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>> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. it's not over yet. right now on "news4 today," catastrophic flooding from the eye of the store to a state of emergency across 50 texas counties. harvey brings downpours and disaster. good morning to you on this sunday. i am adam tuss. i am megan fitzgerald in for angie goff. >> so far two people have died from the storm. >> and officials say a home caught fire during the storm and that person couldn't make
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out. in houston, a woman drown last night after she got out of her car stuck in high water. flooding, as you can see, is a major concern. not only are people in texas dealing with a tropical storm but there have been tornado issues overnight. there are reports of a second tornado. reports confirm a twister outside of houston. a cell phone footage, which you are looking at there, 30 miles north of there looks like a funnel cloud on the ground. even though harvey has been downgraded to a tropical storm it's still dumping massive amounts of rain. >> this morning little relief. >> ten years of my life gone. >> texas communities hit hard by harvey
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inland, bringing heavy rains and leaving heartbreak. >> the devastation i see today, it's -- it hurts, but we are resilient and we will clean it up and rebuild and be perfect again. >> in rockport, texas, residents decided not to evacuated, widespread devastation and one death. a library destroyed in fullerton. >> it's good for everybody to come together as a strong community and help. >> stories of heroism emerging. coast guard helicopters rescuing 15 people in distress. as cleanup begins, the rains continue. the power of mother nature on disp
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in galveston, texas, sarah dollup, nbc news. i would say we are tracking where it's moving but it's barely moving, it's phaoeufing to the south-southeast at one cxsvatd miles per hour. look at the heaviest rainbands hitting houston and galveston. we are seeing reports of rain totals of upwards of 15 inches in some areas here. the gray and pink is denoting the 15 plus inches of rain they have received. we are not halfway
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as they are expecting harvey to stick around through the middle of the week. we are talking 30 inches, and locally we could see upwards of 30 inches along the coastline. the system is expected to linger to the middle of the week. > >> take a look at this. hs rockport, texas. it's home to roughly 10,000 people. you can see their homes and everything they worked hard for is destroyed. as we mentioned, at the top of the show, one person died in rockport when a house caught fire, and the second death was from flooding in houston. volunteers across the
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harvey. >> assistant is on the way, mending a 1500-mile gap. >> we have 15 plus shelters open. they we they will increase during the overnight. >> sobering words as officials try to figure out how much the storm has damaged so far. the red cross will provide a dry bed and hot food if possible. one shelter in rockport, texas, was itself damaged by the storm. the flow of resources from the d.c. national capital region is ongoing. >> we have numerous staff members and volunteers, and we have either left the d.c. area or are en route to the d.c. area. >> repr:
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video earlier this month and officers got into it. they ripped off their vest as they dove into the pool to perform synchronized swim acts, and this was the family-friendly block party meant to strengthen the relationship between the community and first responders. >> i love that. >> yeah. >> cooked out, too. >> yeah. the sun is just about to come up. let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist. >> it's looking like a sunday. it's going to be similar to yesterday. let's get straight to the current temperatures because that's going to be the talk this morning. it's reminiscent of fall. temperatures at 66 degrees in washington, d.c. 58 in dulles. 56 in gaithersburg. upper 50s as you m
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through the morning, and we get the sunshine and we will start to warm things up again. we're dry here and expected to stay dry throughout the day. shows a disturbance we have to keep an eye on. we do have a disorganized disturbance of low pressure and as it continues to organize just a bit more, it will be bringing us shower chances as it brings towards the top to the middle of the week. for now i want to show your sunday. d.c. metro, staying dry. back towards i-81 corridor, we are going to see shower development possible. very light at best. as we move into your monday we are still staying quiet on your monday morning and then the clouds start to pillow in. monday afternoon, we start to see a chance of an isolated shower into late afternoon, and then we start to see t
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if you are planning on running errands today, it's a good day to do so. temperatures will be in the upper 70s near 80 degrees. a good amount of sunshine out there. here's your 10-day outlook. today we stay dry and then tomorrow there's a chance for showers in the afternoon and early evening. highs on monday in the upper 70s. tuesday we will be tracking showers more widespread. it will be very soggy on your tuesday. a chance for an isolated shower or thunderstorm. by wednesday we will see the showers linger into the early morning hours. if you have been wondering, somara, where has summer been? we will start to rebound from the 80s into 90 over labor day weekend. >> i will take that 90-day. i like summer. >> i will keep
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can keep it for sure. we're back in 15 minutes with more of the morning's top stories. good morning, i am chris lawrence and welcome to "reporter's notebook." this is a show where we take you behind the scenes of some of the stories you are watching onair. welcome to you both >> tracy, i have to start with you with the story that we and you especially have been following for months on the lynnhill condos. >> how we got to this point is mismanagement of the complex. we have been following what has been
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the first time. the first story i did was a management, they were hoping tenants and owners would do what they were supposed to do when it came to paying condo fees and they were concerned about a backlog of money missing and not being able to pay their utilities years ago, and then it got worse and worse and they had more absentee owners, and then sub renting to those not paying rent, and then they owed more than $1 million to both pepco and washington gas. they were able to work out a deal with that and then it came down to the fire code violations and that was a continuous problem, fire code violations, and every tim
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came in they had issues they could not afford get fixed so everybody had to leave, and that happened earlier this week, folks had to get out. >> in terms of talking to the folks that live there, are they blaming their fellow owners who weren't paying their fees or management, are they blaming officials who are enforcing the codes? >> they are blaming the county, of course. and this is a private entity and owned by at least -- well, there are hundreds of owners in this condo complex. now the question is what is going to be done to keep something like this from happening again. it's going to take some kind of legislation that looks over how these fees are managed. if you have a management company that is not doing what they are supposed to do, there's so much at stake and there's nothing that regulates the condo fees outside of the
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condo minu condominiums. we have a number of former apartment complexes that becomes condos, and now we have all of the folks out there that will be temporarily put in hotels or placed in apartment complexes that agreed to pay for the month's first rent. those were horrible conditions inside of the lynnhill condos, but they were there because they could afford it. there were at least 133 families in that condominium with all that happened so they have to figure out how they are going to make it in the county now. >> in a very tight housing market as well. we have seen across the boards, rented rising and the price of housing has risen so it's not a great time to be looking for affordable housing in this area.
