We saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. Now were talking about major highways, i10 south of here. 69 is closed. Beaumont becoming its own mini island, and in very many places across jefferson county, you have islands just trying to get help to them, because there are so many rivers that are passing through. Rivers that used to be streamtr like this street behind me. You see the water coming off the street there. Thats traveling into a drainage ditch, and this is the problem. We just saw a man try to cross the drainage ditch. He thought it was a street. He was almost washed away before our eyes. He was able to swim right back up before the current took him away. That is why police are saying here in southeast, texas, this is not over by any means. The brunt of the storm may be head thing way right now. Drew griffin in beaumont. Emergency services and possible rescues to go into Eastern Parts of texas into western louisiana. We thought new orleans was going to have rain, four
one guy was able to give a battery for me to do a live shot from his car that was pretty banged up from slamming into a tree. this is what it s like out here right now. john, thank you so much. the i appreciate it. american cajun navy. safe travels back to louisiana. quick break. we re back after this.
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now. really in big and small ways, character does come out. in this case, raw, immediate grieving for a fallen colleague. sergeant steve perez died answering the call to duty sunday morning. he was 60 years old, a 34-year veteran of the houston police department. a dive team recovered his body. the police chief of houston spoke about this, this afternoon. we called for our dive people. we even used one of our what do they call them in louisiana, god bless them. our american cajun navy. they helped us look for him. so it was too treacherous out there to go under and look for him. so we made the decision to leave
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