Response from the white house and we will have much more on that in a short time. But first to Hurricane Harvey. The massive storm packing winds up to 145 miles an hour. Torrential rains and the potential for massive flooding in the coming days with the storm surge of some 12 feet. The fema director saying texas is about to have, quote, a very significant disaster. Texas officials now telling citizens who do not evacuate, listen to this, to write their names and Social Security numbers on their forearms. Just how big is this hurricane . Youre looking at harvey from outer space now. A camera on the International Space station. Harvey expected to be the strongest hurricane to make land fall in the u. S. In 12 years, since 2005. Rain fall totals up to 40 inches are expected in some areas. Thats more than three feet, causing widespread flooding. Made worse as the storm is predicted to stall over the region for several days. Large parts of south texas could be, quote, uninhabitable for weeks or months. State and local officials have been urging residents in the path of the storm to evacuate. The governor telling people to, quote, put your life first, your property second. Our reporters are live from the gulf coast covering this major storm from every angle while our meteorologist joins us. Martin is live in the direct path of harvey in Corpus Christi texas. Marty, we are learning just now it has been upgraded to a category four storm. What does that mean and look like on the ground where you are . Well, it looks and feels stunning. This storm is really grown into a monster here in many, many ways. Were seeing the absolute worst of it right now weve seen so far. Im not saying the worst is over. The air on top of what youre feeling with the wind has turned the rain into a midst and pull ver rised the water. You have so much water in the air it is almost like a fog now. Thats a combination of heavy raining coming down and the incredible winds that are now in this area. We are under an extreme wind warning, which means that we could see gusts of up to maybe 145 miles an hour. Now, if that happens, you are not going to see me. Not because i walk off, because i would be blown off. There is no way to stand up in that kind of wind force. The power of this storm has continued to grow primarily due to the gasoline called the gulf waters offshore. Now it is coming in not just with these brute force winds, category four, but on top of that, what appear to be days of rain and feet of waterfalling from the sky. The likes of this i think even chad would say we cant imagine for some time. A multiday event we are preparing for. Stay safe there for us. O also in texas where this monster storm is closing in on residents there as well. Tell us about the conditions there and how they changed as you have been there over the last several hours. Reporter well, the winds remained at a very steady pace here and the highest we have seen throughout the day. But, jim, just a few moments ago you look out into the surf here, the gulf of mexico, and that is as intense and wild as i have seen it throughout the day. It might be hard to pick up on the video images that were able to pass back. But if you look 500, 600 yards out there, you can see or i can tell just with my eyes, see these waves leaping up over some of the initial waves that you see. So you can imagine the intensity and how frightening must be if you are on a boat trapped out there in these storm waters because what im seeing here from the shoreline is just stunning. And the storm surge slowly throughout the day pushing closer toward this sea wall here. But the odd thing is there still remains a great deal of traffic. People driving up and down these sea wall area. This part on the eastern edge of the storm here voluntary evacuations. At this point i cant imagine theyll really change this, but really what officials outside of that immediate area of the eye of this hurricane want everyone from houston all the way down to Corpus Christi and all these points in between is the flooding that will come with this storm in the coming hours and in the next couple of days. That is what emergency teams are really bracing for the worst of. I dont want to minimize the wind impact of all of this. Obviously, the storm of this magnitude in that immediate area around the eye of that storm is going to cause devastating damage, but it is the rain fall that is also going to be something that will be incredibly worried about here over the next day or so as heavy amounts of rain fall. They have positioned emergency teams, high water rescue teams in various areas to be able to respond quickly to what they anticipate will be a number of people trapped in quickly rising flood waters. That is a great concern. You can hear the winds and just how high and sustained they are at this point. Even though there are bands of rain whipping through and occasional breaks in the rain fall like were exposing now, the winds really maintaining and sustaining the highest peaks that we have seen so far today, jim. Several feet of rain expected in some of the worst hit areas. I want to go now to chad myers live in the weather center. Chad, this storm now a category four storm, serious and dangerous. Tell us what difference that makes as it grows in strength. For about five square miles, a big difference between losing your roof and losing the rest of your house. But were only talking about the inner core of the eye wall that will add that gust to 130, maybe gusting to 140 miles or so per hour. We talk about the eye wall is strength. I need you to not Pay Attention to the eye wall at this point in time. This storm is bigger than that. Its bigger than the number four. It is rainmaker that is not going to move after it gets to san antonio. It is going to stop and sit there over texas for five days and put down a couple feet of rain and maybe even four feet of rain. Some astronomical number, four feet of rain. How could that be possible after 12 feet of storm surge washing over the Barrier Islands there very close to Corpus Christi. There is our marty savage there. He is positioned right there. There is the eye wall. You asked me a question, what does it mean . Do you see that right there . It will come back into place. That, that is where the 140 to 130 miles an hour winds are. Thats it. This is 60, 70, 80. Were talking about this moving over rockport. 