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washington. president biden is about to arrive at fema headquarters. the president approved a major disaster declaration for florida and spoke with governor ron desantis. >> you have power lines that are down. you have trees that are down. you have a lot of hazards right now. today is about identifying the people that need help, who may still be in harms way, but also beginning the process of rebuilding some of the things that we need. >> the tropical storm continues to barrel towards ...

Reports as of yet. we do have emergency operations center which is stood up and theyre tracking the situation going on but to my knowledge there is one vessel that was out some hours ago and we do not know the status if it is gone to safe harbor or not. our role is after the storm has passed and we get into the recovery mode thats when our survey votes and assets will be out serving the areas and the ship channels after the hurricane makes landfall. leland: adam was talking about rain in the fee...

Hurricane on hold. leland: it will be a long time until we understand how bad the damage is especially with the rain coming for the next couple of days. jake attract jackie, great to be with you. extending coverage to the next couple of days of wrecking harvey.

Money spent in the galveston in the floodgates and canals and the breakwaters but is there any floodgates, is there any breakwater that can protect against 30, 40 or 50 inches of rain or are we guaranteed now for his recording? >> thats one of the concerns we have with the way that it is sitting on us for this long period of time. the surge is not really the issue but the continued rainfall will be the more major concern and were just sitting out at this point in waiting for mother nature to do ...

Means by the time the sun comes up were only going to be another several miles of the road. at this rate, it will take a little while because obviously folks wont go out in this and put things back together. leland: adam, we thank you. as it power continues to go out around texas. jackie, it brings up an important point that we got from the former assistant to the head of fema that they have all of these resources staged north and west of where this storm is, power trucks to come in, fuel trucks...

Afternoon, now. so whoever is here in the coming hours and days will have to rely on themselves. emergency officials said that if you decided to stick this out you are here by yourself and becoming more and more dangerous. power is out that we have a storm surge and it is very strong wind and strong rain. jackie: matt, i know it is not easy when youre out there and breaking news and you have the sirens or wind or rain and you have the ocean wander pounding your face and try to focus and keep a t...

We see the energy and moisture and that is a nonstop rain along the east texas coast. that is when the numbers begin to pile up and that will make roads more impassable. this doesnt happen often but heres the setup that is forcing it. we have a high pressure system off to the west that isnt going to move. the system would love to had that direction and it came off the gulf of mexico moving off to the north and west but it will bump into a high pressure system and a high pressure system will win ...

Continue through the overnight hours. moving now only at 6 miles and hours were not seen movement and the problem with that is anyone who is in the way of it rain follows and falls and falls because its not moving quickly and not pushing out of that area. it is starting to shrink down which is the good news. weve also been dealing with the early hours of morning is a storm surge forecast. weve been looking at these areas getting storm surges up to close to ten-12 feet and mixing numbers coming i...

Our meteorologist. he wants to ask you something. >> can you pronounce the river that goes through downtown victoria? >> reporter: you know i had to call myself. it looks like guadalupe. here they say guadalupe. the e up high. thats the way the locals pronounce it. as you know, i heard you say earlier, that the records go back to the 1930s have this at 34 feet the highest ever. its going to be an estimated 32. if this thing does do that loop, it could be even more. weve seen rain nonstop since h...