8:00. as far as the latest on harvey, the latest update from the hurricane center has the storm stronger now. sustained winds of 50 miles per hour. gusts of 65. it's still offshore. that is why it's gotten stronger. it will make landfall tomorrow along the louisiana texas line. with that we will slowly see the acceleration and the weakening. the heavy rain continues in east texas. especially galveston to port arthur. we will monitor that and the weekend and more coming up in a few minutes. nancy: thank you. right now houston is working to open two or three more shelters to help those displaced by harvey. the red cross says 17,000 people are already in shelters-49 inches of rain fell in houston. for the latest on the season in houston here is kristen holmes live. what is the latest there? reporter: president trump just wrapped up the tour of the emergency management facility in austin. here around the houston area the big story are those

hundreds of people are rescued every hour. but still so many remain trapped at home. >> harrowing stories. >> the rising water. he went and got help. >> the boat was small. they had to take the kids and them woman first. they said they came back for us. they are coming back for us but they never did. >> amidst the houston floodwaters thousands of rescues. the city still trying to keep up. >> don't give up on us. seek higher ground. we will get to you. >> the soaking rain is setting records for the continental u.s. south of houston in bras.oria county, dire alert. i was part of a mandatory evacuation sunday but anyone left, officials warn get out after a levee breached. >> the biggest concern is the few folks that may have disregarded our warnings. we don't want anybody hurt. >> president trump and first lady melania trump

corpus christi. >> this is a real thing. we want to do it better than ever before. >> meanwhile the pentagon said the number of the national guard troops in texas is going to rise. they plan for a long effort. >> we will do life saving and life sustaining efforts for a longer period due to the nature of the storm. >> where we are in richmond, texas. you can see the water is still coming in. we have a slight reprieve from the rain. hopefully it will last longer than a few minutes. that is all we have seen so far. this area was evacuated. it goes all the way down to the brazos river. this is water coming in from the river. to give you a little idea of how quickly it was rising yesterday coming in at six inches per hour. today is one inch per

they are expecting several more feet of flooding here. nancy: can you talk about the efforts by the first responders out there? do you sense most people who need to be evacuated have now left the areas? we will get back to her later. larry: michelle lives in alexandria far from flooding in texas. but they wanted to help so they have a digital match to show where people are stranded to give authorities critical information how to find them. >> it it was first time i started crying as i was creating something. it was so overwhelming to see the amount of the need. larry: with 9/11 overwhelmed many people in need of help. hansons were able to take the data to incorporate it to a map updating every few minutes. nancy: fantastic resource. the water rises and the pentagon says it could soon increase the mill

right now there are 3,500 national guard troops in the lone star state. most of those are the members with the texas national guard. they could soon be joined by 20 to 30,000 troops from other states. member of vas and maryland task force one are in san antonio ready to assist in any way they can. "7 on your side" to make sure you can help. kimberly suiters is in the help center to show us how. kimberly: we partnered with the american red cross. i'm joined by jeff with the red cross. phones are ringing off the hook. people are giving generously. give the viewers at home about the scope and the scale of this compared to katrina. so many of us being that as the greatest flooding disaster. >> i have to tell you everything happens in bigger in texas. what we are seeing now is the scale of the flooding covers the size, the area of lake michigan.

places than not it seems. we are handling the people evacuating. we have the shelters open across the state to handle people in all corner of the state. we had preparedness. we got people in there early. >> last week we were moving in the supplies to open up the shelters to prepare for this. i have to tell you that the scale is huge. we need every help we can get. >> not just for days and weeks. >> possibly months and years. you heard the fema's administrator talking about it could be a year's recovery effort. kimberly: if you call the number on the screen. 703-236-9220. where does the money go exactly? >> that is a designation for hurricane harvey and that is going down to texas to provide food, shelter, clothing for all of the evacuees, for anybody in the shelters. we had 17,000 people in the shelters last night. that number is expected to double or triple tonight.

