bill karins for us. some of the video we've been getting in from people experiencing the def stabs station firsthand. this is video from someone who flew a drone around the hughes on area. it shows the breadth of the flooding, at least one case water lapping at the bottom of the overpass. the governor says at least 250 roads completely covered in that state and have been closed. unbelievable footage of the highways that look like lakes and rivers. the only way you can see it's a highway is because of the exit side. >> sometimes when you see pictures of vehicles driving, but that perspective from above gives a sense that it's not just one street. >> there's a couple times i had to look at a perk tour and do a double take, is a river or an actual street. >> the two airports in houston have been closed. yesterday afternoon at the bush continental -- bush reported some water airport, javy airport reports some runways closed. more than 900 passengers had were stranded. >> a news station, people you rely on to

bill karins for you, thank you. >>> it really is just unbelievable.is is video marco who flew a drone yesterday around the houston area and shows some of the breadth of the flooding and in at least one case of water lapping at the bottom of highway overpasses. the governor has said around 250 roads and highways in the state have been closed because of those floodwaters. >>> cbs houston affiliate has been forced to racket is their studio due to extreme flooding from the area known as buffalo bayou, located just across the street from them. the believe had to be completely evacuated as the floodwaters continued to rise and inundate that facility. just look at those images there. good news, though. the station is back on the air. right now the american red cross has 34 shelters open in texas for those impacted by the storm. can you make a donation to those in need by texting 999 ar visit red cross.org to make a donation as well. >> that's a question on a lot of people's minds. we'll have some answers for folks. >> important to go to organizations like th

let's bring in bill karins.hat more have we learned about this statement from the national weather service. >> well, the storm made landfall. that, we expected. it's going to move on shore. that's not an issue. i've got to show you these pictures. we just cleared these pictures. it's happening right now in port aurth thur, texas, south of beaumont. this here is the evacuation center. this is one to two feet of water in the sink center. notice where the people are, nobody is on the cots, everybody is up here on the bleachers. all of these people are waiting to be rescued. the water is one to two feet in the sink center. we've got a couple images here. some of the people decided they didn't care, they're on the cots sleeping in about a foot of water. this is happening now until port arthur because of tremendous amounts of rain. now, we've got video that we want to show you, there's in the sink center. people had to evacuate their homes, maybe under mandatory evacuatio evacuations, maybe they decided to be safe. po

bill karins joins us now. give us the latest. >> the headline is the new update from the nshl hurricane center have this making landfall as a category three hurricane tomorrow night. sandy had the storm surge but it was only a category one. what happened overnight. this is the advicible imagery, these are every one minute getting these in. you can see the bubbling cloud tops and thunderstorm updrafts throwing moisture up into the atmosphere. that's the top of the clouds. if you look in here, that's where the eye will clear out. the hurricane on aircraft have been driving through this all morning long and found a closed eye. we have a strengthening storm system. it's amazing the imagery here, all of this is bad news for the south texas coast. should become a hurricane this afternoon and continue to strengthen as it makes its approach towards the corpus christi area -- >> bill, when we look at that image, it almost looks like there are four separate eyes to the beast. >> this is going to end up being the central

bill karins has been following it all hour for us.. >> overnight, we didn't see any big changes. slowly intensifying, as we expected. so we're still watching the eye. this is where the center of the hurricane force winds are. that's the strongest winds. where we get wind damage is where this comes onshore later tonight. the rain bands are expected to fill in closely here for the coastal areas. on satellite imagery, still looks very impressive. at 105-mile-per-hour winds. went up to a strong category 2. 10 more miles per hour, and we'll have a major category 3. the forecast does call for that by about 1:00 p.m. this evening, 120 miles per hour winds, landfall around 10:00 p.m. this evening. the cone of uncertainty still does inside corpus christi, but we've had that center line to the right of them for a while. that would be the weaker edge of the storm. we're hoping that happens, but if it shifts to the south, they could get the direct hit in corpus christi. we'll watch that. and victoria still going to get hit hard, too. not only rai

we'll check in with bill karins about what rescue crews can expect today. korea fires a ballistic missile through japanese airspace while the trump administration is occupied back home and a

