second here. Let me try and find out ill walk over here and see if any of these people want to talk. All ali, would you mind narrating them some of them these people have just come out of the boats where theyve been rescued by authorities. Were not sure which authorities those are. There are a number of groups in houston who are conducting these resc rescues, theres a coast guard, national garzmen, u. S. , urban search and rescue teams. Lets listen in to gabe whos having a conversation with one of the families rescue d. Reporter oh, my goodness, are you doing okay . Were live on the air so i just dont want to i know this is a very difficult time for you. How high did the water get up . It was about 1 foot high. Reporter water was 1 foot high . Inside the house. Is this your daughter here. Yes, we have three kids. Reporter how is she doing . Now we are good. Reporter shes got the floaties on, trying to do anything to stay afloat, right . Thank you so much. Again, you said you a foot or two in the house. How quickly did it rise . It was low but we just we were hopeful that it wasnt going to happen. Reporter im so glad you are safe. Ill let you get to dry land. Thanks for talking to us. We appreciate it. This is something that weve been seeing over and over again. You see the looks on their faces just relief to have her kids in the car with authorities and safety. That is what weve been seeing, the panic on faces when they tell the stories how the water rose in their houses and didnt know when it would stop. The uncertainty, how are we going to get out. The sewers backed up and water not coming through. Exactly, as we look here, we see more people being loaded into that National Guard vehicle. This is just a nonstop stream. We keep all throughout the city i dont think people that havent lived here or from here, you say this metro area is 6 million people, 2. 5 million in the city of houston. These are so many neighborhoods and so many of them are under water and not they just didnt expect this, even though this is a city that floods, it never flooded like this. And its just its a catastrophe for these folks. Its 50 feet reporter these are the neighborhood were seeing now, keep in mind, this is the second, third day now that in houston weve been seeing these high water rescues. These are new neighborhoods that are under water. And part of the result of this, gabe, is that these two reservoirs that are not far from you, the atticks barker, the attucks overtopped its level. This is more water coming in than was plan. They are already releasing lots and lots of water from the reservoir in a controlled manner. So they knew new areas would flood. Now theres yet more flooding that was not expected because the rain was coming down faster than they could get it out of the reservoir. Reporter yeah, two reservoirs were constructed after two here we go, aaron, if we come back here. Look down there, theres more boats coming on. Ali, yes, two res voirz constructed after major floods in 1929 and 1930s i believe. They were constructed on the west side of town to store that water so that downtown houston would not flood. The Buffalo Bayou is the main waterway that stretches through downtown. And those reservoirs unleashed the water into buffalo bay ou. They made the decision to start releasing that water. And increasing water level. Basically saying in essence, the rain that is coming down, it is so much that us releasing this water really isnt going to make that huge of a difference comparatively but the alternative is having these da s s compromised in some ways or having the reservoir, some sort of failure. Thats what they are trying to avoid but as weve been saying, we were now at 108 feet, it was the capacity and its just spilling over on the north side and officials admit they dont know whats going to happen here. They dont know just to explain to our viewers, the idea of releasing that water flow is it with go in the direction of the Buffalo Bayou while it was going towards downtown houston. It was not ideal but they had a sense if they release it into an existing waterway they estimate. You just interrupt when you have something going on there. Reporter no problem. Again, im trying to go very go carefully. Reporter im standing right now in a parking lot. Theres a sharp dropoff here i think. I dont want to go any further. I dont think aaron has a good angle here. However, you see right there, that paddle boat bringing another evacuees i dont who that is, theres some the National Guard is here bringing a few folks in. They obviously had high water vehicle so they are assisting. But some of these many of these rescues are by private citizens, they are just people going in and helping each other. This boat right here, appears to be a private boat. Just somebody that came in here and decided to either help their neighbors or maybe had a friend that lived in this neighborhood and decided this morning, im going to go and potentially save some lives this morning, thats something weve again seeing it over and over again here in houston. I see theres a National Guard vehicle behind you over there. Is this a Central Place where people who are rescuing people should bring them so they can be then taken out to saver areas or to a shelter . Is there some lodger to the place youre in . Reporter to tell you the truth, some logic, this does not appear to be a Central Place. I know they are taking folks to another location, dry location, so many shelters throughout the houston area. When