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incident. these buildings that go through demolition, and when the building is not condemned, that puts residents in these situations where social services and what not needs to step up, and in the southeast the exact same thing happened and people were put in hotels and the money ran out for the hotels and those people are still not back in the original homes. this is not an isolated problem but a regional problem and also brought on by the housing market that makes it difficult for low-income families. >> and the county has to decide what to do with the land. it depends on the condition of it, and it's near a major metro and it's prime real estate, so the'
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balance when something like this goes south. there are people without homes they can afford and then very important property, prime real estate that is left in limbo until the county and the rest of the folks sroinvolved in the process can figure out what to do with it. >> and the issue in d.c., it's something that prince georges, montgomery, the district, alexandria, they are all struggling with the issues of affordable housing across the board. >> absolutely. and the d.c. council and the mayor have tried to allocate million a year to public housing, and those resources are hard to keep up. you find there are homeless families in hotels, and it's a national problem we are feeling very much at home, and the lynnhill situation really
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>> what you have heard from the county officials? what is there plan of attack? >> they will have to take a look at the buildings and determine if they are unsafe to stay there, if they are going to collapse or a structural integrity issue they are going to have to deal with, and then if they have to demolish it anyway, and the owners of the condominiums still own the land. they only have 60% of the people that owned those condos that were active in the process, and so they are in limbo. >> we will be right back after the break.
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our guests has covered a story that was read on the nbc washington app an entire week, and it was a story of a local priest that was a prominent member of the ku klux klan and helped burn multiple crosses on a family's yard. >> this is a story that, one, as you said, is resonating with people and it's a crazy story that keeps on unfolding. it's a textbook lesson on what not to do with public relations. the priest wrote this letter to the parish in the diocese of arlington's website admitting in his past before he was a priest he was a member of the ku klux klan here in principles skwroerpblprince georges county. he went on to talk about the ev
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prompted him to come forward with the letter to his parish and what not and then took a leave of absence from the church. that was the story from day one. then we found out, he was not just a member of the ku klux klan but he was convicted of multiple cross burnings, and then we found out he owed the money $23,000 from the '70s that he never paid and never disclosed that to the church, and then he has a deep fbi file where he threatened coretta scott king of lynching her in the '70s, and then he was making bombs and planning guerilla warfare. then the last shoe to drop, after the diocese id
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knew about this, his kkk record but did not know about the record but he's coming forward because of charlottesville, and then we fined out late in the third day of the story that actually he came forward because a reporter found out and started asking questions. he was not prompted by charlottesville. he was prompted because he was going to be outed and exposed. he refused to talk to the press, and they issued a statement, and each statement gives a little more information. this has been trickling out. when you look at what this guy did when he was in his 20s, and he was born in arlington in 1954, and grew up in howard county and went to the university of maryland. he was a leader of the klan room. >> he has named other members as
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well. >> barbara and fiphillip butler they describe the cross he burned as large, and he never could have done this by himself, and they had a press conference saying if he is truly repentant, he should name the other members. >> understand, i am catholic so i understand the idea of forgiveness, and this is somebody obviously that completely dedicated his life to the church, but at the same time, it seems like he was ordained under false pretenses. >> the church in nevada where he was originally ordained and the diocese of arlington s
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have known since the beginning he had a criminal record and that would not preclude him from being an ordained priest, but he had sought forgiveness and had been convicted and he had 90 days for the cross burning and 60 days for the threats against king, and the church knew all of that from the '80s, but they did not know there was a judgment of $23,000 that he skipped town and never paid. there was a gap where he graduated from school in pennsylvania to where he showed up in the seminary. we don't know what happened during that time but never made contact with the butlers or made restitution to him. in his letter, and you know as a catholic, and i, too, was raised as a catholic, and -- he said god has forgiven me, and god will only forgive you if
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at least hold up what you were ordered to do by the courts and that's pay the $23,000. his letter, not completely forthcoming in what he told his parishioners in his deep involvement in the ku klux klan and his reasons for coming forward. some people would look at the letter and say it was misleading at best, saying i am coming forward because of charlottesville and then three days later it was because of a reporter, and if they had just come forward from the beginning and done it from the pulpit and held a press conference, but instead it's trickling out day after day after day, and it's going to continue because the butler family has a lawyer and they want their $23,000 plus interests. >> for folks who live in the washington area now and know that prince georges is a
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predominant african-american community. it was a very difficult transition for my parents to move into prince georges county. the kkk were active and there were cross burnings, and all this stuff was going on while they were beginning the transition of being a predominantly american african community. talking about forgiveness and making it right with the community, this is crucially important, because it was a very painful time for a lot of the young families trying to have a fresh start in the suburbs who were ostracized and were -- had to deal with this racism and the negativity that their families were touched by. >> mrs. butler was asked why did you choose to move into a white neighborhood, and she said, i
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and mr. butler said i was a vietnam vent. they raised their family in the suburbs and went downtown to work. so it's a story we will hear more of for sure. >> that's a great point to end on because i think this is something we will continue to follow over the days and weeks and probably months to come. thank you for joining us. i hope you have a very, very great morning. welcome back at "news4 today." at least two people died of because hurricane harvey. one person killed after a house fire in rockport, and in houston a woman drown after she got out of her car that was trapped in high water. cell phone video captured what looks like a tornado in
