Of the storm in Corpus Christi, texas. Steve . We been hearing the governor set the stage for the past day. There is a real danger that the storm is being underestimated. Its so strong so quickly and each hour here in Corpus Christi we been feeling that same flow with the written and the rain and now we are already feeling Hurricane Force winds. Its the first hurricane to make u. S. Landfall in 12 years as it bears down on the texas coast. Those who decided to leave have all ready gotten out. We used to joke about it because every time they say its really big, im definitely extra cautious just in case. Those who have decided to stay now will face category 3 Hurricane Force winds and dust storm surge in some places of more than 12 feet. Im scared, someone to do everything i can to protect our little place down here and hope and pray for the best. Trump is getting briefed regularly on the storm and his Homeland Security advisor promises that the lessons of Hurricane Katrina have helped him prepare for this moment. Weve gotten a lot better. Weve got better to pass the laws to get resources and advancement into an event. Mandatory evacuation is in effect too many areas along the texas coast. Texas Governor Greg Abbott warning residents to get out of the storms path. Your life is far more important than your property. There have been long lines for food, water, gasoline, and sandbags. By now, almost all stores are closed and boarded up with plywood. By midday, for a ten critically ill newborns were transported out of harms way, all flights in and out of Corpus Christi have been canceled. Oil platforms and ships have been evacuated and more than 700 National Guard troops stand at the ready to help with what could be devastating flooding. The real danger in this storm is that it could hang around for days, dumping more than 30 inches of rain. Its lifethreatening flooding. You might have to go in lend more than 100 miles. Chris, back to you. Chris Steve Harrigan just on the edge of Hurricane Harvey at this point. Steve, well talk to you later in the program. Meteorologist rick is at the Fox Weather Center in new york. Good evening, rick. Good evening, chris pratt this is the last images will have of the visible satellite. Right near the saddle of the storm is good to be right there. Theyre going to be in the clearing before the backside of it comes in. But about 30 miles away from the coast, we are getting very, very close to the north of the Corpus Christi areas where were going to see a landfall of this and if youre on that right side thats the worst of it. Well see about a 12foot storm surge come in, hippies Barrier Islands, fell into these bays and the rivers that come down into them and we are going to see a ton of water go in there. The problem will be that the storm will move very slowly and we are going to continue to see an onshore flow that will keep the water in there for possibly a couple of days and then the rain on top of that, and the wind. Weve all ready seen Corpus Christi theyre having a wind gust of 75 miles an hour come up and gusting over 74 about the last two hours. In the model showing this move towards the north, we been saying that, it gets stuck a little bit. Theyre agreeing on a backward track here. Eventually looping up toward the houston area. This is six days out, not Much Movement here in that time. Well see the same spot to over and over again, and potentially if it moves back over the water, strengthening the little bit again. May be, say, monday into tuesday. A very wide spot. This is about a 300mile distance here that we are talking about rainfall totals over a foot and a big chunk of this well over 2 feet and then go inland toward the san antonio area, and we are talking about raid thats going to be the cut off, probably, very catastrophic rain, and a little bit less. Take a look at some of the individual numbers. Officially the National Weather service is calling for amounts like 35 inches. Ive never seen that before in rainfall totals from the National Weather service. Some of our reliable models outputting numbers much higher than that, when as high as 53 inches. We see just how damage that is. Trump is being kept uptodate on harvey. Theyre standing by with federal aid. The hurricane will be the president s first major test. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts turns us tonight. It is the first time the president has dealt with anything like this. Judging by his response today he is determined to make sure that his administration does not repeat the mistakes that the past. Trump made no official statement in advance of Hurricane Harvey today but leaving the white house for camp david this afternoon gave a thumbs up and said well wishes to people in harms way. The president made a point of letting the nation know that he is dialed into the crisis, tweeting a number of times today saying that he had received a Hurricane Harvey briefing this morning and that he had spoken with Governor Abbott of texas and louisiana governor edwards. White house Homeland Security advisor tom boster said the federal government is ready to respond. Speak up we went across all the emergency reports and also the state local governments and the nongovernmental organizations and they all seem to be well postured. Hanging over this First Response to a major disaster is the memory of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In a tweet this morning, i will republican senator Charles Grassley urged President Trump to keep on top of Hurricane Harvey. Dont make the same mistake president bush made with katrina. I urge the president not to repeat the mistakes