thunderstorm harvey is headed toward southern texas. going to be dropping a lot of rain in texas and into labor day weekend could be giving us rain here. let check the roads with jack taylor. wtop. hey, jack. >> sheena, good morning. frederick county, i've got chopper 4 headed to the scene. ourish auto is on the lanes of -- the left lane is blocked headed from frederick south toward the 340 split. the outer loop of the beltway, topside out of college park near 95, a reported crash on the right side. 301 at dyson road, accident activity. should now be on scene. back to you. >> thank you, jack. >>> life is an everyday fight for some people who live in annandale. >> there was an immigration raid in february that put a lot of people on edge. now five agents are facing a lawsuit for what happened then. an immigrant rights group says the agents racially profiled the people they arrested the raid happened apartment the fairmont gardens apartments. the people behind the lawsuit say the men happened to be there. >> agents in the field looking for

and perhaps in through parts of southern texas, hopefully avoiding houston and eventually this system pushes off to the northeast and there is a lot of uncertainty here and at some point in six or seven days there is the possibility of more rain in parts of southern texas and hopefully not to houston. tropical storm irma has formed off the coast of africa, this looks to be become a category one hurricane and move across the atlantic and push into toward the leeward islands and start to threaten areas like puerto rico after that. it's a long way off and a lot of uncertainty with this buttish ma is one to watch when it pushes to the east all eyes on the southern portions of the u.s. and the east coast. too soon to say if there is an affect on the united states. >> a lot of time for that thank you. >>> you can get weather updates any time on your mobile device, including real time views from stormtracker 6 live double scan it's a free download in the itunes and google play stores. in other news an elderly couple lost their lives in bucks county overnight. and it shows how intense the fla

in southern texas, floodwaters are expected to reach their peak on friday, nearly a week after hurricanearvey hit land. hello. i am hello. lam ben hello. i am ben bland hello. lam ben bland in hello. i am ben bland in london. also coming up on the programme: a ground—breaking new cancer treatment that uses the body's own immune system gets approval in the us. no match, but plenty of action as the english premier league transfer deadline passes. we'll take a look at some of the biggest deals. glad you could join us. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 3:30am in the morning in delhi, where the full impact of the devastating floods across south asia is now becoming clear. heavy rains at this time of year are not unusual, but the sheer loss of life certainly is. more than 1200 people are believed to have died in the region. relief agencies are struggling to get help to millions of people who have been affected. the monsoon rains are the heaviest that india, nepal and bangladesh have seen in decades. the bbc‘s sanjoy majumder has this report. weeks after the worst flooding in decad

. >> what's happening right now in southern texas is just unprecedented. the u.s. national weather service says it is beyond anything experienced before. and it warns that worst may still be to come. the storm has killed two people. rescue crews are scrambling to reach people trapped by floodwaters. helicopters have been working around the clock. rescuing those who are strand id. coast guard say they will continue rescue efforts throughout the night. ordinary people have been helping their neighbors. >> hundreds of flood victims have found shelter at houston convention serpt. o center. one of several people open by the city's mayor for those getting away from rising floodwaters. right there. it must be earlier shot because it is empty. u.s. president donald trump is set to visit the state on tuesday. >> meteorologist derek van dam is just southwest of houston now. he has been covering this for us the last few days. derek, first i want to tap into your national international experience here. you used to work in south africa. you covered a lot to cover various weathe

as we await daylight, the situation worsens in southern texas.re rain is in the forecast, and there's simply nowhere for it to go. president trump says he will visit the area tuesday. there are stories of heroism. neighbors and people from states away helping each other in the depth of this catastrophe. the latest. two people are dead. 262,000 more without power. many of houston's sprawling freeways simply impossible with abandoned cars and semis literally littering the road. last night in darkness a traffic camera caught this moment. a water rescue effort in katy, texas, just outside of houston. first responders there pulling the person from the flat bed of a truck. now, as of yesterday afternoon the harris county sheriff's office said there had been 1,500 to 2,000 high water rescues since harvey began. the warnings, as you can imagine, dire. emergency management officials requesting if the highest floors of people's homes become too dangerous, get on the roof. do not stay in the attic. >> you can see the water come up, come up, making sure all

