Were privileged enough to by in a home, although close to the water, that has survived a number of these storms. We had the correct amount of protection on our windows and things like that and we kind of prayed for the best. Although were hearing theres quite a bit of damage happening around us. This is cnn breaking news. Good morning to you. Were beginning with the breaking news of Hurricane Harvey now barreling down on the texas coast. It has been downgraded to a category 1 storm after making landfall as a cat 4. But the winds and the rain, they are still hitting this area hard. And thats what is so dangerous over the next five to seven days here. This storm, obviously, is something were watching very closely. As we were just a little while away from maybe daylight coming up, people being able to assess whats going on even though theres still a lot of rain going on down there, which, again, is a big concern. But there are some other big headlines coming out of the white house this morning as well. For instance, President Trump pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio who had been found guilty of criminal contempt for disregarding a court order in a racial profiling case. The president also signed a directive to implement the military transgender ban. All of this as sebastian gork ka resigns. And finally north korea still refint. Pyongyang testfired three shortrange missiles. Lets continue with our coverage of Hurricane Harvey and our team of reporters along the texas gulf coast where this storm came ashore. Nick valencia is in Corpus Christi, texas. We have paolo san antonio there. We know that the rain is still coming and the rain is a big concern. Have you heard anything about the storm surge . Because that was also on the radar as something to really watch. You know, were just on the edge of the sea wall. And the prediction was about six feet there yesterday. During the height of the storm be saw those waves crashing over the wall, winds whipping through Corpus Christi. The big issue this morning, as you mention, the Power Outages. Across the state 211,000 people estimated to be without power. Majority of those here, 160,000, in Corpus Christi, lost power. We rode out the storm along with many other people here at the omni hotel. We did not lose power, thankful to a generator here, but much of the community did. The big potential here for the catastrophe ahead is major flooding. This storm system, yes, it hit south texas. It did weaken. Now a category 1, 90 mileanhour winds, but its stalled over us and is continuing to dump rain. A lot of the lowlying areas have a great risk of being hit with major flooding over the course of the next couple of days. The community, we understand, that has been really, really hard is rockport, texas, which is 20 miles south of here. Were hoping as the sun comes up well get a true scope and the sense of the significant damage here in coastal texas. Nick, any idea of the types of calls that are coming into First Responders and if, at this point and at what point theyll be able to get out to answer some of those . We have reached out to First Responders. They say right now they have not heard any significant calls of reports of injuries or fatalities. So thats the good news. Right now, just to reiterate and emphasis this, its the Power Outages. You see behind me the wind is not whipping or picking up like yesterday. If its any indication of what we experienced yesterday, the bands coming in here, it was ebbing and flowing. And the force of those winds, sometimes a little lighter and you think you have some relief only for an hour later for it to pick up again. Right now it has been a little calm. We dont anticipate or suspect that the First Responders are really dealing with anything major here. Thats welcome news for a community that was anticipating and expecting to take a significant hit. The Power Outages are going to be a problem because were at a time of the year where the heat will be stifling in some of those hopes without air conditioning. Then people will come out of their homes to get some relief and thats where the danger will be with the downed power lines and the flooding. Nick valencia in Corpus Christi, thanks very much. Lets go to cnns paolo sandoval. We know thats where a lot of people are coming to get some potential relief. Thats right, victor. We could potentially see even more people because you just brought up a really important point here. Even after that storm passes, some of the coastal communities, many of the communities will be without power. Even though their homes have made it through the storm, in the summer heat, it will be difficult for people to still remain there. Cities like san antonio have essentially opened their doors up to people who live in communities like Corpus Christi. Weve already seen hundreds of people move into some of the shelters that have been set up here in the alamo city. Officials tell me that 6,000 shelter beds have been offered up. They do expect many people to begin to take advantage of that. Important to be here since san antonio is a federally designated evacuation zone. We have seen this play out in 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina displaced so many families in louisiana, many people made their way to houston and also here to san antonio. And again, officials are now preparing to do that again. Now, as far as what weve been seeing here and the weather, only about 1 1 2 hours ago did we begin to feel some of the effects of Hurricane Harvey with some occasional rain thats let up quite a bit here. We still have some of that gusty wind. But the concern here, though, is the potential for flooding as this storm potentially