wonder how much is time to all the money were spending same thing with disaster what they call christy lake. >> anytime you mess with nature there's bound to be consequences. when were transforming the faith of the new jersey shore i hope they're doing the studies to make sure they're not turning our beaches into death traps. >> we need to work on these names. thank you dan. ld presss a look at headlines conference in your city. things quickly turned to the events in charlottesville this weekend. i think the blame on bothges sides. you look at both sides. i think there is fouam it and yu don't have any doubt about it either. cuomo is moving forward with his pricing plan which would charge drivers more into crowded areas. the subway system has been plagued by outages. a congestion pricing system is already in place in lndg today. >> cars, we charge them? >> we don't have the infrastructure to charge them. we don't even have enough to charger iphones. >> guess was coal, natural energy. >> welcome back to chasing news. i'm bill. i want to talk to you about electric cars. you know what, they're

. >>> and locals are calling it lake christie and now battle over margate's controversial dunes project returns to court big question a federal judge will consider later today. >>> and today is wednesday august 9th, good morning i'm rahel solomon. >>> aim jan carabao. jim donovan has the morning off. lets check traffic with meisha and weather with katie. >> good morning, great to see you again. we're looking outside and, of course we're talking about overnight construction project that are going to trip you up, one being the vine. >> yes. >> i know, katie. >> at lee catch lights from the ben franklin parkway. >> any excuse. >> no congestion in the early morning hours. >> exactly, very true. i get why they do it in the middle of the night because there are not that many cars but all and all weather is looking cooperative for us. talk about a nice looking day. crisp outside, little taste of fall not everyone is excited about that idea but it will be a nice warm afternoon and comfortable. more so. this is a little taste of september, more than anything, but we are still looking a head to a

homeowners are blaming governor and named this dirty water pond lake christie, others lake margate. whatever it is call sentiment is the same, it is a mess and we knew would it happen. people are divided on whether they support the project but they agree that the timing here is terrible. spokesperson for the state says margate was within of the only shore towns to challenge the governor's plan and since that fight dragged out in court it pushed project back, right here in the middle of the summer. a month in the revitalization project people wanting this to be over and city will make a request at a meeting tomorrow morning. >> it has people walk their dogs on the beach, it has dog feces, sea gull feces, it has debris in it. not a place for people to be walking through. it is not safe. >> you can see it as soon as you walk up to the beach, all of the sand is black. >> we have handicapped people who live on the street, how can they possibly get through? >> in the summertime we have a one week window where we make the bulk of our, business, so if that is affect? then it misses up our w

. >>> and locals are calling it lake christie and now battle over margate's controversial dunes projectrt big question a federal judge will consider later today. >>> and today is wednesday august 9th, good morning i'm rahel solomon. >>> aim jan carabao. jim donovan has the morning off. lets check traffic with meisha and weather with katie. >> good morning, great to see you again.

>>> and one shore is just sick of lake christie and the bulldozers they're going to court again.gate wants its beaches back. ♪ >> more fallout tonight for phillies legend pete rose. a number of events now called off for the former phillies great in the wake of statutory rape allegations. a big honor that was supposed to happen later this month being inducted into the phillies wall of fame. now, not happening. >> phillies say it was mutual decision with pete rose. our dave kinchen has been following this story and has more tonight live outside citizens bank park. dave? >> reporter: well, iain, one by one by one events have been canceled related to pete rose as the sports world and frankly everyone else tries to still figure out how this all happened. >> but phillies made the right move. >> reporter: chester county radio host bill, welcomes the phillies decision to scrap it's upcoming wall of fame honor for legendary alum pete rose after he admitted to having sex with a teenaged girl in the '70's according to court documents. >> i don't agree with what he did, that is a no-no, no.

. >> some locals have taken to calling this stagnant water lake christie because of governor's support of the do you know construction project. >> national weather service con fairmd a tornado touched down on the eastern shore of maryland yesterday. strong winds lifting cars off the ground in salisbury an national weather receives says ef 1 tornado and winds reached speeds of 100 miles an hour and no one was hurt. >>> the weather today may have had you check the calendar. >> sure doesn't feel like august. you can turn the ac off tonight, lauren. >> absolutely, yeah, we have a cool and comfortable night ahead an a georgous wednesday in store. but just how long can we keep the rain away. i'll have the answer in the full eyewitness forecast coming up. >> and also ahead, remembering the rhinestone cowboy a look back at the life and career of country music legend glen campbell. >> and not so sweet surprise customers at a delaware county fast food restaurant paying extra for the philadelphia drink taxt. all this mixed-up happened and what the owner is doing about it. >> and we know the risk

