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 mexico to turn this into a

monster category for store. texas governor warned the president of the state that this would result in "very major disaster". with that, we bring in adam as we continue to look at life pictures they are from down in texas. adam, where does this say we are in the progression of the store as of now? four hours ago for landfall, our folks out of the woods yet? >> leland, no. especially when you talk about that katrina level store because they weren't saying that because of that initial impact but it's been warned that this is a storm that will go on for four or five days continues to rein in continues to rain and continues to rain until eventually there's no water way for the water to go. putting is a big issue. this is the newest information we have. we seen this potato watch around houston in surrounding areas and

really everything here on the front right quadrant of this particular hurricane but we got a report recently about a 20 oh south of houston. the conditions are there, tornadoes spin out quickly when they're associated with the hurricane but there are dangers thunderstorms rolling on shore. we'll see heavy rain stretching toward galveston and eventually up to the houston area. back towards where the hurricane i is, made landfall about four hours ago, it did begin to turn to the north and perhaps that initial punch will come down to the areas of corpus christi, 300,000 people living there and in terms of the north it begins to take the most severe weather with it to the north so things like the hardest hit in the right side of that i wall you'll see the strongest winds and the winds still getting up to 150 miles an hour currently

sitting at 115 miles an hour consistently which are coming down a little bit but that's still a massive system in a nasty system. here's what i will leave you with as we look at the two high pressure system's. why is this just beginning? why is the were still on the horizon? well, we have the hurricane there and has nowhere to go. typically you see a storm run on shore and it can lift up and perhaps in some cases run up to the middle of the country but it won't be able to do so because of the cut off high pressure system and it will move inland and eventually hit this high. the high will win and will have nowhere to go but retreat back to the coast. where it is now is where it will have to stay for a while. when that happens the rainfall totals starts to pile up. these numbers are almost hard to believe when you're getting up into the mid- 50 inches down toward corpus christie getting into the 25-inch rain and these

are big totals and they stretch all the way over to houston getting up to 20 inches of rain and this historically floods fairly easily so i take you over to san antonio and that's getting more on the borderline and it will move inland orifices back to the coast. there is that line from 5 inches to 15 inches and only there within a 20-30 miles man. this is what will be watching closely and when you talk about a very wide area all the way down from corpus christi to portions of louisiana look at 275 miles and the wind gusts have taken all these getting up to 70-80 miles an hour. leland, to answer your question here all these minutes later is i think were in the early stages of this. leeland: that map hide you might be the most telling in the sense

that even the weather instruments that are built to withstand a storm like this and bring you and other meteorologists the information you need to make a forecast have all been knocked out. the uplinks have been knocked out in places like rockport where the storm came to shore trying to get a hold of the mayor they are but cell phone signal is out and the towers are out. it's clear we might not see the damage especially at night right now but the damage exists there. we are now getting these data points in as you point out, of just how bad things might have been when they got hit by 100-mile an hour gusts. >> i have been watching this ever since 7:00 o'clock and i could see these getting up to 80-90 miles an hour and that's when they started disappearing. every one of these that are gone they had seen the winds get up to the 80, 90-mile an hour range

and now with getting up to 130 miles an hour. that will do that. leeland: adam, thank you. adam, as you get more information and jackie, it's important to note that the data that adam has, and the data that he does not have is that were not getting any readings from the gulf where, those oil rigs and offshore drilling facilities are out there in the gulf and it's unclear how many of those are damaged to provide so much of the crude oil that comes into galveston to supply the southeastern part of the united states five this could spike gas prices we got to fill up the pump and it could take weeks if not several weeks to get those refineries back up and running. we had a guest a couple hours ago talking about the technology and how great it is but that being said one of the most important in telling signs of hurricanes is to see people out

there and see it life and that's what we have matt finn, in blessing, texas. he's been there all night long and it's 100 miles southeast of houston is a very latest there for us. matt, what can you tell us? it looks worse than when we last saw you. is that the case? reporter: yeah, it's been deteriorating for the last couple hours but the waned and rent becoming more violent. we been hearing from adam and other forecasters brought the storm surge and when we first arrived at this location the water line was about five-10 feet off the walkway and now the water is pretty much engulfed this walkway behind us. it's starting to push up along the grass area so the water line has pushed this ten-20 feet since you been here. the wind and rain are violent in the water would be fatal if you were to go near it. we been seen a lot of blue flashes in the distance so you can imagine this might be some downed power lines or power outages and the mayor of the neighboring town and we