we pulled up basically is when we came live on the air. I dont know the exact place they are taking them to. Ill try to if i can get to somebody from the National Guard again, thats several feet of water right there, rather not go in right now. This is how it works. People are coming here and loaded up either into vehicle or separate vehicles and then taken to a shelter. The Convention Center in downtown, thats probably the one youve been hearing most about, that one had the capacity at 5,000 cots, theyve shattered that, now at more than 9,000 and that was this morning. May have had even more since then. Havent had a chance to check. Yesterday we were at another shelter in Fort Bend County at the high school and it was bringing in evacuees from a lot of towns. We were in bay city, texas and that one is that town is expecting almost 10 feet of water in its downtown. They had a mandatory evacuation where they asked people to go to these buses at 1 00 and if you didnt get ochb those buses, there was one woman we ran into who was in a desperate state and said she had mistaken the time when the buses were coming and didnt know where to go. Luckily somebody she knew while we were doing our interview, noticed her and decided to help her out and take her to shelter. You know, people are being taken to to these sheltders in Fort Bend County, Harris County and you see another boat coming in right now lets talk about what people are carrying with them. That gentleman has a walker in his hand. Somebody else has a suitcase. What are people able to bring with them . What are you most commonly seeing . Reporter not a whole lot. They are able to bring maybe some personal mementos but they are happy to get out of their homes. A lot of them in the surrounding neighborhood, they keep telling us they if they are leaving, they are leaving not because they know for sure their house is going to flood. They are just doing it as a precaution. Now, given what were seeing right now, it the likelihood of them getting water in the homes, even if its only an inch or two the likelihood of that is pretty high at this point. Some of them are doing, the ones that arent leaving right away, they may be putting objects on Higher Ground, but those folks we see, yeah, theres a walker, theres one man with his suitcase right there. You cant carry a whole lotd because these boats only take so many people. You know the more you bring in is one less person they are able to save. You can see where the level of the water is there, the water is up to everybodys else. You can see the National Guard truck. The water is almost overtopping the tires. I guess the issue is, even if you have a foot of water in your house, you have seen enough of the stories of people gaining water quickly. You know the attucks reservoir is overtopping and continuing to release water and the rain will come down until thursday afternoon or thursday night. I think people they must be fearful they are going to get stuck, if they dont leave their houses reporter thats exactly right. And its better not to chance it. Yesterday we were in bay city, texas and it was a situation where yes, we could get around and there was a highway leading into bay city, but the authorities there were saying, the water might crest in the next day or two and we dont know how quickly it is going to come up. As we were leaving there was a torrential downpour and i mention the rain because we were getting a little bit of rain right now but the west side of houston is supposed to get a little break at least today. Right now the east side through the rest of the day is supposed to get hit hardest. But at tht point theres so much water that has already fallen and rivers and creeks are so swollen. Then you throw in the attucks reservoir being overtopping, its just a confluence of factors im going to ask my executive producer to find bill karins if we can to discuss the reservoir. The issue here, as you said, while the east we see another boat coming in here. They are paddling, wow. The east side of houston will get rain. You might get a break on the west side but youve got the reservoirs on the west side which are continuing to. Reporter thats true and i mention this at the top of the coverage, ali but for those just joining us, were on the north side of the reservoir. We are in northwest houston north of i10 near clay road. So were just north of i10 and intersection of clay road. As we see another person coming here, with a back pack and she was taken out of her home. Well see if we can shes willing to speak with us but this is northwest part of houston and hold on, let me walk over here. Yep. Hold on one second. Lets stand back here and let the workers do their job here. It appears to be hi, how are you . Where do you need to go . I dont really know. Lets hold on. Is your parents here . They are over there. Reporter lets get you to dry land over there. Gabe, you help them out, ill bring bill karins in for a second. Bill, just tell us whats going on with these reservoirs, two massive reservoirs northwest of houston that have at least one of them has overtopped at this point. Tell us more about this. If you take the graphic source, weather one just quickly. Ill show you where hes located here. You can see ive got the reservoir map up there, and the reservoir is completely full and hes actually located on the north side of the reservoir and if you look at the word addipad west to east on the red banner on the top. This is clay road. Hes on the right edge above the i10 sign. That is where the water is coming out and overtopping the levees, thats the area dealing with the new flooding from our record breaking levels on the addick reservoir. We watched it get to the 108 feet, now 108. 