the storm prompting mandatory evacuations in southern texas. some sheriffs telling residents-- if they remain in their homes, they may be on their own when harvey makes landfall. abc's janai norman has more. we are keeping a close eye on harvey close eye on harvey all morning long. stay with us for continuing coverage..on air and online. don't forget to download the stormwatch seven weather app -- and follow us on facebook and twitter. right now-- a sailor from gaithersburg- among the missing after the u-s-s john s. mccain collided with an oil tanker near singapore this week. electronics technician second class kevin bushnell graduated from gaithersburg high school in 2009. he and nine other sailors remain missing. his community - now grieving. the navy has called off its sea search -- searching flooded compartments aboard the damaged ship. a man is in custody, after allegedly grabbing two women on an arlington trail.. and exposing himself to them. 22-year-old marvin sosa velasquez of falls church was arrested wednesday afternoon, shortly after

it's going to be around southern texas area for the weekend. that could be dropping 25 to 30 inches of rainfall. really bad news for texas. we'll be staying updated through the weekend. radar showing light rain through calvert beach. that's approximate it. some patchy fog for manassas, warrenton. front royal, less than a half mile visibility. temperatures, mid to low 60s. if you're exercising today, it's going to be fantastic. we'll see a mix of clouds and sunshine. 78 degrees by lunchtime. 80 degrees by noon. your weekend is looking great. nice and dry. tuesday is the next chance of rain. an area of low pressure offshore. we're watching the potential remnants of harvey next week. more details coming up. >>> let's check the roads on this finally friday with jack taylor. good morning, jack. >> good morning, sheena. southbound on the 270 spur at democracy boulevard, the one lingering flashing light is what's left of an accident that involved a motorcyclist who missed the ramp on democracy boulevard. volume is now very light and almost without dela

flooding in southern texas in case you have interests down there. 82 degrees is the high around here. sunny and pleasant. no issues. tomorrow, bright and beautiful, 79. for the weekend, saturday and sunday, upper 70s, lots of sun, low humidity, great tailgating for the soul and the union game, phillies, as well. monday, dry, comfortable highs in the upper 70s. tuesday and wednesday that's when we get a clouds and sun mix with a pop-up shower or thunderstorm in the afternoon or evening, after the next five yot be i'm ready for rain. >> a handful of rain if today is your birthday, happy birthday. 5:42 a.m., a little girl on a mission is bringing smiles to a local police department. >> politician is proposing a controversial strategy to ward off smashing attacks. hear from a paddleboarder who had a close call with the great white. >> why the president of girl scouts is sending a warning to the president of boy scouts. >> reporter: construction 422 by troupe -- trooper road, changes coming to 202 and also s delays when "action news" continues on this thursday morning. ♪ health, is having

this is going to inundate parts of southern texas, houston, one of the latest this is what i was showing you earlier today. this is one computer model, 10 to 20 inches, one of the latest ones has isolated rainfall total for corpus christy near 40 inches. this could be incredible frooding. we saw it in tropical storm al is in 2002. this is something we're going to talk a lot about over the next couple days. i think it will come our way. take a look at next week, thursday, tracking harvey, it could impact our labor day weekend. first this weekend, absolutely gorgeous but a little on the cool side, if you're heading to the beach, camping, take the sweatshirt because we are talking cool numbers there, i think many areas will see numbers in the mid to upper 50s as we move on through the weekend, really a very cool forecast. averages 86, we could be below average almost the entire 10 day forecast. >> lot of us might be glad to put on a sweatshirt. >> open the windows after. >>> coming up a welcome return for the redskins but will we see read in the preseason. >> sports next, but ♪ hey, is this

texas. up to 25 inches in som southern t expect locally from the r harvey. we could see that rain through part of your labor day weekend. we'll look at that coming up and i'll show you where things are heading coming up. >>> what a sight. the impressive new display turning heads and the powerful >>> the national park service is celebrating its 101st birthday by letting your you and your family enter free. they're waiving -- about 127 of the parks usually charge an entrance fee. there are dozens of national parks in our own backyard. you can look for a list of the parks on our nbc washington app. >>> a huge new mural in the diri it features the iconic image of a seated abraham lincoln, but it's not intended to honor the former president. news 4's tom sherwood takes a closer look at the artwork of the workers who helped build one. most iconic monuments. >> the old industrial neighborhood of he canning ton in northeast, a new mural finished this week, already drawing praise. consumer a attorney and amateur photographer flavio -- >> honoring abraham lincoln and