. >> reporter: dubbed as lake christie the massive pools of water formed as a result of the governor's controversial dune construction project have blocked off beach access in parts, and has been breeding grounds for harmful bacteria. >> our fear is that this is the new normal for mar gate. we're being asked to essentially live with this. >> reporter: governor christie ordered dunes be built following hurricane sandy but city officials who have opposed project from day one says construction has been hit by drainage issues after heavy period of rain. >> one-third of our beach is now unusable because of this colossal screw up. >> reporter: in the hearing thursday attorneys for the state via teleconference admitted that the current situation is less than ideal in receipt tremendous expect digging out behind the dune as much as they did, was not a good idea. >> reporter: superior court judge menendez ruled in margate's favor putting a week licensing work stoppage in place a move cheered by the mayor. >> it makes me very happy. we just can't allow this to continue, you're doing wrong and to

it made a multi-block pool, they call it lake christie after the governor. pumps drained almost all the water and the basins full with a foot of sand >>> nasa has a job opening >> the space agency needs a planetary protection officer >> the job sounds pretty fun. at least >> sounds serious >> interesting. >> nasa is looking for a new hire who will staff their one person planetary protection office. starts well into the six figures and he will literally become a guardian of our galaxy >> protecting earth from alien, a newly posted position at nasa could pay you to keep our planet safe. >> call it a planetary protection officer >> what do you think that's about? >> i guess protecting the planet as an officer? i don't know. >> like you got space guns and stuff >> the job's goals are two-fold protecting earth links for the are you familiar vigiling of alien life forms, fortunately we're talking more about galactic mike crobes, not exactly the green guys end man kind and the flip side is true too, making sure our missions to planets like mars don't introduce elem

many people named the multi block beach pool lake christie for governor who insisted on the project and called people who opposed it vein and selfish. >> well, i think he is responsible for it. so we ought to name it after him. >> reporter: as of wednesday afternoon four pumps had lake almost drained and dosers were beginning to fill a foot or more of sand throughout the basin to prevent a future swamp. also pumping sand on the beach resumed after a several day hiatus. the damage is already done saying summer's lost. business leaders say sales and rentals are down. >> this is a society down here at the shore where we have to make our money for the year in a very, very short period of time and dune project is having a profound impact on everybody's bottom line and it is all negative. >> reporter: officials say they are planning to have attorneys file injunction lawsuit on thursday. last time margate went to court begins state of the new jersey about dunes they who costing more than $300,000 in legal fees. but mayor tells me that the plan right now toys cap the spend continuing lightening

sea gulls sun bathing in the manmade drainage pond locals called lake christie was only dune-related activity margate beach goers saw thursday as they ventured over basin and through berms to sit by ocean. >> we sat about eight blocks out over weekend because beach es were closed. >> reporter: andy lieb wits from wayne parks scheduled his week long family vacation months ago, needless to say things got off kilter. >> we thought about canceling the vacation when we heard bit last friday when judge closed the beach but we did come down it is unusual. >> reporter: those engaged in the court bolt over dunes say week long break from construction hasn't given them any sense of clarity or security moving forward. >> what i got out was army core doesn't know what they are doing and they want to continue to do this project and then worry about the consequences. >> reporter: government officials say delaying the project is costing $120,000 a day, it is also pushing this and other projects further inner to hurricane season which experts announced just this week has potential to be extremely act

. >> some locals have taken to calling the stagnant water lake christie because of the governor's support of the dune construction project. >>> with those recent rains, out of the way we're in store for a dry stretch. meteorologist lauren casey's on the sky deck tonight. lauren, will it last. >> it will last at least a couple of days which is better then no days at all but it is down right beautiful right now , conditions this evening, improving, sunshine, broke broken out and temperatures, are nice. cloud are spreading out and seeing more sunshine in center city philadelphia current temperature 79 degrees. dew points fallen back in the 50's. feels much more comfortable humidity rise. seventy-nine down the shore. seventy-one in the poconos with that wind out of the northwest ushering in dryer air. storm scan three showing us a trend we have been witnessing over last several hours and that is a cloud deck, clearing on out from northwest to south e and no rain to see on the radar. as we head in today tomorrow a practically perfect one. sunny skies, warm temperatures , low humidity and light

. >> some locals have taken to calling this stagnant water lake christie because of governor's support of the do you know construction project. >> national weather service con fairmd a tornado touched down on the eastern shore of maryland yesterday. strong winds lifting cars off the ground in salisbury an national weather receives says ef 1 tornado and winds reached speeds of 100 miles an hour and no one was hurt. >>> the weather today may have had you check the calendar. >> sure doesn't feel like august. you can turn the ac off tonight, lauren. >> absolutely, yeah, we have a cool and comfortable night ahead an a georgous wednesday in store. but just how long can we keep the rain away. i'll have the answer in the full eyewitness forecast coming up. >> and also ahead, remembering the rhinestone cowboy a look back at the life and career of country music legend glen campbell. >> and not so sweet surprise customers at a delaware county fast food restaurant paying extra for the philadelphia drink taxt. all this mixed-up happened and what the owner is doing about it. >> and we know the risk

