Rivers and floodwaters, 8 least 8 people have died as a result of the slow moving storm, torrential rain to continue over parts of texas and louisiana over next several days, with catastrophic flooding expected to worsen, fox report Trace Gallagher in houston with our report. Reporter in texas alone up to 50 countries are told to expect up to 50 inches of rain by thursday, two feet has fallen in houston area since weekend. In all, harvey so far has produced 9 trillion gallons of water. With the catastrophic flooding and mandatory evacuations, officials in houston say that situation remains very dangerous. Seniors, those with disabilities, those in lifethreatening situations. Reporter 56,000, 911 calls have been reported. Overwhelming the system, with two thousand residents evacuated so far by air and boat. Thousands more, forced to seek a dry escape. Roof went, and attic got wet, that soaked top floor, it got wet, it just pancaked. Reporter federal official say 30 thousand people are s
When people feel fear, they rush for safety. We had the yield on the tenyear below 2130 earlier today. Selling of stocks across the board. The dow down 117 points off just slightly yesterday. That is half of 1 . The biggest and hardest it is then not back down almost 1 this hour. In europe, losses across the board as well. Heavy selling in england, france, germany being the hardest hit, 1. 5 right now. Asia overnight, markets mostly lower. All of that and so much more coming up this morning. With me all morning long, fox news correspondent lee gabriel. Wall street economics editor Jon Hilsenrath and democratic strategist michael star hopkins. Welcome one and all. To you first come of this missile test is not the first time north korea has shot a missile over japan, but again, this is a different situation given the fact we know that its nukes have been miniaturized. Absolutely. The last time was in 2009. They said it was a satellite they are launching them. This basically into three pi
If either of these reservoirs were to breach their berms, look what is out there . 3,000 homes and residences out there, all in jeopardy. That is what is threatened at this hour. Already water is going out the spillway, crossing what is route 6 out there. That road out there is route 6. Already water overbreaching that. And headed into those homes. Theyre hoping though, that is as bad as it gets. It is pretty bad. Well show you next hour what that looks like. For now, it holding. They hope it continues to hold. Neil jeff, thank you, very, very much. By the way to jeffs point, it rice it is really not just houston but Hillary Vaughn is here. Hi, hillary. Reporter they got off one of people just rescued. They were waiting since 4 00 a. M. For a response. What did you feel waiting for the rescue crew . Obviously keeping the girls safe. Luckily were in a second story home. We hunkered down there. We wanted older neighbors to get out first. Were ablebodied, so. Reporter what did you decide
Insuring flood victims that the entire country is with them. That together, we will overcome this historic flooding. At least 14 people are dead but officials fear that number will rise once the waters recede. To make matters worse, more rain, as i said, it is on the way. This is a pretty dire situation. Youre looking at rescue boats there. People are going out in their communities and theyre helping individual citizens, not members of law enforcement, but they are going out conducting rescue efforts. One of the scary things going on, levees have been breached. Reservoirs and dams have spilled over. Reservoirs, we have live pictures, they have turned into rivers. Hillary sawn in kings wood, texas. You rescue operations going on yesterday. More today, hillary. Tell us what youre seeing on the ground . Reporter trish, thats right. This rescue operation in king wood, in barrington. Theyre walking towards me now, this is where the boats coming in. I want to introduce you someone from this
Round 2 threat may push rain levels above 50 in houston surpassing a record set in 1954, all american storms ever. Levees have spilled over after reaching capacity three hours ago. Breakages at key dams. In a cruel twist of fate on the 12year anniversary of hurricane katrina. Louisiana is preparing. They are about to get whipped by the storm. You see the pictures of people filling sandbags. Flood warnings already. Some watches in place and katrinaravaged new orleans, braces for impact with. All of that, a diplomatic storm swirling as north korea saberrattling turns to outright jabbing and poking. Kim jonguns regime shooting off a new missile test that sailed over northern japan. Which nation will he target next . By the way, we want to let our viewers know, we are waiting for President Trump to arrive in austin, texas here, was already in Corpus Christi, continuing his tour of the Harvey Disaster relief efforts and then heading to the white house where north korea has to be at the fore