Delivered by harvey overnight, little if any relief from the storm. We lost our whole town. Nothing left. Us, you know, going to have to pull together. And hopefully as a community we will. Reporter power leans snapped and twisted like spaghetti, sparking flames that raced th d through houses and apartments along the coast, claiming the storms first victim. Someone caught in a fire in his house during the storm and we didnt know about it until today. Reporter rooftops and metal awnings torn away while this tugboat struggled to hold onto a drilling mat form in the gulf challenged by the winds and waves. More than 1,800 First Responders and National Guardsmen are working search and rescue missions. Are First Responders are absolutely putting their lives on the line to get out there and do search and rescue for any of those still in need. Reporter fully over land now, the storm lost some of its intensity but little, if any, of its impact. The system expected to linger for days delivering
Continuing to unfold in texas. In our area, were looking at a nice sunday. Krystal klei is here with your most accurate neighborhood forecast. Good morning. Good morning, ted. What a stark contrast between down south and our forecast. Well start with what is now Tropical Storm harvey. This was Hurricane Harvey yesterday. Its now downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Its still massive. The center of the storm indicating most of the action sits to the east of the storms center. Look at these rand bands just pounding into houston where some of the heaviest rain is moving through. I can tell you looking through reports from the last 24 hours around the houston area, many places now at a foot or some spots around a foot and a half of rain already accumulated. This is the area today that is probably going to see the worst results of harvey because of all the rain that is to come. They could still see another foot to two feet as we continue through the next several days. Heres a live look at Tropic
Storm harvey. Heres the radar look. You can see the center of the storm now sits south of austin, but the arm bands are the big issues now. We talked about this issue, the storm surge and winds yesterday were a big issue. Today and for the next several days, all about the heavy rain that is just pounding the houston to galveston area. These are the areas that i think will see the most devastation due to how much rain has fallen already in some areas. About 20 inches of rain have fallen over the houston area. With a possibility of two more feet in the days to come. Lets look at the storms path. The newest projection for Tropical Storm harvey. You see the winds are sustained at 45 Miles Per Hour, but the issue is its only moving at 1mileperhour. Here the track as it goes to monday overnight. This is 1 00 a. M. Barrie moves to the south. And brushes up against the coastline for tuesday with winds still at about 35 Miles Per Hour. That will drop it to a tropical depression, and then it sho
Lifethreatening emergency continues to unfold in texas. Krystal klei is tracking harvey and our neighborhood forecast. Krystal. Stark difference between our forecast and the forecast in southeast texas. This is a look at radar right now over the area. Look at the yellows, oranges, reds. Thats the heaviest rain. I can tell you, it has been in this exact same spot for hours and hours straight. Now, storm totals reporting over 20 inches in some spots around houston, with another 15 to 25 inches possible to fall over the next several days. Which does suggest some areas could be near four feet of rain totals for just this storm by the time it does come to an end. The problem with it is the very Little Movement that were experiencing with Tropical Storm harvey. Only moving right now one mile per hour. And stuck in the same spot, continues to bring heavy rain to the same location. In our neighborhoods, a very different forecast. 68 degrees right now in philadelphia. 69 in millville. Lancaster
Lifethreatening situation continues to unfold in texas. First alert meteorologist krystal klei is tracking harvey, and she also has our neighborhood forecast. Yeah, its hard to look at this imagery because its the same picture we have been seeing all of our morning hours. The problem with that is these heavy bands of rain, the armbands of Tropical Storm harvey, well, their just stuck right over the houston area. As a result, these are the areas that are dealing with catastrophic lifethreatening flooding this morning. The center of the storm is to the south of austin. You can see there, so all the eastern half thats getting the major impacts. This is going to be the biggest problem, the one that goes down in history books. The flooded associated with the never ending rain thats in sight as we move forward. The problem is, like i mentioned, this system has been stuck in the same spot all night long. Its moving about 45mileperhour sustained winds, but the Actual Movement of the storm cent