karine, let me start with you. saturday, there has been a lot going on and it seems like a big moment. what does this tell us about who we are as americans in 2017 and where we are as a nation. >> right, there's clearly no secret that this country has struggled with racism for many, many decades, right? it is a dark, troubling history of ours and, so, the difference is that most presidents have been on both sides of the aisle, when it comes to a scenario like this, they would have tried really hard to bring the country together. now, i have not agreed with both sides of the aisle, either democratic or republican presidents, on how they've dealt with race, but they come from a place, usually, where they feel like the country needs to come together, we have to do all that we can. what we've seen in the last four days is the complete opposite of that. we've seen a president who has been on the side of nazis, white supremacists, and others and not those fighting and standing against that. >> yang: chris, she says the p

florida every year a double waterspout like this is pretty rare. >> now nbc's meteorologist bill karins has more on the powerful hurricane threatening the gulf coast. >> we'll be talking about this storm a week from now. an ultra marathon of a hurricane. so the storm surge, this is going to be tonight and a little bit tomorrow. we have storm surge warnings that consist of much of the texas coastline. five to seven foot storm surge, 6 to 12 feet is possible. that's enough to do some significant damage. less up near the galveston area. we'll talk about the long range foreca all through the intermountain west. and everyone is hoping and wondering where fall is at this point. so i'll just tease it up to say that our european long range computer model i'm going to show you later makes more than one landfall in the next week. >> what? >> i have to feel for everybody out there and for you too because you'll be covering it all. thank you. >>> all right. these very guys got a chance at a new home. 200 dogs were airlifted from puerto rico to be put up for adoption in the u.s. puerto rican shelter

bill karins we'll check in with you throughout the day. this storm is coming. while bill karins is covering the cone of uncertainty, i'm going to come back and talk to you about the cone of gary. top white house economic adviser gary cohn speaking out over charlottesville, urging the administration to do more to condemn neo-nazis and white supremacists. this is the first we've seen a senior white house administration official speaking out, speaking against the president's remarks. his response to charlottesville. >>> before we go, weekend update summer edition brought back alec baldwin as president trump. he just couldn't resist. remember the president's afghanistan speech on monday? well, he had some good news. >> first off, last night i solved afghanistan. solved! i sat down with our military, we looked at the map and i asked the hard questions like which one is afghanistan. is that blue thing an ocean. we're doing so much. ♪ ♪ the all-new volkswagen tiguan with available pedestrian monitoring. the new king of the concrete jungle. whoo! testis this thing on?!

i want to bring bill karins in. this corroborates about things being worse off -- >> pam, do we still have you on the line? >> yes. >> how many people made it from the civic center to the bowling alley? >> i don't know if anybody came from the civic center. i heard that there's people still at the civic center. >> that was -- that's the pictures we had shown with people in the bleachers and 2 to 3 feet of water on the ground. >> right, we were supposed to go there but they got to -- the water got too high and couldn't make it. >> now your mayor had said the entire city is flooded which we didn't know if it was a general statement or if it really was the entire city. from everyone you're talking to in the bowling alley, how many areas are not flooded in port arthur? >> i don't know if there's any that's not flooded. i mean, every one i have talked to that i know has water in their house. >> and it's about 60,000 people correct live in port arthur? >> approximately, yes. >> and do you know from talking to your friends

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bill karins has the latest.ground there where rescues are still happening. >> obviously, mika, the front pages of all the newspapers talking about the catastrophe that has happened. and continues to happen. bill karins told us that they were spared a little bit last night, didn't get quite the rain they were expecting, but the scenes really are epic out of houston, texas, and we are certainly hoping this morning the response on all levels is effective. and so far it seems that way. >> the president will travel there on tuesday and so far the federal response and disaster declaration has been praised as being well coordinated. is the president's attention divided. over the weekend he unleashed a flurry of tweets that had nothing to do with one of the most violent storms to come ashore in years. there are hopes for relief this morning with houston, the nation's fourth most populated city under water, and much of southern texas swamped as well. let's get the latest. two people dead. 290,000 waking up without electr

