it's southwest and western louisiana. earlier this morning, there were report of five to six inches of rain per hour associated with this band. there's some unofficial reports up to eight inches. with respect to houston, we're in the lull now. it was bands that had been sitting over shoost. one -- houston. one shifted off to the northeast. we have a report over 30 inches ever rain so far near houston. there's a broad area of 15 to 20 inches. even greater in that south central part of texas. if we can have the rainfall map. this is a one to five day forecast. as i noted, houston is in a lull now. will get back to moderate to heavy rains later today. then into tomorrow and we'll see how long that last. it all depends on that track. it's now 15 to 20-inch rainfall still forecast associated with that max. notice also the shift towards the east, southwest louisiana western louisiana. going into northeast texas is included. go to the last map, this is a map of the current flooding. we have major flooding occurring already in th

notice also the shift towards the east, southwest louisiana, western louisiana and going into northeast texas is included and we need to watch that very, very carefully. go to the last map. this is a map of the current flooding. we have major flooding occurring already in the houston area, and you see that area blossoming out north and west of houston. the peak flow and depth of this flood will max out in the wednesday, thursday timeframe. this does include the projected rainfall that we are expecting. also, and even though we see on this map that currently we don't see flooding in eastern texas and western louisiana, this was done it for yen, with these heavy rain falls now occurring, this will quickly change. we should also emphasize in this case, the flooding will be very slow to recede. so we are seeing catastrophic flooding, this will likely expand and will likely persist as it is slow to recede. i just want to emphasize on the weather source perspective where working in partnership with the federal, state and local emergency management and water resource management community we've

harvey has made its third landfall this time in western louisiana. the death toll is feared to rise when the floodwaters recede. i'm matt o'donnell. and the big story is harvey dumping more rain in the south and the deluge has lasted five straight days and some shelters are now starting to take on water. rescuers are still plucking people from rooftops and flooded out homes. 13,000 people have been rescue in the houston area alone. maggie joins us live once again in houston. >> reporter: harvey may have moved on but the storm left behind more than 100 trillion gallons of water and in houston we are only beginning to see the damage. harvey made the third and final landfall this morning. dumping rain in louisiana before moving northeast. flooding from tennessee to florida. the storm floods neighborhoods around the gust coast. floodwaters rush into a shelter rised to people sleeping in their cots. >> you have infants and kids walking in the water. they have all kinds of insects and makes in the water. they moved us to the bleachers but that is not helpi

obviously what's left of the hurricane coming in parts of western louisiana but you see that heavy rain into across louisiana and alabama, mississippi, even the florida panhandle, so a lot of folks will be needing some help. >>> 9:20. we'll switch gears. holded wood opening their hearts and wallets to help out harvey victim. we'll go live to tmz for all the details. >> first we'll take to you live to texas for update on the rescue and recovery efforts near houston. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ before they can stand tall... ...they must first learn to stand out. get everything they need to shine, for less. this week at staples, shop our ninety-seven cent deals. staples. it's pro time. want to go back to our top story. on-going rescue efforts in houston for details fox's doug luzader joins us live from katy texas. good morning to you dug. why don't you set the scene for us where you are this morning. >> reporter: good morning. well we're west of houston and this is kind of the staging area for the texas national guard. you can see they're getting ready to head back out into some of these

notice the shift towards the east, southwest louisiana, western louisiana and going into northeast texas is included. so we'll watch that area very carefully. if we go to the map, we have major flooding occurring in the houston area. the peak flow and depth of this flood will max out into wednesday, thursday time frame. this does include the projected rainfall that we're expecting. even though we see on this map that currently we don't see flooding in eastern texas and western louisiana, this is as of 4:00 a.m. with these heavy rainfalls occurring, this will quickly change. we should also emphasize, in this case the flooding will be very slow to recede. we are seeing catastrophic flooding, and this will likely expand and will likely persist as it's slow to recede. i just want to emphasize from a weather service perspective, we're working in partnership with the federal, state and local emergency management and water resource management community. we've been working with them since last weekend in anticipation of this storm as the models and forecasts starting showing the potential for th

you can see there into eastern texas and western louisiana.or us today partial sunshine, daytime highs upper 70's and we should be dry later today. there might be a shower to the south and we got some showers in the forecast tomorrow. we'll get to that in just a minute. >> thanks tuck. good morning erin. >> good morning fairfax county. slow it down through those school zones. be careful, use caution as those kids walk to and from the bus stops. right now taking a live look in virginia. this is 66 on the eastbound side after sudley road. you can see those brake lights. it's a lot of congestion. no crashes to report. but because of the congestion from 234 to 28 leave the house about 10 minutes early. westbound side looks really pleasant. taking a live look 95 at lorton road main and hov lanes getting crowded. not seeing any major slowdowns from stafford through woodbridge. a little stop-and-go traffic through woodbridge but pretty good right now because we are crash free. let's switch over to our maps and show you what else you're dealing with t

