we watch the situation continue to intensify, thank you so much. you re welcome. elizabeth: he talked a lot about the standing water and that s a concern. we talked about the wildlife, there could be chemicals in there, could be sewage. don t know if there s sharp objects beneath. people go back home and think it s knee height and it s more after dangerous situation. leland: you ve got everything in the water and power lines down and electrified. casey made a good point. so much of the texas coastline are the outer islands, one way in and one way out. we can see that the road that casey was talking about, green screen left and right as we await the governor. and when power lines go down or those roads flood, there s no other way in or out and typically by this time in a storm, landfall plus 12 or 13 hours, you have helicopters that are up. you ve got the national guard
to the people on that. , for wisdom if you will as we think the administrator. this is stunning. we see this every time there s a storm that a few people decide to be really stupid for lack of a better word. elizabeth: it really takes less than a second to be swept out to sea. it s not really funny. in the meantime, the mayor of san antonio has been holding a press conference on a tropical storm. i believe his come off the stage. but as you know, san antonio is a bit more inland but they re getting quite a bit more rain. we also know a lot of people evacuated to san antonio. it s not quite as dangerous as the coast. this take a listen live now to get the very latest. they have been taken to the various hospitals in the surrounding area. it is hard to know what impact we might have depending on how bad the conditions get in houston, texas. there may be some overflow from their coming into san antonio. if the impact is as great as
are checking into the hurricane harvey facebook safety check page. marking themselves is safe so family members and friends are aware of their status. we ve seen these pages pop up after terrorist attacks in people communicate here like a message board. it s very helpful. sometimes people asking for help in some offering assistance. this is a facebook video poster from the police department by department showing their vehicles rushing back into the city after harvey made landfall as everyone else was urged to stay off. everyone either hunkering down or leaving. the police vehicles dashing in to danger to make sure that everyone is safe. we have seen things on instagram and go back to facebook or hear from instagram, this is a father and daughter looking at the storm from houston, texas.
is that wind gusts what are we looking at? in this radar, shows where the heaviest rainfall is. and those are the areas we could expect to see 50 or 60 inches of rain. were looking at storm totals of about 40 inches, in some places ten or 15 have already fell. elizabeth: thank you for joining us. we hope people stay safe out there. an update coming in a couple of minutes from austin, texas. you can see the podium for the governor of texas and behind that the emergency operations center where there gathering more information. it will get a lot worse before it gets better in terms of destruction and devastation throughout southeast texas. crews are monitoring. one of the biggest issues is getting help to the communities. the fema directors up next on how long it will take to reach the communities that are still cut off.
elizabeth: it is, it is. leland: it s terrible. it really is. and the worst is yet to come. i m leland vittert. elizabeth: i m elizabeth prann. hurricane harvey hit over texas towns and it s over a big part of the state dropping rain. it s not going anywhere soon. leland: this is video coming from the port aransas fire department. you can see those squad cars headed in, lights and sirens on. last night around 10:00 or 11:00 the port aransas police department tweeted out that they could not receive 911 calls. all their communications were down and they, themselves, have hunkered down essentially telling folks in the path of this storm, you are on your own and that s very close to where the eyewall passed over and now they re headed in just after day break to begin figuring out what went wrong and the damage that is in their city. so often now, it s after the