For catastrophic flooding, tornados and a massive surge from the biggest storm to hit texas in more than 50 years. Our team is on the ground in the storm zone with the very latest. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our continuing coverage of Hurricane Harvey. We have been trarking this storm all morning long and it has been a harrowing one for so many people. Harvey is now a category one storm located 25 miles west of victoria but it blasted ashore near rockport, texas. An extremely powerful category four storm, with reports some buildings there have been heavily damaged. Were starting to see some of those images coming. This is the strongest storm to hit the United States in 13 years. Its not just the wind or the storm surge but the fact that this system, the storm system is going to stick around in this neck of the woods for days and days and days and dump inches and inches of rain, upwards of 40 inches in some spots. This is a look at the sea wall in galveston this morning. Also an
S in american history. This is a Major Energy Center by the way for the entire country. A quarter of our Energy Production comes from this neck of the woods. For the next two hours weve got you covered with the likes of Texas Governor greg abbott on the race to respond no matter the danger weve got texas land commissioner george p. Bourbon the need for coastal barrier no matter the cost, former fema director Michael Brown urging President Trump to be on this no matter what he has urged do not, mr. President , let this be your katrina and then general russel remember him during katrina he was banging heads to get everyone on the same page and quit the political arguments, hes here on this over some people heeding warnings to evacuate and some who never did and never have and now they could be stuck and may be for weeks some say even months to come. First whats happening now on the ground in texas we start with rick whose been covering this on where this massive storm goes right now. Wha
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