with isolated areas up to 35 inches of rain. not good news. officials here asking people to be vigilant. if that water starts rising, call and ask for help. brooke. that s the thing, it is so dark and that s the tricky just like the extra whammy of this sort of storm and sort of rain. just talking to a mayor in a different town. just stay put where you are tonight. if you re in houston or any of these city, stay put and let it rain. rosa flores, we ll check back with you and your crew in houston, thanks so much for that. let s bring in another voice. chantal cleveland is on the phone with me. her home was just totally destroyed in rockport. chantal, we ve got pictures the of your home. how are you holding up? i don t think it has hit just quite yet. i can tell you that we really didn t know what to expect. friday morning we woke up i m sorry, thursday morning we woke
his tough stance on immigration. it s clearly going to cause people to be frustrated with this, but president trump right now is doing anything and everything he can to really appeal to the 35% that are his base, and this is the latest example of that. alice, you got the last word, thank you both so much. thanks, brooke. let s talk about this storm. live pictures the outside of houston. a constant lightning there as the city is bracing for severe flooding from tropical storm harvey. we have much more of our special coverage for you on a saturday night there. also, we ll take you live to north korea because north korea has launched another multiple missiles. this is a week after the u.s. praised kim jong-un for showing, quote, restraint. cnn has the only western journalist in the country. we ll give you a live report from pyongyang coming up. had tie care of my portfolio, but.. well, what are you doing tomorrow -10am? staff meeting. noon? eating. 3:45? uh, compliance training.
respond to. they re trying to check welfare now. brooke? how entirely frightening for them. we ll stay in close contact with you, martin savidge, thank you, in rockport. let s head to victoria, texas, this is inland from the coast. cnn s derrick van damme is there live. how is the rain? it s not great, not going to lie to you, brooke. but here here, we re doing it. the storm keeps surprising us. we re about 40 miles outside of the center of tropical storm harvey that continues to churn across southeast texas. i a did pretty quick walkabout. the damage you would expect was what you would expect from a category 4 hurricane. but here in victoria, 20 to 30 miles away from the coast, we ve had shingled torn off of roofs, awnings off of buildings, trees
was getting closer to rockport. and, you know, i started seeing the neighbors houses just demolished. and so as we were coming in, we live in front of the highway. i told my he has a truck. i don t. just stop the truck, please. just crying. i ran through brown two-foot water. first, we have three homes, but we let them out to tenants. i just imagined the children having to come back. i was crying and screaming. then finally i waked all the way to the dock to my home, saw the windows shut in. i got and there two or three feet of debris. i just walked into my room and it looked so sad. all my stuff was there just under debris. it s not going to be salvageable. i wasn t prepared for the storm the get this big. i only packed two or three
we began seeing a convoy of relief effort coming in. this included everything from national guard troops, which will now be out on patrol on the streets here, to heavy earth-moving equipment, which is desperately needed to lift the debris and clear the roadways to allow more help to come in. and the organization that s about to lay the foundations. there s no cell communication here. there s no telephone service. trying to get the cell towers up, but right now trying to find more victims. there s a report that there s one fatality in town. the sheriff says to be frank, he really doesn t know if there are more. there could be. to that effort there s search teams going through the city going door to door. they have developed a grid system. they hope to work through the night. they ll begin with the frantic calls that came in about this time last night. 30 of them at least that the fire department and the police department got at the height of the storm. people pleading for help but they