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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:04:16:00

From beaumont as houston is. then we tried to come east and drop north. and that s when we wound up in a place called plum grove, and that is litry where the road owned we had no chance of going anywhere because a nearby river had completely flooded. and we saw there a scene that we ve come used to see in houston but is actually playing out all across this part of texas. we saw rescue teams these are local people with local boats on this river going in and rescuing people, bringing out families from this one community. we were told that there were about 500 families that they needed to rescue because the river rose so quickly and so high. this is an area of texas that is basically marshland. and the people here get floods. they know that the water rises. but there is no one that we ve spoken to who has been able to wrap their head around just the vastness of this disaster. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:04:15:00

Joining us now from cleveland, texas is nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. thank you for being here. i appreciate you joining us on a tough night. reporter: you re welcome. thanks for having me. first of all, steph any, i know you ve been on the road today. can you tell us what you ve seen today. first of all where you are in cleveland, text. what you ve seen. what is your sense of the scope of what texas is dealing with right now. reporter: sure, rachel. we had one goal today and our goal was to go from houston to beaumont. if you re not familiar with texas, beaumont is due east of houston. on a good day with the sun shining it should take a little over two hours to get to beaumont. today we never got to beaumont. and just to get out of houston was an unbelievable trial. to go east we first had to go all the way west and up north. and by the time we turned east, we were easily twice as far away ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:01:14:00

Backup product storage containers has now been compromised. arkema is limited to what we can do to address the site conditions until the storm abates. they say we re monstering the temperature of each refrigeration container remotely. at this time we do not believe there is any imminent danger, the potential for a chemical reaction leading to a fire or explosion within the site confines is real. so again this is happening right now. one of just a gazillion chemical plants in the affected region. this one happens to be in crosby, texas and there has been an evacuation one and a half miles around that plant. it is an additional complication for this disaster that houston and this region is the most concentrated energy inf infrastructure in the world, as well as a hub for some of the most dangerous chemical and industrial facilities anywhere on earth. and that s dangerous in the best of times. it s particularly dangerous now. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:01:09:00

Large in terms of its geographic area. it has a gigantic sprawling wide spread metro area. taken all together, what s considered to be the houston metropolitan region is an area that s literally bigger than the state of connecticut, bigger than the state of new jersey. and that part of texas also happens to be not just a regional hub, not just a national hub but a global rub for some industries that can be very dangerous in the face of natural disaster. houston area and the gulf coast, this part of the country being hit by this storm is a global hub for oil, patrol ypatrol yum. plastics. galveston accounts for 25% of the petroleum. if you broaden that out in the gulf coast, the gulf coast has half of the refinery capacity in ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170830:04:18:00

Neighbors, churches opening up. we spoke to the police chief today rather the fire chief. and he actually told us this gives you an idea of how big this flooding is. he said they set up a shelter on monday afternoon, started piling people in the shelter and it was orderly. but monday night the shelter flooded and it filled up. they had to scramble to get those people out of that shelter and up to higher ground to a new shelter. they were actually at a local church, a sprawling thankfully local church and people had gathered there. stephanie gosk on the road all day in houston and now in cleveland, texas. good luck getting to beaumont and thanks for being with us tonight. reporter: i don t know if i m going to make it. we want to be the first to know when you do. we ve got much more to come tonight, including interesting a new question out of the trump-russia investigation. we ve got a live look at what some of the shelter conditions ....

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