here in port lavaca, the entire town that we could see did evacuate. i've never seen a town that evacuated because of this. it is so susceptible to storm surge. we've had 8 to 10 feet of it. this pool filled up with salt water and all sorts of debris. you see parts of this wall collapsing too. this is the only really substantial structure on high ground in port lavaca so it was a good place to ride out this storm, but authorities are not going to go out and really assess until these winds die down. so that's not going to be for a few hours, and even then there's going to be a lot of debris on the roadways for officials and first responders to see if everybody is okay in this county. so still have a long way to go today as hurricane harvey winds its way down. dan and amy. >> we want to tell our viewers that you and your team have covered many storms, you have plenty of experience and have taken many precautions to make sure you ride out the storm safely. >>> speaking of riding out the storm, earlier we spoke to carl hatman to lives in rockport. that's t

that's close to port lavaca. even down to rockport, all of those areas will have the highest storm surge. the highest winds are the northwest-- northeast quadrant. this is where it will be, up to the north. so folks should have been leaving yesterday. >> baseball tonight. great shape. the 70s and i would take a little sweater or sweatshirt to the game. 3 to a guarantee i think we are okay. we went for a high of 81 and will see how we did tonight at 11. the folks north and west held at 70s but i think we will hold around 80 degrees. this is a live shot. that's what it looks like just north of corpus christi. a dewpoint in the 60s, 47%. very comfortable. fortunately it will be cool with lows in the 50s and 60s but drive. highs around 80. we are looking at beautiful for the game, showers however return on monday and may persist tuesday wednesday or thursday morning.>> the caveat is mountain showers. one reason it is so nice that it wil monday 79 tuesday back to 81 on wednesday. average high as 86. 5 days below avera

but beyond that, port lavaca is a ghost town. as you can see here, harvey wash ago shore with the significant winds and the sideways, stinging rain and water from the storm surge flooding this part of town. whoooo. going somewhere? here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more... ...than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's words. tripadvisor. when heartburn hits fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites. >>> meantime, this system is pretty much like a stationary waterfall over a lot of texas, san antonio, austin, to port lavaca. houston -- the only thing from texas that's going to avoid directly in the -- from hurricane harvey is the dallas-ft. worth area. these winds in port lavaca. >> that's our friend mike seidel at the weather channel getting a power washing. i'm only smiling because i know he's doing what he absolutely loves to do and that is covering a major weather event. what all

we want to go now back to rob marciano who is in port lavaca, texas. he is still taking a beating there with the win and the rain. we want to check in with you, rob, i think we might have just lost his feed because as you can imagine, the wind is causing so much havoc in that area and incredible we've been able to speak to him as much as we have. give us an update as to what hurricane harvey is doing. >> you see rob and even though we can't hear him he can't hear us because the winds are 85 miles per hour and radar shows that eye weakening, still max sustained wins moving through for the next 12 hours as a tropical storm. >> good morning, washington.ood cool start across the nation's capital with temperatures in the 50's to low 60's. this afternoon should be beautiful. low humidity, comfortable, right around 80 degree mark. tomorrow will be a lot like this morning. outlying suburbs in the 50's, 60's. mid-60's downtown. get outside if you can. low humidity, sunshine. >>> so why is it moving so slowly? why will it be around for days? i'll answer those wi

he is in port lavaca, texas. and all morning long and he's got a lot to show us with the very latest as it continues to whip around that town, rob. >> hiing amy we switched up our shot and came on the other side of the building. a little more wind protected but you can see behind me this is the surge, lavaca and matagorda bay and surrounding our hotel and wind taking all that spray. it's like a giant washer machine here on heavy duty cycle. there's a hotel pool right down these steps. well, that's now a saltwater pool filled with all sorts of debris from this hotel and from all the other structures around this bay that have been torn apart in the last -- since last night when this thing came ashore as a category 4 storm. we were well away from the eye of this thing but the interwiths continue up here as does the rest. >> all news. >> all morning. >> good morning, everyone. i'm chris nguyen. firefighters are mopping up a small grass fire in the oakland hills, flames broke out just before 11:00 last night at grizzl

he is in port lavaca, texas.ng and all morning long and he's got a lot to show us with the very latest as it continues to whip around that town, rob. >> hiing amy we switched up our shot and came on the other side of the building. a little more wind protected but you can see behind me this is the surge, lavaca and matagorda bay and surrounding our hotel and wind taking all that spray. it's like a giant washer machine here on heavy duty cycle. there's a hotel pool right down these steps. well, that's now a saltwater pool filled with all sorts of debris from this hotel and from all the other structures around this bay that have been torn apart in the last -- since last night when this thing came ashore as a category 4 storm. we were well away from the eye of this thing but the interwiths continue up here as does the rest. >> i'm gray hall alongside christie ileto. coming up next, saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. the coast of texas is waking up to hurricane harvey and the damage it caused. >>> if you have travel plans

