Pounding grand bahama island. At least 20 are injured, streets are flooded, many residents documenting the terror on their phones. Every room in this house had windows blown out except for right here. Hurricane dorian is expected to start moving later this morning in north, North Western direction, people in florida are ready for that, most have spent days boarding up their homes and preparing for this hurricane, some days more in a rush to get supplies, other days when the some track caninged or stalled the urgency seemed to subside, stores became a little less crowded, some areas in Palm Beach County are under mandatory Evacuation Orders, shelters are opened and some people are taking advantage of that but at the same time some worry unpredictability of the storm, the slowness of the storm is causing residents to let the guard down, here is the mayor of West Palm Beach. I just fear that people would be complacent and let the guard down and we cant get that happen. Hurricane warning i
I want to welcome the president of the United States to the great state of texas. I want to express my gratitude for fellow texans in Corpus Christi for giving the president such a warm welcome on his ride over here, showing the gratitude we all have a for the president. I want to express my deep gratitude to the president for his entire cabinet and staff for what they have done in the past couple weeks. A lot of people see what happens i want to reveal in just one minute what has been going on behind the scenes, behind the camera, the past two weeks. Advance of then hurricane, he was coming into the Corpus Christi area. Members of the president s cabinet and the cabinet himself were in contact with me and my office, prepreparing for this catastrophe coming our way. Every step of the way as the hurricane was coming to shore. The flooding began in houston, texas. The president and his cabinet remained in the Constant Contact with me and my staff and they had one thing to say texas, what
Being forced to leave and leave right now. All of this as President Trump tours the devastation beginning in corporate us krity Vice President pence will head to texas later this week Contessa Brewer will get the latest on relief and recovery earnings there lets go to john kern an, pretty dramatic scenes in dickinson, a lot of water between here and houston, turned into a bayou. I wish i could say that was the end but apparently not after opening down triple digits, the dow is positive. And investors brushing aside fears about north koreas latest Missile Launch United Technologies and caterpillar and apple leading gains and financial and material stocks the biggest laggards right now. Lets get you caught up on the latest on harvey the storm setting a rainfall record for tropical cyclones in texas. The National Weather service just over 49 inches of rain has been observed at locations southeast of houston flash flood warnings remain in effect throughout houston, about 300,000 people by
If either of these reservoirs were to breach their berms, look what is out there . 3,000 homes and residences out there, all in jeopardy. That is what is threatened at this hour. Already water is going out the spillway, crossing what is route 6 out there. That road out there is route 6. Already water overbreaching that. And headed into those homes. Theyre hoping though, that is as bad as it gets. It is pretty bad. Well show you next hour what that looks like. For now, it holding. They hope it continues to hold. Neil jeff, thank you, very, very much. By the way to jeffs point, it rice it is really not just houston but Hillary Vaughn is here. Hi, hillary. Reporter they got off one of people just rescued. They were waiting since 4 00 a. M. For a response. What did you feel waiting for the rescue crew . Obviously keeping the girls safe. Luckily were in a second story home. We hunkered down there. We wanted older neighbors to get out first. Were ablebodied, so. Reporter what did you decide
The top of the headlines on todays Washington Post, which says harvey pummeled texas on saturday, destroying buildings and causing massive Power Outages as residents evacuated towns and prepared for historic flooding that can keep them from their home for days. Host the fema administrator sent a tweet, turn around, dont drown, please avoid driving in floodwaters and stay home if you can. Thats fema administrator brock long. He will be calling in later this hour to give us an update to the situation there, but we are talking to you about your confidence in the government to respond to Natural Disasters like Tropical Storm harvey. John is calling in from philadelphia. Good morning, john. Caller good morning, and thanks for having me. I think that theyre going to be a little slow getting to it because of the hurricanes timing, strength, and all that. And then you got to look at the big state of texas, pretty much getting wiped out. Thats a lot of territory, but i would say that theres a l