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A >> reporter: i have to tell you, ive covered hurricanes in the past, some dramatic ones. the hurricane comes in and then the hurricane leaves. its erie on the ground because the bands of rain just keep oncoming over and over again and it is not clearing out. as you say, the storm has stalled and it is just sitting on top of this part of texas and that is what makes it so dangerous. but the difficulty right now i think for officials and the thing that they are going to have to battle is complac...

She doesnt know what will happen next. weve been hearing a lot about the fairfield hotel where storm chasers and media decided to stay. it was designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane but the wall of the building came crashing down. it was incredible to see the power of the storm and we were able to look at the ocean from the fourth floor. the rest of the building is still standing. the manager said hes never seen anything like it. this is an ongoing situation for the state of texas. were ge...

Toppled and power lines down. we want to go to gabe with more. gabe? >> reporter: this is rockport, texas. this home obliterated. several other homes and businesses in this downtown area also destroyed. at least 12 people were injured here in this county, according to the local officials. one person was killed in a house fire that local authorities say first responders just couldnt get to. this is where harveys eye came crashing through. some local residents decided not to evacuate and said they...

You accept a pardon, youre saying that youre guilty and yet what is going on is this man is against the law and this is not how its supposed to zork victoria, as a professor and helping to train future legal minds, do you tell students that a pardon is an admission of guilt? >> yes. theres a question of the constitutionality of it and the president was within his purview of doing that but then what precedent does this set for other sheriffs across the country, for other lawmakers. >> all right. ...

But then by the time we hit wednesday, winds are still at 35 miles per hour and produce a lot of rain and with that repetition of rain, again, today, tomorrow, monday, all the way through wednesday. a lot of rain on the way here to cause major flooding and were watching for that as well. past amounts, looking at 13 inches. weve got galveston at 6.81 and austin at 4.67 inches. the most is 40 inches in the heaviest spots. victoria could be one of them. were keeping a close eye on the storm and wel...

In the houston area because of the bands getting pulled in from the gulf. this is the current update from the national hurricane center. 40 miles northwest is where we see the center of circulation. were moving a little bit. the last update, it was stationary. weve got a east-northeast movement at 2 miles per hour, about the speed of a human walking down the street. thats how fast this storm is moving. you can see how slow it is going and its basically stationary, not moving very much at all. ok...

For certain areas. this is what the damage looks like. this is rockport, texas, where one person is now confirmed dead and at least a dozen more injured and the life-threatening impacts will no doubt last for days to come. more than 300,000 people are without power. houston, the nations fourth largest city, is now under a flash flood warning and as texas takes a beating from this historic storm, we have a flurry of news thats come out of the white house with president trump pardoning controversi...

All right. as weve been covering tropical storm harvey hammering texas and critics have said that the white house waited until there was a perfect storm. basically, a cat 4 hurricane yesterday, to dump some serious news of its own. so within just hours, yesterday, the president pardoned former sheriff joe arpaio in arizona, expanded his ban on transgender people serving in the military, basically reversing what the obama administration had done, and parted ways with sebastian gorka, a close ally...

People are concerned about a mar storm hitting the coast of texas and louisiana, it makes you question whether everything is even fully formed. >> you would also think that those two stories would be enough. arpaio and the transgender ban for the military but also sebastian gorka and now there are questions whether he was fired or he left we will get some answers but it may take some time. allen smith and thank you at home. thats going to wrap up the situation with harvey. much more to come. im ...

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