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cypress, texas. h meanwhile officials say a touchdown touched down in missouri city which is just outside of houston. and the local red cross has already opened more than 15 shelters for texas residents and more assistance is on the way. harvey is now a tropical storm and stalled over the massive coastal area of texas. >> the governor declared states of emergencies in dozens of counties across the state. sarah dollof live. >> reporter:
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days, harvey is expected to travel 16 miles wreaking havoc all along the way. here in galveston, their 911 system is currently overloaded, officials say and they are asking people to call only if they are in imminent danger. today there's concern for more danger for residents. keep in mind the communities are keeli dealing with all of this flooding as they deal with the destruction from the hurricane. homes and businesses damaged. nearly 300,000 people currently without power. the cruise ships not able to dock, 20,000 people currently stranded out at sea. back to you. >> live for us in galveston this morning. thank you, sarah.
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taking a look at where it's located, it's moving one mile per hour, south-southwest. it's moving extremely slow. it's going to be remaining along the coast for sometime dumping more and more rain on areas like houston. we are seeing the deepest reds over galveston and houston, areas that have already been hit hard still picking up large amounts of rain. communities are rising this morning after being left bruised and batters by hurricane harvey. >> gabe gutierrez takes us into the communities with a look at the harsh realityha
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>> reporter: along the texas gulf coast, utter devastation. the town of rockport, entire blocks are decimated. >> by 1:00, it was terrible. i was on my knees praying that we made it. >> her home, gone. >> why didn't you evacuate? >> we just didn't have the money. >> reporter: harvey barreled ashore, with blinding sheets of rain. >> we have been waiting for the eye to passover so we can get some kind of a break. the category 4 storm had the coast guard
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ashore. the whipping winds ripped roofs off buildings and power lines snapped sparking massive explosions, and the electricity knocked out for at least 300,000. >> our town is destroyed. it hurts. >> on the peninsula three homes burned to the ground. >> it was scary. it felt like 150-mile-per-hour winds. it was whipping pretty good. >> this hotel was built to withstand a category 5, but a wall collapsed. the hotel's manager showed us a view he never expected. >> this would have been the wall, you can see it's still literally hanging. it just kind of flipped over on itself and half of it ended up
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>> reporter: but the cleanup can't begin just yet. harvey dumped several months of rain on the region and the storm is far from over. >> you would think a category 4 hurricane would be good enough excuse to call out of work, but a tugboat crew had to ride out into the worst of it. the video was recorded by the crew under the drill platform here. it shows heavy wind gusts slamming the vessel into the pier. it's unclear if this crew was among one of those that had to be rescued. >> the coast guard is and will play a role in search and rescue assistance around south texas. one of the assignments is rescuing a cruise ship at sea. thankfully so far nobody has been seriously injured. galveston, texas, is among
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longest cruise ship ports in the u.s. the national weather service said harvey will remain inland into next week. the time is coming up on 6:36, and that's bad news for places like richmond, texas, which is already flooded. we mentioned our meteorologist is in south texas there, and one resident said he is in shock because of the destruction. >> it's insane. i never seen anything like this. last year it got flooded. there was big rains. you should go and look over here. there's rapids. you can whitewater rapid in a canoe or kayak. it's crazy. >> our crew has been able to use the nbc washington app to check in. president trump is expected to get briefed on the storm later on this morning. the president is still seeing a lot of
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of sheriff joe arpaio. kelly o'donnell has the latest. >> the white house response is headquartered at camp david, where president trump led a press conference that directed his federal team to remain fully engaged and position to support his number one priority of saving lives. notably upbeat on twitter, president trump wrote we are leaving nothing to chance and we have fantastic people on the ground. so far so good. the president authorized emergency federal money for texas after governor abbott's request. >> we are so pleased at the federal government and the white house has stepped up in the strong way they have by granting our disaster declaration. >> i am not going to stop. >> a arizona
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sheriff joe arpaio defied a judge's order and was convicted of contempt, and arpaio was long accused of harsh tactics and racially profiling the targeted latinos. his reaction. >> i have to thank the president of the united states for his pardon. as i say, he's a big friend, a supporter of law enforcement and i think this is a bigger picture than just me. >> arpaio's fate is tied to the president's stance on illegal immigration. arizona's republican senators say the president undercut the rule of law. >> that was nbc's kelly o'donnell reporting. "meet the press" will have a look at the battle between the president and his own party. chuck todd will have a sun
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exclusive with john kasich, and will also break down the president's response to harvey and fema administrator. if you heard gunshots near the white house last night, don't be afraid, it was just a test. they tested a system is gives the location of gunfire. they were simulating a multiple gunshot event. several streets in that area were closed off. we are learning more about a rescue in the potomac river. there was tweets about the rescue last night. it happened off possum point near quantico. we are learning more surrounding the circumstances of that rescue. we are looking outside as the sun starts to make its way up over the
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i'm storm team 4 meteorologist, somara theodore. right now harvey has been downgraded to a tropical storm but still wreaking havoc along the texas coastline. our rain chances start to rise on monday afternoon, but tuesday is looking like the soggiest day of the week. we are tracking summer making a comeback at the end of the week. president trump is dealing with his first major national disaster in office. >> we