so in western louisiana we're still talking 10 plus inches. looking at the guidance i think that's probably a conservative estimate. here's one reason they can't get rid of this storm. it's up to san antonio now back in the gulf of mexico. it's going to finally lift out, but it's still going to take a couple days to get past houston, lake charles and get into portions of louisiana. we'll come back and talk about a yellow weather alert for our area for a different possible tropical system and look ahead to the holiday weekend. >> it's just beyond what anyone could have ever imagined as a worse case scenario. >>> that historic flooding in houston got worse tonight and not just because of the rain. get this. the army corps of engineers had to release water from two reservoirs. i'll show you what we're talking about, the barker reservoir. interstate 10 is running between them. engineers had to open the bar on both sending the water into buffalo bayou, the red line right here. they warned ahead of time it would only make flooding worse along the ba

already 500 people were rescued from flooding in lake charles in western louisiana. in texas, a flash flood emergency is in effect for beaumont and port arthur. in houston, the rain is starting to subside. the confirmed death toll from harvey now stands at 10. >>> north korea is threatening more missile launches targeting the pacific ocean. the new threat comes as we get our first look at the country's first ballistic missile launch over japan. the president said that the u.s. is talking to north korea and paying them extortion money for 25 years and talking is not the answer. >>> transgender service members will be allowed to serve in the military pending the results of a study. secretary of defense james mattis just made that announcement. >>> and right now in butte county, fire crews are battling flames that have spread more than 2500 acres. the ponderosa fire has burned 10 homes and forced evacuations. >>> here's a live look at the golden gate bridge where an anti-marxist group is expected to march in just a few hours. organizers say they will stop traffic until

folks in western louisiana the scene -- see 15 to 20 inches between now and thursday but look at houston10 there was another huge band of showers. the good news, the activity rolling in later tonight is a little bit lighter, also the only had 1.74 inches today but since saturday they have had 15 to 30 inches from austin to houston to south of alexandria in louisiana down to corpus christi. we got to thinking in terms of comparison, th

and harvey is spreading into south western louisiana. >> nbc's lana zak is in the thick of it. good morning, lana. >> reporter: thank you very much. good morning. i'm trying hard not to be blown over. a band of punishing rains is launching an assault in houston. there is a tremendous need. the red cross is asking for all assistance in the city of houston. in the need of medical professionals, nurses, doctors, mental health professionals and social workers. the convention center is beyond capacity. expected to host 5,000 refugees, but that number was quickly exceeded. >> this is what katrina was like. >> reporter: thousands alived by busloads, even by dump truck. >> please proceed into the shelter. >> reporter: lorena was rescued with her four children. >> i'm trying to hold it together for them. >> reporter: she how long they will be here. were you able to get a cot? >> we didn't. not net. >> reporter: there's an outpouring of generosity. but it is dwarfed by the need. >> we lost everything in our apartment. >> reporter: the water and air rescues continue. as millions of gallon

floodwaters in the houston area are starting to recede but more rain fell today in eastern texas and western louisiana. the death toll also went up to 21. thousands have been rescued and still crews out in boats picking up flood victims. >> in the past week, they have made more than 8,500 rescues, more than 26 thousand evacuations. >>> it's estimated the flooding also damaged or destroyed 49 thousand homes in the houston area. >>> you're watching ktvu fox2 news at 6:30. hundreds packed a church in oakland this afternoon for a town hall meeting. >> this woman touched to everything from immigration to laws. >>> she greeted a crowd of roughly 800 # people and addressed the crowd by saying this moment in time is challenging.  >> this is the moment that is challenging to fight. >> reporter: the senator returned home greeted by a diverse crowd. >> i want to hear her say she's going to fight the son of gun running this country. >> reporter: she spoke an a variety of topics including healthcare, immigration and education. she told the audience she plans to support the healthcare for all. president trump is

this time hitting western louisiana. as it moves east. rom lake charles, louisiana. harvey hit southeast texas last week. and the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical. harvey is still dumping rain and conditions won't improve until later tonight. harvey is forecast to move from louisiana into northern mississippi, kentucky. rescue operations in katy are still underway. >> reporter: the weather has certainly improved here in the houston area. the national guard getting ready to head back out today. some of the resources may be diverted to other communities that have been hit overnight. water rescues continue in the houston area after historic rain caused unprecedented flooding. thousands of volunteers now going house to house, making sure that anxious residents got out before the situation gets worse. >> if the water rises more, they will be trapped in their attics. >> having to talk people into leaving is the hardest part. >> reporter: the storm hitting eastern texas particularly hard. especially port arthur where residents report b