interviewed earlier tonight said they've already started to experience power outages and it could be out for days. in the county we are in there was a mandatory evacuation issued last night at midnight. buses left at 1:30 this afternoon and whoever is here now is law enforcement says if you decided to stick around you are here on your own. the county we are in there is 36000 people here in a short while ago we talked to the emergency manager director he thanks the majority of people didn't decide to evacuate and there are still a few people around here but few and far between and some law enforcement authorities starting around in the process a few times to make sure that we are doing okay. all in all, no major damage to report although we can't get deep into the town yet. tomorrow sunrise will tell us much more about any severe damage here in texas. back to you in new york.

jackie: it's in the middle of the night and you can hardly see what's happening. once the light comes and will start to see the devastation that has happened. matt, one thing i noticed in these life shots you have rob in corpus christi, i'm seeing the light in the back and the light on your camera seems to be on so while power outages are deadly happening it seems like power is on there for you guys. reporter: it's coming and going. there's a major .-dot right here to my right and the power has been going on and off all night there and we can see some residential areas but they are completely blacked out right now. i'm not sure if there's a couple blocks or what portion of this community were in is with or without power there are some utility poles that might be operating up generators are sent to back up our but all night long, just before i would live we saw a bright blue flash light up the sky. it looks like there could be

some type of significant downed power lines or outages coming in going-i'm so surprised to see those lights on after what we have been seeing overnight. matt, in blessing, texas, we appreciate your work. you'll join us for the next couple hours so stay safe until we see you next. leland. leeland: noteworthy, jackie, that's where matt is is about to 10:00 a.m. and right now it is low tide. it is the very lowest tide you will get throughout the night as the tide moved up and then you have the storm surge. that is that eastern part of the counterclockwise wind and we will continue to push more and more water up onto those locations for galveston as the tide comes in. those two things combined only magnify each other as the water rises both from the storm surge in the whipping of the water and the tide rising so, we will check in with matt and make sure

that if he needs to move from his location there that he is able to. we bring in now, as we watched the storm in washington, is august, disaster recovery attorney. august, there's been a lot of discussion in terms of this new administration as to how things are going to work with fema because fema keeps talking about trying to push more risk down to the states and the homeowner level. at the same time, no six-month into the administration, the storm that could cause some estimate a minimum of $40 billion in damage. where do these two intersect? >> and like to think that this isn't a political event and that hurricanes don't storm is between the republicans and democrats but i do think hurricane harvey is a big test for donald trump and his new head of fema. how they respond to harvey could be a defining moment for this

president. they will be judged initially on how they handle the evacuation in the rescue and that's thing but they're also going to be judged on how they treat people after the storm and that is critical. thousands of homes are going to be damaged and destroyed and people in the storm are going to lose their possessions, their memories and everything and fema and its insurance companies are the ones they get to decide how much money these people are going to get to rebuild their homes and that's a ton of responsibility. leeland: when you say get to decide, to folks who don't live in hurricane country you thank you have insurance and you if your house burns down the insurance committee comes and pays to rebuild your house -- is that different from folks who live along the gulf coast and live in the path of these hurricanes? >> well, we're really talking

about two different type of insurance. homeowners insurance generally covers wind damage so both types of insurance might be implicated in this type of storm where there will be a lot of wind and a lot of flood. your homeowners policy which is issued by private insurance companies would respond to the wind damage but then the federal flood insurance policy is what will pay to cover the damage by flooding and that's a policy that's underwritten by fema, the federal government. fema contracts with private insurance companies to go out and adjust these claims and you are right that you thank you buy insurance, whether homeowners or federal flood insurance, you pay those premiums every year and when the storm hits you think that everything that gets damaged will be paid for but it just doesn't seem to work that way. i will be praying, since hurricane katrina fema has been a total train wreck flood insurance. they haven't treated people well at all. it's a big problem and we are