. >> reporter: while construction crews have drained the pond locally known as lake christie and back filled part of the area judge menendez granted application for temporary restraining order and put a within week halt, and ordered both side to come up with a solution together. >> it makes me very happy. we just can't allow this to continue. you are doing wrong and continuing to do wrong. we have a week, lets sit at a table and work it out. >> reporter: less than an hour we saw them still pushing sand but pump was shut off. locals remain skeptical the work stoppage will help it long term. >> i hope they have a solution , i'm happy if they come up with a solution. >> reporter: work stoppage on the dune project will be in place until next friday, that is when the next court hearing now meanwhile army core of engineers and their contractor for this project say that it will cost about $100,000, a day for this work stoppage, and there is no word on who will pay that, the city of margate officials say they are not going to. live, i'm cleve bryan, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> well, we will

out of 88 river gauges we looked at all the way from corpus christi to lake charles, the majority are moderate to major flood stage. beaumont, port arthur, texas. they saw 26 inches in one 24-hour period. until an hour or so ago when i looked at some of the radar images coming out of the area, they're still reporting mostly light rainfall. now they're pumping. pumping water at the natches river. they are saying that the river is going to crest on saturday. they can't get the pumps work ing until the river goes down. it doesn't look like that's going to happen until we head into saturday. then it is going to far exceed the previous record set in 1994 at 13 feet. it may crest at over 19 feet. this is a true problem that just continues for days and days. just when you think the rain pull the away, it still is a factor and will continue so through the tennessee river valley and into the ohio river valley. and then there's tropical storm irma. could become a major hurricane over the open waters of the atlantic. it could be a category iii as it approaches the lesser an tillets, tracking tow

it made a multi-block pool, they call it lake christie after the governor. pumps drained almost all the water and the basins full with a foot of sand >>> nasa has a job opening >> the space agency needs a planetary protection officer >> the job sounds pretty fun. at least >> sounds serious >> interesting. >> nasa is looking for a new hire who will staff their one person planetary protection office. starts well into the six figures and he will literally become a guardian of our galaxy >> protecting earth from alien, a newly posted position at nasa could pay you to keep our planet safe. >> call it a planetary protection officer >> what do you think that's about? >> i guess protecting the planet as an officer? i don't know. >> like you got space guns and stuff >> the job's goals are two-fold protecting earth links for the are you familiar vigiling of alien life forms, fortunately we're talking more about galactic mike crobes, not exactly the green guys end man kind and the flip side is true too, making sure our missions to planets like mars don't introduce elem

another statistic to tell you, of 88 river gauges, all the way from corpus christi toward lake charlesty of them are at moderate to major flooding. you see the cluster around the houston area as we well know. back to you. >> all right. karen maginnis, the cnn weather center in atlanta. thank you very much. >>> we mentioned the city of beaumont, texas, has lost its water supply after pumps failed in the floodwaters. for more, drew griffin is live just outside beaumont. hats off to you going from reporter to rescue worker. of utmost importance is the water supply. what do we know? >> reporter: the city sent out a notice last night about 12:30 a.m. that it lost its main pumping station right on the natches river. the other two main sources of water have already gone out. those were groundwater wells. what's -- first of all, when you woke up this morning, you turned on the spigots. there was nothing but air coming out. you couldn't brush your teeth. that is going to add to the misery factor for the 118,000 or so residents in beaumont. plus all evacuees. not much of beaumont left. so all of

some are calling it lake chrissy, big body of water sitting between beach and beach front property. christiehe fall guy after moving project along with the state's backing despite major opposition from people living out here. one reason they were begins beach revitalization project, the timing in the middle of the busy summer season. now meeting its plan to shut it down after last weeks heavy rainfall left a disaster on the dunes, all this while samples were taken for testing >> it has people walking their dogs on the beach, it has dog feces, sea gull feces, debris. it is not a place to be walking through. >> it is right clot sand, all of the sand is black. >> we have handicapped people living on the street. how can they possibly get through. >> in the summertime we have 12 week window that we make bulk of our business. so if that is affected, then it messes up our winter. >> it is a project that should be done in the fall or winter but no one is here and affected by it. >> reporter: we're here, and this was the scene on sunday, small protest, people here gathered claiming that the 15 inches

pond ago this they had and people thought it was dangerous and dirty and they are were calling it lake christie. steve keeley was there down at the beach and already showing thaws they had some of the trucks that were moving and working already, steve. >> reporter: you wouldn't see this sunrise if you weren't standing on top of the dune that was the initial complaint because if you are on the first floor of these beach front homes you cannot see over it. this will make a nice ski mountain in the wintertime for you folks in margate looking at an advantage of this thing but as we look at this sunrise and we have a few more moments to enjoy it, i will put in another request for your vocal harmonyies to morning has broken. >> morning has broken. >> like the first morning, black bird -- i cannot sing but i know the word like the first day. >> that is it, steve, sorry. >> reporter: i have driven ryan nuts and i warn him, sorry, ryan, i used my time bring gets to my story but we can have fun because it is not life or death dilemma is here. for folks who cannot afford a bus trip to atlantic city they a

