friends what is the name of the town just to the southeast side of houston. again, measuring rain and feet instead of inches. over 40 inches for clear lake city. continuing again through midweek. here is the latest with harvey, still tropical storm force winds, just moving northeast at around five miles per hour. by the time you work your way into tuesday and wednesday, that is when you get the next landfall again. the latest track has us on the border between texas and louisi move inland. once it gets inland, it starts to move faster with a chance to rain to theged area. 68 degrees for us closer to home. the breeze at 15 miles per hour. that will keep us cooler today but also keep things on the cloudy side. finding more strong breezes as we get over to the river and the bay. .et's zoom out i want to show you radar once again. most of us have relatively light rain. we will run through futurecast quickly. by the time we get to 7:00, the showers are beginning to break down, but there is going to be rain out there. if you have plans for the drive and, expected t

says harvey has broken a texas state record, dumping more than 49 inches of rain on's parts of southeast houston. harvey is now blamed for at least 14 deaths, possibly 15 as local media reports a police officer has drowned in his patrol car. officials say it's far too early to know the exact death toll, they have to wait until the floodwaters finally received. >> leland: the president and retire coast guard commander walk us through the rescues we have seen. >> good afternoon on fox television stations across the nation and fox news channel on satellite and cable around the world, i'm shepard smith in new york, fox news continuing coverage on the hurricane that has struck and the aftermath on southeast texas, across louisiana and to the north and east. breaking now, an all-time record for tropical storm system in texas has been broken, 49.2 inches in southeast houston. 49.2 inches of rain since that storm began hitting on thursday night. the totals around the area are astounding. we will get to those shortly. first i want to take you to the big board over here and give you an idea of what has be

mary's creek at winding road, for those who know the area, southeast houston and the tolls around the area are astounding. first, there is a very serious situation happening and resort area county. i want to show you where this is. this is the area. kind of hard to see, but all of this area is zaria county specifically, it's in this area right here, we've been watching it throughout the day and this levee breach has caused an warmest problem. here's the area of levee right here off of west 26th. let me check this, all 35. this is all developing news now. this area right here is where it has happened. southwest of galveston all along -- the levy is at columbia lakes, all residents under a mandatory evacuation right now, flash flood warning through 5:45 this afternoon. here's a tweet from the locals, the tweet is now up that they sent from the county. the levy of columbia lakes has breached, get out now. they're telling everyone that it happened very quickly, they believe the entire area is going to flood expeditiously. it's turned into a disaster of epic proportions. the states for lar

one chopper pulled several people from a southeast houston neighborhood after heavy rain slammed the area. and facebook has activated its safety check feature for the harvey zone in houston. people can mark themselves safe so friends and family on the social network can see they're ok. they can also visit the local community help page to see what people need or offer things like housing, food or transportation. well, it's official, ground has been broken for the long-awaited purple line. a ceremony just wrapped up a short time ago. when it's completed, the 16-mile light rain will go from bethesda to new carrollton. it's scheduled to open in 2022. well, harvey still hammering texas. take a live look here. this is the houston area submerged in water. melanie: well, i know you are watching rain that might move our way. doug: we have rain south and east of the city and by sunday maybe showers from the leftovers of harvey if harvey keeps moving -- starts moving again which they think it will. rain chances tomorrow. clear now for the end of the week. good saturday. maybe-run sunday. right

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. >> reporter: back in southeast houston, frank woke up surrounded >> everything, bed, furniture. >> all gone. >> all gone. everything's gone. >> reporter: he moved into this apartment just three days ago. his name upstairs took him and three other families in. are you going to stay until the water goes away? >> might. probably not if they come get us. we need help. whole bunch of families displaced, lost everything. >> reporter: the morales family lost nearly everything, including their stove and much of their food. you can't eat your food? >> no. >> reporter: this buy jew usually nearly empty. within a matter of hours, it's 30 feet overflowing into these apartments and all of these people are trapped. while scrambling to save her mom from flood waters in a nearby city, samantha caught on a flooded interstate herself climbing to safety. >> my mom, she said like there's water going in there, and it's like three inches deep. >> i didn't think it was that deep. >> largest city fighting to survive a still unfolding calamity. >> you spent most of your life in this city, explain what you'

