jon: thank you. now this fox news alert, authorities ordering mandatory evacuation up and down the texas coast. communities brace for hurricane harvey. it is expected to intensify into a category three storm making landfall with life threatening force. officials urging residents to heed their warnings. storm surge has gone from predicted for to 6 feet to a possible 10 feet. at 10-foot water height, you ll be cut off from the island and there s a good chance if you ve got that much water, you won t have any electricity. so you ll be on an island with no electricity, no air conditioning, no water, no anything, so we are recommending in the strongest terms that if you live in those low-lying areas that you get out and you begin to get out now. jon: joining us now, texas governor greg abbott. governor abbott, an hour and a half ago, the outer rain bands were already hitting the southern and middle texas coast.
which is now only five, six miles off the coast. that is why the winds have been increased a lot and the worst storm surge is located to the north of here now. daytona beach, the water is blowing away from you. palm coast is getting the worst of it towards saint augustine. here are the models and the forecast track taking up to south carolina is what you mentioned, the concern with the path is not only the wind and the hurricane force winds but it is going to be the storm surge as we go throughout the afternoon and this evening and as the storm winds get closest to you, that is when we ll see the six to nine feet which we re getting now daytona beach to palm coast and later on from jacksonville to brunswick area. six to nine feet. what does that look like? we tried to do animation for you here, this mark right here wol be six feet of water. what this means is the water coming in and added where we are in the tide cycle. it is the total water height and that is six feet of where it
reporting there. derek is here to tell us that sunshine won t last. the question is, will there be more rain they have to deal with or a chance of more flooding? fortunately a break in precipitation. as you saw in will s live shot, going back to how he mentioned, the water to the second floor. that s 10 feet. 3 meters. that s unbelievable stuff. you have to be close to that breach in the levy in order to have water height as disasterous as that. here is a look at some aerial photos and visuals out of that region. once again, water covering about 37 square kilometers and sweeping away anything in its path. this is equivalent to about 20 meters wider, roughly 65 feet. but the amazing thing is that that quadrupled in size in a matter of mere minutes and that sudden rush of water led to
concerned. want to show you video out of cincinnati. the water definitely starting to take over parts of town with the tremendous levels of water height. again, this has been an ongoing event. we know the snow has been melting rapidly, and the flooding now going down stream. in fact parts of the mississippi river have seen the waters rise on the order of a foot every single day now going on ten days. impressive sight when it comes to all of this happening rapidly. there you go. we had 3% of the united states with snowfall on the ground as of the 1st of march. the seasonal maximum in place. fast forward to the 15th of march, has dropped down to 10% snow cover. all of that, of course having to go somewhere, goes down the ohio river valley and mississippi where the water levels have ballooned. you compare the sun angle back on the 1st of winter december 21st. sun angle considerably lower. fast forward to the middle of march, it get up higher in the sky. more effective in melting the snow
or two about getting back on your feet. so, hundreds of them packed up and drove east to staten island, new york, to help those recovering from superstorm sandy. they say they re just returning the kindness that so many new yorkers showed them in their time of need. dan bowens of wnyw has more. new york, staten island, sandy ruined hundreds of homes and we found volunteers working hard to pick up the pieces. and the water height is where this is. flood waters reached above the windows inside randy s house and several people he didn t know helped him clear out the debris. touching, heart warming is not near enough a ward to describe how you feel when these things are going on. and people tyke time out of their life. and the neighbor was feeling overwelcomed, debris everywhere in the back yard and then this group just showed up and started