lake. corpus christi, he talked about that, somewhere between 10 and 12 inches already on the ground, already has fallen. and guess what, this thing only made landfall 14 or 16 hours ago. so we have a long way to go. and we've had this much rain already as the storm came onshore in the overnight hours making all that wind damage and then now i think the real threat has changed from a wind damage maker to a flood maker where there's the latest number 14 inches of rainfall in one city. not every city. it just depends on if you're getting lucky or unlucky under one of these bands. right here was our ed lavandera. if you would have went to ed lavandera 20 minutes ago, he was getting pounded with thunderstorms. but right now that storm has moved just far enough to the east and now ed's in the clear. every time one of these bans comes onshore, that's when you're going to see the wind pick up and the heavy rainfall pick up. in between the bans we're going to see basically nothing. sky's clear, winds die and all of a sudden you wait for the next one. but something else coming onshore are spinning thu

planned, several inches of rain last weekend made a multi block pool that people here like to call lake christie. now today pumps had almost all of that water drained and those who started filling in the basins with at lee a foot of sand so they won't collect so much water in the future as the intention. the dunes though have to stop until there is a better plan. >> they have got to stop, figure out what went wrong, what is wrong with the engineering, when they correct it, move on. >> coming up on "eyewitness news" at 6:00 o'clock we will tell you how soon they plan to file that lawsuit and just how much money they are willing to spend in court. live from margate, cleve bryan , cbs-3 "eyewitness news" >> cleve, we will see you at 6:00, thank you. >>> search continues for possible missing swimmer near steel pier in atlantic city. chopper three over the search effort month. man said that she was with a 31 year-old man who went in the ocean around 8:00 o'clock last night. woman told police that she left the area before the man got out of the ocean, authorities say that it is not yet known whether t

. >> reporter: dubbed by locals as lake christie massive pools of water formed as a result of the governor's controversial dune construction project blocked off beach access in parts and has been breeding grounds for harmful bacteria. >> our fear is this is the new normal for margate, that we are being asked to essentially live with this. >> reporter: governor christie ordered dunes be built following hurricane sandy but city officials who have opposed from day one say construction has been hit by major drainage issues after heavy period of rain. >> one-third of our beach is now, unusable because of this colossal screw up. >> reporter: in the hearing thursday attorneys for the state via tell conference admitted that the current situation is less than ideal. >> in retrospect maybe digging out behind the dune as much as they did was not a good idea. >> reporter: superior court judge julio menendez ruled in margate's favor putting a week long work stoppage in place a move cheered by mayor michael decker. >> it makes me very happy, we just can't allow this to continue, doing wrong and continuing

the one-third of the nation's refining capacity sits in low lying areas along from corpus christi texas to lake charles louisiana. if youthere is not much drive-in southeastern pennsylvania you'll pay an average 2.5rdersey price is 2.28 dallas a gallon and ince is 2.23. matt, we are talking about effects of hurricane harvey but still drenching texas and still very muclway the biggest n with this. of course, category four hurricane makes land fall it is strong winds at first but meandering that this storm is doing, just sit, training over same areas and it looks like it will be lasting until the end of this coming week. >> rainfall totals are incredible, expected to be. >> we're seeing over 20 to 25 inches of rain, already, and then when you add on top of that the fact that we could see another, 15 to 20, to even 25 inches of rain on top of what, folks have already seen, we're talking about localized amounts down in south texas that could be in the 40 to 50- inch range that is insane amounts of rain we're talking about that the strophic flood ago this could be seen and we are seeing extreme floo

some nicknamed this lake christie as a ode to the embattled governor for approving the project, standing water makes it tough for some people to access beach from their beach front homes, standing water makes it easy for mosquitoes to gather. standing water makes for an ugly eye sore out here in margate, standing water makes it easy for people to get mad. some say city requested water to be tested and those results will be back in time for tomorrow's meeting where people are expect to gather at 11:00 a.m. asking for this project to be stopped. >> like oops, didn't expect that to happen, get a clear picture this morning. thank you. >>> certainly didn't take licensing for president trump 's chief of staff to make his mark. one of his first maneuvers after being sworn in asking for resignation of the new communications director. caroline shyly joining us from washington this morning. i always feel like i'm watching the card game here shuffling of the deck. >> reporter: if you go back over last six months and think of the top level senior staff members that have been blown out of this admini

court judge who halted the project after a heavy rain and they had a big lake they are calling lake christieublic concerns. well, now an attorney for community of margate says city will be back in front of the superior court judge this afternoon ahead of the weekend >>> the president says his talk is huff talk on north korea may not have been tough enough and now this is very interesting, all eyes turning to china right now because there are signs that enormous country of china will back north korea if we decide to initiate and attack, that is scary stuff lets get down to washington with doug luzader and developments there, that is a interesting turn off events, doug. >> it is interesting to go watch this inter play between the united states and china which maybe fair to say are the two key players here in all of this yes, this is a conflict between u.s. and north korea but china we wills so much influence that what they do may determine what the outcome of this ultimately is. is there a report in the state aligned newspaper in china this morning that china will remain neutral if there is a

nation's refining capacity have been sitting in low lying areas along the coast from corpus christi texas to lake charles, louisiana, so far there is not much change if the pumps close to home, driving in southeastern pennsylvania, you'll pay an average of 2.54 for gallon of regular gasoline and in new jersey it is 2.28 a gallon and in delaware cheapest price is 2.23. >>> stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage of the tropical storm harvey, we will have updates all morning long and our coverage is always on line at cbs philly.com and the cbs local app. >>> new this morning authorities are investigating after they say someone intentionally set a house on fire in the cities overbrook section. fire broke out in the home on the 800 block of north 64th street right around 3:00 this morning. fire crews quickly got those flames under control in about 30 minutes. officials arrested a suspect for arson was hurt. >>> philadelphia public school teacher is charged with making terroristic threats begins a police officer after an altercation during a protest at frank rizzo statue earlier this month

