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
Over, today, saturday, august 26, 2017. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Glad to have you with us. Down in texas covering Hurricane Harvey with team of nbc news correspondence. We will get to them in a moment. First, a look at the latest information. This is a look now, satellite imagines rolls over texas. This is the scene from up in space. The astronauts aboard the International Space station capturing this image of the enormity of Hurricane Harvey. Heres a like live at galveston. This is the latest on the storm itself right now. Hurricane harvey made land fall around 10 00 last night central time. It came ashore as a category four storm. It has since been downgraded to a cat one. Harvey brought with it winds of 130 miles an hour. Now top winds have diminished to 80 miles an hour. Daylight breaks, residents getting first look at all of the damage it caused. One of the hard et cetera hit towns overnight is rock port texas. O
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