First an uptotheminute update and heres fox news meteorologist adam klotz. Its been a slow more the last several hours. Hurricane harvey making its landfall and two hours from the time it hit. The eye of the storm, that ring is where youll see the strongest winds. Weve seen consistent winds around 130 miles an hour and gusting higher. They dont come to your house and pull you out so hopefully folks left that area. If not theyre going through a long night. To the north of this and off to the east, this is an area where youre seeing strong winds pumping in the water. The surge will be another issue along the right side of this hurricane. Thats where the surge will be piling up the most. What are we looking at for the storm surge . Areas up to ten feet. I was looking at the website from the National Weather service and were seeing indications up to six to eight feet of storm surge. It can only climb higher in the next several hours as the storm system is stuck where its at. When you see a
Morning. First were going to go to rob schmitt live in Corpus Christi. Rob, how is it looking where you are . Rob well, i can tell you guys Corpus Christi didnt get nearly what some of these coastal communities, smaller towns that took the eye got. Here is one example of some of the damage. And hopefully this is about as bad as it gets here in Corpus Christi. We just simply dont know yet. This is a big bring. Check out the side of this wall right behind me here. This entire wall came crashing down somehow during this storm. Let me get rid of that. You can see the mess behind me. This entire wall this is about 6 or 8 units behind me. Look up at the roof behind me here. Can you see the roof going up and down in the wind . Its incredible. I dont think the roof is going to give but it wouldnt have taken much more for this entire. Look at that that is something else. So something brought this wall down. I guess you have to assume it was the wind. Look at that roof go up. That is just amazin
4, made landfall about 10 00 p. M. Local time. 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi. This monster storm would result in, quote, very major disaster. Some forecasts to comparisons with Hurricane Katrina which struck new orleans 12 years ago, katrina killed more than 1800 people. People seem to take the warnings for harvey far more seriously. For the very latest on the storms path, meteorologist adam klotz in the fox news weather center. Adam, and weve watched this eye wall come ashore. Heard about the wind. As bad as expected. Not quite as bad or we dont know yet . Adam we dont know the damage yet but the storm itself yes, as bad as expected and some cases maybe worse as we were able to climb up to the category 4 storm. At this point, a category 3. That doesnt mean a lot to folks in the path of it. Whats the difference . Category 4 is 130mileanhour winds, now down to 125mileanhour winds. Still a massive storm. This is the eye wall, the hurricane stretching out beside it, general track,
Facility. They got in touch with the National Guard which sent the helicopter rescuing all 15 residents. President trump will travel to texas on tuesday. I give fema a grade of a plus all the way from the president down. What does this mean for the rest of the country in terms of the economy . We are seeing the price of gas at the pump go up. Its gob up 5 to 10 cents. Hopefully within a month we level back out. The sweetest place we have arrived. Can you see it . It is blacktop. We have not seen enough blacktop since we arrived in houston. Brian there you go. That brings us up to the minute and its a fox news alert time. Because Tropical Storm harvey delivering another major blow to the nations fourth largest city while you were sleeping, perhaps. More mandatory evacuation orders put in veecke effect as e army corps of engineers making emergency move to open the dams, flooding more neighborhoods in order to protect the downtown area. Todd all this days after torrential downpours and ca
[silence] [applause] steve last 90 seconds we have been watching a moment of silence in the heart of barcelona at the blaze de catalonia. The camera had zoomed in on the king of spain sixth. As you can see thousands there on this friday morning to honor the 13 dead. 100 injured by what appears to be a terror cell of perhaps as many as 12 people across the country of spain. Three different locations. This was not a one off. This was quite a plot. And it looks like it all came to an end just about four hours ago. Abby Pretty Amazing to see this Community Coming together. 13 dead after the attack that started on thursday night. More than 100 injured. Lives will never be the same. We have been seeing these type of vehicular attacks the last three years. Todd everything kicked off wednesday night with a house explosion. Initially it was unclear that that house explosion was connected in what appears to be a massive terror plot. But further investigation did reveal that that plot was connect