. >> i saw some people asking about the big, swamp that filled in there they were calling that lake christie more on that. we appreciate it. 4:37. >>> lets talk about delaware, delaware's dream of returning to the little league world series for the first time in four years. that is over. boys from maryland, in the regional tournament last night score five-two. this is what it means, maryland will be playing our pennsylvania team, tonight, so that will be exciting and then winner of that will play in the new jersey in the regional championship which is saturday and then winner will go on, both games will be aired on espn. >>> lets talk about this our bird are back playing last night, so 27 days we will be ready for the first game, count. bird playing first preseason game with the packers. here's the deal we who, it was a beating, 24-nine. real deal toys get people playing time. starters on owe even if and defense looked good. then we will look at our rookies and evaluate who will be on the team, what will happen? people trying to make the team we will be facing the bills next week. big daddy

several inches have rain last weekend made a multi block pool which people called lake christie after the governor who supports the project. pumps drained all of the water yesterday and bulldozers started to fill in those space west a foot of sand. >>> still ahead this morning increased focus on ford explorers used by police departments nationwide after a officer passes out behind the wheel and crashes. we will tell but the problem that is being investigated. >>> plus kid might think they look cool, parents might even buy them but these sneakers are sparking outrage on line, find out why some people worry the shoes could put girls at risk. >>> caught on yam use lightening strikes an airplane on the ground, coming up next. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. get fast internet and add pho

one-third of the nation's refining capacity sits in low lying areas along the coast from carp us christie texas to lake charles, louisiana. there is not much change at the pump. if you drive-in southeastern pennsylvania you'll pay an average 2.54 for gallon of regular gasoline, in new jersey 2.28. and in delaware the low price is 2.23. matt, i any we will be talking about the effects of harvey for some time to come. >> maybe not just this week but into the future this will be one of the storms that from a meteorological standpoint we are, talking about a long time >> it is not enclose took done , we're talking three, four, maybe five more days of what they are calling catastrophic flooding. >> sometimes up to 3 feet have rain. >> yes, exactly depending how many have already seen some areas could see another 25 inches on have rain between now, before this storm ends, three or four days, it will be an incredible, scene, once we're able to start to see the clean up efforts that do go on of course, it is so hard to do that clean up while the storm is churning away down along houston texas coastline, but th

corpus christi pushing inland along southeastern texas lake charles you're seeing the outer edges, theeeder 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 the modeling it looks like a plate of spaghetti, the lines are everywhere, thus the name. this shows me the modeling does not have a good indication where the storm will go over the next 3 to 5 days. this would be a nightmare scenario if the water goes back into the gulf. the idea that this storm could sit and spin could lead to cat strorveg flooding. this is -- cat strorveg flooding. this is wording they used with katrina. home and wall and roof structure failure, uninhabitable for weeks or months because of how bad the storm is expected to be. a big, big mess across southeastern texas. fortunately for us, temperatures are in the 60s. no humidity, no cloud cover out there, as high pressure moves in. that will keep things night and quiet over the next several days. forecasted high

people but you've got one-third of the nation's refining capacity in this area, between corpus christi and lakees with houston at the center. so every storm is different. and unfortunately our policy response is well let's close the barn door of the last storm we had as opposed to figuring out what are we going to do in general to improve our country's infrastructure to deal with this problem. >> but, you would say that the -- the federal, and the fema response, and the way the agencies are working with local, state and federal authorities, would you say we learned a few things, that it's better this time >> yes oh, it's absolutely better i mean it couldn't have been worse than the fema response right after hurricane katrina, and you know, that guy brownie, they were totally, totally clueless now you see fema doing a very good job what we're going to have to face, though, is a series of questions. i think our rescue capacity and recovery capacity is pretty good better than it was before. and you're going to see it even in this devastating storm. refining capacity will come back i mean, you know

victoria expecting 21 inches of rain and lake charles in louisiana 7 additional inches of rain and corpus christi 16 inches of rain additionally on top of the five to six you picked up. harvey's impact little if any movement catastrophic flooding expected. parts of the area could be uninhabitable for weeks or months depending on the amount of rain that falls in texas. when i come back we'll focus on our weather here, it's a gorgeous weekend for the delaware and lehigh valleys. i'll have more on hurricane harvey. >>> 5:04 a.m. we continue with the hurricane harvey coverage. we're getting in video from those hunkered down in the path of this brutal storm. >> there was one tornado and flash flood warnings. >> ominous sounds of debris tossed around in a parking lot. here's video many people heeded calls to evacuate to a safer place, but some residents stayed put. >>> president trump tweeted that the federal government will be fully engaged to open lines of communication to the people in texas. the president signed a disaster declaration for texas ahead of the storm's landfall. >> hurricane harvey is