of the past, 2005 katrina, specifically. How much is that in the back of your mind . I was also in, through with fema during Hurricane Katrina. I remember i had a role in helping the government write the Lesson Learned report from that. Its not just whats on my mind but on the minds of all the adversity managers in our community. It still in their experience and their muscle memory. The government has had Emergency Response plans before. There was one in place before hurricane andrew in 1992. It fell completely apart. The plan implemented after 9 11 came unglued with Hurricane Katrina. He insists that the fema of today is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was. We are already leaning forward and the authorities that were given to us by congress had allowed us to do that. He will be monitoring the storm from camp david which the white house assist is the full logistical capability of the west wing. He planned a political trip to nevada to stay back in d. C. Speak lets hope this event fizzles in the forecastle wrong but i dont think thats the right thing to hope for right now. Were going to do what it takes to save peoples lives. Trump is expected to issue a disaster declaration in the next few hours which will allow the federal government to mount a full response before the brunt of the storm comes in. Its likely the president will come to texas sometime early next week to check out the damage there and the response and they may also have to paint canceled a planned trip out to missouri to launch his tax reform plan. Depending on how bad the storm is spread the president may not get there until later in the week. John roberts reporting from the white house. Thank you. Now lets get the latest on the government response to Hurricane Harvey. , says Michael Mccall is chairman of the Security Committee and he joins us tonight from the Texas Capitol in austin. Congressman, welcome, from all of your briefings, how damaging is the storm going to be to your state of texas . How dangerous . I think it has intensified over the last 24 hours. One of the more serious offense weve seen, i think it really is of historic proportions. To the extent that its a category three. The most importantly is that it will stop and be stationary. And being a tropical storm, until tuesday. What it means is they will have 2030 inches of rain and in some places double that number. The flooding and rainfall is the most concerning because that is the biggest threat to loss of lives and i think the number one priority here is to save lives from being lost in this flooding, which we know is going to take place. Congressman, do you have any concerns about the state and local response to this storm, especially the decision by the officials in Corpus Christi not to order a mandatory evacuation . I think initially when it was a tropical storm, there was some reluctance. I know when the emergency manager, who i just met with, told him its a category 3, they took that seriously. They had started to evacuate. My strong warning is to evacuat evacuate. If your Emergency Managers called to do so and put your life over your property. In some places that may be too late because the storm has already hit the coast of texas but i can tell you that texas texas has weathered the storms many time in the past. We have one of the best Emergency Response operations i think in the country, and i know they will do a great job in this. Lets take a look at the federal level as we been pointing out, this is the first test of trump and his team in dealing with a Natural Disaster of this scope. Are you satisfied that the feds are ready for this . I talked to the fema representative in texas leading the operation. Fema has already prepetition to assets near the impacted areas. This is a real change from katrina. I introduced a bill to reform fema and to change what happened after katrina, to make sure that fema is on the ground in advance, coordinating with state and locals and prepositioning these assets that will save lives, food, water, fuel tankers as they evacuate off these major interstates. So i feel very confident. What im concerned about, again, is the amount of rainfall is really unprecedented in the state of texas and maybe all across the country. When youre looking at up to maybe 50 inches of rain falling in these impacted areas. As we see the map on the righthand side of the screen now come along that is that gulf coast, the edge of texas. There are a lot of oil platforms, there are oil refineries. What kind of damage could this storm due to our Energy Infrastructure in that part of the country . Corpus has quite a large Petrochemical Refinery industry. The houston shipping channel, some models have this hurricane ricocheting off of corpus and hitting the houston area. I think the worstcase scenario here is that this hurricane hits some of these petrochemical operations, and quite friendly, chris, provide a third of the Nations Energy supply. It is the most biggest, Critical Infrastructure the state of texas, we have to make sure this hurricane does not disable those operations. We are focusing on texas, which is going to feel the brunt of this hurricane, but there are some models that show the storm, at some point, if not in Hurricane Forces, headed up the coast toward louisiana. What about the danger to new orleans, would even before this, was already having problems with its water pumping facilities . Speaker thats correct. The third model is that it will ricochet off the north of corpus and then go to louisiana. So we are concerned about these three different models. I talked to the red cross coordinator, they are going to be prepositioned in louisiana as well as fema. And we have to take that model seriously as well. I think we get the latest update at 10 00 well have a better idea of whats going to happen with the storm system. But in any event, louisiana will receive significant rainfall as well as texas. Chris congressman, i want to thank you. And as i say goodbye i would just like to point out and reemphasize what you said, which is to forecastle on that post, if you can get out, get out. This storm is, according to the forecast, getting worse, getting more dangerous, taken more seriously. Thank you. Thank you, chris. Chris up next, the president punches back at folks question his sanity as well as his policies. 