the storm will sit and rain itself out over southern texas. we'll see tremendous amount of flooding. we have another model that suggests it will loop d loop inland and drift back over the open waters of the gulf of mexico, these waters are very, very warm. if it drifts back over the water, look for reintensification it could become a tropical storm and hurricane again. in that particular forecast model is correct, we'll have to wait to see where it goes from that point on. over the next five days we're expecting 30 inches of rain around victoria in texas. i'll have more on this and our local weather here when i come back in just a few minutes. >> folks, we continue to get new images this morning that show the destruction of hurrican harvey. this video right here, you're looking this is from rock port, texas where the storm made landfall. buildings and homes damaged, trees and treat lights toppled over. at one point winds topped 130 miles per hour. as daylight approaches we'll get a better look at the devastation. when hurricane harvey made lan

i think they'll see a lot of flooding in parts of southern texas. you're right, this weekend won't impact our weather. that's going to stay in texas. next weekend, labor day, unfortunately, that's when we're looking at it impacting us with the remnants of what harvey is. i'm going to show you that in a second. where it's heading the track of all that and the timing. for this morning, we have nice weather. feeling like fall, unseasonably cool weather patterns through the weekend and tropical storm harvey here for labor day weekend could be giving us issues with our weather. i'll show you that again. 72 in washington. 61 in frederick. we have a lot of lows. 67 in clinton. 73 annapolis. feels really nice outside. here's that school day forecast i was promising you. by 7:00 a.m., it's going to be cool and crisp. 70 degrees through the afternoon. only around 80 degrees. in the gulf of mexico, there's tropical storm harvey. it has not moved on shore yet. it could briefly become a hurricane right before landfall and that's what would give parts of texas suc

coming up we will have the latest track and strength of harvey and latest rainfall forecast for southern texas, for now back to guess contact. >>> kate, our hearts are certainly with all of those people in texas and we will update you on that. in the meantime back here in haddonfield, one of the unique pieces of history, here in haddonfield is its fire company, fire department is the second oldest, volunteer, volunteer fire company in the country, as a museum inside celebrates what would have been a treacherous profession until 17 and 1800. two hand pumps are perfectly preserved showing how physical that job was for those who had to work the water. >> back in the old days you didn't have the masks, you just went in. it was a thrill, pleasure helping people in the town. you are helping somebody. you are doing a town a favor by helping people in the town, >> psychology has come a long way since day of leather buckets and water and flannel shirts. today department is state of the art and volunteers respond to about 500 to 600 fire alarms every year. >>> we are still in summer. not a whole lot of

the north and bringing another round of rain in parts of texas and parts of mexico and parts of southern texas. there is an outside chance that this becomes a tropical feature and pushes up in this direction. hope in addition we have tropical storm irma was this was to be the name of yesterday's rain maker and it does not reach tropical status and the name is available. this sought in the atlantic off the coast of africa, it looks over the next five or six days and grows into the hurricane and makes its way into the leeward islands and perhaps areas closer to the u.s. after that. we'll keep our eyes on it. too soon to say if it's a u.s. affecting storm. >> too soon but people are worried. >> two senior citizens died when their home caught fire in bucks county and the fire was so intensive crews had to back away. >> katherine scott is following the story from kings lane in bensalem. >> reporter: these flames are very quick and moved quickly you see what is left of the home the windows are broken out and the structure is charred and the homeowners are long time residents here both in their 80s t

this morning, the national hurricane center says harvey is causing catastrophic flooding in southern texas. in houston up to 19 inches of rain has fallen in the city in the last six hours. right now, harvey is a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. harvey blasted on to the texas gulf coast late friday as mastiff category 4 hurricane. here is latest what we know right now. two people are confirmed dead. more than a dozen have been injured. more than 200,000 homes and business remain without power across the state. six counties have been declared federal disaster areas. storm surges up to 12 feet are predicted in some places. we have team of correspondents. let's go to mark strassmann in houston. >> good morning, one of america's most major cities is quiet this morning and take a look you can see why. this city is under a flood emergency. people have been ordered to stay inside but urged to stay inside the reason is obvious. this is a bit of a lull in the storm system. as light as rain has fallen all day. on the radar it shows that this city is going to get pound

the devastation in southern texas in its fifth day, but the consequences have only just begun. >> asare inundated with images of human suffering, some of the stars are using that to help what's best for men. >> hi, everybody. we've been watching everything going down in houston, and our hearts are just breaking. >> we're going to get a boat for you. >> we're praying for you and god bless all of you. >> j-lo and a-rod sent prayers and a donation for hurricane relief. they pledged $25,000 each and so did the rock. >> i want to send a message to the people of houston. you got to stay strong and hold on to faith. >> the rock's pal, kevin hart, has been leading the celeb charge for support. >> let's help. let's really, really try to save some lives. >> hart set up this fund-raising page with the red cross. this morning, the kardashians responded big time. kim tweeted, houston, we are praying for you. my mom, sisters and i will be donating $500,000. "e.t." spoke today with country music star, clint black. >> personally, being a houstonian, i want to give a shoutout to all the first respond

