power line down. it certainly had a lot of fuel. something really amongst all this rain and storm surge, talk about the last thing you expect to see is it s. not only a fire but very intense fire melting cars out here. it s just unbelievable. we came here. we weren t sure exactly what to expect and all of a sudden we came across all these firefighters. this is actually technically still corpus christi. we are on padre island. so we are actually very close to the gulf right here. i asked, was this under mandatory evacuation and the chief said actually no. this was not. this is still under voluntary evacuation. these people didn t have to leave but he says from what they see right now, it appears that there was nobody at this home that they got out of here which is thankful because that is completely devastating fire. we have four melted cars and boat over there that looks like it might have survived. up against quite nice houses out here on padre island. this is a vacation spot for a lo
county or city plan to say hey, is this area flooded? okay, no. next one. and they comb through your community and then they will say okay, it s safe to let everyone back. in you have will be the hero in your neighborhood when you have this app. because you will know this stuff. abby: what is it called again. scanner 911. i have it if you go to our website: abby: what do you have on your screen? whether have you phone, tablet desktop computer or laptop. it s called vin to sky. it s allowed us to have a lot of the brilliant algorithms that detect and plan and track where hurricanes go. so rick is our expert here. this allows you. abby: this is all live. this is live. right now exactly what s going on. the storm, we have the winds that rupp. tells you exactly the intensity of the rain. can you layer whatever you are looking for. if you want to look and find out the waves in that area. it will tell it to you live and predict out. tell you a little bit later this morning that this is
35 inches of rain. caused about $5 billion in damage. this will be a storm that has widespread flooding all across the houston area, again, unfortunately, a lot of floods we have seen the last couple years have been training thunderstorms have been going across the area and caused localized flooding in couple neighborhoods. this is going to be a widespread flooding event eventually towards houston as well. todd: let s bring in griff jenkins like we said live from houston. griff, it does look like it s getting a lot worse rainwise where you are. that s right, guys. we re just starting to see some of the rain squalls here in houston. we are in pretty much downtown and just as rick was talking about, the office of emergency managementible their web page says essentially any and every portion of houston is prone to flooding. but we have brought you to one of the locations that is identified as a prone warning, a prone flood danger zone. and just to give you a sense, this is basically the
son-in-law damage here. we can t see it now. when the sun comes up, i m certain it s there. clayton: we are about 1 hour and 20 minutes there. we will check back in with matt. stay safe. abby: matt, please stay safe. you can only imagine the forms of winds. he just left us. but you can imagine the force of winds is he feeling. i would have been blown away two seconds of that lye shot. that is not easy. you just hope they all stay safe out there. todd: you saw that forecast earlier. that area where matt finn is expected to get 50 to 58 inches of rain. massive number. when you see that shot you understand how we are going to get that number. clayton: where do we want to go next? we have a lot of different reporters up and down the coast line there. take a look at some video just coming into the newsroom as well of some of that devastation here. these are fryer crews in the middle of all of this destruction last night, in the middle of all of the storm hitting land in corpus christi out t
where it s going to go. look at the center line of it which normally we say don t look at the center line of it, if you do take a look at this, that 1 is where we are today, go in to tomorrow, the next day, the next day, the next day, we are all right in the same spot. in fact, you might see a second landfall that moves back over water and make a second landfall in the same spot maybe by wednesday. some uncertainty in that obviously. but the point is the indications are that the storm stays in the same spot. all that moisture in the air falling to the ground. clayton, even though you say down to a category 1. that just means those winds are weakening but that wind field also expands in order to do that. so the strong winds are going to expand out from where that center of it is. so places that were seeing maybe 30 mile-per-hour winds are probably going to see 50 mile-per-hour winds on top of the rain that will cause problems far away from the center of the storm. abby: thank you so muc