2 feet. Even though it is escaping, theres still so much water coming in that it is still rising. Now in last couple of minutes it looks like it leveled out. Until it stops coming in fast, were going to watch water rises in places where youre watching the video now on the righthand si side. Where the words Buffalo Bayou are, thats where the water youre watching right now has to end up. Slowly and we dont even know exactly where this water is going to go. Gravity will take it and eventually it will end up back in the Buffalo Bayou in the middle of the screen. Then that water has to go through downtown houston. This is what we were afraid would happen. And also, if we go back to the map, the barker reservoir, we lost the gauge on that. They protect the downtown city of houston. We lost the gauge on that and that was only 4 feet away from overtopping. If it hasnt already, it will shortly and that will overtop and have new areas that are flooded that hadnt been flooded up to this point. Were waiting to hear reports off barker too. Getting pictures off the adddicks reservoir. No end in sight. Bill, stand by. I want to go back to gabe. These boats keep on coming in with more people. Gabe, a moment ago you were helping people find out where they needed to go. Reporter yeah, unfortunately it was a younger child that we didnt realize was a child at the time and asked him and separated from his parents and got him in touch with Police Officers right here. Thats why we had to go off the air and make sure hes okay. Hes on dry land, has a phone and able to contact his parents. Just right now talking to the Police Officers just off camera here. Wow and behind me another scene unfolding here with what appears to be a family with their pets. And again, younger children here with flotation devices. Weve been getting a lot of questions about pets, shelters are taking pets as far as we know . Reporter you know, with we have seen a lot of pets. Its a question of i dont know if the particular shelter they are going to is taking pets, they you know, there are Animal Control Services where some pets can be dropped off and again, weve been live on the air since we got here so we dont know where they are being taken. Let me see if i can perhaps talk to one of these constables that might shed light on where these folks are going. But they seem to be very busy right now with their own work. Im going to let them work and were going to show you give me a sense every time i look back to you theres another boat coming in. Do you still see boats out there in the distance . Reporter yeah, absolutely. A long line of boats, even when we took that break, they came up so quickly behind me, it was hard to see. They are happening its happening really every couple of seconds that a new boat is coming in, far in the distance you see the range from paddle boats to private boats. Subdivision over there is quite large. It could be there are hundreds if not thousands of people waiting for rescues back there and we dont know how long this is going to take and how long its going to take to unfold. Again, as i was saying when we saw that previous rescue, were here on the Northwest Side of town. This is the north side of the reservoir. Its not one of those communities that down Buffalo Bayou south of the river. There are concerns here about what this all means and how quickly this water is going to continue to rise and its just a lot of surprise here from these residents on theyve never seen anything like this before. Your best Case Scenario if i can glean what your parents said, the rain lets up where you are and the bayou the reservoir has overtopped already and is not overtopping anymore, in which case the water from the reservoirs go to the Buffalo Bayou and head towards downtown and flood different areas but that the area north where you are doesnt get more flooding. The best Case Scenario is things dont get reporter thats the hope. Yeah, thats the hope. Excuse me, officer, where are you taking these folks, do you know . Not sure, i know they have one at the warren ranch high school, Cinco Ranch High School. Reporter do you have any idea how many have been brought out here so far . I have no idea. 400 to 500. Reporter how long have you bb out here, sir . Since 6 00 this morning. 18 hours yesterday. Reporter ill let you go. Thank you very much. One of the constables here in Harris County, ensuring this goes well but my goodness, ali, behind me, you see more boats coming in, a long stream this is incredible. This is not letting up any time soon, that constabl say 400 or 500 rescues a guess on his part. Another National Guardsmen has been here since 7 30 this morning. Let me ask, folks are coming out of a neighborhood that is flooded, reaching the point where you are where we intersecretary with dry land. Thats where vehicles can take them to the shelters that the officer just described as being a few high schools. Then we see this boat being detached reporter right, this is one of the boat s being brought to help with the rescue effort it seems like. Youve seen us stand next to this bank parking lot. The neighborhood were talking about is over my shoulder here, that its far in the distance right there. So then you see people coming out with boats and right here you see this National