We saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. Now were talking about major highways, i10 south of here. 69 is closed. Beaumont becoming its own mini island, and in very many places across jefferson county, you have islands just trying to get help to them, because there are so many rivers that are passing through. Rivers that used to be streamtr like this street behind me. You see the water coming off the street there. Thats traveling into a drainage ditch, and this is the problem. We just saw a man try to cross the drainage ditch. He thought it was a street. He was almost washed away before our eyes. He was able to swim right back up before the current took him away. That is why police are saying here in southeast, texas, this is not over by any means. The brunt of the storm may be head thing way right now. Drew griffin in beaumont. Emergency services and possible rescues to go into Eastern Parts of texas into western louisiana. We thought new orleans was going to have rain, four
now. really in big and small ways, character does come out. in this case, raw, immediate grieving for a fallen colleague. sergeant steve perez died answering the call to duty sunday morning. he was 60 years old, a 34-year veteran of the houston police department. a dive team recovered his body. the police chief of houston spoke about this, this afternoon. we called for our dive people. we even used one of our what do they call them in louisiana, god bless them. our american cajun navy. they helped us look for him. so it was too treacherous out there to go under and look for him. so we made the decision to leave
that was sort of an interesting thing for the president to say. we know he likes his big crowds. but there s no question, i talked to people who spent the day with him, including the two senators from here, who said he walked away feeling the impact from this. they believe that will be helpful with the recovery and the government funding. do we know more about the president s man to return to the region this weekend? reporter: john, we do. the president is planning to come back on saturday, likely to visit houston. that s what the white house would like to do. but of course, it depends entirely on the situation on the ground there. also keeping an eye on louisiana, which is placing for flooding, as well. john, hanging over all this, the 12-year anniversary of katrina. as president bush was heading home from his vacation in crawford that year, president trump wants to act more urgently. there s no quick sort of results
emergency services and possible rescues to go into eastern parts of texas into western louisiana. we thought new orleans was going to have rain, four to six inches overnight. they did not see it. they were sandbagging in plaquemines parish, they re not going to need that. it picks up with speed and mov s s out. that s the best news. the problem again is going to be beaumont, into lake charles, parts of louisiana could see significant rainfall, possibly 10, 12 inches or more in the next 24 hours. so this is where the concern is now coming next. we ve been hearing a lot about the levy today. how bad is the levy situation in houston? could be really bad. here is houston. it s hard to see. we ll go out to the west. we have two reservoirs right now. the first one, after course, the