you will see hurricane harvey category 2, had been category 4. the fourth category 4 to make landfall since 1970s. 47 years. so, now we have a category 4 hurricane making landfall. and this is what it's going to do. it's going to trek towards the northwest. and impurity models are now sort of in agreement that this is going to make a loop. not a goldplate agreement, because there's no scary current here. knowledge in the atmosphere to sweep it through. not a cold front to sweep it through. nothing else. it is over land. we may even see it weaken to tropical storm intensity. all of these curlicues that you're seeing moving around here. there are some outliers, north to the north and west. in this basic, cyril and natalie, some computer models are saying 20 inches of rain, maybe 30 inches of rain, outliers, 30 to 40 inches of rain. >> those curlicues aren't happy curlicues are they? not at all. thank you. >> it's important to remind the viewers even though the hurricane has been downgraded from 4 to 3 now to 2, it still remains very dangerous. we'l

it was a category one, category two type system.one being a major hurricane, the wind fields are wider and storm surge begins earlier. so you are getting impacts for a longer period of time. this is also forecasted to stall out and put catastrophic flooding in some of these areas. very different animal. >> we have heard of some people who did not obey those orders to evacuate. in fact, in a couple minutes we will speak to a family that did just that. you said the roads have been mostly clear. but have you seen evidence of people who did not listen to those warnings and are holding out? brett, do we still have you there? sounds like we lost the storm chaser. he's right in the middle of it there and describing really frightening conditions. i want to move now to a man who lives in corpus christi and he plans on riding out this hurricane inside his home. first of all, thank you. you just heard the storm chaser describe how life threatening this storm is. can you tell us why you didn't listen to those orders to evacuate, those calls to

it is now a category 1. as you see behind me, those are still strong winds and we are still seeing rain. we won't begin to know the extent of the damage until the sun comes up and crews are able already hearing reports of damage and of injuries including in the small coastal community of rockport, population about 10,000, where the roof to a senior housing complex reportedly collapsed injuring at least 10 people. as you can see behind me, the rain, it continues to fall. some areas expecting more than 3 feet. we are expecting to see widespread flooding across the coast, including in houston where officials say we could see neighborhoods and roads inundated by tonight. back to you. >> all right, sarah. thank you. we now want to get to storm team 4 amelia draper, who is also in texas. >> reporter: right now we're situated in sea brook, texas. this area between houston and galveston. earlier today wen we arrived in houston we saw residents they were getting water. some stores out of water. some having a two pall

. >> the storm made landfall as a category four and weakened to a category two. it slammed ashore north of corpus christi. we are seeing pictures of damage left behind by by the storm. trees are down and what appears to be a wall has collapsed from the wind. signs on the ground, officials say they won't be able to assess the damage until daylight. here's more from houston. >> reporter: hurrican harvey roaring on to the gulf coast. >> the best way to describe it is a continue can being kicked down the road. >> reporter: the strongest in the u.s. in more than a decade. >> this is not going to be quick one and done we're not measuring in inches of rain, but feet of rain. >> reporter: residents of texas and mississippi and louisiana getting hit the hardest. rock port texas in its path. trees on roads, buildings destroyed and emergency crews facing difficults -- difficulties standing to the damage. >> we have not been able to get out and see what we've got going, but it's not looking good. >> reporter: the mayor urged those staying behind to write their scattered -- s

category two right on the cusp of category three at 110 miles per hour.e tonight landfall is expected around midnight. we have some good fog around here it is burning back inland but it is hanging out by the coast later today. moving from napa valley into san jose and santa clara valley. your water temperatures are under 60, 40s 50s and 60s around the region, the low clouds keep temperatures on the cool side by the coast and inland temperatures are warming up today. the bigger jump starts tomorrow with the hottest day coming saturday. some of the hottest amateurs from the early part of august. we should be cooler by tuesday though. >> sounds like a four-day stretch of warmth. >>> 7:49, a new lawsuit by lawyers protesting what they call despicable conduct. coming up at 8:00 who is now being sued by the lawyers for a young woman at the center of a bay area police sex scandal. >>> finding affordable housing in the bay area is difficult even when companies are hiring. we will show you why. people love my breakfast burritos. and my french fries. wait! what if

it's a monday mum category one storm.eally the 80-mile an hour winds are only wrapped around the center of the storm around the eye wall. everything else we're seeing tropical storm force winds. the pressure is 978 millibars that continues to rise another sign of weakening. it's moving to the north/northwest at 6 miles per hour. it's crawling to the north/northwest. maximum gusts 100 to 120-mile an hour range. on the scale it's a minimum category one. we're at 80 it's slightly holding on to a hurricane force. it may landfall at 130 miles per hour with gusts up to 140. it was a monster storm when it made landfall. another view on storm tracker 6 live here's the rio grande, mexico, south padre island to the south. corpus christi pushing inland along southeastern texas lake charles you're seeing the outer edges, the feeder bands working inland from this massive storm. spay plots each line represents an individual forecast model. what we like to see is all the lines coming together because that would show agreement amongst th

