Month: August 2017

alexialex/iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Wednesday it had received "disturbing" reports of people in the Houston area posing as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and telling residents in the area to leave their homes.ICE warned that the fake agents were presumably asking people to leave so they could rob their now-empty houses.HSI special agents generally carry out the investigative and often non-immigration related mission of the […]

Ingram Publishing/iStock/Thinkstock(PORT ARANSAS, Tex.) -- A Texas man whose wife gave birth after they fled from Hurricane Harvey -- and whom ABC News has embedded since the storm made landfall on Friday -- made an emotional return to his destroyed home on Wednesday, saying that his family made the "right decision" to stay nearby.Port Aransas resident William Weeks and his wife, Danielle Weeks, became parents of three Tuesday morning when […]

SeanPavonePhoto/iStock/Thinkstock(CROSBY, Tex.) -- The situation at an Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, outside of Houston, has become "serious," the company said in a statement, and there is a risk that the plant could catch fire or explode.Arkema’s North American operations Chief Executive Rich Row said Wednesday that the company has "no way to prevent" a possible explosion at the facility.“We have an unprecedented 6 feet of water throughout the […]

Instagram/robbieanne(HOUSTON) -- Despite Hurricane Harvey and all the losses it's caused, the more than 32,000 Houston residents currently living in shelters as a result of the storm are carrying on with life celebrations.One boy displaced by the storm celebrated his birthday at a Deer Park neighborhood shelter, according to ABC station KTRK in Houston.The boy -- named Anthony -- spent his birthday surrounded by fellow evacuees and volunteers, who were […]

Harris County Sheriff's Office(HOUSTON) -- At least two bodies were found in a van that was recovered Wednesday after it became stuck in swift-moving floodwaters Sunday morning, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.The sheriff's office said the van had been "purportedly carrying six family members Sunday" when it was "inundated by Greens Bayou flooding."This brings the death toll from Harvey to at least 17.Authorities saw at least two bodies […]

HCSO Texas/Twitter(HOUSTON) -- The Texas deputy shown in a heartwarming photo carrying two children, one in each arm, out of a Houston-area home surrounded by deep floodwaters, says, “It was just me doing my job, helping out."This is the "job that I love doing," Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Rick Johnson told ABC News of the post-hurricane photo, which quickly went viral. "I love helping people."The photo of Johnson and the […]

The Washington Post/Getty Images(PEARLAND, Tex.) -- After Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, firefighter Michael Gibson was more than a first responder. He was also a worried son.Gibson is part of a first responder team that has been out rescuing people in the Houston suburb of Pearland, Texas. He came back to his old neighborhood to help and had been working for the past four days when he got the call that […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images(BEAUMONT, Tex.) -- A young child was rescued in Beaumont on Tuesday after she was found clinging to her unresponsive mother in the floodwaters that have devastated the southeastern Texas city, officials said.The mother was traveling with her young daughter when their car got stuck on a service road in high water, according to the Beaumont Police Department. She escaped the car with her child but was swept […]