relatively unpopulated, not a busy area and along the coastline as well. 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

the one thing i can say about that, this is a very unpopulated area, it came over rock port, again an of 10,000 people, a far cry from what would happen in houston where you've got millions of people or even corpus christi which has 300,000. that may be the saving grace tonight. the biggest impact from this is not going to be the wind. winds at 130 miles an hour, it is going to be the rainfall over the next couple of days. you can see where the storm is. look what happens here. it moves inland, becomes a category 2 by tomorrow morning, still a category 1 during the -- tom. 75 miles an hour winds. and it's sitting there for days. the latest computer models next thursday or friday. that's why this is going to be such a prolific rainmaker. we saw winds of 131 miles an hour in rock port, now down to 3 miles an hour. they are in the eye of the storm. you can see it right there. it's around porter ranch which gusted around 130 miles an hour. that is the eye, the yellow and red making their way inland, it's moving about 8 miles an hour. it's starting to slow. this area is going to take a be

today those areas are no longer unpopulated areas. housing development pushed people that far west from houston and beyond. but those two dams are still there. one of them is 11 niles long, one of them is 13 miles long. and when the storms still come and the rain falls and the rivers rise in southeast texas, those two dams are still at the heart of how houston copes. the two manmade reservoirs that build up behind those dams that they built in the 1940s, to have still what protecting houston from the uncriminontrollable in dags of flood water. and those reservoirs are now famous nationwide because of what's happening in houston with the largest rainfall event in u.s. history. the two reservoirs behind the two dams. today the attics started overflowing this morning. that's the first time it's ever happened. the other one, the barker reservoir, they thought it might start overflowing tomorrow. authorities say they expect that to happen tonight. and everybody has been reporting for the last couple of days now on how authorities had to ma

the 130 miles per hour winds unpopulated areas further to the north. i want to throw up the brand new forecast path that they come out with. they come out every six hours as you know. it is -- just watch. it goes up and then it does the button hook by sunday into monday into tuesday. >> oh, man that's the worst possible -- >> in a little triangle. we're not concerned with it going back out over the gulf and regenerating into another big hurricane. but the fact that it will suck moisture off the coast for five to six days, we have yet to get to the historic part of this storm. that is yet to occur. this was one portion. part a. part b is going to be so much worse than part a. >> perhaps ending up in the bayou city of houston where they don't need any more groundwater either. bill karins, thank you so much. there is an acting director at the national hurricane center. he is among the busier men in this country tonight and we have a few minutes with ed rapoport. he's been kind enough to join us from the national hurricane center. ed, do you remember in yo

knocked it down quickly.and to the east of carson city, a massive smoke plume is rising from an unpopulatedert wildland area. and even though there were no fires reported in the mountains closer to lake tahoe, firefighters say lightning could hit a tree today, but start a wildfire much later.battalion chief jim drennan/ south lake tahoe fire and rescue:"days and days really, because they can just kind of smolder in the duff. and so because of that we can see a fire start up long after the storm came through." (grant) dennis shanahan reporting. while most of california is no longer experiencing drought conditions, fire officials are warning people ahead of the upcoming labor day weekend. they are asking people to be cautious and safe... because things are warm and dry out there. (vicki) still ahead... a woman steals 18 bottles of liquor by stashing it in a unique place... and it was all caught on camera... and amazon is getting into the education industry... the new tool that helps kids in grade school with writing skills... new tonight at ten....san francisco's crissy field likely to be the

not the president accidentally blirting into something that sounded like sympathy for people with unpopulated political views. this is on purpose. the president building up and trying to center up in american politics a long standing force in white american politics and culture that we have been trained to think of as a fringe thing. but it does have a very long history and it does have real force. the president is not messing up here. he did not trip and accidentally praise white supremacists and ke neo-nazis who actually killed somebody that week. he is building up something that was a long standing force for political power and terror in this country for generations and he is now doing what he can to help them come back. and partisan affiliations come and gone, right? the party having the huge fight over the klan in 1924 was the party of the civil rights act. parties change, party affiliations change, ideological ie laneses come and go, candidates come and go to the point that we can't remember the names of most presidential candidates not too long down the road in history. whether you vot

the rest of the area, pretty much unpopulated compared to houston, certainly not as populated as new york city. this storm right now has a lower pressure than sandy. a lower pressure than -- it's a hurricane hunter aircraft at 7 0urks --. still, look how large the storm is. it goes from mississippi down to brownsville. we know it will go to the u.s. for a while. after that, there is no idea. the models have no idea what's going on because there is a big high pressure that's going to land right there. and it's going to say, nope, you can't go any further and some models actually turn it to the south, maybe gaining strength. five days of rainfall. a foot, 2323. everywhere you see white, over 25 inchds. let's put 25 inches on the entire straight of baltimore. the water is going to have nowhere to go. it's going to try to get into the gulf of mexico and it going to get into the rivers and flood. there are going to be river floods in this area that no one has ever seen before. and i'm afraid that people say, it didn't flood in allison. i'm going to be fine. this will pale alison. this wil