disorganizes. Its still going to pose that threat for flash flooding. This part of the country, this part of the state is fairly prone to flooding. So as a result officials have been keeping a close eye on some of the lowlying areas. Thats what weve been seeing is in san antonio here. City officials with two serious tasks here. Bringing in some of the evacuees and warning the residents they could potentially see flooding in the hours and perhaps days to come. Guys . The next five to seven days, we understand. Pretty dicey. Our meteorologists saying they could see up to 40 inches of rain in some places because this thing is just not going to move. Were looking at your radar behind you, allison. What are they feeling now . The outer bands behind the eye . Right now a combination of where the heavy rain is, but also where the warnings are. Lets look at that. Youve got the blue color indicating Tropical Storm warnings and that extends from houston out to san antonio and hurricane warnings for places like victoria and Corpus Christi. But were dealing with another type of warning, thats Tornado Warning warnings. You have one, two, even three Tornado Warnings at a time give or take some of these regions. That is likely going to continue. We have a tornado watch in effect for this region right here until 1 00 this afternoon. And that could potentially even be extended later on into the day as that threat for Severe Weather does stick with us. Right now winds about 90 Miles Per Hour. So yes, again, we have started to see it weaken in strength. But i want to emphasize, 90 Miles Per Hour is still enough to destroy a mobile home. It will blow out all the windows in your house. This is still a very strong storm. Moving northwest at 6 Miles Per Hour. It is incredibly slow. Overall on the scale, it will still remain a category 1 hurricane until it gets below 74 Miles Per Hour. Thats when youll finally start to see it drop back to a Tropical Storm. But if you look on the forecast track, its still expected to remain a category 1 storm through at least the rest of today before we see it weaken enough to where it will start to take a bigger hit. The overall track, notice, it still doesnt move all that much. Thats why we talk about rain being such a huge factor because these areas will get hit with rain over and over and over again. Oswell, texas already has 9 inches of rain. And even victoria, over 7 1 2 inches of rain. They have the potential to get 20 even 30 more inches of rain. Allison chinchar, thanks so much. Were getting images here at cnn as this hurricane has torn through the texas coast. The rain is on track to create a flooding disaster. We have reporters out there in the middle of it. It seems at every hour i keep telling people that it couldnt get worse. And yet every hour it does seem to get worse. And now its about the worst weve seen. When youre out here in the darkness, the wind is howling so loudly that its really hard to hear anything beyond that. Hurricane harvey is making landfall as we speak. Here in corpus, its been going for about three or four hours now. Look at that wind right here. Not only the is the water ponding, the wind is whipping it into a froth. Even though this storm has come ashore, its not the end of anything. This is really the beginning of the second and perhaps even the more deadly or dangerous phase. Our ears were popping when the eye was arriving, the pressure dropped really, really quickly like youre going up in an airplane. Theres been rain and heavy, heavy wind. This just fell a short while ago on our position here. You can imagine why and this is why you dont go out in a storm like this when this stuff is in the air. Its interesting that this thing is turning into quite the marathon. All right, as we now get to the Daylight Hours where well start to see some of the Severe Damage were getting reports of overnight. Rockport specifically has been hit pretty hard. We understand that there is some damage through downtown there. The National Weather service told the city manager there Hurricane Force winds can be expected through the night. Were going to talk to somebody there, find out what it is like there this hour. Stay close. Were drowning in information. Where, in all of this, is the stuff that matters . The stakes are so high, your finances, your future. How do you solve this . You dont. You partner with a firm that advises governments and the fortune 500, and, can deliver insight person to person, on what matters to you. Morgan stanley. Pepsoriasis does that. It was tough getting out there on stage. I wanted to be clear. I wanted it to last. So i kept on fighting. I found something that worked. 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But the prize at the top is worth every last breath. Here we go. [ grunts ] got em. Ahh. Wait a minute. Whole wheat waffles . [ crying ] why great to have you with us here. As we wait for Hurricane Harvey and waiting for the sun to come up there in texas to try to get a better picture of exactly what has been left of this storm from overnight. We know it has been pounding the texas coast. Homes, we know, have been destroyed. Power lines have been down. Still at this hour 200,000 plus people who do not have power. Right now a category 1. Winds are sustained at 90 Miles Per Hour. But look at what it has been. This came ashore as a strong category 4 storm. Areas there we know are facing severe flooding, and the rain and the winds are expected to continue over the next several days. Rockport, texas, one of the areas hardest hit there on the gulf coast. Mmhmm. Just north of Corpus Christi and port arancas. Thats where you can see some of the water floating. This is a hotel and thats some of the water