Tuesday, Aug 29, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

By Monday, the third straight day of flooding, Hurricane Harvey had left much of the region underwater, and the city of Houston looked like a sea dotted by islands. We hear from some people in the city about the view from the ground as the waters keep rising. Guests: Alan Blinder, a Times correspondent who has been reporting from Houston; Jacqueline Herrera, who talks to us us from her home in Houston where she is, for now, staying put. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.
0:09.0	Today, this event is unprecedented. The National Weather Service tweeted,
0:14.0	all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced.
0:19.0	A view from the ground in Houston as the waters keep rising.
0:24.0	It's Tuesday, August 21.
0:38.0	So what was the like out there?
0:40.0	Peer hail, man.
0:42.0	I'm 61 years old. I've never seen this before since I've been here in Houston all my life.
0:48.0	You're okay, sir? Not really, man. I saw it.
0:50.0	Yeah, he did a lot of work in the waters.
0:53.0	Rescue kids.
0:54.0	So where you staying?
0:56.0	Right in my car.
0:59.0	Where's your car? Right over there.
1:02.0	The Jeep Thomas.
1:03.0	Oh, I'm good.
1:04.0	Yeah, I'm sleeping in my car right now.
1:06.0	We were here late last night.
1:10.0	The dump trucks kept pulling up.
1:12.0	People were getting off, rushing in and trying to get out of the cold in the wet.
1:17.0	Yes, sir. How much sleep did you get last night?
1:20.0	I didn't sleep last night.
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