kimberly: we are grateful red cross partnered with "7 on your side." back to you. nancy: great to see the busy phone lines. aboutface from a houston megachurch in the space of harvey. joel olsteen tweeted that the doors of his church lakewood are open to anyone who needs shelter. we was widely criticized online after saying he was sending prayers to the people of houston but not opening the doors of the 16,000 seat former arena. the pictures posted online showed some flooding inside the church. larry: update now update on a gaithersburg woman we introduced you to on monday. evelyn recently moved to houston and sought shelter at a neighbor's home when the hurricane hit and only to be trapped with 13 others, mostly children when the water rose. late last night she tells us what happened via facebook live from a houston hotel room. >> oh, my gosh. it was a blessing. wonderful. horrifying, of course. we have

three men were pulling the boat. i was with my two little babies. my friend diana was there with her kids. it was a lot of boats. no way to get out there if it were not for the boats. larry: evelyn says a cousin came from dallas with the boats and the friends to rescue them. now they are hoping to all head back to dallas until harvey passed. nancy: stay with abc7 for complete coverage of the harvey path of destruction. we also have links for ways to help at wjla.com. larry: new developments tonight as the police believe they have the man responsible for abduction in reston. childs behind bars after a tip led police to him yesterday. he is accused of dragging a 22-year-old woman in woods in the day and trying to sexually assault her. the woman was able to fight him off. nancy: scary sight on metro. a man standing at the top of an escalator and shooting at

police are trying to find both men to figure out why. >> watch as this man runs to the corner and opens fire down the escalator. >> this happened off irving street northwest. it began as an altercation in a nearby neighborhood they believe. and the suspect followed the victim toward the metro. folks tell us as quickly as it happened those scattered down the street. >> police say no one in the station was hurt. tonight police are looking for these two. the man with the weapon. and this man in a gray coat called per

>> a lot of people in the community that is concerned about what is going on in our ward. >> anyone with information is asked to call d.c. police. northwest washington, brianne carter, abc7 news. >> they are looking for a woman who threw cup of urine inging on bus driver. they have it not identified her yet. nancy: the driver of this car had minor injuries after crashing down embankment rock creek parkway. this was this morning. sharing the image of the rescue operation near virginia avenue. it backed up the traffic for miles. at the height of rush hour. >> developing now, the maryland department of education hired a d.c. firm to investigate allegation of the grave manipulation in the prince george's county

kevin lewis says he welcomes the investigation. >> do we have people that haven't dotted the eyes or cross the t -- dotted the i's or crossed t's? undoubtedly. but it doesn't make it systemic issue. the allegations that were made are reckless. painful to have to deal with. larry: the first alvarez and marshall will determine if the grades will change to boost graduation rate. final report due by the end of october. nancy: former staffer with the obama administration throwing his hat in ring to be the next prince george's county executive. paul montero will launch the campaign an hour from now from the alma mater, high point high school. he is the third candidate in the race. larry: reminder that the polls are open right now in fairfax county special school board election. four candidates vying for the seat that huff re-signed from earlier this year. the polls are open until 7:00. nancy: coming

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nancy: 7 on storm watch tonight another tropical system churns in the atlantic. look at that. this storm however brought rain and rough surf to north korea outer banks appear -- north carolina's outer barns to be heading to sea. but people are bracing for rain and wind. it's quite a mess out there now. larry: we saw pictures on twitter from the people in the area. not flooding like texas but roads that flooded. doug: tide water. they are used to brush of the crop call storms. it gets gnarly but nothing like we see in texas. larry: still seeing. doug: crazy. we will talk about what is happening with harvey.

>> they say just like ocean city and the other beaches this is a nasty afternoon. it is hard to believe looking at the temperatures and the winds and the sky and the rain, at the end of august. but it is. exceptionally chilly and wet across the area. winds are gusting 40, 42, 43 miles per hour along the coastline. we know it is heading out to sea. we can tell by the radar. you notice closer to the bay, the stronger winds, patuxent river naval air station. 29-mile-per-hour gusts. everybody else is 16, 18, 20. in the bigger colors and the orange indicate here. 36 at the coast guard station in ocean city. report of a boardwalk in ocean city. 42-mile-per-hour gusts. we have

seen pushing east and northeast. the back edge is visible here of the steady rain over eastern loudoun county to the manassas area. it continues to push out. couple more hours of rain. then it will land and be it. the clearing skies. but a large swath. the system never had strong circulation and it never became a tropical system or tropical storm but the effects were the same. counterclock wise rotation. the strong winds. heavy surf coming on shore. element of the heavy rain as well. that is headed to sea. goodbye. thank you. see you later. what will happen in the future once we get the last part of the storm out of here in late night hours it will open the door for clearing heading to tomorrow morning. that is good for us. sunshine makes a return tomorrow. the latest on the hurricane. you can see a clear open area right here. so the center of the circulation is just offshore. not that far south in the gulf. but it will move northward and northeastward in the next 24 hours and make landfall for the third time in the history. probably along wete