there could even be as much as 35-inches of rain in some regions even over toward lake charles, toward corpus christif that really heavy rain even if you're not in the most intense part could be over a foot of rain. that's just the rain aspect. there will also be an awful a lot of storm surge especially northeast of where it comes ashore could be as high as five to 8 feet. we're watching what happens with harvey. we may see some rain from that but not until next weekend because it will be stuck down there for a long time. our own weather beautiful day today. don't be surprised if a few showers drop out of these clouds. this is an upper level disturbance that's going to move by tonight. it's going to keep us cooler aloft. you may see clouds starting to push across 81 and a hit or miss shower spotty can't be ruled out tonight. more on our local forecast coming up a lit -- coming up a little later. sarah and jim. >> a gruesome discovery in a field in prince william county. >> police have identified the remains found. lindsey. >> sarah and jim, this is another gang related murder in the 18-year-old victi

magnitude of what we are seeing on the ground across this district, and in fact, from corpus christi all the way to lake charles, louisiana, it has just been an enormous geographical area, and huge population center, it is absolutely the most expensive and devastating weather events i think in american history. >> shannon: we look at these images, we are just getting little bits and pieces of what you describe, a geographic area that it is tough to comprehend when he talked about the fact that it has turned into basically agree lake of its own down there, and there are people who have been using social media to get help and it to connect and help with other people, what does it say to you to see these folks out there? i have a friend who described them as taking their both out coming back banged up and bruised, it has to be encouraging to see people coming to help and saying i will take my boat out, i will get my pickup as close to that water as i can, i'll save any person who i can. >> that is exactly right, there are incredible stories, great things going on right here, i can sit here and name names o

christi, texas. as far as the rainfall, look at these numbers, you see close to 9 inches in lake charles, louisiana, and move over to houston and victoria places this 23 to 24 inches of rain. we'll have more details in the full accuweather forecast. >> a lot to track thank you. of course stay with "action news" and 6abc.com for more on hurricane harvey as it approaches the gulf coast in texas. updates on air and online at at 6abc.com. >>> it was a terrifying night for four people inside a philadelphia home when armed intruders stormed in and demanded money, during the invasion a woman was shot. we are joined at the scene with more on this active investigation. >> reporter: well, that woman is fighting for hire life right now. she is in critical condition. this half she tried to escape the intruders and they shot her in the back. her roommate believed they all would have been shot if she had not made a run for it and distracted the intruders. >> it was like a nightmare i woke up to a gun at my head. >> along this 300 block of north street. three men broked into the home and demanded drugs and money.

on the backside, the wind has picked up in brownsville, corpus christi, and the strongest gusts have been towards the center. lake charles, louisiana head over 13 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. new orleans is getting pretty heavy rain on the backside of that. the good news is, i agree with that. i think by tomorrow, most of the heavy rain bands will have pushed off into louisiana, arkansas, mississippi and north. but they are not done today. for what it is worth, their hands if you look out 10 to 15 days, more rain coming and. just coming in from the gulf. while they may get a break a, there could still be more rain in the future. >>> if you're looking to make a difference, there are many ways to help the victims of hurricane harvey. go to our website and there are various rubbing the organization helping the website.>>> do you plan donated to hurricane harvey. you can see that 56 percent of you say you have. 42% oh. >>> a lot of chatter on social media. very sad, of course. i will do what i can. phil says, even though i said many times i would not pee on texas if it was on fire, i put that aside. we can fi

corpus christi, , houston, texa, port arthur beaumont, and now making its way into louisiana and lakeharles. amy: as we conclude the interview with you, and hopefully we will check in with you over the coming weeks and months of this flooding playing out, can you speak finally on what you are hearing locally in terms of notifications about what you are describing to us and d briefly what people need o understand if they have concerns? should they go to your website oror oth phone numumbers? bryan:e have h had a great wealth off leadedership. i have a l lot of movement m mos and sisters. .e have learned a great deal i just want to take a second to acacknowledgdge the 12 a annivey of hurricane katrinaand thank all of the incredible women who thihisown leadership and regenerative energy that has kept us going. we have learned a lot and what folks need to o do now i is take thesee situations and learn from them. omentis such an important nonot just f for us here on the gulf coastst but for thehe entie country. i i want too tha organizations and individuals who have in at the forefroront o

