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and in our more perfect union series, a pair of texas furniture stores opened for people who need food and shelter. the owner says we have got to give people hope. but we begin this morning with a look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. the first responders are so busy. 911 calls are not being answered. the situation in port arthur continues to be dire. tropical storm harvey makes a second landfall overnight. unless you re in imminent danger, you re just going t have to figure out a way to deal with it. torrential rains all through the overnight hours. we re seeing catastrophic flooding again in texas this morning. the record-breaking rainfall that flooded houston is expected to wind down today. rescues continue, the need in this region is only growing. thousands who fled harvey are jammed together at double capacity. there has never been anything so expensive in our country s history. there s never been anything so historic in terms ....
folks here? reporter: i can tell you directly, kris, marcus, good morning to you both. we spoke to someone 10 or 15 minutes ago. it was a dual citizen, dual russian-american citizen who just came out here to get his passport renewed. he was here with his grandparents and now he told me, he is completely blind sided by this. he has no idea where it leaves him in terms of his travel or any other sorts of services. that s how a lot of people are feel nothing doubt. let me set the stage and tell you what s going on behind me. you see the van here, that has consulate plates on it. not sure if it s taking anyone away today. people have been coming in and out of the consulate building. folks coming down the stairs. earlier, a couple minutes ago, women with suitcases walking right out of there. they didn t offer any sort of comment. this has just been a remarkable turn of events. it staked out of these cameras here right now, you have to go back to 1986 to see this diplomatic ....
this is what it is right now. the only place in the bay area not at triple digits is at the coastline. san francisco is 94 and the heat warning continues to the weekend for all of the pay area. breaking news in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. a fire at a chemical plant has broken out. sending a cloud of black smoke. it stores compounds that need to be refrigerated it lost power because of the flooding. people in beaumont texas are desperate for drinking water and they lined up for miles to get bottled water after the town run dry. the voters on the pumping station shorted out when the river spilled the banks. and houston, a man-made flood emergency. police are asking people to evacuate as they release water from the reservoir. i simply do not feel comfortable. this can last for the next 10 or 15 days. tomorrow trump will travel to texas and louisiana to meet with victims and survey the damage. the warriors had steph curry stepping up for the flood relief. a thr ....
pulled into the parking lot about an hour ago. it felt like i was on the florida coast. a little bit humid on the estuary and we just aren t getting a chance to cool down. today will be a near repeat to yesterday. gear up. we ve got another hot and hazy one. get a load of the sun there. we have the smoke and haze with us still and it s going to continue as we get into your saturday afternoon. a lot of 100s coming our way. we broke several records yesterday, including the hottest day ever recorded. and the heat warning will expire at 9:00 p.m., coastline, san mateo coastline and monta ray monterrayey. for the coast, it s going to get a little bit better by tomorrow, and everybody else will follow suit as we get into monday. the red flag warning in place today, the very dry conditions, we have our hills with a little bit of wind and it s just enough for the national weather service to up the possibility of fire danger that will be with us through the afternoon. that ....
80s. we re starting a nice difference in those temperatures. 75 degrees in san jose. 68 for san francisco. a quick check of the 24-hour temperature change. this is the drop we ve seen this hour since yesterday. about seven degrees cooler in san jose. eight degrees cooler in san francisco. in hayward seven degrees cooler. i do want to mention we are tracking the chance of seeing a few thunderstorms into tonight and that s because of tropical storm lidia. i will get into more of that in a bit. mike is tracking a crash in the peninsula. not much of a commute but we do have a crash southbound 280 at farmville road. reports of a crash, an overturned vehicle and a brush fire on the shoulder. four fire department vehicles are heading out as well as emergency vehicles to check for injuries. we ll track that. the brush fire is a big concern with drier, hotter conditions. the rest of the bay moves well. adjusted service. we ll outline that again coming up. back to you. thanks ....