where the line and eastern texas. ahead of us is heavy rain ban. more flooding concerns to louisiana. backing up to houston and they are getting out of the steady rain. especially tomorrow lifting northward. the rain will come to a total end. we will see the system accelerate north and northeast. the official information of the hurricane center now has top sustained winds at 50 miles per hour. winds to 65. a little stronger. the circulation center over the water. this forward speed is important because as it accelerates depending when it occurs it will determine when the remnant gets close to the area. it will be saturday or sunday. by time we get to friday it will be over the midsouth still. eventually make it spin and a turn to the east/northeast. affect the area sometime saturday or sunday with the showers. that is a

keep an eye on it. rainfall potential with the system. it's impressive. up to six pinches in beaumont, texas. but heading north should be a rain maker but not extensive to deal with. 62 overnight with little clearing. partly sunny. more clouds and 82 on thursday. labor day weekend the whole question. will the rain from harvey get here saturday or sunday? we have the door open. we know monday regardless is nice. temperatures are 80's. extended forecast perks up. reminder of late summer temperature wise for a bit. lower 70's in spots heading to the middle of next week by thursday and friday. larry: wow! nancy: unusual to see the temperatures that mild for the beginning of september. doug: a drend for the end of august. cooler than average. see what september brings but starts off on the cool side. nancy: tarting to be

harvey could mean for prices a it the pump. larry: but right now call the red cross in the help center to aid victims of the hurricane harvey. 703-236-9220. nancy: but first a look at what is coming up tonight on abc. larry: now veronica johnson has a preview of tomorrow's "good morning washington." veronica: thanks, guys. tomorrow on "good morning washington." rescue efforts around the clock as tropical storm harvey rages on. we will keep you updated on what is to come in the hours ahead. >> plus, from pillow cases to bath towel and bras and jeans. don't get stuck in the sink. how to keep the most used items fresh. >> and get traffic and weather every ten minutes on 4:25 a.m. on "good morning washington."

q: computer and checking the smart top but little or most know what they love doing with the eyes is affecting the vision. >> i think there is an epidemic in the next 15 to 20 years. >> optometrist is tal

called the blue light. one reason you are told not to stare at the eclipse last week. its rays come from the electronic screens but smaller doses. >> it is considered high energy blue light. >> it could lead to cataracts and macular degeneration. >> ten years ago they used to do 1 million cataract procedures a year and now they do 3 million procedures a year. there has to be cause and effect as a result of it. >> children are also at risk. >> it is linked to kids with learning problems because they are not getting enough sleep. >> he recommends getting a glasses with coating to protect your eyes. >> this is what happens when it passes through a lens without coating. >> it doesn't change at all. >> no. >> the danger

he recommends wearing a pair of glasses with the special coating to protect eyes from the blue light. if the glasses are not your thing there is a special supplement. pigment retinal supplement to use to protect your eyes. for more information visit wjla.com. i'm q mccray, abc7 news. nancy: still ahead, five questions about the future of a popular local museum after the president abruptly quit. >> i have never seen a child behave so responsibly and so well. incredible. larry: later the ordeal that the child went through before showing up on that woman's door soaking wet. >> 4-month-old rescued from the areas impacted by harvey. he is still looking for a home. the rescue is expecting another 80 dogs and puppies to come in this week. i'm amy aubert. i can tell you how to help coming up. >> i'm "7 on your side" consumer investigator kimbe

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nancy: tonight they are evacuating in the gulf of mexico as tropical storm harvey expected to come ashore for a third time. michael is life in cypress just northwest of houston. michael? michael: for folks who are able to get around it is difficult to navigate. we are off 90. five or ten minutes ago the folks started to go past the barricade to think they could get on the highway. the traffic is backed up. unclear if they encountered high water up there. we have seen law enforcement officers directing convoys of citizens. impromptu team of the boat with peoples turning around, trying to make it to those trapped. directing resources to the need in cypress, northwest of houston.