we're going to turn to port lavaca.area that as matt pointed out, may have resources cut off because of the condition of the roads. rob has been reporting from there all day. rob? >> reporter: we have retreated up doors. it's too dangerous to be outside. you can hear the clanging across our hotel. parts of the hoefrl have been shoord off, downspouts, parse of the outer walls have been torn off. railing has been pushed down. there are some street lights out there that have been torn down as well. this thing in the dark is even scarier. it made landfall as the lowest pressured lafrl since hurricane rita in 2005. i was in that storm. it hit in the middle of the night and it's just as scary here in port lavaca. this hotel is fairly new. it's painfully coming apart. the storm surge has made us an island. you can hear the wind cranking up even more. it is nasty, nasty to be outside. it's going to be a long night here in port lavaca. juju back to you. >> thanks, rob. i have to say i'm glad to see you safe and indoors. we're go

for the mayors of victoria and port lavaca, they seem to be in strong spirits. they preside over cities that have suffered some meaningful damage, but they are working very aggressively to try to help their citizens respond to their , and i offerd offe them as well as the other mayors any and all help that the state of texas can provide. now for some more granular detail. as a result of the briefing that i just had. looking at the texas military thanion, there are more 1300 service members who are currently activated, and we anticipate increasing that amount by 500 more, giving us about service members who will 1800 be activated to assist in responding to the hurricanes and its aftermath. as far as the texas department of transportation, they are already undertaking cleanup operations around the corpus christi and yoakam areas working to clear pathways along the roadway's there, which is impressive that they were able to get in that quickly and begin that process. with the puc, they say there are more than 338,000 outages, it and it will be several days perhaps

i spoke with the mayor of victoria and spoke with the air of port lavaca. i made a phone call to the mayors of purpose christie and rockport. with a letter to i did not have the ability to connect the left messages. for the mayors of victoria and port lavaca, they seem to be in strong spirits. cities that over have suffered some meaningful damage but they are working aggressively to try to help the citizens respond to the challenges and i offer them as well as the other mayors any and all help that the state of texas can provide. more detail as a result of the briefing that i just had. looking at the texas military than 1300more servicemembers who are currently activated and we anticipate increasing that amount by 500 more, giving us 800 servicemembers who will be activated to assist in responding to the hurricanes aftermath. as far as the texas department of transportation, they are already undertaking cleanup operations around the corpus christi and yoakam areas working to clear areas along roadways, which is impressive. they were able to get in that quic

one of its first stops, port lavaca on the gulf coast, hitting in the dead of night. the power has finally gone out here at our hotel. rain pouring down sideways -- wind thrashing. the storm surge turning our hotel into an island. this stairwell flooded. when a storm comes in at night like this one did, there's a level of fear that is ramped up that is absolutely indescribable. the rain outside, blinding. i'm just going to take a couple of steps here, i can barely -- i'm actually sliding -- sliding without really trying here. by daylight, the worst of it is finally over, but the storm surge was relentless. now that the sun is up, we can give you a vantage point on what the storm surge looks like. this is the hotel pool covered now with salt water and debris from the hotel. look at that. that's part of the wall that was peeled off. >> rob marciano riding out that storm in front of cameras. as we saw in your report, an incredibly slow-moving storm. why is it staying put for so long? >> reporter: well, it's an area that the steering currents just kind of collapse. it was

later today, it drifts closer to where we are here in port lavaca. by tomorrow morning, just off the coast, maybe tuesday, still lingering there. then maybe drifting wednesday/thursday, through houston. and bringing the circulation and heavy rain with it. we have got locally, maybe, anothe they have already had. and that's certainly catastrophic beyond what we have now. that entire area of southeast texas is under a flash flood watch, really, until further notice. that's what's happening nationally. headlines-wise. weather-wise. >> sadly, hurricane harvey has lived up to the hype on all counts. the wind, the storm surge, now what's happening, guys, up there in houston. just to our east. we'll head there after the show. unfolding situation that will last unfortunately for days. amy? dan? >> all right, rob, thanks so much. speaking of that unfolding situation. we talked about how the 911 system in houston is overwhelmed. people needing to be rescued. on the phone with us right now is one of those people, hayley isbell, a storm victim. she's in her gara

who is in port lavaca, texas, with the very latest. rob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning amy. the rain here has held off for now but the center of what's left of harvey is still spinning inland and we expect that circulation to continue for the next several days, for the moment east of san antonio and drifting in our general direction. the forecast track from the national hurricane center brings it to port lavaca and west of houston as we go through tuesday, wednesday and thursday. but that's not nearly as important as the fact that the general circulation will be around so more rain is expected on top of what we have already seen develop in the last 12 to 18 hours in the houston, galveston area which has been in the in order of two feet of rain. we could see another one to two feet more across southeast texas and getting into southern louisiana, too, as we go through wednesday. that's a quick check on the weather headlines in >>> good sunday morning. i'm lisa argen. low clouds and fog. another spare the air alert today. the he

