That is the highest one day total ever. August is the wettest month on record in texas. And to put this in perspective the National Weather Service Today added two new colors to its rainfall charts including light pink which signals 30 inches or more and 40 inches have fallen in dayton, texas. Ten to 20 additional inches are forecast by friday, at least two people have been killed. That number is expected to rise. And there have been thousands of rescues in houston and surrounding towns. Anthony . Mason it must be amazing to see all of this play out in front of you. Harvey blasted ashore friday night as a category four hurricane in rockport, texas. The area was under a mandatory evacuation and about half heeded the call. Today residents returned to pick up the pieces. Jamie yuccas is in rockport tonight. Jamie . Reporter anthony, the response is remarkable, even in an area that was so hard hit, this is the mobile command center. Where officials have been mobilizing for days hoping to g
Mindboggling statistic, i know, n vietnam, proportionately speaking, more puerto 18, the declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the urther consideration of h. R. 2824. Will the gentleman from tennessee, mr. Duncan, kindly ake the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further consideration of h. R. 2824, which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a billtomend title 5 of the Social Security act to extend the maternal, infant, and literal childhood Home Visiting program. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, amendment number 4 printed in ouse report 115331 offered by the gentlewoman from florida, mrs. Murphy, had been disposed f. Nfinished business pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, the Unfinished Business is the request for recorded vote on amendment number 2 printed in house report 115331, by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Pascrell, on which further
Shes in for dave murphy. Matt pelman has your commute. Good morning. And as you suggested its not going to last long, either. You got to enjoy it while you can. Right now were waking up in a fog for sure. Theres a dense fog advisory for coastal waters and along the bay. Lets look at these visibility reports. You can only see. 3 of a mile in trenton, in millville, half a mile in atlantic city, wildwood and wilmington. 6mile visibility now at Philadelphia International airport even in the Lehigh Valley, two, 3mile visibility. Getting drizzle underneath the clouds. Its 62 degrees right now in philadelphia t its at least a warmer start than yesterday. 61 in reading, millville and cape may and temperatures are going to be up today but were already starting to see some storms build. Theyre pretty far out to the west now. Were watching them north and west of harrisburg but you see the progression of that lifting up to the north and east in the Lehigh Valley youll be among the first to get som
We are leaving this program to take you live to a briefing with greg abbott. We had an extended briefing. During the briefing, i received a telephone call from the fema administrator as well as the secretary of Homeland Security. Talked, in the phone call, about more ways in which the state of texas will be collaborating with fema and with the federal government. That will be part of the material i cover today. We had a long briefing that i will like to break out in a lot of detail because, as you know, there is a lot going on. I will be discussing what is going on in houston, but also covering the ongoing challenges we are dealing with in other parts of the state. Let me start with the weather. You all probably know at have seen a letter briefings about the weather. One thing we are dealing with is basically a triangle of ongoing rain. This stretches 12 but which would be the corporate mysterious up to Travis County over to Chambers County and then back to Corpus Christi. Parts of tho
This is cbs5 news. Goong good afternoon everybody. Thanks for joining us here at noon. A woman is dead after a fire broke out inside her phoenix apartment. Many neighbors are being held as heroes after working to help others get out of the burning building the heres more from the scene. Reporter one person is dead after an Early Morning Apartment Fire here near dunlap. Heres whats left of the scene. You can see whats left of the smoke damage. You can see that damage, thats extensive. Now the door is open. You can see inside it. Its dark but almost nothing recognizable in there. Thats how bad the smoke damage is. Theres debris all around the front of the apartment complex. That runs next to the apartments next door. That they had crime scene tape up earlier. I want to show you some video and take you back. This all started between 1 00 and 1 30 this morning. Somewhere between four units had to be evacuated. They were doing chest compressions on that victim for nearly 20 minutes. And was