scott padgett of ktvt. thanks. heavy rains next week could potentially whment troubled drainage system in new orleans. the city suffered devastating floods earlier this month when 17 of its drainage pumps failed to work after a severe downpour. 14 pumps are still offline tonight. hurricane harvey is the first natural disaster that president trump has faced. the president plans to visit texas next week, and his team wants to avoid the mistakes of the past. here's major garrett. >> reporter: as floodwater and desperation engulfed new orleans in the aftermath of hurricane katrina, the inept federal response was enclaspalated in this now-infamous remark from president george w. bush to then-fema director michael brown: >> and, brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. the fema director is working 24-- ( applause ) >> reporter: the failures of katrina haunt emergency planners to this day, so much so, white house homeland security adviser tom bossert felt compelled to say this today: >> now is not the time to lose faith in

meteorologist jeff jamison from our dallas station ktvt has the latest on this catastrophic storm. good morning, jeff. >> good morning. we're looking at the center of harvey, off to the southwest of the houston area. the heaviest of the rain early this morning has shifted east of houston, but there are still showers developing in and around the city. and that's going to continue to cause problems throughout the day today as rescue officials and other folks trying to get to folks who are in need. the heaviest rain is to the east of the houston area over toward beaumont. the movement will be slow. what has already fallen is almost historic at this point, well over, sometimes 25 inches of rain reported in southeast texas. additional rainfall throughout the day today and really for the rest of the week. you can see by tomorrow, or into wednesday, we're looking at an additional seven inches of rain in the houston area and by friday we're talking about almost an additional 12 inches. that's on top of what has already fallen there in southeast texas with this catastrophic flood as harvey

scott padgett, of ktvt. thanks. hurricane harvey is all too familiar for victims of hurricane katrina. michelle miller is in louisiana. >> reporter: we are headed toward lake charles, louisiana, about three hours east of houston. it is bracing itself as tropical storm harvey should make landfall tomorrow morning. the rain in lake charles has been steady the last four days, but last night it became dangerous. nearly 200 residents were forced to evacuate, some 600 national guardsmen here have been put on harvey duty. now, remember that hurricane katrina did not impact this region, tenitugus'st and speaking of katrina, this is the 12th anniversary of that horrific storm, and as harvey moves its way east, new orleans is in its path. that city is without 12 of its drainage pumps. anthony. >> mason: michelle miller in louisiana. thanks. and coming up next on the "cbs evening news," president trump warns north korea after firing a ballistic missile over japan. it's been month after month of fiber. weeks taking probiotics!

anthony. >> mason: scott padgett of ktvt. thanks. now to the political storm in washington that pits the president against fellow republicans. in a tweet today the president said, "the only problem i have with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is that after hearing repeal and replace obamacare for seven years, he failed." but that was not the only problem. the president also complained that mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan failed to link legislation to raise the debt ceiling to a popular veterans' bill. that bill passed. the president said, "could have been easy. now a mess." in syria, u.s.-backed forces are tightening the noose around isis in raqqa, which the terror group considers its capital. as isis loses ground, today it used a young child for propaganda to threaten the u.s. here's holly williams. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in its latest propaganda video, isis claims this boy is american. the 10-year-old son of one of its fighters, living in raqqa, the so-called isis capital in syria. now being hammered by u.s. coalition air str

let's go back to scott padgett, the chief meteorologist at ktvt our cbs station in dallas, fort worth. where is the storm now? >> reporter: the storm unfortunately is out over really warm gulf waters. as you look that set of circulation, water temperatures of 86 to 87, those water temperatures about two degrees above normal and the warm water is about 300 to 400 feet deep, fuel for this heavy rain that continues to fall over houston, over the galveston area, continuing into surrounding counties and into parts of louisiana. so look at these rainfall totals by county over the last 72 hours. harris county where the houston area is, more than 34 inches. liberty county, 39 inches of rain. so we are continuing to see that rain add up and it is out over the open water and will continue to pull its way out over the open water and northeast in the mississippi valley by the end of the week. >> mason: unreal rainfall, scott. also another storm now threatening the east coast? >> reporter: yeah, there is another tropical system threatening the east coast, tropical storm watches and warnings in eff

meteorologist jeff jamison of our dallas station ktvt has the latest on tropical storm harvey. good morning, jeff. >> good morning. still incredible that we're still talking about harvey as a tropical storm, still over the open waters of the gulf of mexico, but slowly today pushing toward southwest louisiana. should make landfall later this morning in cameron parish, just to the southeast of beaumont, where we have been looking at torrential rains all through the overnight hours, more than 20 inches of rain in beaumont, port you can see as we get a closer look at the radar, how the rain spins in the same areas and the colors of orange and red indicate where that really heavy rain is falling along i-10 between beaumont and lake charles. in houston, things are slowly drying out. a few sprinkles this morning and that's certainly good news. tropical storm warnings are in effect for the houston area through the coast of louisiana. we do expect to see that landfall from harvey, another u.s. landfall, coming up later on this morning, probably closer to 7:00 or 8:00 local time near cam

scott padgett is chief meteorologist at ktvt, our tv station in dallas, fort worth. what have you learned? >> reporter: that harvey has gained strength and the unfortunate thing is that harvey is out over the open water right now drifting to the east southeast at three miles per hour and will be out over the open water through the night, through the morning and even through tuesday afternoon, even closer towards wednesday morning. by wednesday afternoon, then making another landfall right near probably parts of beaumont and pushing inland as a tropical storm and thursday and friday into the mississippi river valley and downgrading to a tropical low. but a lot of rain is falling in parts of houston, galveston and that spreads into southwest louisiana and even to near new orleans. i sampled the rainfall rates, anywhere from half of an inch to inch half of rain per hour adding more rain on top of the 72 hour storm totals, we are going to continue to see another possibly 15 inches in houston by the time we go to wednesday, thursday, and norah, we will continue to see the