taking the brunt of hurricane harvey early on a saturday morning here in port lavaca, texas. the rain has been unrelenting. over 5 inches. we could see four or five times that amount by the middle of next week. we're getting the eastern edge of the eyewall. we didn't get the eye itself. that was on shore in aransas county late friday night. those towns, including rockport, sustaining damage. some of that significant. we're hearing on first reports. concern now is the fact that wind is going to blow on shore through saturday and maybe into sunday. so this water that's piled up, it's approaching 6 feet, could go as high as 9 or ten feet. it will be slow to back out. the power is out at the hotel. that's another issue. there will be a lot of power outage. the totals will be catastrophic across a wide area of texas. it's going to be a wild weekend and unfortunately, this hurricane is going to slow down and one for the record books as far as certainly how long it impacts a wide area of this state. i'm meteorologist mike seidel from port lavaca hanging on during hurricane harvey. >

later today, it drifts closer to where we are here in port lavaca. by tomorrow morning, just off the coast, maybe tuesday, still lingering there. then maybe drifting wednesday/thursday, through houston. and bringing the circulation and heavy rain with it. we have got locally, maybe, another two feet time for a look at the local forecast, check it out. good morning, everyone, i'm meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. back home, everything is nice and tranquil. live on sky6 live hd, as we look at mr. william penn standing under a mostly sunny skies. temperature in the 50s and 60s no humidity. today is a repeat performance of the yesterday. mostly sunny skies, 79 degrees. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast shows almost fall-like temperatures for monday and tuesday. the wind, the storm surge, now what's happening, guys, up there in houston. just to our east. we'll head there after the show. unfolding situation that will last unfortunately for days. amy? dan? >> all right, rob, thanks so much. speaking of that unfolding situat

. >> if you move about 50 miles up the coast, you'll see port lavaca. this is where some of the strongest tropical winds were forecast to mostly fair through. can you hear the winds whistling a little bit in the video as the rain hits the boats and water you can see them bobbing up and down. quite a scene there. half hour north from there is where a red cross shelter set up in victoria. 340 people a inside of a school gym. one person who didn't evacuate says he's having second thoughts. >> i think we're going to be fine. it's just a little more than what i bargained for. next time we have a storm this magnitude, i probably won't stay. >> yeah. >> among those who did evacuate was a 102-year-old woman and her daughter and granddaughter. they are worried about just how long the storm might last. >> in corpus christi, rushing waters slamming do sea walls and slamming roads. could peak at 14 feet, the sea could see as much as 40 inches of rain. the storm center is expected to remain over southeast texas throughout the weekend creating catastrophic damage. th

we're not getting many reports as to what is going on in port lavaca.can tell you this, when we came in yesterday afternoon i have never seen a town that has been evacuated like this one. so that's the good news is that there is not many people if at all in this town right now and the people where i am is mostly media and slightly elevated position in a well-built structure but obviously getting a hit really, really hard right now. >> i know you've covered so many hurricanes over the years. how does this one compare so far? >> well, i can tell you this because it came in at night, and because the winds were so strong, this felt a lot like hurricane rita in 2005. as a matter of fact it got down to that same pressure when it came on and when a storm comes in at night like this one did, there's a level of fear that is ramped up that is absolutely indescribable. all night long all you heard was basically this building slowly being ripped apart. at least the exterior portions of it so this is a storm that i haven't experienced certainly in over ten years. i

we really want that eye to miss corpus christi and areas like port lavaca have 10,000 people. we wish them the best too because they could be in the heart and center of it. again, we'll continue to watch the developments of this. it's about wind and rain and surge and then all next week we could be tracking just historic rainfall. >> thank you. >>> well, back in washington the u.s. chamber of commerce has come out swinging against the president. that as fellow republicans rebuke him for threatening a government shutdown over his much promised border wall. and blaming his own party's congressional leaders for what he calls a mess with the debt limit. but just why is the president openly feuding with the very lawmakers he needs to get his agenda passed? nbc's kristen welker brings us up to speed. >> reporter: a clash of the political titans. president trump is digging in on his threat to congressional leaders, fund the border wall or he'll force a government shutdown. a warning he unleashed earlier this week. >> believe me, we have to close down our government we're building tha

storm force winds as do corpus chri still hurricane force winds possible between san antonio and port lavacahich is incredible for how long it will be on land by saturday night at 7:30 hurricane force winds. rainfall again this is the story once the storm surge goes by and the winds subside, rainfall 15 to 30 inches from corpus christi up to houston and even several inches possible as far inland as san antonio and dallas. here's the radar. there are the bands of heavy rain, absolutely hammering the islands and the coastal areas of texas. here's the eye moving ashore. landfall near rockport just north of corpus christi with sustained winds of 102 miles per hour. that is the latest official information we -- but again category 4 130 -- we have, but again category 4, 130 mile-per- hour winds. >>> here's some more headlines on hurricane harvey at this hour. coastal towns in texas did order mandatory evacuations, but houston did not and you see from what topper showed you, that storm is not too far from there. the mayor there is asking residents to stay put. 700 members of the state and national

