temperatures are expected to cool but in the night meantime a number of records have been broken. on september 1 san francisco hit 106. that s an all-time high considering the average is only 70 degrees. back to. molly: this is one story worth watching. meanwhile, powerful storm is turning far out in the atlantic days after hurricane harvey devastated southeast texas. adam is in the extreme weather center. hurricane irma yesterday a category two storm, now a category three hurricane. and actually they clocked to win 730 miles per hour. it s moving off to the west. it is still a ways out there. it will take a little while before it gets worse heading. here s what it s looking at. it will be running over warmer water. from the category three were expecting to be a category four
on the way after a controlled release from two nearby reservoirs. steve joins us from houston just outside a mandatory evacuation zone. the been doing tremendous reporting period up to your waist and sewage and everything else. processing like there now? still sunning scene around the western part of houston. this is beltway eight. a major artery that goes all the way around the city of houston. right now it s about 12 feet underwater. the clearance i says 16 feet. the water must reach in it. you can imagine what a mess of be for commuters when they try to go back to work on tuesday. we provide damaged houses but about 1 million cars have been destroyed, most likely by the storm. most total. several hundred thousand claims for insurance already put in. since many cars earned her water is still not clear what the
manning the church run the clock during the storm and only three people showed up for shelter and they were taken in. he also said many the staffers have homes underwater or cannot make it to the facility to properly manage. alstyne said the church did not turn anyone away. here s more. there s safety miss issues that people didn t see. it looks like run high heel but behind the building is where the water comes in. our floodgates to keep in the water out until sunday night or monday. the third-party security company takes care of the building turn them way, they should not have. we have not heard of reports anybody came, we asked our security staff if we turned away anybody. we did take people in, he tells us that he has learned a lesson through all of this. he s bringing in experts to assess the church to see if it can be safely used as a shelter in future storms. this is a story that took off on social media. thank you for clarifying.
molly: the entire texas national guard call to duty in southeastern texas. close to 12000 members have been helping with search and rescue efforts in delivering supplies and water to people in need. brigadier general, pat hamilton is here. he is a dual status commander for the texas national guard. sir, i know you re busy in the men and women serving their happy to do it. they re probably tired and busy as well. thank you for joining us. if you can bring us up today, how s the texas national guard helping right now, what s the status? it s not just the texas national guard. the dual status commander role allowed me to command all of the department of defense national guard from other states. all the department of defense assets coming into the area. that s been tremendous. right now are made focuses in east texas where we re still doing search and rescue evacuations because of the high water. were also beginning to transition a focus on distribution of commodities like water and fo
storm. by the time he gets to friday, all the way through the week this is the area will be by friday. somewhere in that uncertainty. it shifts and you might run over san juan puerto rico. you might miss the islands entirely hopefully turning out to see. that s no guarantee. here s how that plays out what that means for us. from that storm moving across we have a high-pressure system to the north not allowing it to bump up right away. will travel toward the west and were talking about friday. then we need to make a decision, is again a go to the north or straight. we ll be looking at florida up to the carolinas and perhaps the georgia coast. maybe we see a turn. it s looking less and less likely that will happen. figures are still crossed.