state operations center. leland: last night, as the storm was coming to shore, we talked to some folks in the texas emergency operations center, they couldn t get a hold of the police in rockport. they couldn t get a hold of the police in port aransas. there was a lot of communication that had gone down. we re looking at various pictures and what s always striking to me, is you see this damage, then comes the flooding and you also have the issues of all the utilities that are down. you ve got power lines now in these flood waters. you ve got gas lines that often times park off huge fires, and there s sort of so few first responders that are able to come in and so much for them to do. what are the priorities for these first responders as they re now making their way jnt these hardest hit outer islands? well, the first priority is to be able to get in there and to see if there are any people
so again, we caution everybody to be careful, to stay home if you can and spend time with your family. we have a number you can call if you find any debris in the waterways. we have five major waterways. elizabeth: you been listening live to judge wolf in san antonio and that s actually place for many people were seeking refuge, and their experiencing up to 50 mile-per-hour winds and storm like conditions. he s telling residents to stay safe. so we are waiting the texas governor greg abbott. he is with a lot of local state officials. we expect to hear at any moment and expect to learn quite a bit. leland: last night through the night they re having a hard time getting hold of communities that have been cut off. some are still cut off from by
cross. red cross.org, you know your money and donations are going to somebody who is really going to take care of folks. these are pictures from friday as everyone was sandbagging and boarding up in galveston, texas as the waves went over the seawall. that city is under a flash flood warning. casey stegall on the ground standing by with major flooding and also a look at some of the devastation that this storm has left behind. casey when we come back. ugh. heartburn.
instagram and twitter, today we have been monitoring social media all day to give us firsthand accounts of how it has been affecting texas. we ll begin with the twitter video. this was taken last night around 6:30 p.m. the video lashing, the wind lashing even a canopy. you can see the search getting closer and closer to the row. that was just outside the house in north padre island. this video from corpus christi texas taken from at as hurricane harvey was making landfall. this video was taken from the apartment building and appear outside the home. that was torn apart from the storm. now onto facebook where people
by you. it was causing the flooding you are seeing me in. this is you see it is very high. we had a break from the rain for more than an hour. look down there to that highway, look how close the water is rising. that is one of the major problems as we brace for three more days of flash flood warnings. i just had the alert on your phone that goes off. it said flash flood warning for your area expires in three days and seven hours. we talked to some owners, if we follow the bayou up this way, the blue building is a little bit of a strip mall and it s a major road there. that owner told me he has been through five floats in his business here. in a storm in 2001 he had 19 inches inside his business and that stripmall. when this bayou rose over that