Into coming home. Chinas outrage. A conflict between washington and beijing issest ka lath after a u. S. Spy plane make what is china calls a provocative flight. Show the Chinese Military retaliating. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news. The Flood Disaster unfold in the southwest. At least nine people are dead in texas and oklahoma. And a desperate search is underway right now for a dozen people missing. Houston is the latest city innone dated with almost a foot of rain paralyzing parts of the region. Were covering all angles of the breaking news this hour with our correspondents. We begin our coverage in houston. What are you seeing . Reporter well, wolf, what you see behind me here in hugh son is one of the bayous and the tributaries that wind through many parts of this city. And in flash flooding situations this is what of major concern. The water levels here the two bridges that you see behind me the water levels went over those bridges in
Im don lemon. Hurricane harvey, one of the most powerful hurricanes in years make land fall in texas. The storm pounding the coast with winds, knocking down trees. Power poles and signs with trurential rains deluging streets. The National Weather service in houston warning parts of south sex s could be uninhabitable for weeks or months. The president signing a disaster pr proclamation for the state. Our reporters are out tonight along the texas coast. Martin savidge is in Corpus Christi, texas. Martin, lets start with you. Give us the latest. Reporter yeah, it may seem a bit like the storm has subsided here in Corpus Christi. It has not. If you were outside of that shield, you would still be getting just blasted by the wind now and inundated by the rain. Its just the level of disaster that now seems to be unfolding. About 63,000 people, last report we had in Corpus Christi at least without electricity. So that is going to be an ongoing problem for some time. Theres also word there coul
This is tough. No rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, tornado warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. Harvey has been downgraded to the Tropical Storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. One confirmed death and injury. Most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. Local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. It is rockport, texas. Take a look from the air. This is what is left of rockport. There was no escaping harvey. Rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. Leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. Lets bring in the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick by phone. Always good to be with you. I wish it was under dif
Flooding has left huge parts of houston and surrounding cities under water and the same areas will be hit with more rain. There have been more than 9,000 rescues in the houston areas alone and countless others still stranded. The u. S. President visited texas on tuesday, he praised relief efforts but says its not time for congratulation. I can tell you how is telling you how great the representatives have been in working together, its a real team. We want to do it better than ever before. We want to be looked at in five years and ten years from now, this is the way to do it. This was of epic proportion. Nobodys ever seen anything like this. We wont say congratulation, we dont want to con gralt, well congratulate each other when all finished. Heres President Donald Trump there speaking to city officials and others who have been working around the clock for five days now george and theres no end in sight. Reporter no end in sight indeed. John, i have to say i know a lot of these neighbor
Cnn is live in north korea tracking kim jonguns dangerous new moves. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim sciutto and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking tonight, President Trump is promising full support for recovery from Hurricane Harvey as millions of americans suffer through a disaster that is growing worse by the hour. Right now it is unclear how many people remain trapped in unprecedented flood waters, swamping much of Southeast Texas. New evacuations are underway in some communities as the death toll in the flood zone climbs now to 7. Texas now deploying all its 12,000 National Guard troops to aid in this emergency urjgent operation. Pulled from standing cars, flooded hoem flooded homes and streets now turned to rivers. Much of the nations fourth largest city is under water, up to waist deep and still rising. At least 15 trillion gallons of rain, about 25 inches or so, f