roads wet along the entire southern coast from the carolinas to southern texas and has nothing to doh tropical storm harvey. roads will be wet up through the rockies to the canadian border. >>> if you're flying airport delays are most likely in miami. >>> well, there's growing concern about sharks this morning after several close encounters on the east coast. >> yeah, cameras caught several sharks in a feeding frenzy off long island. a school of fish quickly turned into lunch. look at that. and in massachusetts on cape cod, a close call for a man on a paddleboard. he was only in about three feet of water when he had an encounter with a shark. it sank its teeth into the board but missed the rider. >> i count my blessings from god because when i'm paddling if i was still prone and paddling and bit there i wouldn't have an arm. >> a local official has a controversial yad to keep sharks away and wants to toss baited drum lines near beach destinations using hooks to catch and kill the big fish. experts say the plan won't make the beaches any safer. >>> so you can add one more downside to

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millions across southern texas are bracing themselves for harvey's third record breaking landfall. as the national weather service puts out another flash flood warning around beaumont, texas as residents fight for their lives against another torrential downpour. thousands of city in houston are looking under a mandatory curfew. harvey is now marking as the most extreme rain event to ever hit the nation. now the ninth fatality is reported. we're learning in some of the lives lost among them houston police officer sergeant steve perez. a 34-year veteran who was on his way to help flood victims. >> we find him and it was too treacherous to go under to look for him. we made a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we want to recover him last night we could not put more officers at risk for a recovery mission. >> federal and local agencies say over 18,000 people have now been rescued in houston and the surrounding areas, with over 17,000 evacuees in shelters. the floodwaters keep rising, even pouring into this shelter in port arthur, forcing evacuee

to hit the us mainland in more than a decade has unleashed powerful winds and driving rain on southern texass have been brought down by winds of up to 130 miles an hour. hurricane harvey made landfall overnight near the city of corpus christi on the texas coast. rain and rising sea levels are expected to bring flooding in the coming hours — with forecasts of up to a metre of rain. catriona renton reports. powerful, dangerous and terrifying. hurricane henry hit texas overnight, with high winds and heavy rain. —— hurricane harvey hit texas overnight. when it made landfall it was a category four hurricane capable of causing catastrophic damage. this is a hurricane that will come inland, and then is going to hover for a long period of time. it could be days. harvey has been billed as the most powerful storm to hit the us mainland in more than a decade. the strongest to hit texas in over 50 years. this is harvey from above. the storm system is ten miles wide, bringing winds of up to 130 mph, and a metre of rain is expected to fall. corpus christi was in the eye of the storm when it hit. the stree

. >>> catastrophic situation developing, still developing, across southern texas emergency services from all across the country, including right here in our area, are sending resources to the region to help. "action news" reporter christie ileto has more on specially trained members of the search and rescue teams already on the way, but first annie mccormack is live in center city with details about the huge effort being made by the american red cross, annie. >> reporter: walter, the ceo for eastern pennsylvania chapter of the red cross said about 10,000 volunteers are expect, to go down south, from the organization, from across the country, to the volunteers , hit the road around 4:30 this afternoon and she says in the coming days and weeks more volunteers from our area will be headed down as well. emotional departure for people heading, and ready for everything, both women have been helped by red cross at some point in their lives. they really helped me, because i who part of my house, in florida, and then in return, i want to help, the people who who their house, especially because, i

i've been speaking to people who have brought their boats 400 miles from southern texas because they appeal for boats and they answered the call. i spoke to one man who's rescued 60 people in his boat since yesterday. there's a limit to the number of boats, the authorities have said, that are suitable for this terrain as there is only a couple of inches of water, so it's a crisis situation and the authorities are doing everything they can to keep up but the demand is huge. there's more than 70,000 people in shelters in houston, 33,000 in texas, and the authorities are warning it could take years to recover from this. as we reported yesterday severe flooding has hit the indian city of mumbai, where monsoon rains have killed at least five people, including two toddlers. it's the latest place to be hit by floods in south asia during the monsoon season, which has affected millions of people across india, nepal and bangladesh. over 1,200 people are estimated to have died. ben rich from bbc weather explains what's going on. rain does not fall continuously and uniformly across south asia al

