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<div><!-- TAG START { player: "AOL.com News  + Auto play", for: "AOL.com" } --><!-- TAG END { date: 8/30/17 } --></div><div><!-- TAG START { player: "AOL.com News  + Auto play", for: "AOL.com" } --><div class="vdb_player vdb_56c21811e4b009d9eacb4ef95643911267b62318603bce5a" data-placeholder="//img.vidible.tv/prod/2017-08/31/59a828a18c08e073fd501155/59a829185ab53514473721e2_o_U_v1.png?w=1440&amp;h=900" vdb_params="m.fwsitesection=aol.com.news.us"><img src="https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/7359x4831+0+72/resize/1028x675!/format/jpg/quality/85/http%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2F5ad2f096d07911dc26877c65e017efa6%2F0%2FRTX3E2MR.jpeg" style="display:none;" /><script async src="//delivery.vidible.tv/jsonp/pid=56c21811e4b009d9eacb4ef9/vid=59a828a18c08e073fd501155/5643911267b62318603bce5a.js?m.embeded=cms_video_plugin_releases.aol.com" type="text/javascript"></script></div><!-- TAG END { date: 8/31/17 } --></div><p data-reactid="41">PORT ARTHUR, Texas (Reuters) - A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, no let-up in rescue efforts was expected on Friday as large pockets of land remained under water after one of the worst and costliest natural disasters to hit the United States.</p><p data-reactid="42">The storm has displaced over a million people, with 44 feared dead from flooding that paralyzed Houston, swelled river levels to record highs and knocked out the drinking water supply in Beaumont, Texas, a city of about 120,000 people. (GRAPHIC: Storms in the North Atlantic -&nbsp;<a href="http://tmsnrt.rs/2gcckz5">tmsnrt.rs/2gcckz5</a>)</p><p data-reactid="43">Arkema SA and public health officials warned of the risk of more explosions and fires at a chemical plant owned by the firm. On Thursday blasts rocked the facility, about 25 miles east of Houston and zoned off inside a 1.5-mile (2.4-km) exclusion zone, after it was engulfed by floodwater. (GRAPHIC: Hurricane Harvey flooding -&nbsp;<a href="http://tmsnrt.rs/2x6jFXf">tmsnrt.rs/2x6jFXf</a>)</p><p><strong>RELATED: Texans being evacuated during Hurricane Harvey</strong><br />


                  
        
          

                                  
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                                <div class="caption-text">People are evacuated from flood waters from Hurricane Harvey in a collector's vintage military truck belonging to a volunteer in Dickinson, Texas August 27, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking</div>
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                                <div class="caption-text">People are rescued from flood waters from Hurricane Harvey in an armored police mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle in Dickinson, Texas August 27, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking</div>
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                                <div class="caption-text">Sterling Broughton is moved from a rescue boat onto a kayak after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey rose in Dickenson, Texas August 27, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking</div>
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                                <div class="caption-text">Texas National Guard soldiers aid residents in heavily flooded areas from the storms of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, U.S., August 27, 2017       Lt. Zachary West, 100th MPAD/Texas Military Department/Handout via REUTERS   ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY</div>
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                                <div class="caption-text">HOUSTON, TX - AUGUST 28: Barb Davis, 74. is helped to dry land after being rescued from her flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain water, remnants of Hurricane Harvey, on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in areas of Texas over the next couple of days.  (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)</div>
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                                <div class="caption-text">HOUSTON, TX - AUGUST 28:  People are rescued from a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain water, remnants of Hurricane Harvey, on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in areas of Texas over the next couple of days.  (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)</div>
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                                <div class="caption-text">HOUSTON, TX - AUGUST 28:  People wait for a ride to a shelter after being rescued from a flooded neighborhood when it was inundated with rain water, remnants of Hurricane Harvey, on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in areas of Texas over the next couple of days.  (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)</div>
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                                <div class="caption-text">HOUSTON, TX - AUGUST 28:  Dean Mize  holds children as he and Jason Legnon use an airboat to rescue people from homes that are inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi late Friday evening, is expected to dump upwards to 40 inches of rain in Texas over the next couple of days.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)</div>
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