4, made landfall about 10:00 p.m. local time. 30 miles northeast of corpus christi. this monster storm would result in, quote, very major disaster. some forecasts to comparisons with hurricane katrina which struck new orleans 12 years ago, katrina killed more than 1800 people. people seem to take the warnings for harvey far more seriously. for the very latest on the storm's path, meteorologist adam klotz in the fox news weather center. adam, and we've watched this eye wall come ashore. heard about the wind. as bad as expected. not quite as bad or we don't know yet? adam: we don't know the damage yet but the storm itself yes, as bad as expected and some cases maybe worse as we were able to climb up to the category 4 storm. at this point, a category 3.

that doesn't mean a lot to folks in the path of it. what's the difference? category 4 is 130-mile-an-hour winds, now down to 125-mile-an-hour winds. still a massive storm. this is the eye wall, the hurricane stretching out beside it, general track, there all the way until it hits land. just within the last 40 minutes or so, see it turn to the north. that is going to affect folks in the immediate path as we begin to see it take the northerly route, anyone in that direction obviously on the right-hand of this system, that's where the strongest winds are. the major population center here is corpus christi, beginning to turn a little way away from that, not turning it any closer to it. i think the strongest winds behind for folks there. still have a storm the rest of the evening but lifting to the north and perhaps just rain is the big concern for those folks for the rest of the night as we continue to deal with. this the problem is going to be moving forward from tonight into tomorrow.

generally, you hit a storm like this, it runs off the gulf of mexico, it can run up to texas, head farther north. we have the high pressure system that isn't moving. so the storm is going to head into texas a little ways, approach san antonio. the high pressure system wins, it bounce off and has nowhere to go but settle back down the coast. as a result, this thing meanders around the coast for days. here's the tropical models, runs every possible route it could take. you see it run inland just a bit, sunday lingering into sunday before turning back around, running back over corpus christi. no longer would it be a hurricane but a huge rainmaker, a tropical system and by the time you get into wednesday and thursday, it becomes hard to tell where this thing is going head. it lingers, there is nowhere else for it to go. it drops rain and rain and rain, and we start to get numbers that feel impossible, but if a hurricane or major storm is going to stay put that

long, perhaps they are possible. getting up to this model suggesting 50, 55 inches. the national weather service is feeling safe putting a lid on 35 inches, that is incredibly high numbers. this is where we came onto shore. other areas getting to major metropolitan areas like houston, 20" of rain, 25" of rain. that is a city with historic flooding issues, that's an area we're watching. and running you over austyn and san antonio, hard to know how far inland it's going to make it before the low pressure system turns around. maybe 6" of rain, maybe a couple of miles change, maybe 15-20". this is 300 miles. 100 miles inland, this is a major storm and four, five days, leland to be paying close attention to it. leland: exactly, adam, want to come back to the, of the rain

totals before we get to the lieutenant governor. real world, what does 30" of rain mean on the ground? you think 30" that comes up above your waist. if there is 30" of rain, it could mean flooding that is far higher than that, am i correct? adam: exactly, we say 30, 35" of rain in a parking lot, it's up to your legs. we're not in a parking lot. any low-lying area is flooded when you see huge totals like this, in some cases getting more than that. so driving through some of the streets is impassable, and you start to talk about with nowhere for the water to go, the system is not going anywhere. it's not just tonight, it's four, five days, folks could be stranded for weeks and water rescues could be a nightmare. leland: flooding and trees uprooted, power lines down, the list goes on and on. adam, it's going to be a long

night. and jackie, that underscores the issue we keep hearing, in the first hours once the storm has come onshore, you think to yourself, gee, we have not seen trees flying through the air. we haven't seen this huge amount of damage, and then the real damage comes over the next couple of days, as you're dealing with the rescues and the flooding that adam talked about. jackie: you're right, the remarkable part is this could go on for days well, into next week. adam was talking about 35 to possibly 55" of rain as leland said, we have texas lieutenant governor dan patrick, he's on the phone joining thus morning. lieutenant governor patrick, is texas ready for this? were they prepared? and for the next couple of days, if we saw 55" of rain, can texas handle that? >> 55" of rain is a lot for anyone to handle, jackie and leland, but the reality is texas has been prepared for a cat 3, 4, 5 storm for a long