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It is being billed as the most powerful storm to hit the u. S. Since 2005. Officials say it lives could be lost in severe flooding. Well go back live a bit later. President trump has just tweeted storm turned hurricane is getting much bigger and more powerful then projected. Federal government is on site and ready to respond. White house Economic Advisor derek cote says hes been under enormous pressure both to quit and keep his job since his comments for racial violence in virginia. Cohen, who is students, says the administration can and must do better in condemning hate groups and he reportedly dropped in a letter of resignation at one point. Many of the president s critics have been much more blunt about his charlottesville response and other statements. Chief washington correspondent james rosen questions the president s mental stability and how he is pushing back. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. After his post charlottesville News Conference the dishonest media, those people right up there with all the cameras and two states phoenix rally, critics have grown increasingly personal, questioning not merely the advisability of his policies but his mental health. I really question his ability, his fitness to be in this office. This is a man who is not wild. The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability. To that last jab, the white house declined to respond. I think that the ridiculous and outrageous claims but at 8 30 a. M. , more than we cap are the comment in question, the president tweeted strange statement considering that he is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in 18. Tennessee not happy. After 1100 psychiatrist denounced Barry Goldwater as unfit for the presidency, the American Psychiatric association declared it unethical for psychiatrist to diagnose individuals they had not examined personally. Still, the practice of psychoanalyzing president s from afar only accelerated under Richard Nixon and continues today with a psychoanalyst who openly placed george w. Bush on the couch now at work on a trump sequel. Even observers to pathetic to the trump agenda salt him for too often making it too easy to question his rationality. When somebody is lashing out, acting in ways that are counter to his own interests, to those who are aggressive enough in their criticism will push it further and claim that he is not fit. For his part, trump has disparaged me because low iq and countered criticism from Richard Blumenthal by noting how the connecticut senator wept after false statements about his Vietnam Era Service record were exposed. Chris thank you. Stocks were mixed today paired the dow was up 30, the s p 500 gained four, nasdaq lost six. For the week, the dow gained twothirds of a percentage point, the s p 500 and nasdaq were up three quarters. Trump is imposing new financial sanctions against venezuela. The move is in response to president nicolas maduros creation of a powerful Constitutional Assembly to supersede the Old Legislature which had a majority of maduro opponents. Earlier today, Vice President pence tweeted the u. S. Will not stand by as venezuela crumbles adding the birthright of venezuelans has been and always will be freedom. Chris all this week weve been bringing you stories about how congressional candidates are already gearing up for next years midterm elections. Democrats are trying to regain control of the house and senate. Tonight, correspondent peter duty takes us to virginias tenth district where democrats are trying to flip a red seat to blue. His pledge to drain the swamp didnt chris well, as you can see, we lost that package. Well bring it back later in the program. Up next, Hurricane Harvey strengthens to a category three as it nears texas. A live update. First, heres what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. Fox 4 in kansas city where workers removed the united daughters of the confederacy monument this morning. The 83yearold structure was vandalized over the weekend. At the Missouri Division in the group requested that the monument being moved to a place of safety. Fox 32 in chicago as state lawmakers reached a tentative deal to fund illinois schools. Negotiators say theyll come in sunday. A new funding formula is required under terms of the states new budget. And this is alive look at denver from fox 31. One of the big stories there tonight, free admission to all National Parks including the four in colorado. Today is the 101st anniversary of the National Park service and officials are awaiting entrance fee is all day. Thats tonights live look the beltway from special report well be right back. Needles. Essential for him, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr. A once daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. Xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and joint damage, even without