Storm and has more from accuweather. Hurricane harvey is maximum sustained 130 Miles Per Hour. Its slowed its Forward Motion moving at eight Miles Per Hour at last report. Rockford Emergency Management texas with people trapped inside. This storm will sit there for days. I want to show you wind gusts from the center. Galveston reporting 40 Miles Per Hour. Cant report from the station because the power has been shutdown but we have storm trackers reporting maximum wind gusts 140 Miles Per Hour making landful near rockford right now. This is the first to hit texas since karla in 1961. Once it moves inland, it will stall along the coast. What that means, the storm surge of six to 12 feet continues for days. We are looking at epic amounts of rain falling from the sky, some areas 30inches of rain, a years worth of rain in a matter of days. Well talk about this storm system for a long time because it will likely effect the area well into next week. We have the local forecast later on. Jim . Lets go to action News Reporter jeff chirico at international airport. What are arriving passengers saying about all of this . Jim, we saw a number of flights from houston. The paperings had plans to fly to philadelphia. The storm pushed their plans up a day or two. Their thoughts are with those they left behind. Im lucky to get out of there. University of pennsylvania student jennifer lee is one of those that got one of the final flights out of texas for days. She will start classes while her family rides out the storm. Definitely concerned. Everyone is kind of concerned about whats going to happen during the storm, flooding, and whats going to happen afterwards. As flights arrive from houston, passengers express uncertainty about what theyll see when they return. We live north of the city. Our home is fine. People in the city and apartments on the streets, they are going to be not in good shape if the storm stays. The boards dont show it but airlines have grounded 200 flights across testify country waving rebooking fees as travelers scramble to get out. They were asking people to volunteer to stay back. Did anyone volunteer . I dont think so so. Marty due began cut short his trip to see his daughters family. He remains optimistic theyll be spared the worst of it. They are on high ground. I think theyll be okay. Major airlines are offering travel vouchers to those flying to the area. That will a i allow you to rebook for free. If you have a flight this weekend, check the website for the flight status before you head to the airport. Reporting live, philadelphia international, jeff chirico action news. Jim . Hurricane harvey is also bearing down on oil production. The texas coast alone it is home to nearly 1 3 of u. S. Refining capacity, and they are shutting down. Aaa is monitoring the storms impact on gasoline supplies. Production sites want to get back online but we dont know how much damage the storm will do. Exp price gas prices could go up in the wake of hurricane the red cross is oy to help. You can follow the track of Hurricane Harvey at 6abc. Com. Well be streaming ktrks live coverage from texas all weekend long. Other news at this hour, firefighters got a three alarm blaze under control in sharon hill but not before it did a great deal of damage to an Apartment Building and peoples lives. Trish hartman is on the 400 block of sharon avenue. What is the situation there now . Well, jim, crews are securing the scene. The fire was placed under control around 9 00 p. M. The building was then torn down. This is what is left on sharon avenue, 14 people are displaced and dozens of others have been evacuated from nearby buildings. Diana live on the third floor of the Apartment Building on sharon avenue and says she lost everything. I went to walk my dog and next thing you know, my boyfriend hears pop, pop, pop. Hes like theres smoke coming from your apartment. I ran as fast i could. Crews responded to reports of an explosion at the back of the building around 2 30 p. M. One resident was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Flames shot from the roof and thick smoke flooded the area. When i came out all you could see is thick black smoke. You couldnt come through. You had to take the long way around. The neighborhood, it was like a smoke bomb went off. You couldnt see anything. Angela was at work when the fire started. Her two cats are presumed dead. I hope they didnt suffer. I hope they went quick if they were going to go. Six apartments made up the three story building. Crews say its the first time they have used a county owned drone to help fight a fire. It gives them the aerial imroafer view of the damage. As the blaze continued to burn into the night, an excavator tore down the walls to give firefighters better access to the flames. The red cross is helping the residents that