Response from the white house and we will have much more on that in a short time. But first to Hurricane Harvey. The massive storm packing winds up to 145 miles an hour. Torrential rains and the potential for massive flooding in the coming days with the storm surge of some 12 feet. The fema director saying texas is about to have, quote, a very significant disaster. Texas officials now telling citizens who do not evacuate, listen to this, to write their names and Social Security numbers on their forearms. Just how big is this hurricane . Youre looking at harvey from outer space now. A camera on the International Space station. Harvey expected to be the strongest hurricane to make land fall in the u. S. In 12 years, since 2005. Rain fall totals up to 40 inches are expected in some areas. Thats more than three feet, causing widespread flooding. Made worse as the storm is predicted to stall over the region for several days. Large parts of south texas could be, quote, uninhabitable for week
Conway, thats the center. Now i back you up. This is where we are now. And the storm is slowly, like 3 miles per hour, gliding toward myrtle beach. But the heaviest rain is wilmington and northward. Heavy, heavy rainfall pushing more water over some of these beaches. Theres like a figureeight island thats like the high spot, six feet. I imagine that every single spot of that will have some saltwater going over it, but most of those homes are of course on stilts. Here you go, 80 miles per hour. The latest, the 11 00 advisory. There are still gusts, almost 100 miles per hour, and it is moving to the westsouthwest at 3. Heres the forecast. Heres where we are right now. Right onshore, right almost at cape fear, and its going to go down close to conway and turn on up toward the north and northeast. This is eventually, this is still two days away, just to get to this point. Lets go point by point to where we are exactly right now. Because a lot of people are wanting to know, im at myrtle. Wh
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