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we turn to karine jean-pierre.'s a senior adviser to moveon.org, a contributing editor to "bustle," an online women's magazine, and a veteran of the obama administration. and matt schlapp, he's the chairman of the american conservative union and the former white house political director under president george w. bush. and it's great to see you both with us again. thank you very much. matt, i want to come to you first. the president is talking unity today in that speech that he gave in nevada. but last night-- >> yeah. >> woodruff: it was a raucous call. he was defending the way he handled charlottesville. i was just talking to congressman hurd about it. his supporters in the audience loved it, but a lot of people who were listening say they were concerned about what they heard. how did you hear it? >> yeah, i think that's what's going on in our politics and it's been going on for, i think, for too long. but we're in our corners. the nation is are very divided plecht has never been more left, and the right has never

bill karins is here with more on harvey and where it's we're starting to see the storm intensifying as we would expect. a lot of thunderstorms underneath the center. winds at 45 miles per hour, so a low-end tropical storm. and we have that forecast having it heading into south texas. we do not think it's going to escape easily up to the north. friday at 7:00 p.m., still off the coastline, if there is going to be an official landfall, it appears to be overnight into early tuesday morning. and then here is the big issue. look what happens. as we go throughout the entire weekend into monday, it could just stall and stay over the top of south florida. that would be a huge threat of fresh water flooding and river flooding throughout that area. so again, we don't want to see the storm intensify. it only has about 48 hours left to get stronger. we need to keep it weaker. we don't want to deal with wind problems. >> bill, thank you. >>> now we have a single winner of the record setting $758 million powerball jackpot. blake, what do we know about the winning ticket? >> it's not us. >> obviously

bill karins remains in the weather center for us. bill, i assume now that we've reached landfall that everything is kind of the same strength it was couple minutes ago? >> yeah. we were just -- you kind of wait for it to weaken a little bit. it's just barely on shore. it was strengthening as it went on shore. it takes longer for it to wind down and the frick shotional component to take the oomph out of it. the bright reds in the thunderstorms will go down and the eye will dissipate. here's a closer-up radar view of the storm. rockport is one we've heard the worst of it. they're in the eye. light breezy conditions and pressure is about as low as they've been reporting. a couple of hurricane chasers in there. i can say there have been structural damage in the rockport area. the city manager confirms that one building has collapsed. there are people trapped. to get to the people at this time. because they're still very close to the eyewall. that's a developing situation there in the rockport area. because the storm chasers. figure it ou

bill karins with the details. "early today" starts right now. i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. >>> breaking news, early out of afghanistan, a suicide bomb attack on a nato convoy near the city of kandahar has happened. casualties but no word yet of how many. so far no claim of responsibility. keep it here on nbc news. and on nbc news.com for any developments on this. >>> a developing story overnight has universities on edge after "new york times" and other outlets reported president trump is expected his department of justice to take on affirmative action in college admissions. the paper of record will redirect resources from doj civil rights department to investigate and ultimately sue universities. it's a dramatic and unforeseen move and to get a sense of it all, we're joined now by nbc's tracie potts. >> reporter: the trump administration wants to go after discrimination against white students applying to colleges and universities. "the new york times" got an internal memo saying they want lawyers for a new project, targeting schools

. >>> getting a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins.. >> good morning. all eyes on texas we have our tropical system that will likely become tropical storm harvey later on today and it's heading straight for texas, possibly lingering right through the weekend with automatic lot of water problems. yesterday it was over the yucatan. now, it's over the warm waters of the gulf. now, we're going to wait and see how quickly it will get organized. we want it to not be organized. we know we will have to deal with a strong storm effect. 48 hours over warmer waters to try to get stronger. this is why we are concerned. these are spaghetti lines we call them our different computer models show us where the storms will go. it still can be south texas, south houston, all pinpointing along the texas come friday afternoon. and then it kind of lingers and loops in houston. we all know how flood-prone houston is this is like a nightmare forecast for that region. 100% chance of it becoming a tropical system in the hurricane center. 90% in the next two days

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meteorologist bill karins with the details. >> and could this be the catch of the year so far? whoa. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm phillip mena. >> thanks for starting your morning early with us. authorities capture the last remaining inmate from sunday night's jail break in alabama. officers arrested brady kilpatrick, one of 12 inmates who escaped the lockup by using peanut but thor to trick a guard. he was found in st. maarten, florida, through a coordination between florida and alabama. his 18-year-old sister was also arrested along with her fiance and another family friend. authorities say the couple helped transport kilpatrick from alabama to florida and now facing criminal charges in both states. >> the head of the dea is making a startling rebuke of the president today following mr. trump's controversial comments last week seemingly condoning police violence. take a listen. >> when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you see them thrown in rough, i said please don't be too nice. like when you guys put somebody in the c