. >> reporter: back in southeast houston, frank pena woke up surrounded by water. >> the beds, everything, trying to clear. all gone. >> all gone, everything is gone. >> reporter: he moved into this apartment just three days ago. his neighbor upstairs took him and three other families in. >> are you going to stay until the water goes away? >> might. proschably not if they come get us. we need help. whole bunch of families displaced. they've lost everything. >> reporter: the morales family lost everything, including their stove and much of their food. >> you can't eat your food? >> no. >> reporter: this bayou is usually nearly empty. within at matter of hours it's 30 feet over flowing into these apartments and all these people are trapped. while scrambling to save her mom from flood waters in a nearby city, samantha caught on a flooded interstate herself, climbing to safety. >> my ma said there is water going in there, 30 inches deep. i didn't think it was that deep. >> reporter: america's fourth largest city fighting to survive a still unfolding calamity. >>> frances, the community here i

this photograph shows a man on a jet ski pulling a grandmother from her flooded home in southeast houston. >> it's just not been moving much. it's starting to pick up a little bit of speed. let me show you live doppler 7. you will notice it's still raining across parts of texas, louisiana, some wands are heavy. this is the latest from the national hurricane center over texas and louisiana so the historic flooding continues. i just want to give you an idea as the how heavy some of the rainfall is in the area. 2.74 inches across parts of texas and louisiana. when you take a look here the eye of the storm is still pretty well defined. it's because the warm moist source of air, the gulf of mexico continues to feed this storm. tracking to east and as you notice it continues to move upwards friday afternoon. this one will go down in the record books. cedar bayou texas. 51.88 inches breaking the previous record of 48. two to three years worth of rain for the bay area is what harvey has produced in cedar bayou. it's staggering statistics. >> hard to fathom. >>> a woman who just moved to the bay a

don champion in houston, thank you so much. >>> up to 1200 people had to be rescued just in galveston county, southeast of houston. when harvey blew ashore, it devastated low lying homes and caused unprecedented flooding. another 10 to 15 inches of rain is expected there. city officials are asking for volunteers to help staff rescue shelters. late last night, texas governor greg abbott ordered another 1,000 national guard troops to the houston area. he's declared more than 50 texas counties disaster areas. >> well, the state of things is a state of emergency where we're responding to these needs of the people. in houston as well as around the entire state of texas, by making that disaster declaration, what that does is it triggers the resources from fema. we have been in constant contact with fema officials and the full force and resources of fema are coming to texas to respond both to the challenges you're seeing, but also with regard to the challenges we're going to have in rebuilding houston and the entire coastal region. >> evacuees fleeing the coast need shelter. tomorrow the city of dallas plans

and many communities southeast of houston, tropicalpot. heavy bands across the metro that has seen 30 plus inches of rain in so many spots since friday night. and that continues with heavy rain across the southern louisiana coast line, new orleans going to get a lot of heavy rain, harvey barely moving and will continue to meander southeast of galveston over the next 24 hours, making a secondary landfall some time i believe late tuesday, early wednesday along the texas louian finally on thursday, getting out of texas and moving into the by late wednesday into thursday. taking such a long time to get out of there. of course, that is why we're dealing with such unprecedented flooding. back to erma or what should become erma. this tropical storm luckily moving straight out to sea, should not be impacting the coastal u.s. beyond the carolinas late the into early tomorrow, they're getting a lot of rainfall there. through tonight, watch the northern rain bands come into our area, heavy rain expected in the richmond area, even into extreme sou

>>let's go back to our live reporter in galveston, 50 miles southeast of houston. born blanchard has been there for several days now, i think starting to dry out where you are? >>hi, frank and julie. i feel like everyone here is taking a sigh of relief, he got the rain for the most part has held off for the last few hours. we were expecting there to be more torrential rainfall tonight, and at this point all we are seeing is just a little bit of misting. so everyone else is hoping this continues through the night, because that's the last thing everyone need is more rain. and northwest, a small town called dickinson west was completely underwater. and, many of the other areas. we been watching people coming into the hotel and some of them are just soaking wet, trying to get out of the water and the rain, and went homes. just to get somewhere dry where we can rest at least. and for the time being, the rain seems to be holding off tonight. >> when you talk to people down there, how are they doing, what did they tell you? >> it's a mix of emotions. there are some people