4 . >> what is category 4? >> it's a major hurricane. >> when is the last time we saw this?>> it's been 47 years in corpus christi. this part of texas hasn't seen this kind of a's dorm. -- storm. it will take a direct hit, areas like houston will get rain and winds. it will stay there for several days. >> i was listening and they are looking at a storm surge of up to 12 feet. on top of that, they are looking at rain up to 35 inches in some areas inland. where will that water go?>> that's a problem. houston is all concrete. i'll show you. houston is in the direct path, that red box represents tornado warnings. that's in advance of the storm. we can see tornadoes in this area. when i talk about the right front quadrant this is what i'm talking about where the strongest wave action will be in the strongest storm surge, the strongest winds and heavy rain. it's a category 4 winds are 130 miles an hour. it's moving slowly northwest at eight miles per hour. it's going to be devastating, it will stick around not is a h

explain the situation as it stands now in corpus. >> you've gone from what was a category 4 to a category 3 reminding viewers it was katrina that was a category 3. and we all know about the devastation and death that storm created. so even though this has been downgraded somewhat, a category 3 is considered a major hurricane and still capable of creating expensive damage and also killing people. the other thing i should point out even though it looks like the situation has improved here in corpus christi, i'm not bent over as far as peag thrown over by the wind, if i was on the opposite side of building, you would see me being thrown over. on the opposite side of this building which now is acting as a huge sail or wind block, it is still a massive wind tunnel. so all of the effects of that wind and rain are being felton the backside of this building. and still every now and then we'll hear a crash and something falls out of the night sky onto the ground. so you know it's extremely dangerous to be out on the streets here in corpus christi. we also know in areas like rockport about 30 miles

>> a category 2 is weaker than a category 4 it made landfall. that's in perspective. it is on shore, that means the reservoir of warm and tropical air hurricanes feed off is a little less. it's still an impressive storm. we are starting toee the other angles of this storm unfold. i plotted how wide and warm this storm is. so from basically the houston area, south and west past corpus christi, this is 260 miles long. the width is about 165 miles wide. so a substantial storm in size, but you can see, there are little details here in between bans that is significant. so i'm going to zoom in on the radar here. this is the houston area, right? there are heavy thunderstorms on the northwest side of town. then there is little to nothing south of town. then you have a tornado warning to the south and west here. so over a short distance, the weather can vary drastically. it's moving very fast, too. so there are a lot of changes that need to be you know spoken about here as these storms basically are moving to the north and west about 45 miles per hour. so you can get under a h

could make landfall as a category 3 overnight. since the center of the storm will be stalling out so close to the gulf of mexico, that means a lot of tropical moisture will continue to get pumped into this thing. that's why parts of texas are expecting over 25 inches of rain. it's not really going to move out of texas until early next week. very bad news there. we could see the rain for labor day weekend. 66 washington. 66 quantico. 62 degrees in clinton. few sprinkles in maryland along e week. 68 degrees, cool if you are hiking. good weather. 77 by around lunchtime. if you're headed to the wineries this weekend, mid to upper 70s. elsewhere, around 80 degrees saturday and sunday. next storm chance is tuesday and next week we could be looking at the remnants of harvey. we'll update that as we get closer. >>> good morning. i'm landon dowdy at cnbc headquarters. amazon will cut prices at whole foods. the purchase of the supermarket chains closes on monday. items such as bananas, avocados, organic brown eggs, lean ground beef, organic

harvey made land fall as category four. last category four or five was carl any 2004, it made land fall in the florida coastline and at 150-mile an hour winds. before that we had hurricane andrew, one that got people interested in weather that are about my age, that was a category five hurricane in 1992. made land fall in florida, hugo was a category in 1989, 140 miles an hour wind and camille down on the gulf coast with the cat five, 170 miles an hour in 1969. these are last category four or five hurricanes to make land fall in the continental united states. last category four to make land fall in texas was hurricane carla in 1961. so a very, very strong system, continuing to now push through , the south texas coastline, saturday and sunday our temperature today 79 here in philadelphia. we will be looking at a very nice day tomorrow as well we will get to 78 degrees. plenty of sunshine to wrap up. as we move into next week 80 for our high on monday, pattern continues with that nice, tranquil, kind of quiet, conditions but