bill karins forecast is just ahead. first let's to my co-anchor phillip mena who is in houston right now. what have you experienced so far? >> hey, frances, good morning. i was hoping to talk to you in front of a camera this morning, but the road closures from all of this flooding made that impossible to meet up with the crew. so, right now i am in the northwest part of town. i was coming from dallas taking the main freeway which is the i-45 and by the time we got to houston, roads were closed in all directions so essentially whatever part of houston you're in is quickly becoming an island as the waters continue to just wreak havoc on the roadways here. that is to speak nothing of like what you saw the rescues that have been going on. 25 inches of rain in certain parts here, just over the weekend, has just completely drowned out the city. you mentioned the dams at the beginning of the show. that is the major concern right now. there are two major dams that protect the city of houston. they flow through the city. and the

bill karins will bring us those developments in a little bit.or now, i want to go to galveston island where sara has been keeping track of the storm and the impact so far. sara. >> well, hi there, francis. galveston is expecting high tide later this morning and they don't expect water levels to drop for two to three more days after that. the mayor has issued a voluntary evacuation for the west and of the island. these are low-lying areas that are very flood -- very flood prone. they did the best they could leading up to the hurricane, cleaning up storm drains and such, but still, they are expecting problems. they've canceled schools in the area in advance at least through wednesday. meanwhile, the port of galveston remains closed. we know of about 20,000 cruise ship passengers who currently cannot dock here in galveston. we know who ships are waiting out at sea for conditions to improve. at least one has chosen to stay in mexico until conditions permit them to return. so everybody waiting and watching here in galveston as the sun begins to come

msnbc meteorologist bill karins. >> houston is quickly becoming the story of the day. you can see behind you, this is the wide radar view of the storm. the center of the storm near victoria. that's weakening quickly. look towards the houston area, that's the outer feeder ban that has the lightning strikes there. wherever that feeder band sets up, it will stay over those areas throughout the day today. that's where the great concern is. houston stays in this feeder band all day long, getting this torrential rainfall, they're already under a flash flood warning. this is the six that's going to happen the next couple days. if houston starts off like this, that sets us back even more. >> look at the dark lines there, that's hard core rain and all hitting houston. >> we color riize this to show intensity. the green is where it's light drizzly type rain, the yellow is moderate, sorng a steady rain. where you get the red, that's torrential thunderstorm-type rain. that's what's over the top of houston right now. that's the worst of it. i'll look at the maps to give you the upd

bill karins is here with more on harvey and where it's strengthening now. >> good morning. the storm is more symmetrical and over the top of the warm water now. all the check marks are going off for the possibility of rapid intensification. there's a new airplane heading into it. the last update was 45 miles per hour. and i'm sure it's going to get it to 60 miles per hour. the hurricane center thinks it will get hurricane strength in th 24 hours or so. after that the issue will be a stalled system and an epic amount of rainfall from the south portions of texas possibly into even louisiana. we'll deal with the storm surge and winds in about 36 hours from now and a rainfall problem until next week. a lot of models are pinpointing corp. mi corpus christi. hurricane warnings have been issued to about south texas. the situation had been serious and now it's even more. >> all right, bill, thank you. >>> now breaking millionaire news. we have a single winner of the record setting $758 million powerball jackpot. blake mccoy is here this morning. blake, what do we know about the win

joining me once again in the studio, bill karins. before we do that, galveston, i was surprised seeing people driving on the road. >> some of the areas, it has a little elevation. if it's just raining, they're okay. no storm surge really anymore for them. they're okay with that stuff. the thing they do have an issue with is the possibility of tornadoes. they're in some of that banding that's going to be there. i want to go to a wide view of the storm. this is now not going to move much. i could show you this image two days from now and it will be located in this same spot. zooming in on the houston area, the feeder band on the outside of this is very strong this morning, centered right over the top of downtown houston. if the storm doesn't move, the feeder band doesn't move, we call it training. if these storms train over the houston area for two or three days, this is when we can get epic rainfall totals. i want to head back over to the weather maps. i was hesitating to show this. it was a more reliable weather map. our european lon