methotrexate. Xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. Dont start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. Tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. Your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz xr, and monitor certain liver tests. Tell your doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common and if you have had tb, hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. Needles. Fine for some. But for you, one pill a day may provide symptom relief. Ask your doctor about xeljanz xr. An unjection™. Im chris wallace, Hurricane Harvey is bearing down on the texas coast. The storm is bringing winds of now 125 Miles Per Hour. The eye of the storm is about 6f Corpus Christi. Harvey is moving about 10 Miles Per Hour to the northwest. Meteorologist rick reich move is at the box Weather Center in new york. Good evening again, rick. Give us the latest. Getting closer, the last advisory had it at 50 miles, its probably at about maybe 35 miles or so off the coast. This imagery, by the way, is kind of knew. Its of our similar staying hurricane in the u. S. With this kind of resolution, the satellite resolution, which is great to see. The unfortunate part is its also showing this incredibly tight, concentric wall that we have here, this kind a perfect circle. Thats not a good sign if your right along the coast. No signs at all that the storm has weakened a little bit over the last hour or two. Continuing to strengthen the storm, causes a lot more damage and were starting to see the water rise. It looks to be slowing down a little bit. We know there is High Pressure off towards the rest that eventually will try to block it and pull it back toward the coast again over the next couple of days. So, while we got there storm here in this outer eye while getting very close to the coast thats a record to see those hundredmileanhour winds or so. It will stick with us and because of this sticking with us, we talked about the storm surge, you see those arrows, thats pushing all this water in toward the Barrier Islands and then on the interior coastal waves, and that water isnt going to go anywhere because this storm will stall out. So that 12 feet or so of storm surge is going to stick with us, and marginally, in addition to the rain. We talked about this at the top of the show. 30, 40, 50 inches of rain, id never heard of that but youre telling me, and you know a lot more about this than i do, that youve never heard of that. What impact cannot have on a region when it gets inundated by that much water . One thing, we see storms that cause flooding, localized flooding. It gets 15 or 18 inches of rain or snow in a really big storm, thats usually localized, kind of under a thunderstorm or training line of storms. But this is a really widespread area thats going to be seeing. But a lot of this is a very low lying which is going to get hit by that storm surge and that storm surge doesnt dissipate very much because of kind where the storm stalled out. But then you get the rain on top thats going to cause major problems, houston is a city thats kind of notorious for some flooding problems but even those systems generally have been kind of a localized area. But we are going to be watching an entire area, houston is probably a good example. There was a tropical storm, allison, in 2001. Cost over 5 billion of damage across the houston area, and this storm probably has a lot more moisture to deal with. So were going to be talking potentially about a much bigger flooding situation even though we saw with that storm. Well be checking in with you throughout the night. Thank you. Chris now, another fox news alert as we previewed for you thursday, trump has now signed his directive dealing with transgender people in the military. He orders the orders the secretary of defense to reinstate exceptions for military service of transgender individuals, hold military expenses on requests for sexual reassignment surgery and implement criteria for whether transgender individuals already in the military should be allowed to continue to serve. We are learning new details tonight of the navys response to a series of accidents involving warships from the seventh fleet. A memorandum to the Fleet Forces Commander admiral philip davidson, orders him to lead a comprehensive review of operations and incidents that have occurred over the past decade. The memo from the vice chief of Naval Operations says the accidents damaging the uss fitzgerald and the uss John S Mccain are part of a disturbing trend involving seventh fleet vessels. At least 20 people were killed in a siege in an afghan mosque today. Militants stormed the mist facility during friday prayers. Police say all four of the attackers are dead. Isis has claimed responsibility. Trumps relationship with longtime ally australia got off to a rocky start during a tense phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull back in january. So where do things stand now . My colleague, bret baier, get some answers tonight. Thank you. Joining us now is australias ambassador to the u. S. , joe hockey. Mr. Baxter, thanks for being here. Great to be with you. We started the relationship with the Trump Administration and australia and it seemed a bit bumpy. Weve since had the leech transcript of that call with the australian Prime Minister. Whats the relationship like in reality . In reality, its totally strong. It always has been. Were the only country that has fought sidebyside with the United States in every single major compex for 100 years. And for all the sacrifices youve made for us and that we make for you. No matter what