It will take years to recover from Hurricane Harvey. Thats the message from americas head of disaster relief. And the governor of texas says dramatic flooding is his primary concern. This is houston, which has already received as much as 50 centimetres of rain. Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, despite harvey weakening to a tropical storm. Rockport town, where it made landfall, is the worst hit. One person is known to have died there so far the only known fatality from the storm. Our correspondent james cook is in the city of Corpus Christi. Are you in there . This is what a category four hurricane means in reality. Searching in the wreckage to find out if your neighbour is dead or alive. It seems that dan got out in time, luckily. He was not the only one who had a narrow escape. Many texans took to the road at the last minute as the power of the storm became clear. Others like judy had nowhere else to go. I just went to bed, because i was like, ive got to ride
It will take years to recover from Hurricane Harvey. Thats the message from americas head of disaster relief. And the governor of texas says dramatic flooding is his primary concern. This is houston, which has already received as much as 50 centimetres of rain. Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, despite harvey weakening to a tropical storm. Rockport town, where it made landfall, is the worst hit. One person is known to have died there so far the only known fatality from the storm. Our correspondent james cook is in the city of Corpus Christi. Are you in there . This is what a category four hurricane means in reality. Searching in the wreckage to find out if your neighbour is dead or alive. It seems that dan got out in time, luckily. He was not the only one who had a narrow escape. Many texans took to the road at the last minute as the power of the storm became clear. Others like judy had nowhere else to go. I just went to bed, because i was like, ive got to ride
It will take years to recover from Hurricane Harvey. Thats the message from americas head of disaster relief. And the governor of texas says dramatic flooding is his primary concern. This is houston, which has already received as much as 50 centimetres of rain. Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, despite harvey weakening to a tropical storm. Rockport town, where it made landfall, is the worst hit. One person is known to have died there so far the only known fatality from the storm. Our correspondent james cook is in the city of Corpus Christi. Are you in there . This is what a category four hurricane means in reality. Searching in the wreckage to find out if your neighbour is dead or alive. It seems that dan got out in time, luckily. He was not the only one who had a narrow escape. Many texans took to the road at the last minute as the power of the storm became clear. Others like judy had nowhere else to go. I just went to bed, because i was like, ive got to ride
Provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Oncemighty Hurricane Harvey is weakening, and drifting slowly but dangerously over land. Forecasters warn the storm is still capable of generating catastrophic flooding as far as 100 miles inland. After making landfall overnight, harvey was downgraded today from a category 4 hurricane, with 130mileanhour winds, to Tropical Storm status still with very severe 75mileanhour winds. Harvey came ashore about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, as the strongest hurricane to hit texas in almost 60 years. Harvey has already dumped 20 inches of rain in some places. Theres a report of one hurricanelinked death. But the storm knocked out power to almost 300,000 homes. Because of harvey, Officials Say about a quarter of Gulf Coast Oil re
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. Stewart good evening, and thanks for joining us. Hillary Clintons Campaign is calling on the f. B. I. To reveal all it knows about a recently discovered batch of emails related to the oncedormant investigation into clintons private email servers she used while secretary of state. Clinton Campaign Chairman john podesta told reporters on a Conference Call today the letter from f. B. I. Director james comey informing congress yesterday of the emails was long on innuendo and short on facts. Podesta and Clinton Campaign manager robby mook say comey owes the public the full stor before election day, and t