. >>> they believe the eye of the storm could pass over port lavaca, texas. there are mandatory evacuations there tonight. home to nearly half of the u.s.' oil refineries. rob marciano is there. you're seeing the storm surge already? >> reporter: the wind is picking up, and the water is piling up. this is a bay, but it's rolling in here like the ocean. this entire area of texas, very vulnerable to storm surge. tonight, areas south of houston, scrambling to prep for the northern, more ferocious half of hurricane harvey. >> we've got the generator on the back porch, we've got the house all boarded up, we're riding it out. >> reporter: you're ready? >> you betcha. >> reporter: farther west, closer to the expected landfall, a surge of waves and water churning up matagorda bay, already pounding port lavaca. nearly everyone here evacuated, fresh memories of what happened in 2008, hurricane ike causing close to $30 billion in damage while taking the lives of 21 americans. the storm surge from harvey is what's most concerning in this area. low pressure lifting the gu

we are going to be looking at very high water at port lavaca. that could be getting up to 10-12 feet storm surges. again, that's corpus christi. i don't want to say it's a lot of good news -- they are certainly getting battered -- these winds have to move all the way from the water, they can pick up a lot of speed but if you run over land, there's more friction. but corpus christi looking at a lot of rain. getting up to maybe 90-100 miles an hour. not those 30-150 we are seeing over to the north and east. very active situation we are paying attention to. here's another view of this. you're looking at the reins around the system. obviously this the big rainmaker. we are talking about the wind because this is the time the eye is moving on. the story in the next several days, this wind being coupled with the rising waters. as the water. here's our storm surge. it's that front right quadrant. you see it pile up. here is our storm surge forecast. some of those areas getting up to 10-12 feet. incredible rainfall. this thing just doesn't go anywhere. h

it's going to be a long night in port lavaca.u, back up to you. >> definitely a long night for you, rob. thanks for that. and in the studio with us is meteorologist kate parker, who's been tracking this storm. kate, i know that you're obsessed with all things hurricane, but you're also a texas person. >> a texan. born and raised. >> this is personal for you. >> it is. it's surreal to see this image because when we say a category 4 storm made landfall it's easy to say, well, it's down to a category 3. it's still a category 3 hurricane, and it's inland now. this is not a storm that's measured in these hours tonight. it is going to be measured in the course of a week. >> and days and days of this kind of deluge. what kind of flooding can we anticipate? >> a will the of flooding. but this is brand new from the storm prediction center. we have a tornado watch. and this one goes all the way through tomorrow afternoon. this is not something quick. this storm is not moving anywhere anytime fast. you can see by the track here when you hav

let's go first to kerry sanders in port lavaca. >> reporter: well, ali, we're driving along here in porta out along the bay area. as i cut to the camera outside, as we drive you can see off in the distance there. this is a bay, remember. this is not the gulf of mexico, but this is where that storm surge will build up you can see there's white caps and it's really getting the early stages of what is a hurricane. the winds here have been picking up. the wind is rather dramatic. now, we're going to get up into this position here right in front of what is a fishing pier which is starting to go underwater here as the water rises. and in a moment i'm going to get myself in position and get out because what i want to show you here is how the wind is picking up and the wind is really beginning to blow. in fact, it's awfully hard to open up the doors for the cars. i'm getting in position here. i'm opening up the doors. that one actually opened just fine. now i'm going to get myself over here. you can see how the wind is just picking up, getting a little bit harder to -- i can stand, but it's bit

>> i'm in port lavaca, texas. you can see one of the many refineries behind me. i haven't seen any power flashes yesterday. the wind is light but it will be coming up the length of this bay. we do expect, especially if the landfall is just to the south of port lavaca, it will be piling the water into the bay and we expect the storm surge to be quite substantial as it comes in tonight. the wind will gradually increase as those outer bands rotate. right now we're getting decent rain, steady winds, but not that strong yet. as those squalls come in, the wind will increase that squall. especially the front right quadrant is where you have the strongest wind shear for tornadoes. >> reed, you covered hurricane ike, the last storm to hit the coast there in 2008. that killed more than 100 people, 113 people. are people heeding the warnings? what are you seeing in terms of people getting out now and how does this compare to covering that storm? >> well, it has been about nine years since the last hurricane. it was hurricane ike which was a category two. we were entirely su

mike seidel is in port lavaca, texas.ere's what he experienced a few moments ago as well. >> reporter: we're out of the strongest of the winds. i don't know if you can see in the distance, it's still whipping up here really good. look at the surge and the water rise across the parking lot now. this is about 18 inches, not quite 2 feet deep t continues to come in right back there. lavaca bay is back there. why don't we take a walk down there. i think we can do that. we've got plenty of light. we have to watch out. we noticed that some of the guttering came down when we were walking through the water. in fact, i found it. this is what you have to worry about. this came off the building. this is the only thing i've seen that has come down. this stuff, this could do some damage to you if it goes flying. we'll put it right back down in the water and let it go. we'll walk through here again. this is the hotel that's up about 16, 17 feet to the first floor. we'll look ahead and walk down here. we'll be looking out into lavaca ba