. >> allison, for the area, is it populated or unpopulated, dense or not where this crash happened. >reporter: it's near a golf course, and i think there's some wooded area in that vicinity where it was crashed. i saw a photo. >> okay. allison, let me have you stand by. terry mcauliffe is beginning. >> today was a sad day for our commonwealth. we know now flee fatalities today, in addition to many individuals who have been hurt. but let me start off first by thanking all of our law enforcement officials. this could have been a much worse day today. i want to thank our local law enforcement individuals. i want to thank the first responders. i want to thank all the state police, to the national guard and everybody else who was involved in today's activities. we planned for a long time for today's incidents. i also want to give a special thank you to the clerky who were here today, who helped us on the streets. i also want to thank those gorgeous uva college students yesterday who last evening surrounded the statue of thomas jefferson to protect that statue. and i have a message to all t

it's mostly in unpopulated areas. some small ports, no big cities in the way. the storm surge of 12 feet has happened or is happening. but we haven't heard a lot of ports about it. because it hasn't been populated areas. we'll find that out tomorrow. then the wind component of it will slowly weaken to tomorrow. by the time we get to saturday night, it's all about the rainfall. there's the rainfall map behind us here. this is the one that the people from our federal government that do our forecasting say they've never made a forecast like this before. they've never made a forecast calling for upward isolated totals of 40 inches of rain. >> right. >> add an extra color there, think. >> they did. on their color table. we'll find out. not everybody in that pink color will get 20 inches of rain, but somebody will get 30 to 40. >> you said to draw a triangle. >> maybe as far west as beaumont, port arthur. >> the refining capacity, there's shipping and ports and drainage issues. at some point when you have that much rain, nobody is built for that kind of rain in a cou

again, the unpopulation didn't last long that it could tap down those in guerrilla warfare but they cam back. i'm going to take the next person in line because he's been waiting longer. >> when you described the massacre, it actually struck me as being almost generocidal. is that somewhat an accurate way to portray that? >> well, that means targeting a group for extermination. i use the term political cleansing. they are not necessarily trying to murder every single person. for example, white women, at least, were rarely targeted for murder. when jesse james is on the essential death squad in 1864, they are murdering the men and making sure the widows know. so it is incredibly bloody but not wiping to it a whole population. so, you know, it sounds like an apology to try to draw attention. but in lawrence, they killed men and boys but not the men. so there absolutely was rape more than realized. there absolutely was violence against women. but there is, you often see resistance to that. and so you can't call it genocide, but there is mass murder with purpose of changing the civilian land

this up here, there's no cities listed here because there's unpopulated seashore. that's where the worst of the storm surge is and the highest winds, that's good, we're not dealing with that. i mentioned the chris christie ar corpus christi area. you'll start to notice power outages. tomorrow we continue with those high wind gusts. as we get the official landfall probably sometime in the next two hours, maybe three hours, and then we'll watch the storm slowly begin to weaken. when i say slowly, ari, this thing is going to move inland as about 4 miles per hour all night tonight. that's as fast as you and i probably walk. so this is going to be a long duration event with the rain after we're done with the wind tonight. >> right, we've heard that can affect the devastation as well. msnbc meteorologist bill karins, a long night for you and a lot of people in the path of the storm, storm. our special live coverage continues at 10:00 p.m. a politics reporter from "the daily beast," you've been tracking this sebastian gorka story. this person with so many controversial af

we're hoping it's in a very unpopulated area. we would like to avoid the eye going through corpus christi. they have a population there of over 300,000. we want to keep those structures safe. at this path, it would be on the backside, still very strong winds, but we would avoid the category 3 winds. and then it rains itself out as we go throughout the next week. yes, i said week. storm surge is going to be another concern as we go throughout the night, storm surge warnings, about 6 to 10 feet from corpus christi to port lavaca. this is the cruelest map of all. this is my european long-range model, takes it back offshore monday, tuesday into wednesday, lingers it off the coast and a second landfall possible as we go through wednesday of next week. that would be absolutely almost unheard of and ridiculous. and that's why we're saying, as you mentioned, isolated totals up to 35 inches of rain in widespread, 15 to 20 from houston to victoria to corpus christi. that's why we're telling the people in this area, if you have the resource