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Hour, they are down. theres no communication, rob had to turn around and heading away from the region because its too dangerous. abby: its hard to get a real sense as to how much damage the hurricane has caused. we havent really seen any of the photos yet. its not the light of day. we will get that in the couple of hours, hard for politicians in local towns to really get out and help people and give us as sense as too what we are dealing with. todd: obviously the darkness is something thats prev...

-- we had 2-inches of rain. a lot more than 2. clayton: we have a lot more coming up here. while we cant get images at the moment because cell towers are down, image photos coming from the hurricane, including this picture, take a look at this a police officer saving the american flag, there it is. plus more coming up. the latest on harveys path, stay with us "fox & friends" is on early this morning covering this massive storm ♪ ♪ what are, what are what are, ♪

Cause minimal damage, the people there who are working on shutting these downs, they are heros and celebrate and pray that they can be effective in the days to come. >> thank you very much for your insight. we will be paying attention to this in the course of next few days and weeks. abby: millions of people will be picking up the pieces of hurricane that we have been talking about. how can you help? our hurricane harvey coverage continues right after this break this is a story about mail and pa...

Its part of our commitment to being americas best first job. ♪ abby: breaking coverage of hurricane harvey, the hurricane stumbles the state of texas. >> joining us steven metsy. >> right now we have little over 1200 texas military department members who are forward position in victoria, brian, san antonio, standing by ready to help state responders and state and local agencies, we had about 1500 evacuees that have gone to shelters that we are helping

Behind $40 billion in damage. president trump has sign a disaster declaration in the state of texas. clayton: we have team coverage. the hurricane all over the coast this morning and matt with an update. matt, can you tell us at this hour? >> good morning, guys, we are in palacios texas, when we got here the water line was 5 to 10 feet beyond the shore and now you might be able to see that it is coming up and engulfing this path behind us and in the distance its up into the gas area and storm su...

Said on our air and im going to read, democrats will be as cynical about this hurricane as he was of that one, something to watch in the coming days, hours and potentially weeks, that said, right now, i think we are beyond politics, i think the focus right now is saving as many lives and preparing people for what could be, again, rick said it not just a day of horrible weather but potentially up to half a week, think about that, to be in that for that long. clayton: the president is not heading ...

Barely traveled. thats why you continue to see people get pumbeled with rain. because the storm is going to stay in the area for such a long time, thats going to continue to bring moisture along the seashore for days. the storm surge is not going to go away at all. here we are saturday morning, hurricane here west of port lavaca, going to tomorrow morning, barely budged, going towards monday morning, back to the south and back almost exactly where it made landfall, the center of it here, maybe s...

Another location, but this is the problem that happens in houston. the underpasses, floods in low areas and you have car accidents, the storm that everyone is comparing to is allison, that was not a hurricane, that was tropical storm allison in 2001, it cost $10 billion worth of damage and it concentrated on the houston metro area and its going to be a similar as rick was talking about, a similar situation here, so they are bracing for a long several days going all the way to tuesday or wednesda...