all watching this next one very, very closely. leeland: as you note, when two insurance companies begin to argue about who is responsible for any damage it is the consumer who almost invariably, in that situation, loses. i'm guessing someone like you, harvey, would come in, august, to talk about the disaster insurance. , i only have 30 seconds or so. when does this assessment began to take place? what do folks like you talk to homeowners and say okay, this is what you might get in this is what i can help you get? >> as a lawyer, i only really should have to go in when things break down into work. in theory, homeowners should be able to call their home insurance company, fema or whoever the interest-only

working for fema is, and the adjuster should come out and tell you what has been damaged and tell you how much they owe you and pay it and you can rebuild your home but it doesn't usually happen that way. what usually happens is that people find themselves ten, hundreds of thousands of dollars short and the adjuster and the insurance company will offer them one amount but they realized that amount they can't rebuild their home and that's when they have to call in lawyers and public adjusters in others to try to get the money that they are owed under that policy. leeland: august, i appreciate your time and staying up late with us. obviously, it would be our hope that you won't be needed down there in the aftermath of hurricane harvey but if history is to be our guide, you will be. patient your time. >> thank you very much. leeland: august, jackie, brings up important points especially since these people will be out of their homes and have faced catastrophic flooding and at the same time there out of jobs as well because the storm doesn't

discriminate. it takes out businesses just like it takes our homes. it's a double whammy for folks who have nothing left in their homes and perhaps they been completely destroyed or flooded out and at the same time have no way to make a living and are forced to make the process surprised i can't help but think of the hospitals and medical facilities that are set down. i know there's a hospital in texas that had to flag newborn babies. ten of them because they were in the neonatal unit and they needed the electricity and they needed help. that's happening to a number of hospitals. the transport people before it happened and it could take weeks, who knows. you're exactly right. thank you, leland. were going to go to corpus christi texas a city along the coast, completely shut down due to the hurricane. about 300,000 plus people live there and that's where we find rob. he's live there now. every time we go to you we see something different. it doesn't look as rainy but very windy and it's a little something every time we see you. reporter: yeah, it's a little different.

it's scary because i have the hearput on. the wind is not nearly as bad, frankly, it's late cleaning up quite a bit but now we're starting to get more rain. you said corpus christi, a town that shut down. it has shut down but not mandatory. it was not under mandatory evacuation so people can stay here and that we're close to where the i was expected to come and came about 20 miles from here and areas that will try to go investigate as the sun comes up. we also have reports of a wall that came down of an apartment building and looks like an exterior wall came down during the storm is in corpus christie. will try to make the way over to that and see what happens there. our goal is to see just how bad that is. hopefully, it is not too bad and no one has to deal with storm without an experience while on

their apartment. we'll see how that develops. yet, for the moment, it would seem that corpus christi, for the most part is out of the woods and it will be mostly rain after seeing some pretty tremendous when overnight. we had gusts of iraq hundred miles an hour and sustained winds were heavy for the most of the night as the storm came on shore, made landfall and the bulk of the damage that it did to corpus christi, we saw a couple satellite dish come off the top of the building, land in the median of shoreline boulevard which is to my right and the water is a hundred yards this way but there's no point in showing you because of the darkness. a lot of cleanup to do the downtown area, we haven't seen significant damage at this point in corpus christi. that is good news that they may have averted some of the trouble, although, didn't you never know until the sun comes

up. it will most certainly be worse for areas to the north of here where the landfall was made in the big question from here on out is no longer about the wind and what the storm will do now that it's been downgraded to a category three hurricane at this point. it will be about the water and how much rain we will end up getting some of these estimates are horrifying. were talking about 30-40 inches of rain over the next four or five days even though south texas is ready for that heavy rainfall, i should say, anywhere is ready for that much rain and what i can do. that could be the most dangerous part of the storm yet to come which is unusual because frankly when a storm makes landfall it begins to dissipate and it's usually good news once it makes landfall. once the eye gets over the land it no longer has the fuel to continue to build up and it's a good thing but with this one if

it stalls out and dumps brain and water for four days it could be a dangerous situation for millions of people to live in south texas. there's a lot of people that live in this area and it could be a really bad thing if we see feet of rain dumped in the month of august when it's already raining a lot and very wet down here. that will be the big story of where it goes on and will have to see how that develops. back to you. jackie: he is taking off the hood and there, folks. things are changing at least in corpus christi or it appears so. what is the temperature there, rob? reporter: it is warm. it's got to be 75, 80 degrees. it was so hot when that storm kicked up that it's unbelievable. the stones get so powerful because they love warm water, warm air and it be that.

