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
helicopters, and their blackhawks, the coast guard helicopters and news helicopters as well can often spot these things. the weather is too bad for this. this health care has not moved on and continues to spin, a huge amount of this resources that first responders count on aren t there. and not only the resources, but the backup they count on. as we heard from a number of fire departments you were talking about that it s up until a couple of hours ago, it was too dangerous for them to even go out into these conditions and as casey pointed out, he s been in a lot of hurricanes. even though the hurricane has made landfall, it feels like hurricane conditions in galveston and other places. elizabeth: that was one of the biggest concerns when we talked to mark is that so often, and certainly, texas is no stranger to hurricanes, but, for example, if we see a hurricane maybe on the east coast, there s a system that pushes out and it comes, obviously, it s devastating at the time and then move
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heavy rainfall. we re expecting rainfall amounts in additional 15 to 20 inches in some locations so we feel it s going to be the flooding is the major short-term threat. elizabeth: a lot of these low lying areas already have this much rainfall. i want to ask you about the additional threat up to feet of rain. and also what casey was talking about, do people get complacent when they think it s a couple of inches of rain and head out not only in the rain, but the threat of tornados? the threat of tornados from this system is fairly high. this is the houston area here all the way down to corpus christi. what we see is very, very strong rain bands. if you re far removed from where the center location is, steams you get a feeling like you re in the clear, but you re really not and it extends into the houston area. elizabeth: these are live pictures of galveston that we re looking at.
number of other communities there along the texas coast. even the emergency operation centers were cut off from my type of contact with those first responders and we hope now to get an update from the governor about what he s been able to learn as day has broke and a number of these police have been able to move in to some of these hardest hit areas and hopefully reestablish communications. back to austin, and the governor s briefing as it happens. meanwhile, we continue to follow the storm on the ground with our reporters, including casey stegall, who is in galveston, texas and casey, it wasn t too bad in galveston a few hours ago, but now we re getting what everyone has been so worried about, which is the buckets and buckets of rain. yeah, you could have fooled me that the hurricane isn t making landfall because these are hurricane-like conditions, literally, that we re standing in. hard to keep your footing. the rain is hitting me so hard, it almost feels like little