>> put that there and wait. >> we just brought this for this. drove from austin, bought it in new brunfells and came to help. >> citizens outnumber first responders. >> we are supported by the harris county sheriff office. they brought a humvee and escort with us. >> there are annoy people stuck in the neighborhood. >> the rain won't let up. >> i'm grateful i have elec tisty and water and -- electricity and water but the rain keeps coming. >> four boats went out but they couldn't get very far. >> move to the left of the bridge. >> navigating unchartered waters with the team facing the first test. >> they have all of these lined up here to go in and try to pull people out once they know what is going on. >> we later learned the route did not work. people with the boats trying to get around to get to the area they are needed most. reportin

michael locklier. >> thank you, michael. "7 on your side" with people doing what they can to help texans drenched in destruction. they need shelters and diapers in the shelters. we have details on how to help out. lisa? lisa: the help center is filled with the red cross volunteers that are raising money for relief in texas. i'm with a d.j. from wash f.m. part of the aheart radio. we partnered with you and the red cross to raise money. you are putting appeal out for listeners. >> we have had a great response but it's never enough. reno you are busy wrapping things up at worse but give us a call. 703-236-9220. the volunteers are on the red cross. if they are busy, give at it money and call back. they set it up to be easy. give them the information and the credit card and set to go. you will feel great to help out a crazy cause. lisa: over our careers

covered natural disasters and it's amazing how easy it is to give. >> you will feel good doing it. >> call 703-236-9220. the red cross volunteers and the phone bank are open for quite a while. so if you feel like pitching in, now is a great time to do that. nancy: keep the phone lines busy. thank you. shelters all around the country are taking in the animals. rescue and abandoned in the storm. you see the pup right there. amy aubert went to a local shelter that received 80 puppies last week and getting ready for more. >> fostering dogs isn't anything new. >> she just wants someone to feed her and love her. >> that are arriving from the outlying areas impacted by harvey, ad she wante

home? >> they ended up with three. >> sassy. saz. >> the trio like many others in the group aliving to the last chance animal rescue ahead of harvey are thriving from foster care. >> of the 80 arriving last week 4-month-old tack here is the only one left looking for a home. >> the rescue is expecting 90 pups to arrive from the flood areas this week. >> take a leap of faith that people step up and help foster. >> cynthia the director of the rescue said after our story aired on abc7 last week, their phones rang off the hook. >> our foster coordinator jen is like this. >> with so many more animals expected they spent tuesday packing foster bags hoping to fill the need. >> every puppy i bring home is a spot for another puppy to be pulled a

>> rescued from the floods and the surrounding area hoping to find a home. >> "7 on your side" consumer alert tonight. gas prices are starting to climb. adding to the price spike is the increased demand for labor day. they predict a short-term 10 to 20-cent jump. 20% of the largest are offline or reduced output. coming up at 5:00 -- >> i kind of thought he like it. we thought it would be good to do. larry: what this wife is willing to do for her husband that has him getting a warm welcome home. mike: i'm mike carter-conneen at campus where a group of undergrads received a major award from n.i.a. for the work

of alzheimer's. how this works coming up. nancy: new tonight on "abc7 news at 6:00" -- he is a hero gone viral. meet deputy immortalized in the picture, fast asleep after hours, countless hours working to save people from harve

steve: we have a big holiday weekend coming up. labor day. unfortunately we start off with wet weather. it's in the a total washout for right now. it looks like the rain will arrive later in the day. 71 degrees. that is it for the high. 80 degrees. drier and warmer on sunday. then labor day looking nice out there. temperatures are just around 85 degrees. if you have plans to go to the delmarva beaches better bring the umbrella. and games. indoor games on saturday. lower 70's as we move through the day. sunday

added clouds. 78 degrees. by monday looking at the temperatures around 80. the water temperature hovering just around 75. "abc7 news at 5:00" continues

larry: this week a couple fulfilled a goal at eating at every cracker barrel in the u.s. all 645 of them. >> everybody does something. usually anyway. we thought we'd do this and it would be fun. it worked out. larry: he and his wife wilma completed odyssey at the cracker barrel outside of portland. cracker barrel flew them to oregon all expenses paid. it took place on ray's 81st birthday. >> quite the odyssey it is. i love they got dressed up for it, too. 645 locations. not easy. larry: do they order the same thing? nancy: that's worth looking into. open table named the most scenic restaurants in the country. some are not far from here

the hobbet restaurant. and virginia is the boathouse at sunday park in midlothian. and chateau mourset in floyd. and 117 in lake frederick. that is a lot of the places i have to try now. larry: absolutely! let me know. split the list. you do half, i do of half. we'll report back. nancy: sounds good. larry: the payoff for dozens of the students who tried to stay text free on tuesday this summer. >> lawsuit asks the federal court to intervene in d.c. food stamp program. i'm sam ford. that is coming up. >> i'm lisa fletcher in the "7 on your side" help center with many volunteers from the red cross. we parenter inned with them -- partnered with them to raise money for relief in texas. just tex