scott padgett, ktvt. thank you very much. nearly every major road in the houston area are closed due to flooding including major interstates. streets in downtown houston have been turned into rivers. mark strassmann is there now. mark, how do things look now? >> well, the rain just picked up again, elaine, in the last ten minutes, really started coming down hard. standing on i 45 again. this is for folks who don't know, i 45 goes will you the city, nobody can go through past because of the water. people have been walking. they were at th the mayweather fight at a friend's house last night. >> we have been walking an hour. >> reporter: what are you trying to do? >> to get to a place on the other side of this because my dog is there. >> reporter: you're worried about the dog. >> water got to the first floor of the apartment flex. we want to get to him. we didn't mean to leave him. we didn't think i would get this bad. >> reporter: so you walked how long, about four miles? >> yeah, through u. of h.'s campus and hopped on 45 and

scott padgett is chief meteorologist at ktvt, our cbs station in dallas/fort worth. scott, we've still got a long way to go with harvey. >> we look at what's happening. harvey is still a tropical storm. i see dry area pulled into this storm, feed are bands pulled in. my concern is overnight tonight, into tomorrow, getting closer to open water and the latest forecast has that out over open water strengthening a little bit, houston wednesday into thursday as a tropical storm, then downgrading into a tropical depression, into louisiana and arkansas. near galveston, near beau beaumont, as you take a look, we'll continue to see the rain really piling up. the estimated radar for past 48 hours, look at this. anywhere from 20 to 28 inches in this part of lagrange area, a foot to 15 inches of rain by thursday and friday. this is already a storm that is in the record books. we might see the most rain ever from a tropical system from tropical storm harvey as we go through next few days. mark? >> strassman: thank you, scott. american red cross volunteers from across the country

scott padgett is chief meteorologist add ktvt, our cbs station in dallas-fort worth. scott, where is it headed? >> it's headed to the north-northeast, picking up a little bit of forward speed and look at the radar image, a little glimmer of hope is on the west side of harris county just west of houston drying out. these rainful rates you see in the light-green color, about a tenth of an inch of rain per hour. heavy rain is just off to the east. near beaumont, rainfall rates of about two inches of rain per hour. the dry air getting pulled into harvey. harvey is pushing its way slowly to the north and northeast but the tropical storm warnings remain in effect through parts of lose, port arthur, near morgan city. the forecast track has harvey making a third landfall by later on tonight into the early morning hours as a tropical storm. then, downgrading to a tropical depression and tropical low into parts of kentucky and tennessee. near port arthur and possibly near lake to six inches of rain. even alexandria and monroe could see flooding rains as we go through the next c

worth station ktvt is tracking the storm once again.ning, harry still a tropical storm. the heaviest rain is on the west side of the storm all morning pounding port arthur and beaumont. right now still has winds around 45 miles per hour near the senor of the storm. it will continue to move into central louisiana by this evening and finally weaken into a tropical depression tomorrow morning and continue it's push into kentucky and tennessee by the end of the week. but it will be dumping a lot of rain. through louisiana 5 to 10 more inches of rain possible and we'll see those rainfalls pile up tomorrow and in on friday. this is on top of the incredible rain amounts we have already seen. houston 37 inches of rain. that record at bay town of 52 inches. we go to add more of that in beaumont. >> thank you. as you can see the rain that already fell on houston is not going away. officials say it will take weeks to dry out. the city is now under an overnight curfew after reports of scattered looting at least 11 deaths are now being blamed on har

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worth station ktvt is tracking the storm once again.ey, good morning to you, yes. houston is dry this morning. certainly good news for those folks, b is in beaumont, port arthur, some picked up 40, 50 inches of rain. the center of circulation is just to the west of lake charles, louisiana. this storm will continue to move northly it the state of louisiana during the day today. additional five to ten inches of rain is possible across far east texas and western louisiana. and then that storm will weaken as it moves towards tennessee by friday. heavy rain in that part of the country as well. take a look at some of the different bayous in houston. even though the rain has stopped. some of the different creeks and bayous still have not reached their crest. today we expect cypress creek to reach a crest of 94 feet. that's a new record. the good news is by monday, it does drop below flood stage, but depending how much water is upstream and downstream, some of the bayous are going to stay at record flood stage through next week, including buffa

tonight harvey on the move meteorologist at ktvt, our station in dallas fort worth.where is it headed? >> north-northeast. a glimmer of hope is on the west side. west of houston. drying out. rainfall rates you see in the light green color. .10 inch of rain per hour. heavy rain to the east. per hour. look at the dry air getting pulled into harvey. harvey, reaching towards north, northeast. the tropical storm warnings remain in effect through parts of louisiana, port arthur, near morgan city. the forecast track has harvey making a third landfall by later on tonight into the early morning hours. a tropical storm, then, downgrading to a tropical depression. and tropical low, kentucky, tennessee by the weekend. how much rain in addition? near port arthur, and lake charles, another 7 to 6 inches of rain. alexandria, monroe can see flooding rains as we go through dates. harvey a thing of past, of the system. we go through the end of the week. >> thanks. harvey's catastrophic flooding all too familiar for victims of hurricane katrina. tonight -- disaster threatens parts of l