it's warm. jackie: let's hope that the next time we check in the coat is often you can shed those wet layers. it looks like a mess. thank you so much for being out there. we'll check in later. still a lot more to come after extended coverage of hurricane harvey continues. stay right here with us. we'll be right back.

jackie: is now 3:25 here in new york in 2:25 where hurricane harvey is has an impact on businesses. it is now a category three hurricane and was downgraded shutting down oil refineries across the gulf closed and extreme flooding is starting and threatening to bring it to a halt. it may take weeks or months before it can back up according to experts. texas is the largest oil producer here in the united states by far is part of the oil shell information lies in the protected path of the store. companies have suspended drilling and others have completely shut down all operations there and there are 30 refineries on the coast that have the capacity to process nearly 5 million barrels of oil. day. as of thursday, companies immaculate personnel for nearly 40 platforms that account for 9.6% of the oil output and this

course stands to have impact nationwide on gas prices are those of you at home are earned in the eye of the storm or in louisiana, it could have an impact on you because the price could jump from 15 to 25%. since this weekend. leeland: it's difficult to find gas for folks who have evacuated. the mayor from victoria texas stories is now. so they understand the geography, as i see it, the storm came ashore in rockport which is there just a little north of corpus christi and then you're a little bit inland from that and we see victoria, texas on the map, the eye wall just south of you. what is it like there right now? >> the winds are slowly increasing in speed and the rain

is consistently falling. we are on standby as the winds increased. leeland: what has happened to your residence? are a lot still there, are they able to get supplies? >> we have the system snuck up on us so quickly that it grew so fast and we did issue a mandatory evacuation thursday morning, late morning, i would say a rough estimate is maybe 30% left still have a high percentage of the population, about 70000 here in the city. we asked them to get shelter in place and we have to shelters open that are both to capacity currently. leeland: i know that occasionally during the worst of the storm fire department, ems, please tend to shelter in places as well so when the storm passes

there in shape to go out and help folks. have you had any reports from people who are in need of help right now or is everyone, so far, been able to make it through okay? >> there's been sporadic reports. yes, response times are delayed and there is a threshold where first responders will not respond out of danger to themselves. had good cooperation with our citizens and that was mentioned early on for the last several days not to expect and you need to get shelters in place and hunker down and not expect responses during the most dangerous time. everyone in danger. there's been a few sporadic incidences. leeland: is the power still on their smart. >> it is. i don't know what percentage, if i had to guess maybe 50% or less of the town has power. we have certain areas that we are aware of the didn't lose power and it stayed on for hours but others it fluctuated. maybe 50-50 is my guess.

leeland: 50, 50, you are 50 or 60 miles inland stick and imagine what it is like out along the coastline. we tried to get hold of some of your fellow mayors along the coastline and we been unable to. are you prepared for the flooding or you just wait and see? >> both. we are prepared and we as we can be with had significant flood events of the last 15 years that prepared us for this we have assets phased in many of the state agencies in the region located to our emergency center here in victoria and they are here and also the coastal communities have dropped off some of the vocals you have. a lot of concerns for our friends in porter ranch in rockport. leeland: for sure. i know it's difficult to develop negations to the places. mr. mayor, thank you for joining

us. we'll be back from the night and into tomorrow. our thoughts and prayers for you and your citizens, sir. >> thank you, leland. leeland: life pictures there of about 30 or 40 miles in flexing, texas at 2:29 a.m. power is still on their and as we heard from matt, power is out in much of the neighborhoods there and could get worse. meteorologist adam with the latest on the track when we come back. mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again.