coming into the hotel. The extensive damage is downtown. Thats what the fire chief is hearing as well. There are emergency calls that have been rolling in, we do have the fire chief on the phone with us, i believe, chief sims. Chief sims, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you so much for being with us. We understand at one point you were getting emergency calls in, but nobody could respond obviously because of the weather situation there. What is it like now . It is beginning to slack off some. Were still unable to respond to anything being its still dark. So we dont have a real good outlook on whats, you know, out in the neighborhoods. Do you know what when you say emergency calls were coming in, what were those calls . What were the folks in need of . Most of our calls have been coming in from out of town that, you know, they had relatives that lived here and they, you know, have been in text contact or phone contact with them, and collapsed roofs, trees on houses and such as that. So essentially welfare checks from people out of town to check on their loved ones who live in rockport there . Yes. Okay. So let me ask you i understand from my producer that youre having communications problems. What are the problems there . We have lost all communications right now. Whats that mean . Cell phone cell phones, internet, all of our radio equipment is down. So there is no way for people to even get in contact with Rockport Fire Department right now . Other than this one land line. Is that what youre on right now . Yes. Well, we wont keep you on it too long. Let me ask you one more question here. We got reports that there was a roof collapse at senior home. What can you tell us about that . I really cant confirm it. I know we have a good bit of dama damage, but not being able to get out and see for myself what we got. I know we have lost one of our smaller substation fire buildings. And so i mean, ive got 22 firemen sitting here where we bunkered down. And just itching to get the weather to do it. Do you have any idea how many people evacuated or did most people stay in rockport . Not real sure. Not enough. Not enough. Okay. We dont want to keep you on this land line too long considering this is the only line that you have to communicate with people in rockport. Fire chief there steve sims in rockport, which is getting some of the worst of what weve seen over the last few hours. Thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us. Take care and do stay safe and very best to all of the folks there in rockport. A cnn affiliate crew was staying in that rockport hotel, as you saw there, as they were riding out the storm. Their building was hit. They say theres some serious damage there. They stepped outside to take a look during a moment of calm as the eye of the storm passed over that. I want you to watch what happened as they were out there. This is incredible. This is kind of our first look, guys, at the first half of Hurricane Harveys damage in the parking lot. The eye is here. A second ago these were 140, 150mileperhour gusts. Now a beautiful evening. A little bit of mist. First experience in a hurricane eye. Our ears were popping when the eye was arriving. The pressure dropped really, really quickly, like youre going up in an airplane as that eye arrived. A very tight gradient, too, so the last couple miles i would admit, i did not know the extent of this damage. Watch your foot. Our rooms on this side of the building, isnt it . Right here. No, were on the opposite. Actually [ unintelligible ] if we can get moore people to leave. Its a [ bleep ]. Half the building, yes, it will have water damage or whatever. This side of the building. We have ten days of supplies. This is the most structurally sound building. You take everybody else somewhere, then we are you are taking how many people . How many people are here . How many supplies . You say they were loading up supplies. Hey, im on your side. I just wanted to see the structural damage. I just saw it. The staircase. It will affect several almost half the building. Yeah, yeah. Do you want this staircase . Go up that staircase. Yeah. Its fine. We have half a building. Hm. Still a very messy situation. You can imagine as people are holed up and wondering and not getting answers, wondering how long they can sustain where they are because were hearing that this is even though its been downgraded to a category 1, this is a five to sevenday event with some serious flooding, life threatening its still being called. And were now a couple of hours away from the sun coming up there to try to discern exactly whats left. 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And the threat is evolving now into a flooding event. Harvey is a category 1 storm. It has been downgraded from a category 4 when it hit. But it is still packing dangerous winds. Were talking 90 Miles Per Hour here. The rain and flooding threat, though, that is growing higher by the hour. Take a look at this person who at some point late in the evening was trying to get include the water. I dont know what they were thinking or how they are. We hope theyre okay. Severe flooding, though, has hit coastal areas, were told. We have reports of water rising as high as 6 to 7 feet. The fire chief of rockport, texas, who we just talked to a couple of moments ago said that most lines of communication in that area are down. He was communicating with us by a land line. At that point just a few minutes ago, that was the only mode of communication they had. The internet, cell phones all down. Weve got live pictures for you from galveston here. You see the beach and the froth there as the wind continues to whip up over that water. The storm surge will