From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today, days after Hurricane Harvey hit, even as waters began to recede, Wayne Daily was still pleading with emergency services for someone to come rescue his wife.

Sherry Fink and Annie Brown tell her two of the story.

It's Friday, September 14.

We begin this hour with dire conditions in Texas. Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Friday night as a category for Hurricane and has pummeled Houston and the surrounding region bringing catastrophic flooding for days.

The rain has fallen in parts of Houston since Thursday and it's not over yet.

The Lord will continue to be safe, continue to be dry.

Like I said, about an hour ago, you couldn't see the top of my mailbox and now I can see the top of my mailbox.

I know the water has receded at least eight inches. But I am very fortunate. My family is very blessed right now to be alive, to be safe, to be dry.

Everything else is not essential.

I'm not going to sleep. She didn't have a very good night last night. She's been sick, puke and stuff. So, trying to keep her occupied all my dogs and my animals in.

Just to let all you guys know, it's still hope in sight.

So, love all you guys, everybody be careful and I will keep you all posted and updated.

Wayne tries to assure everybody we're going to be okay. That's his word out to everybody. But in fact, it's a horrible night.

Casey, by the morning, she's just really lethargic, almost impossible to rouse what's coming out of her mouth is gibberish. If anything, it's not even daybreak yet and he calls 911 again.

Second 911 call Tuesday, August 29th, 6.52 a.m.

Yes, this is Wayne Bailey. Excuse me. Sorry, I'm sorry. My name is Wayne Bailey and I need a water rescue. My wife is in bad shape. She had surgery last Wednesday. She had a tumor removed from her left kidney.

Okay, what address? My address is.

The county has disaster plans and under the county's disaster plans, the local fire station is in charge of rescues.

Okay, well, as of right now, they haven't resumed water rescue operations. They will at daylight for safety reasons.

The problem is this fire station didn't have any boats, didn't have any high water trucks. Some neighboring ones did, but they were busy using them in their own district. They couldn't share.

So, at daylight, they will resume operations and there's multiple neighborhoods in that area that are having to be evacuated.

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