Tropical Storm Harvey

Residents near a chemical plant on the edge of Houston had to be evacuated after two explosions sent noxious fumes into the sky.

Arnecia Baker has been driven out of her home in downtown Texas by floodwater. She says she ‘got stuck in a van’ before being evacuated.

First Texas and now Louisiana, more communities are now braced for flooding as the heavy rain brought by Tropical Storm Harvey keeps on shattering all the records.