>> it hurts because you see people work their lives to build something. and in one night, it's all gone. most of it is gone. >> tonight, harvey, downgraded the texasing, but now coast dealing with historic rainfall. one confirmed dead, several injured. just beginning. tonight we're bringing you live team coverage. plus, answering the call to help. hear from local volunteers responding to all that devastation down south. and harvey now a tropical storm. bring you updates. expecting more rainfall overnight tonight. >> now, abc 7 news at 6:00, on your side. news.aking harvey hammering the gulf coa.

to a tropical storm. one death confirmed. catastrophic flooding is expected. abc's lana has the very latest on harvey. reporter: good evening. no more, butvey is tropical storm harvey, even it is stalled, continues to bring its fair share of problems to the region. talking about nearly 500 flights being cancelled here in houston. plenty of wind and rain still to come. when hurricane harvey roared into shore... it brought with it wind of 130 miles per hour. reported asrges high as 6.6 feet. the storm's path, residents of texas, mississippi and louisiana, getting hit the hardest. christi, punishing winds pulled

blew out windows. >> oh, my god! reporter: and seemed to toy with structures. among the hardest hit, rockport. at least one person confirmed dead. there,astation tremendous. building after building, ripped apart. throughout the region, emergency teams worked heroically. continue.ncerns >> corpus christi is the third petro chemical port in the nation. could havehreat we different types of chemical releases. reporter: and wide torrential rain. already here in houston, flooding in residential areas, advice from the governor, as the rain is expected to continue for days. >> turn around, don't drown. risk your life. reporter: certainly good advice. thatially as we consider that becomes increasingly the problem here. has alreadyard successfully rescued at least

continue toaters come down here in southern isas, and the ground saturated, all the water in those bayous and rivers continue rise and flooding and drowning becomes the greatest concern. backting live, abc news, to you. >> lana, thank you. abc 7 is closely monitoring harvey's next steps. breaking this down. >> good evening. our satelliteat of tropical storm harvey. wind right nowed of 65 miles per hour. so wind and rain, just going to batter the coastline, not only over the next 24 hours but into next week. these tracks, we see things kicking out quickly. that is not the case. we're definitely going to be measuring the rainfall in terms of feet. some places, upwards of about 30 or more before it's all sa

harvey, coming up in just a bit, look at your extended forecast. kimberly, back to you. >> molly, thank you. happening now, the american red is mounting a massive relief effort. ourns of volunteers from area are already on the ground in texas. more on the way. ryan is live now in fairfax where emergency vehicles are getting ready to deploy. ryan? reporter: kimberly, those already setting up shelters. some have been there for days. more are on the way. the americanhome, red cross is activating its emergency response vehicles. tomorrow.heading down and they are expecting this to be a very long recover effort. southeast texas is battling a one-two punch. a direct hit from hurricane harvey and now fears of catastrophic flooding. today, volunteers with the cross, national capital

emergency response vehicles and helphead south with the massive relief effort. >> at this point, we have almost 2,000 people in shelters down there. reporter: dozens of volunteers are mobilizing. call late last night. she's packing up and flying to houston to help manage a shelter. >> no matter how little sleep you get or how much extra work somebody is always better off when you're finished. that's why you do it. winds leveledey's buildings, ripped apart roofs and heavy rains still drenching the coast. >> we're just now getting our hands about how large this disaster is. where i'm at, i know it's huge. reporter: the national capitol theon has had a team on ground since tuesday, bringing food and supplies. cardin talking to us by phone from corpus christi. >> what we're dealing with in arpus christi is pretty much widespread power outage, which means there are no businesses no gas stations, no places to get

>> the storm is going to leave many areas uninhabitable. we will be there with everyone else, as long as we're needed. we checked in with maryland task force and virginia task force. on standby tonight but will be deployed if needed. meantime, the red cross tells us it plans to be in texas and louisiana for weeks, if not months. in fairfax, ryan hughes, abc 7 news. >> if you'd like to help victims your own way, you can donate to the tropical storm harvey fund. there's several ways to do that. just head over to wjla.com. the u.s. humane society is working with groups in our area find homes for animals that had to be evacuated from affected areas. going to be coming. the humane society says contrary animals havets, no been euthanized. if you're interested in adopting one, contact the humane society. we'll have more on this story, coming up to

proclamation related to harvey. he made that announcement in a thet last night, explaining federal government is on sight and ready to -- on site and ready to respond, and urging be safe. to the president also took to thankinghis morning, volunteers an emergency personnel helping in texas. he posted, we have fantastic people on the ground. there long before harvey. so far, so good. for the latest breaking news texas, sign up for text alerts at wjla.com/text. 6:15, we'rep at going to bring you another live report from texas. developing now, more lawsuits are in the works after the directivesigned a preventing transgender people from joining the armed forces. last month, the president sent out a tweet saying he would reinstate a ban on transgender troops. new order also bans the department of defense from providing medical treatment for personnel. the pentagon must

what to do. 6600 transgender troops currently in uniform. has revised command its assessment of the latest north korean mitchell test. the -- missile test. the u.s. says two of the missiles flew for about 155 miles. third missile blew up seconds after launch. the pentagon says these tests involve short-range missiles. 6:00, police say two men were shot at a gas station early at the mobile gas station on new york avenue. we're told both victims are and breathing. no word yet on who pulled the trigger or why. on abc 7 news at 6:00, all eyes on harvey. dead.rson is confirmed there are several injuries reported and rescue operations way.nder we're back with more of the break. mounting after president trump'son