some of the officials mentioning places like port lavaca and victoria. that's where we were last night and today. and those areas are heavily hit. the hotel we were scheduled to stay at did not have running water or electricity. it's not a good situation for those people. there were hotels that had doors barbed in from the wind. it's not a good situation. tonight there are fresh flash flood warnings. and there are tornado warnings as well. at least 9 inches have fallen in this area. but because of the last couple bands that came through, the national weather service and our forecasters saying 15-25 inches of rain could fall. the mayor saying this is a five-day event. but now you will be dealing with substantial flooding. we are starting to see that in the houston area. of course, there is dirty water that comes with threat of disease and animals. resources from across the country said this is just the beginning of their recovery efforts. grocery stores are closed and people aren't able to get gasoline. harris: you got a break in sugarland. you said if th

i'm worried about port lavaca.on the right-hand side and if folks didn't evacuate we'll be talking about heavy wind and rain. what's it mean for the long-term track? we'll still be faye situation where we're trapped with the storm. it will have no choice but to bounce around. eventually moving to the north before heading to the south. i don't it changes anything in the long term, but in the short term there'll be communities next to the eye wall. it will have an impact for those folks. jon. >> jon: we spoke earlier with the eye of the hurricane which passed right over rockport, texas. i was in the eye for hurricane hugo 28 years ago next month. an unbelievable experience. i was literally crawling in my hotel room and suddenly the wind stopped and the storm passed over and there was an eerie silence except for the tree trunks falling from the shock they'd been through and then the wall came back and we were in the storm again. it was one of the strangerest experiences of my life. adam klotz from the fox extreme weat

there's victoria, port lavaca is inundated with heavy storm surge.e at high tide, but the levels because of the surge are typical for high tide. it should be low tide. corpus christi here, houston, heavy rains for the entire area. the movement over the next five days looks like, there's nothing to steer it on its way, it will do a loopdeloop over the next five days, it's a slow drift so it will rain heavily in this part of southeastern texas. right now it's about 100 southeast of san antonio, texas, by thursday it's 135 miles per hour to the northeast at that point of san antonio texas. it's not moving here and that means a lot of rain. this is victoria, texas, the computer guide, they have seen 16. you get the idea, tremendous amount of rain. look what happens as we broaden the view a little bit. it shows an additional 18 inches in houston, almost 17 in corpus christi again this entire area has already seen 7 to ten inches of rain. this is on top of that, there's the number for victoria, almost 29 additional inches of rain. it will be a mess in sout

some of the officials mentioning places like port lavaca and victoria. that's where we were last night and today. and those areas are heavily hit. the hotel we were scheduled to stay at did not have running water or electricity. it's not a good situation for those people. there were hotels that had doors barbed in from the wind. it's not a good situation. tonight there are fresh flash flood warnings. and there are tornado warnings as well. at least 9 inches have fallen in this area. but because of the last couple bands that came through, the national weather service and our forecasters saying 15-25 inches of rain could fall. the mayor saying this is a five-day event. but now you will be dealing with substantial flooding. we are starting to see that in the houston area. of course, there is dirty water that comes with threat of disease and animals. resources from across the country said this is just the beginning of their recovery efforts. grocery stores are closed and people aren't able to get gasoline. harris: you got a break in sugarland. you said if th

the real story will be initial in the corpus christy and port lavaca.between houston and corpus christy areas. this thing will turn over to a water story, next four or five days it looks like as the storm can stall out and produce dumping rain. it could be 3 feet of rain on the dirty side of the rain, houston, galveston, area. again, this is a very strong storm and it really has beefed up in the last couple of days and sent everybody to the stores, we went to wal-mart and the bread was gone, water was gone, people taking the storm seriously. let's listen to a mom from the houston area as she bulks up for the potential of the storm. >> water, canned goods, some fruits, lots of -- rob: the other place that could see impact from the hurricane will be in louisiana. what it's going to do is hit in the corpus crhisti area and just to remind you it's been 12 years almost exactly since hurricane katrina and if you remember that season was terrible, it had wilma and katrina as well. louisiana bracing for what the storm can do next and this has so much warm water

port lavaca -- it's been a long day -- and that area as well, getting a lot of the storm as well, getting a lot of the brunt of the storm. we'll have to watch the areas and hope that everything or the people are okay. we are expecting some damage there. as far as here, we've had street signs blown clear off. we've had trees bending as they do. the palm trees are used to this kind of weather, and as your lieutenant governor was talking about of texas, they're used to the storm here. the gulf is ready for this type of storm. it's a warm area, the gulf is a warm body of water it. produces serious storms from time to time. this one was a big one or is a big one as it continues on and was a big one for corpus christi as it came through a couple hours ago. it pounded it hard. the development of this storm turning from a cat 1 or tropical storm to a cat 4 in a short period of time was what i think spooked a lot of people to get out of here because corpus christi at this hour is a ghost town quite frankly, nobody stuck around to see how this was going to go. we haven't seen anybody here. our hote