i want to turn to bill karins who is standing by with the latest on the storm. we've had four days of extreme weather in that area. hoping for some relief in sight. >> reporter: good morning. this scene continues to unfold. we continue to have pouring rain in the flood zone. flash flood warnings continue. as we start to get heavy bandings of rain in heavy louisiana, the flooding the worst in and around the houston area. that's where the heaviest torrential rains overnight continue. look at the radar. continues to bring bands in from the east heading to the west. the heaviest stuff is set up from houston to beaumont to a little lighter heading toward sugarland. that's where the heavy rain was last night. we've already added another 10 inches from the heavy rainfall totals we had from last weekend. i'm going to show you rainfall totals. these are off the charts. look at webster. we're closing in on four feet of rain to the southeast of downtown houston. south houston almost to 42 inches in downtown. we're almost at three feet of rain. these rainfall totals are jus

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i want to start with our nbc meteorologist bill karins.was here with us last night and again this morning. you just got the first advisory? >> just as hopeless and life threatening for areas like victoria, texas. it hasn't changed. it's category 1. 75 miles per hour. the important thing to note, look at the movement. it's now moving to the north at 2 miles per hour. we walk on average as humans at 3 miles per hour. this thing is just barely drifting about 25 miles west of victoria. we want to get to the forecast path. this is going to cause the problems out there in the days ahead. and here it is. the new forecast path from the national hurricane center. west of victoria with a category 1. weakens to a tropical storm as it drifts toward san antonio. stops tomorrow. comes back down to the south, and then as a tropical depression still then heads back to the north. that would be thursday at 11:00 a.m. it doesn't matter what the intensity is for rainfall as long as there's a tropical system to suck the moisture off the gulf and put rain down,

. >>> let's get a check on nbc meteorologist bill karins.l, kansas and nebraska pummeled with severe weather. and all of that bad weather is making its way our way. >> for friday afternoon. we'll get to that in a second. good morning to you, louis. you can see the lightning strikes down in kansas. so, this mess has to head east over the next two or three days. for today, we do have a slight risk of severe weather, 4.5 million in kansas city area, des moines, aims, back down to wichita, definitely large hail and wind with the storms. let's track these the next coming of days to make your plans. this is 10:00 a.m., hit and miss. then the storms form later on the front, 7:00 p.m. this is where the storms will be for northern oklahoma right to central portions of iowa. central minnesota this is more heavy rain for you. then we take this from wednesday. overnight, might get a straight strom into chicago. thursday afternoon, we do it again. cincinnati, back down to paducah, into areas around cleveland. then by friday afternoon, this whole mess mak

>>>let get a check on the weather with meteorologist bill karins.cal storm emily is exiting as quickly as it came. and it's time to turn up the a/c units in the pacific northwest. >> if they have them. they're not used to these heat waves. emily is leaving. it's off the space coast. you can see the spin out here. that's done. there will be a few showers and storms out the the day in south florida. some of the trailing bands. the flood threat is over with. the new forecast takes it off the coast. we're done with emily. didn't cause problems. there was street flooting in florida. that was it. we have had a couple of impressive heat waves. phoenix had one elier this summer. the midwest was impressive. this one in the northwest will top them all. we have had some record highs. we haven't had monthly highs or all-time record highs set this summer. we have chance. breaking records, salem, medford, eureka. as we get into tomorrow, we have a chance for all-time record highs. this is as long as these low cases have been recording temp which a churs. this wil

let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins.ill, scary day in houston, texas, today where we're expecting some flash flooding. >> yeah. it's actually occurring now, lewis. overnight we started dealing with some torrential rain and thunderstorms, and they have now sat over the hoouts area. houston is flood-prone. very flat areas. a lot of the highways and going down dip underneath the underpasses, and those flood too. the entire houston city from the northern portions to the west is where the worst of it has been. starting to let up a little bit now. there will be a problem on the roadways early today. as far as the radar goes, this stalled front through mississippi, alabama, back through the carolinas, still rain left over this morning in between richmond and norfolk. any of these locations this afternoon have a chance of getting additional flash flooding. a lot of moisture in the atmosphere, and that front is stalled out. our rainfall forecast, this goes out through the next two days after thursday. it does show you the two to