category four. winds right near the centre of this hurricane, 125 mph. there will be stronger gusts associated with that as well. so clearly it's a very powerful hurricane in terms of strength. but it's not just the wind that matter. we heard about some of the other features. you get the wind speed, which is how hurricanes are categorised. you also have the storm surge, the amount of water above normal tide level, which will come into the coastline around this hurricane. we are talking several feet above normal tide levels. that process is already under way. so that inundation of the coastline through that higher level of water is already taking place. so you've got the storm surge, but you've also got how much rain will come out of this. 0ne metre of rainfall, that's extraordinary, especially for hurricane. especially for a hurricane. it's a huge amount and the reason for that is it so slow—moving. some hurricanes will go through quite quickly. yes, they will be destructive and will produce a lot o

and it moved in as a category 4, it's now category 1.can see it's still a well organized storm. the arm bands are massive in reach past houston and now stretching into austin as well. this is starting to arch to the northwest. slowly moving only about 6 miles per hour, but it is moving to the northwest. so i want to talk about a couple of these threats that harvey will continue to provide over the next several days. this is a look at the wind forecast. 74-mile-per-hour and above makes it hurricane force. anything blow, tropical storm force. so this yellow is a tropical storm force winds stretching all the way up to san antonio, austin and houston. but take a look at we go in to sunday, still a very large circle stretching to san antonio. and notice spots like rockport, they stay under the threat day after day. so we go from sunday to monday. the threat for tropical storm winds continues in the same exact area. and from monday to tuesday, still the exact same area because of the worry that this thing will do a little loop moving right ove

it's a category 2 storm now, but as don champion reports, forecasters expect harvey to grow to a category 3 before it's all over. >>reporter: skies are gray and the gulf is churning along the texas coast as hurricane harvey spins closer to shore. forecasters are warning it could be the most powerful storm to make landfall in the u.s. since 2005 and millions are in its path. >> we don't know what's going to happen. we don't know if we're going to come back to a home or what damage we're coming home to, so it's sad, it's scary. >>reporter: many coastal residents are boarding up their homes and heading inland. hotels are making people check out. school buses are shuttling hundreds out of corpus christi. thursday babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were flown north to safety. but officials are concerned be previous storms. the national hurricane center is calling harvey life threatening and says it could leave parts of the upper texas coast uninhabitable for weeks. harvey could deliver winds of over 110 miranda 15-foot storm surge when it arrives. >> the issue will be once it makes l

not one but two landfilalls hitting as a category four -- >> even the second was a category four. the last time a category-four hurricane hit the united states was in 2004. but port arances, was a category four, then it hit rockport. we had reports of winds up to 132 miles per hour. some areas have picked up several inches of rain. victoria, texas, picked up almost 16.5 inches of rain. that's the thing with the storm. while it's weakening to a category-one hurricane and will likely downgrade to a tropical storm, it is going to sit in this area for several days. while we have reports of 16 inches of rain, we still have perhaps another 20 to 30 inches of rain to go because some areas will end up in total with 40 inches of rain. there's no steering mechanism for t texas for the next several days. that being said, also the eastern side of the storm is the stronger side of the storm. we've had reported tornadoes near houston, galveston. not the eye of the storm, but the eastern edge has so much power that spins up the storms. that combined with the storm surge. we were lucky because th

this system made landfall friday night, category four downgraded to category one that happened afte meteorologist chris sowers tracking the system, wind not a major factor what's a concern in texas is the rain. a lot of flooding is expected. we'll keep an eye on it all morning. >>> the driver of a dump truck found himself in a dangerous position when he ran into the overhead highway sign with a bucket still raised. it happened in houston, texas. the impact mangled the sign and sent it crashing on to the road. boy that would be scary. the highway was shut down for hours while cruise cleared up the wreckage. >> a terrifying end to a police chase in ohio. the police officer was run over when he tried to stop the burglary suspect. the incident happened last weekend, the police released the dash cam video. during the chase, speeds reach up to 100 miles per hour, but at one point the suspect's truck spun out, that's when the deputy ran toward the truck with the gun drawn. the truck sped up pinning the deputy to the ground. police arrested the suspect who they said was incoherent. thank goodness, the sh

it is a category two storm but expected to become category three by the time and make landfall overnight with rain already falling hard in parts of texas. people are making a mad dash discourse to get last-minute items mandatory evacuations in many cities along the gulf coast. we are live with the latest in corpus christi. time is running out for people living along the coast of texas whether or not to evacuatexaguar ago that they only have about an hour left. winds and rain are picking up and hurricane harvey is getting closer and closer to making landfall. down.ast texas batting >> texas will have a significant disaster. >> hurricane harvey moving closer to the gulf coast. >> expecting the worst but hoping for the best. >> taking steps to protect themselves. >> we have a bulldozer on call in case our buckets get stuck. >> we will not be open until monday or tuesday, probably. if it floods downtown, it may take longer. >> some residents headed inland. >> did not want to be near the wind. i am trying to be strong. >> residents stock up on necessities where they can. >> you for calling ho