we could see one of 220 feet in port lavaca. there should have been mandatory evacuations last night quite frankly. a live look, it is coming down. you can't really see the wind but we are looking at wind of around 50 miles per hour. it is 78 with the dew point in the 50s. life is good. for tonight, lows in the 50s and 60s but if you are out late tonight or tomorrow night, it's not a bad idea. a great weekend with highs on either side, there will be showers in the mountains. it is a 4:30 game on sunday and it will return monday into wednesday. tonight by 9:00 by 7:00 some 50s. we can really rest the ac. mid-60s downtown and by lunchtime there will be some showers out to the west, especially west of i-81. by 5:30 temperatures near 80 downtown and 77 in fairfax. really a quite spectacular day for august. >>> 74 x 11 p and almost 80 by 1:00. still beautiful, 81, showers 79 and we will monitor your yellow weather alert. the nationals are in town with an early shower and friday looks nice with temperatures in the low-80s. right now m

the bay wrapped around 35 and around port lavaca. all the water is being pushed ashore from multiple angles here. harvey continues to wash ashore with the bands of rain. >> boy, you can see the intensity of the storm there the rain and wind whipping up there. the reporter's live shot there. this is video of the water coming to the door of a hotel. harvey moves toward houston stks texas. it owe could -- it could be more rain than someplaces see in an entire year. of course, meteorologist chris sowers has been monitoring hurricane harvey overnight and it is a big storm. it is the first category hurricane that struck since charlie back in 2004. it is 100 southeast of san antonio, texas. you can see the size of the storm, the feeder bands plow into there's corpus christi it's drifting northwest 5 to 6 miles per hour. hurricanes bring a slew of problems winds obviously being one of them a storm surge is a problem with hurricanes and heavy rainfall. that's what we're concerned about with this storm. because there's not a steering mechanism

it may even get back over water for a time, port lavaca, you are not out of the woods, by 12:00 p.m.n monday, the storm system cavsen nieto you and picks back up to the -- system cavs undrvs underneath you. you get the idea it's not a point. it's widespread. everything needs to prepare for unfortunately tv stating flooding. >> when you look at this new loop. the old loop used to be farther down here? right. >> does this mean we will get closer to houston, that six-and-a-half people, that metropolitan area we are worried about. >> they will be on the strongest part of the storm but you have most of the moisture over in that direction. there is not a lot of steering, it is possibleing. the track will continue to change. it's the best idea we have at this point. it's 100 miles wide. >> quickly the storm surge sank six-to-12 feet, right? that's twice your height. >> yeah. >> mainly in these areas down here, right? >> the barrier islands are by far the areas that will get hit the worst overnight. as the storm system gets through the stage of monday and tuesday, it won't have as much of a

we are here in port lavaca.here is point lavaca bay, the storm is pushing water from the bay this way. >> reporter: we are teetering here, we have been consistent with 50 to 60-mile-per-hour winds. this may be some of our worst weather. >> wow, all those guys deserve a little bonus if their bay check. let's go to joe friar, he is in gavelstop, he deserves the same. what is it look right now? it's been very windy the last hour you could barely speak to us. >> reporter: that's right, it is still raining, harder tan we have sewn, since we have been here, that's the biggest concern, there is a flash flood warning here. it was extended a couple hours, yoders are good, we will see flash flood warnings in the coming day, all along it wasn't the hurricane force winds or the storm surge, they knew that wouldn't be as bad here. the concern is the system basically sitting over us, dumping rain, not just for hours, but for days. >> that flash flood warning. it isn't here along the coast. it goes well inland to houston and b

even further up the coast in port lavaca, dire situation.ies, no water, no sewage, no electricity. slowly electricity is coming back on. in corpus christi, we've got over half the residents in corpus christi back with power. but i'm really worried about some of my constituents further up north. been talking to the mayor of rockport, he's concerned. port aransas. we're going to do a helicopter flyover of that soon. i've seen some pictures from the previous flyover, all of the boats in the harbor sunk. popular restaurants -- my family and i frequented, just gone. >> you know, there are people who have raised concerns about the president coming at this time, when obviously there are still so many people who find themselves in desperate situations where the efforts of every single person who knows how to respond in a time like this, whether it's the police or the first responders or the national guard, that some of those resources might be diverted away from where they're needed most. do you have that concern, congressman? >> a little bit. but w