be the story as the winds are downgraded over the next several hours. This has gone from a 4 to a 1. Still can cause damage in a category 1, but lets go to nick valencia. Hes in Corpus Christi just southwest of where this storm made landfall. Nick, give us the latest on the conditions youre seeing there. Well, just in the course of the last 15 minutes, victor, weve seen some of the bands continue to hover over us from Hurricane Harvey, the wind picking up a little bit. Rain slightly starting to pick up as well. It is worth noting that officials overnight issued a boil water advisory here for the towns residents. We know Power Outages are also a major issue. You mentioned hundreds of thousands of people without power. About 211,000 people statewide, majority of them right here in Corpus Christi. Corpus christi, of course, being the major city nearest to the center of the storm that made landfall about 20 miles away from here north in place called rockport. We hope to get a better sense of the damage in a couple of hours as the sun comes up. We know just a short time ago Corpus Christi officials on social media were soliciting calls from local residents asking them to report downed trees, downed power lines. Of course, those power lines are a major concern. A lot of people still curious, im sure, wanting to see the damage outside. Its still a little bit dark outside but officials stressing that it is best to stay indoors until its absolutely safe to go outside. Are you getting any indication as to when officials think they might be able to address some of the Power Outages . Because as victor rightly mentioned earlier, the heat particularly in that area of the country right now, i mean, that alone can kill people. Well, the county Emergency Management says that it would be a couple of hours before they got the scope of the damage. They were going to wait till the sun comes up, thats according to local affiliate reporting now. Right now we just dont know. Its too dark to understand how bad it was outside last night. We know that we rode the storm through it here with a lot of other people at the omni. The winds were howling. Those rain bands were really slamming against our hotel, but i think the expectation was that it was going to be a lot worse, and residents here, at least those that weve spoken to this morning, say theyre cautious, cautiously optimistic that the worst has passed, but they know this storm system has stalled over texas and will continue to pour and dump down rain here across the state of texas. Guys . Nick valencia for us in Corpus Christi, well check back in a few minutes. We get reports of flooding in a few minutes as high as six to seven feet. Lets go to cnns allison chinchar. The last time we spoke to you, before we get to the flooding, we were talking about the tornado watches and warnings which are not all that unusual when theres a hurricane coming ashore. No, especially in the outer bands. You focus on the eye for being your strongest winds, but those outer bands have very high potential to have tornadoes that we often see with tropical systems. Heres a look at Hurricane Harvey. Winds right now at 90 Miles Per Hour. But the storm is still struggling albeit but still trying to hold its own. The eye still very much intact. The shape of the storm still looks relatively good. But again the big concern Going Forward is going to be not just Severe Weather potential but also flooding. Heres a look as we zoom down closer into houston. Galveston and houston starting to get heavier bands of rain. But the other concern this morning is Tornado Warnings. Weve had multiple ones of them throughout the morning. This red box you see here is a tornado watch. Thats in effect until 1 00 p. M. Central time today. The overall threat for Severe Weather does exist basically stretching from the louisiana texas border stretching all the way down towards Corpus Christi where, yes, we have the potential for tornadoes. The track itself doesnt really move all that much. Thats a concern for flooding. You heard us talk about it. 30 even 40 inches of rain potential. Thats the shortterm problem. Thats from now for the next five days. The longterm threat is actually going to be the rivers. Right now we have 51 river gauges at major flood stage. Almost 20 of them at moderate flood stage. Victor, christy, one thing to. Out is the rivers are going to be a problem for about a month. Heres why. Youre going to get heavy rain for the next week. Those rivers will fill up over the next week. It takes another week for them to peak because it takes a while for them to come down. Then another two weeks before the rivers actually get back to normal. So this is going to be a big longterm concern for this region. All right, allison chinchar, thanks for watching that for us. Well check back in just a few. So obviously, as we keep our eye on harvey and texas, theres a lot going on in washington, d. C. Weve got president ial pardon, another white house departure. New details about the russia investigation and michael flynn. Lets not forget north korea. They fired off three missiles overnight. When i received the diagnoses, i knew at that exact moment. Im beating this. My main focus was to find a team of doctors. Its not just picking a surgeon, its picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. Visit cancercenter. Com breast im leaving you, wesley. But why . You havent noticed me in two years. I was in a coma. Well, i still deserve appreciation. Who was there for you when you had amnesia . You know i cant remember that. Stop this madness. If its appreciation you want you should both get snapshot from progressive. It rewards good drivers with big discounts on car insurance. I have