4, now downgraded to a category 1.uthorities are awaiting first light and will assess the damage and figure out the extent of what harvey brought to texas. frances, back to you. >> it's alex here actually. >> i'm sorry. >> not a problem. it's okay. you guys saw a precarious situation. lester's crew was making its way to corpus christi and had to think twice about crossing a river that had come up under a bridge and was spilling over. i see sinton is just a bit north of corpus christi, just a bit to the -- looks like the northwest of rockport. you couldn't even get there at this point. >> reporter: right. we started in corpus christi several hours ago. we couldn't go directly to rockport, obviously, because one of those main bridges was shut down. we had to take the long way around. we went through the sinton area and towards taft, texas, but had to double back at one point. again, here in sinton, texas, this is something that covering these hurricanes overnight, it's a very difficult situation. in the dark things can g

made landfall as category four.arvey hitting the gulf coast and it won't be clear of the damage until the storm's passing. that'll take several days because the storm is lingering in the area. it's unclear which path it will take. the city manager in rockport area says there is intensive damage in that area already. the u.s. president, donald trump has already approved a disaster decoration. >>> speaking of the u.s. president, donald trump, a political hurricane also hit the warehouse today. the u.s. president has pardonened the former arizona sheriff, joe arpaio. arpaio was recently convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to obey a court order to stop racial profiling. he was awaiting his sentence also. controversiall adviser gorka left the credentials to be a counter terrorism expert. we get the latest for alexander mccart. >> it's no incident that donald trump decided to drop three major stories as texas prepare for a massive hurricane to follow. the trump administration has become notorious for this in the p

this is now a category 3 hurricane. harvey is now a category 3 hurricane and it will comma shore as that. it is only going to strengthen as it slowly moves across the warm water of the gulf of mexico as a category 3 hurricane. 8 million people currently under a hurricane warning. nearly a million people are under tropical storm waters. all told that's basically the same population as switzerland. we could very well be on the doorstep of disaster and it all comes down to which way the storm decides to go. we know it's strong, but where is it going to land, a few miles here or there could make corpus christy largely uninhabitable for days on end. before we get you the latest on the ground in texas, i want to make sense of what's happening right now with hurricane harvey and what we're expecting over the course of the next few hours. my colleague shannon is here with the latest. we brought you until to keep us posted on this. tell me what you've got. >> all right. we were talking about how strong this storm is. for several

expected to make landfall as category 13 upped to category four. here the winds. we've got winds at 130 miles per hour. it's 131 miles an hour to get to category four. but there's no need to split hairs. this is a very very strong sto storm. we have gusts up to 155 miles per hour. so category four as its making landfall moving at 8 miles per hour. it will quickly lose strength possibly returning to a category one maybe even a tropical storm that doesn't matter. what does matter is what it's going to do once it does make landfall. unfortunately the cone of uncertainty is growing pretty large but we're thinking it's going to loop back around and possibly make a second landfall near houston. and again the cone of uncertainty is very large. there's still a lot up for debate as to what this hurricane and tropical storm harvey are going to do as we head through the next few days but what we do know it's going to drop a lot of rain, flooding is the major major concern with this. right now we're still dealing with even some tornado warnings. there's a severe aspect to thi

it has now dropped from a category 4 to a category 1 hurricane. still certainly strong enough with strong enough winds to cause major damage. and here is one of the biggest threats of hurricane harvey. 15 to 30 inches of rain are possible as a result of harvey hanging out at the same spot through mid next week. so this is a long lasting storm. some spots could see locally 40 inches. storm surge up to 12 feet possible right where the landfall was. high tide is at 6:25 this morning, so we're coming up on that quickly. remember they are hipd us by ar an hour.rain could lead to flooding further inland and those winds have now dropped to 90 miles per hour. likely the storm will downgrade to a tropical storm by later today, but that does not mean that the damage will come to a stop. you have the rain, strong winds will continue. 90-mile-per-hour winds. and moving only at 6 miles per hour. so just barely chugging along. and look at the updated forecast map as to where this will move. this projection could change, but it looks like right now it will barel