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hurricane harvey today as he is briefed on the hurricane today. this is a big test. remember, brownie you are doing a great job comment. >> this looks like a overwhelming storm. it's only beginning. i mean, i think in fairness to everybody involved, at this point they are in life-saving mode and rescuing people mode, because the storm, we have never seen anything like it. it's going to dump rain for four days. it's not done. i think that you can't really judge -- if you want to judge how did the federal government do, i think you have to wait a couple weeks, because unfortunately this is just the beginning of the event. >> switching gears to sheriff arpaio from arizona. the "washington p i
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reporting that president trump asked his attorney general, jeff sessions to get rid of the case and he didn't. where do we go from here? >> this is a great question. this is a test for congressional republicans. president trump is really testing the limits of his power. i think he's providing an interesting constitutional test for congress here. what he did with arpaio -- it's a different kind of pardon as we have seen before. he was accused of violating the bill of rights. it's not a law passed by congress. it's much different. so that is -- that's, like, an attack on the fundamentals of what our government is built on. that's why i will be curious to see previous controversial pardons. congress did a hearing, did an investigation, but in
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instances the other political party was in charge of congress, and in this case it's the president's own party. is this going to send a signal to others that are under investigation right now, perhaps, connected to the russia probe, as long as you are loyal to the president the president will be loyal to you no matter what. he decided joe arpaio was his pal and friend and no matter what he wanted to do this for him. well, that is a chilling message to send. he's done two things here. one is he sent a message potentially to law enforcement, hey, violate the fourth amendment and maybe i will give you a pass, and also if you are loyal to me i will be loyal to you if you get in trouble with the government. that undermines it all. it's the case where an issue of abuse of
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what you hear. >> is that for -- >> it's not the message everybody wants to send out. that's why you have paul ryan, the speaker of the house, john mccain and jeff flake criticizing the pardon because of the message it sends to the entire law enforcement community. if it does send the message, that's a scary proposition. again, this was a man who was convicted by a judge of violating the bill of rights. much different issue than pardons that we have seen in the past. >> are you going to talk to fema? >> yeah, we are going to talk to fema and john kasich. >> he's back in the news? >> flirtation with an
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brown. how do democrats be anything beyond anti-trump. he has to figure that out because he has to figure that out. >> thank you, truck. you can see "meet the press" every sunday right here at 10:30 right after ne"news4 today." and students in fairfax county head back to school tomorrow, and a scramble is going on to find more bus drivers. the system still needs another 100 drivers. right now there are 1,200 certified drivers in the county but the transportation coordinator says they have to put supervisors on the buses to fill the vacancies. if you are interested, give them a call. as the district gets ready for students those kids are also getting prepared for their first day back tomorrow. and then students spent yesterday getti
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ready. hundreds of kids were given new supplies and backpacks. >> being able to help them, and giving that extra kick to start the school year in a happy tone, you know, for us, it makes us, of course, happy. >> all of the donations come from companies and members of the community around the community. in prince georges county students are celebrating the return to school and 10,000 backpacks filled with school supplies were handed out at a prince georges stadium in beauey. students will start back to school next week after labor day. >> a great event there. good to see some of our nbc 4 members out
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the redskins back in action today against the bangles. they are 0-2, and hoping to get a win under their belt. in order to do that they have to step up on offense. the first team on offense went 3-0, and last week they had four ugly drives against the packers. and they talked about what they need to do to get back on track. >> we have high expectations. we want to be more efficient in running the ball and solid in p protections, and that's a focus of ours every day that we go out. you can say good thing it's the pre-season because we have not been sharp for a couple quarters until the second quarter of the last game we picked it up a little bit. we need to go out and start fast. >> kickoff is at 4:30 at fedex field today. a lot of people will be going out there. what is the weather going to be like? shaping up to be a nice day for
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>> yeah, another treat for your sunday. right now we are off to a brisk start, reminiscent of fall. we are starting to add notches to the mercury, though. right now we are at 66 degrees. it feels like 66 degrees. we have the wind out of the northeast, pretty calm. no humidity to worry about. there are clouds still around. you get a lot more sunshine breaking through as we head throughout your day. let's look at the wake-up weather. temperatures again in the 60s, continuing to rise to the upper 60s by 9:00 a.m. here. very refreshing, a lot of people say. i just need a sweater. it's chilly for me. we are expecting highs to climb into the low 80s. it's going to be a nice day out there. not too hot. very comfortable. a lot of sunshine. we are going to see clouds building. the first west you go out towards the blue ridge, and as far as your weekend outlook goes, running errands and maybe an ano
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go for it. pool nicer in the afternoon as it warms up. the best pool time will be next weekend as we see more summer like-temperatures. and then out toward the i-81 corridor, maybe a few sprinkles. the bigger picture shows a disturbance along the carolina coast. we have to monitor this because this will be bringing us our next chance for rain which should arrive late monday to tuesday. monday we will see afternoon showers possible, temperatures in the upper 70s. by tuesday that system will bring us a chance for showers as well as storms possible. wednesday we are tracking a.m. showers. we are going to quiet things down by the end of the week, and take a look at the numbers. some are rebounds. you could see 90 degrees over your holiday weekend. coming up, an adorable moment in the face of tragedy. the little surprise that came with a big gift of
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so this is a really sweet picture. somebody managed to capture this light-hearted moment. you can see how hungry this dog is. that's a bag of food in his mouth. the photographer later found out the dog's name is otis and he was trotting towards a group of people trying to clean up, and i bet he was a welcomed surprise for them. that's cute. new life is surfacing above the floods and the destruction. >> a mom in corpus christi, texas, welcomed a baby boy despite the storm. harvey is his name. that's a good one. it was suggested from the n.