officials using words like life threatening and catastrophic to describe the flooding anticipated in southern texas. rainfall totals expected to rise as high as 3 feet from a storm system that will hover in place for days to come. our correspondents and crews are deployed across the region. we start with nbc's gabe gutierrez in corpus christi. hi, gabe. >> reporter: lester, good evening. the wind and the rain is intensifying and high tide is fast approaching. more than 30,000 homes and businesses are already without power, and it's not clear exactly how many people heeded that dire warning to evacuate. tonight, a stubborn, meandering and powerful hurricane harvey, now a category 3, is lashing the texas coast about to make landfall as the strongest storm to hit this state in nearly half a century. >> i think it's going to be really bad. my whole street's probably going to be extremely flooded, under water. >> reporter: winds up to 125 miles an hour, life-threatening storm surge up to 12 feet and torrential rain for day, as much as 3 feet in some areas. population centers further inland such as houst

hopefully they can provide federal funding or possibly help out the right side in southern texas. host:'on that note, the president -- on that note, the president and congress? he has veto power, if he does not approve of what congress does, they give some leverage in the negotiating process. we have not seen a lot in this administration. disagreements between republicans and democrats and republicans. i hope he comes together. toing they n come together figure out what to do about infrastructure and taxes. there are a lot of things the federal government needs to work on. we need cooperation between the executive and legislative branch in order to get the rescue package together. host: on the issue of the rescue package, from a local newspaper on capitol hill, money does not deal with the hurricane carnage. sayingesident mike pence they believe ample federal funds are on hand. mike pence has a different gold and other vice presidents when it comes to disaster response? he has had a very active role in the administration in terms of being their voice on capitol hill and representi

tropical storm harvey is pummelling southern texas, 70-mile-per-hour winds and torrential rain are giving officials reason to believe the worst is yet to come. despite harvey being downgraded from a hurricane, life threatening floods are still expected in the coming days. i want to bring in robert rocha, he's the fire chief of corpus christi, a city which is also seen and experienced some damage. so, chief, what are you seeing right now? >> good afternoon, everybody. the city of corpus christi was hit last night by hurricane harvey. we had a lot of downed power lines. we had some water, we had some high winds. we do have debris in the streets. and some lights are out. what we are seeing is wide areas of the community are without electrical power. it's impacting us greatly because it gets pretty warm down here during the summer. so we expect power to be off for days, maybe even weeks. >> oh, my goodness. and then what about any rescue or recovery efforts? how does that power outage issue impact that? and what are you finding as you look for people? >> well, during the night when the storm

tropical storm harvey is pummelling southern texas, 70-mile-per-hour winds and torrential rain are givingeason to believe the worst is yet to come. despite harvey being downgraded from a hurricane, life threatening floods are still expected in the coming days. i want to bring in robert rocha, he's the fire chief of corpus christi, a city which is also seen and experienced some damage. so, chief, what are you seeing right now? >> good afternoon, everybody. the city of corpus christi was hit last night by hurricane harvey. we had a lot of downed power lines. we had some water, we had some high winds. we do have debris in the streets. and some lights are out. what we are seeing is wide areas of the community are without electrical

this is southern baptist hospital in beaumont, texas. evacuating patients because the hospital no longer has running water. you see military personnel on the scene there. helicopters parked off in the grass. medical personnel bringing out, you see the patients, wheelchairs, gurneys, otherwise here. again, this hospital forced to evacuate when they lost running water a bit earlier today. you see -- see the cameras. we're watching pictures as you are. but you see -- gurneys, medical personnel there. military personnel and medical personnel assisting a patient. watch this play out. again, a reminder. you just saw anderson cooper with a coast guard crew. these look like army or national guard helicopters on the ground here. military now part of the remarkable heroism playing out across the houston area in texas. five days after harvey made landfall, the aftermath still being felt despite the rain stopping. beaumont, southern baptist hospital, again, forced to evacuate patients because they lost running water. you see the military personnel c

on the southern coast of texas. the storm which was the largest storm to hit u.s.nland in over a decade. came in overnight as a category 4, pounding the state of texas and millions of its residents. the winds hit 130 miles an hour. they knocked down trees and power poles and signs. texans are starting to wake up to the damage. we don't know the full extent yet. but we promise we'll keep you posted throughout the course of the hour. >>> in the meantime, another political storm was brewing in washington, d.c. last night president trump created so much news that i can't ignore. the pardoning of sheriff joe arpaio, the resignation of sebastian gorka and the signing of transgenders order in the military. professor zellazer, as pardons go, where does this rank, some are for more egregious ones? >> there controversial ones, president clinton when he pardoned mark rich. with connections to the family. and the most famous, for richard nixon for crimes he might have committed. and george h.w. bush pardoning several members of the reagan administration including caspar weinbe

