winds and takes a while for a storm to spin down, 12 to 24 hours, so it s gradually spinning down, but because it started as a category 4, it s of hurricane intensity. in terms of the steering, the system is moving around a large high pressure system, the bermuda high. there s a competing center in the rockies. it s trapped between the two. elizabeth: before i leave you, mark, what s your biggest concern? it remains flooding? yes, the big concern is the flooding and the course of the next several days, we re far from out of the woods on that. elizabeth: any last advice? i just want to get some of our viewers tuning in perhaps in the local areas and i want to make sure that they stay safe. do you have any last piece of advice. just stay informed in your area. listen to your officials and stay out of standing water. elizabeth: thank you, mark. appreciate it. i m sure we ll check with you later on the show and today as
number of other communities there along the texas coast. even the emergency operation centers were cut off from my type of contact with those first responders and we hope now to get an update from the governor about what he s been able to learn as day has broke and a number of these police have been able to move in to some of these hardest hit areas and hopefully reestablish communications. back to austin, and the governor s briefing as it happens. meanwhile, we continue to follow the storm on the ground with our reporters, including casey stegall, who is in galveston, texas and casey, it wasn t too bad in galveston a few hours ago, but now we re getting what everyone has been so worried about, which is the buckets and buckets of rain. yeah, you could have fooled me that the hurricane isn t making landfall because these are hurricane-like conditions, literally, that we re standing in. hard to keep your footing. the rain is hitting me so hard, it almost feels like little
ingleside, port aransas, port aransas pass, those are the focuses for emergency relief and for our law enforcement going in. we ve nl only had since day break to deal with this and that s where we re concerned right now. elizabeth: and i want to ask you the fact that we saw the president sign the declaration, really, before the storm started to hit much of that state. what position does that put you in? does that high pressure you? does that help the state? does it help the governor? does that help you at all before we really start to see the damage? no, absolutely helps us. knowing that it s there, obviously, there s tremendous resources available from the federal government. our governor has done a great job working with the president, so, i think it s going to make a huge difference in getting relief more quickly to the people that need it the most. so, organization is key, but resources and having those having the financial resources and the equipment to take care of these peopl
the mayor of rockport using stern language, they have nothing to lose, and red cross is willing, and this is they re curious as a storm team, more powerful than anticipated, they couldn t go in and gauge. the national guard couldn t go door-to-door on friday afternoon because the storm already hit at that point. this is a time when we re waiting and in other situations, perhaps, continue through the state of texas. when we heard from janice dean and heard from mark, it s hovering and staying and it s not going anywhere soon and i think it to drop a lot of water? in many of these communities, galveston one of them near houston. houston being near one, victoria, a number of communities in texas that are totally flat, they flood often even with five or six inches of rain. you re now talking five and eight times that amount of rain that could come down over the in excouple of days, so it s not a question of if it floods, but
of rain being dropped no matter how the floods are. there could be a huge amount of damage. noon central time galveston, texas as conditions continue to deteriorate. elizabeth: that s right, our hurricane coverage continues, obviously, into the next hour of america s news headquarters. we re going back to the gulf coast. first an update from the fox news extreme weather center. janice dean has been tracking the system and we also spoke with mark after we spoke with you, it sounds like there s nothing pushing the system out, it s hovering over the state, it s a low lying area, and really, really sort of not to be doom and gloom, but it doesn t look great in the next 24 to 48 hours, what can you tell us? liz, it doesn t look good, unfortunately. as we look ahead. the storm is going to stall and it s going to continue to bring unprecedented rainfall across texas and i just want to show