folks in western louisiana the scene -- see 15 to 20 inches between now and thursday but look at houston around i-10 there was another huge band of showers. the good news, the activity rolling in later tonight is a little bit lighter, also the only had 1.74 inches today but since saturday they have had 15 to 30 inches from austin to houston to south of alexandria in louisiana down to corpus christi. we got to thinking in terms of comparison, th in the last two days in houston so that is compared to the average monthly average 3 1/2 inches so they covered eight times that. you might remember 1972 with agnes, 12 inches of rain. they got twice as much as agnes in two days and that was devastating for us. there were higher floods after snowmelt. we will come back where we are tracking another system off the southeast coast that is why we had the yellow weather alert for tomorrow. >> when we see harvey in houston we can't imagine that but could what happened in houston happen here? something similar actually did in the form of hurricane agnes in 1972. >> huge rain and the storm in the region

looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan you see not only is houston and eastern texas and western louisiana dealing with torrential rain now but it extends to the panhandle of florida. all that wind and water continues to funnel around the center of that tropical storm. and kind of wrapping around it, still houston is being inundated by steady to moderate to heavy rainfall. and the heaviest of it lifting north and east of the center and just to the east of houston around here, that is cedar bayou that is where they have the record rainfall. it is still pouring there right now, and this sets an all time record for any tropical storm that made landfall in history in the lower 80s to dump nearly 52 inches of rain over a five-day period. it was 48 inks from one storm that was amelia in 1978 also in the state of texas. we look at history. made landfall category 4 at corpus christi and then a loopy deloop over the statement and stationary for days, and that brings it into texas, louisiana and then into the tennessee valley and eventually the of valley as we get into the beginning of the weekend a

which is as fast as it moved since the gulf but that's a lot of water out there from east texas, western louisiana up to the tennessee valley and places like the bowmont area seeing steady to heavy rain over to louisiana, as harvey moves, northeast ward it will pick up speed, probably quickly moving through northeast louisiana into the tennessee valley by friday then approaching our area by midday on saturday. but not before bringing additional five to seven inches of rain along the gulf coast but places like memphis tennessee spreading into parts of kentucky and by the weekend, the remnants will still bring us rainfall and we could see a half to an inch to inch and a half probably through saturday. that's going to be the big story for us going towards the weekend. tracking harvey's remnants, we'll have a look at that coming up in your full forecast. >>> we want to go to fox's lauren blanchard live in dickinson texas today, lauren, what's happening there? . >> reporter: hey, tony, near houston and galveston, county, we're finally getting a break from harvey's heavy rain, this bridge two days ago c

the bad news flooding rains in eastern texas and louisiana extremely heavy rain up into parts of alabama, mississippi, western than just texas as we get into louisiana and parts of florida later today as they're looking extremely heavy rain. all right. want to show you what's happening with harvey the next couple of days it will continue to fall apart. that's good news as it tracks and it is moving. let me mention it's moving to the north at 9:00 that's great news one of the big problems it was nearly stationary there for a couple of days. that's early saturday morning a remnant low but they'll be enough moisture associated with it big storm that we'll see some of that rain shower activity spread into our region and give us a gray and rather wet saturday. that will be the start of our holiday weekend but things get better by sunday particularly by monday with demp bass back in the mid 80s. 79 today, sun and clouds. real quick, come out and join us friday morning our last zip trip of the season at national we should be nice and dries. no excuse come out seen us. right allison and steve. >> absolutely. >> we'll

now western louisiana is bracing for harvey's third landfall. >> it is pack winds of 50 miles per hour. the strongest activity is right along the texas/louisiana border. >> new orleans has already had some street flooding. >> let's check in with accuweather's justin povick for the latest forecast. good morning, justin, how's it looking? >> we'll check with justin a little later. you can see the images coming out of there. already devastating and they haven't been hit fully by this storm. >> there's also a massive effort under way in texas to rescue animals. miles from galveston bay wrote on facebook that the water was rising but wouldn't leave without the animals. thankfully sheriff's deputies were able to rescue them all with an air boat. >> a modern-day cowboy freed a horse from a corral, as floodwaters rose. look at this scene, a man and his friend rescued several animals as well. everybody coming together. >> great to see the sheriff's deputy go out to get those dogs. people were worried about the animals. and we will of course have more on the storm in the show. but weel acheck ou

additional 15 to 25-inches of rain over the next couple of days in and around the houston area to western louisiana bringing storm totals of 50-inches in spots, major flooding for days, maybe even weeks and, sharrie, the recovery is going to take a lot longer than that. we are talking months. we're going to have much more on our local forecast as well because we have some tropical rain to speak of in that full accuweather forecast. >> adam thank you. >>> people across the country have been quick to help houston by sending donations to the red cross and other major nonprofits but as always when sending money there are some warning signs to watch out for. "action news" reporter john rawlins continues our team coverage this afternoon from outside the red cross headquarters in center city. john. >> reporter: hi. this is the headquarters where since it was activated last week the call center here in philadelphia has received over 10,000 phone calls from texans because of harvey related issues. elsewhere here in the city a federal task force, a fire rescue task force that was on standby is now on the mov