. >>> meanwhile, president trump toured some of the devastation in southern texas yesterday and praised the people of that state for their resolve. the president arriving in missouri. you're looking at a live picture just a few moments ago where he will deliver a kickoff speech of sorts on tax reform. joining me for now is martha mccallum. martha, good to see you. >> good to see you, sandra. >> sandra: in addition to the president just landing there, of course he'll be talking tax reform, the images still coming out of texas and southern louisiana, just so heart breaking. >> stunning. you look at these scenes in port arthur, where people are in a shelter and they're laying on cots and the water is rising around them as they're sleeping. so this is what the president obviously has on his mind as he heads to missouri and tries to move forward with some of the agenda. while he lets everybody on the ground do the work that they are well equipped to do. it's an obvious natural incredible disaster that texas is dealing with. so the federal government has to try to mete it as it can. they appe

or southern texas at this hour. but that they were texas right now, we will talk about more at 11:00, it's happening now. the hurricane happened, but it is continuing to rain. the rain that they're getting tonight is almost as bad as the rain this all last night. >> it is sunday four. >> the next 24 hours for houston will be crucial.>>> a medical emergency of the 14 whole. how quick thinking help saved a golfer's life after he suddenly collapsed. >>> the giants played a little long ball against the padres in san diego. we will have sports coming up next. it's time for the biggest sale oit senses and automaticallyep adjusts on both sides. the new 360 smart bed is part of our biggest sale of the year where all beds are on sale. and right now save 50% on the labor day limited edition bed. >>> this portion of ktvu news sponsored by northern california lexus dealer. >>> stop the presses. the giants won tonight. >> after the weekend they had about -- against arizona, look like the minor happen again. home runs over the pla

. >> we have new video out of southern texas tonight. post hurricane flooding is d displacing more animals and people. take a look at this large herd of cows. animals ininstinctatively seek higher ground from floods and other natural disasters. we continue our team coverage with mariany fabro now. we've been watching the dramatic rescues all day. these firefighters are badly needed. >> reporter: yes, they certainly are. and i can tell you this morning they received a call from texas leaders at 6:00 a.m. and by 6:00 tonight, they were called off onto the road heading to texas to help flood victim. and this is the very first time they've been asked to deploy since hurricane katrina. with many neighborhoods submerged rescuers in houston saying they can't keep up with the calls for help. their boats can omhold so many flood victims. water is taking thousands to higher ground. which is why these bay area firefighters are answering the call for help. this afternoon this urban search and rescue task force quickly packed up boats, gear, and gene

category 2 status overnight it looks like it has a chance of being a category 3 as the slams the southern texas gulf coast around corpus christi sometime saturday. looks like it's kind of meandering around dumping more and more rain in houston through corpus christi all the way up to overnight wednesday and it might spread east toward new orleans. a lot of rain on the way, and a a lot of wind, too. tough stuff in texas t. 68 on saturday, 6 on sunday. down the shore, not bad, 77 degrees today. highs around 76 on saturday and sunday, low risk of rip currents expected this weekend. down the shore next week, starting around tuesday, rip current issue may come back with the coastal low coming up the coast. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 79 degrees, mostly sunny and nice. nice tomorrow, 78. sunday, 78 degrees lots of sun, low humidity great for all our activities. monday, partly sunny, nice, monday's high, 78. 77 on tuesday, partly sunny skies we'll take out the chance of a shower or thunderstorm on tuesday, but we're leaving it in on wednesday and thursday, it looks like it gets chopp

hurricane harvey's second act across southern texas is turning into an economic catastrophe -- with damagesely to stretch into tens of billions of dollars and an unusually large share of victims lacking adequate insurance. harvey's cost could mount to $30 billion when including the impact of relentless flooding on the labor force, power grid, transportation and other elements that support the region's energy sector. that would place it among the top eight hurricanes to ever strike the u.s.how whole foods' lower prices will affect you . . . don't expect bargains galore -- at least, not yet -- as amazon takes over whole foods market, but price cuts starting today on some key items will certainly make for a nice start. amazon says it is going to slash the price on a basket of items ranging from organic fuji apples to "responsibly-farmed" tilapia, but hasn't specified by how much. yet the idea that the upscale natural-foods- oriented chain with an outsized reputation for hefty price tags -- remember its derisive moniker: "whole paycheck" -- is charging less has consumers and the grocery industr