back with us now nbc meteorologist bill karins. what can you tell us about the conditions?> i'm finally happy to say i don't have any breaking new news that's happened overnight. there's no reports of any new levees or dams that have broken or anything like that. that's a good start. we've had showers overnight. they're heading towards 50 inches of rain, which is insane. this extends northward into southern missouri. we have a threat of thunderstorms and even isolated tornadoes in alabama and georgia. we still could get some problems. we did have two tornadoes yesterday. one did damage a bunch of roof tops. flash flood watches are up for 12 million people, snowflaking up the mississippi here, and then it heads through the western half of tennessee and a good chunk of kentucky. again, memphis is the concern. later this evening we're expecting heavy rain to develop. once you get up here in to the blue, that's two inches of rain. when you get to three inches, the river and the small streams start going up quickly. when you get to the five enchz of rain, that's when you start t

let's get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins.could be a record-setting day in the pacific northwest. >> i don't see how we avoid it. we should break numerous records. i think thursday is going to be the hottest day but today is going to be close to it. california, prolonged heat over 100. heat warnings through sacramento through the redding area. excessive warnings from medford, eugene, portland and seattle. all-time records. let's show you how warm it's going to be with the dangerous heat. for today, the one city we're going to watch all time hottest temperature, salem, oregon. never been 110 in recorded human history. 108, i think we'll break that one. thursday, portland, forecast having 106. the all time hottest is 107. thursday, seattle hits 98 degrees. it's going to be close, they have a chance of getting up to 100. some relief for the upcoming weekend. this is very hot still, saturday, 95. redding you go from 114 down to 102. so it's a little more bearablbe. with all of the heat in the midwest, a shot of heat is coming down

let's get a check on weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins.me bad weather hitting oklahoma today and also some cool weather heading to the northeast just in time for the weekend. >> yeah, no, we haven't had a lot of dry summer weekends in the northeast. first, here are the storms in larimer county, colorado. these produced tennis ball size hail, and this tree didn't have a chance. it was just leaf-stripping hail that came down. look at some of the splashes in the water. that's how you can tell kind of the size of that hail. pretty impressive stuff. a lot of clean-up out there today. let's get into the forecast. oklahoma, not a fun morning. i'm sure there's more than one person watching us early today. those thunderstorms woke everyone up over the last couple of hours. oklahoma city, the thunder is over for you, and the lightning. these are moving now towards eastern portions of the state. there are also scattered storms through kansas and missouri. we have ten million people under flash flood watches. almost the entire state of oklahoma, south

karine, we are just about out of time, that has caused a lot of push back. president saying don't worry about the suspects when you shove them into the car, don't worry about their heads. >> it's very troubling and concerning what president said. he has to understand as long as he's in the oval office his words are going to have a the love weight. if you've been watching donald trump for the last two years, for decades, you know that he was not joking. you know that he was very serious about what he was saying. >> woodruff: all right, we're going to have to leave it there, karine jean-pierre, barry bennett thank you. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: now, what do you do when your job changes, but you don't agree with the change? for one government scientist, it forced him into the role of a reluctant whistleblower. william brangham has our conversation. >> recently, joel clement had been working as a senior policy official in the department of interior. his work included the arctic and the draws climate change posed. but in june, he was reassigned, along with se

thank you, again. >>> i want to go now to bill karins. let me pick up where the deputy sheriff left off. they're hoping and praying this tropical storm moves out so they won't get more of the torrential rain that stephanie gosk ref rensed. how much longer do they have to hold out? >> not much longer. here's the beaumont area. houston cleared out last night. no rain whatsoever on the way to beaumont. this is the last bands. the center of the storm now starting to move up here north of lake charles and eventually this afternoon it will pull this huge rain shield away with it. it's still pouring. i'm glad we have stephanie gosk driving through the small towns north of i-o10 here in this region. these little small towns have the same stories as all the big cities do. i'm glad she's out there witnessing some of the rescues in the small towns. i want to update you what happened in beaumont last night. it's unimaginable. the rainfall that fell in the last 30 hours in beaumont was actually heavier than what fell in the houston area saturday night

let's get a check on your weather with bill karins. south texas is bracing for tropical storm harvey, which will soon be hurricane harvey. >> yeah. 36 hours ago for preparations in south texas. i saw pictures and all of the stories yesterday. month water on the shefls. they're taking it seriously, and they should. they know storms over the gulf of mexico can easily surprise us and intensify quickly. that's one of the concerns we have. it was very disorganized yesterday. overnight look at all the bright red just popping up. it's starting to grow in size and intensity. hurricane under aircraft. our men and women are out there flying through the center. they're actually finding the pressure is dropping, which means the storm is strengthening. the new update from hurricane center came out about ten minutes ago, and now we have hurricane warnings here from port mansfield northfield and the corpus christi area, and just to the east of victoria. we have tropical storm warnings that are now up around galveston and galveston bay and also all th

