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Shelters here. one official telling me she simply doesn t know where to put these people, tom. 48 hours. matt gutman with the crisis in beaumont tonight. and not far from where matt is, another area underwater with nearby rivers still rising. abc s gio benitez in vidor, texas today with desperate people looking for higher ground. reporter: tonight, the city you haven t seen, and the new threat for vidor, texas, caught in an endless flow of water. this may look like a river, but this is actually a highway. you wouldn t know it, though, because there is so much water. next to an overflowing bayou, between two major rivers also overflowing. army rescue trucks racing in as floodwaters swallow these neighborhoods. that right there, that s a car. the trunk is open. they are grabbing their belongings right now. we are there as volunteers working with the local sheriff rescue stranded residents, even pets, livestock still in their pastures now covered by water. that is a boat full of peopl ....
Tolerate people victimizing people of our community. they ve officially asked the federal government for help and everyone sized the enormity of the crisis. nbc s gadi schwartz is in baytown, texas, just east of houston s city center. gadi, we have been watching you over the last hour or two. rescue after rescue. a few moments ago you mentioned that there were some boats on the way to what had been turned into an evacuation center. reporter: that s right. this is a critical rescue mission unfolding as we speak. there are boats, loading these boats in the water and over here there are boats lining up on this bridge. there s boat here and over here another line of boats. basically 360 degrees of boats all coming here because on the other side of this overflowing bayou, an evacuation area, an elementary school where people ....