time. our first responders have been trained. we dealt with hurricane ike in 2008, big tropical depressions and big flooding a few years ago near memorial day and heavy rains last year. our counties are prepared for it. with that said, so we are prepared and the governor has done a great job of preparing us. we've already been in touch with the white house, the governor and the president have spoken, they are prepared to help us quickly. as prepared as we are, and are as prepared and can handle this as well as anywhere in the country or the world. this is a storm that came out of nowhere in 72 hours. i was on galveston beach last week with my family. it was sunny, we left the weekend, saw the tropical depression, everyone thought it was going to mexico and dissipate. that's what all the weather forecasts said, and suddenly from tuesday to now it's turned into this massive hurricane. so a lot of people were caught

offguard. we're hoping a lot of people evacuated on their own. there was a mandatory evacuation, we're ready for it. this is going to be if not the most, one of the most devastating floods in the history of this state. jackie: we sure hope not. it's looking like it very well could be. as you touched on, the fascinating part about this is we didn't hear about it until tuesday, the tropical winds, we weren't taking it until too seriously. wednesday, definitely thursday, we said this could be a hurricane and seemed like it quickly today went from hurricane category 2 to 3 and now sitting at a category 4, which can cause widespread devastation. as you talk about preparations that texas has taken, what are some of the preparations for residents? >> well, we have about 30 agencies that prepared at the state level. everything from our highway patrol, our department of public safety down to our emergency management team, and game wardens.

go down the list of everyone you can possibly imagine. we have 700 troops on standby. our military is prepared. again each county has their own system, and their own emergency system. some of these are small rural counties, like bear county where san antonio is or houston will have bigger teams, of course, but it is a coordinated effort, it starts at the governor's level and the state level, the county judges do a magnificent job, the mayors ever the cities, they've been through this before, and what will happen, jackie, right now as this is 1:00 in the morning now, we won't see the extent of this damage until daylight in the rockport area where we've had 140-mile-an-hour winds and gusting at that level and higher. but it came on at about 130 miles, there will be a lot of damage. somewhat of a rural area through there, but still, you know, well over 200,000 homes between corpus christi and

houston, that's about a 200 mile range. just along the coast, and then you have the hundreds of thousands of homes and families if this storm goes toward san antonio as predicted, loops back and comes to houston. another 200 miles from san antonio to houston. hundreds of thousands of people without power. homes will be damaged, businesses damaged, and this will -- some people won't get back to homes for weeks, some possibly for months, we don't know the extent until this passes through, you know, maybe not until next wednesday or thursday, but totally get out of the area, and also, jackie, you know this is going to impact whole country for people watching around the country, how does this impact them? we have 30 refineries in the path of the storm that are down, or closed. to our knowledge, there has not been extensive damage, don't know that yet, too early to tell. they were shut down, natural gas production, petroleum refineries.

we provide natural gas and oil refinery, anywhere from a third to almost 50% of the total production of the country. so that's going to impact if the refineries are down four, five days. i also saw an estimate, jackie, the storm by a company of core logics that does analysis in property values, just in property values $40 billion in damage taking the number of homes and homes damaged by floods, because if you get, jackie, i hope you've never had a home that's flooded. once you get flooding above the sheet rock, it is an expensive item. you have to tear everything down out of sheetrock and redoing the entire house. there's going to be a lot of people, you know, that are going to have a lot of damage. but we've been through this before, you never want to be through it again, but we've had a lot of storms in texas through the decades and we will come together. i said earlier to tucker

