Running water, no electricity. Youre only going to be more harm than help at this point. Despite that, we have seen people coming back really stunned sometimes looks on their faces, trying to pick through the wreckage, see what they can recover from this devastating storm. Weve also seen a very slow search and rescue operation begin. Theres about 1,000 people across the state who are involved in that. From what we see though with the conditions here, with no power, no phone service, no nothing, its really been just volunteer firemen on foot sometimes with axes knocking down doors, trying to see if anyone inside is hurt or dead. We are beginning to get the first fatality reports, at least one person dead here now in rockport. Thats the first confirmed. But as these search and rescue operations continue, that number could rise. Back to you in new york. Laura all right. Steve harrigan, incredible pictures in that house right behind you. I mean, it looks like the side of a dollhouse. Its j
Forcing her to do more than she could . The powerball mixup. The wrong location, but now the correct winner. The hospital worker and tonight, what she has already told her boss. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a thursday night, and we begin with that hurricane rapidly growing in size and strength. Barrelling through the gulf and headed toward the u. S. Tonight. Harvey becoming a category 1 hurricane just this afternoon. 85 mileanhour winds already. And still growing. Expected to be a category 3 when it hits. Urgent warnings going out. Evacuations under way at this hour. Flights already being canceled. Families stocking up for what could be nearly 3 feet of rain, and if the forecast is right, it would be the first category 3 to make landfall in the u. S. In more than a decade. Chief meteorologist ginger zee has been in the news room with us all afternoon tracking this, and ginger, where is harvey right now . Its less than 300 miles southeast of corpus christi. We
The tomorrow end of the immigration program. We wouldnt have this conversation about daca if congress would step up and pass immigration reform. Stunning themes around the parts of houston. We are going to hold onto the faith and trust god that even in the midst of the tragedy the victory and triumph comes on the other side of it. Pete welcome to fox friends on this labor day. Right to a fox news alert. North korea on the brink of another missile test less than the day after the regime claims it tested a bomb five more times more power than the u. S. Used at hiro jima. Abby causing emergency meeting in hours. Good morning, pete, abby, clayton. Reports coming out of north korea and south korea today amid suggestions they might be doubling down on nuclear tests. South korean Officials Say they are seeing signs that the north is preparing a possible icbm test an intercontinental missile. Yesterday they carried out sixth test which they claimed Hydrogen Bomb more powerful than anything the
Storm churning inland leaving widespread key instructidestruc wake. Hundreds of thousands are without power. The storms snapping utility poles like tooth picks. The damage in houston alone could be in the tens of billions. And more flooding may be on the way for that low lying area. President trump tweeting this, thank you to all of the great volunteers helping out with Hurricane Harvey relief in texas. Our cnn reporters are covering every angle of this disaster. Lets start with our special coverage and first head to mar have i being blamed now to at least one death in rockport, texas. The storm came to shore as a category 4 hurricane leaves massive amounts of destruction there. The towns mayor calls the storm a, quote, severe blow to his community, but local and state officials are still as setting the damage caused by the initial landfall as they brace for rainfall. Our Martin Savage is joining us from rockport. I understand city officials are preparing to respond to storm victims. W
As the storm lumbers slowly inland right now, this area is facing dire warnings of tornadoes, torrential rain and days of flooding to come. Joining us right now cnn meteorologist chad myers. Chad, what is the biggest concern as far as the movement and intensity of this storm over the next 24 hours and beyond . The concern is that it stalls. Its still moving a little bit now. But about 3 miles or 5 Miles Per Hour. If it stalls and the rain is in the same spot for so many days, were talking five days before the computer models actually push this anywhere, theres nothing to push it away. Right now the center of the storm is very close to yorktown, texas, thats where the center of circulation would be. Theres not really much of an eye left. Its a 70mileperhour Tropical Storm. But that still means there are 70mileperhour winds out there and an awful lot of rain thats already come down. This is from 24 hours, really from about 14 hours because thats when landfall was, just north of i10. That