now have to find a new place to live. I guess it will be a fresh start. Eight and a half hours after the blaze, firefighters are still on the korea the scene wo. The cause of fire is being investigated. Jim . The driver accused of hitting and killing a woman with an suv in Center City Philadelphia has been arrested. Police issued an arrest warrant for brendan hay. 53yearold Ann Broderick was killed along the 1300 block of ray street after being hit by a white Jeep Wrangler rube con. A tip led police to the arrest. Mayor jim kenney says Police Involved shootings has hit a roadblock. The fraternal order of police went to court to ask for an order after black lives matters protested at an officers home last night. The temporary injunction holds until a full hearing in september. The ban of transgenders in the military has moved from tweet to official memorandum signed by trump. Before leaving to camp david, he told the military not to stop the legislation. White house officials wont say if transgender troops already there will be allowed to remain in the military. This announced by the white house after 8 00 tonight. President trump pardoned joe arpaiio the former sheriff in mare cope pmaremaricopa county,. The aclu called trumps pardon a president alleial endorsement of racism. Gorka was one of trumps cheerleaders, frequently hitting the airways to defend the president s policies. That man, steve bannon left a week ago tonight. Lots of departures from the white house. Demonstrators showed up to rally in support of senator pat toomey to say thank you for supporting republican values. They wanted to counter the protests held by democrats held weekly since the election. A memorial for senator jim whelan will be held thursday. He died tuesday. Governor Chris Christie has ordered allstate buildings to fly half staff on the day of the memorial service. Its a mystery that has many scratching their heads. A bust of james beaver was stolen from the park last night to be found near the overpass near fdr park in south philadelphia this morning. The theft took a lot of effort. Thats the real mystery. We think its four feet tall and 300pounds. Its not the kind of thing you can throw if the back of a pickup truck. We are stimied how someone got up 12 feet high. Beaver served as a general in the union army in the civil war and took office as governor 1887. Penn state Beaver Stadium is named after him. Scientists find a link between a plant only diet and depression. North korea fired several more missiles into the sea, and a truck slams into a roadway sign going full speed. Cecily . It didnt feel like august today, 79degrees. Five degrees below normal. Get used to it. Im tracking more cool air for the weekend. We have more on Hurricane Harvey in the forecast. Ducis rogers has highlights from the cubbys fillys game. You wont believe who youbusted tail. Rd. And impressed the boss. Maybe, its time to be your own. Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it, america. This is now a live picture of Galveston Texas and authorities now say that harvey has made landfall. It happened a few minutes ago. You are looking at winds up to 130 Miles Per Hour. It is raining hard. It will be raining hard for days. They could get up to 30inches of rain in places like galveston and Corpus Christie and houston and rock port. This is going to be a very, very difficult situation for the texas gulf coast. Well be keeping our eyes on this situation throughout the weekend here on channel6 and 6abc. Com. There is word that north korea fired more missiles into the sea. They have traveled 155miles today in what appears to be the latest weapons test of the regime of kim jung un. There is no response from the white house. A man armed with a knife is wrestled to the ground outside buckingham palace. Two officers received minor wounds while detaining the suspect. No other injuries were reported. We have video of a large dump truck crashing into a over head highway sign in houston. The impact sent the mangled sign crashing into the road. The highway was shut down for hours while crews cleared the wreckage. No one was hurt. A new study shows that vegans are twice as likely to suffer depression compared to those that eat meat. 50 of nonmeat eaters have a b vitamin deficiency which plays a role in brain chemicals. This study recommends vegetarians take a b vitamin supplement. Now to cecily tynan. I want to show you the radar. Harvey made landfall 10 00 on the dot on san jose island. You see the Barrier Island four miles east, thats san jose island. You see the thunderstorms around the eye wall. We have reports of wind gusts at 140 Miles Per Hour in rock port. The storm is about 300miles across. Its been a long time since texas was hit by a category four hurricane. Two days ago it was a tropical depression. It ramped up fast, pressure is slow moving northwest seven Miles Per Hour. It will continue to weaken. Maximum wind gusts 160 Miles Per Hour. Talking about a category 4 hurricane, this can cause tremendous wind damage, storm surge damage and since its stalling, it will cause a lot of rain damage. 