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Venezuela say their loved ones are paying with their lives. tonight, the u.s. now responding to claims from the venezuelan president that the u.s. could be behind the blackout. abc s tom llamas is in venezuela again tonight. reporter: tonight, venezuela s most needy trying to stay alive in hospitals just like this one, with little or no power. so, you can see, this is the situation here in some hospitals in caracas. there is no power. this is a private hospital, they do have a generator, but it s not enough power to power the entire floor at times, you can see patients are being wheeled out in the dark. this is the reality in venezuela. guiding us through this dark maze, the hospital s e.r. chief. the facility invited us in to see the desperation. parts of the hospital relying on a generator, but they have to conserve power, to keep patients like romero andrade alive. since the nationwide blackout six days ago, he s been in a coma, battling colon cancer. his daughter tells me they we ....
At last check, statewide, 180,000 customers in the dark. those numbers expected to go up as we go further into the storm. the most frustrating thing about this storm is how slow-moving it is going. these heavy winds will be sticking around. they will get a little worse, they will stick around a while, battering buildings and unprotected windows and the other concern, storm surge and heavy rain. the potential for flooding and that potential goes far inland because this storm system moving across the carolinas is going to pump huge amounts of rain in all parts of north carolina into south carolina. officials say that will cause flash flooding in areas that are not used to seeing these amounts of water. state officials estimate anywhere between 750,000, and 1 ....
In these conditions you cannot go out in the dark even if you are law enforcement unless it is absolutely critical because of the danger of debris flying and you can see where you re going, there are power lines, so the authorities are saying they are not going to be up to get out of this and shouldn t try to get out until they get sunlight so they can see and assess the damage. you can see the seawall coming up. it is not diminishing where we have been standing most of the night. steve: for people worried about your personal safety, yesterday you were actually on the beach, atlantic beach which is across the bay from you. you have moved to where you are on firm ground a distance from the beach. would that explain why you are not wearing goggles? in the stores normally griff jenkins were goggles because there is so much flying sand and debris. reporter: that s right. we are not on the beach so you ....
Grueling process of going door to die rescuers are going block by block to search homes for anyone left behind in the historic floods. 87,000 homes damaged statewide. 7,000 radmann destroyed. cnn brian todd looks at what search crews are up against in west houston. dave and renae we are here in west houston where the waters are dangerously high, several days after hurricane harvey came ashore. s in a neighborhood called lakeside forest. the water is up to the windows on the first floor of the houses it s eerie out in the dark. this was flooded from the start but the water kept rising because of the controlled release of that addicks reservoir near here. we just one person we just rescue four-door a canoe who was stuck is a meteorologist he thinks that this water level really is not going to decrease any time soon. he says the neighborhood will ....