Forecasters are warning, it could be the most powerful storm, to make land fall in the u. S. , since 2005, and millions are in its path. We dont know what will happen, if we will come back to a home what damage we are coming home to, it is kind of sad, scary. Reporter many coastal residents are boarding up their homes and heading inland , hotels are making people check out. School buses are shuttling hundreds out of corpus christie. Thursday, babies from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit were flown north to safety but officials are concerned because not as many people are evacuating, compared with previous storms. The National Hurricane center is calling harvey life threatening and says it could leave parts of the upper texas coast uninhabitable for weeks. Harvey could deliver wind of over 110 miles an hour and 15 foot storm surge when it arrives. The issue will be when it makes land fall it is just going to sit, meander over texas coastline here. Reporter rainfall is predict to be close
Harvey made land fall and we are already hearing about a lot of damage right there. Reporter you can see some of this behind our hotel here, trees down, fences down every where and more significant damage. And while daylight will begin to reveal some of that, the slow motion disaster is far from over. A torrential rain, high winds, pounded the texas golf coast, harvey made land fall 30 miles northe of Corpus Christi as a category four her dane, the most intense storm to hit the u. S. In more than a decade. 125 Miles Per Hour winds, took aim at the town of rockport, a high school, a Senior Housing center and parts of historic downtown, all hit. Hours later, the monster storm made a second land fall, and started weakening, but it is on track to jump up to 3 feet of rain in some areas. As harvey approached officials urged coastal residents to evacuate, many boarded buses and headed inland. Trying to be strong because i dont want my children to sianni then they get scared, you know, they w
Christi this morning with the very latest, don, good morning reporter good morning, Hurricane Harvey continues to show little mercy on this part of the texas gulf coast, and while daylight will soon reveal some of the initial damage, the slow motion disaster is far from over. Band of torrential rain high wind pounded texas gulf coast all night, harvey made land fall 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi as a category four hurricane most intense storm to hit the u. S. In more than a decade. 125mile an hour winds, took aim at the town of rockport high school, Senior Housing center and parts of historic downtown, all hit. Hours later, the monster storm made a second land fall, and started weakening, but it is on track, up to 3 feet of rain in some areas. Already more than 200 you this people are without power, and it has prompted a boil water advisory here in Corpus Christi, anyone who stays behind has been told to boil their water before they consume it. As harvey approached officials urg
Plume of black smoke into the air. This is at a recycling plant. And you can see there are still plenty of flames. Firefighters are working to keep the flames from spreading to nearby homes. Dave Courvoisier starting tomorrow, nevadans will begin deciding the future of our country. Most of the early voting sites open at nine in the morning. Christianne Klein 8 news now reporter karen castro takes a look at final preparations and how clark county is keeping voter information safe. Were inside the clark county election department. This is where they keep all their equipment. In fact, these are the machines that are going to be going out to the different sites. Crews have been out all day setting up 28 early voting locations around the valley. Clark county began using touchscreen machines in 2004. These machines keep record of all the votes and ti also provides a paper receipt copy machines are taken out daily during early voting and brought back to the election department. Where they are
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