sparked a fire when power lines were ripped down in port lavaca and a person was trapped inside a home there and perished. the damage across the region is intense. you talked about buildings being ripped away, rooftops seared as well. cars and boats picked up and tossed away. it's a mess not only here in victoria, but across the huge region of the texas gulf coast. and unfortunately, it looks like more damage -- >> i think we are having some issues with jay's mike, understaly situation there on the ground. we'll try to get back with him. but let me also let you know that lester holt will be leading nbc news' storm coverage live tonight from corpus christi. look for "nbc nightly news" right after news4 at 6:00. >>> all right, we want to switch gears a little bit now, back to school fairs happening at a baseball studeadium. students shows us their favorites and tell us why it's so exciting for them. >>> and do you remember this video? first responders showing off their skills. we'll tell you what it was all about. >>> plus, this tractor trailer accident backed up the beltway >>> a tracto

this is port lavaca, texas.y businesses in the area were boarded up ahead of the storm. >> president trump signed disaster declaration for texas and will try to make it there early next week. get the latest on hurricane harvey on nbc washington app. also follow storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper on twitter. >> hey, it's going to be a nice day around here. >> it's going to be great around here. temperatures right around 80 over the next several days. next chance of rain tuesday and wednesday. >> that's all for us. guys, thank so muchs >>> everybody, welcome back with 2017 season of insider "redsk s "redskins" on nbc 4. i am rick wiler. they really evaluate players and find out who's going to be on the 53-man roster at 4:00 p.m. jay gruden feeling confident about the depths his team presented and looking for ward todd the season.

let's send it down to mike seidel live in port lavaca, texas. >> reporter: good morning. the wind is ramping up we're in some of these tropical squalls. the outer bands, winds now gusting 30 miles per hour. we have had special marine warnings, concerns about waterspouts moving onshore we have also had a couple of tornado warnings the next county up in matagorda county these tend to be quick hitters when you talk about tropical weather, not the large tornadoes we deal with in severe weather season in the midwest and plains and down south in the springtime the waves, too, the white caps, the water rolling in into the sea oats, the grass. this is texas 35, traffic going the other way, away from the camera is heading towards houston. there is going to be a curfew here in the town of port lavaca, a city of 12,500, that kicks in at noon local time the evacuation order went out late hormorning. we're about 25 to 30 miles inland from the gulf, but there's nothing to stop the wind and the water rise we've got about a 5 or 6-foot wall here. our hotel is build up. they built this ho

some of those folks, the police have gone door to door and brought them here to the port lavaca chamber of commerce and put them on buses. one bus is on its way to new braunfels, a moment ago i spoke to one of the people on the bus. you can understand how emotional this is. >> so i'm scared. my husband is sick. we'll be okay, i guess. i'm worried about my husband. >> reporter: are you worried about your home when it's over? >> i ain't worried about my home. i just worry about our lives. >> i'm just thankful we're able to get out of here away from the storm and worried what we're going to come back to. >> reporter: what do you think you could come back to? >> being homeless. >> reporter: there we go, tom not even show when he comes back if his home will be standing he lives so close to the shore. 50 yards away. they are expecting anywhere from a 6 to 10-foot storm surge. this is the other bus that will leave shortly. we can see folks on board here. i'm kerrie sa y sanders. police went door to door and ordered you out, how did this go this morning? >> i just left. nobody came to my door.

the fearless veteran meteorologist mike seidel in port lavaca, texas, where before the end of tonight, they're going to get all the storm they can handle there. he has been at times unable to stand up in the hotel they're staying in has quickly been surrounded by rising water. they're 25 miles inland, by the way. that gives you some visual idea. we are so fortunate to have in our very own studio here tonight our friend bill karins, our meteorologist. and bill, take it away. tell us everything we need to know about the storm, including are we calling it landfall yet as the center of the eye passed the median? >> i keep hitting refresh on the national hurricane center website for when they put the official word out. they have said we are very close to the official landfall. the northern eye has made landfall. the western eyewall is now onshore. but the center of the eye is not onshore yet. that should happen in the next hour or two. we'll officially have our first major hurricane landfall in over 12 years in our country. by the way, this would also be the strongest since charlie hit flo

by the way will get the worst storm surge and that will be on the ocean side here up around the port lavaca we head to port o'connor and towns on the beaches. what mayor patel just said in south padre island and anywhere elsewhere there's a causeway or bridge, if you're thinking about getting out because you have kids or need medication, think about it now, not on friday afternoon. they are thinking of closing that causeway as early as this afternoon. this is always the same thing with hurricanes, you can overdo it, much better to overdo it at the front end then figure out at the back end you didn't prepare. >> it's pretty much too late to do much to save your property. save your lives. >> there you go. >> good advice. >> to the mayor's point, if you have friends or families or others to stay with, time to get off the island and go there too. bill karins and south padre mayor patel, wishing your city the best. stay safe. stay with us all day long as we closely monitor this tropical storm harvey threatening the texas gulf. >> the white house is making moves on the plans to ban transgender se

