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you some of the damage from hurricane harvey that took a direct hit in that area. about 400 people are now searching homes for any sign of life in a coastal community that took a devastating hit. to add insult to injury, rockport has also had tornado warnings, torrential downpours and flooding. martin savage is joining us now from rockport. i understand the water has receded from that area, martin, but what s left behind? reporter: what s left behind is a massive mess of devastation. we re just sort of walking along here as you look at one store front and you get a sense that this is going to be multiplied block after block and street after street. so the store fronts here completely caved in. the billing that makes up the entire strip mall is demolished. it s not going to be rebuilt. you d have to start all over. store fronts, glass doors all
tulsa. this morning, people in several areas are actually being urged to evacuate to safer ground. let s bring in cnn meteorologist ivan cabrera. ivan, contiorsen because we are adding water to a saturated round of rivers that are overflowing their banks in a lot of areas here. some areas have picked up over a foot of rainfall. in fact, a foot and a half in some areas over the last month. there you see the torrential downpours. if you re watching us from texas and driving on i-35 from austin to san antonio, be very careful. in fact, on i-35, there are some areas here of the highway that are completely blocked off because of major flooding. when we talk about major flooding on an interstate highway you know you have a problem here and that is going to continue. austin with heavy rainfall as it continues to move up towards the north. we are in trouble here because of all rainfall we have already had. take a look at this. over the last seven days, some areas picking up upwards of 6 to
64 in the past two weeks. this tornado in giddings packing 80-mile-an-hour winds. oklahoma getting hit, too. in norman, torrential downpours. drivers at this intersection heeding warnings. flash floods can move up to 12 miles an hour. a foot of floodwater can float your car and at 24 inches your car can be swept away. when you consider the force that caused this devastation, it is amazing no one in this area was seriously hurt. phillip mena, abc news, bridge port, texas. today s forecast texas again smack in the middle of the storm zone with the possibility of more tornadoes. storms will stretch up into wyoming and down across the gulf coast into florida. more showers for the northwest with the snow showers over the northern rockies. much cooler across most of the nation with most areas barely out of the 60s into the 70s. 80s across the deep south. 91 for phoenix. well, president obama says
going to happen. reporter: but no area is being hit harder than drought-stricken california. where in the midst of triple-digit heat, nearly 6,000 firefighters are now battling 12 fires across the state. destroying everything in their path and threatening more homes near sacramento and yosemite. i screamed, jesus, help me, because it was it was pretty scary. like facing hell on earth. reporter: it s a scorcher here in southern california with record temperatures expected to top 108 degrees. fire warnings remain in effect. brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. tropical storm odile is bringing bad weather to the southwest. parts of southern california were hit by torrential downpours and strong winds yesterday flooding streets and knocking down trees and power lines. the athletic fields of a local high school were damaged and there were many traffic accidents.