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nancy: big changes could come to the newseum including a sale of the building itself. the board announced audit of the newseum's troubled finances. the freedom forum says it could lead to the sale of the 250,000 square foot building on pennsylvania avenue. >> wow! a new program designed to make it easier to deliver food stamps in the district is running into problems. sam ford reports now the federal government says the city can't say it wasn't warned. sam: at bread for the city and groceries for the poor program, dodge young who gets social -- donald young gets social security and the food stamp allotment isn't enough. >> $15 a month. >> that is why you come here. >> yeah. sam: we don't know how wrong or right the allotment is bebread for the city with a list of poor people yesterday

against d.c. saying year to year it has seen 42% increase in emergency food request. >> we saw a spike of the number of people who came to us and the amount we spent in food. we probably spent $200,000 in food. >> d.c. human services offices they blame a new computer system with so many bugs it's denied benefits to deserve them. kicked others off the roles without notification. >> the government is not geared to help us to really treat us like human beings. >> the mayor acknowledged the system had problems. >> there have been glitches in the system. we are working to improve them. we have seen in the last couple of months improvements. only going to get better. >> in a statement they said with the web based applications residents spend less time in service centers. bread for the city with poor people priced out of d.c., the suit w

>> it increased the pressure to address the problems. >> according to the lawsuit the agricultural department warned d.c. that the city needed further testing but the city moved ahead anyway. the lawsuit asked the court to declare the food stamp application process a failure to give everyone denied food stamps a rehearing. denied a second time to give them a hearing as to why they have been denied again. reporting from the u.s. district court i'm sam ford, abc7 news. nancy: developing now, an amazing story of survival out of massachusetts. 7-year-old girl recovering after being kidnappedded kidnapm her grand parent's home, choked and thrown off a bridge 100 feet into a lake below. despite this, somehow she was able to swim to safety, crawl out of the water. and walk to a house nearby. >> i think it's pretty

the lake is super deep. she was incredibly brave. i have admiration for her. >> she is expected to make a complete recovery. police charged 35-year-old family friend with her kidnapping. larry: oh! j remarkable ordeal the little girl had to go through. larry: amazing. >> to have the wherewithal to swim to safety. call for help. no wonder the woman was saying how brave she was. inciddable. nancy: terrible story. all ahead, new at 6:00, the local school that put outright ban on the redskins gear. plus, take a look at this. robber turns his head and fires at a convenience store clerk. what the clerk believes saved his life. nancy: this is remarkable to see the heros in hurricane harvey.

larry: update on a story we brought you on a push to make tuesday tech free for the entire break. today, the eighth and ninth grade students who rose to the challenge received the $100 reward. >> i have broken a habit to use my phone and always looking down at it. i have now interacted where friends and parents. >> i think we might have made a difference. >> some of them have talked about changing habits. >> i love it. they were not asked to look at any screen of any kind for each of the 11 tuesdays in the summer break. nancy: i couldn't do it. kudos to them for that. months after larry hogan signed executive order to push back the start of school until labor day the debate, the decision shows no sign of

stopping. >> there is a start before labor day so why not give us a labor? >> running for governor himself. larry hogan defended the delayed start saying it allows families to spend more time together and generate additional revenue in way of tourism. >> but when your kids go back to class, make sure you share your back to school pictures. we will share this on air and online. >> back to the weather in the area. coastal storm raising concerns in ocean city. brad bell is live. this is supposed to be a big extra week of the summer break before the kids went to school. >> they have a time-out from vacation today. it's nasty down here.

>> we tant to show this to you. this is a spectacle of nature. the waves coming in. the shore of the jetties so the wavers are not big. panning around to the left, the water crashing. ten-foot rollers coming in off the ocean. we had high tide a while ago at 2:30. there is flooding on the back bay. we talk about this at 4:00. they closed the boardwalk. they are worried about the sand. it is hard to see wind on tv. but when i drop the sand it goes out of my hand university wally horizontal. it's a mess of a weather pattern.