downgraded to category one.fred spence she lives in town zen in the community of odessa national. she was supposed to drive to relative' house in bear but never showed up. she hasn't been seen or heard from since 8:00 o'clock last night. winfred spence may be driving a 2017 maroon lincoln mkz with delaware plates. if you see her or know anything about where she might be you're asked to contact police more than dozen people burned out of their homes after a fast-moving fire destroyed an apartment building in sharon hill. demolition crews worked throughout the night to tear down the charred remains on the 1100 block of woodland avenue. the fire started at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. everyone was able to make it out okay. that's good news there. welcome back. you're watching good day weeke weekend. i'm lauren johnson. let's toss thing over to monica cryan keeping a close eye on the radar as we all monitor hurricane harvey. >> late last night it made landfall at a category four hurricane bumped up from a category thre

it went from category 3 to category four.e winds and storm surges, and a metre of rain, they will be difficult. the us military says north korea has fired three short—range ballistic missiles. but the latest test appears to have been unsuccessful. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent in seoul, yogita limaye, who told me that us territory wasn't threatened. the us and south korean military is saying these were fired early saturday morning. they said it was fired ina saturday morning. they said it was fired in a north—eastern and eastern direction. a commander said all three failed. two exploded midflight and one pretty much exploded as soon as it was launched. they have said there was no threat to guam and any other american territory. that is a reference to a threat north korea made ten days ago saying it would fire four rockets at the waters around wylam. it is important to distinguish this from the two in july. distinguish this from the two in july- -- distinguish this from the two in july. —— guam. those were intercontine

it is a category for mac. 215 kilometres per hour, so that is very strong. there are multiple hazards, extreme wins. those kinds of winds can cause very substantial structural damage to your links, roofs, agriculture. as well, the strong onshore winds are going to be bringing storm surges of up to a0 metres. we are hopeful that the worst of it will come ashore in a not very populated area, but that remains to be seen. lastly, there is going to be rainfall over the next five days, because hurricane harvey is going to be moving slowly. we might see up to one metre of rain in some parts of texas over the next five days. all three of those houses are extremely severe. we are looking at catastrophic flooding over the next few days. i was going to say, five days is quite an incredible amount of time. i guess that means that a lot of areas are not going to be able to watch this water away, and they? no, that is part of the problem. the onshore flow as well as the rain is contributing. with harry kane haavi staying cl

this is a category 3 hurricane.ews if there is good news here, this is an area, been a while, they know how to handle hurricanes. the national weather service is warning the storm surge alone could bring between 12 and 20 inches of rain. that's what we're expecting. some isolated parts of the texas coast, 30 inches of rain through wednesday. but, again, that's rainfall, there is rainfall and there is storm surge. that's a lot of water and a lot of wind. bill karins is here with us. bill, what do you make of it now? >> they got a lot more serious. people are just waking up, kind of tuning in and yesterday, tropical storm, category 1, you're, like, i've seen that story before. this is something we haven't seen in a while. this forecast from the hurricane center has a category 3, 150-mile-per-hour winds, enough to do structural damage to roofs and houses, 7:00 p.m. friday, this next point would be about 10:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m., sometimes friday night, dark evening, overnight, landfall. just to the east of corpus christi

the hurricane is now a category four storm.t is one of most powerful in the region and roughly a dozen years. it's already started moving into the state. the storm packing 130 miles per hour winds and storm surges of up to 12 feet. many people along the coast have gone inland to shelters hoping to escape the worst of it. >> we just couldn't risk it. we couldn't risk the flooding having to swim out there with this many kids. >> we didn't want to be flat o out. we just want to be safe. take necessary precautions. >> president trauma many and his entire team have been actively engaged with the state and local officials in texas and louisia louisiana. >> major power outage have already been reported in texas. particularly in the corpus christi area. here at home our local red cross helping those in the path of hurricane harvey. the regional call center at 23rd and chestnut handling calls coming in from texas and louisiana. also, today, two volunteers from philadelphia were dispatched to the storm area. they are in the gulf coast to

category 2 is ranging from 106 to 110. we will drop back to category 1.is expected, the storm is going to continue to weaken as we go through the coming days, it's just not going to move very much. and that say big concern with flooding. here's a look the aobserved rainfall totals already. those red areas really being the focus. look at some of these numbers. oswald, texas, 9 1/2 inches, victoria, texas, 9 inches, mcfadden, almost 7 1/2. again, folks, keep in mind, we're still on the big end of this system. you can see the storm going through the day today. notice again, it just doesn't move very much. which is why the concern of so much rain, as that storm begins to slow down and stall, it's going to dump rain in the same places over and over again. so, because of that, looking at the expected rainfall. this is not taking into account how much has already fallen, this is from here on out, you could be looking at least widespread 6 to 10 inches. but there will be some spots that can still pick up 10, 15, even 20 inches of additional rainfall. some of the