carlson tonight, this is a texas sized storm and we will have texas sized effort, and neighbors will help neighbors and counties and cities and state government and federal government will all work together to help them. this will be neighbor helping neighbor, we will get through this. jackie: texas sized storm and texas sized response. i like that. lieutenant governor dan patrick, get back to you later, stay safe. leland? leland: all right, now down to the ground in texas. matt finn live in blessing, texas. sort of for geography sake, 100 miles southeast of houston. matt, from where you are, eye wall on shore yet, what's it like? reporter: leland, for several hours now, just this consistent wall of soaking rain and violent winds. the bay behind me, the water is extremely dangerous and violent looking. when we first arrived here, the water line was probably five to ten feet further out and now

can you see the water and the waves have creeped up onto this walkway here. we talked to the chief of police a short while ago, he expects some of the storm surges that have been forecasted to cause a lot of erosion and damage in this area. the county we are in has about 35,000 people, and there was a mandatory evacuation issued last night at midnight, and the final bus left at about 1:30 this afternoon. so whoever is here now, law enforcement, law officials say you are on your own, and as you can see whoever is here now is trying to survive or stay as safe as possible in these very dangerous conditions. leland? leland: you got a chance to talk to the police chief. a few questions, one are they still able to operate? are first responders able to move around the town? two, have they gotten calls of folks who needed help there and have they been able to get to them? reporter: you know, we drove around this town.

this is a small fishing town of about 5,000 people. our producer and i drove around. we don't see a lot of activity. people are hunkered down or not outside. there are some law enforcement cars driving around. some police officers, but there are few and far between. we spoke to the emergency management officials, the county here, the county judge, they've had minimal calls, minimal emergency calls because he believes the majority of the people decided to heed the evacuation order of the we've been driving around all days, and small coastal fishing towns and all look like ghost towns. seems like the majority of the people did heed the evacuations. a couple people said they were going stick this thing out. and we'll see tomorrow morning how that fares for them, leland? leland: and just for viewers' sake as they watch the storm come ashore there. rockport was ground zero for the eye wall.

that's where it came ashore. blessing, texas is just about 60 miles to the north, and i'm wondering, give me a sense of the wind. you have seen trees snap over yet? or have you just seen the trees bending in the wind? what's the level, and i know it's tough at night to sort of assess any damage, but have you seen any buildings cave in? major structures blown over? reporter: you know, we obviously can't pan our camera much right now. if you move it around, it's going to go flying in the wind. immediately to my left, palm trees look ready to bend in half. so far haven't seen any of them flung around or uprooted, but i'm sure they're out there. can you see the wind. this has been steady for hours now. i can only imagine there has got to be damage in the town right to the left of us. leland. leland: you were nice enough to

pan up and show the american flag barely holding on in the wind. power lines certainly to come down in the wind. matt, your crews and you stay safe out there. we'll check back. it's going to be a long one, my friend. reporter: thanks, leland. jackie: corpus christi, texas shut down due to the hurricane. home to 150,000 people. that's where we find our own rob schmitt, he's been there for the last 24 hours scoping out the place and been in that area five hours now, i saw you on "the five" earlier, rob, what can you tell us about the conditions? reporter: what a difference an hour makes. it's dramatically different now. the rain has almost completely stopped. it's very windy, the gusts are down, and now you saw matt finn getting slammed by what was wrecking us a couple hours ago. we were getting hammered 6:00,

7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 through midnight. we were getting pounded by wind. 100-mile-an-hour wind gusts. maybe 60, 70-mile-an-hour sustained winds. there's a good gust trying to knock me over. it has subsided. we're on the clean side of the storm. the west side of the storm. the dirty side is closer to galveston and houston where i started my day was this morning i was in galveston doing the live shots and decided to try to find the eye of this thing. we were 20 miles, 25 miles from the eye of the storm when it made landfall. you were talking about rockport, took the brunt of this storm. and unconfirmed reports there has been serious damage, structural damage in rockport. all of that has to wait until the sun comes up before we can be mobile again. it's a very dangerous place to get to in a storm like this because the surge is expected to be so high. there's a lot of low-lying areas in and around that area.

