No rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, Tornado Warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. Harvey has been downgraded to the Tropical Storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. One confirmed death and injury. Most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. Local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. It is rockport, texas. Take a look from the air. This is what is left of rockport. There was no escaping harvey. Rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. Leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. Lets bring in the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick by phone. Always good to be with you. I wish it was under different circumst
and set an alarm to remind yourself to get up and check on your property. neither one of those things includes going outside in getting into your car. they haven t had a lot of electrical outlets is outside of the areas around where harvey had just nearly 200 miles away from houston so people are able to get these warnings and they can watch this on their television set. but there telling people is stay indoors because you are creating a situation with these rain bands that are coming into houston where they have to come and rescue. we do know there have been 13000 military members deployed in this region of texas to try to help out the aftermath and the inundation of rain that is coming right now because of tropical storm party. we know that. in addition to that, lieutenant governor dan patrick telling us moments ago that they had 900 police officers in and around the city of houston to try to keep people from harming themselves by getting behind the wheel and driving through water th
of them saying the same thing that this is the first time they had to issue this level of flood alert for the city of houston. some 5 million people live in that city and a couple of things that we just heard to take note of. the mayor says that he is now working to confirm with his police department but we may have a second fatality because of harvey. he said the woman got caught in rising waters and they are trying to work to see if she has survived inside her car. moments ago before the pop up news conference we know for certain that the number one way that we see human loss of life in all of this from flooding his people inside their cars, not able to anticipate the rising water in front of them. it is dark and they are asking people to do one of two things, stay in your house and stay up all night or stay in your house
lieutenant governor patrick, you may know this already but my crew is telling me now that the mayor of houston, the police department, you talked about those 900 officers that are out there helping and they are getting ready to holding emergency news conference to communicate to the people of houston. can you talk to me a little bit about the size of houston, population -wise, i think we need to dig deeper into this because this is changing as we speak. you talk about those sheets of rain and you have 4 inches in 58 minutes in just the last hour and this is a situation now that is evolving much faster than anyone might have anticipated because you were 200 miles away from the center of harvey. talk to me, if you can, but the demographics in terms of where people live, what those areas are like and how many people are there. houston is a town of about two and a half million in the county of paris. as the for largest
people are helping us now were doing our share in helping others. harris: amen. fire chief, robert, they re lucky to have you and your team. thank you for joining us. thank you ma am. harris: coming up, politics are in the news along with harvey. we are now finding out that the house speaker paul ryan has joined senator john mccain in criticizing the president pardoning a farmer sheriff joe arpaio. our political panel as we continue to monitor harvey, we ll talk politics next. stay with us. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won t go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it.