it's now a category 2 storm. expected to hit texas sometime today into tomorrow. >> take a look at this picture from nasa of harvey. you can see how wide it is. look at the eye of the storm too. we have storm team coverage of this storm. we want to check in with sarah dallof in galveston, texas. one of the areas expectedbe hardest hit. how are people preparing? >> reporter: good morning, eun. they are bracing for impact. this area hasn't seen a major hurricane with winds topping 110 miles per hour in nearly a decade. harvey is shaping up to be just that. now, ahead of landfall, the governor of texas has declared an emergency in 30 counties, seven counties currently under mandatory evacuation orders. now, the problem with harvey, once it makes land, it could actually linger inland for several days dumping up to 2 feet of rain on to an already saturated area. concerns for noflooding is very very high. as for now, officials urging people to be prepared, not only for the storm but for the days following and stores ar

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now a category 3 hurricane. it was a category 4 earlier in the night.d, but don't let that take any extra precautions there, it's still very dangerous out there, and we have several reporters on the ground that we're going to take you to in just a moment. leland: can you see the lights starting to flickner blessing, texas. tens of thousands without power. certainly more to come in texas. ... jackie: this is a prox extreme weather alert. i'm jackie. >> nice to be with you at home. 3:00 a.m. eastern, 2:00 a.m. in texas. i leland in washington. preston now find a disaster declaration for texas is working harvey has made its move into the lone star state. this is a texas sized storm in a texas site response. hurricane harvey has been downgraded now to a category three storm. it made landfall at about 10:00 p.m. local time, four hours ago. fifty-six hours is all it took for the warm waters of the gulf of

it has strengthened to a category three storm. the national weather service issued a warning today that parts of texas may be uninhabitable for weeks or months after the storm. they have asked president trump for a federal disaster declaration. that means they can get funding quickly. in the meantime, folks are ride ing out the storm because they have no other choice. >> my parents are pretty old. financially, we don't have the money to go ahead and take that ride out of town. >> maybe the mobility either. several cities have been bringing in sandbags and extra water and other items ahead of the storm. help for harvey. >> they get involved with the relief effort. deanna durante joins us live from the red cross in center city with more on answering the call to serve. >> they are pitching in as well. >> i know we're expected to get between 10 and 20 inches of rain some time between today and wednesday. >> they haven't even talked about the wind, flooding and power failures harvey is expected to bring. they are working with the recre

category two. hundred miles an hour sustained wind, moving slowly 6 miles an her to the north and west. for the most part right now it is still just inundating the south east coastline with lots of water, and it is only going to remain that way. it will possibly get worse as we go through next couple of days, right to storm scan three you can see underneath our satellite, radar those orange and red as well, that is our hurricane and tropical storm warnings, all the way from brownsville texas right on the boarder with mexico, all the way up to the louisiana border. so the entire gulf coast of texas at this point is either under a hurricane or a tropical storm warning because of the winds that are going to be seen, extending themselves through the coastline and then where all of the water is, it is right now moving inland. eye of the hurricane is just about 40 miles inland from san jose island where it made land fall last night at 10:00 o'clock central time and right around the eye which you can stil

it's now a category 2 hurricane. could become a category 3 before it makes landfall in texas. the problem with this storm, aside from it being a major hurricane potentially, it's expected to drop a lot of rainfall for texas. up to 25 inches in som southern t expect locally from the r harvey. we could see that rain through part of your labor day weekend. we'll look at that coming up and i'll show you where things are heading coming up. >>> what a sight. the impressive new display turning heads and the powerful >>> the national park service is celebrating its 101st birthday by letting your you and your family enter free. they're waiving -- about 127 of the parks usually charge an entrance fee. there are dozens of national parks in our own backyard. you can look for a list of the parks on our nbc washington app. >>> a huge new mural in the diri it features the iconic image of a seated abraham lincoln, but it's not intended to honor the former president. news 4's tom sherwood takes a closer look at the artwork of the workers who helped build one. most iconic monuments. >> the old

harvey may be a 1, but don't be fooled by the category. this is a very strong hurricane and on top of that, we have the rain, and the rain here that's going to last for days, so consider as i step back up here, consider that we've had about 16 or so inches here. in a year we have about 32 inches in this part of texas, so we've already had half the year's rain in what essentially is 12, 14 hours with harvey, and that means if this harvey hurricane sits where the prediction is for days, we're going to see somethat's going t historic probably in th the 100-year flood plane of the worst they've seen. the two rivers the san antonio and the guadalupe the rivers are expected to be well over flood stage, by wednesday the guadalupe might be 32 feet above where it normally would be. anybody who lives in that area has to deal with the problems of that. >> ali? >> i'm sure the locals appreciate you calling it the guadalupe because we've been calling it the guadalupe. the tree is out from the roots. in hurricanes trees uprooted, sometimes snapped and b

