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Good evening. For five days now, we Americans have watched and prayed for our neighbors in Texas. They are battered and fighting back against hurricane Harvey. Nearly 5. 2 inches of rain have fallen and that's a record for the continental U. S. It's caused a flood the size of the grand canyon. Lives lost, lively hood swept away. At least 3. 2,0. 00 people in shelters.

That number will climb, and even as the flood waters receding in Houston, what they will leave behind, alligators and snakes, to toxic things that could poison them long after. Tonight, concern growing over a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas. The company warns an explosion is very possible, and they have no way to stop it. Harvey's victims need help.

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We'll tell you how you can help. Our correspondents are spread across the storm zone, and we begin with ABC's gio Benitez just outside Beaumont where an rescue is under way.

Good evening, gio. Reporter: That's right.

We're seeing so many selfless acts here in Texas. We are seeing so many people still come in here with these boats. They are using these boats and bringing them from all across the country to help people in those flooded homes, get them out to safety. Get them out to dry land.

Now I want you to look a look at this video. It was released late today by the Navy, and you can see there's there video in Beaumont, Texas. There's the air rescues. We have seen them get to their rooftops to avoid those floods. That's how the Navy has been finding these people.

You can see this family, the Navy pulling them off their roof. And in nearby, Port Arthur, the elderly stuck in a flooded nursing home. Rescuers pulling all 7. We're seeing these everyday Americans jump into action in a remarkable way, and, you know, we hear about this country being divided, but here in eastern Texas, I can tell you it could not be more unified. Gio, thanks very much. We're here with ginger zee for more, and we saw those new floods.

So hard to wrap your head around the scale of this storm. The scale of it is everything, and the timing. Imagine dropping 2.

New York City to Boston. That's the expanse of land we're talking about. These maps, and all the white would be the 2. Port Arthur getting hit so hard.

Even though the rain has stopped, the rivers are still rising. I want to take you to the glimmer of hope. Tropical depression, Harvey. It has stopped being a tropical storm, and you're seeing that move a little more quickly, north, northeast. Heavy rain will come along with this. Memphis could see heavy stuff.

Up to Lexington, and Harvey will be eventually done with us. We can say good- bye to the storm itself, by this weekend. It's picking up steam right now, but the big problem was it just sort of parked over Houston. The big question, why? The history of this is incredible to look at. Let me show you this. The landfall was late Friday night.

It comes on. It sits. It spins. It does a little loop.

It goes back to the gulf of Mexico, and then it makes another landfall early this morning. Still as a tropical storm.

That's why you had so much rain in place. Why did it all happen? You had two big high pressure systems sandwiching this storm, not allowing it to move.

The current or jet scream was too far north, and we have separated those two, and it's starting to jet northeast. Stand by. We'll come back to you late. Houston is the largest city like this to be hit by this, and Tom llamas is on the scene. Good evening, Tom. Reporter: We got to Texas Saturday night. Seeing up close what the storm has done to America's fourth largest city, up to 4. This storm could cost more than $1.

Here on the ground, we have witnessed it all for incredible rescues to a body being discovered in a parking lot right in front of us. There's an old rule when riding out a hurricane in Houston, and it's testament to this. The wind will hurt you. The water will kill you. If you're just joining us we need everyone to move into the building.

I want you to take your family. Go around these people and go straight inside the hall. Reporter: Tired, thirsty, uncomfortable, and these are the lucky ones. There are tens of thousands of them, finding safety tonight in 1 of 2.

Texas and Louisiana. Some arriving in dump trucks. Some in the arms of strangers. This is the convention floor. This is where so many of those people are sleeping. They planned for 5,0. Now they have more than 9,0.

Lisa sailor has been here for days helping mothers and children. I had a lady yesterday, a young woman that stood in water for a day and a half with her girls because she didn't want to leave her home.

The whole lake Houston looked like an ocean of water. Reporter: 1. 8- year- old Talia Castro with her 7- month- old nephew on her knee finds herself caring for her own child, sleeping there on the floor, and three nieces and nephews. What's it like? It's hard because I'm not used to taking care of all four of them at the same time.

Reporter: A total stranger, Dee Wilson, took pity, welcoming Talia to her carpeted corner an oasis away from the bare cold floor and careless feet. How did you guys meet each other? She was in the corner with the kids, and people was walking over her and, you know, being disrespectful and we just invited her over here to kind of help her.

Reporter: In Port Arthur, people took shelter at the Bob bower civic center. It was supposed to be safe and dry. It was not. Flood water chased people up the gym bleachers to wait to be evacuated, again. Twhe got people in the bleachers.

They got mattresses on top of the chairs. Reporter: The shelter at the Houston convention center is prepared for health emergencies. This is just like a mini hospital. They are actually going out to get patients and transport them back here. If they can't get to a hospital? And some of the hospitals are closed because they are flooded.

Reporter: Everyone coming into these shelters has a story of survival. Watch West Of Memphis Dailymotion more. But few equal the ordeal of one mother who saved herself and couple of dozen of others by sending out an sos on social media. I was scared out of my mind, I thought we were going to die. Reporter: Iashia Nelson survived hurricane Katrina, only to find herself, a dozen years later, in the eye of a storm named Harvey. You say attacked. Yeah. Because that's what he did.

Harvey came in and attacked. He took over. Reporter: As the hurricane pummels everything in its path, she and about 3.

When none arrives, she begins posting on Facebook. Was the water coming up? The water was rising so fast. Reporter: So you're facebooking and the water is rising up? Rising up. Reporter: 5: 4. Monday morning, about an hour before sunrise, she posts this video. The building across the street is about to collapse.

The building across from me is collapsing. Reporter: With the flood water at their heels, iashia and the others break through a window to get out on the roof. The word of her plight spreads on social media. Good morning America" interviews her.

Tell me how you're doing, and how you're holding up. It's not going good for us. Across the street, the building is caving in. Watch Hangman Online there. There's water everywhere. We have nowhere to go.

Reporter: A few hours later, iashia goes live on Facebook. We need help, we need help right now. They got a whole family out there in the water, the people here is drowning, I seen three dead bodies. Lord, please help us. Oh, my god. Reporter: The water's rising. You lived through Katrina, you know what can happen. What's going through your head?

Honestly, I thought we was going to die. I really did. But I kept the faith, I prayed. Reporter: At 1. 0: 2.

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