Hurricane Harvey - CBS Evening News - 2017-08-28
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[0:04] Harvey shows no mercy
[0:09] everything is gone what do we have
[0:14] the rain is Relentless and won't stop
[0:17] for days it's an overwhelming amount of
[0:20] rain it's too much for the First
[0:22] Responders
[0:23] Houston is paralyzed thousands rescued
[0:28] everything we got
[0:34] trapped by
[0:36] by rough blood waters I mean the water
[0:38] came so quick right now it's the roof of
[0:39] the house so there's no way out streets
[0:43] are jammed with boats we are striving
[0:46] for a new normal here want to be done I
[0:48] want this town to be back like it was
[0:54] this is the CBS Evening News
[1:00] and welcome to a special edition of the
[1:02] CBS Evening News I'm Nora O'Donnell in
[1:05] Houston where Harvey has Unleashed
[1:07] historic amounts of rain and devastating
[1:10] floods behind me is the convention
[1:12] center which is serving as the largest
[1:14] evacuation shelter in downtown Houston
[1:17] CBS News has learned there are now
[1:20] nearly 5 000 people inside here tonight
[1:24] now that is almost full capacity Early
[1:27] In This Disaster and there are still so
[1:29] many days of catastrophic flooding ahead
[1:31] we have also seen dramatic rescues all
[1:34] day long in flooded neighborhoods some
[1:36] by civilians I'm Anthony Mason in New
[1:39] York Harvey barreled ashore Friday night
[1:41] as a category for hurricanes since then
[1:44] more than 30 inches of rain have fallen
[1:47] in the Houston area now a tropical storm
[1:49] Harvey is forecast to drop another 10 to
[1:52] 20 inches by Friday the official death
[1:55] toll is two but authorities fear that
[1:58] will rise dramatically Texas as Governor
[2:00] Greg Abbott has mobilized the state's
[2:03] entire National Guard twelve thousand
[2:06] stro