we were talking about maybe a tropical storm, maybe category category 1. we have category 4 hurricane making landfall. the strongest army of seen -- i feel like they jump up right now, i will probably fly away. the strongest storm we have seen in the united states and maybe 12 years. there's a hotel right next to our hotel. we saw the shingle start to come off about an hour ago. slowly ripping off. reversing the damage. a lot of loose debris flying around. the water, that's what everyone is worried about. especially when you move to the other side of the storm. we are on the west side of this hurricane. beside and north side, the dirty side, that's where this water will build up. when this sits over the south texas area, especially in galveston and houston, it's going to dump rain for days and days and days. it's going to create a mess. that will be the real story after right now. the wind. send it back to you in the studio. >> kimberly: rob, we have a couple follow-up questions if you can bear with us. you talked about the water levels. they are really wo

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it is a category 1 now.t hit as a category 4, but almost ten inches of rain in some areas of southeastern texas in fact up to almost 17 inches in some areas. they're saying this is an event that could last five to seven days. >> some areas still getting that hurricane force winds that knocked down trees and power poles, signs. you see here the flag's whipping. first responders stayed in place waiting to check out the damages as harvey just dumps the rain there. as christy said, there could be feet of a storm surge there, more than 40 inches of rain by wednesday. fema director brock long said that, citizens of texas, this is now turning into a deadly inland event. thoughts and prayers are with you. >> this, of course, as president trump and his team, they're k p keeping an eye on the storm, certainly, but there's a lot of headlines coming out of washington this morning. cnn political commentator from spectrum news errol lewis is with us. the president pardoned sheriff arpaio yesterday. very controversial man.

category two winds 100 miles per hour. the pressure is rising. it's moving slowly drifting to the northwest at 16 miles per hour maximum gusts 120 miles per hour. it came onshore a category four first time that's happened in 12 years, we have to go back to 2004 charlie when it hit florida. now it is category 2 winds 106 to 110 miles per hour. the feeder bands are pushing inland. we're picking up the reds and bright yellows that's where the heaviest rain is falling. we're seeing rainfall rates 2 inches an hour, balls it's not moving very -- because it's not moving very much. it came onshore with an isolated area the storm surge is tremendous for this part of the texas. houston to corpus christi they continue to see a tremendous amount of rain. we have a blocking area of high pressure here and another high off the coast of florida, jet stream well up to the north. there's no steering mechanism to push this storm on its way. it will sit here and do a loop deloop. four or five days later it's sitting over the same area, thursday overnight winds are d

it went from a category 1 to a category 4 in 4 hours. camille, and infamous hurricane, it went from a tropical depression to cat 5 in 36 hours. get ready, this is going to be a real bad situation. it's coming ashore right now. while sean is on the air. this town of rockport, i will be curious to see how much damage will be done there. i don't mean that in a nasty way. i'm just saying, it looks to me like rockport is going to be ground zero for the worst this storm can deliver as far as wind goes. i would not be surprised -- i am watching some of the monitors. if we see some 150-mile-an-hour gusts. ranchers pass, they had a gust to 161. this storm is hitting in an area where i'm sure the governor, he would tell you about some of the texas hurricane lawyer. ed, a famous port was destroyed back in the 1800s by two major hurricanes back-to-back. that's why galveston and houston became the big port on the gulf coast. where is hitting is almost legendary as far as storms go. we just haven't seen them over the past 20-30 years of this particula

possibly as a category 3 storm packing winds of up to 120 miles an hour.here have been some evacuations in coastal areas, some residents will stay and write out the storm. >> we have our bathtub filled up with water. we made a pot of beans. >>reporter: officials are calling it life-threatening hurricane and they are urging folks to have a plan if more evacuations are ordered. >> if you wait until you realize how serious this is, you will likely find it's too late. >>reporter: trump said he is monitoring it closely from the white house. getting a briefing this morning from his fema administrator and several other senior officials.>> president donald trump have been actively engaged with texas and louisiana preparing for the storm. >>reporter: in galveston, preparations continue as locals board up homes and businesses. they hope the city's 100-year- old seawall will protect them from the worst of the flooding.>> i'm scared. i'm going to do everything i can to protect our place.>>reporter: after harvey slams into texas, it will go back into the gulf and gain

