And also 81,000 Power Outages and they are all working as swiftly as possible to restore power. For the texas tceq, i want you to know that we have been working with the epa on a daily basis to address environmental issues. They have deployed rapid needs teams to assess needs that have arids ariz arise on in certain areas, and on the corpus christi, engel side and port arreansass areas. They have 5,000 evacuees in the state of texas amount most of those are in shelters, cabins, or mobile homes. A report from the department of Public Safety, there are more than 2,000 department of Public Safety who are deployed to targeted regions and they will continue to deployments to ensure the safety and security is maintained in those regions. From the texas forest service, they continue assisting local Fire Departments in all of the affected regions, from the department of health, they have deployed multiple Health Care Teams to give you an example of what they are doing, they have set up two eme
Be extensive flooding for about a week, if not longer. In the Lower Colorado region, there should be flooding for the rest of the week. Over in victoria and cuero, there should be ongoing flooding for a few days. Its important for people in all of these regions as well as in every county thats affected by storms that you continue to listen to and heed local warnings about evacuation. When you look at comparisons, the population size and square mile size of the area impacted both by the hurricane swath and the flooding is far larger than katrina, far larger than sandy. You heard him. An area larger than sandy and katrina. The head of fema will not estimate exactly how many people have been displaced by their homes by the the storm because the number is constantly on the rise, and even for those who manage to escape, the flood waters followed. These stunning images showing a shelter inundated. These folks already displaced are forced to flee again. Outside of these shelters, let me show
Down because of the flooding. Here is one breathtaking visual to underscore the amount of rain. This is what interstate 10 normally looks like near the texas town of winnie. Today, that section of i10 looks like a seascape. In Harris County, 30 of all land is under water in square miles, thats bigger than new york city and chicago combined. At any moment, we will hear from greg abbott. He will update the Emergency Response intensifying across his state. One of the hardest hit areas is beaumont, texas. In the last 24 hours, the city got 26 inches of rain and more is on the way. Its a very dangerous situation for people taking to the roads. Watch what happened next to one of our teams this morning. Look at this. Get out, dude. You got a power card . Incredible. Drew griffin and his crew ran over and was actually able to pull that man from the car. Drew joining me now live from beaumont. Drew, give us an idea what happened. How commonly are people having a difficult time telling whats roa
Are here to tell us their plan and to pull off the impossible. Welcome to the lead, im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper and we begin with breaking news in the national lead. The u. S. Military on their way to get people out and get supplies in. The white house now saying 100,000 homes were affected by harvey. Aerial rescues are going on right now across the texas gulf coast as crews hope to find people with no escape from the historic flood waters that harvey left behind. Today new dangers are popping up as the clouds move away. And officials at a Chemical Plant are expecting more fires after two blasts overnight set off a fire that made more than a dozen sheriffs deputies sick, still the plan insists this is not a toxic fire. And in the town of beaumont, texas, 118,000 people have no drinking water. People lined up at stores, hours before they open this morning. After extreme flooding knocked the citys water pumps out of service, the desperate situation forced a hospital in beaumont
That is where he ended up. Some have welcomed sunshine in houston. But 30,000 people in shelters, more than 200,000 already signing up for disaster aid and expect that number to keep climbing. The operation right now is very clear, were still in life saving, Life Sustaining mode, this is going to be an incredibly large disaster for the country, its going to help us, you know, to reshape some of the ways that we do business, were going to learn from it and go on. President trump already planning a return visit to texas and promising that state, louisiana as well will get everything it needs to recover. Five days after harvey first hit, though, no one has a clue just what that ultimate toll will be. I have had a very collaborative and seamless connection between the federal government, the state of texas and the local governments for a remarkable response to as you pointed out a record flooding. But also we talked about where we go from here and to take care of the challenges that texans