Being forced to leave and leave right now. All of this as President Trump tours the devastation beginning in corporate us krity Vice President pence will head to texas later this week Contessa Brewer will get the latest on relief and recovery earnings there lets go to john kern an, pretty dramatic scenes in dickinson, a lot of water between here and houston, turned into a bayou. I wish i could say that was the end but apparently not after opening down triple digits, the dow is positive. And investors brushing aside fears about north koreas latest Missile Launch United Technologies and caterpillar and apple leading gains and financial and material stocks the biggest laggards right now. Lets get you caught up on the latest on harvey the storm setting a rainfall record for tropical cyclones in texas. The National Weather service just over 49 inches of rain has been observed at locations southeast of houston flash flood warnings remain in effect throughout houston, about 300,000 people by
Real look at the destruction being caused by the storm. The sun is up there now. Theres not much left standing in the city of rockport, we know, according to cnns nick valencia, who is there. He has seen some buildings down there. He described cars with the windows blown out. Some stark descriptions coming from rockport. I want you to take a look at the damage that is being seen this morning now around Corpus Christi. Hurricane force winds ripped trees down. You see bricks off of that building. Street signs were torn down, and power lines. Thats one of the big stories this morning as well. Almost 300,000 people do not have power right now. I got it. When you see that green bright flash you know transformers are blowing when you are out covering storms. You see the power lines going up in those quick flames as the storm passed through rockport. Again, it seems to have gotten the worst of the damage. Texas officials tell us that more than 293,000 customers across the state have lost powe
Ago flanked by a number of federal fishes. Theres texas senator ted cruz, also senator john cornyn there as well. We saw health and Human Services director, excuse me, hud director dr. Ben carson a few moments ago there. President trump traveling to to Corpus Christi, texas weather first lady melania trump. After Corpus Christi were told he is going to be spending some time in austin, texas, as well. Meanwhile, in houston, officials there saying this is still very much a rescue operation. We have watched rescue after rescue after rescue play out over the last few hours in americas fourth largest city. Houston police have rescued more than 3,500 people so far. The National Weather service says the storm has dropped more than 25 inches of rain since thursday night, more than 2 feet since thursday night, another 10 to 20 inches is expected. Now one of the two rez soirs there in that city designed to control flooding has overtopped its banks. The storm so far has been blamed for at least f
Uninhabitable for weeks or months. Widespread impact. Tens of millions of people who are not in the storms path may feel the disruption with canceled flights, delayed shipments of goods and rising gas prices. And federal response. The president was briefed on the storm before heading off to his camp david retreat and may make an early disaster declaration. The white house says hell visit texas next week as federal emergency teams prepare to deal with a potential catastrophe. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. Hurricane harvey is now a major category 3 storm with winds at 125 miles an hour. Its hammering the texas coast right now with landfall expected tonight. 17 Million People are under storm warnings and the head of the federal Emergency Management agency, fema, says texas is about to have a very significant disaster. The immediate concern is a catastrophic storm surge in which a wall
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