still a category three still a category 3 it is way inland. it maintains a hurricane force strength and may actually go back into the gulf of mexico to become a tropical storm again. >> look at the hurricane force wind. in between corpus christi, ac drift and port o'connor,. that will be it. we still have a tremendous wind and in the hurricane force wind and tropical force wind from corpus christi, almost to houston. we will talk storm surge in a bit. >> as the conditions deteriorate , do you see those people? they really are throwing caution to the wind. then there's this guy out swimming and surfing in the waves near the shore. there is a sign that says no swimming. the beaches have been closed since yesterday so no one is supposed to be out there. that storm will last the gulf coast and he tweeted a photo of receiving reports on harvey's possible impact and is encouraging-- encouraging everyone to heed the advice and the orders of their local leaders. >>> the preparation for this hurricane, he is focused on the american people having what t

the storm streptened from a category one storm to a category four as it made land fall.it's now a cat three. >> live pictures out of the texas. where it's still going hard here in terms of the wind gusts. weather channel is in victoria, texas. which is being battered with wind and rain. here's part of his report for the weather channel a couple moments ago. >> welcome back everyone. you're watching continuous coverage of hurricane harvey. where i happen to be in texas, right here at the hotel i have the camera over in that direction. but right down the street my field producer reported some power lines just knocked down. that area. would not be surprised to see more of the same happen all across this le region. back in 2003 we had a hurricane that came through and thoked power out to 90% of the city. i think that's going to be another problem. to compound the problem is the power to be restored you have to have line crews and power crews. the issue is with the rain in the forecast it could be several feet of rainfall. it's going to be next to impossible for the crews to

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when we saw these forecasts of these category 3, category 4 couple of days ago when whens it was barelyou thought how is that possible? it has been really spot on here. the center of this storm, a lot of times they interact with land and begin to break apart a little bit. looks like a doughnut. visibly a perfect shape of a hurricane. and the outer eye wall getting right here about to make landfall. we talk about landfall and that landfall technically means where the center point of the hurricane, so the center where the lowest pressure is crosses land. then have you a landfall. so that's this when it gets across land then we will call it landfall. i will tell you what, right here we have winds about 115 miles per hour. right now we have had them reported 110 miles per hour. you get an idea, the impacts are wide. the biggest problem is it doesn't go anywhere. it's slowed down in forward speed. the next day or so it moves inland maybe about 40 miles or. so it looks kind of ugly. it's going to pull back here and we probably have about a six day event where this storm is here. some models,

it came ashore as a category four storm. it has since been downgraded to a cat one. >> harvey brought with it winds of 130 miles an hour. now top winds have diminished to 80 miles an hour. daylight breaks, residents getting first look at all of the damage it caused. >> one of the hard et cetera hit towns overnight is rock port texas. officials tell us they're experiencing utter devastation. >> let's go back to dylan in corpus christi. >>> good morning, as you mentioned it is a category one hurricane right now. winds at 80 miles an hour. to make first land fall as category 4 hurricane. hurricane charlie back in 2004. this is also the first time texas has received a double land fall with a hurricane. first made landfall in port aransis then the national storm center said a category three. winds up to 125-mile-per-hour. so at this point, we are starting to see the storm itself weaken because it's now beginning to move over land. that does not mean things are over because now the big concern is that since there is no steering me

harvey is now a category 2, downgraded from a category 4. forecasters say more than 3 feet of rain could swamp the area before it's all said and done. president trump signed a federal disaster declaration, that allows federal funds to begin flowing to state and local efforts in texas. here is a live look, you can see the wind is blowing. rain coming down. the storm damaged and flooded out this hotel in rockport, texas which is just north of corpus christi. no serious injuries were reported there. meteorologists said winds tops 100 miles an hour pummeled the town. thousands along that part of the gulf coast sdrak eighted. and in corpus christi, check out the carport on the move. high winds uprooted the structure yesterday even before the leading edge of hurricane harvey came ashore. winds from the storm's outer bands pushed inland to cause many problems there. rescuers and volunteers from our region are heading south to help hurricane victims. firefighters are being deployed by the federal government. and a dozen red cross volunteers from our

that's when we see it switch over to a category 3.this point, that is not going to make a lot of difference because we don't have anything steering this hurricane in any direction. there is no shear. water temperature is conducive to this strengthening. it is powerful. you can see it pretty much engulfs the entire coastline of texas. we've watched the eye. as the center pressure drops, we see it strengthen. you'll start to see the storm surge, as well, pretty heavy rainfall bands have produced all around galveston, texas, some rainfall reports in excess of an inch of rain. this is still early. we're looking at days of precipitation going into next week, and the computer models are all over the place. what computer models? they plug in different parameters, the computer spits out different scenarios if they anticipate that this hurricane, hurricane harvey will do. one outlier, brings it back across mexico. most of these show a loop, looping right or left. as this moves to the coast, this will be the greatest impact with the storm surge