here we are saturday morning, hurricane here west of port lavaca, going to tomorrow morning, barely budged, going towards monday morning, back to the south and back almost exactly where it made landfall, the center of it here, maybe spend time out here across water monday and tuesday, that could allow it to strengthen again and this is exactly where it came on shore and you go to dam on wednesday, maybe a second landfall, ton of moisture. some indications is it might never move from here, meaning all of the moisture which fall into that spot. rainfall heatals continue to be extreme. when you see numbers like we have been seeing, you don't believe it at first. when you see numbers 40-inches of something, we've had now about four days where we have been seeing these kinds of models outputs, yesterday 53-inches, this morning, port lavaca, 58-inches of additional rain. this rainfall incred whether. go a little bit further towards the east and so you see places like houston that are far, 200 miles away, maybe 15 to 18-inches of rain. wide spreed flooding event. abby: the eye of the storm linger

it brought with it winds of 130 miles per hour and storm surges eported as high as 6.6 feet in port lavaca. in corpus christi punishing winds pulled down power lines. gusts blew out window. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: and seemed to toy with giant structures like this barn. among the hardest hit, rockport. at least one person confirmed dead. the devastation there tremendous. building after building ripped apart. throughout the region emergency teams worked heroically. >> corpus christi is the third largest petrochemical port in the nation. so there's a potential that we could have different types of chemical releases. >> reporter: bringing with it a new problem, widespread rele relentless torrential rain. >> we're measuring in feet of rain. >> reporter: already in houston flooding in residential areas with advice from the governor as the rain is expected to continue for days. >> turn around, don't drown. don't risk your life. >> reporter: and really, eric, that's the problem, that rescue workers are concerned that people will get this false sense of security, head out into areas that they c

to the expected landfall, a surge of waves and water churning up matagorda bay, already pounding port lavaca. nearly everyone here evacuated, fresh memories of what happened in 2008, hurricane ike causing close to $30 billion in damage while taking the lives of 21 americans. the storm surge from harvey is what's most concerning in this area. low pressure lifting the gulf, hurricane winds piling the water up and pushing it ashore, harvey's wind may be the headline, but it's the storm surge that can be the bigger threat to life and property from a hurricane. the impact here may be felt nationwide. the oil industry is huge here, refineries and petrochemical plants line the coast, many of which are in this storm's path. gulf refineries produce about 45% of the country's oil and one third of the country's refineries are directly in the hurricane's path, with hundreds of oil rigs drilling in the western gulf. >> rob, so many of us who have covered hurricanes know that high tide and low tide plays a role. what are we looking at? >> reporter: high tide is at midnight, but the water is going to go wh

we'll try to make our way to port lavaca, closer to the coast. we of seen some pictures of boats on the road itself. the worst is not over. authorities say people should still stay indoors until threat is over. >> that protective that you have there is very wise. i've covered a lot of hurricanes myself too. good to have that kind of stability for you, your crew, and the equipment. thank you so much, polo. e let's go north to houston and find our rosa flores there where last check you were getting a lot of rain. now it's dissipated. this is how hurricanes are. you have these bands. it kind of comes and goes but doesn't mean that it's all over. describe what's happening with those rising waters. >> reporter: like you mentioned, we're getting a little break from the rain but every now and then some wind gusts. you can still see that this bayou is still a raging rif flowing out towards the gulf of mexico. houston is a bayou city. you see these bayous through neighborhoods and this is of course the big worry for residents once they see these bayous sw

the furry hitting corpus christi, port lavaca, galveston. the damage estimate runs into the billions and the storm is not over yet. tonight, police here in victoria have been going door to door warning residents who live along the guadalupe river they need to prepare for a flood along this river. residents say without television or radio, they would not have known were it not for the police coming by and knocking on their doors. lester. >> all right. kerry sanders, thank you. as you note, harvey remains a tropical storm and will linger over this region for several days. therein lies the problem. it's expected to dump as much, 50, 50 inches of rain before it's all over. let's get the latest forecast from nbc meteorologist dylan driver. 50 inches. >> it's an incredible amount of rain. we have about 25 inches on the ground in some areas. so only half of what we're going to see is on the ground right now. and the radar says it all. you can certainly see where all of this moisture is coming from. it is tapping into the gulf of mexico which means

. >> reporter: in port lavaca she rushed to get out with her husband on dialysis. >> i'm scared. >> reporter: some low lying areas under mandatory evacuation orders. not everyone's leaving. >> we just don't want to leave our houses. we just want to stay here. >> reporter: but harvey is massive. these eye-popping images from the international space station. in the gulf oil companies shut down production so experts now say gas could spike 10 to 20 cents. the gal reston ship channel also shut down causing an offshore traffic jam. here's the flooding treaching from texas to louisiana where new orleans 14 drainage pumps aren't working. >> there's a no place for complacency when you have a monster storm in the gulf of mexico. and the people here know that. you have to stay vigilant. >> reporter: for those in harvey's path, time is running out before landfall. local authorities are preparing for a very long night. about 700 members of the texas national guard are on alert. lester? >> all right, gabe gutierrez, hang in there. we've got meteorologist dylan dreyer now to give us more of the tracking.