130 Miles Per Hour over san hoe day sield, rock port reporting wind gusts 140 Miles Per Hour. Its slowing down and it will essentially stall over the coast of texas for the next several days. The spaghetti plots go out until next friday. The High Pressure trapping it, lost its steering current. You can see how there is a big hot mess where this will sit there, gradually weaken, so close to water, it will take a while to lose its strength. At home, philadelphia 73. Allentown, 62. Tape may 73. Wilmington, 68. Satellite and radar showing cloud cover developing in the afternoon. Partly cloudy skies, High Pressure continues to build. Cool and comfortable 53 in the suburbs, 61 for center city and the weekend is nice. Doublebarreled High Pressure over us, low humidity, cool temperatures, 79degrees. Lots of sunshine on the beach, ocean temperature 75. Air temperature 76. Sunday, 75. Lots of sunshine, heading to the mountains, take a sweater, overnight lows dropping to the 40s. Tomorrow 69 and sunday, 70. The sevenday forecast, weekend beautiful. Cool side, 79degrees both days. Monday, nice droching to 77. Sky conditions begin to change tuesday, mostly cloudy, 75 with a possibility of showers, threat of showers wednesday, 76degrees. Thursday, 82 and friday, calling for partly sunny skies as we start Labor Day Weekend with a high of 79degrees. I have to track the remnants of harvey. There are computer models that say is remnants are moving up the coast, others say off the gulf coast. Well keep you posted. Men and women looking to win against Breast Cancer are taking a rest after the susan g. Komen walk for Breast Cancer. The walk spreads awareness and earns money ends sunday at the navy yard. This is an abc news special report. Hurricane harvey, state of emergency. Now reporting. Juju chang. Im juju channing at abc news headquarters in new york. We are coming on the air for breaking news. Hurricane harvey barreling into the texas coastline as a category iv with 135mileanhour winds. Its the first category 4 to hit the u. S. In over a decade. Threatening rainfall totals that could render some areas uninhabitable for months. Thousands republicplungds into. People are perhaps trapped under the rubble. Our Abc News Team is spread out along the coast. Take a look at the radar. You can see where Hurricane Harvey is. The eye of the storm recently passed over rockport, texas. Joining us now from rockport is the fire chief in, steve simms. Steve, i know youve been a firefighter for 13 years, what kind of damage are you beginning to see tonight . A lot of fairly severe. We havent been able to get out and really look at things much other than whats right around close to our station. The eyewall just passed over us and our wind has picked back up again, so were hunkered down in our main station. There are reports that there are several building, including a high school thats partially collapsed. Theres some reports of students trapped there. Will you atent rescue . Not the way it is now. We have nothing to get on the highway with. Our hands are tied and its killing all of us. Im sure, as first responders, that must be the hardest thing to have to sit and wait. Very much. Yet, what is your Community Going through tonight . Clearly, people are bracing for many more hours, if not days for this storms damage to get unleashed. Oh, most definitely. Weve been hunkered down for since early evening and like i say, the eyewall just passed over us. It must be quiet now and yet 130 mile nourp winds, what does that sound like in the Fire Department when it went over you . The best way i can describe it is a tin can being kicked down the road. That loud . That loud. Being in a Metal Building with the big metal rollup doors, it rattled and shook and just, you know, real get your nerves on end. Sure. Youre part of the fabric of this community. What fears do you have for your town tonight . Well, im i fear were going to really see some severe damage. Like i say acti, we havent beee to get out and see what weve got going, but its not looking good. Well, the entire country has its eyes on you tonight and our thoughts and prayers go out to you tonight, steve. