Rain. Lets check in right now with Polo Sandoval, whos in victoria, texas, where the elements are certainly picking up. Polo . Reporter this is what it still looks like in parts of texas, particularly closer to the coast. Here up main street in victoria, texas, you can see this wind is still enough to move debris around. The only thing thats not flying around are things that are grounded like these garbage tins that are actually bolted to the sidewalk. Were able to were right next to a parking garage so were able to seek shelter. But at least im able to step out just so you can see for yourself the intensity of these winds. And believe it or not, they were even more intense a little while ago. What im able to see now on authorities like the Victoria Police department, which youll see, are finally able to leave this parking garage and make their way onto streets. An officer just turned off the road here. That gives you an idea that authorities are now being able to go out into the commu
Eyes have been on texas because of harvey and we did just get this news moments ago with the white house confirming the president will travel to texas on tuesday to get on the ground, survey the damage himself thats been left behind of this historic storm. We know that harvey at this hour still lingering over the houston area have already placed the fourng largest city in america underwater. People on rafts being escorted waist high waters as people are fleeing their homes. This makes it the citys worst storm on record. Thousands of homes have taken in water and hundreds of people they are stranded. Parts of houston have already received as much as 17 inches of rain and the National Weather service says parts of the city could see a historic 50 inches by the ends of this coming week. City Officials Say the 911 system is at capacity after an overwhelming number of emergency calls. So far more than 2,000. Now more than 300,000 people are without power across the state as residents are be
Was all lined up but we lost the call. And couldnt get a hold of him. Theres areas that emergency crews cant get into and were keeping an eye on that. President trump signed a disaster declaration for texas as Hurricane Harvey made its move on the Lone Star State and Hurricane Harvey has been downgraded to a category three storm and made landfall about 10 00 p. M. Local time. Its been about five hours now and took the storm 56 hours to get to a category for status. Texas governor greg abbott, one of the residents that this monster storm would present in major disaster. Some comparisons are katrina which hit new orleans 12 years ago and at that point killed 1800 people plus devastation there. Check in with adam, meteorologist adam, hes keeping track on what is happening there. Its been about five hours now since the eye of the storm hit the land there. What are we seeing . In these last couple of moments, jackie, new information coming in. The winds are continuing to die down but we jus
The road. That is dangerous. For houston, Harris County. Harris county got a lot of rain. A lot of flooding. Combine houston and Harris County you literally cannot put 6. 5 Million People on the road. If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare. Especially when its not planned. And many of us in this city remember when the Evacuation Order was ordered before and learned our lesson from that. Has to be very well coordinated all the way from houston to the destination point. You have to make sure that you have proper gas stations, make sure you have the proper lanes that are flowing in the right direction. It has to be coordinated. If you do it or attempt to do it and its not coordinated, not done right, you are literally putting people in harms way, and you are creating a far worse situation. In this particular case, the hurricane, we were not in the direct line. It is true, we anticipated a lot of rain. And a lot of rain, but