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>> a national guard helicopter did rescue all 15 residents. eleven of them have been hospitalized. we will continue to follow that story. heavy rains continue to overwhelm much of southeast texas. flash flood emergencies. more areas are being placed on the mandatory evacuation list. they now include those living west of state highway 288 and south of highway six. thats the western half of the county. joining me now is judge matt, the emergency management correlator. thank you very much. >> tell ...

Heres where the storm currently spins. look at all the rain and thunderstorms and occasionally a tornado. thats all been happening on the right side of the storm and thats where the rainfall totals are so big. we are looking at numbers getting into the 20-inch or more range and that is becoming horribly widespread. take a look at this, zooming in and you start to see everyone of those, 20, 25 inches and were only about halfway done. whatever you seen so far, imagine doubling it because thats wha...

...ask your dermatologist if cosentyx can help you find clear skin that lasts. welcome back to the facts report. tornado warning issued for harris county texas. that warning in effect until 645 central. tropical storm also causing catastrophic cell outing in houston. this is a weather service said some areas could end up with record-breaking 50 inches of rain. federal disaster declaration has been expanded to cover 18 counties, home to nearly 7 million people. that is on top of the 50 counties a...

Power and what i will do is caution people to be very careful. right when i took those photos, the highway, one of the lanes, the flooding is starting so they were down to one lane. im worried when it gets dark tonight, people do not need to be traveling. >> a lot of people, as the flood waters rise, they were told to stay home and now theyre saying maybe we shouldnt of done that and theyre trying to get out. >> some of those areas are mandatory evacuation areas. the key thing is, they can still...

Adam is in the fox extreme weather center. >> you wonder how do you get to 50 inches? its based on the movement of the storm. currently 40 miles away from victoria, its a little ways inland, its about to start drifting down toward the water. heres our tropical model, will put it in motion. where will ahead? our next stop is back down to the coast. its bumping into high pressure system just off to the north and west. once it gets there, it makes a turn and begins running back up the coastline. al...

To 15 inches of rain in the next 12 - 24 hours. >> by did you decide to add the new evacuation orders. some of the more voluntary but now youre making them voluntary mandatory. >> we have the st. bernard river and another. both are projected to be 4 - 6 feet high over the record high on its crest. it will be the third-highest crust weve ever seen on the other river. we just had flooding last year when this will be higher and worse as projected than last year. on top of that, with all of the rain...

Our rescue folks are just trying to make the rescue. were not trying to keep track of him. >> what about in terms of injuries and deaths. have you had any of that. >> none that ive heard of thus far. >> thats good. i spoke with someone earlier and we talked about tropical storm allison, that was the last time you reached record numbers of rainfall. anything like this? >> allison was a little bit north of this county, it was a little bit to the northeast, this is somewhat typical of tropical stor...

Doing this. if we can keep the risk low to medium based on the ceiling and visibility, we will keep doing these things. im sure they are taking a look at it and will consider continuing if there are people at risk. >> thank you so much for joining us.i know you work through tropical storm allison in texas in 2001 and i was reading that the amount of rain has exceeded in almost half of the time, two or three days versus five days. that was the flooding for tropical storm allison if people want to...

The system continues to drift up the coast. as i said weve already seen 25 inches of rain. how much more could we see? here is a forecast model through the houston area. this is adding to what weve already seen. youre looking 20 - 25 more inches. it will just be a lot more rain. its crazy that its arty been. >> when you mention the rain circling back in the rain coming back through, what about the possibility of tornadoes. i know you talked about the tornado warnings and you mentioned theres bee...