katrina. many people are in its path. the president of the united states, donald trump has already approved a declaration of disaster before that storm hit land. carl joins us now by phone with his perspective on the storm. carl, we re thankful to have you on the storm. we understand you ve decided to stay there to ride this out. and we also understand from officials there there is noticeable damage. what are you seeing? thank you. yeah, we decided to stick it out. when the eye of the storm came, we d been in the house for hours and we just heard what sounded like a fright train outside. we had a couple of windows we thought were going to give. but ultimately when the eye of the storm came, we were able to crack the windows and go outside. and what we saw was expensive damage. front of the house, back of the
it is still a hurricane. it has been sitting on land for 12 hours. this is almost unheard of. millions of people remain in the path of the storm. this afternoon at 12:45 p.m. eastern, texas governor will give the first news conference since the storm hit land. president trump issues a disaster declaration for texas. our meteorologists are stationed in the storm zone to bring you the latest from the ground. i want to start with our nbc meteorologist bill karins. he was here with us last night and again this morning. you just got the first advisory? just as hopeless and life threatening for areas like victoria, texas. it hasn t changed. it s category 1. 75 miles per hour. the important thing to note, look at the movement. it s now moving to the north at 2 miles per hour. we walk on average as humans at 3 miles per hour. this thing is just barely
it s important to say they are not saying there is a specific threat, but what they are saying is there is a continued threat. certainly from al qaeda and affiliate organizations, and it notes that briefly al qaeda and the terrorists groups have linked their attacks to significant dates, and of course 9/11, there couldn t be anymore specific or significant dates than that. you know, i was just talking with a friend that said is this something that we should really, really be worried about. the state department issues these, randy, on a regular basis. in fact, this supplements another caution that was issued. it s the responsibility of the state department to warn americans who are abroad about this. that said, it is, of course, 9/11, very significant and the state department is saying there s a continuing threat out there. but it s not a travel alert for those here at home, it s for those who are traveling abroad or residing abroad? yes, that s what the state department d
hotel. although that s a hit for businesses, that s not really uncommon here on the beach. a lot of the hotel owners said get out now. we re not even going to allow you to stay. now, also we talked about mandatory evacuations. if you did decide to stay and you are in one of those mandatory evacuation areas, it s going to be very hard for rescue crews to get to you over the course of the weekend. these conditions we are seeing right now are only going to deteriorate over the next to 24 hours. back to you in new york. brian: keep that concentration of driving rain. sadly it s only going to get worse. elizabeth prann. dave: we are talking about 3 or 400 miles extending in all directions. making a really good point as the storm hit land? everybody talks about that in hurricanes like when is the storm going to hit land you? just saw the storms hitting land. the center of the storm is right