also awoken from my coma. Its called a nap, susan lucci. Oh, my goodness. Welcome back to our live coverage of Hurricane Harvey. So grateful to have you with us. The storm is stalling over the texas coast right now, and thats whats causing problems. We know there are homes destroyed, we know there are power lines down. We know there are over 200,000 people who do not have power. But this is now a category 1 storm, which we think is good news, but not really because its not going anywhere. And 90 Miles Per Hour. The wind there can still cause damage. This is a rain event expected to drop more than three feet of rain by wednesday. We just received this from fema director brock long on twitter. Citizens of texas, this is now turping into a deadly inland event. Thoughts and prayers are with you. Well, of course, continue to bring you the latest from officials as they respond to Hurricane Harvey. An awful lot has happened over the last 12 to 16 hours in politics as well. Reaction this morning coming into the president ial pardon, former sheriff joe arpaio. Civil Rights Groups and some lawmakers are criticizing the decision. It comes as the president loses another white house aide. Were live in washington. Walking us through all of the headlines this morning and there are a plethora of them. Good morning, boris. Yeah, good morning. Not surprising that again on a friday the white house dropped some major stories on us. First, youve got the pardon of sheriff joe arpaio, the man known as americas toughest sheriff. Theres speculation that the president might do this. Youll recall several weeks ago he tweeted that it was something he was seriously considering, and then at that rally on tuesday in phoenix he mentioned that the sheriff should be, quote, okay, if you recall, the sheriff was found guilty of contempt of court for having disobeyed a judges order to discontinue a program that was found to be illegal because it racially profiled hispanics. In a statement from the white house, it cited the sheriffs more than 50 years of service to this country to make him a worthy candidate for the pardon. Then youve got the departure of Sebastian Gorka, known for his combative, aggressive style, a strong defender of the president. He was also part of that steve bannon economic nationalist wing of the white house. With bannons departure, a lot of people figured it was only a matter of time before gorka left the white house as well. Weve got some conflicting statements on his departure. One white house official telling cnn that he resigned. Another more senior official telling us that he did not resign, but that he is no longer at the white house. You can read into that what you will. Then lastly, we should mention there was an update on the president s transgender ban, the banning of transgender people from the armed services. According to a white house directive that was put out last night, theyve canceled an obamaera effort to recruit transgender people into the armed services. Theyve also given the department of Homeland Security some broad power to determine what to do with those transgender people currently serving in the armed forces. So again, three major stories on a friday evening in the middle of this huge storm where all eyes are away from washington, victor and christy. All right, Boris Sanchez for us there in washington. Thank you so much. Thank you. Joining us now, cnn political commentary spore spectrum news, i want to start with the pardon of sheriff arpaio and a tweet that came out from the acting attorney general who was fired early in the trump administration, sally yates. With this pardon pen potus reveals his own contempt for our constitution, our courts and founding principles of equality and justice. This was the law and order candidate and the law and order president. This seems to maybe suggest a different definition of law and order. Well, thats right. Law and order is one set of principles. Loyalty to trump and to trumps Political Base and his political ambitions is another set of principles. We can see in this case which one really trumps the other, so to speak. Youve got a case here and we want to be careful here, victor. The contempt of court crime that was committed by joe arpaio was really only one of a very long string of abuses. I mean, were talking about, you know, people who were supposed to be released from jail who he kept past their release date just because he felt like it. He thought they might be undocumented immigrants, you know. Were talking about a judge citing him in 2013 and then he launched an investigation of the judge and his wife. There were multiple abuses, multiple problems that led to him being voted out of office and led to him being convicted. So donald trump said that he was going to do it. He hinted at it. He went ahead and did it. He believed that it serves his political interests to do so. I dont know what message thats supposed to send other than that. People who want to trample on other peoples rights, if theyre in the same political camp as the president might get a reprieve from him legally speaking. Well, i want to ask you about Sebastian Gorka because first it was bannon, now its gorka. Theyre both from that nationalist thought process. What do you make of the fact that theyre now both gone . Some of it had to do with the fact that they were running kind of a rogue operation within the white house, right . Sebastian gorka, i remember being on multiple programs where he would talk scornfully and sarcastically and making pronounce innocents about National Security but he wasnt on the National Security council. He had a vague undefined role. He would criticize other members of the administration apparently including the