we're tracking the flooding in southeast texas as harvey hammers the houston area. and here at home, a walk for a cure wraps up today. randy gyllenhaal is following the komen day. >> a sea of pink. city, you might see them. 400 or so walkers raising money for breast cancer research. next, their 60-mile journey. >>> and what a beautiful morning for them. a live look over our satellite and radar. not much to track except sunshine and those temperatures. i'll let you know how high they get this afternoon, and here's a live view outside center city where you can see the sun just now starting to come up. >>> right now on nbc10 news today, never-ending storm. tropical storn harvey turns deadly as it poured torrents of rain on southeast texas. >>> houston is under a flood emergency. the rain keeps falling with no sign of it letting up for days. and here in our area, walking for a cure. we're live as participant in the susan g. komen philadelphia three-day begin the final day of their 60-mile trek in the fight to cure breast cancer. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to nb

region of the state, it is recovery that is going on. ,tar missions still going on houston, southeast texas. we don't need to be there. starts, then the cabinet, it is appropriate for us. what was your biggest concern about texas right now question mark -- now? : making sure citizens are rescued and that they have gotten the resources they need. one of the fascinating things for the president and the rest of us was just how engaged american citizens are and how managings has been at the citizen effort to help rescue people. enough resources in the state, we don't have enough resources readily available at this federal level. to do all of these rescues, so what the navy did, what private citizens are out there doing on jet keys and flat bottomed boats and ski boats, is absolutely critical to the rescue efforts. i think the president was as impressed as anything they saw and was also very impressed with texas managed this. i think his focus is in the right place. i was supposed to be in kaz at stan and the ukraine, so we had sunday then on president asked me to stay and help with this.

boats out here, personal four wheelers, trucks, to try to rescue people living along beamer in southeast houston their homes. ces cesar, we can see on kirk ridge and beamer just how dramatic these rescue efforts are. the water levels are very high. it can't even believe what i'm looking at right now the. >> one of the remarkable things we've seen, not only donating time and money, but putting their lives on the line. that man taking his personal boat out on the streets to try to help rescue others. it was bound to blow back at some point. senators ted cruz and john cornyn of texas being blasted after requesting federal help for harvey despite voting against the relief package for victims of super storm sandy back when it hit new york and new jersey. congressman peter king tweeted out directly at cruz and texas cohorts, voted versus new york and new jersey aid after sandy but i'll vote four harvey aid. senator cruz's said, quote, unreal, two-thirds of sandy bill wasn't emergency spending. it was chocked full of pork. senator cornyn's communications director says he supported sandy relief, just no

red cross has opened shelters up and down southeast texas. houston convention center serving as a center and dallas preparing to receive evacyou wees from the storm. uees from the storm. a road we went through a couple minutes later they were turning people away from. just because there is a shelter, doesn't necessarily mean everyone can make it to that location. that's mart of the problem. >> make it there safely. live for nus dius. thank you for that account. >>> let's get you to work. check of the vine street expressway. >> jessica boyington is standing by. tell us what people can expect there. >> watching the vine right now. cameras around 24th street right here. starting to see delay getting off the ramp here. heading to the schuylkill, westbound side you'll have no problems. see that traffic moving along nicely. eastbound towards 95 looking good too. there's a crash in worcester. serious accident scene i'm hearing right now. right around bean road. watch for that crash. route 38 in jersey looks good. moving around morristown here is nixon drive

