you see it for yourself. we re being hit by a pretty significant band from harvey as it s making land fall. we re here at the bay. the bay is in front of me. and the storm surge is pushing water from the bay this way. that was brandon walker from nbc affiliate kprc has hurricane harvey made land fall. a lot of brave reporters who are bringing the story, and a lot who didn t heed the mandatory warnings. joining us live on the phone is rick florez. did you have a mandatory warning in victoria? yes, we did. and it was given out yesterday
the next time there s a hurricane, get out. absolutely. we ll continue to cover hurricane harvey. the good news is that we have not had word of loss of life. the bad news is that this thing isn t going anywhere, and it is still more than 12 hours after making land fall, a hurricane. you re watching msnbc. what powers the digital world. communication. that s why a cutting edge university counts on centurylink
david ortiz finished third in boston s mayoral race. all thanks to the blank line on the ballot. thanks to the fans. mayor poppy. it has a ring to it. the mayor. have a good one. turning back to what might be one of the strongest storms in history, bill karins has more on that. we have only started to see the catastrophe. people can t get communication. it s a rural area. a couple hundred thousand people under the center of the eye. this is the image when it was making land fall. the eye was huge. incredible picture there. one i will say for many years to come and look upon as one of the strongest storms ever in my forecasting history, most of our lifetimes. itis going to continue on its track away from the philippines. it will be a bad storm there. now there s really no active
the east. that is not a good seen for a strengthening storm. likely a strong tropical storm making land fall. by tomorrow we are going to see a lot of rain. three to six inches an isolated ten inches not out of the question. it won t be that strong but we could see localized flad ioodin. this right here it is october 4th and we have a blizzard going on across the high plains here. the snow may be up to two feet. and a very big tornado threat throughout the afternoon and evening here. we will continue to track that one as well. all right thank you so much rick. no shortage of finger pointing over the government
and fun and by doing so you could cause more danger especially to the emergency responders. we are out here in it and it s coming through and it looks to keep coming through perhaps with greater intensity as this day progresses. phil keating live on the coast. projections for isaac moments ago. she is in the extreme weather center with details for us. what s the latest? good morning everyone. we are getting updates from the national hurricane center every hour because it is making land fall. it is a hurricane with maximum sustained winds at 80 miles per hour. it is moving at 8 miles per hour it was stationary producing the storm surge. now slowly starting to move inland. we are starting to see some of the worst conditions pushing