Houston
Opening up Reliant Center next to Astrodome for refugee processing
Opening up Houston Convention Center
Also outside Reliant Arena the, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was checking in animals.
One of the animals checked in was a five-year-old golden retriever mix named Precious. She and her owner swam for two days to escape the flooding. She was being loaded into a carrier that will be taken to the SPCA, which has taken in 300-400 animals onsite.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday that Dallas would host 25,000 refugees at Reunion Arena and 25,000 others would relocate to a San Antonio warehouse at KellyUSA, a city-owned complex that once was home to an Air Force base