♪ >> dad, i love you. jonathan: right now at 6:00, unprecedented disaster. america's fourth largest city. filled with the scenes. michelle: within the hour we have learned of one more death in southeast texas. we have team coverage. stephen tschida tracking the local rescue response. chief meteorologist doug hill tracks the storm. >> let's start off with the lana zak live with the latest. lana? lana: >> good evening. the need is profound. the air and the water

continue. >> the fourth largest city is under water. more rain to come. four felt of rain in some areas. this interstate is a river. this is hobby airport. before harvey and now. the army corps of engineers releasing the water from the dams filling up too fast. people down river were told to evacuate. the governor activating the national guard ordering 9,000 more troops to assist 3,000 on the ground. >> something fell off a night stand. i woke us up. >> shelters

rapidly. >> people receiving cheer from batman and his son. >> the city needs a hero. we have to help the city. >> more continue to come. evacuees at hotels to find there are so more rooms. >> so much tried to take advantage and prayed on the homes and the businesses. one person asking for help. showing pictures of the looters unpunished. >> the people stream in here by the thousands. there were 4,000 people here. 5,000 is the capacity and they believe they will reach it tonight. jonathan: thank you. fema says it will be in southeast texas for years to

come. the storm is not done yet. i'm joined by chief meteorologist doug hill. we covered a lot of storms in our time. i have never seen, you never seen an event like this. a lot of hurricanes but nothing that parks itself over a city of 5 million. the first estimate came out for rain and i thought they have to be kidding. jonathan: not so much. 30, 40 inches of rain. doug: more than that when it's done. in the day, this flared up west of houston. there is heavy rain across southern louisiana. what we will see coming up, we continue to add totals here over the next couple of days. this will average 40 to 50 inches. this will eventually get out but think how much more it will

>> a lot of people thought houston would be saved in the recent storm because they had elevated view of where the sat. it's level. flat. everything is flooded. >> it's a swamp surrounded by by a owes. they are -- by a you. they are prone, but not to this level. jonathan: thank you. michelle: nationwide, the response is growing to get the supplies and resources to houston. this is the red cross supply. the task force team is going to arrive in the storm zone and stephen tschida looks at the massive rescue and recovery effort underway. >> the floodwaters so deep, so devastating and deadly. the head of fema says the federal government is overwhelmed. >> overcome the disaster is greater than fema coordinating

federal government. >> maryland task force one search and rescue team are en route to texas with a tractor trailer like this filled with the supplies. back here in rockville and truck that is already loaded with supplies and ready to roll. >> there are already agencies scrambling to raise money. workers are aware we are in the early stages of this disaster. they have long days ahead of them. stephen tschida, abc7 news. jonathan: the hard part is this is still raining there. houston's two airports are closed to the commercial flights until thursday. that is the earliest. there are no reports of flooding at either

perhaps online you saw a picture that looked like planes is under water. that is not accurate picture. michelle: count on abc7 to keep you up to speed on the developments from the gulf coast. we will take you to any major developments as they happen. "world news tonight" is live there tonight at 6:30 after this newscast. "7 on your side" team compiled a list of resources. you will find the list on top of website wjla.com. it is there now. breaking news from the peninsula. north korea fire admission that flew over japan according to japan prime minister. friday they exploded missiles. jonathan: the sound of silence. one song that the university of maryland marcng

not play. >> no one can tell if the tropical system is a tropical storm or hybrid. but this is bringing rain to the area. progress for the next day or so spreading northward. the heaviest amount and the strongest winds are along the coastline. there is nothing hazardous here. the next nine-day of the

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virginia marching band playing "maryland my maryland" but now they are suspending it to review it. the song criticized for having pro confederate sentiments with a line referencing "northern scum" and another calling president lincoln a despot. larry hogan applauded the move. michelle: dumfries plans to beef up security after message of hate taped to a church front door. two notes left over the weekend. it included image of confederate flag, swastika and the threat of lynching. >> why didn't they come out [ >> we have learned that the police taken over the investigation from the local police. a church member spent the day getting quotes for camera system. coming up for

camera. gas shoots in the air. the race to make the prepares that shut down maryland roadway. >> race to save the lives on the texas gulf coast. that area is dealing with a mindboggling amount of rain. up to 50 inches. coming up for us, "a

jonathan: 18 students booted from miles per hour university accused of hazing. the university spokesperson said they were part of anguipede grounder group that posed as a "threat to the safety and the well being of the students." the university says the group was prone to physical violence, hazing and underage drinking. >> it was the right thing to do but these things take time. i appreciate the administration doing what they need to do to keep the campus safe and ensure the safety of all the students. jonathan: american university tells us they charged 67 students associated with the group with conduct violations. michelle: deadly hit-and-run on i-95 northbound in t

