Numbers. Abc news exclusive. Look what you made me do millions watching taylor swifts big debut overnight stunning fans. I got smarter i god harder in the nick of time just hours ago dropping her first song in over three years. I do it all the time defending her reputation. The reaction already pouring in and this morning an exclusive sneak peek at whats coming in her highly anticipated music video only on gma. Look what you made me do good morning, america. There is a lot of news to get to this morning. We are closely watching Hurricane Harvey growing in strength slowly making its way toward the texas coast. Take a look at this view from the International Space station showing just how massive harvey is. It is expect to make landfall as a category 3 hurricane. Winds up to 120 miles an hour, could be even higher. It is the strongest storm to make landfall in over a decade. The first major hurricane to hit texas in 18 years and it could bring historic rainfall. We are already seeing evacuations. Yeah, it is a major threat to this population there in the texas coast and we have Team Coverage all across the storm zone. Ginger is tracking the very latest from right here in times square, good morning, ginger. Good morning to you, amy and george and good morning, everyone. This is a giant storm. Especially for you in the United States. Can you see it here, the radar, the lashing outer bands to the Southeast Texas coast, lightning already moving in from houston to victoria to Corpus Christi waking up this morning. This storm has started n less than 24 hours it will make landfall. Of course, youve got Tropical Storm warnings that extend all the way west to san antonio and austin and a flash flood watch. The rainfall and deadly or potentially deadly flooding. Even san antonio and austin could see 10 to 20 inches of rain, locally some places will see close to 3 feet. This is a lot of rain happening over the next five days or so. The wind speeds especially in this red zone, 110 Miles Per Hour or higher as it makes landfall, matt gutman is right there in Corpus Christi. Matt, they are saying places could be uninhabitable for weeks or even months. Reporter yeah, could be pretty bad and just last night there wasnt a cloud in the sky in this bay and that storm is still about 160 miles out but just over the past few hours weve really started to feel those rain bands pelt us and also the wind coming much harder. You can see the water from the seawall is already starting to lap up here. All of this creating this turbocharged sense of urgency and this part of texas. With Hurricane Harveys outer bands already lashing the gulf coast this morning a mass exodus is under way. Traffic piling up on freeways. As they say, get out of dodge. Reporter in many counties evacuation is mandatory. Tens of thousands of texans ordered to flee. The goliath storm is growing covering much of the gulf coast in this image from the International Space station and this is the view from inside the storm. A Hurricane Hunter plowing through its center. The storm forecast to dump a biblical deluge of up to three feet of rain. After news that the storm exploded in size, residents in Corpus Christi besieging this hardware store. These people are here buying plywood, plank after plank of plywood. The line just to get to the cashier is 20 minutes long. Residents not taking it lightly. Im 65 now and i dont want to die at 65. Reporter in some areas like houston panic as people scour for supplies. Theres no more water. Theres no more bread. The bread is already running out as well. Reporter lines for gas, wood and sand snaking around the block, some over three hours long. This is the line to get gas, absolute insanity over this hurricane. Reporter those in harveys 359 battening down the hatches as officials in an already inundated new orleans contemplate a full evacuation of the city. The impact of the storm may be felt nationwide. Gulf refineries produce about 45 of the countrys oil and onethird of the countrys refineries are directly in the hurricanes path with hundreds of oil rigs dotting the coast. Now, ginger mentioned rain and also the storm surge. I want to give you a sense of how much higher the water in this bay could rise here now. At first they were predicting a four to sixfoot storm surge. Thats to about here. Now theyre talking about a 12foot storm surge. Thats all the way up here and this could happen in high tide. On top of that the waves are forecast to be about 20 feet higher so they will easily wash over this seawall inundating this part of Corpus Christi. George. Okay, matt, thanks very much. That storm surge and of course the heavy rain likely to cause major flooding across the coast and to rob marciano with more on that, our senior meteorologist in freeport. Hey, good morning, george. Were already starting to see water run up here 50 miles south of houston. The winds have become steady and this beach already seeing water up against the seawall. Five to nine feet of storm surge expected here. That should be enough to get over the wall and this inlet gets into the harbor. Look at all that infrastructure. Petrochemical plants and oil refineries. As low pressure deepens an allow the sea level to rise, it is the wind that piles up that water, the crashing waves until it hits the land has nowhere else to go. Also the rainfall. It could be like allison as far as rain is concerned. Check out some of the video from 2001. We had rainfall here 40 inches causing 9 billion in damage. Dozens of people losing their lives across the texas area and thousands of people homeless. It is not the wind. It is the water from storm surge and rainfall that does the most damage to life and property and thats what were fearing. Thanks very much. Harvey is causing travel delays. 