relatively unpopulated, not a busy area and along the coastline as well. port lavaca -- it's been a long day -- and that area as well, getting a lot of the storm as well, getting a lot of the brunt of the storm. we'll have to watch the areas and hope that everything or the people are okay. we are expecting some damage there. as far as here, we've had street signs blown clear off. we've had trees bending as they do. the palm trees are used to this kind of weather, and as your lieutenant governor was talking about of texas, they're used to the storm here. the gulf is ready for this type of storm. it's a warm area, the gulf is a warm body of water it. produces serious storms from time to time. this one was a big one or is a big one as it continues on and was a big one for corpus christi as it came through a couple hours ago. it pounded it hard. the development of this storm

turning from a cat 1 or tropical storm to a cat 4 in a short period of time was what i think spooked a lot of people to get out of here because corpus christi at this hour is a ghost town quite frankly, nobody stuck around to see how this was going to go. we haven't seen anybody here. our hotel is filled with media members, and you drive down the streets and it's vacant. people knew not to toy with a cat 3, cat 4, they knew it was a big storm. i think people might say they're due because you live in the gulf, this is part of the life. this is living here. you're going to have hurricanes, big storms. the last big one was ike, and this is the biggest storm to hit the continental united states since 2005. a solid 12 years since we had a nasty storm, that was a bad summer and bad fall in 2005. wrapping thing up here from corpus christi. i would say that the storm is

really starting to fade out, it's going to continue. we'll get bands, the worst in corpus christi is certainly over. now it's a matter where this thing goes from here and all the rain it's going to dump in the next four, five days. back to you. jackie: rob, you have been out there the last 24 hours and seen things change dramatically around 9:00 our time. looks like you needed goggles. things look a lot better, happy for and you everybody that lives there. as the hurricanes develop over time. they can get worse, they can get better, we'll keep an eye on the storm and you, thank you so much. reporter: yeah. jackie: lots more to come as extended coverage of hurricane harvey continues. leland: we'll be here all night, but it will have a story that is days long as harvey continues to drop all that rain, up to 30". back live to the storm zone and back on the storm track as we take a live look at blessing,

texas. the storm surge coming up there in the fishing community. 1:20 a.m. there in texas.

. leland: tracking hurricane harvey through the night here. galveston, texas, another city along the coast in harvey's sights. live there, correspondent lauren blanchard on the ground. lauren, give us a sense. how bad's it been? how bad is it? galveston home to major ports. those all shut down. what's the feeling there? reporter: yeah, leland, so far in a bit of a lull in

galveston. throughout the day watching and monitoring the storm. coming in waves of really, really heavy rain, strong winds, then it will stop, and it will be fairly mild and then it will start back up. right now we seem to be somewhat in one of those lulls. we haven't had rain now for quite some time. that's good news for the folks in galveston. not seeing a lot of the storm surges that were expected. they were looking between four- and six-feet storm surges. the seawall is holding. the water is staying back. we still see cars driving up and down this galveston island. even just a little bit ago, leland, i saw somebody out in a golf cart driving up. mind you it is 1:30 in the morning here in texas. someone was driving a golf cart up and down, i've seen people getting out, probably take

photos against the better advice of local authorities that they need to hunker down for the storm. we're seeing a lot of wind, not so much rain. there is a tornado warning in effect for approximately another five minutes here in the galveston area. we'll see if they extend that warning. they have been doing that throughout the night. so we'll see if they add onto that. at this point, things seem to be holding here in galveston, not much destruction at this point either. no real signs down, and only a little bit of power lost. leland? leland: there is no accounting for how absolutely reckless or perhaps insert another adjective people can be during hurricanes. golf carts are a new one. i haven't heard that. there are 20,000 cruise ship passengers stranded at sea because galveston is such a

major port. as you talk to officials there, do they have contingency plans? talking about when they might reopen the port or now in hunker down mode and assess in the morning. reporter: how would you like that? out on a cruise --. >> i wouldn't like that at all. reporter: not at all. i would not want to be on the cruise ship. port of galveston did close down, leaving three, four ships with 20,000 people on them out at sea. they were trying to find other ports they could possibly get to, up the coast towards louisiana or waiting to see if it was better for them to stay in place. wait this thing out. not an ideal situation, obviously, if you are out there on a cruise for a vacation. you do not want to be out there. but obviously those officials are going to be playing it safe. doing what they think is best and that is not coming to the port of galveston. leland: right, if they get into the port of galveston out of port of galveston with all the flooding we're expecting. blessing, texas, that's a live