jackie: it's 3:34 here in new york in 2:34 in texas. we are continuing to follow hurricane harvey which has now been downgraded to a category

three. we have leland joining me now. leland, i had a chance to talk with you earlier and we been on the air for about an hour and a half and i was telling you and i will tell our viewers that super storm sandy, we lived in connecticut at the time, i lived with my husband and we had a newborn baby about six was old we lived on long island sound and i have to tell you it was one of the scariest things when we boarded up our beach house. the water was right outside our door. boarded up our beach house and it was so eerie as we left our beach community and a few days later we came back to find furniture from all her neighbors and furniture, barbecues you name it was out on this park when you enter and it was so surreal it was like off the movie and tears started coming down my face and i said that is my couch and my barbecue and luckily it didn't come to my home but several homes came in one side and out the other and it gutted these homes and my perspective, living there one of these storms and sandy is nothing like this, it seems anyway, it was gutwrenching. you have covered these hurricanes and human out in them which seems crazy at times as we look at these reports they seem

bulletproof like nothing can happen. leeland: as we often say there's a fine line between brave and stupid and you try to stay on the brave side rather than the stupid side but, as you point out, there are so many people who don't have a house to come home to and as we cover these things and our reporters, lauren blanchard, rob schmidt, mattson, casey steagall, we all get to leave "after words" and it's residents like you have to come home and deal with it. one thing that is striking when we look at pictures from blessing, texas and corpus christi and you go, well, it looks like a bad storm but it doesn't look that terrible and where is the destruction. well, that is 60 miles from where the eye of the storm in a place called rockport and when you're covering the storms it's a fine balance between being in a place where you can experience storm and show our viewers the

power and damage of it but still, number one, stay safe and number two, be able to transmit back to new york the pictures. that's another shot there and you can see the -- once the wind get to 80-90 miles an hour you bring the satellite dishes on hundred down and then you rely on cell phones and data through the cell towers or perhaps some other type of communication to get your pictures out. by 130 miles an hour there are no indications. cell towers go down and often times the generators that provide the backup in the hotels and those go down so while you look at galveston, it looks all right, lauren was in the street there but we are unable to get communications out of place like rockport, texas and as he looked on twitter and some of the other storm cases have affiliates in

those hotels in their last medications are ten or 11:00 o'clock tonight saying we are being evacuated to a shelter and then their phones go dark. rockport, jackie as you pointed out, is for the mayor said write your social security and your name on your arm with your sharpie and now we can't get a hold of that mayor so it won't be until daybreak when the winds go down and they clear the road and clear the power lines that are down that you get into those areas that have any ideas. the pictures on her scream really play just how different and difficult the storm is. jackie: you know who we can get a hold of mark adam, he is in new york in the weather center and will give us the very latest on hurricane harvey and where it happens to be going right now. it's been downgraded to a category three. is there any chance i could go back to a category four? >> not at this point.

we are running overtly and so will we intensify. you make a good point and that is it's easy to forget how powerful these are. this is the first category four storm to make us landfall since 2004 and it's the first one in texas has seen in over 50 years so it's very rare event and we don't see it happen that often and the damage you get incredible high damage when you talk about gus getting up to 12s are backing down but it's a category three hurricane and for now lifting a little to the north and everyone now on the east side of the storm where you see the strongest winds and that's where they go to a hundred miles an hour and is looking more. as well and the mayor is now beginning to see intensifying with. it is the initial round of wind that is the first punch but it

becomes a water event in rain event and that's what i am concerned about in the days moving forward because this is where a lot of stores we cover you don't see a storm sit in place like this it's going to do. is our tropical motion and it's actually several models. here for the next couple of days they are in agreement. this is running you all the way to sunday morning and you see it's weightlifting it's a inland getting close to san antonio but not making it there and turning around and dropping back down to the corpus christi area and that's now on monday morning. it's no longer a hurricane but still a big rainmaking system that will run its back out to the gulf and if you get into tuesday, wednesday and thursday and it's hard to tell where this will be but it spins in this area for little while before moving up the coast. you see these tracks are in agreement and were doing circles all in one place.

that means it will rain and rain and rain and it will never try out wherever that system is so wherever it is sitting the rain continues and you get these numbers that seem hard to believe until you think about a hurricane hitting a place for four or five days and they become believable. here are the numbers getting up to 50-55 inches, in some cases, it's locally widespread in areas getting 230 inches. that is running up to your chest and that's in a flat, open fields. anything with low, it will be flooded like that. this is widespread. it runs all the way up to houston is perhaps as much as 2a that historically floods and inland this storm meanders inland and were talking about getting right along the border of san antonio stretching you up brother too often, all areas that could see four or 5 inches but if it moves farther inland maybe ten or 12 so this will be

a huge system and were continuing to watch it. it's a inland. i do want to point out that it's been quiet for the houston, galveston area so far will see more of these rain bands move in that direction and expect heavier rain from now into tomorrow. we're still early in the situation is private thank you. will check in more with you. more changes at the white house with a presidential pardon to tell you about. >> big news breaking out of washington in the hours that the hurricane was coming to shore. plus, north korea firing more missiles. we will check in it back to texas and also figure out what's been happening in washington when we come back.