we are talking about galveston and central and southern texas. started off the weekend in corpus christi. people have forgotten corpus christi is heavily impacted. winds and heavy rain tore the area up when hurricane harvey made landfall back on friday night. focused as the storm moves eastbound and pouring rain over houston. houston being a large city is severely impacted and this is a criticism that the mayor of houston got. why didn't you evacuate the city? he looked back at the history of the city. when hurricane rita hit, mass evacuations. people died trying to evacuate he was thinking how big the city it is and how difficult it is to move all the people. jonathan: dire situation there. coming to us from sugar land, texas, thank you for your report. michelle: in a small break in the heavy rains some flew drones over houston. you can see the devastation and how widespread it is in houston. it was a brief pause as new bands of rain moves in. jacquelyn kelly from our sister station wear is in the midst of things there. describe conditions. we s

to take away the water that is now flooding many of these structures and communities in southern texasiana and so far he's done that. i would point out too that when you populate your administration with generals, organizationally you have people in very important, very critical places who know how to deal organizationally with these situations. >> i'm glad you mentioned the president's wardrobe because there's an allegations that the president has crossed another boundary. this tweet, he makes sure he's carrying the hats he's advertising, suggested to be $40 on the campaign website. this is the u.s.a. cap he was seen wearing over the weekend. right now in the grand scheme of things is that a big deal or something we should let slide. >> i think we need to care about who the victims are and to provide services. is it inpreeappropriate i think. but not the biggest thing to deal with today. big focus should be congress giving funds to deal with this in texas. >> john, again, it seems the president gets criticized for everything these days, can't get anything write for some people, you sa

we are following the catastrophic and unprecedented flooding in southern texas., millions perhaps of people to flee their homes. more than 2,000 rescues we've learned have already been made today. and not just humans need saving. this is posted by a storm chaser who drove right into the path of hurricane harvey. >> hey, guys. i'm on my way back to austin from victoria, texas. and i've picked up a little passenger here. i stopped for gas, and this guy was following me down the road. and when i stopped he jumped into the jeep. i really need help trying to find this guy's owner. we'll call him harvey, but i need help trying to find his owner. so if you could share, tweet, whatever you can do to help. i found him in rung, texas. thanks. >> now, a storm chaser, erin jackson, is joining us now. you have some good news. you found the dog's owner. >> i did find him. >> so do you know how they got separated? >> the owner he was on call for work, and i think the dog got scared and jumped from his kennel. >> i know you took a moment to took with us. where are you headed rig

hurricane harvey's second act across southern texas is turning into an economic catastrophe -- with damageso stretch into tens of billions of dollars and an unusually large share of victims lacking adequate insurance. harvey's cost could mount to $30 billion when including the impact of relentless flooding on the labor force, power grid, transportation and other elements that support the region's energy sector. that would place it among the top eight hurricanes to ever strike the u.s.how whole foods' lower prices will affect you . . . don't expect bargains galore -- at least, not yet -- as amazon takes over whole foods market, but price cuts starting today on some key items will certainly make for a nice start. amazon says it is going to slash the price on a basket of items ranging from organic fuji apples to "responsibly-farmed" tilapia, but hasn't specified by how much. yet the idea that the upscale natural-foods- oriented chain with an outsized reputation for hefty price tags -- remember its derisive moniker: "whole paycheck" -- is charging less has consumers and the grocery industry con

emergency rescues underway across houston and much of southern texas.rescue all of those in trouble? we have reporters across the area as tropical storm harvey continues to drop rain now talking about up to 50 inches in some places. america's news headquarters from washington. i am leland vittert.

