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With isolated areas up to 35 inches of rain. not good news. officials here asking people to be vigilant. if that water starts rising, call and ask for help. brooke. >> thats the thing, it is so dark and thats the tricky -- just like the extra whammy of this sort of storm and sort of rain. just talking to a mayor in a different town. just stay put where you are tonight. if youre in houston or any of these city, stay put and let it rain. rosa flores, well check back with you and your crew in houst...

Major risk overnight as the sun sets. chad meyers is in the weather center with more tornadoes. >> absolutely. not f-4 tornadoes like in oklahoma and texas like in the movie "twister." these are ef-1s, and 2s and theyre not that wide. but they are significant enough that you need to pay attention. a couple of them on the ground already today. thats the flare-up over houston im most concerned about. thats the flood thats going to happen tonight. you need to wake up early tomorrow morning and look...

As we stay on tropical storm harvey, take a look at these pictures. this is houston, texas. i know you all are dealing with a lot of rain and clearly pretty stunning lightning storm as well over this mega city in texas where were keeping a close eye, obviously, on what this means for a lot of you as far as flooding is concerned over the course of the next couple of days. were going to check back in with our reporters on the ground throughout texas and with chad myers in the weather center as wel...

People there with all that rain and flooding issues. joining me now the mayor of that city. mr. mayor, thank you so much for hopping on the phone with me. i know you have a lot of other really important things to do. i understand theres a curfew that you all just put in place, is that correct, sir, 6:00 your time, 6:00 in the morning? >> yes, we did that this morning. it will expire tomorrow morning. and tomorrow evening well have a dusk to dawn type curfew. >> how bad it is where you are? >> we...

Respond to. theyre trying to check welfare now. brooke? >> how entirely frightening for them. well stay in close contact with you, martin savidge, thank you, in rockport. lets head to victoria, texas, this is inland from the coast. cnns derrick van damme is there live. how is the rain? >> its not great, not going to lie to you, brooke. but here here, were doing it. the storm keeps surprising us. were about 40 miles outside of the center of tropical storm harvey that continues to churn across sou...

Appreciate you. lets get to texas. catastrophic flooding is expected as the sun is setting. harvey right now stalling over victoria, texas. 20 inches of rain has already fallen. another 20 more on the way. well talk to the mayor there in just a couple of minutes. but my goodness, you see these pictures. just utter devastation in rockport where harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane. at least one person was killed. power lines mangled, arcing over waterlogged streets, roughly 300,000 people in th...

Inches in the area. i want to put a little dot there. i havent done this all day. hope it works. thats houston right there. thats the part that i want you to focus on. make it bigger. i want you to focus on that. this is the radar at 9:00 local time. now im good to move you ahead. this is the forecast model radar. its still raining. thats 4:00 a.m. >> ooh. >> thunderstorm after thunderstorm after thunderstorm all night long. now at 10:00 a.m., its still raining, even raining harder to the east, ...

Because thats one of the other huge dangers in the city of houston. because a lot of the interstate -- i wish i could show you, but its so dark right now, brooke, yes, but these interstates dip and valley and it becomes extremely dangerous because, as you know, in the dark you just cant tell when waters rise very quickly. you might be driving through a road that youve driven many, many times, but if that water has risen to a level, its not passable, it becomes extremely dangerous. so the city ha...

Concern here in houston is the flooding. this is the bayou city. there are bayous that meander throughout this town not only through downtown but through neighborhoods where people live, and the ground is already saturated because weve had rain for a few days. and so first responders, city officials, what theyre worried about is what youre seeing behind me, this rain. you see the lightning, you hear the thunder. all of this rain has to go somewhere. and because the bayous which act as a drainage...