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we saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. now we re talking about major highways, i-10 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. that s 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 h ....
Customs area at the border crossing. police blocked them there. they then tried to walk along the tijuana river to where it intersects with the u.s. border. they were there for a while. and at the very bottom of the tijuana river, at that point there s an earthen levy with three strands of stacked wire. eventually some of the migrants began to filter down to that area at the bottom and there s a small gap where the water trickles through. and interviewing a family who was down there at the time, i was up on the side of the river watching. they said that some of the migrants opened a small hole in the wire and that s when the u.s. agents began firing tear gas. i saw at least half a dozen, maybe ten canisters launched into mexico. the breeze was carrying into mexico. so we were running for several minutes to get out of the cloud ....
However, if you look at google street view, you get an idea of just how large of an area this is. john, this is now drowned by up to 30 feet of water. if this this is an earthen levy, not made of concrete. it cannot withstand the pressure day after day. if this gives, it will make this a colossal situation. it s hard to fathom how much water will run down to the east. that area behind tom covered in about 30 feet of water. these pictures we ve been showing you along with tom, are crews out and around houston and coastal texas. there s just water everywhere right now. every one of our teams seeing scenes like this. you can see the canoers on the water right there. no doubt trying to help people. before we saw airboats and out in beaumont, you saw people as well. they could get up to a foot of rain in the next 24 hours. ....