>> that is 42 miles per hour. it may not seem high winds but that wind hour after hour like they have there is intense. rainfall at the hotel in ocean city. 1.43 inches. other wind gust but the rain is an inch to inch and a half. the good news is rain is moving out. moderate rain in district. the heavier, steadier rain east of the city across the bay. even though ocean city we saw brad continues there. >> this would have been named irma and i think there will be a tropical storm developing somewhere. goodbye to that one. >> the temperatures will warm up nicely through the upper

we get through the day tomorrow warmer temperatures on thursday and 82. clouds move in later thursday afternoon. the remnant circulation from harvey could bring showers to the area. regardless of harvey's future lay bar i do looks just fine -- labor day look just fine. let's talk sports. erin? erin: we have the story of an arlington resident who has achieved and overcome more in his 82 years than most of us will ever experience in our lifetime. scott abraham introduces us to today's rising star. scott: one stride at a time. >> they say how old are you? i say about 57. >> close enough for

-year-old chuck. >> i like to win but i'm a good loser. i really like to win. >> arlington resident has been stacking up the victory on the senior circuit in race walking. >> it's just so natural. you are going like this. it's just so cool. >> he is tough. army ranger in vietnam, wounded twice and beat prostate cancer in 1996 and fought through open heart surgery. >> that experience of all the different thingses we all go through will give you depth. that depth you can apply to advancing yourself in whatever you want to do. >> competing on the track is just a fraction of chuck's story. he was a professor at george washington university for 17 years. now he is a successful athundershower of four books -- author of four books. >> i told my editor if the book

worth research and the time writing it. >> inspiring others with his words and drive on the track. >> i am looping forward to the over 90 age group. i won't have as many competitors then. >> he is waiting out the competition. >> that is the first time someone say i'm looking for the 90 over age group. i love that attitude. way to go, chuck. nancy: 82 years old. e. the man. larry: not slowing down. god bless him. nancy: coming up next, researchers at the university of maryland are on the cutting edge of alzheimer's research. larry: how they are getting a boost to diagnose the illness at afternoon earlier age. >> i'm lisa fletcher in the "7 on your side" help center with the staff and the volunteers and the miles per hour red cross taking your call for

donation. >> we have a lovely woman here taking your calls. her family is in houston and said i want to help. tonight she is answering the phone bank. might not be a monetary donation but find a way to pitch in. if it's a doe notion you want to make -- donation you want to make call t

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the clinical sentence are presented to a doctor. then the plaques have develop and the disease moves from early to the middle stage. >> they believe the technology could change that. they could find earlier diagnosis and drug screening. >> once you are 55 or older you could take three or four minutes out of a doctor office visit to check yourself up. >> the alzheimer's can manifest in your brain ten years before any symptoms are known. maybe we could send people to clinical trials to accelerate the research and find actual treat in the the future. >> the team is built the prototype head set using 3d printed parts with the micro controller on the back that connects to a blue tooth u.s.b. port feeding in the laptop. >> the prototype only fits one person. >> they are usi

prize to build more head sets and forming l.l.c. applying for a patent, collaborating with the hospitals and pursuing clinical trials. >> the water was raising fast. >> it would be on the second story. screaming out loud. you could see the panic in their eyes. >> every little bit i could help. i wish i could do more. >> i am out of a job and a place to live. >> the stormwatch7 weather team tracking three big stories. the stormwatch7 is showing you the rain slowing down the evening rush. >> this is as we learn another levee failed in the hurricane harvey path of destruction as president trump is getting a firsthand look at the devastation from the storm. >> that is in addition to the coastal storm whipping up the problems from the outer banks to the eastern

hurricane harvey and the effects of that coastal storms in a second. >> but first we want to begin with the stormwatch7 chief meteorologist doug hill who is tracking all of this for us. >> the rain is moving closer to the d.c. area. like swath in new england. this is going to get stronger over the ocean. driver air will move in. we think it will bode well for first pitch. we'll see what happens. the rain is wrapping up. not so much in texas. core of the heavier rain moved northeast. the winds are at a good speed. sustained at 50 miles per hour. storm location according to the hurricane center is 50 miles south/southwest of port arthur texas.