historic rain in southern texas leaving some drivers stranded and high waters, some areas getting 7 inchesin, knocking out power to residents. one man saying he got trapped in his suv because of flooding. a storm system moving through texas started over the weekend and traveled east. forecasters are seeing the rain has moved out, while the high temperatures moved back in. >> jon: now this fox news alert, president trump threatens to unleash fire and fury on north korea if they keep provoking the united states. joe lieberman saying he has no problem with president trump's choice of words. >> i'm not upset about them because we've tried for years and years with diplomatic language and what else of north koreans and it hasn't worked. this goes back to the '90s when president clinton, and really good faith negotiated an agreement with kim jong-un's father, which gave the north koreans billions of dollars in returns for a promise to stop their nuclear program and put the brakes on it and stop it altogether. they essentially took the money and ran. >> jon: i'm joined now by a research fellow for

know even celebrities now that everyone liked to talk about, maybe come forward to help here in southern texasalready see, the nation coming together. liz: katrina pearson thank you for your time. >> great to be here. liz: louisiana is in path of this tropical storm, we'll have more on that stor afterr this. e if you get punished for using it? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. reporter: for the last segment today we wanted to focus on acts of kindness in can. what i have been struck by is the neighbor helping neighbor. community helping one another. liz: we'll have continued coverage of tropical storm harvey tonight during the 7:00 p.m. eastern hour. be sure to tune in. thank you for having us in your homes. we have connell mcshane here now with "making money." conservative this is a developing story as our covering continues of tropical storm harvey. we have reports of north korea firing a missile. with that we welcome you to "making money." i'm connell mcshane in new york. with these pictures on

the worst to the north and it drifts there all weekend long and that creates major concerns for southern texas. and in fact 12 to 24 inches of rain. ice lighted spots of 12 to 30 inches. a years worth of rain causing major flooding. the first major hurricane to hit the u.s. in 30 years, since women wilma in 2005. we had katrina in the gust coast states. we'll have more on our forecast which is a lot quieter than this. >>> looking at the forecast the coast of corpus christi they are bracing for impact. this could be a hurricane three hurricane when it makes land fall. at least two cities are ordering mandatory evacuations as harvey approaches the coastline. they have issued the orders today just hours after forecasters expect the heavy wins and rains from the storm to begin. forecasters say this could be a major hurricane to hit the middle texas coastline. they are calling for a storm surge as harvey intensifies faster than previously forecast. >> it doesn't take much more than a 3 to 4 foot surge and that could be a problem going into the weekend. >> this could be the first hurricane to hit te

it's hapning all across southern texas area right now. let's get the latest frorecast live from the cnn weather center. meteorologist tom sater is monitoring tropical storm harvey. there's another tropical storm or system forming as well. what lies ahead? >> in florida last night 7 to 13 inches of rain fell. they had to evacuate several residents over 62 homes were flooded. the storm is actually off the coast of jacksonville. and it most likely will become tropical storm irma. already some watches in effect along the coast. that's another story. we'll cover that one tomorrow. but right now, what we have seen in the last 12 hours is expansion of the precipitation shield to the north and east. with that even some thunderstorms. here are just a few of the locations. these are going to continue to be updated. we have had a 30-inch total already. what's interesting about these, they are all different counties. and the list goes on and on. now i want to share something with you. dr. ryan mou wi study all things weather. he calculated how much r

. >> we have team coverage across the storm zone in southern texas this morning. first let's head straight to tom llamas in another neighborhood in houston with some of those remarkable rescues that have been going on. tom, good morning. >> reporter: amy, good morning to you. this rain just will not stop and this is no doubt going to hurt the rescue effort today. there are certain and rescue teams pouring into houston. helicopter fleet right now in this city and here's the reason why. so many neighborhoods completely flooded. these transformers right here swamped so no electricity and the deeper you go, the darker it gets unless you're on a boat or helicopter, you're not getting out. this morning, houston families trying to stay above water. so many piling into canoes. rafts and rescue baskets. standing on roofs waving, yelling. anything to escape the relentless rain and rising water. producer joe completion from ktrk broadcasting live as the water inside his home grew from a few puddles to several feet of sludge. >> when it started coming in, it was just -- it wa

. >> we have team coverage across the storm zone in southern texas this morning. first let's head straight to tom llamas in another neighborhood in houston with some of those remarkable rescues that have been going on. people in the area, the neighbors actually taken to their own boats to save some of these people. tom, good morning to you. >> reporter: amy, good morning. this rain just won't stop. take a look at this it all builds up right here. this is hampering the search and rescue effort right now. teams from all over the current have poured in houston to help out. 50% of the coast guard helicopter fleet is on the ground trying to rescue people. and other people as well. regular citizens are going deep into these neighborhoods that are flooded out rescuing their fellow neighbors. this morning, houston families trying to stay above water. so many piling into canoes. rafts and rescue baskets. standing on roofs waving, yelling, anything to escape the relentless rain and rising water. producer joe gleason from ktrk broadcasting live as the water inside his home g