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
Now working in the region to reduce the power outages. Since the last time i reported, there are two other Power Companies with reports. Our numbers show that centerpoint has a little bit more than 90,000 power outages. And that would be primarily in the greater Harris County region and also entergy has more than 81,000 power outages. And they are all working as swiftly as possible to restore power. For the texas tceq, i want you to know that they have been working with the epa on a daily basis to address environmentalbased issues. They have deployed rapid needs teams to assess needs that have arisen in certain areas. Including water and wastewater assessment teams, especially focused in that regard on the corpus christi, ingleside and rockport areas. A report from the texas parks and wildlife. They have 5,000 evacuees at state parks in the state of texas. Most of those are in shelters, cabins or mobile homes. A report from the department of Public Safety. There are more than 2,000 dep
The water system here, obviously, there will ned to be testing done on the water to make sure its safe. Because that is not available at the moment as a precaution, they want people to make sure they boil their water, that is indefinite. It could last possibly for days. Again, we are here await tag rain thats been forecast. We have had winds that have been dying down steadily over the last few hours, but again, that danger of flooding is expected to be coming to this area with those torrential rains, once those start. Richard. The latest advisory that came in moments ago, maya, saying we can expect storms surging up to 12 feet. We will get more detail on that shortly. Adding insult to injury there in the Corpus Christi area. There have been some reports of crime. Start . Reporter thats right. You know, around 11 00 p. M. Last night. Just as the storm was making landfall, Corpus Christi police got a call from a home owner that had shot an intruder. That intruder breaking into the home.
To take incredibly bold action on this crisis. Greg like a 6yearold who just snorted a line of pop rocks. I havent seen that much Hand Movement with all that jazz. With all that gesturing who does he remind you of . Even the president noticed. I think he has a lot of Hand Movement. I have never seen so much Hand Movement. I said is he crazy or is that just the way he acts . So, i have never seen Hand Movement. I watched him a little while this morning doing, i assume it was some kind of a news conference. And i have actually never seen anything quite like it. Study it. Im sure you will agree. Greg study it. Im sure you will agree. Greg you have to hand it to him. He says what you are thinking. I do feel a nickname coming. Beto announced is he running. This coinciding with a drooling vanity fair cover story written by the same suckle bucket who fell for john edwards. The writer is so smitten he cant see straight. It isnt just purple its putin whapeuss. The medias big e beto is david to
The United States consumed more energy in 2018 than ever before. 0 of it was generated by fossil fuels. As the world urgently debates the Global Energy transition, what happens in america impacts the globe. This nations of 330 million people, so much is at stake. The picture complex. How to allow the economy to thrive, to raise and maintain Living Standards for all citizens and uphold the responsibility to the environment. My journey begins in midland, texas. There is an abundance of shale oil and gas across america. Eight Million Barrels produced each day. The Permian Basin straddling new mexico and texas is the countrys most productive site. Midland is at the epicenter. This is a critical turning point for u. S. Shale. After plans for retirement, Scott Sheffield came back as pioneer ceo to reconstruct the company. The last four areas alone, nearly 200 oil and Gas Companies in the u. S. Have gone bust with over 100 billion of debt. The Permian Basin started in 1920s. So weve been prod