Devastation Harvey News Today

Had first responders out early this morning. clayton: we just got a tweet in the president up this morning from camp david tweeting in response to senator chuck grassley who told the president to stay focused and respond to this and not make a hurricane katrina mistake like george w. bush did, heres what the president says: got your message loud and clear. we have fantastic people on the ground. got there long before harvey. so far, so good. is that the response that youre experiencing at the lo...

Todd: as we approach 6:00 in the east, 5:00 in texas. a fox news alert. hurricane harvey ravaging parts of texas right now. the storm downgraded to a category 2 hurricane. its still very serious. it made landfall last night around 10:00 p.m. local time as a category 4 hurricane bringing winds up to 160 miles per hour. clayton: this is the strongest storm to hit the united states in more than a decade. could drop more than 60 inches of rain in parts of texas before its over. its going to hang out...

National guard that have been deployed and they are stationed throughout the region. they have even brought in air assets in the event that rescues need to be carried out and they can assist with those. so, a number of different things that we are looking forward to as the sun will start to come up here soon. and it will give us our first look at the devastation harvey has left behind because, remember, this has made landfall in the night, evening hours. when the sun was already out and gone. so...

Destruction. store fronts caved in by high winds. walls falling off apartment complexes. firefighters battling a blaze in the middle of this while the storm is ragingment take a look at this video. harvey is expected to lee behind $40 billion word of damage. president trump has signed a disaster declaration in texas. todd: we will be with you all morning long. live team coverage all along the coast this morning. first we go to matt finn. every time we go to matt his shots are definitely some of ...

Todd: matt, thank you very much. one of the concerns where matt is right now besides the obvious in the shot, the combination of the storm surge which you can see in matts shot also the fact that when ricks forecast 58 inches of rain could fall there, combination of that, absolutely horrible for flooding. abby: matt, please take care of yourself out there. unbelievable. this is not easy for them to go out and do when you think about the heavy winds coming against them. he has been a trooper thro...

Its highway 10 and 45s intersection. this car goes through, guys. watch, this right? its going to go under this underpass. he is approaching slowly because, and obviously maybe thinking about not going under there. harvey has not even begun to unleash its havoc on this city. and that underpass is dry. i was just down there 10 minutes ago. if it rains like this for four days, the predictions that houston may suffer the worst catastrophic flood damage its had in a decade or more that certainly may...

Bringing likely billions of damages in damages along the coast. abby: also president trumps first major disaster test in his young administration. todd: how the white house is responding this morning. ellison, good morning. >> good morning to all of you. thats right, a major storm and a major test for a young administration. the first potential test of how they will respond to a natural disaster. one republican is already warning president trump telling him not to make this same mistake presiden...

Need. now its a matter of just continuing to monitor this storm to make sure they are given everything they are needed. after this is all over as you said its the aftermath thats th the big story often in these cases and getting on the ground and showing you are there for them as the natural leader. this is the first big test weful see how it continues to play out. todd: hurricane harvey, go to a commercial now. but more when we come back ♪ ♪

Complex collapse and firefighters battling a blaze in the middle of it all. harvey is expected to leave behind about $40 billion in damage when all is said and done. president trump has signed a disaster declaration in the state of texas. texas.ed to. clayton: we have team coverage of hurricane all over the coast this morning. we do begin with a fox news alert. rob schmitt at the scene of that massive fire on padre island in corpu corpus christi. it started around 2:30 a.m. local time. rob, how ...

We spoke to people who gid decided to stick this out. todd: rick reichmuth said it is downgraded to 1 can it looks worse. >> i have heard from rob schmitt and people in the corpus christi area that perhaps the storm there started to fade, but where we have been hour by hour has gotten worse, leading to where we are right now. you know, we have cars and some a little bit of shelter. but for anybody who does not, or is in these elements, it would not look good. clayton: matt finn live for us there...