3 to 5 inches of rain in port arthur on top of what has already fallen and we're looking at western louisiana, possibly seeing more than 10 inches of rain over the next 24 hours. that will lead to more flash flooding in that area. and before harvey finally moves on out, and then we'll get a better idea of how much damage is caused and better weather for folks to try to clean up and recover. anne-marie. >> meteorologist jeff jamison in dallas. thank you so much, jeff. >>> houston's flood control system is no longer in control. two reservoirs overflowed and a levee failed. engineers released water from two reservoirs to ease the strain, and that sent even more water into neighborhoods that are already flooded. the reservoirs are at record highs. one of those killed during the storm was a veteran houston police officer. 60-year-old sergeant steve perez became trapped in high water while trying to get to sunday. >> it was too treacherous to go under and look for him, so we had a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we c

in houston and all of the, many of the communities in eastern texas and up into portions of western louisiana. and we think this really is going to be a national disaster, in terms of the magnitude of this, in terms of the number of lives that are affected. we're very concerned the death toll is going to be increasing, potentially substantially, as more and more first responders get into some of the hardest hit areas, and beyond the tremendous human impact, we're also concerned about the impact to the economy as well. our analysis shows that we may be talking about an impact of more than $190 billion to the economy from the storm, so quite significant. this is not like anything we've seen before in terms of the magnitude of the flooding across houston and surrounding areas. >> $190 billion. that would surpass the $60 billion for superstorm sandy and the sum from hurricane katrina. but that climatologists saying we're seeing so many of these superstorms, though it's been several years since sandy and 12 years since katrina, you study this stuff at accuweather, do we expect to see more of these

coast and the wind gusts have grown to 60 miles per hour and it will retake land somewhere in western louisianand push on up to memphis and over the weekend toward cincinnati. wednesday morning is likely where it will be off the coast and still producing rain another foot is possible in spots near houston and east of houston. 69 and cloudy and rainy today and rain is tapering off as you saw. and clouds breaking for sun and 78 and all the way up to 85 with a late thunderstorm possible as the front arrives. behind the fronts friday looks great and saturday not too bad we are introducing the chance of a shower. and sunday late thunderstorm is not out of the question and more humid. warm and humid on labor day and more spotty thunderstorms are possible. >> we'll be right back. >>> children in delaware county returned to school with a big surprise. the urban outfitters were on hand to deliver brand new band equipment. they work to help pucic programs around the country. it goes to the woodland elementary school. just listening to it, it sounds like good stuff they got. >> right? they are all playing

heavy rain continues across parts of eastern texas, western louisiana and around montgomery, alabama. it's packing winds of 35 miles an hour over four to almost five feet of rain has fallen across part of the area. it's continuing as a depression. it will move through rainfall totals additional four to eight inches. isolated areas could pick up 12 inches of rain. flooding continues and it's a concern. currently in the 70s and 80s. it's a chairman of commerce day as you look from our golden gate bridge camera. it's in the 90s. our hottest spots today got up in the mid-90s. low 60s at the coast. this is where you want to go. if you do not like the hot weather, head west, head to coast. a live look from our santa cruz camera and you can see a few people enjoying the heat there. intense heat wave begins tomorrow. record highs are possible into the holiday weekend. just a few patches of fog along the coast and tomorrow afternoon the heat is on. triple digits. morgan hill, gilroy, 92 in san jose. 90 degrees in sunnyvale. it's going to be hotter than today. 67 in pacifica. 70 in half-moon ba

heavy rain is coming down overnight in western louisiana.nd significant flash flooding is expected there. >> at least one possible tornado touched down a few miles from the gulf. >> accuweather's justin povick is here to tell us what else we can expect from harvey today. good morning. >> diane and kendis. thanks. good morning to you. we are tracking extremely heavy rainfall. this system is making its move off to the north and east, very, very slowly. but the biggest of impacts here, again, continue to be from the heavy rain. we're looking at rainfall rates at beaumont texas, approaching four inches per hour. that's why you see these are flash flood emergencies similar to what we had in houston not too long ago where we are rainfall rates very, very high. beaumont itself coming up on 40 inches of rain. we're looking at landfall as we go throughout the morning. the system's going to start to finally move. and that's what we need. we need a faster pace that will not prolong these dangerous, life-threatening flash flooding conditions. you can se

flash flood warnings around beaumont and areas of western louisiana. and those flash flood watches go through memphis, nashville, lexington and louisville, kentucky. compared to what has fallen in the south, this is south, but two to five inches widespread. isolated totals could be seven inches. if that happens in a short period of time in western tennessee and the hills, so watch out memphis to jackson up to louisville. those are the concerns for today. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. rain and thunderstorms will also be hit and miss through areas of alabama and georgia. we could have a few severe storms, maybe isolated tornadoes in mississippi. and and tropical storm irma will become a hurricane in the days ahead. >> bill, thank you. >>> other stories to tell you about. a federal judge has blocked texas from enforcing a tough new law in so-called sanctuary cities there. the law would have allowed police officers to ask immigratii immigration status. the so-called open carry sword law will allow texans to carry blades longer than 5 1