happens at the president ial and Prime Minister level, the relationship is strong. Whats the worlds perception of this president . What matters most is the american story to the rest of the world. Now, americans are too hard on themselves. I think you are too hard on yourselves because you have an exceptional nation. You havent had to invade hundreds of countries. In order to spread at the american message. People want to be part of your value system. And the fact is that we need america in the rest of the world. Thats why you not the biggest military in the world but the biggest economy in the world. Australia fought sidebyside with us in afghanistan. The president just released this new policy. Your thoughts on that and how that affects you all . Well, and the 21st century, an event in one quarter of the earth is inevitably going to affect the other corner of the earth. That sort of the world we live in. Australia has sent 30,000 soldiers to afghanistan over the last 16 years, and for a nation that has a population the size of florida, thats a big sacrifice. But we do it because we fight for the same values that you fight for. Now, when the president gave his speech earlier in the week, it was great news for us because it showed engagement in afghanistan, the fact that pakistan and india are now going to play a greater role in helping to solve this real and enduring problem means that we are there, we are there and we are now in deep discussions with the u. S. Administration about how to further increase. Youre also in discussions with the administration about trying to solve the infrastructure problem here domestically. And Infrastructure Project that the president , as a candidate, talked about, at least a trillion dollars. Your country has done something and youre trying to tell the administration about it . Weve been asked to give some advice of our own experiences. Australia has and a recession for 26 years. The longest continuous period of growth in any major economy in the world. One of the ways weve done is we recognize that we cant keep increasing debt but we need to build infrastructure for the 21st century. The United States has a massive infrastructure shortfall. If you spent every single dollar of your budget this year on infrastructure, then it wouldnt be enough to fill the gap in your existing infrastructure. So that demand for infrastructure cant be financed by more government debt. So what we suggested is what we did and that is to lease airports, to lease ports, give the people of the community the right to buy those assets from the counties in the cities, and then take that money from the airport, the leasing of the airport and redeploy it into new infrastructure. It also means that those ports and airports and other Government Entities start paying tax to the local community, start paying tax to washington, and it funds itself not only through the economic jobs it creates but importantly through the taxes it pays. Controversial. Was a tough question . Sure. Sure. Nothing in this world worth achieving doesnt involve some pain. But ultimately, it is a fairer system if you can get counties and cities to get out of the businesses of running airports or running ports. The things that arent core business, and get them to stop focusing on building new infrastructure. Speak of the administration seem to like it . Speaker they are attracted to it because its a self funding mechanism. You got government money saying in all these state owned enterprises and if you can read a play that body into new infrastructure, its going to create jobs. And its going to give you the growth that you need. And i say this because if the u. S. Economy is strong, the Global Economy is strong. So self interest, yes. We want you to have a strong economy. We appreciate the time. Any time. Chris, well send it back to you. Chris thank you. One of the president s top Economic Advisors is not happy with how his boss handled the aftermath of racial violence in virginia. It will get reaction from the panel after a quick break and will go back to the texas coast for a live update on Hurricane Harvey as the category 3 storm gets set to make landfall. I guess you have to go to Corpus Christi to take care of my parents because they refuse to leave Corpus Christi. We always talk about it. 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Matthew continetti, karen tell multi of the washington post, and byron york of the washington examiner. I suspect that the north koreans did not know about Hurricane Harvey, but their timing is impeccable, isnt it . They do have a knack, it seems like, for sort of adding chaos on top of chaos. I mean, the frequency of these things, i think, is the thing thats got to be most worrisome right now. We need to point out that there is an awful lot we dont know. We have not independently been able to verify this report of a missile test. We dont know anything about the nature of the missile, whether it was mediumrange or longrange, anything like that. And it does seem to be an indication. There are a couple of sources now reporting that north korea has fired another projectile. One assumes its a missile. Its interesting because there have been some talk on the part of the administration that may be kim and his regime was backing off and quieting down a little bit. After all the threats that talk about fire and fury, but now apparently not so much bread we should never be surprised when north korea does this but i believe the secretary said a few days ago, its been a few while since theyve last fired a missile. The idea being that they had backed off. If this is true and theyve