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Power line down. it certainly had a lot of fuel. something really amongst all this rain and storm surge, talk about the last thing you expect to see is it s. not only a fire but very intense fire melting cars out here. its just unbelievable. we came here. we werent sure exactly what to expect and all of a sudden we came across all these firefighters. this is actually technically still corpus christi. we are on padre island. so we are actually very close to the gulf right here. i asked, was this ...

County or city plan to say hey, is this area flooded? okay, no. next one. and they comb through your community and then they will say okay, its safe to let everyone back. in you have will be the hero in your neighborhood when you have this app. because you will know this stuff. abby: what is it called again. >> scanner 911. i have it if you go to our website: abby: what do you have on your screen? >> whether have you phone, tablet desktop computer or laptop. its called vin to sky. its allowed us...

35 inches of rain. caused about $5 billion in damage. this will be a storm that has widespread flooding all across the houston area, again, unfortunately, a lot of floods we have seen the last couple years have been training thunderstorms have been going across the area and caused localized flooding in couple neighborhoods. this is going to be a widespread flooding event eventually towards houston as well. todd: lets bring in griff jenkins like we said live from houston. griff, it does look like...

Son-in-law damage here. we cant see it now. when the sun comes up, im certain its there. clayton: we are about 1 hour and 20 minutes there. we will check back in with matt. stay safe. abby: matt, please stay safe. you can only imagine the forms of winds. he just left us. but you can imagine the force of winds is he feeling. i would have been blown away two seconds of that lye shot. that is not easy. you just hope they all stay safe out there. todd: you saw that forecast earlier. that area where ...

Where its going to go. look at the center line of it which normally we say dont look at the center line of it, if you do take a look at this, that 1 is where we are today, go in to tomorrow, the next day, the next day, the next day, we are all right in the same spot. in fact, you might see a second landfall that moves back over water and make a second landfall in the same spot maybe by wednesday. some uncertainty in that obviously. but the point is the indications are that the storm stays in the...

50, 60 years since a cat 4 hit texas. abby: that is down to category 1. that does not mean it is not dangerous. matt finn has been live for us all night long in place placios, texas. >> we have been here for about 8 hours. it has gotten progressively worse. violent winds and rain. when we first arrived here last night, the water line was probably 5 to 10 feet past the shore and now as you can see it is just engulfing this walkway here. now creeping up towards the grass here. so, between high tid...

Todd: rob, you mentioned power lines. obviously we dont know if that is the cause of this fire. in your travels arranged the area where you are going, have you seen a lot of power lines down? it seems at this point when people end up getting back, that is the major concern besides flooding. >> yeah. well, yeah. right across the street there were power lines down. which is why i thought that could have been the igniter because that certainly would make sense to me. who would think that jeep wrang...

Within the last hour. >> yes. i mean, it has gotten worse every hour leading up to where were right now. its very violent winds and rain. i mean, you would not guess this is a category 1. you would feel like this is much worse than that. what we are looking at is probably a very large storm surge here. when we first got here last night, we were able to see probably 5 to 10 feet out where the water line was and now you can see its inching up behind me here. and in the distance it is probably 10 t...

Into that area. they couldnt get in there because their cell tower is down. no communication. roads impassable. look at this fairfield inn. abby: look at towels all along the hallway. rob schmitt our reporter was trying to get to us from rockport. zero cell service. people have hopefully evacuated that area. had you people i guess from nursing homes had evacuated. people going to jails to find shelter. just now getting that visual as we are waking up this morning. clayton: look at dropped ceilin...

Just to the west of port laf carks towards victoria, texas move in towards tomorrow and in to monday, the storm is right in the exact same spot. that means continued rainfall all across this area. the flooding is going to be extreme and for people who are thinking we have maybe dodged a bullet places like galveston, you were never going to be the worst of it that doesnt mean the rain is not going to be with you. you will still see very heavy amounts of rain there the next several days. clayton: ...