. >> bill karins, our meteorologist here, wants to ask you a question. >> >> reporter: sure. >> when you talk to these people, they could be looking at water like that on their street for four or five days in a row. it doesn't look like they can drive on that street. are these people aware of that? >> reporter: yeah. what they have done. somebody is coming down the street. we know that right now this street is about under a foot of water. and people with four-wheel drive like that car, like the car that we're in right now may be able to make it but that's how it is right now after the first bands have passed over. we don't know what it's going to look like in three or four hours after consistent rain like this, let alone three or four days. so what the neighbors here have done, if you notice, most of these homes do not have cars in front of them. they have parked their cars upland over by a car wash and they're protected from the elements. but they all know they'll have to wade to their cars to get to work. and again, these are some of these areas where emergency officials are consid

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unhitching boats and sending them in while you were figuring out what was going on, we brought bill karins in and looked at the road from which the boats are coming in. that is a massive neighborhood in there next to the reservoir to the north of it. it is huge. there looked to be many hundreds of houses in there, bill is concerned this could go on for many, many hours considering this was not a neighborhood that was expected to flood and perhaps may have been contributed to by the overspilling of the addicks reservoir. >> that's exactly right. you see those families being brought in over here and put in the suvs and taken to those shelters nearby, including c cincho ranch high school. you see another boat -- two boats coming in the distance. this is a neighborhood that is quite large, suburban houston, population here is just overwhelming and any one of these subdivisions, and they have hundreds of homes and thousands of people. and if this is just getting under way or at least the water rescues here according to one of the constabls started at 6:00 this morning. this has the potential to

reporter karin caifa (kay-fuh) explains how the calm response comes despite the absense of a permanent security secretary. warnings, preparations and evacuations -- along the texas coast, as hurricane harvey moves closer."bottled water, flashlights, generator..."the white house said the president is monitoring the weather situation, and a message on his twitter account thursday urged those in the storm region to plan ahead.the president will weather the storm without a permanent head of homeland security. former secretary john kelly, is now his chief of staff.white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders downplayed concerns about the administration's readiness, expressed confidence in the department's acting secretary, and said kelly's new role, will be an asset.sarah huckabee sanders/white house press secretary: "i think that we are in great shape having general kelly sitting next to the president throughout this process, and probably no better chief of staff for the president during the hurricane season."harvey's powerful winds are a major concern, as is flooding. harvey has bee

reporter karin caifa has the latest on the escalating exchanges between pyongyang and washington.pkg) pres. donald trump: what they've been doing and what they've been getting away with is a tragedy and cannot be allowed.president trump meeting with top national security advisers thursday -- as north korea steps up threats.state media there says a plan to fire four missiles near the u-s island territory of guam -- home to two u-s military bases -- could be ready for review by leader kim jong un in days.as of thursday morning, u-s defense officials said there were no indications of any imminent launch activity by north korea. but some worry about president trump's language -- versus the unpredictable kim jong un. after president trump promised fire and fury tuesday, secretary of state rex tillerson took a calmer approach -- leading some to accuse the white house of mixed messaging.the president's own party is split on his approach -- republican congressman lee zeldin of new york, saying he's not comfortable with it. rep. lee zeldin/-r- new york: i don't believe that we should actua

karin caifa has the latest, from washington.eels of a missile launch that north korea's state media boasted was a "prelude to containing' the u-s territory of guam -- president trump signaled wednesday, he's tired of talk -- tweeting --the u.s. has been talking to north korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. talking is not the answer!trump's response to north korea's latest launch -- which was condemned by the u-n security council -- seems to split with his defense chief, and his top diplomat.appearing with his south korean counterpart wednesday --defense secretary james mattis was asked if the u-s was out of diplomatic means to deal with pyongyang. mattis said -- never.james mattis/ defense secretary: no, we are never out of diplomatic solutions, we continue to work together and the minister and i share a responsibility to provide for the protection of our nations, our populations and our interests.mattis' remarks -- at odds with the president, but in line with the approach secretary of state rex tillerson descri