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>> heading into the 7:00 hour here on "news4 today," we have a state of emergency across 50 texas counties. the danger from high water as hurricane harvey brings downpours and disaster. good sunday morning to you. thank you for starting your day with us. i am adam tuss. >> i am in for angie goff. >> so far two people died because of the storm. >> one person died in rockport where the hurricane made landfall on friday night after her car caught on fire. flooding still remains
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dealing with tropical storm, but there are tornado warnings issued overnight. there are reports of a second tornado. officials confirmed a twister that tore through missouri city, which is just outside of houston. cell phone video that you are seeing there from 30 miles north of there shows what looks like a funnel cloud on the ground. >> houston's hobby airport closed because of water on the runways. you can see people trudging through the streets of houston. we want to turn to our somara theodore who is keeping a close eye on harvey, and this is setting up shop over texas and doesn't want to move. >> nearly stationary and moving at one cxsvatdmile
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south-southwest. >> you can see it's feeding off the gulf there. we are continuing to see the rainbands pushing inland. that's what is going to happen over the next couple hours. it has, like he said, just set up shop. we have not gotten to the worst of the storm and they are seeing amounts greater than 15 inches in the gray and pink there. as we head through the top of the week people living along the coast, highly populated areas like houston could be seeing upwards of 30 inches of rain. this is extending all the way into portions of southern louisiana. this is going to be an issue as we head through the next couple of days. we will continue to track harvey. right now you can see the over all track has it moving out towards the coast. we are
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monitor this situation and i will have your local forecast coming up. over to you. >> thank you. from the air to the ground volunteers from across the u.s. are helping those affected by hurricane harvey. >> the red cross in our area has already sentr resources. we will get that video coming up in just a second. meanwhile, megan. >> yeah, we want to show you video of a drone that shows the devastation from hurricane harvey. you are looking at rockport, texas. it's home to roughly 10,000 people, and you can see their homes are just destroyed. everything they worked hard for just gone. power lines and trees
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across the state. >> nbc's sarah dollup has been following the action live from galveston, and we will join her with the look at the possibility of catastrophic flooding. >> reporter: you know harvey, unlike other storm systems, it's very slow to move on. it's expected to travel 60 miles over the next few days dumping rain all the way. that is creating catastrophic flooding. here in galveston, five inches over three hours, in houston, 20 inches. in some parts of the city emergency workers performing hundreds of water rescues overnight. we know of at least one death there. a woman was swept away by floodwaters. the 911 system
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overloaded and the officials asking people to call only, only if they are in imminent danger. not only are they dealing with the rising river and water levels, but they are dealing with the destroyed homes, businesses, churches and schools and just beginning to pick up the pieces. and three prisons, the inmates had to be moved to different facilities due to rising floodwaters. some cities asking people not to return because the infrastructure is not in place or safe, and harvey not losing its grip on the southeast of texas anytime soon. >> sarah, we knew go into this it was going to be life-threatening for the people there. we know so far two people have died. any idea if that is going to rise, if that death toll is going to
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>> reporter: unfortunately that number very likely could rise. we are hearing unconfirmed reports by nbc that that number is going to go higher soon. the water levels are just so dangerous, the flooding, keep in mind, as little as two feet of rushing water is enough to carry most vehicles away. you just underestimate the power of water unfortunately until it's too late. >> you have been there for a couple days now. what is the sense of people that live there going to the store or has life stopped in that part of the state? >> reporter: life is limping along, i would describe it. stores have been unable to restock their shelves. people who are tourists and on cruise ships, a popular destination to embark on a cruise. we know 20,000
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good morning. i am storm team 4 meteorologist, somara theodore. we are off to a brisk start here in the d.c. area. i want to get your exercise forecast. this could be refreshing to some waking up in the 60s. a few of us cooler, but we will warm things up quickly this afternoon, highs making it to the upper 70 and low 80s for a lot of people, and a good deal of sunshine mixed in there as well. definitely a day to hit the pavement or a nice hike. we will talk about our next rain chances so stick around for that. i will ae hahave more on that s. a different story south of us in texas. hurricane harvey has completely destroyed homes a
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water now. >> harvey is providing a moment of trust, a trust in that when there's a disaster people will step up and help. we have the latest from nbc's joe fryer. >> the many volunteers that respond to the storms remain nameless. we want to introduce you to folks like lisa denor who brought her friend to a training station, one of many volunteers that signed up in san antonio because of the storm. >> as a strong community and help. >> at the salvation army, we met a man and his son that work for the shelter that helped them when they were in need. >> this shelterel
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into the home we are in, and we want to give back. >> total strangers who needed a place to stay after fleeing houston. >> they opened up their heart. you have to be a special type of person to offer something like that with nothing in return just because you want to make sure somebody else is safe. >> the two couples through the airbnb's response program. so far many have opened up their homes for free. >> we have the means to help. that's what texas is about. >> home sweet home. >> just a sliver of the category 4 kindless around the lone star state that is ever bit of relentless as the rain. >> as joe just said, it's in these moments of tragedies that we get to see the remarkable stories of people coming together to help one another. >> and beth brown, we
