And growing. The mayor promised more shelters will open and has requested more cots. A pair of Old Reservoir dams are now overflowing their levees adding to the rising flood waters. The flood gates are releasing water at twice their normal weight trying to leave the pressure. Five consecutive days of rain has set a new record. One station reported over 49 inches of rain as of tuesday morning. More than a trillion gallons have been dumped here on top of Harris County and to give you some perspective what all of that means, its enough to fuel niagra falls for 15 days. Countless neighborhoods in and around the city remain under water. Civilians are using their own boats to get to those stranded. Boats to gete caught a happy rer earlier today. Just talking to your sister here. I cant believe this. I just love these reunions when you get a chance to see families reunited. Take a look at this rescue posted by houston residents. Her neighbors formed a human chain to help get a pregnant woman
Youth Football Players team up to save lives. And a bittersweet moment as brothers of a fallen hero celebrate the birth of the daughter he never saw. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our western edition. Good evening, were going to begin tonight in hawaii with new evacuation orders in what appears to be the most urgent situation since the volcano emergency began four weeks ago. The images tonight are breathtaking, the danger explosive. 1600degree lava is blasting more than 25 stories high, flowing rapidly downhill, cutting off escape routes, potentially leaving hundreds with no way out. Carter evans is there. Reporter jeff, just look at this. This is the most active eruption behind me right now. Weve been watching it go like this for days. At times it was blasting lava up to 250 feet into the air. And today, authorities are issuing a new evacuation warning for this area, telling people to get out now. The massive amount of lava in Leilani Estates is spreading f
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