picture, lauren, about 60 or 70 miles south of you, in terms of where you are, closer to where the eye wall came on. they're getting lashed with the heavier winds and the storm surge. lauren blanchard doing incredible work for the past 12 or 14 hours now. you and your crew earned well-deserved rest. talk to you tomorrow. reporter: thanks, leland. leland: and jackie, as you pointed out earlier not only is galveston home to so many cruise ships and ports but also the main hub for texas' oil industry and the 30 refineries that the governor was talking earlier. jackie: the big worry, hurricane harvey expecting to have a big impact on businesses. category 4 hurricane shutting down oil refineries across the gulf coast. extreme flooding expected to bring the state's shale activity to a halt.

may take weeks or months before they can bounce back from that. texas is the largest oil producer in the united states by far, and part of the oil which shale formation lies in the projected path of this storm. companies suspended drilling and evacuated nonessential staff. others have completely shut down operations. there are about 30 refineries on the gulf coast that have the capacity to process nearly five million barrels of oil every day, and as of thursday, companies evacuated personnel from nearly 40 platforms that account for 9.6% of the gulf of mexico's oil output. and this is standing to have an impact nationwide on gas prices. those of you saying how it's going to impact me? listen up. gas price per gallon could jump 15 to 25 cents this weekend. as for gas in texas, the epa is lifting gasoline requirements to deal with potential shortages caused by the storm. the waiver allows for the sale

of gasoline that does not comply with regular environmental guidelines until september 15th. and leland, it takes several days for the refineries to close down. they started a couple of days ago. they can't just shut down operation like sdmashgs to get back up and running, it can take weeks. >> can take weeks to get back up and running, assuming there is not major and catastrophic damage. the other issue is the gas shortage in texas. the first thing everybody does is stock up on gas, and after the storm passes, you're going to see the major influx of prestaged tankers that bring in more gas, tankers bring in water and supply that are short supply there as folks had to evacuate with whatever they can. one texas mayor saying if you don't evacuate, you might die, and to make it easier write your name and social security number on your arm. that's how bad this is. jackie: chilling, you can imagine that? we're going to speak with the

mayor coming up. we're going to take a quick break and speak to meteorologist adam klotz. he'll be here with us. here's live footage of hurricane harvey out of texas. stay with us. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance.

. leland: 2:34 on the east coast, 1:34 in texas. just about 3 1/2 hours after hurricane harvey. the first major hurricane in a decade to hit the united states

has come ashore. meteorologist adam klotz tracking it all as we look at the live pictures. the storage surge coming up. adam, for our viewers watching over the past couple of hour, we've seen the storm diminish in the live shots coming from our reporters, whether it be rob schmitt or lauren blanchard, matt finn, all say the same thing, the wind has died down. seemed like a pleasant night in corpus christi. is the danger over or the danger just starting? . adam: well, in corpus christi maybe the danger is winding down, we've seen a little bit of a shift in this system. but i do think there is plenty of areas, luckily a little more unpopulated but if there's folks in these areas, yeah, it's still a big one. it started as a category 4, now a category 3, it shifted down a little bit. that doesn't mean a lot if you're in the areas where the winds are intense. the category 4 would be 130

miles an hour, we're at 125. the rain kind of backed down, the winds have backed down. you see the very dark-colored, they lifted to the north, the entire system moving offshore but once it hit land it shifted, moving farther to the new york. slowed down. now only at 6 miles an hour, if you're in the area hit hard, now i'm not expect movement within the next couple of hours. if you're in, it you're getting a lot of rain, if you're lucky and corpus christi, to reiterate, that is the most heavily populated area that we're looking at. we're dodging the most people but plenty of areas where the rain is heavy where the storm surge is powerful. everything on the right side of the storm that's where this is piling up. from port lavaca stretching west there, these are areas where storm surge forecast is running up to eight to ten feet. include that in all the rain we're going to see, still a big issue. the reason we're going to see