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draper, and she experienced that kindness in webster, texas, all through the night. >> the weather just came out of nowhere. after the storm hit a lot of people thought that it would go in a different direction. everything around here is flooding real bad, and people that aren't even here staying at the hotel are getting stranded and they are coming inside the hotel. situations like this, when you see families and kids, it's just overwhelming. you just try to help as much as you can and just pray that everybody is safe. >> is everybody going to be all right? >> yeah, that's my car right there. >> kindness from strangers helped you out, huh? >> yeah, they did. we are grateful for
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>> the whole city got flooded from rain. >> then what happened? >> and then my mommy and sister were talking about these things in the sky, and people getting to their car. >> i was more scared more, of course, for the kids than anything, but luckily we made it here, huh. >> yeah. >> that's what community is? >> exactly. that's where everybody comes together. >> i have never been in this before, and definitely not with them. >> wow, that's really incredible, just seeing how much water. you have been reporting and we have been reporting all throughout the weekend that that system is just sitting there. how unusual is that? >> this is unprecedented. when you think about the amount of rainfall they received, we are talking major records here. i was looking at the record rainfall in houston at the
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inches. the record was broken yesterday and they received 12 inches of rain there. we have not seen the worst of the storm yet as it continues to meander into the top of the week. we are seeing the storm extend into wednesday. >> why isn't it moving? what is keeping it locked in place? >> what we need is a staring mechanism to move this in the atmosphere. the way it works is because we don't have the steering mechanism, it's stalled there. it will hover and dump tons of rain over the area. the storm surge is also dangerous and you saw the tornadoes, the watches and warnings, and that's common in the upper right quadrant. for now i want to get you prepared for your day here at home. let's look at the current temperatures. we are looking at four things
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harvey is now a tropical storm. that happened yesterday. a beautiful sunday ahead of us, and we will talk about a soggy tuesday to come. not to worry, the fall-like temperatures, summer is making a comeback. 66 in the district. it's a brisk start. some people like it and could make for a nice run this morning. 60 at dulles. if you are planning the day, here's a look. a brisk start. we warm up around 10:00 a.m., hitting the low 70s. and then around 4:00 we will be in the upper 70s, near 80 degrees. a similar situation to yesterday. folks, here's a look at the weekend outlook. just in case you were up against the fence, hey, should i have a barbecue this afternoon, definitely go for it. no rain to talk about. and the yard work, good day to do that. and the pool, iik
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temperatures, but we are going to be in the low 80s so the best time to hit the water will be this afternoon. keeping an eye on the radar. we are dry right now. there there's clouds and a few sprinkles out towards shenandoah valley and the bay. and zooming out the storm team 4 hurricane center, we have a disturbance off the coast and bringing us our next chances for rain at the top of your workweek. here's your 10-day outlook. we are tracking storms on tuesday, or should i say more so showers on tuesday but there's a chance for rumbles. and then we are going back into the 90s by the labor day holiday weekend. let's get one last look at harvey. i wan
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take a look at the system. areas like houston and galveston, they have been getting hammered by the bands of rain. take a look at where its drawing from, right off the gulf. it has the energy pull as well, and bringing the worst and heaviest rain into houston, texas. how much rain are we talking? folks, we are talking over 15 inches of rain. we have not seen the end of the storm until wednesday. the system is going to meander there. they could see between 15 and 30 inches of rain. some spots may even get 40 inches of rain. like i said earlier, this is unprecedented. the track of this storm is going to continue to push deep into texas. again, it starts to meander there and pulls back towards the coast. we will have to watch that, maybe getting a little
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country for years. news4's chris lawrence shows us how a congregation is being called to help. >> if you want to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet in a time of great distress, this is would be one of the opportunities. >> days after the tragedy the numbers of deaths is in the hundreds and dozens are still missing. the mudslide struck outside of the capital while many of the residents were sleeping. the church has had a relationship that goes back nearly two decades. >> we have a hospital called mercy hospital. it's small but it's very effective and treats people even if they can't pay. because of that we have relationships in sierra leone. i was in town just a couple months ago and i was in the region where the flooding occurred and i saw theom
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had a conversation with the driver about the danger of the people living in a flood basin. we were able to spend money already because i knew what the church would want us to do in the moment, so we didn't have to take a vote. >> chris lawrence, news4. >> we have two links in the nbc washington app. if you want to help, the embassy and a local non-profit helping children worldwide. just search sierra leone. maybe you want to get outside, a little bike ride or a run. >> a crisp start to the morning. >> 66 degrees. some of us are complaining and some aren't. we will cck backhe
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good morning. welcome back. communities are rising this morning after being left bruised and battered by hurricane harvey. >> this is a story that continues to unfold. gabe gutierrez takes us into the communities with a look at the harsh reality families are now facing. >> reporter: along the texas gulf coast, utter devastation. in the town of rockport entire blocks are decimated. >> we have nothing -- nothing left. >> reporter: amanda evans is shaken. she was caught in e
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i was crying and on my knees praying we made it. >> reporter: her home gone. why didn't you evacuate? >> we just didn't have the money. >> reporter: blinding sheets of rain and a treacherous storm search. >> we have been waiting for the eye to passover so we can get a break. harvey making landfall twice. the coast guard called into rescue three tug boats stranded offshore. >> we want to do everything we can to keep people out of rising water. >> reporter: the whipping winds ripped roofs off buildings, and power line snapped sparking thousands of explosions, and electricity knocked out for at least 300,000. >> our town destroyed. it hts
