we re getting some preliminary reports of being upwards around $40 billion for the state for damages, but there s really no way, there s no way for us to gauge that right now because not only can they not get into the areas, but the storm is staying and hovering. when we talk and hear from mark, he s saying there s nothing to push it out. yes, it s slowly churning a little slower, but it s still a hurricane now and still dumping rain and think about 4.6 million people affected by the storm, a lot of them can t get into their homes. at the same time, officials are very concerned with the fact that when it was coming in, category 1, category 2, category 3, category 4, people perhaps stayed home. that s the biggest concern. we have no idea how many people stayed home during the storm. leland: no idea how many people stayed home. south of galveston in rockport, the mayor said if you decide not to evacuate, write your name and
first, rockport you lost communications, then you lost them to places like victoria. then you lost port aransas and other cities. so, even before they can send people in, they ve got to figure out how to get those communications systems up. there could be an enormous amount of devastation that we don t know about as we look there at the texas emergency operations center in austin where we re awaiting the governor s press conference. we talked to folks in the emergency operation center last night and we said okay, we can t get a hold of anybody in rockport. tell us what you re hearing. they said we can t get a hold of them either. elizabeth: we had a long conversation with elaine dukes, and see lived through katrina and what she learned. the last of it was preparedness and getting people out because they learned their lessons sometimes they didn t make themselves vocally available to perhaps the elderly or people afraid to leave their pets they weren t going to leave. which is why you m
how does this work in places like galveston where were getting places like rockport and other places that are so hard hit, you have local first responders that going and at least from the folks in texas they re not getting any word back out from there in terms of understanding exactly what the damages inside of texas. now, to
throughout the mounting we been watching people come back to this devastating apartment complex in rockport. through the wreckage i saw husband-and-wife pull out some shirts, obviously samara rescues to go.
it is something changing a fluctuating by the hour. we are on top of it. we will continue to keep you updated from galveston. that is the latest. back to. elizabeth: you have covered a lot of these, the characteristics of the storm is in the history book. thank you for bringing us the latest. stay safe. bringing in texas congressman live on the ground. we know you represent an area truly hardest hit victoria, rockport and those cities as you have driven around and talk to folks, how bad is it? corpus christi dodged a bullet. once you cross the harbor bridge that s where the rains have passed, their flooded, mobile homes and rvs are upside down. there is not a sign on 35, it s