landfall along the texas-louisiana border still spinning bands of rain in through eastern texas, western louisianaew orleans even getting some of those rain bands. looks moisture from harvey might make its way up here in the form of showers for part of your weekend. some changes in the labor day forecast coming up karen. >> all right david, because of the rain overnight the construction on the schuylkill expressway was canceled. penndot zooming in because we've got a disabled vehicle blocking the left lane and this is on the schuylkill expressway eastbound approaching girard so watch for them off to the side trying to fix it right now on the schuylkill. you can see they've got flares up blocking on the left lane. light volume so you're moving okay. a dark ride in on the schuylkill expressway especially westbound near city avenue, those overhead lights are out so be careful. a problem on i-95 southbound. it's right at route 72 in newark, an accident in new castle county already causing problems this morning and right now in trenton mercer county we've got an accident investigation blocking all lane

that would have brought a lot more rain to parts of louisiana, maybe far western louisiana still getting very heavy rain but not as bad around new orleans which is good news especially with the flooding they had a few weeks ago but take a look at these numbers we've been seeing consistently these modelings putting outnumbers for four days of when we first started seeing numbers none of us believed we would see something like that but when you have numbers coming four days in consistently, we start to believe them a lot more so take a look at this port levaka 58 inches of rain to commas a forecast. i'm not saying it will be 58 inches but we have model outputs showing that much moisture. some spots wherever the bands line up we will be seeing spots in the upper 40s and maybe 50s by the time we're done with this >> and that could be days right? >> probably wednesday or thursday of next week. so do you think if we by the way see the storm move in and right back across the same spot rockport kind of the biggest town about town of about 10,000 people that saw the eye go right over it and saw a

of those moments many times over throughout south texas, now the floodwaters are ravaging louisiana on the westernortions as well along the texas-louisiana border. we'll continue to show you pictures and rescues like this all day long. we'll be back here tomorrow and have much more straight ahead how do you chase what you love with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis? do what i did. ask your doctor about humira. it's proven to help relieve pain and protect joints from further irreversible damage in many adults. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira has been clinically studied for over 20 years. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatit

in houston also were victims of hurricane katrina because they came from new orleans, and now western louisianahird landfall. >> yeah, and the storm is packing sustained winds of 50 miles an hour. you can see the strongest activity is right along the texas/louisiana border. >> new orleans is also getting ready for heavy rain and already had some street flooding. >> all right, let's check in with accuweather's justin povick for the latest forecast. good morning, justin. how's it looking? >> we'll check in with justin a little bit later, but you can see the images coming out of there, devastating, and they haven't even been hit fully. >> we appreciate the update there. >>> there is also a massive effort under way in texas to rescue animals. >> the owner of a kennel a few miles from galveston bay wrote on facebook that the water was rising, but he wouldn't leave without the animals. well, thankfully, sheriff's deputies were able to rescue them all with an airboat. >> about 40 miles north, a modern-day cowboy freed a horse from a corral as floodwaters rose. look at these scenes. a man and friend re

tropical storm harvey is back on hand this morning blasting east texas and south western louisiana. s. landfall overnight near the louisiana-texas border. >> it brought life threatening flash flooding to port arthur texas where the sheriff warned people to get into survival mode. port arthur's mayor wrote on facebook that his city is underwater right now. >> good news this morning. houston is finally getting a break from the rain and jeff from our dallas ft. worth station ktvt is tracking the storm once again. good morning. >> good morning, harry still a tropical storm. the heaviest rain is on the west side of the storm all morning pounding port arthur and beaumont. right now still has winds around 45 miles per hour near the senor of the storm. it will continue to move into central louisiana by this evening and finally weaken into a tropical depression tomorrow morning and continue it's push into kentucky and tennessee by the end of the week. but it will be dumping a lot of rain. through louisiana 5 to 10 more inches of rain possible and we'll see those rainfalls pile up tomorrow and

port arthur looks like it's an emergency situation right now. >> shannon: folks in western louisiana acing for more wind and water. harvey will make a second landfall coming ashore in cameron, louisiana with winds of 45 miles per hour. joining us with an update how the state is faring now senator john kennedy joins us now. we know so many parts of louisiana were still trying to rebound from floods last year. we're told you have a lot of rain this summer and now harvey shows up. how are folks doing? >> we're ready. we're experienced. that's both good and bad. we're ready. we've been through this before. i was in southwest louisiana which is the area we were watching closely yesterday. we're prepared with sandbags and we have rescue teams ready. knock on wood so far so good. we've sent some of our resources to our friends in texas. right now it appears -- i don't want to jump the gun here, but it appears they need help more than we do. we're ready. there is still some concerns about new orleans. it is below sea level and shaped like a bowl below sea level. our mayor let his guard down i

