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Reporter was. this eventually will move right over into bee vil area later on tonight. where it stops, nobody knows, because this storm has no steering currents with it anymore. its going to get over land and its just going to park itself there. you think, oh its over land its going to die, no, because theres still half of it in the gulf of mexico. this gulf water is still going to get turned up into texas and thats where this 30 and 6 -- 40-inch rainfall. i have no idea which model is right bec...

I want to ask you, michael, for people who are wanting to be optimistic about this. >> our official forecast going out the next three days, if i click over .show you the next five, it barely changes. this gets us all the way to wednesday night, this point over here where you see the "d" and thats just indicative of the steering currents and the atmosphere collapsing as we speak. that is going to allow harvey to stall and basically meander. so that influx of moisture that we see occurring here an...

>> going to keep it right there in place. ginger, thank you. authorities warning of a major disaster in texas. as ginger said, not just the winds, but possible record-setting floods. with no steering currents, harvey isnt going anywhere. once it hits, it will be there for days. matt gutman, live in corpus christi, texas. matt, what are you seeing already? >> reporter: its not just about seeing, its about feeling the storm. hard to stand up in this wind and the rain is coming down, what seems l...

And all the cameras are in texas, louisiana needs to watch this one very closely. weve been in touch with both governors and we are ready to go and preposition in both states. >> would you compare this hurricane harvey to hurricane katrina which happened exactly 12 years ago this week? and we all remember the enormous destruction, the loss of life then. >> i really dont compare it to hurricane katrina. each storm is different, by the way. no category 3 hurricane is the same, no category 4 hurric...

Most forecast models have this coming ashore, slightly north and east of corpus christi texas. landfall will come late at night friday into the pre dawn hours of saturday. winds at landfall could be 85 miles per hour or higher. after landfall is when harvey backs big problem. the spaghetti strands look more like a birds nest. it will lose its steering currents and could stall, meander or back out over the gulf and gain strength all over again. but the texas gulf coast is in trouble. forecasters ...

Theres about 16 million in the colors here. this is hurricane warning, ground zero, near corpus christi. tropical storm warnings extend from houston all the way over to houston and san antonio. this was a broad, broad area. but when we talk about the category three status or stronger, with that comes to the damaging winds, the power outages, the storm surge, the coastal flooding. after that, its the other edge of the sword which may be sharper. let me explain. this is what we like to see, everyo...

Land fall, its kind of a double-edged sword, but the other edge of the sword, jake, we do not have any major steering currents here. the computer models just becomes this birds nest, itll me yander for day dropping rainfall. >> harvey making land fall, how long might it linger and thus cause even greater problems? >> well, believe it or not, some of these models bring it offshore and back in for a second land fall. if it makes land fall after, lets look at the models. if it makes land fall lets ...

Portions of the western pacific because our fifth named storm of the season has formed. this is nanmadol. and this particular storm not only bringing wet weather toward portions of northern taiwan but notice theres a front around portions of eastern china. the rainfall has been incredible. were talking about 300,000 people being displaced across this region. in fact, the yangtze river, one of the main tributaries of the river there burgs its banks. water levels among the highest ever observed ac...

Force, a u.s. ground force small, modest and also turks. why are they proposing this? because the other option we just spoke a -- leland: the turks are benevolent and are benevolent in this. lets put it that way. >> heiresses and serious occurred in the territory we are trying to take over and reclaim his arab territory. once we reclaim it, the arabs who lived there are not going to put up a steering currents controlling the territory. that is the problem. the other option is an issue because th...

Peninsula of florida. were going to drop about nine more instruments in the gulf of mexico because, again, were measuring essentially what we call the steering currents that influence the track of the storm. we flew out in the atlantic several hundred miles east and northeast of the storm and now were heading out into the gulf to make more measurements. essentially, if you can imagine a hurricane as a block of wood floating in a stream, what were doing is were measuring the stream. were measurin...