done it again, i think tillers and will have to reconsider his statements but i think there was some optimism in the administration with this idea that perhaps they had backed off the threats to guam and maybe just pulled back a little bit so well have to see what this is now. All of this would seem to pull out something that is very selfevident which is, you cant count on kim jong on to do anything except the unexpected. Not at all. You have to learn what missile they fired and where it was directed. That plays a lot into exactly what type of response hes expecting. You get the sense that sometimes we have President Trump. He hits one prices an egg afghanistan, he has another crisis on the domestic front, and just when you think that the north korean front has settled down, here he pops up again. Lets talk about harvey, and we need to point out to folks that we understand that this is a human story of tremendous dimension. This will be a terrible storm and is obviously the possibility, we hope it would not happen. The possibility for tremendous loss of life and property, but there is a Political Drama aspect of that as well and that is, this is going to be the first test of trump and his team and how they handle a Natural Disaster of this sort, as you can see on the right side of the screen, and they been very conscious about this today. We had Homeland Security advisor to the president and the White House Holding multiple briefings and talking about how on top of this they are, trump has sent out pictures, he sent out tweets on this subject. Theyve got to know that this is an important test for the competence of this administration. Absolutely. As i look, im from south texas, and, you know, the amount of devastation you are looking at there, what weve seen so far is they do seem to have learned a few lessons from katrina. For instance, they are not waiting, as the Bush Administration did, for then governor to ask for help. They do seem to be mobilizing in advance and that was one of their big, big lessons from katrina but this is also an administration where they dont have a lot of their players in place. They do not have a permanent head of the National Weather service or permanent head of the National Hurricane center. They dont have two of the key deputies in place so they are really having to do this without a lot of their own team. In fact, because they moved general kelly as secretary of Homeland Security to be chief of staff, they dont have a fulltime secretary, they have an acting secretary pittsburgh they have to do two things. One, they have to do well on the substance of it. Thats a do a good job with this hits in providing relief. At the other thing is they have to tell people they are doing it and they did it again with trump picking a twitter fight with senator corker. Is he going to talk about this hurricane . They seem to have picked up and gone fullcourt press today at the White House Briefing and after that. I think they are giving this indication that they know this. Part of the biggest thing, their task right now is we know this is a big deal and we are all over it. Its interesting. There really has been a tremendous effort at the white house. I know the substantive effort has been tremendous but theres also been substantial p. R. Effort to indicate that on top of the story. Before the full hurricane even hits texas that the president plans to go to the area, see the damage they are sometime next week when its appropriate for him to go. That was george w. Bushs big misstep when Hurricane Katrina hit, the perception that he was not paying attention, remember that infamous photo of him looking out at the damage from air force one. Even though rima is really more a correlating agency and the local authorities played a big role in the actual consequences of the hurricane, its important for the i present to seem in charge and theyre on their way to doing exactly that. About less than a minute left and i got to ask your question. Theyve gotta lot lot of tested texas. About to say for an eastern or it seems surprising that if local officials have an ordered mandatory evacuations is that just a culture class or what . I was stunned to see if the congressman standing on the seawall in Corpus Christi with the winds blowing all around him disdain, well, this seawall has been here for a long time. I think its astonishing. Well, okay. That makes two of us. Next step, we are going to go back lives it to texas for an update on the hurricane that is bearing down on the lone star state. Texas is about to have a very significant disaster and we have to let people know that. Its a hurricane thats going to prove more dangerous than many hurricanes. Has the possibility to consider evacuating as soon as possible. Now was not the time to lose faith in your institutions. Those Emergency Managers bingo advice advice and making recommendations, evacuate and are doing so with your best interests at heart. I want everyone to know that the city and the public jurisdictions within your city of galveston are prepared. Chris so, heres where we stand right now. Hurricane harvey is just hours away from expecting landfall along the texas gulf coast. Forecasters are warning this is a lifethreatening storm. Lets check in again with correspondent Steve Harrigan who is Still Standing on that seawall in Corpus Christi, texas,. Steve . The edge of that high wall is about 8 miles off the coast. Conditions are deteriorating over the next 45 hours. When the center makes landfall probably about 30 miles north of where im standing. Its a category threeat this hue point, flirting with a category 4. So we look