. >> reporter: in southeast houston, frank woke up surrounded by water. >> all gone.verything is gone. >> reporter: he moved into his apartment just three days ago. his neighbor upstairs took him and three other families in. >> are you going to stay until the water goes away? >> might. we need help. a whole bunch of families displaced, have lost everything. >> reporter: the morales family lost nearly everything, including their stove and much of their food. you can't eat your food? >> no. >> reporter: this bay you was nearly empty. within hours, it was flowing into these apartments and all these people are trapped. while scrambling to save her mom in a nearby city, samantha, caught on a flooded interstate herself, climbing to safety. >> my mom said there's water coming in. i didn't think it was that deep. >> reporter: america's fourth largest city fighting to survive are sti a still unfolding calamity. >> crews across the country are answering the call in texas. chris christie deployed a task force and crews from pennsylvania are already on their way. lauren make has

houston area this weekend to. day we saw neighbors helping neighbors in the city of friendswood southeast of houston.ple carrying their pets, their kids. some even using air boats to try to get folks to safety. news 4s, mark seagraves joins us this evening. you know about situations like this all to well. you have been on some training exercises with first responder, you have seen it firsthand. so talk to me about some of the preparedness that goes night. you know for the folk that are leaving that we are hearing that are headed to texas. they're up against a really, heavy situation. >> you saw derek ward's piece. they go down with convoys of tractor trailers, the equipment. because they as, the captain said have to be self-sufficient 50 days. sanitary, food, housing for their people. then the rescue equipment. so, they train for this. i've went two years ago down to perry, georgia, guardian center. a place where first responders from all over the world actually this. they can re-create. seeing video of it right now. re-create anything at this location. whether bifldingbifldbiflding - collapses, resc

and the of flooding and all the other difficulties that they are currently going through in houston, southeast texas

another hard-hit area, dickinson, southeast of houston. galveston emergency officials say 20 to 25 people were rescued from la vita bella nursing home. the nursing home owner's daughter said they were told to shelter in place. then her mother sent a photo as a plea for help. help finally came. also in dickinson, ed lavendera drove up with our photojournalists. the crew was accompanying a search and rescue mission, and as rescuers were about to leave a flooded neighborhood, they heard a family crying out. offer crew helped with the rescue. ed spoke to them once everyone was out safely. >> reporter: how long have you been trapped in there? >> all night. >> reporter: all night? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: you've been with your parents? >> uh-huh. yeah. >> reporter: how are they holding up? >> pretty good. i think pretty good for the circumstances. it's -- yeah, it's bad. everything's floating. and it's bad. >> once ed made it back to land -- and we can't call it dry land -- he was able to file this report. >> reporter: we are standing on not just

it rained southeast houston has exceeded the record set in 1978, exceeding 49.32 inches of rain.unofficially that it may be over 52 inches. what's incredible is the rain is still coming down. there are a number of dams and levees being damaged. one levy may have been breached, there are other homes that remain in danger and still could flood yet. >> leland: we said before, we'll sit again. this is going to get much worse before gets better. president trump is adding to texas right now to get a firsthand look at the damage from tropical storm harvey. the president's visit to corpus christi comes after he promises swift action. you can see him leaving the white house earlier. peter doocy 11 corpus christi where he's scheduled to touch down in a few minutes. high hi peter. >> the white house says they know this is going to be a very long recovery effort. that's what the press secretary just said on air force one. we got word ahead of them landing. we expect this scheduled to be fluid because the white house said they want to be very careful that the president and all of the security

mothers very hard-hit area is the city of dickinson, that's southeast of houston where galveston county say 20 to 25 people were rescued from the nursing home. the nursing home's daughters says they told her mother to shelter people in place. but she tweeted out this photo as a plea for help, which finally came. >> also if dickinson, cnn's ed lavendera, who drove up with jason morris and joel dell a rosa. they heard a family crying out as they were about to leave a neighborhood. ed spoke to them. everyone was out safely. >> how long have you guys been trapped in there? >> all night. >> you've been with your parents? >> uh-huh. >> how are they holding up? >> pretty good. pretty good. i think pretty good for the circumstances. it's bad. everything is floating and it's bad. >> once ed made it back it land, we can't call it dry land, but when he made it back it land he was able to send us this report. >> dave and christine, we are standing on not just some small country road that has been flooded out, we are on interstate 45. it connects galveston island south to the city of houston. this i

