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Temporarily blind the pilot. what happened? we know that last night five commercial passenger planes were struck with lasers. this was near farmingdale, new york, over long island. most of the aircraft were about at 8,000 feet and at that level, you re either coming in for a landing or you re recently perhaps took off from the airport. those are critical points of flight because that s the point when the pilot needs to be very focused. just imagine this, you re in a very dark car and someone flashes a camera flash. you understand that your eyes have to adjust to that. the consequences as you said, ashleigh, really could be deadly. these lasers can even cause damage to the pilot s eyes. we ve seen in other cases pilots have been hospitalized with burned corneas. but as you mentioned, sadly, we see this happen thousands of times nationwide. we know the fbi is now investigating who s responsible, but i have to say, it is very ....
Come to a low-lying area or underpass and you spot what looks like a big puddle, you stop. because that big puddle gets bigger and bigger real fast in a flash flood situation and that is what dallas has been dealing with. the flash warnings went out this morning and these people that you see parked at the forefront of that mess, they have been there for roughly five hours. that s on the i-30 area in northeast dallas if you know dallas, it s garland texas, leann rimes hails from garland texas. it s a big part of that metropl metroplex. those people are going nowhere fast. hard to tell if the water is receding or still flooding in. it s going up slowly, i m being told that actual levels are going up still. they re probably going to try to get those people out of there in some way but the helicopter shots we were seeing before, i apologize folks, this is ktvt, we re not in control of this helicopter camera, but when they pan back, and they took a nice wide sweep of how bad that ....
In dallas, texas. you know, traffic is absolutely at a standstill. on i-30 you saw the pictures of five hours worth of traffic stopped because the water is just too deep and people know well enough in texas don t drive into it because not only is it deeper than it looks, it only takes an inch or two and you can be swept away if that water is moving. hard to see from these shots but you can see people out of their cars. they ve been there a long time. they have to wait for that to recede or get rescued. but a heck of a story developing with the flash floods ins dallas. and the water goes all the way south to houston. millions of people virtually affected by these floods in texas. we re going to continue to cover this story after the break but in the meantime if you re watching on television, if you re watching via perri scope, there are ways you can help out. cnn.com/impact. is a vetted website. we have a collection of different places where you can help out your fellow americans ....
Texas. it makes for a remarkable picture and an incredible scene from where you re reporting in highlands in the houston area, dan, but we still have missing people. that family, that group of families in that one home in wimberly washed virtually down a river and those people are still missing. it s a cry sigs situation going on all week and seems to be getting worse. impact your world, cnn.com/impact. no better way that you can reach out and help those people so terribly affected. we didn t begin to show you the resulting damage from the flash floods that took hundreds of homes off their foundations and washed them away. another story we re following. if you were on board five different planes today, you might not have known how much danger you were in. because your pilots could not see. they were virtually blinded by people playing with lasers on the ground. this is a big problem. you might have heard it once or ....