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. Here with me in the studio live is kate parker, meteorologist. I know you live and breathe these hurricanes, but youre also from texas. It am. This is close to your heart, i know. Its surreal looking at this image, honestly. It was 48 hours that we went from a tropical depression up to a category iv hurricane. It was moments ago downgraded to category 3. Category 3 and 4, its potentially lethal. When you go through the first part of the eyewall, Everything Glows one direction. Youve got the back side of that, everythings knocked loose. Everything goes in the opposite direction. The back side is frequently the worst side. There were some mixed signals. There were. Look at the size of the storm. If you look at the path of it, theres widespread flach watches, i think that will be war. Look at how this me anders as a hurricane over texas through next wednesday. Youre dumping not inches but possibly feet of rain. And tornado warnings on top of that. It is historicre worried abo flooding. Thats try. This storm has so much spin within them. Were going to see tornedo watches and warnings on top of all this rainfall. Its not just a little bit feet of rain is what were communicating. Not inches but feet. The rainfall totals say it all. This is going to drag over for a number of days and have a ripple effect. You not only have the storm surge coming in and thats measured in feet, right, 10plus feet in some players you have rain on top of that. Theres nowhere for it to. Would youre going to stay with us in our coverage of the hurricane. Go to matt gutman in Corpus Christi where they could end up with three feet of matt has been out all day. Matt . This storm has changed coming from behind me, bearing ever more rain. The major concern right now is getting to the people who need help, but powerge are rampant throughout this part of texas. 120,000 people in and around co theres all sorts of debris in the roadway. A few moments ago weve seen panel after panel of pleksy gpl. These are the kinds of hazards rescuers are facing. Its why theyre struggling so mightily to get out and give the help they need. With this deluge coming down the streets blackened and all of this debris is out on the roadways. Its going to be some time before rescuers are going to be able to get to everyone who need it. Rockport got battered by the eye of the storm for another 12 hours. Theyre going to see hurricane strength winds until 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow. This is a very serious situation. The reason were seeing 17,000 National Guardsmen called up. We dont know how bad it is. We are right here in corporates kris Corpus Christi. Rockport was a ghosttown with a manhattan tore evacuation. The mayor saying if you stay you better write your name and Social Security number with a sharpie on your arm because you might die. The situation is very, very concerning. Farther up the coast were seeing the same types of things. What is going to be happening over the next couple of hours and days is reenforcements aring go to be coming inasmuch as check but so many areas, low lying. The roads just to get in will be inundated. Talking about this 12foot storm surge, getting them help is going to be very difficult, very trying in the coming hours and days nchts juju. Thanks, matt gutman in Corpus Christi. Were going to turn to port lavaca. An area that as matt pointed out, may have resources cut off because of the condition of the roads. Rob has been reporting from there all day. Rob . Reporter we have retreated up doors. Its too dangerous to be outside. You can hear the clanging across our hotel. Parts of the hoefrl have been shoord off, downspouts, parse of the outer walls have been torn off. Railing has been pushed down. There are some street lights out there that have been torn down as well. This thing in the dark is even scarier. It made landfall as the lowest pressured lafrl since hurricane rita in 2005. I was in that storm. It hit in the middle of the night and its just as scary here in port lavaca. This hotel is fairly new. Its painfully coming apart. The storm surge has made us an island. You can hear the wind cranking up even more. It is nasty, nasty to be outside. Its going to be a long night here in port lavaca. Juju back to you. Thanks, rob. I have to say im glad to see you safe and indoors. Were going to turn to houston where victor okindo has been standing by. There are ripple effects that will be felt but victor give us a sense of the flights to be canceled, the cruise ships that have to go back out to sea. Theres a lot to sort through. Reporter there is a lot, juju. Here in houston its been raining all day and into the night. Not expectation the main rain to happen until tomorrow. More than 130 flights were canceled between houston and Corpus Christis flights. We just got word that Corpus Christis airport is closed and likely will not reopen o until monday. Something else to ksh. Experts say harvey will affect gas prices. More than 45 of u. S. Refining areas are off coast. We could be looking at significant increases from five cents to 15 yents per gallon. As for houston area, harvey is very reminiscent of