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>> on the peninsula, three homes burned to the ground. >> it was pretty scary. it felt like 150-mile-per-hour winds. it was whipping good. >> reporter: one reporter stayed at the hotel here but an entire wall collapsed. incredibly, nobody was hurt. the hotel's manager showed us a view he never expected. >> this would have actually been the wall where you can see it still literally hanging. it just flipped over on itself and half of it ended up down there. the cleanup can't begin just yet. harvey already dumped several months of rain on the region, but the storm is far from over. >> we want to turn to somara theodore where she
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where harvey is headed next. >> there was the hotel we just saw there was built to withstand a cat 5 and the wall just blew down. that's incredible. and this thing is here to stay, the system hovering over that area along the coast in texas, right? >> exactly. we are tracking rain less than movement. this area has been sitting over usae austin, texas, and houston. it's just off the golf there. it's like when you put your phone on the charger, you have the warm water off the gulf feeding into the storm. i want to zoom in because this area has been hammered by showers starting yesterday evening into this morning. it just seems like they can't catch a break. we are seeing deep reds. i saw between four to six inches of rain falling per hour, per
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dealing with. how much is in the forecast for them, we are looking between 15 to 30 inches. some areas they could see upwards of 30, and 40 inches of rain. it's weather-making history at this point. not just the texas coast being affected, we have to think about new orleans and lake charles and one of the most dangerous things when it comes to hurricanes and tropical systems, the storm surge. here are areas under a storm surge warning at this point. that's about 9 to 12 feet above ground. storm surge is what some areas are dealing with, some places in houston. areas like houston and galveston still under a tornado watch. we have already seen a confirmed tornado on the ground there. this is very normal when it s
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cyclones and hurricanes, especially the first two days after it makes landfall. tracking harvey out. oh, man, you know, it's going to meander, folks. it's going to push back towards the gulf coast a bit and then make a sharp turn and head up in towards texas. this is going to last as we head through the top of the week until wednesday. i will have more on this in your local forecast. president trump will keep a close eye on harvey today. he's expected to get briefed on the storm this morning. the president is seeing a lot of backlash from his pardon, his former sheriff, joe arpaio. >> today's white house hurricane response is headquartered at camp david where president trump led a teleconference with the vi vice president to support his number one priority of saving
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president trump wrote we are leaving nothing to chance, and we have fantastic people on the ground. so far so good. the president authorized emergency federal money for texas after governor abbott's request. >> we are so pleased the federal government and the white house has stepped up in the strong way they have by granting our disaster declaration. >> from the first natural disaster on president trump's watch to gale force political winds he whipped up with his first presidential pardon. arpaio was convicted of contempt for failing to hold immigration patrols. he was long accused of harsh tactics and racial profiling the targeted latinos. >> i have to thank the president of the united states for his pardon. as i say, he's a
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supporter of law enforcement. i think this is a bigger picture than just me. >> arpaio's fate is tied to the stubbance of the president's tough stance on illegal immigration, and praising the former sheriff as a patriot. his critics claim the pardon condones racism while arizona's republican senators say the president undercut the rule of law. the time is 7:39 on this sunday morning. got a pretty nice one -- what am i saying? >> it's a nice start to the day. >> it's a nice sunday shaping up for you. we will have more with your local forecast and continuing overagef hurricane harvey
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special ops soldier. that soldier went missing after a blackhawk went down off the coast. that helicopter was hovering ten feet above the water when it lost power and crashed. earlier this month another blackhawk helicopter went down off the coast of hawaii. we are learning more about a rescue late last night. it happened off of possum point near quantico. we are learning more about the circumstances surrounding this rescue. >> the time is 7:42 on this sunday morning. hey, maybe you are lucky enough to get on the water for a boat
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harvey is now a tropical storm is stalled over texas. >> the governor declared states of emergency in dozens of counties. we will check back in with sarah dollup. >> reporter: hi, adam and megan. unlike other storm systems, harvey is moving slowly, only expected to travel about 60 miles in the next few days dumping rain all the way. is
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flooding. right now here in galveston where the winds are whipping up again, five inches of rain fell in about a three-hour period overnight. that seems small, as in houston they are reporting up to 20 inches. the 911 system so slammed that officials are asking people only to call in if they are in eminent danger. on the coastal cities they are not only dealing with flooding and rising water levels but also dealing with the damage from the hurricane. we are talking about destroyed homes, businesses. we heard of a school partially destroyed as well as a church. we know of at least one city where residents are being urged not to come home yet. they say the utilities are not back up and working, and
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from prisons had to be transferred. more than 300,000 people without power. hurricane harvey refusing to move on and loosen its grip on southeast texas. >> you mentioned the 911 system inundated with calls at this point. do you get an idea of just how many people are in dire situations and really in need of 911 response? >> reporter: that is just too soon to be able to estimate those numbers. they have been working under the cover of darkness all night. we have not been able to get a full picture of the situation in houston, but we are hearing about people on rooftops and water coming up to the second stories of homes, and a unprecedented record-breaking event that has the potential of loss of life. >> what we have to watch out for is many people might think it's over but it's not. we have days of rain that is
