CNN's coverage of the catastrophic flooding in Houston

Today, like a lot of Americans, I spent a good amount of time watching news channels. 

And I gotta say; despite Trump always labeling CNN as "fake news", CNN proved its value during natural disasters & provided (at times) compelling coverage of the catastrophic flooding in Houston (like the elderly couple rescued from flooded home by a  volunteer & CNN crew): http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/08/27/harvey-houston-flood-rescue-dickinson-lavandera-vo.cnn

& speaking of valuable journalism, the NY Times has free digital access to coverage of the storm: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/us/hurricane-harvey-texas.html

"HOUSTON — What felt like an apocalyptic onslaught of pounding rains and rapidly rising floodwaters brought the nation’s fourth-largest-city to its knees Sunday, as highways and residential streets turned to rivers, waist-high waters choked off access to homes and hospitals and officials begged boat owners to pitch in with a massive and frantic rescue operation.

It was a scene that evoked Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana in 2005, with worried residents punching holes in roofs in anticipation of the water rising even higher and people being rescued by helicopters from soggy rooftops."

I'm writing about the TV coverage of the storm, because it's too early for me to discuss what effect this catastrophic flooding will have on politics. The rain is expected to continue so the crisis is not over yet. In addition, the hard part of dealing with the storm's aftermath (relocation, clean-up, claim payouts, etc.) still lies ahead.