83 of flights to Corpus Christi already canceled overnight. Most flights in and out of houston not expected to be affected until tonight and Major Airlines are waiving cancellation fees for people traveling through the storms path. Thousands are evacuating try to make it out before it hits and abcs eva pilgrim is there at the Evacuation Center in san antonio, texas, which took in more than 25,000 after Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. Good morning. Reporter yeah, staging happening here in san antonio this morning. We are seeing First Responders and charter buses gathering nearby here at the at t center. San antonio, a state and fede l federally designated Evacuation Center. Now, tens of thousands heading here as they get out of harveys way. There are 40,000 plus hotel rooms and preps are happening right now to get those warehouses and schools ready for that influx of people. One of the major issues with this storm were expecting a lot of rain here. Theres real concern for flooding as all those people head this way. Amy. Eva pilgrim, thank you. Lets turn to the head of fema, brock long in washington, d. C. Brock, i want to get femas perspective. How serious is the situation at this moment . Very serious. Unfortunately, the storm is currently strengthening and pressure is dropping forecast to be a major lannfalling hurricane which means this would be the first weve had since 2005. Right now citizens have been asked to evacuate. Their window to evacuate, that is closing very rapidly. Brock, how confident are you that the infrastructure is in place to prevent a major disaster . You mentioned the last time this area, especially the louisiana coast faced Something Like this was 2005, katrina. Let me set expectations. Texas is about to get hit by a major hurricane so theres going to be damage, not only that, but were also going to see over the next three to five days significant amount of rainfall which is going to cause a gait amount of inland flooding so theres going to be damage. Now, fema is already positioned inside both states of texas as well as louisiana. Brock, what is your biggest concern, your biggest fear with this storm . Right now its the life safety mission. Im afraid people may not be taking this storm seriously. They may not be heeding the warning and, again, that window to evacuate is coming to a close. All right. Brock long, thank you so much for your time this morning. We know youve got a busy weekend ahead. Thank you. Boy, people have got to get out of there. We heard him talk about that dangerous flooding. Lets go to ginger for more. George, after it hits early tomorrow morning and makes landfall, usually it dies out. Watch this. It makes a uturn and goes right back toward the gulf of mexico feeding off warm wears. Look at tuesday into wednesday, we are still talking about harvey sitting over Southeast Texas and this is where we end up getting two High Pressure systems, these blocking situations. There are no steering mechanisms to help get this storm out. And thats why were talking about up to 35 inches of rain in southwest louisiana in that 6 to 12inch rain including new orleans. Its all going to be happening as we head into next week. This is going to be a storm we talk about, unfortunately, for at least the next seven days. George and amy. Incredible. Thank you. In preparation for the storm this morning a powerful image from the storm zone. Some of the most vulnerable hospital patients have already been evacuated from a hospital right there in Corpus Christi. They include ten critically ill babies seen here being med flighted to an intensive care unit. They are doing all they can before harvey hits fearing a prolonged power outage during the storm so its certainly comforting to see all of those little ones getting to safety. It sure is. You are know, President Trump is monitoring the hurricane with a call overnight to the governor of texas. As he has a showdown with his own party over a Government Shutdown and youre reporting the president may be close to a big change in immigration. Reporter a big and controversial change, george. With a Government Shutdown looming white house officials tell abc news that the president is seriously considering ending a program that provides legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. The move the president is considering would put nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants in danger of being deported. They are known as d. R. E. A. M. Ers who came into the United States illegally as children. President obama gave them legal status back in january President Trump told abc they had little to fear. They 14u79s be very worried. They are here illegally. They shouldnt be very worried. Die have a big heart. Reporter but now several conservative states are threatening to sue to end the program. And white house Officials Say the president is seriously considering giving in rather than defending the program in court. The move comes as President Trump is threatening a Government Shutdown unless congress provides funds to pay for his wall on the mexican border. During the campaign, of course, trump promised that mexico would pay for the wall. And i will have mexico pay for that wall. Whos going to pay for the wall . [ chanting mexico ] 100 . Why is he threatening a Government Shutdown if Congress Wont pay for it . The president is committed to making sure this gets done. Again, he said over and over again, talked about the campaign over and over again