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>> harvey has been downgraded to a tropical storm but it's still hammering texas. we continue to closely follow this storm. here's what you need to know. was aal storm harvey category 4 when it made landfall overnight. officials are predicting more inches of rain in some spots. catastrophic flooding is expected. now there's at least one confirmed death. about 300,000 homes and are now without power. growing fallout tonight over the president's controversial pardon of former arizona sheriff joe arpaio. of thetorial board state's largest newspaper, the movena republic, said the is proof the president supports, quote, institutional racism. senator

pardon undermines the president's claim that he the rule of law. arpaio was awaiting sentencing disobeying a judge's order in a racial profiling case. infaces up to six months prison. in the meantime, there are conflicting accounts as to orther sebastian gorka quit was fired. in an interview today, gorka insisted he resigned. outspoken and combative defender of the president, week's departure comes a after the ouster of chief strategist steve bannon. we are closely monitoring tropical storm harvey from flooding to widespread damage. a live report from texas. and whether it will have any impact

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harvey. it haseakened -- weakened to that tropical storm. but as the slow-moving weather rain on themping gulf coast, the concern now turns to widespread flooding. now moving east towards houston and that's where we find lana zack. you're going to be sitting in place for a little while. how long? reporter: well, we understand that the rain is going to through probably about wednesday. so many flights have been cancelled. 500 here in the houston area. that thisrstand weather system now, especially just has slowed, it's going to continue to pound us with rain, and that's where flooding becomes a danger. >> have you heard about tornadoes reported on the ground near you? we're getting information about now.coming in just reporter: yes. we know that we were under a earlier in the day. and that connu

so we're all going to be very aware of that, watching for it. some of the damage that we have ground here in texas actually resembles tornado-like are areascause there that are just completely devastated, then other areas that look relatively fine. but tornadoes are going to be a problem. torrential rains are going to be a problem. if hurricane harvey isn't a thing anymore and it's just tropical storm harvey, is the potential for a lot of destruction. >> lana, do you know how the one and also howe, many rescues have already been made? understandell, we that the one fatality that has been confirmed as part of this storm was in freeport. that person died in a fire. again, this was part of what the was saying yesterday, when he told people to evacuate. at the height of this storm, if a problem, rescue teams cannot get to you. they could not assist. they could not get to this rs

fire, so unfortunately, that has resulted in a death. we know that rescue teams out there and looking to see that everybody is in fact safe. the red cross has confirmed -- or sorry -- the coast guard has least 18 people that they have successfully rescued. but there are still reports coming in from across the state and the gulf coast region, of people who they are looking for, that they wanted to make sure are safe. this is part and parcel for a storm system like this, where people might be okay needs to givejust it a little bit of time to make sure that rescue teams can do their jobs properly. we have a little bit of a break in the weather, that's exactly what they're doing. kimberly? >> all right. thank you so much. stay safe! let's check in with molly now. any residual impact on our area? >> looks like harvey isn't going area, but there is another

be our next named storm. so we have a lot going on today. those twoook at tropical systems. otherition, this disturbance near the florida coastline, a 40% chance of development over the next two days. so that's something we are definitely going to watch. here's a look at our satellite of harvey. notice the heavier rainbands. this is the area in particular we're watching very closely now, seeing reports on twitter of a tornado actually on the of the houston area. so that is one impact to the region. not only that, but flooding rain, upwards of about 30 inches for folks through wednesday. back in our area, we are a little bit more cloud cover. some of those clouds popping up forr partly cloudy skies tonight. temperatures really nice, if you have any saturday night plans. for mostking 70's right now. flirting with that 80 mark back towards frederick and also the metro. overnight lows dropping back into the 5

suburbs. 60's in the low district. it's very comfortable, just open the windows, get some fresh air moving into tonight. give that a.c. a break. perfect day for baseball coming up tomorrow. have aionals do doubleheader. that first pitch coming up at start. dry skies partly, mostly sunny. sunglassesou take and sun block. notice our daytime high is still a little bit below average for year.ime of then we go into the early half of the week. this is the disturbance over florida. this is just one computer model run but it's projecting things stay off the southeast coastline. whether this becomes a named tropical feature, impacts are still going to be the same. rough surf, heavy rainfall and gusty winds along the southeast coastline. thelooking the best along carolina coast and even for virginia. this is a look at monday morning. needing the rain gear. we're talking clou

that wet weather sticking around into tuesday. tuesday does appear to be the wettest day for the early half of the week. ocean city, definitely worth someg that we'll have heavier rainfall and some peak 45d gusts between 40 to miles per hour. and starting sunday evening, get wind gusts well. 25 miles an hour as temperatures monday only in the low 70's. certainly very unusual for this time of year. then after wednesday, an area of high pressure builds in and i think it's a little too a dry weekendntee for your labor day plans, but right now, it's looking pretty nice. kimberly, back to you. >> you know what they say? don't believe the hype. >> oh, my goodness. >> ha ha! just our luck that this fight will be a dud, right? >> i hope it's not. happy.pe it doesn't all right. well, it's happening tonight, mayweather and mcgregor. from both flyers. also, we'll upda

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>> molly, how have we gotten so lucky with such low humidity? >> i know. certainly very usual. temperatures are typically what we would see, and that is continue.o beautiful day coming up tomorrow. sunshine, daytime high of 80. enjoy!out and we're tracking rain for the early half of the week. heavier rainfall expected on tuesday. look at those temperatures in the low 70's for daytime high on monday.

>> thank you. and thank you so much for joining us! atll see you right back here 11 with the latest on tropical storm harvey. have a good night!

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