79 miles an hour wind there. And the eye wall isnt even there yet. As this goes on shore, typically we say, oh, the storm is on land. It will die. You know what . There is not much land there. This is bay. This is back bay. This is still water. This is still wet. Plus, it is raining on top of what is dry. So were not going to see that instant degradation of the storm. It is going to continue for quite some time and it is going to continue to spin over the exact same areas. So here we go. Here is Corpus Christi. This is the area that has so much wind. The Hurricane Hunters are still flying through it. I know we think our reporters are brave standing out there. These Hurricane Hunters have been flying through this thing now for 48 hours. One plane after another after another after another. One goes home, one goes out. They have been watching this storm grow and grow and grow. Category four storm right now going to make land fall just to the northeast of Corpus Christi probably in about two hours. This is kind of an area that has a lot of seashore. But there are a lot of buildings, homes and businesses in the way of 130 miles an hour storm, which is essentially equal to an ef2 tornado. That work they do, those Storm Chasers flying through, gives you a better sense of how strong this storm will be, how long it will be with the state of texas. Chad, thanks very much is. The Corpus Christi fire chief, thanks for joining us. First, i want to say, what are the main issues you are dealing with now, particularly in terms of evacuation as these winds hit 145 miles an hour . Well, jim, were beyond the scope of evacuation. There are four items that we have a lot of concern about for the city, the wind, the heavy rain, the storm surge and the risk of tornadoes. What were now asking the president to do is shelter in place. Do not go outside. Go not drive your car. I want you to know, jim, half of the deaths that occur, occur when vehicles get stuck in high waters and we dont want to see that. We want to see our residents ride this storm out. If they havent evacuated yet, they need to stay in their home and ride the storm out. That is important advice because a lot of viewers are watching for this information right now. If you have not evacuated yet from the storm hit areas, the worst hit areas, better just to shelter in place . Thats correct, jim. Weve got plenty of resources in place. Corpus christi Fire Department, Police Department as well as Texas Task Force one are prepared to make rescues once the storm passes. Help explain to our viewers. We just had chad on and the National Weather service said this as well, this is a multiday event possibly longer, weeks the effects of this. A storm surge of 12 feet. Tell us how that would play out in your area. Thats going to be detrimental to the area. Just along Mustang Island and padre island, the main highway will be impassable. People will not be able to get on or off. Padre island will be affected because of the storm surge. On top of that, the storm is going to stall is what the weather people are telling us. The storm is going to stall above us and around us, which means that were going to get heavier and heavier and heavier amounts of rain. There is no place for the rain to go. Streets are going to flood. People need to be concerned. People need to stay in their homes. There has been a lot of talk about federal health, et cetera. Do you have the resources, you and your colleagues need there now . If not, what do you need most . We had incredible support from the Texas Department of emergency management. We have resources in place, both Law Enforcement, firefighters in place ready to conduct rescue operations. We already have a position close by. Theyre here and ready to help. We have heard of officials in one town in the storm hit area that is instructing people who have not evacuated that this is alarming advice. Rockport, this is from rockport city in texas, if they have not evacuated to write their names and Social Security numbers on their forearms. Is that undue, unnecessary advice or is that a measure of the seriousness of what you are facing . The city of Corpus Christi has not issued any request like that to our residents. We ask residents to do this, be cog ani we ask residents to do this, be cog anzant of your surroundings stay inside, be patient during the storm and listen to what the city officials tell you to do and do exactly what they say. If we just follow the instructions of what were trying to get done and trying to keep people safe, we can get through this, but people are going to suffer if they try to go out in this environment. Final question, i know youve got a lot of work to do tonight, land fall expected in the next couple of hours. Already looks pretty bad where you are. Tell us what kind of challenges you are going to be facing overnight. Well, number one, what we have done is weve stocked our fire stations with personnel and resources, but they will have to ride the storm out. Currently right now it is very difficult for firefighters and Law Enforcement to get out and do any type of work. In fact, it is detrimental. We dont want to put any harm to our First Responders for getting out there in this type of weather. We want our people to hold back, wait until the storm clears and then when it clears get out there and do the work we need to do. Chief, you are on the front lines there. We know you are doing hard work. You are going to be facing a lot of dangers. We wish you the best and we will be thinking of you these next coming days. Thank you very much, sir. Next, harvey gaining strength. It is now a category four storm. Land fall just hours away. A professional storm chaser will tell us why this hurricane is different than any other in recent memory. Plus, a family in Corpus Christi staying put. Why are they taking a risk with a monstrous storm, dangerous storm on their doorstep . I will talk to them live. 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And this storm could stall, dumping 40 inches of rain by this storm on wednesday. Brett is a storm chaser. He is outfront live in fullton, texas. We are looking now, showing our viewers some of the video you shot inside this storm earlier in recent hours there. What conditions are you seeing and where exactly are you tonight . We have moved south. We are on state road 35, just south of fulton. We have been watching pretty intense moments. The eye wall is just offshore. I think we are a couple of hours from land fall. But we are beginning to get to the hurricane wind gusts. We watched this restaurant up in fulton, part of the roof get ripped off of it. Several power flashes, but one of the good things we have seen, not many people on the roads and people seem to be heeding the warnings here. Thats good to hear. I asked the difference between a category three and four now that its been upgraded. He said a category three you lose your roof. A category four you could lose your house. Tell us about the power of the storm surge. Well, ill tell you first of all the biggest difference in this storm versus the storms we have seen in the last several years is we have a major hurricane but it is intensesifying as it is moving in. So you are having a storm surge up under that center low pressure and expands out on the ocean surface. The water level rises and the more powerful that pressure follows the winds around the circulation, the higher the rise. Once you get up above category two status, you really start worrying about dangerous storms, three foot to five foot to in this case the potential for 12 feet storm surge. When folks say 12 foot storm surge, were talking abo