concrete, a lot of it southwest of houston and it does not absorb water. in league city, southeast of houston, an astounding 30 inches has fallen, and over 2 feet recorded around the metro area. that's enough rain to fill up 448 superdomes. an event of this magnitude, rare to say the least, odds of a flood this bad? 1 in 500. and the geography here doesn't help. rainwater is forced onto the streets, then into small bayous, easily overwhelmed in heavy downpours. buffalo bayou runs through the middle of the city. right now it looks like this. 15 feet over flood stage. a level never been seen before. >> unlike other floods that we've experienced, the sheer volume of water that has fallen is going to take time to run off. >> rob is live in west houston. and the storm is not moving. is there a track tonight? >> reporter: the short-term relief, lighter rainfall periods like we're getting now. and also the tornado risk, a tornado watch out for southern louisiana through tonight. and it's going to spiral in more bands. and heavy rain for houston. the center of harvey gets over water, maybe

their personal four-wheelers, trucks to try to rescue folks that are living along beamer here in southeast houston in their homes because their homes are flooded. ceasar, if you want to pan this other way around here, we can see on kirkridge and beamer just how dramatic these rescue efforts are. the water levels are very high. i can't even believe what i'm looking at right now. >> absolutely incredible images there. one of the remarkable things that we are seeing time and time again people donating not just their time and money, but like that you saw there, a man taking his personal boat on to the streets to try and help and rescue people that may be stranded. >> as much as people in texas are seeking shelter from hurricane harvey's historic landfall, and this video posted by harriet taylor, police and rankers in dayton, texas text, are guiding cattle down the street. it's a part of the major economy there. >>> still ahead, much more on historic flooding that is affecting southern texas. >> we're going to have live coverage from across the houston area coming up next. ♪ if you have moderate to sev

houston but in the outlying areas as well. we're in the small town of friendswood southeast of houston. here in the last 24 hours, more than 2,000 people have been evacuated and rescued from neighborhoods just like this. this is -- just talking to a neighbor here seconds before we came on air. i had asked him if he had seen anything like this and he said no one in this neighborhood had ever seen anything like this and described the entire flooding situation as simply ridiculous. you look back here at the streets, and again throughout the day, we've seen a stream of volunteer -- of people showing up with their boats, making their way out and navigating these floodwaters to get as many people out of here as possible. we've seen the rainfall continue for a better part of the day, of course, over the last couple of hours, we've had a little respite from that, but many not sure when exactly these floodwaters will start receding, and it can happen soon enough. that threat of rain making people nervous and they can't wait for the rainfall to end here as well. as we show you here, someone kind

and to the southeast of houston, sitting right on the coastline is galveston, where the last hurricane to make landfall in texas, hurricane ike, slammed ashore in 2008. that's where we find nbc's joe fryer. what are you seeing there this evening? >> lester, throughout the day today we've experienced powerful winds and blinding sheets of rain as if that weren't enough, tornado warnings have been issued with calls for people to immediately take shelter. beyond that, the big fear here is the flooding. it's not just supposed to rain heavily for a few hours. it's supposed to do this for a few days. some here have already decided to voluntarily evacuate. others are stick being around, shut terg their homes, stocking up on water, getting ready to wait it out and see just how bad the flooding gets. one business even put up a greeting open this the letters fall off the sign. they've been through this before here. nine years ago. some businesses on the coast were destroyed and had to rebuild. ask many low lying neighborhoods saw record flooding. the mayor says by leaps and bounds they're better

our amelia draper shows us the damage to one family's home southeast of houston. take a look at how high the water level was. you can see here with the debris still on the walls. everything here in the home trashed. take a look as we come in the home. water just everywhere on the floors. you can see already items removed from shelves. put into bins. the cleanup process, though, only just beginning. >> the governor of texas says 219,000 people have applied for fema assistance to rebuild. amelia has been in texas before the storm made landfall. you can watch all her stories about the people experiencing this storm and the aftermath in the nbc washington app. while there, you can find ways to donate and to help the victims just by searching how to help. >>> breaking news back at the live desk now. the u.s. is showing off military power in the korean peninsula. supersonic bombers and fighter jets over south korea. this morning all of this coming a couple of days after the north launched a missile over japan. the tensions just keep rising although this is a typical res

