Now from abc7 live breaking news. The strongest hurricane to hit the u. S. In a decade has made landfall. Right now, Hurricane Harvey is battering the texas coast bringing life threatening rain, win, and flooding. Good evening. Im ama dates. Im dan ashleigh. Its just after 1 00 in texas where Hurricane Harvey is packing winds up to 130 miles an hour. Trees are swaying this the wind in Corpus Christi. And heavy rain is coming down. Also in Corpus Christi, proof of how strong the winds can be. This interstate sign was sheered off. Tonight it just is there in the roadway. Well, this is rock port, texas, where floodsing is already an issue. You can see water coming into an hotel there. Its going get worse as the hours progress. Harvey was just downgraded . Thats right. It is now a category 3 storm but still dangerous. A major hurricane as we look at our live doppler 7 right now. Bands of heavy rain continuing to move onshore. They are seeing not only downpours but some strong winds. Look a
Now from abc7 live breaking news. The strongest hurricane to hit the u. S. In a decade has made landfall. Right now, Hurricane Harvey is battering the texas coast bringing life threatening rain, win, and flooding. Good evening. Im ama dates. Im dan ashleigh. Its just after 1 00 in texas where Hurricane Harvey is packing winds up to 130 miles an hour. Trees are swaying this the wind in Corpus Christi. And heavy rain is coming down. Also in Corpus Christi, proof of how strong the winds can be. This interstate sign was sheered off. Tonight it just is there in the roadway. Well, this is rock port, texas, where floodsing is already an issue. You can see water coming into an hotel there. Its going get worse as the hours progress. Harvey was just downgraded . Thats right. It is now a category 3 storm but still dangerous. A major hurricane as we look at our live doppler 7 right now. Bands of heavy rain continuing to move onshore. They are seeing not only downpours but some strong winds. Look a
Christi, theyre on the lens, before 7 00 our time with sustained times. Thousands of people has a dire warning to residents saying if youre not evacuating, write your name and Social Security on your arm. The president signed a disaster declaration. Lets take a look at live doppler seven right now. This is a life threatening storm and made land fall. Land fall was at 7 00 our time. Near rock port texas and the eye of the hurricane continues to turn on shore with bands of heavy rain. And warnings are up and tornado as this tremendous amount of water moving on shore with this category 4 storm as this hurricane, quite a bit of moisture. Current winds sustained 130 miles an hour. It is going to be days of rain, if you take you through the rain fall projections from now until wednesday, up to 40 inches of rain expected in isolated areas, 15 to 30 inches 0 f rain from any part. They did report a wind gust of 132 miles per hour, storm surge will be dangerous. The wind gusts will be powerful.
Hotel there. Its going get worse as the hours progress. Harvey was just downgraded . Thats right. It is now a category 3 storm but still dangerous. A major hurricane as we look at our live doppler 7 right now. Bands of heavy rain continuing to move onshore. They are seeing not only downpours but some strong winds. Look at the eye on this hurricane. This is just incredible as you take a look here. It made landfall at 7 00 our tomorrow. And it made a second landfall. Gust of 110 Miles Per Hour reported there. Tornado warnings are up right now as the hurricane interacts with land causing friction, upping the rick for tornado. Look at the rainfall totals, 3. 8 to 7 inches in Corpus Christi, tech. There is more rain just off the coast. About nine inches based on radar stilts. Thats coming onshore. Category 3 maximum sustained winds of 120. Expected to weakan to a cat 20 tomorrow morning and then a one as we move into sunday morning. It is going to be a slow moving soaker. For days they are
Buckingham palace. And the terror attack in brussels. A man attacking two soldiers with a machete. A special edition of world news tonight begins now. Good evening. Great to have you with us on a friday night. And Hurricane Harvey set to strike this evening. Tonight, fema is warning texas about to have a very significant disaster. This image just coming in from the International Space station, now a category 3, winds 125 miles an hour and growing stronger. Supplies running short. The hurricanes outer bands already lashing the shore. Tens of thousands already without power. And now, possible tornadoes. Lets get right to ginger zee. Weve been tracking this all afternoon with you. Where is harvey right now . Its so close to making landfall. 125mileperhour winds moving northwest, its a category 3 and will likely make landfall that way. The tornado watch, in the northeast quadrant, thats where were going to see the dirty side, as we call it. 115 miles per hourplus. And the biggest concern,