jackie: 3:46 in york city and 2:46 in texas where hurricane harvey made landfall late friday night hammering the coast with wind leaving damage in its wake.

rockport, texas, city manager kevin says multiple people have been taken to the county's jail for assessment and treatment after the roof of a senior housing complex collapsed. he says rockport historic downtown area has been heavily damaged so it looks like they're taking people wherever they can to assess them until they can get them to the proper places in facilities. leland. leeland: some of the first images here getting of the damage here. it still nighttime, obviously, very hazardous to move around the stores. joining us is thomas, a former assistant director to fema was involved in the hurricane and response. as we check in with our reporters and in samaria it doesn't seem that bad you keep having to explain to viewers places that are batlike rockport you can't get to it we can get information out from and give us a sense of how it normally takes from the time the storm comes

ashore to the time give a sense of how bad it was. >> pleasure to be on your show. generally the first four or 48 hours is going to be critical to get what we call ground zero. if you remember, 1992 hurricane andrew, came through the homestead and we couldn't get into the homestead for about 12, 18 hours but once we did we knew it was a catastrophic event. in this particular instance is very different because, if you remember, andrew in 1992 was mostly wind damage and it appears from everything that i've seen that this will be mostly flooding which in many cases is actually worse. leeland: flooding, for sure. were hearing about 30 or 40 inches of rain in places, rockport specifically his background, victoria, texas is also flat and they've had flooding and that wasn't even with a hurricane -- how much

have we learned and as you are watching the response and the being prepared for the response which is what everyone will say is so more important than the response itself, have we learned since andrew in katrina, or things happening in a staging, occurring that perhaps we aren't seeing but that is there and ready? >> absolutely. if you look at the surge that came in to south florida in 1992 and you look at the surge of assets that we expect to get into the houston area for hurricane harvey there could be as many as ten-15 times the amount. one of the challenges in this form is the storm is going to hang around for three to as many as five days and you cannot get assets on the ground if there is

flooding. that is the biggest challenge. leeland: that is what we are watching. thomas, we appreciate your insight because we see the storm surge come up there in blessing in the tides come up as well. more on the track a party and what you're talking about the flooding when we come back. who are these people?

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a fox news alert as we continue to watch hurricane harvey, shore in texas amid all the news of hurricane harvey in the coverage, jackie, another top white house aide gone. it's been another huge story except it was overshadowed by harvey. jackie: busy newsnight. white house sebastian telling the associated press that he has resigned from his position. white house officials say he did not resign but no longer works at the white house. his departure comes a week after the exit of chief strategist steve bannon from the white house. leeland: also, president trump pardoning joe arpaio on friday evening staring the x arizona sheriff. he was convicted of criminal intent in connection with his

hardline tactics going after immigrants. the move drew outcry from civil rights groups with accused joe arpaio of his crackdown on illegal immigration as part he did on tuesday that it might be coming. north korea has fired three short range missiles one of which the uss has failed. there are the first note watches and these are the first known launches since july when the north successfully tested a pair of ibm missiles in that analysis says it reaches deep into the us mainland where they perfected the white house was briefed on the latest lunch at times and they are monitoring the situation closely. he says this is a win for the us. leeland: that is not enough news for you on friday, present donald trump asked that transgender are not allowed to serve in the us military but the

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leeland: box extreme weather alert. i'm leland vittert in washington projected, incredible pictures starting to come in from texas. it is still nighttime there, about 3:00 a.m. down in texas but as we take a look at the pictures show the damage and destruction we are hearing about. jackie: a lot of people at home are saying it doesn't look that bad but it's the middle of the night. wait till we have the sun come up and you can see all the destruction there. as you pointed out earlier, the reason we don't see the hard places like rockport is we don't want we talk to