lake charles, louisiana right now. it's going to start moving up towards arkansas, tennessee, kentucky, very heavy rain will fall there. down towards corpus christi, came in late last friday, went north, put on the brakes, went back out into the gulf, gained a lot of energy. the eye wall is damaged so didn't get hurricane strength but did reach tropical storm strength again with gusts to 50 miles an hour. remember it was moving about two to three. it's finally accelerating now as it made landfall again, the second one, now moving about eight to 10 miles per hour. but look, you can see on the backside, houston had some clouds but some sun but the rain ended. but lake charles is getting slammed right now with really heavy rain. in fact, there's been some reports coming in that are exceeding some flood values as well. this is starting to lift now towards the north but look at the wind here. i mean, you're still getting gusts, you know, 25, 35 miles per hour but you can see from shreveport to lake charles to beaumont, port arthur and even houston has gusts to 30. so while the rain has ended, the wind is still there and look at the temps. 92 corpus ch

christi picked up ten inches of rain, expecting 17. victoria 10 inches of rain, 28 is forecasted here. that extends into southwestern louisiana lake charles forecasterring 7 inches of -- forecasting 7 inches of rain. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast sunny and nice today, 79. same thing for sunday. monday increasing clouds as we watch the coast, a system crosses over the peninsula of florida today. it could bring showers and rain to the area tuesday. generally speaking this is about as nice as it ever gets in this part of the country for august, 79 degrees and sunny. sounds good, we'll be right back. [winds]. >> brand new video of hurricane harvey fury, the erie howl of 100-mile an hour plus winds, the eye of the storm blew into town releasing incredible wind and rain. >>> take a look at this, homes and businesses in rock port left in ruins, a school and senior center among the places badly damaged. hundreds of thousands of power outages reported on the texas gulf coast. >> and next meteorologist chris sowers will take a final look at the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. stay with us we'll see you back after th

christi and did a loopy lou, and moved back over to the water. and moving northeast at 8 miles per hour. and making the landfall south of lake charles in louisiana late tomorrow. and then it slowly drifts towards our region for the upcoming weekend bringing us some rain not flooding rains here but some rain for the beginning of the labor day weekend. speaking of rain we are dealing with some steady rainfall, wilmington and philadelphia and trenton especially to the south and east drier as we head up to the lehigh valley. in addition to the rain today and clouds and a chilly wind. hammering the shore line here with swells and beach erosion in cape may. 13 in philadelphia. we'll have much more when our rain lifts out of here coming up in the full accuweather forecast. >> dozens of first responders and volunteers are now fanned out across the flood zone across the gust coast, including two red cross workers deployed today. they left from the organization's philadelphia headquarters, they are heading south in a van equipped with food, water, clothing and other emergency supplies. >> it's difficult to watch and see what is going

houston moving toward corpus christie yeah, locally 20 inches of rainfall but some locations could see up to 3 feet of rain out of that system. for us high pressure over the great lakes and disturbance trying to sneak through early on this friday morning. some cloud, a few early morning sprinkles but still anticipating a beautiful day later this afternoon. lower 50's in mount pocono. sixty-two in allentown. upper 60's in philadelphia lower 60 ease down the shore. here is your friday planner, cloud out there early this friday morning giving way to sunshine, once again a passing sprinkle upper 70's for high temperatures across the region as we take a look at that forecast 79 in wilmington. seventy-seven in allentown. once again with those early morning passing sprinkles giving way to sunshine. so take a look at the seven day forecast for the upcoming weekend 79 degrees on a saturday and why not do it again. seventy-nine on your sunday. upper 70's over the next several days so morning sprinkles out there and then our next best chance for rainfall not until next thursday. heading out to work check me out on the radio 101.1 more fm with your weather authority forecast, bo

lake charles, louisiana, as harvey dumps on that state. trace gallagher is in houston to show us where the flooding their stance. we start with peter doocy in corpus christi on the president's visage. good evening. >> good evening, bret. the president left the white house for a fire house here in corpus christi where he told the men and women responsible for handling harvey's aftermath he has a history of them. >> we want to do it better than ever before. >> minutes after air force one touched down at an airport that was closed this weekend, the president told officials gathered at corpus christi firehouse number 5, he wants the relief effort to set a historical standard. >> we want to be looked at five years, ten years from now, that this is the way to do it. >> harvey was still hammering the houston area. he knows that what looks like a well-planned rescue and recovery effort still fail. >> we will congratulate each other when it's finished. >> the pentagon thinks the effort will go so long they announced today the possibility that 20,000 to 30,000 additional national guard troops could deploy. >> just like our first responders get tired and burnout, gu

lake charles, galveston, even alexandria, louisiana, looking at incredibly heavy rain to come down. some areas further west, we have been talking about victoria and corpus christi. the rain will come back in your area. overall, brian, the key thing to note is we talked about the areas that have had 20 inches of rain. we are still forecasting an additional up to 20 inches of rain that has yet to fall. that's going to be the big concern going forward for a lot of these folks. we have been talking about this, other people, you hear the wording. this is potentially a historic storm. you have to keep in mind, this is not over. we're not near over for at least the next three to five days. >> we have to be sensitive about comparison to katrina. most of the deaths in katrina were due to the manmade disaster of the levees being broken. the similarity that i see so far are the number of people that are having to leave their homes. that one tv station being evacuated. last time i saw that happen in an emergency was during hurricane katrina. do you think there are any other similarities, anything else we should be aware, or any big differences? >> the first thing that come