southeast texas. matthew just moved to houston. he is riding out the storm with a 2-year-old.ew is the storm of a former nbc so reporter. thank you for being with us. tell us where you are and what you see from your vantage point. can you hear me? >> thank you. yes, i can. i live in a part of town called bell air, texas. houston is all around it. over the past 48 hours, we had flooding here. we have been very fortunate. i happen to live in a neighborhood that didn't get it as bad as some. a mile south of me is an area called myerland where they do a lot of the water rescues. just a mile away this morning, we woke up and the water receded. my street is dry. cars are driving down it. yesterday, the water was above knee deep. we've seen some of the trucks kind of ferrying people out of the bad areas that are around us. there's one of the large bayous that is used to get this rain water out of here that's over bank. so the neighborhood has been terribly impacted. they are pulling people out of there. maybe the starkest realization was yesterday evening i was out and i was trying t

southeast texas underwater. in houston a flash flood emergency, manholes overflowing, streets turned into lakes, nearly impossible to drive through. the city's mayor urging residents to stay home. >> the streets are treacherous. it makes absolutely no sensor for anyone to be on the road unless it is an emergency. >> these people rescued from an apartment complex. >> how many we got coming? >> reporter: the storm packing a punch. >> i can't believe this is happening and i have no apartment, my apartment was decimated. >> reporter: rockport where harvey came ashore roofs ripped off homes buildings, boats destroyed. >> the wind was probably, i don't know, 100-plus, maybe 130, 140. there were a couple of times it was probably going faster than that. >> reporter: in -- austin an eerie scene. this suv no match for mother nature. texas governor greg abbott lending a hand. >> we'll take care of our fellow texans, but we do it as a team. >> reporter: i just checked and more than 70,000 people are without power in the city of housto

houston is expected to wind down today. but the trouble is far from over. parts of southeast texas are still getting hammered with heavy rain, floodwaters continue to rise, and the destruction and misery are spreading. this morning, east of houston, port arthur, texas, is getting hit hard. the mayor says the entire city is under water. people are trapped in their homes and residents are being told to go into survival mode. and there are reports of an apartment fire. tropical storm harvey makes its second landfall sometime this morning near the texas/louisiana state line. harvey is expected to produce another 6 to 12 inches of rain from east texas to southwest louisiana. in houston, a midnight to 5:00 a.m. curfew has been imposed. new shelters capable of holding thousands have opened. at least eight deaths are linked to the storm. rescue operations continue and so fare have been pulled from the floodwaters. don champion is in houston. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. some people here in houston finally got a glimpse of the sun before it set last night as th

houston. the heaviest rain may be further off to the southeast of houston.hat's the area 4 to 6 inches an hour just within this band. it hasn't moved a lot. every time i do a weather hit i look and it's barely moved. that's what they are dealing with. that's why we have flash flood watches. the grounds continues to get saturated. we'll see more and more of these flash flood warnings and watches. there is nowhere for this system to go. currently moving east-northeast at 1-mile-an-hour. nowhere for it to go. before too much longer it will have to start settling back down to the coast. we are going to be talking about enough to bring more rain in. here is what we are looking at that circulation as it is 40 miles northwest of victoria, texas towards port lavaca towards the rockport area. san jose island is where it initially made lawful. picking up moisture again and then it begins to drop even more rain. it's early sunday morning right now. sunday into monday, into tuesday, into wednesday. and you see very little movement there. the winds continue to die down,

houston. the power of mother nature on display across southeast texas. and back here in galveston where in a three-hour period, the city received five inches of rain, parts of houston already reporting 20 inches of rain. and their 911 circuits currently are overloaded. the city of houston asking you to call only if it is an emergency. >> so much anguish there. sarah dallof live for us in galveston. thank you. >>> check out some of the photos going viral on social media after harvey hit. that dog you see, his name is otis. he's carrying a bag of dog food in his mouth in synton, texas. during the storm, he got away from his owner. in this photo, he's returning home. from dogs to birds, this is sergeant hurricane harvey. on friday, he flew into a taxi in houston and wouldn't get out. bruceo posted this video and several others on youtube. he even took the hawk before turning it over to wildfire rescue workers yesterday. >>> also this morning in denver, the high school cheerleading coach who forced girls to do splits until they screamed has now been fired. th