the rain is because this is going meander. now that it's on land, there isn't a driving direction to it. it would look to hit to the north, the low pressure system it's going to bounce back down to the coast. it's going to give it plenty of opportunity to rain more places. category 3, it's going to weaken over the next 48 hours, eventually lifting closer to san antonio before running back over corpus. the winds will have backed down but the rain will continue to fall. wednesday and thursday, incredibly difficult to know where this thing is going to go, but you know it's going to be trapped and you know that rain is going to continue it fall in big impressive ways. i mean these numbers are hard to believe but 50" of rain, that's what this particular model saying, the national weather service is saying at least 35" of rain in the isolated areas. corpus christi getting close to the range where you're talking about at least in the 20, 25"

range and as far north as houston, 20" of rain in an area that historically does see flooding with this kind of rain, and inland, you're looking at running up close to austyn, close to san antonio, and some of the numbers not too much farther off to the coast. how far in is the system going to make it before the wind catches it and turns back around. can make a big difference for three or four inches of rain in san antonio or 20" of rain and flooding. there is a lot to pay attention as it continues to spin. one last thing, we're focused so much on the corpus area up towards houston. the stretch is on. we're still under a watch it in portions of central louisiana, we could see pop-up thunderstorms and tornadoes the rest of the evening. it's still a big system, though

it's starting to weaken, we are far from out of the clear you guys. leland: adam, we heard a lot about the storm about the idea that it can shift back offshore and make a run east over towards louisiana specifically new orleans. that when you talk about rain, flooding hurricanes and add the word new orleans, it brings back ideas of hurricane katrina 2005, the storm that this was as well any. risk of that or have the models shifted more to the west and can focus primarily on the threat to texas? adam: this is primarily the throw the texas, that's the case. from where it's spinning now, it does begin to be more dicey where it's going to go next but it is going to use most of its energy in texas. let's say it runs inland and does fall into the gulf of mexico which it does look like it wants to do. if it decides it's going to run its way up to houston eventually to louisiana, it's a

system bringing rain but no longer a hurricane, not going to regenerate to the point where it's a hurricane. i'm not concerned about it being anything like now any farther up the coast. leland: jackie has questions for you in terms of forecasting. last one for you, you talk about the very fine line between 30" and 6" which can be the difference between catastrophic flash flooding and streets that have water in them. what determines that line or is it too early to tell. art of science or is it a roll of the dice right now? adam: it's an part and a science at this point. there's a big high pressure system off in the northern portions of texas and the high pressure system is going to win. this thing is moving that direction, seats that battle. where exactly does it ultimately happen where it turns back around? and you saw how fine of a line it was, it's a bit of an art, a bit of a science and maybe a bit of a roll of the dice at this point. leland: jackie, that at this

point of the night and these parts of the forecast is what you get from our good friends in the weather center. it is an art much more than a science. jackie: that's right, adam, and speaking of science, i put a question out on twitter to followers asking if they had problems with weather patterns and the hurricane. chad had a great question. no, jesse on twitter, asking about the rain softening the ground. we could see this next couple of days well, into wednesday. at what point is the ground going to start hardening again. i'm sure it depends how warm it is. how long do we worry about the trees uprooting and falling after the storm has passed? adam: that can be difficult, if we're in the areas with 35, 40" of rain. it can take a long time. it's not going to have anywhere to go. i think we could be talking about standing water for a week, week and a half and if you've got standing water, it's going to take a long time to dry off. could this be several weeks.

