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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:01:00:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:01:28:00

reporter: so, what we ve been told is the toyota center will be opening but it will be for families only. the familiars that come here first will be taken to the toyota center and that s where they re going to be placed. this is akourccording to the mas office. and we do have a number of families here. maya, i really appreciate you joining us tonight. keep us apprised. thank you. we re going to i should also let you know that the mayor of houston, who may ya was talking about there, tonight did announce a new curfew for the city. there have been sporadic reports of looting in houston. the curfew was initially announced for 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. but the mayor changed that, pushed it back to allow people to do the work they needed to do in the streets to rescue the people. the mayor announcing he s modifying the curfew to start at midnight. it will still end at 5 a.m. that s being put forward as an ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:04:02:00

In this country that can be incredibly damaging and that in particular can cause huge flooding. but after that gigantic flood in houston in 1935, and actually that one in 35 had followed another catastrophic houston flood six years early in 1929. after it happened twice in six years, after 1935 houston was so fed up that they decided to make a significant change to how that city could cope with these challenges. 1938 they passed the rivers and harbor act in texas. and that created the harris county flood control district. and in the 1940s that local authority in harris county, where houston is, and the army corps of engineers, they built two gigantic dams far out west from central houston. they built these two dam to hold back big reservoirs in what was ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:04:01:00

All this was caused by a tremendous downpour, 15 inches of rain. buffalo bayou runs through the heart of houston. it wroes 7 inches a hour. this one the worst and wildest houston has ever had. that was 1935 in houston, texas. and as you heard the announcer say there, all that was caused by 15 inches of rain. what houston tonight is coping with is more like 50, 5-0 inches of rain. as of today this storm in houston has produced the single largest rainfall amount from a single storm that has ever been recorded in the continental united states. when texas broke that record today it surpassed the previous record which has stood since 1978 which was also a storm that hit texas. texas has a history, a geographic destiny to be the target of major tropical storms ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:01:04:00

Build up behind those dams that they built in the 1940s, to have still what protecting houston from the uncriminontrollable in dags of flood water. and those reservoirs are now famous nationwide because of what s happening in houston with the largest rainfall event in u.s. history. the two reservoirs behind the two dams. today the attics started overflowing this morning. that s the first time it s ever happened. the other one, the barker reservoir, they thought it might start overflowing tomorrow. authorities say they expect that to happen tonight. and everybody has been reporting for the last couple of days now on how authorities had to make this very difficult decision to houston to relieve pressure, relieve the buildup of water in those reservoirs by allowing water to be released downsteam. and of course downstream is houston. so those releases worsened the ....

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