right now we are southeast of the city's center of houston, and behind me is state highway 3, and houston is a very low lying area. there's so much cement in the city it has a difficult training and can you find that article on my twitter page. right now in this area we have flash flood emergencies, so typically back in d.c. we only talk about flash flood watches and warnings, and that to another step here. overnight tonight we picked up 15 inches of rain here when it's all said and done around thursday we could see the number doubled or tripled. a lot of people are having difficulty grasping what 30 to 40 inches of rain might look like. let's say we get 30 inches of rain here, that would be 400 inches of snow or 33 feet of snow. imagine the d.c. area getting 33 feet of snow. that's what this area is getting here in houston. last night we had an interesting night. we were trying to get back to the hotel and the water was rising too rapidly. we got safely stranded half a mile away. you could see the water overflowing. we saw a nice sense of community. a mother and her child got stranded to

houston. the heaviest rain may be further off to the southeast of houston. within this band. it hasn't moved a lot. every time i do a weather hit i look and it's barely moved. that's what they are dealing with. that's why we have flash flood watches. the grounds continues to get saturated. we'll see more and more of these flash flood warnings and watches. there is nowhere for this system to go. currently moving east-northeast at 1-mile-an-hour. nowhere for it to go. before too much longer it will have to start settling back down to the coast. we are going to be talking about enough to bring more rain in. here is what we are looking at that circulation as it is 40 miles northwest of victoria, texas towards port lavaca towards the rockport area. san jose island is where it initially made lawful. picking up moisture again and then it begins to drop even more rain. it's early sunday morning right now. sunday into monday, into tuesday, into wednesday. and you see very little movement there. the winds continue to die down, but the rain just sticks with this system

houston. look at league city, southeast of houston proper. 34 inches. that is a yardstick worth of rain. here is where it's rained all 72 hours now worth of rainfall. everywhere you see white, that's 20 inches of rain as predicted by the models days ago. it really came true. so many people have been tweeting saying how come people didn't leave? i think these numbers were truly unbelievable. not that it wouldn't come true, but no one has seen anything like this before. yes, it's still raining. the heaviest rain has moved into louisiana. some benefit for the water release they are going do from the reservoirs. they are not going to get additional rainfall today, then they will put some of that water to make sure the reservoirs don't overflow. here comes the storm back to the gulf of mexico, not long enough for a hurricane, again. long enough to get more moisture and more humidity and power from the gulf of mexico. it's still warm, 86 degrees there. we are still going to see the rainfall forecast especially north of the city, another foot or more. here is what the buffalo buy ayu is going t

houston. everywhere you see white is 20 or more. so far to the southeast of houston, 34.8 inches of rainfall since this time last week. really, it's all been harvey. here comes the rain again. this is the latest radar, raining into louisiana, baton rouge and toward new orleans. not too much in new orleans right now, but we will watch all that because we know of the problems with the pumps. there's a flash warning for houston, not the one issued the day before or the day before that. it is raining again. a couple inches in houston. they need zero. unlike beaumont or arthur picked up eight inches overnight. we are talking three, four, five inches an hour in some spots. that's here. farther to the east seeing rain in baton rouge. here comes the track i'm talking about. remember, this is the storm where it's going to be on wednesday morning. so, 48 hours in the gulf, trying to gather strength and pour water, pour rain on to louisiana, lake charles to beaumont and giving houston a break as the rainfall is east of the center or east of the eye. i don't think it

a much different picture than further southeast in houston where you've seen devastating pictures of houses and biszs completely submerged the president will not see that kind of damage here in corpus christi but will have an opportunity to talk to first responders and people on the scene, joe >> that's right. eamon, fblue skies somewhere let's hope it spreads. let's get back to brian in galveston. i'm back to you. you came to me and now back to you. >> reporter: there you go. it's hard to imagine blue skies. we'd like to have some here the people in this part much texas deserve it in. in our free time we've been trying to go out and talk to people and interview people and i'm going to tell you something, about two hours ago we went out and we drove up to where near where you saw the rescue, jody and jerry kept going and oscar and michael and i were went around galveston they got crushed, got to the point we got so nervous and turned around and came back. we saw a lot of flooding and high winds and some guy left his dog on a second floor porch which ticks me off but the gate was lock

