Whats moving up towards the walt whitman bridge or before the split of 76 moving to camden. Breaking right now. City under water. Rescues happening in houston, rain continues to fall causing catastrophic flooding. Tropical storm harvey forcing people to brace Rushing Waters to escape homes. Storm blamed for two deaths in texas. New video gives a glimpse of the damage. Birdseye view of League City Texas from a drone. Harvey is hovering over hes. Continued meteorologist say the flooding will drag on there for days. In the tragedy are emerging stories of selflessness and survival. Roads are flooded and homes are flooded the rain continues to pound the area and nowhere for the water to go or the people. We have been seeing video and images coming out of that area all morning. See the folks over there trying to deal with those flooding conditions there. As they try to get in and out of that region. And, of course, we also talk about repeated warnings with drivers who had been challenging th
We will climb with a lot of sunshine into the 70s and the humidity stays low today. At the shore, the winds will be picking up. The rip current risk that will be increasing today. Now to a special report from nbc news. Were waiting on that. Well take it when it comes. Good morning, everybody. As we come on the air, the wrath of harvey is being felt across southeast texas. Houston, the fourth largest city mostly under water at this hour. Mandatory Evacuations Ordered overnight. Several neighborhoods there with another several feet of rain possible. Lets get right to gabe gutierrez. Gabe, good morning to you. We can barely see you. Whats the situation. Savannah, good morning. We have been seeing rain constantly throughout the night. This event is not over. As you can see behind me, many roads are impassable. Houston the nations fourth largest city is paralyzed. Overnight the rivers have continued to rise. Runs through the heart of downtown houston. At record stages. Authorities are consi
Sun early and clouding up as the day goes on. 75 degrees by noon, 3 00 p. M. , 78. Thats the high. 76 by 5 00 p. M. , 6 00 p. M. , 72. The clouds will thicken up overnight tonight, by tomorrow well have shower activity around. Were keeping our eyes on Tropical Storm harvey which has pushed heavy rain bands east of houston which is fortunate because houston has been inundated there may be wrap around precipitation here, doesnt look like the storm will be past houstons latitude until tomorrow or wednesday. Karen rogers well have more on the sevenday forecast, not only about harvey, but the chance of a little bit of rain around here, nothing to get too concerned about, and issues in the water. Thats coming up. Reporter our dry streak couldnt last forever. This is the boulevard, no problems, roads are clear and dry. We have two accidents, upper merion Valley Forge Park road at valley creek road. Watch for crews on the scene with that one. An accident in bryn mawr, lancaster avenue at montr
There, we have to go to Houston Texas theres an emergency situation taking place. Reporter good morning were waking up as you can tell the strong winds and rain in houston, there are tornadoes warnings flash flood warnings and a lot of people worried if they have to evacuate their homes now. If they do, many people are being told they might need to. Theres nowhere to go and everything is flooded. More rain is on the way. Rescues continue throughout the night in houston, the countrys 4th largest city in crisis. The water came up so fast, it was incredible. Reporter Emergency Management officials are asking the public for help saying they need boats for rescues as roads turned into rivers. The geography in houston not helping the situation. Rain water is forced on to streets and then on small bayous easily overwhelmed by heavy downpours. First responders are stretched so thin neighbors are helping others. Its been 40 yores ive been here, and never saw this water this high. Reporter other
On the peninsula side between millbrae and san bruno. Its reportedly not affecting the other east bay lines and the other transit agencies are moving well. The roadways are also moving very well. Were talk about the preholiday lighter weeks flow but we do have this big problem southbound 880 getting a little better as this crash did clear that sig alert lasted just under a half an hour and they cleared lanes south 880 at tenia son. Its develop slow out of san leandro and into hayward clearing up just south of that san mateo bridge. But the early backup here may cause an issue over for the entire area so well track the bigger view coming up. Back to you. Thank you very much. 6 01 right now. Back to microclimate weather alert this morning as we track the heat waive hitting the bay area. An excessive heat warning will go into effect this morning for much of the bay area as we get ready for those triple digit temperatures. Records could be broke as temperatures soar. Today in the bay will