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houston, that rain has nowhere to go because those areas are at sea level anyway, right? >> reporter: exactly. now that harvey is only a tropical storm it sounds less threatening, but clearly the threat not over here. the water, the floodwaters are particularly concerning to officials. keep in mind as little as two feet of water has the potential to sweep away most vehicles. >> sarah live for us in galveston, texas, this morning. thank you. we will check back with you throughout the morning. meanwhile, tomorrow is the first day back to school for a lot of students. kids are getting ready. the fairfax county, the largest skao school system, they get back to school tomorrow. but the scramble is finding more bus drivers. >> the school system needs another 100 drivers. right now there are about
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certified drivers in the county. the transportation coordinator says they will have to put supervisors on buses to fill the vacancies. >> the jobs start at more than $18 an hour, so if you are qualified and want a job, they need more people. >> you have a second grader, right? >> yeah, absolutely. it's back to school. i get my house back. not that we want them to go, but it will be nice. >> she's looking forward to it. >> yes, summertime is over. somara, the summer just passed us by quickly. >> yeah, this is just a brief stint of fall. we will get heat back. >> it's still summer? >> still summer. >> going to feel that way? >> yeah. we are seeing the heat return as we head towards the holiday weekend. a lot of us are enjoying the refreshing weather. right now just in case you are just tuning in, harvey is a tropical storm. no longer a hurricane. please, believe you me, it's still backing a punch and will sit there and
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of the week. we have a beautiful sunday ahead of us. we are tracking a system that could be pretty impactful on tuesday. summer, it will make a comeback as we head towards the end of the week. the current temperatures, 66 degrees in washington, d.c. right now. down to 59 in manassas, and rising in dulles right now at 60 degrees. want to push through the future cast. the d.c. metro area remaining dry and sunshine. high sirius clouds out there. we have a lot more cloud coverage and maybe a few sprinkles over the mountains but over all dry. monday morning we wake up to a great deal of sunshine but the clouds quickly billow in. and then the moisture moving in from the east will bring our chances for rain up on monday afternoon. look out for that, that monday evening commute and not the morning commute. planning in the next 12 hours, maybe headed to the redskins
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great out doors. warming up this afternoon. lots of sunshine. temperatures topping up in the low 80s for us. it's a great day to go grilling. prime grilling time for me would be around 5:00. not too hot or warm, just right and comfortable. radar shows we are dry and quiet. the bigger picture shows a disturbance we are keeping an eye on. we are going to continue to see this move up the eastern seaboard and that's going to bring us our chance for showers as we head into inyour tuesday. first thing you want to notice, tomorrow the next chance for a few showers. tuesday, a better chance for showers. it will be soggy on tuesday and maybe a few rumbles. temperatures in the 70s. and then the rain linger into wednesday and maybe parts of thursday. i will keep myye
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the temperatures rebound. we could be talking 90s next week just in time for the labor day holiday. as far as i can see from this side of the week, labor day starting to shape up nicely. we could get showers in on tuesday so it's going to be a finicky forecast, but for right now we are looking pretty good for the majority of the weekend. that's a look at your
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so are you ready for cuteness? this is the cuteness. amid the devastating news coming out of hurricane harvey, there's this little guy. somebody managed to capture the light-hearted moment. you can see how hungry this little guy is. that's a bag of food in his mouth. the photographer later found out the dog's name is otis and was trotting towards a group of people that are helping to clean up the mess down there. >> otis doesn't care about the storm, he just wants to eat. >> love that. a new life is surfacing above the floods and the destruction. >> that's right. a mom in corpus christi texas welcomed a baby boy during the height of the storm. as far as his name, guess what his mom chose? harvey. it was the suggested name from the nurse. you can bet there are a lot of baby harveys and
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eclipse-themed names, like, moon, star, shine -- >> yeah. >> congratulations. two people have now died because of the impact there. one person died in rockport where the hurricane made landfall friday night. that person died in a house fire. another person was killed after she got out of her car and was stuck in high water in houston, california. and the national weather service will be working to confirm if that was a tornado in cypress, texas. but a tornado touched down not far from there in missouri city. no deaths or injuries have been reported. president trump keeping an eye on the storm and is expected to get an updated briefing on the storm this morning. and then helping those affected by hurricane harvey. they already opened more than 15 shelters for texas residents. get the latest on hurricane haey
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app, and follow amelia draper in twitter. she's in texas for us. looks like a repeat of saturday for us. >> yeah, control pace. great conditions out there. >> excellent. get out and enjoy it. thank you for joining us on "news4 today." and amelia draper will join us at 9:00 to give us a unique perspective of what is going on in texas. >> we'll be back at 9:00. until then, have a great sunday, everyone.
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our troops will fight to win. >> it was amazing. quite a view. good morning, welcome to "sunday today" on this final sunday of august. i am willie geist. this morning, an unfolding disaster in one of america's biggest cities, houston being pounded by close to two feet of rain in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. our team of meteorologists saying the event has the potential to be one of the worst floodi flooding disasters the country has seen. it is now a tropical storm
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