that low-lying suburb southeast of houston is home to about 20,000 people. it has been ravaged by flooding and police are telling everyone, get out. demarco morgan is watching the rescue efforts there in dickinson. he's been there for days. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, norah. if you look behind me, you can see the rain is coming down but nothing has changed when you talk about the floods. when you mentioned that mandatory evacuation, it's partly an order to keep people from trying to get pack to their homes, to get out and do so safely if possible. adam brown is one of the folks who was coming from ston and some of the other surrounding areas trying to help with those rescues. he put his post on facebook, his personal cell number out, if you need my help, reach out and he was flooded with text messages. >> i don't know who they are. i'm not asking for anything. i'm not wanting anything from it. i'm just trying to help people and get them to safety. >> reporter: norah, parts of this area here, the water has started to recede, but not much a

tuesday making landfall again tomorrow and then quickly escape circulation is just just to the southeast of houston over the open waters and you see the bull's-eye of red that continues to develop north of that center which is if houston, points to the north and east. and it extends fow into the panhandle of florida. with the feeder bands coming in from the gulf of mexico. and dealing with heavy rain and additional rain over the next three days. an inch or so in houston. as the system is stag to depart and east. bringing heavy rains and flooding into parts of louisiana up through arkansas and then heading into the tennessee valley. there is the path that it went through south of houston and as it moves into wednesday, thursday and it goes into louisiana and then into tennessee as we get into the end of the week it continues to weaken to a remnant low and approaching west virginia and parts of pennsylvania as we get into the upcoming weekend, winds are not an issue here and flooding rains, not an issue here, even though it's tracking towards us we'll have some remnant rains with this over part of th

nearly 52 inches of rain of cedar buy you which is southeast of houston. the previous record is 48 inches of rain back in 1978. the amount of rain from this storm in five days is equal to two to three years worth of rain in the bay area. san jose yearly average is under 15 inches of rain. san francisco and oakland have a yearly average of 24 inches. ha harvey's total, 51.88 inches over five days. you can see where the storm is spinning off the eastern gulf coast of texas. it's expected to move inland up through louisiana and by thursday into parts of arkansas and northern north western mississippi up into western tennessee and into southern ohio by friday afternoon. not likely to produce the devastation it's already produced in texas but it can produce flooding rain for a wide area. we'll continue to track the storm for you later. >> all right. thank you. >>> it may be dry now but last winter was a reminder of the flooding that can happen here in the bay area. >> in contra costa county they are starting new work to prevent flooding on san pablo. jonathan.

in galveston, to the south southeast in houston, texas, the real story in galveston is flooding.ial story is 50 miles south of here where we are headed later today when the storm is closer to making landfall in the corpus christi area, that is the initial landfall, a category 3 storm. we are talking sustained windss of 120 miles an hour or so. that is a serious storm and a huge departure from what we were expecting just 24 hours ago when we were just expecting a lot of rain and not too much wind. now it is a heavy series hurricane that could do a lot of damage. this will be the first major hurricane since hurricane ike, mandatory evacuations for the south of galveston. mandatory evacuations between the gulf where the water line is through the intracoastal waterway. and houston galveston area, a little further to the north on the dirty side of the hurricane, the right side of the hurricane, they expect it could be three feet of rain, incredible amounts of rain. in the houston area, going to a walmart which we saw people pouring in, the bread was gone, potato chips were gone. here

bring you a personal perspective how people in the houston area are dealing with catastrophic flooding. one photo from dickinson texas, 30 miles southeast break a lot of hearts nationwide right now. this is inside the la vida bella nursing home. shows 15 elderly residents sitting at waist and shoulder-deep water inside the assisted living facility. the photo was texed this morning 8:00 a.m. local time by the owner of the nursing home to her daughter who lives all the way in tampa, florida. she implored her daughter to get help because the water was riegz. you can see in the photo were also pets inside, that's a cat floating on perhaps a bed of some sort. trudy's cell phone died so her daughter kimberly and husband tim tweeted this photo and called emergency services. the photo went viral, some thought it was fake from perhaps hurricane katrina, they sent in the national guard which rescued 15 residents. i spoke to kimberly who said the nursing home was told not evacuate before the storm. >> we immediately called back and were having trouble getting in touch with anybody for rescue, we decided to tweet it because we thought at least then