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Today marks the 12th anniversary of hurricane katrina and it comes as new orleans is expecting the worst of harvey. >> the mayor now closing schools and telling all people to stay home due to risk of flash flooding. >> the next couple days new orleans should expect very heavy rain and thunderstorms with potential for localized flooding. as a matter of fact we are now under a flash flood watch, being prepared for the worst and hoping for the best. >> officials expect 5 to 10 inches of rain to fal...

Roads, highways, houses, green space, all left unrecognizable. there in the middle of itall is cnn meteorologist derek van dam. he joins us now from sugarland, texas, southwest of houston, where over two feet of rain has fallen. the national weather service says south houston has received 43 inches of rain -- a years worth -- in three days. what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: it doesnt stop, right, dave? the rainfall is incredible. it has been relentless for three days since we start...

Sunday morning and there would be, it would be bad, but it just, it isnt stopping. >> it isnt. because the storm isnt moving. brooke, the storm right now, the center of the storm is only 70 miles from where it came onshore in roke pockport on friday nigh. so it meandered, got to san antonio, stopped and turned around to the gulf of mexico. 40 inches now, 39.72 in dayton, texas. thats the new high number that ive seen. waller in harris county, 34 inches. league city about the same. its still rain...

It took about four hours to get a boat that was capable to come and move them out along with some other people. it was a scary situation. the whole time i was using this john boat, the rain just kept coming, there was flash flooding, along with the bayou rising, i really feared for their lives. we were able to get them out, thankfully and get them to a hotel, and theyre safe and dry. theres still people out there that refuse to leave, that thought the waters would recede. im very scared for them...

Thing has let up at all let alone the tornadoes that are scheduled. president trump is preparing to head directly into the disaster zone tomorrow. joining us to discuss the presidents trip and more is g.o.p. congressman blake. thanks for joining us. >> good morning, brian. brian: are you concerned about the logistics? >> well, i think we are going to be able to pull it off. corpus christi where i am right now is starting to recover from the storm. but we have got a lot of areas just around us, r...

About it. there is what they called the tax day flood, memorial day flood. just in the last year and a half. those were really devastating and just centralized in just different parts. so, now, this one, in the north. we have lake conrow. mandatory evacuations there. im in the northwest part of it and basically stuck here in a parking lot because we could not get out either way. the major thoroughfares were shut off last night. well try to go out again a little bit later and see how far we can g...

Houston tonight. see this purple area here. oh, we have beaumont, too. that purple is the ten inches of rain. theres no place in america that can take ten inches of rain in 16 hour. if this is over the western part of the state, there will be flash flooding. you put this over a massive city, thats big-time flash flooding. theres so much concrete, it wont soak in. the ground is already wet. it wont soak in. all of this will run off. >> does not sound good. now, the storm has already left scores o...

Reporter: hello, mike. were expecting to get hit with more rain tonight in galveston. we are getting hit right now with the winds. as you see by me, there is a lot of lightning and the storm is moving closer and closer to the area. although this is now downgraded from a category four hurricane to just eight tropical storm authorities are saying take this seriously because it is bringing rain and especially tonight we will see inches of rain here in galveston an area thats already been hit with t...

If we get what is forecast here, this is now a model, im going to show you what the radar may look like over the next 18 hours. this is now. now for the next few hours, the rain moves through houston, maybe toward pasadena. and at that point in time, bay city, youre really going to get pounded. later on tonight, it redevelops and goes right back over houston. the model im about to show you should scare you because you should have a noaa weather radio on, your ala clock on. somewhere around 2:00 ...

I want to bring in chad meyers here. talk to me about the flash flood emergency. >> it means that flash flooding is occurring. and it is life-threatening over the city of houston. harris county and also just slightly to the west of harris county, too. let me get to what has happened over the past three or four hours. this big purple eruption of cloud cover has gone right over the city of houston. and southward too, all the way down to just about galveston. its a train of storms. one storm after ...