secretary of state which i think was the last straw that saw him get thrown out of there. Steve bannon was kind of the same. They were so busy playing politics within the administration, so busy trying to sort of fight for the president s attention and undo their ideological enemies within the white house that, whether their view was going to prevail or not, the style with which they conducted this internal warfare was just unacceptable. The chaos within the white house was, i think, what proved to be their undoing, not so much the substance of their ideology. Mm, okay. What do you make of the timing here . This dismissal and the pardon appeared to soothe maybe the base, the base that would be disappointed with the dismissal of Sebastian Gorka, soothed by the pardon of sheriff arpaio. Theyre not quite equivalent, victor. Sheriff arpaio was known to some elements of breitbart followers. Joe arpaio had made himself into sort o a legend over the last few decades by all the different publicity stunts, all of the different attacks that he made on the judicial system. All of his disregard for Immigration Law and for the rights of the people who lived in maricopa county. So i think theyre going to be and by they i mean the base. The trump base will be ecstatic over the pardon of Joseph Arpaio in part because people like Patrick Leahy and sally yates and other figures on the other side of the aisle are expressing absolute outrage over all this. Errol lewis, still so much to talk about. Hopefully talk to you a little bit later. Thank you. Okay, thanks. So another major story we have to talk about, north korea. And this new show of force. The regime fired off three shortrange Ballistic Missiles hours ago. Traveled about 350 mile. No threat to the u. S. Mainland or guam. This comes just day ks after Rex Tillerson praised the country for showing restraint. The launches cap a week of threats from north korea. It also comes, we should point out, amid the annual u. S. And south korea military exercises, something that north korea sees as provocation and as hostile. Still to come, there were babies who were in intensive care, and they had to be evacuated from Hurricane Harveys path to north texas. 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Were getting a better idea of the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey. We have on the phone with us storm chaser jim eds. Jim, i know youve been chasing this all night. And weve heard that there are reports of people of people who have been injured and buildings that collapsed there in rockport. Whack y what can you tell us . Ive heard that, too. Its dark right now. The sun will come up in another hour. Just in the small area we were in there was an 18wheeler taking shelter behind a building. He flipped over. We came up on that. We dont know if hes still in there or not. Theres a light on and were trying to get in and see. The big problem here was its about ten feet above sea level everywhere, but this storm surge was supposed to max out at 12. So you had to get away from the water, but then you had to get out of the wind, too. So theres no place safe in rockport, texas. And when the sun comes up, well good a good look and have some more information for you. Hey, jim, were looking at some of the video you shot or that you posted on your twitter account. Give us exactly where this was recorded, the most recent video were seeing. Yeah, theres a key just right outside rockport and its like little strips of land that theyve put a marina in there and they have some really nice houses. Ill tell you that area was going under water when i left it, and the wind came up a whole lot more, a lot more water. I will be surprised if theres much left of that in the morning. Were seeing on our screen here, too, it looks like a transformer might be blowing there. What about any fires . Have you heard anything from that perspective . And what have you heard about some of these buildings that collapsed . Right. Well, it got dark and then the worst of it came in. So you really couldnt move around any. You had to find a safe place. But we started hearing reports, there was a storm chaser a few miles out that had a problem and he had to be rescued. But thats all when the eye wall was hitting. You cant move around the eye wall unless you really want to chance things. So cat 4, eye wall storm surge, i got a bad feeling about this storm. All right, jim edds, storm chaser there. And this video fro from extremestorms if you want to follow him there. Roof of the high school collapsed. Theres damage at the courthouse, Severe Damage downtown. Roof of a senior Apartment Building collapsed as well. People taken to the local jail to be checked out and treated. So well, of course, watch out whats happening there. Well take a quick break, but we have more on those babies that were moved ahead of the storm. You cant imagine how difficult it is for parents with your baby in nicu as it is, but then to have them transported from the hospital somewhere else in a storm like this, thats got to be excruciating. Were talking to somebody who was part of that transport team. Scuse me. Mind if i sit here . Not if you want your phone to work. 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Residents in rockport, specifically, are afraid of what things will look like as the sun comes up in there about an hour. What we saw was extensive damage front of the house, back of the house. Trees down everywhere. Our driveway is blocked. Were not able to leave our property. One of our vehicles was hit by a roof tile and has extensive damage on it. Just very, you know, devastating storm and very concerned about what were going to see when its light out in the morning