the area will be hard hit over the next few days, even lake charles in western louisiana could see andditional ten and a half inches of rain. in the lehigh valley, pleasant, sunny, 79 degrees. the normal 84. poconos, comfortable and cool, 74. fall like. jersey shore, mostly sunny and pleasant, 76 degrees is the forecasted high, but again, here's the system here crossing over the peninsula of florida starting to re-emerge over the open waters of the atlantic. the waters are very warm here. there's the possibility that this could develop all the models take it up off the coast of the carolinas, before a cold front knocks it out to sea. hopefully that will continue to be the trend on the modeling, we don't have to worry about it. we'll see, now we'll post showers on tuesday. here's the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, mostly sunny, really nice today, 79 increasing clouds tomorrow, 77. a fall-like 73 as we head into tuesday lots of clouds and showers, and then as we head into wednesday and thursday, it's warmer, but still below average, 79 and 82. good stuffer at home. >> it's --

still intact hour winds and dangerously heavy rain on west side of it into eastern texas and western louisiana a lot of flooding issues here. allison asked and we're not concerned about flooding in louisiana and stretching to pan handle of florida early this morning. unfortunately harvey will keep it together another 24 hours and as we get into end of week and early weekend remnants of havby pay us a visits early saturday morning and moisture pulls out ahead of it. by saturday a wet day around with a lot of clouds and rain showers. there you go 79 today and sun and clouds and pleasant. few showers thursday. friday late rain. come see us for zip trip national harbor. harvey remnants on saturday and and i'll get out of your way. sunday, monday nice for holiday weekend. that's weather. not time for meme today. >> unfortunately tuck are i have terrible to traffic to talk about i will take all the meme time good things improving 619 joplin road crash involving two tractor-trailers and fuel spill cleared to shoulder dealing with hour and a half delay center port parkway. right now a half hour delay.

harvey is now a tropical storm. >> harvey made another landfall overnight in western louisiana. e near the texas border. maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. some louisiana cities along the gulf are beginning to flood. emergency crews evacuated people overnight, including many in wheelchairs. part of louisiana could receive up to a foot of rain today. now, schools are closed today in the capital city of baton rouge. harvey could bring rain in the next few days as far north as the ohio valley. back in houston, texas, there are concern that's flooding will last for weeks. engineers say they had no choice but to release water from two reservoirs to ease the strain on two 70-year-old dams. this move means more flooded houses and streets and neighborhoods. some homes may be flooded for up to a month. officials are also checking the stability of houston's infrastructure from bridges and roadways to pipelines. in the meantime authorities south of houston fear a major levee could soon give way. >>> the number of people killed by harvey keeps climbing as more bodies are found. wh

history and it hasn't even made landfall in western louisiana.ing as it moves in but there is still potential to do damage. the storm already paralyzing a fifth of u.s. fuel output. they are shutting down completely after heavy rain from harvey flooded the plant which is located in port arthur. on top of that the east coast is facing fuel shortages after the storm disrupted the biggest pipeline in the u.s. you know it's called the colonial pipeline. jet fuel as well from texas all the way through alabama. they have risen more than 10% in the past couple of days how will they feel it. the extremely fast, running river. that's because all of that floodwater from houston is now lowing down the river. it all has to flow to the golf at some point in that is what that wall of water is what is headed down there now to places like this. richmond texas in the last few days we had been in neighborhoods in houston fairly will healed neighborhoods. right along the river a trailer park. it is flooded and another 3 feet of floodwater will come through here. ea

now in louisiana getting in on the action, western louisiana, all on new orleans, too, very easy areaood, too, we'll be tracking that. the latest advisory just came out. so the wind have actually increased. that's not the biggest factor here. it is still the rain moving out into the gulf and right back into parts of texas and louisiana, you see here around houston, that's the 7 inch mark, 7 to about louisiana coast. continued flooding for that area. that's not the only storm out there. doesn't matter to us. this is going to be much like a nor easter for us as it moves on us. moving to the northeast at 12 miles per hour. it's, potential, number to be number 10 if it was deform and became a storm it would be erma. up towards the outer banks. so you wouldn't think it would be much of an impact for us. it's going to be impact for us. that's because of the northeast winds, like a nor easter in our area in the month of october. that's the kind of scenario that's playing out. more on what that means for you in >> we're looking at impact, depending on where you are. let's go ahead and get to

