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There are neighborhoods completely underwater. rescues underway and days after irma struck, alex is out front in bonita springs, florida. you were on your way to naples. you came across the b neighborhood in now, it is still under water. naples was one of the cities hardest hit by hurricane irma. we are just north of there. on our way there when we saw the incredible flooding here in this neighborhood. this neighborhood completely flooded as well as many neighborhoods around. you can see the flood waters stretching back there as far as the eye can see. this is a low lying area. so this was a mandatory evacuation zone. most of the residents we re told did get out of here. if you look here at this house, you can see that they have boarded it up with those big plywood boards. that will work against winds during a hurricane like irma. that is not going to do anything against flood waters, if you look over here, ifls just in this house with some of the residents coming back in for the fir ....
Immense really record setting flooding and multiple regions across the state of texas. it is essential that while there still may be time a few hours. that video broke up on us, but we are fortunate because joining us now by phone is harris county, texas, judge ed emmett. the county is home to 4 million people in and around the houston area. tell us how first of all, how does it look from where you are and what are you prepared for and what are you worried about? well, here in harris county and the greater houston region we re not going to be hit directly by hurricane harvey so we re more concerned about the rain and the rain is going to be extensive and it s going to last for four or five days. so we could be looking at 10, 15, maybe upwards of 25, 30 inches of rain. so because we are on the gulf coast, we re a low lying area. if we get that much rain over ....
Is live in the outer banks in north carolina with an update there. high winds are whipping. she is holding her hat there. hey, elizabeth. we are still getting the big gusts. unexpected thely at 47 miles per hour with a cold rain. we are standing on a sand dune. waves are 6-8 feet high. 4 hours away from high tide. no beach for us to stand on. showing you not how much is coming up but how much water is coming down. tsz it is a low lying area. the banks are surrounded by the atlantic and the sound. they are going to get hit by both sides of it. we also know there are a number of folks on the barrier islands who weren t able to catch the service before on friday. the families right now are stranded. local media has been in touch ....
Orderly evacuation of 50,000 people in lower manhattan. by doing the evacuation yesterday it gave us time to be able to get seniors out, children out, to get the time we need to evacuate our neighborhood. how can new yorkers get more information if they re worried they might be in a low lying area? they should go to nyc.gov. that is the new york city website. it will indicate if you re in zone a. zone a is a low lying area. that is an yar that sb under mandatory evacuation. i would urge people to take this seriously. it s not the type of thing where people can say i m i ll stay home. it s putting their life at first, and first responders lives at rix. if they need to come into a building and do a rescue it s putting their life at risk as well. i m impressed with the level of preparation that s taking place. thanks, we appreciate it. thank you. and be careful. we have more live reports on the latest on irene in just a ....