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145 miles an hour? >> well, jim, were beyond the scope of evacuation. there are four items that we have a lot of concern about for the city, the wind, the heavy rain, the storm surge and the risk of tornadoes. what were now asking the president to do is shelter in place. do not go outside. go not drive your car. i want you to know, jim, half of the deaths that occur, occur when vehicles get stuck in high waters and we dont want to see that. we want to see our residents ride this storm out. if th...

What? so the storm eye diameter is smaller. think about the figure skater during the olympics and she pulls her arms in and she spins nice and quick. she does whatever that is called. thats what happened to this. so what was 130 miles an hour storm or 145 miles an hour storm gust would be 160 miles an hour storm if we got the eye to about eight miles. thats where andrew was. but thats not going to happen. but thats how we got where we are. so we raised it one category because of the wind speed. ...

Response from the white house and we will have much more on that in a short time. but first to hurricane harvey. the massive storm packing winds up to 145 miles an hour. torrential rains and the potential for massive flooding in the coming days with the storm surge of some 12 feet. the fema director saying texas is about to have, quote, a very significant disaster. texas officials now telling citizens who do not evacuate, listen to this, to write their names and social security numbers on their ...

>> mayor, our thoughts go out to you. we know you have a tough day, days, maybe weeks ahead of you and were going to be continuing to cover this and think about what you are facing down there. >> thank you. >> next, we are going to go live to the gulf coast where conditions are worsening by the minute. winds reaching up to 145 miles an hour now. and 20 million people in hurricane harveys path tonight. also, north korea firing several unidentified projectiles. the military says these are missil...

Issued. here is the shore, here is that area of 125 mile per hour winds. there is our martin savage right there. now, the heaviest wind should move up toward the north, but i think marty could still be at 120 or 115 mile per hour winds, and that is a destructive, almost a f-2, ef-2 tornado, even though its not a tornado, a hurricane, the same wind damage is possible from this as a tornado for sure. >> yeah, i just want to elaborate on what you just reported, chad. the national weather service ...

Texas. harvey is about 145 miles southeast of corpus christi moving to the northwest at about ten. we expect the storm to approach the coast from port mansfield up to sergeant, texas. thats going to occur late tonight into early tomorrow morning. conditions will deteriorate along the coast within the warning area. already starting to see rain bands affecting the coast. well see the tropical storm force winds begin to arrive later this morning and early this afternoon. >> michael, what worries yo...

Hurricane strength as forecasters have predicted, it will be the first to make landfall in a decade. the national weather service reports a hurricane typically hits the gulf coast of texas every six years. the last was hurricane ike. i slammed the state as a category two hurricane in 2008 killing dozens of people. texas has a long history of dealing with these storms. trace gallagher has more. >> jon, the deadliest hurricane in u.s. history and for that matter the deadliest natural disaster in u...

Were following breaking news. a major disaster is beginning to unfold tonight in texas as hurricane harvey closes in packing devastating winds and catastrophic rain. thats forecast to fall for days. cnns martin savage is in corpus christi right in the danger zone for us. martin, people there who chose not to evacuate are now being told, i take it, its too late. >> reporter: right, it is too late. theres no way that anybody should go out now. weve just come under this extreme wind warning thats c...

One that keeps you connected to what matters most. welcome back. we are following the breaking news. hurricane harvey now a category four storm. winds 140 -- 130 miles an hour and up. just hours away from making land fall. the texas coast bracing for the life-threatening hurricane, tornado like winds up to 145 miles an hour now. some places could see up to 40 inches of rain. millions in the storms path. one texas mayor advising residents who refuse to leave to write their social security numbe...

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