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Landfall. As the National Weather service puts out another Flash Flood Warning around beaumont, texas as residents fight for their lives against another torrential downpour. Thousands of city in houston are looking under a mandatory curfew. Harvey is now marking as the most extreme rain event to ever hit the nation. Now the ninth fatality is reported. Were learning in some of the lives lost among them Houston Police officer Sergeant Steve perez. A 34year veteran who was on his way to help flood victims. We find him and it was too treacherous to go under to look for him. We made a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we want to recover him last night we could not put more officers at risk for a recovery mission. Federal ....
William and harry pay tribute to their mother, 20 years after her death. Early today starts right now. Good to be with you, im frances rivera. Another threat emerges, a major Chemical Plant near houston has exploded according to the plants owner, arkema, local officials reported two explosions and smoke coming from the site hours ago. Nbcs julia bagg is in houston near the Chemical Plant. Whats the latest from there . This morning we know about the two explosions and i saw the plume of smoke myself coming up from the plant earlier this morning. Now firefighters have pushed us back to where we are, where its apparently safe, theyve blocked off this road between houston going northeast to beaumont. What happened here at the plant is that Hurricane Harvey dumped so much water it flooded the generators, they lost power, th ....
Im laura garciacannon. And im scott mcgrew in for sam brock. Lets get your morning started with a look at a humid forecast. How about we pick up the bay area and move it to miami . We are going to feel the humidity increasing. If you think its muggy this morning. Thats nothing compared to what will have today and theres a heat advisory in effect. It mostly includes the hills where temperatures will reach over 100. We do have some lightning and some rain just offshore just across the Central Coast and just to the southwest of here. Ill be tracking that as it moves closer to the bay area. More details on that coming up. Mikes tracking two crashes right now. Youre tracking lightning, im tracking just two crashes. Overall the Speed Sensors look great for the bay area freeway except for up here. This is southbound highway 242. That crash still blocks your fast lane and your slow fro ....