prince william county overnight. a car slammed head on in the guardrail. this is beach drive. this is this afternoon that is fresh off year long rehab. the crews just reopened the first phrase of the rehab commuter route in tilden street. that is the good news. another stretch closing for a year. that is the bad news. the stretch runs north of tilden street to joyce road. owe have been warned -- you have been warned. michelle: we look tonight at the flying fortress and explain why the fam

mission isn't over yet. >> this is a landing gear for a b-17 flying fortress, bomber used in world war ii. this reconnects the veterans with the path and educates the people who don't know much about world war ii. how this particular plane, the machine guns helped win the war. we will take you up for a flight tonight at 11:00. a show you how to come to the airport and look first-hand at amazing piece of history. the amazing aircraft tonight at 11:00. tim barber, abc7 news. jonathan: lucky guy. good story. look at the top of the screen to the picture. see what is blowing from the ground? gas. that is a serious leak. it has shut down a roadway and gas spewed for an hour in bethesda before they shut it

thank goodness before it found ignition source. that would have been horrible. crews have to replace the pipe but it is shut down. we have coverage of what was hurricane harvey and path of destruction on the air and ground. crews hard at work all weekend. thousands of people are working to make sure that people are safe. the animals can't call for help but this is a crate of soaked cats. they were taken out by boat and safe and sound and dry. incredible work to do what they can. michelle: "7 on your side" is helping to get relief to those suffering in texas. this time tomorrow we'll have the volunteers from the red cross here at abc7 to take donations for t

here, right now. by texting the work "harvey" to 90999. talking about it will get worse before it gets better. >> it is still raining there. >> it's terrible. >> it won't get worse everywhere but some places it will. areas are that are getting 50 inches of rain will come true. pay attention to the satellite. 48 hours of satellite. at the top of the screen, satellite and radar. 6:18. that is 6:18 on saturday. it's inland. sout of austin.

rain bands are over and over. then heaviest stuff shifted east. the rainfall totals spectacular so far. 40 inches in dayton and katy and the houston hobby area has 25 inches reported in the time period. we will see more rain. trying to pinpoint exactly where that is going to be is difficult. but definitely houston to the north of houston. east to the coastline near galveston. that may be where it ends again. and east coast, tropical storm irma. it doesn't really have a circulation center. it's really a blob, tropical disturbance.

regardless of whether it is named irma or not it's pushing a lot of water in the coastline already. interacting with high pressure. driving huge waves, rip currents and all kind of issues there. we see the latest from the hurricane center that gets it up to 40 miles per hour winds. it will maintain 40-mile-per-hour winds whether it's tropical storm officially or not. we see rain moving in, in the morning. heaviest rains along the coast. four or five inches possible. it will wind down. the sun will break through on wednesday. sunshine on thursday. the labor day weekend is beautiful. there could be a you shower on saturday. showers are possible sunday with the sun and labor day is fine at 84. a quick look

days. temperatures are warmer with sunshine for next week. "abc7 news at

robert: the redskins nose taggal taylor is out for the season. the redskins left fedex with a win over the bengals last night but a nasty win. sloppy

rob kelly had a 21-yard burst and looked promising. kirk cousins isn't taking any credit for this. >> the seas parted. i just hand it off. that is the sign of a good back. not the home run hit but to get us more yards when the play didn't allow for it. >> the nat hosting the marlins. stanton is unstoppable. he had a home run sunday against the padres. put up 23 home runs and 40 games since all-star break. >> good for the game. he is a great guy he plays the right way. he is healthy.

the game. hopefully he will take three days off and continue on the next month. it has been fun to watch. special talent. he will face scherzer tonight. jonathan: they should just walk him. you get first base. doug: works for me. the abc7 weather team is keeping it under check. josh knight is in for steve at 11:00 tracking harvey. who gets the heavy rain. watching the atlantic coast for irma developing. a rainy, breezy day. we have clearing skies wednesday and thursday. josh will look ahead for ten days tonight. michelle: very good. "world news tonight" with david muir up next. jonathan: thank you for watching. remember we are always online at wjla.com. for all of us, have a good night. see you at 11:00.

tonight, breaking news. disaster in texas. the relentless rain. the flooding catastrophe here in houston. the death toll climbing. the around the clock rescue effort by boat and air. >> please help us. i'm scared. >> families on rooftops, pleading for help. emergency crews and volunteers carrying thousands of victims to safety. and the pregnant mother going into labor -- the baby that just wouldn't wait. president trump flying into the storm zone tomorrow. the new race against time. dams pushed to the limit, water released to prevent them from overflowing, putting even more homes at risk. shelters filling up by the