projecting 1-3 inches of rain across most of western louisiana, but say there could be six inches in some spots. officials are also monitoring for isolated tornadoes. at least five deaths have been confirmed since harvey made landfall. european oil and gas companies are benefiting from supply gaps long after harvey crippled refineries along the u.s. coast, according to the ceo of total, who spoke to bloomberg tv today. nearly a quarter of u.s. fuel output has been knocked out since harvey made landfall as a hurricane. the largest oil refinery in the united states is shut down. the storm is estimated to make only a slight dent in the u.s. economy. reconstruction efforts are likely to be substantial enough to boost growth later this year, according to a bloomberg survey of economists. they estimate the storm will lower third-quarter annualized gdp 0.2%. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. is vowingsident trump the government response to harvey will serve as a model for disaster reco

new orleans kind of has lucked out just a all back towards the west around houston and western louisianaing north northeast at eight miles per hour. the fastest moving in days. on that track and moves up towards the memphis area and could bring them localized flooding and then moves our way by saturday. we expect to see the rain moving in here. we'll show you what happens tomorrow. first a cold front comes down coming down across our region. isolated showers cannot be ruled out. do you need the umbrella? probably not. always a good idea to take it just in case. tomorrow night into friday morning clouds begin to build in and cooler weather, too. easterly flow keeps us cool just like yesterday. we will see a day like that on friday. plenty of clouds and chance of shower activity late in the day. tomorrow beautiful sun and clouds, nice afternoon high of 85. can't rule out isolated shower. not looking all that bad. how about the rest of the tropics? this is interesting. we have another tropical storm called tropical storm with winds of 60 miles per hour. this will move all the way across the

for rescues that are being needed in eastern texas, port arthur, beaumont into the parishes of western louisiana and southwest louisiana. our systems drop another 10, 15 inches in this area on top of the 12 1/2 that already has dropped in beaumont today. >> we thought one land fall was enough. another land fall coming. tom saider, thanks very much. >>> tonight new orleans at risk nor devastating floods exactly 12 years after hurricane katrina made land fall there. we are joined now by the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu. mayor, thanks for taking the time tonight. >> thank you for having me, jim. i appreciate it. >> mayor, i know i don't have to talk to someone from new orleans about the experience with devastating storms. but as this storm takes that turn to the east towards louisiana, what are the conditions like right now? >> well, first of all before i begin, our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in houston. those images that everybody is seeing right now were very real to us 12 years ago. we lost 1800 people and so houston and all of texas has gone through just a dramatic, probab

western louisiana. and going into northeast texas is included.rd if we go to the last map, this is a map of the current flooding. we have our major flooding occurring already in the houston area. and you see that area blossoming out, north and west of houston. the peak flow and depth of this flood will max out in the wednesday-thursday time frame. this does include the projected rainfall that we're expecting. also, and we're -- even though we see on this map that currently we don't see flooding in eastern texas and western louisiana. this was as of 4:00 a.m. with these heavy rainfalls now occurring. this will quickly change. and we should also emphasize in this case, the flooding will be very slow to recede. so, we are seeing catastrophic flooding. and this will likely expand and will likely persist as it's slow to recede. i want to family size from the weather service perspective we are working in partnership with the local emergency management and water resource management community. we have been working with them since last weekend in anticipa

it's been downgraded to a tropical depression, but it's still soaking western louisiana and southern arkansas. and, as much as 10 inches of rain could fall in mississippi, tennessee and kentucky in the hours ahead. that report from william brangham. william, houston is no stranger to flooding. do you get the sense that people there see this as if you excuse the term, a watershed. >> yes, in many ways houstonians are familiar with flooding, it has been going on for decades what is not talked about as often is the way houston continues to grow has substantially exacerbated what those floods do tho to this area. the nickname for houston is the city with no limits and in many ways that is true. the growth that occurred the last few decades have been explosive and they have been digging up farm land outside the skirteds of the city and they put up parking lots and highways and developments. you don't have to be a hydrologist to know that if you replace spongy, absorbent farmlands with hard concrete surfaces, when a lot of comes down that water will flood these neighborhoods. so harvey was

look at all the moisture continues to pound houston, galveston and at this point portions of western louisiana as well. i'm afraid we are just going to keep lifting this moisture up the gulf of mexico and we will see rounds and rounds of it. all the flashlight advisory up and down the coast. you begin to wonder how long can it last? i am taking you from sunday into monday morning, continuing to spend, still seem heavy showers are a little bit of a break, at least calming down a bit. still monday into tuesday in the system just spins and keeps dumping rain in the general area. i'm afraid we will be dealing with this monday, tuesday, brief breaks in the rain, but that continues all the way to the middle of next week. >> fair to say the worst in terms of flooding yet to come for houston. >> yeah, we might only be halfway there. we could get another 20 inches or more. leland: unbelievable in clearly unimaginable. extreme weather center. thank you. >> startling information. brandi webber at the storms and friends in texas. his district stretches from the coastline and land towards houston. some of

