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Catego 5. take a look the this. we think sometime early wednesday morning potentially as early as later tonight this storm could move ashore across portions of the virgin islands before making the turn towards turks and caicos. weve talking about -- harvey was predominantly a rain maker. irma predominantly a wind event. this storm essentially has both of those elements into one. the wind z, as you see a category 5. you work your way towards this region, the population has tripled since 1920s. la...

Weaker tropical storm. after that it becomes a rain maker and a tropical depression, on this path, the heaviest rains would be atlanta through augusta, to savannah, columbia to the coastal areas, near charleston, isolated flooding problems during the day today on that path. and the other story is, we are still getting the high winds on shore. we heard from one of the reporters on the beaches from volusia county north wards towards jacksonville up into savannah, those areas have high morning issu...

Live was unbelievably hard hit. arthel: how is your home? >> our home is fine. thanks for asking. our heart goes out to people. we went to beaumont. arthel: our hearts are definitely there with all of you in southeast texas as well as southwest louisiana, do you like -- would you like to see changes to the infrastructure or system in houston after harvey? >> well, i think we are going to have have learned some things by this disaster. the president has already talked about an infrastructure bill...

Seeing. this is heavy rain. you see it spreading across the entire southeast. going to be a rain maker as we head into the weekend. other things were paying attention to, this one is intimidating. back in the gulf of mexico. just a 20% chance of forming but thats what well pay attention to. it could bring a new round of rain to the gulf coast. otherwise, and this is the real big one, were paying real close attention. hurricane irma. this is way out in the atlantic. its forecasted now to become a...

That important perspective from where youre sitting. thank you. congressman randy weber who represents beaumont in texas. youre at sams club where theyre loading up water for folks. what are you seeing? >> thank you, hallie, they are. were in dire need. tanker trucks of water and distilled water. one of my friends has tracked down. they need water. theyre hard hit. heavy flooding as harvey moved their direction. lot of work to be done. >> why did this seem to catch everybody in beaumont off guar...

Going to fall in. if we could predict with a degree of accuracy exactly what rivers would be hardest hit, creeks, streams, so on and so forth, we did get prepositioned assets all around area. this was such a huge rain maker. youre probably hearing now its the single biggest flood in u.s. history. >> are you surprised how the response has unfolded now? folks were in bowling alleys, stuck in their houses, still with no running water. when will people see some help here? >> everybody -- i say every...

Downpours from that port arthur area up to beaumont. that does continue to lift north. eventually well be tracking this system heading farther north heading to louisiana. this is a future forecast, future radar. time stamp up in the corner. this is now 5:00 p.m. were beginning to see lake charles get on the back side of this system lifting up toward shreveport, up toward little rock, memphis. this is going to be clearing out by friday, so folks along the entire coast are going to see more sunshi...

People out as possible. as we went through the neighborhood a few hours ago, and saw inside that neighborhood, dramatic to see people who clearly made their way to rooftops to get away from floodwaters. several of them had cut holes and chopped it away from the at toik get on from the rooftop. dramatic scenes a. >> weve been abas weve been ae the intensity of what is happening across the city of of houston and southeast texas area. >> again that warning from officials there, be really careful ab...

Case when you include the city and the county of 6.5 million people, you cant evacuate them when you dont know where the danger is. the city of houston and harris county were not in the direct path of the hurricane. when it did form and we knew it was going to land around the rockport/victoria/corpus christi area. so we were never in the direct path once we had a better sense of where it was going. for us it was always going to be a rain maker. with that being the case, we had to prepare before....

We forget about the trajectory of this as it continues to go over on to land. houstons mayor sylvester turner joining us on the phone. mayor, thank you so much for being with us. first, what are conditions in houston right now? how is everybody faring? >> everybody at this point is faring well. this will be a major rain maker for us. we do anticipate flooding. there is some street flooding already. for now, the water is remaining within the banks of the bayou so thats some good news. communities...