and said mexico will pay for the wall. Once again, the president is committed to making sure this happens and were going to push forward. Reporter snls weekend update ridiculed his new, hard line on congress paying for the wall. What do we want . [ chanting ] the wall ] whos going to pay for it. [ chanting mexico] thats right, you the american taxpayer. Reporter on thursday he blasted Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell over the senates failure to repeal obamacare tweeting, he failed. That should never have happened. He also took aim at both mcconnell and House Speaker paul ryan over the looming budget battle calling it a mess. The shutdown threat is real, george. Republicans on capitol hill acknowledge that it is virtually impossible to get the votes to pay for the wall in the upcoming budget negotiations. That means either the president backs down or there is a shutdown and white house officials insist he has no intention of backing down. Yeah, and, were seeing a sustained campaign against the leaders of his own party and looks as if hes filing for divorce from Congressional Republicans but doesnt seem to make sense. He needs them more than ever now. Its almost as if hes trying to lay blame because hes worried something is not going to get done. Reporter he absolutely cannot get any of his agenda through without those Republican Leaders leading the way because, george, the president has done virtually nothing to reach out to democrats so hes certainly not going to get help interest them. He needs Mitch Mcconnell, you could argue more than Mitch Mcconnell needs him. On another front the president s top economic adviser gary cohn has been under some pressure to resign since charlottesville and now hes spoken out for the first time. Reporter yeah, this is an extraordinary interview with the financial times. I want to read you from it. He says, this administration can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning these groups, these hate groups and do everything we can to heal the divisions that exist in our communities. He is taking issue with the president s response to charlottesville and then on the issue of whether or not he would resign, he says this, i have come under enormous pressure both to resign and to remain in my current position. As a patriotic american i am reluctant to leave my post but then he adds, i also feel compelled to voice my distress over the events of the past two weeks. So extraordinary criticism from the president s top economic adviser here at the white house . Yeah, the president himself said on tuesday night his words on charlottesville were perfect. Jon karl, thanks very much. Much more sunday on this week. Amy. All right, george, we turn now to the countrys latest mul multimillionaire Mavis Wanczyk, quickly coming forward to claim her prize after wednesday nights powerball drawing. It topped out at more than 758 million but mavis opted for that lump sum of over 480 million, meaning she will walk away with 336 million after taxes and abcs gio benitez is at the massachusetts lottery headquarters with more on this very happy story, gio. Reporter it is, indeed, amy. Good morning to you. She now has so much money shes worth more than the gdp of some small countries and this morning shes just trying to make sense of it all. This morning, the biggest single ticket jackpot winner in history is a 53yearold mother of two whos already quit her job at the Medical Center shes worked at for 32 years. I have called them and told them i will not be coming back. Reporter Mavis Wanczyk decided to take the lump sum after taxes thats 336 million. Today as im driving here im still like, this is not true. This cant be and then now its like, ah, i am a winner and, ah, im scared. Reporter well, shes still not as rich as oprah whose net worth is equal to 3. 1 billion but close to celine dion, beyonce and Barbara Streisand and surpasses taylor swifts 280 million. It is unusual to hear so quickly from a winner, especially in massachusetts, a state that allows winners to claim a jackpot anonymously through a trust. She said she just wanted to get it over with. Going against conventional wisdom works for her. My numbers were basically random like maybe with our birthdays maybe one from here, one from there. Reporter ignoring common advice about not picking numbers based on birthdays because those numbers only go up to 31 but powerballs go up to 69. Luckily for her it worked out. The highest number in her winning combination was 26. And she says the first thing shes going to do is pay off her car but other than that shes got no plans. She says shes just too overwhelmed. Gio, thanks for reminding people not to listen to our advice about the lottery. You can pick whatever numbers you want apparently. I love she called her boss. That was very nice of her. More with ginger. We want to talk about not just the storm surge but wind and tornadoes. As this huge waves up to 20foot waves piling on top of storm surge. You see the small sliver of land the Barrier Islands that lay east of the Corpus Christi and the ports there, galveston, included up to ten foot surge. Reporter philadelphia is kind of a Weekend Getaway this weekend. We had earlier sprinkles and showers that are almost completely out of here. Sky6 live hd theres plenty of sunshine over the Commodore Barry bridge. Were looking at mostly to partly sunny skies as we roll through the day. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast high of 79, low humidity today, nice. For the weekend highs of 78 saturday and sunday, lots of sun, low humidity, nice monday and tuesday, a little bumpy on