we're talking about an entire summer's worth of rain, entire year's worth of rain in locations happening in just a couple of days. it's almost unbelievable to think about. jackie: and adam, quickly, we have to take a break here soon, but can you talk a little bit about the science behind hurricanes? what really happens on the water with the warm and the cold and everything mixing? just break it down in simple terms for us. adam: what we have, especially when you get the warm air, it's all lifting. the gulf, and especially this time year, get over into the western gulf of mexico, the temperatures, which is why it's not a surprise it exploded. it came off the yucatan peninsula and we ran into temperatures 85 up to getting close to 90 degrees, it's all about fuel. it's all about energy. that's the case in any big weather system and the heat is all the fuel, all the energy this needed to. go from a tropical storm up to a category 2, 3 and eventually a 4 isn't horribly shocking,

and it has really let loose. the good news, now that it's going to run ashore, the energy is gone, it's going to fall apart and weaken a little bit. the only unfortunate thing, there is enough warmth, it's going to pull in rain. as far as the intensity, that's going to back down, the winds back down, that's good news. jackie: what is strange about this, the stall tactic for several days. that is something we haven't seen that often when it comes to hurricanes. they come in and make their way out. adam: we have two big -- we have a graphic, i can't get to it now. we have two high pressure systems, cut off from the jet stream which usually moves across the country. this is stuck between them, this is going to bounce back and forth in between these two. i know we're running low on time. i want to show it to you real quick, and i've shown it to you before. here it is. there are our two high pressure

systems. is it loading? yeah, there we are. we're running out of time. we're trapped in between them. this isn't going to have anywhere to go. we're going to continue tracking this and answer anything questions. more news coming up after the break.. jackie: thank you so much, adam. we're going to take a break like you said and we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ i'm... i'm so in love with you. ♪ ♪ whatever you want to do... ♪ ...is alright with me. ♪ ooo baby let's... ♪ ...let's stay together...

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associated press he's resigned from his position, a white house official says gorka did not resign but, quote, no longer works at the white house. so there's that discrepancy between the two of them. gorka is declining to discuss the reasons for his departure but resignation letter was posted by the federalist website. in it, the former national security aide says, quote -- gorba's departure comes a week after the exit of chief strategist steve bannon from the white house. leland: and also just weeks after general john kelly took his office of chief of staff. this also breaking in the very late hours of friday night as the world focused on texas. president donald trump pardoning joe arpaio on friday. first pardon since taking office. as you might remember, joe

arpaio is ex-arizona sheriff, controversial sheriff. arpaio convicted of criminal content after going after undocumented immigrants. earlier tonight, arpaio after the pardon spoke with sean hannity about the decision. >> i applaud the president for what he did tonight. it was the right thing to do and telegraphed he was going to do it the other night. hearing it tonight, how did it feel? >> it's great. i love that president. he supports law enforcement, and i'm very humbled. if you recall two years ago, i supported him, and i said publicly recently pardon or no pardon i will be with him to the end. and i'm going to have a news conference early next week and get to the bottom of this and show the abuse of the judicial system and politics. i'm not going down without trying defend myself to all those people that don't like

what i have done. leland: certainly, there will be a lot more on this story in the coming days out of washington. when we come back, back down to the gulf coast as hurricane harvey continues to come ashore, and the storm surge continues to pound. you won't see these folks at the post office. they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer.

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. jackie: we bring you back to coverage of hurricane harvey. following it all day. really the last couple of days. we've been following it extensively. i want to take you to blessing, texas right now. we have live footage of what it looks like there on the ground. we have reporter matt finn, we've talked with him before. now a category 3 hurricane. it was a category 4 earlier in the night. now downgraded, but don't let that take any extra precautions there, it's still very dangerous out there, and we

have several reporters on the ground that we're going to take you to in just a moment. leland: can you see the lights starting to flickner blessing, texas. tens of thousands without power. certainly more to come in texas.

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jackie: this is a prox extreme weather alert. i'm jackie. >> nice to be with you at home. 3:00 a.m. eastern, 2:00 a.m. in texas. i leland in washington. preston now find a disaster declaration for texas is working harvey has made its move into the lone star state. this is a texas sized storm in a texas site response. hurricane harvey has been downgraded now to a category three storm. it made landfall at about 10:00 p.m. local time, four hours ago. fifty-six hours is all it took for the warm waters of the gulf of