to see winds right now, or seen winds of about 125 Miles Per Hour along the edge of the wall. We just heard news from the Corpus Christi police departments, they are not going to be picking up people who need help. Thats because the conditions are simply too dangerous to send out the first responders. Conditions seem to get worse, it could be a tough night for people who need help over the next 12 hours. Let me ask you a couple of questions. You have covered too many storms of this nature to counts. What is your gut feeling at this point . Do government authorities, do they seem to have a handle on this situation as much as they can have before a catastrophic storm . I think this storm has been particularly difficult for everyone, for the people who live along the coast and for the government. Thats because the nature of the prediction is so inexact. This storm has surprised a lot of people. We heard the governor of texas saying, you know, this thing went from nothing to a 1282 to a3 and now probably close to a four. Its really caught people by surprise. They have been doing everything we can hear to get people out. Its virtually a ghost town. At this point its going to get dark and the police cant help you, and i know you talking about the Human Element before, i saw a lot of people in line at the grocery store, even out in front of the star, older people with their pushcarts, really just trying to get through to the next three or four or five days. There is a Human Element here for people that were on their own because of the flooding. As a channel just to keep those people safe. I want to pick up on that. I know youd spend most of the day doing valiant coverage along that seawall. I know youve also been talking to residents in the town, theyve had a lot of storms, maybe not this bad, but theyve had a lot of storms in Corpus Christi. Are they scared . Do they feel like theyve been through before and theyll get through this one . Whats the mood . I think people in the spur of the country are strong and resilient. And you say, your light, i heard a woman talking this morning, saying, its really the photograph, we have to move now to the upper floor. But still not everyone has families. A lot of people have Health Problems and when i see older people out, those are the ones i worry for. We were at home depot last night getting supplies, so a lot of families, some with small kids come out into the evening hours buying plywood. At this point, if you are here, your life is on the line and hopefully you have people, family members and someone else who can help you get through the next 12 hours. Steve harrigan, thank you so much for all your coverage. Please stay safe. I know you and your crew well, and of course well be checking in all night and through the weekend. Thank you, steve. When we come back, the weeks notable quotables. Chris finally tonight, the moon blocked the sun, hillary tried to block donald trump and the president blocked the haters and we have it all on video. Here are this weeks notable quotables. We will break their will. Dry up their equipment, keep them from crossing our borders, and, yes, we will defeat them and we will defeat them handily. I direct an operational pause be taken in all of our fleets around the world. This right now is an exercise to make certain that were ready to defend south korea. Were going to watch this sun do that thing. Wow, would you look at that . Its a total eclipse of the sun. Jalapeno. They know this is all its going to be, right . A moon over a sun. The lights turning those suckers off fast. Put on a little tweet, they will say donald trump is in a twitter storm. Most news is not fake. We have different speaking styles clearly. Please, mr. President , dont mention any names. One vote away i will not mention any name. Nobody wants me to talk about your other senator, who is weak on borders. Weak on crime. So i wont talk about him. Very president ial, isnt it . Back up, you creep. Its like pulling al michaels from friday night football because there is was a shooting in a michaels. It makes no sense. Fitness to be in this office. I think thats ridiculous and outrageous claim and doesnt dignify a response from this program. Im going to go hide in my bed. Thats special report for tonight. The story with Martha Maccallum is next. We have a brand new update from the National Hurricane center. Plus, join me for fox news sunday. Well have the latest on Hurricane Harvey and well talk with the secretary of state, rex tillerson. Stay with Fox News Channel throughout the night for continuing live coverage of the hurricane making landfall in texas where the Governor Greg Abbott has warned that the monster system will be a very major disaster and the forecast draw fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina. Stay tuned to fox for more coverage. Martha all right. We are less than a minute away now from the latest track and the update from the national Weather Center. We will take you there live, of course. This is a night like we have not seen in 12 years. This is a monster storm. It is of catastrophic proportion. Its one of knows nights to watch this show from Mother Nature as it blasts onto the shoreline. And for those who live in its path, nearly 6 million of you, it is a night to be as far as away from this thing as possible. Here is an astonishing look at this formation from outer space astronaut Randy Bresnick took this photo from the International Space station not long ago. One local mayor laying it out in no uncertain terms. Saying if you do not evacuate, take a marker, write
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