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. welcome to our viewers watching in the united states and around the world. i m anna coren live from hong kong. it s 3:00 p.m. here, 9:00 a.m. in gaza, where a deadly israeli air strike outside the largest hospital in gaza city has triggered more international outrage. the u.n. secretary-general said he was horrified by what he saw, and this video explains why. we should warn you it is very graphic. the israeli military admits it struck an ambulance just outside the al shifa hospital. the explosion left a scene of carnage and chaos with at least 15 people reported killed according to hamas-run health authorities. the ambulance was said to be part of a convoy carrying patients to southern gaza. the idf claims the ambulance was being used by hamas, which it said has used emergency vehicles to transport fighters and weapons in the past. el eleni jacques us is following developments. let s start with the air strike on the ambulance convoy. what s the latest? reporter: ....
Were lye in the cnn newsroom. Thanks for being with us. It is a storm for the record books. Harvey living up to all of the fears and the predictions by bringing catastrophic flooding to parts of texas, including the nations fourth largest city. Around 3,000 National Guard members have been activated as water fills home and streets. Some families desperate to get to Higher Ground for forced to use axes to chop their way out of their attics and on to the roofs of their homes. Pets are being carried in coolers as people with forced to wade through waist high water trying to get to safety. The two major airports are closed, every single highway in the state is under water and its only going to get worse saying that the breadth and intensity of the rainfall is beyond anything ever experienced before. Cnn was there when an a dramatic
rescue took place in dickinson. Were live. Ed, wh ....
These people elected to come. we are told that some people are electing and staying at the omni hotel. even though the water as you can see is to people s basically passed people s knees, and we re told it s rising. you can see in the lobby there, i can see a staircase where the water s going up the staircase a little bit where the water is rising. we are getting a bit of a break in the rainfall right now. it has not rained for i d say at least 45 minutes. and so but they continue to pull people out. we re told that between 60 and 780 people were stranded inside here. the hotel staff has kept everyone calm. they said the people can stay for as long as they want. again, some people have elected to stay, some have not. ma am, hi, what s your name. mary-ann washington. mary-ann, describe what the conditions are like in there. they re bad. they re bad. whole lobby is flooded. ....
Showing us, ed, thank you so much. in dickenson, texas, today. i want to head to the cnn meteorologist center in atlanta. break this down for us, what do the next few hours look like for that area? well, the next few hours pretty much if you look at infrared satellite imagery, the brighters colors are the higher cloud tops. doesn t show the rain at the surface, but it gives you an idea if you go north of austin, you re into some of the heavier downpours, some of the more severe weather or thunderstorms and it s also been sliding off towards areas to the east. but for the next couple of hours, we re still going to be looking at rainfall and the threat for a few isolated tornados. now let s talk about what we re seeing here, the spin on our radar, we have a center to the storm. and as long as there is a center, there s still a small engine. and when this engine makes it s way offshore, it s going to be like spraying engine starter fluid in your old lawn mower that won t start. so it s ....
120 hours take it back to a secondary land fall. the models were hinting at this the other day. remember, we lost all steering appearance and it was going to meander for a while. many of the miles brought it offshore. we re still in agreement with that. that is good consensus. unfortunately it brings it up to galveston and houston, by thursday, it exits the state. by looking at the computer models and seeing, is there any other possibility of a difference? they re all agreement bringing it offshore, but where they bring it back onshore, some skepticism, but again, most of the models are in the same area. moments ago, looking at the next four to five days of total rainfall from the national weather service drops another 27 inches of rainfall in this general area. and the houston region. so, if you think of the rising waters and the a. rainfall that has fallen double that. we re not even half way through this event. if it stays more east, it could generate and get a little ....