the system could produce storm surge flooding along the coast anywhere from eastern texas to western louisiana. teams of technician are checking water levels at bayous. they want to accurately measure the rainfall. >> gives us a heads up how fast water is rising and also with the total rainfall in the area, how much water may be expected to flow through the channel. >> texas governor greg abbott declared a state of disaster for 30 counties ahead of the storm. >>> today santa clara city council is set to discuss an audit centered on levi's stadium. the report is on issues from firefighter costs to public safety matters. that also refers to potential violations of taxpayer money. council members are set to discuss whether they will accept or reject the findings. >>> somebody in massachusetts is waking up to more than $700 million. a lot richer than yesterday. >> that's right. seth lemon has the details on the massive powerball win. >> that first number up tonight is 7. >> reporter: there is a winner for the $758 million powerball. it was sold at the handy variety convenience store in watertown,

harvey has shifted to western louisiana. >>> world news tonight has been reporting live from texas allhis week. sent out this tweet today. look at all that water. this is a birds eye view of a portion of harvey's wrath. >>> abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is also in texas helping our houston sister station ktrk and bringing us stories of flood survivor. she sent this tweet today. another area under evacuation orders due to a compromised levee. she'll have a live report. >>> we also find stories of heroes, people giving of their time and skills to help strangers in need. there's a program in several california cities that trains volunteers to do that. vic lee profiles the one in san francisco. he's live at sf fire training facility. vic. >> reporter: the reason why people ought to go through this training right now is because the public gets complacent when there is no emergency and that ironically is exactly the time when you ought to go through this training to help yourself and to help others. in february in san jose flooding prompting evacuation of 14,000 residents and caused $100

harvey now dumping rain across eastern texas and western louisiana. >> he drove right into maybe 12 to 20 feet of moving water and that is where he ended up. >> some have welcomed sunshine in houston. but 30,000 people in shelters, more than 200,000 already signing up for disaster aid and expect that number to keep climbing. >> the operation right now is very clear, we're still in life saving, life sustaining mode, this is going to be an incredibly large disaster for the country, it's going to help us, you know, to reshape some of the ways that we do business, we're going to learn from it and go on. >> president trump already planning a return visit to texas and promising that state, louisiana as well will get everything it needs to recover. five days after harvey first hit, though, no one has a clue just what that ultimate toll will be. >> i have had a very collaborative and seamless connection between the federal government, the state of texas and the local governments for a remarkable response to as you pointed out a record flooding. but also we talked about where we go from here an

become undated with the floodwaters here, now we compare the flooding around houston, even into western louisiana. 33,000 square miles, which is roughly the size of the state of south carolina. if you can imagine that. but we're not finished yet. in beaumont, port arthur texas, they saw 24 inches of rainfall in just 24 hours -- 26 inches of rainfall in just 24 hours. it's been dangerous for days now. the river runs through beaumont. they have a beautiful river park there. the river is continuing to rise. the pumps have shut down because of the high waters that they have seen the last several days. now the record was set back in 1994. it was set at 13 feet. it is now over 15 feet. we've already shattered that record. it continues to rise all the way into saturday morning. it should crest at just over 19 feet. the people in beaumont say that they can't really do anything about the pumps until the river starts to drop. and it is not going to drop for days. and that storm system, what's left of it, is going to move through the mississippi river valley and, in some cases, produce two to four inches of

that system could produce storm surge flooding along the coast anywhere from eastern texas to western louisianame city businesses already have sandbags in place. crews spent yesterday clearing ditches and drains, but some vacationers to galveston planning to ride it out. >> we are staying down here all week. we're gonna party through the hurricane. >> good luck, guys. texas governor greg abbott declared a state of disaster for 30 counties already ahead of the storm. harvey would be the first hurricane to hit texas since 2008. that's when hurricane ike smashed the coast near galveston. >>> in napa today, it marks three years since a 6.0 earthquake rattled downtown causing significant damage to the buildings there. the quake smashed sidewalks and left a gaping hole near the roof of a courthouse dating back to 1887. it struck at 3:20 a.m. and was centered 7 miles deep on the west napa fault. locals say some buildings that had major damage in the quake still need some repair work. ♪[ music ] >>> here at mcclymonds school in oakland they found unsafe lead levels in the water and we'll tell you what

storm harvey threatens a second landfall in a matter of hours in east texas and western louisiana. was 12 years ago today that hurricane katrina devastated new orleans and other parts of my hope state. joining me now on the phone is colonel ed bush, public fairs officer for the louisiana national guard. colonel, thank you. we appreciate your service. thank you for joining us this evening here on cnn or this morning in the eastern time zone. do you think you're ready? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me on. it's important you know what you're doing is part of what we're all trying to do. you know, you getting the message out to the rest of the world what happens down at ground zero level and how these people can best be helped and what goes on is just as important as what's going on out there. he appreciate the time of you having me on tonight. >> thank you, colonel. do you think you're ready? >> well, that's the million dollar question. and if we're going to ask it simply, i guess we've certainly done everything we can to prepare. so i think we're about as ready as we ca