with isolated areas up to 35 inches of rain. not good news. officials here asking people to be vigilant. if that water starts rising, call and ask for help. brooke. that s the thing, it is so dark and that s the tricky just like the extra whammy of this sort of storm and sort of rain. just talking to a mayor in a different town. just stay put where you are tonight. if you re in houston or any of these city, stay put and let it rain. rosa flores, we ll check back with you and your crew in houston, thanks so much for that. let s bring in another voice. chantal cleveland is on the phone with me. her home was just totally destroyed in rockport. chantal, we ve got pictures the of your home. how are you holding up? i don t think it has hit just quite yet. i can tell you that we really didn t know what to expect. friday morning we woke up i m sorry, thursday morning we woke
major risk overnight as the sun sets. chad meyers is in the weather center with more tornadoes. absolutely. not f-4 tornadoes like in oklahoma and texas like in the movie twister. these are ef-1s, and 2s and they re not that wide. but they are significant enough that you need to pay attention. a couple of them on the ground already today. that s the flare-up over houston i m most concerned about. that s the flood that s going to happen tonight. you need to wake up early tomorrow morning and look outside. before you push the button for coffee, look outside and see what happened overnight. there may be 10 to 15 inches of rain in the city of houston somewhere. it s now on the west side of the city. as the feeder band copies to come on shore, this rain will be relentless. the lightning will be, too. it may be right over your house for hours. it appears that rain is coming in at about 2.5 inches per hour. if it rains at your house for
as we stay on tropical storm harvey, take a look at these pictures. this is houston, texas. i know you all are dealing with a lot of rain and clearly pretty stunning lightning storm as well over this mega city in texas where we re keeping a close eye, obviously, on what this means for a lot of you as far as flooding is concerned over the course of the next couple of days. we re going to check back in with our reporters on the ground throughout texas and with chad myers in the weather center as well. but let s talk politics on this saturday night, shall we? this is a story out of the washington post that president trump had previously asked attorney general jeff sessions if it was possible to drop the criminal case against arizona sheriff joe arpaio before he went to trial. when the president was told that that couldn t happen, trump allegedly decided to let the trial go ahead and simply pardon
people there with all that rain and flooding issues. joining me now the mayor of that city. mr. mayor, thank you so much for hopping on the phone with me. i know you have a lot of other really important things to do. i understand there s a curfew that you all just put in place, is that correct, sir, 6:00 your time, 6:00 in the morning? yes, we did that this morning. it will expire tomorrow morning. and tomorrow evening we ll have a dusk to dawn type curfew. how bad it is where you are? well, you know, it s not as bad as it could have been. we had pretty direconsequence consequences or prediction, rather. we re dealing with rain, we have a power outage that we re working diligently with the utility to get power restored. the other thing is running water. we did issue a boil water notice for consumption. we re hoping we can get all that