lake charles, all the way up to kentucky, maybe ohio as well. nashville is looking for five inches of rain. there is the track that came in around corpus christi, went inland and took a jog and went back out and gained strength. moved so slow. it is finally accelerating. it was moving at 2 miles per hour at one time. now moving north/northeast 8 to 9. it has moved past houston. they will get sunshine today, if they don't have it already. maybe parts of eastern houston may have cloud cover to deal with. the heavier bands have moved on shore and accelerating northeast ward. pretty good gusts. 30 in houston. not as bad heading towards corpus christi and brownsville. beaumont, there is information coming in now for port arthur and also beaumont of also extreme flooding. so i think we will hear about these now. look at the temperature already in houston. 81. corpus christi, 85. hot and humid. they will get a break from the rain. that is the good news. as the system finely lifts -- finally lifts out of the picture. next week, there may be more rain coming into the gulf. if you haven't heard, there is another tropical that formed in the atlantic. irm

area in lake charles in the middle getting a lot of rain, you can see the last bit of this loop right there, that's current. right there. east of houston getting the worst of this. corpus christi down the coast a little bit, that's where the president is and all this moisture is still coming into this area. 15-20 more inches expected in some areas, will top 50 inches of rain in some spots and do so significantly throughout the day. two areas of major concern right now, one levy has broken, almost due south of houston in a small community where hundreds of homes have been ordered to immediately evacuate. southwest of galveston, right along the coach coast and inla. although residents there under a mandatory evacuation. flash flood warnings there at 5:45 at central daylight time this afternoon. in addition, two large water containment areas have been overtopped and our own griff jenkins is at one of them. a griff jenkins is live for us. griff jenkins, are you there? to you for your live report now. >> that's right. just behind me, the reservoir is spilling over, it's never happened before. what it means is that the water is overtaking the immediate neighborhood some 3000-4,000 h

christi and brownsville. gusts over 40 at houston hobby. you can see the circulation right there. new orleans is now getting hammered with some heavy rain. there are some flash flood watches up for them and lake charles had about 10 inches of rain. it's moving into louisiana and points north but it is moving. as it moves further north, it was start to attach on to upper level winds and accelerates out of the picture. back at home, ones are going to cool down? it's chilly out in outer richmond. the coast in the bay will not be bad today. 60s and 70s. the inland temperatures will come down for many. the fog is making a push north and makes it to the venetian bridge. it's also filling in on the san jose and santa clara valley. we haven't onshore breeze in place. gusts up to 31. that will cool done areas toward vacaville. 50s and 60s for the temperatures. 59, belmont. 56, montero. union city, 59. woodside, 59. some high clouds may be coming in from the south of the san joaquin valley and santa clara valley in eastern contra costa. thunderstorms over the sierra. for us it will be cooler today. 93 or 97 is still hot but it's not 103 or 107. 60s, 70s, 80s. after tomorrow, which will be a little cool

christie, there could be isolated amounts here, up to 35 inches of rain, so catastrophic flooding is highly likely as it sits and spins for several days over texas. high pressure building in from the great lakes, weak little disturbance early this morning bringing with it some cloud, light sprinkles especially north and west toward lehigh valley, bucks county, sprinkle or two, southern central sections of delaware but not a big deal expecting a nice day. we have 67 in philadelphia lower 60's down the shore, take a look at dew point is still comfortable in the 50's for most. here's that forecast, cloud giving way to sun, center city 79 degrees, 77 in the lehigh valley. phillies forecast first pitch 7:05:76 degrees, nice, comfortable evening and then overnight lows look at this 52 r 60's in philadelphia, mid 40's in the poconos. so, a winning weekend temperatures both days topping out in the upper 70's, that seven day forecast showing you beautiful weather over next seven days actually, next best chance for rainfall widespread , not until later part of next week, back over to you. >>> 5:50. here we go carson wentz getting in on the action last night's game with the dolphins eagles beat miami 38

lake's they say has been breached. sadly, this is continuing. >> shannon: "happening now" starts right now. >> this is a fox news alert. air force one right now carrying president trump to corpus christi, texas, where he will begin to survey the devastation from tropical storm harvey. hello everybody, i'm holly line. >> looks like there's more devastation to be had. i'm leland vittert and for jon scott. the president is said to land in just over an hour as forecasters predict harvey will dump another foot of rain on southeastern texas and southwestern louisian louisiana. 14 people have been confirmed dead. that death toll is excited to rise in the floodwaters finally receded and the search can begin. that is not excited to happen anytime soon in houston where the addicks reservoir is reportedly now overflowing for the first time in history, that comes despite a controlled release of water yesterday aimed to prevent an overflow. president trump commending the work of crews and volunteers who have rescued thousands of peopl people. >> things are being handled really well. their spirit is incredible. the coordination of the different services, as you know, has been going very well. rate