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That tornado happened to rosenberg, texas, an evacuation order was just issued there. nbcs stephanie gosk has been covering harvey for us all throughout the last couple of days. what are the knlz youre seeing there now? >> hey, richard. well, right now the rain has let up for the moment. its going to come back. im standing right at the shore of the bros us river and its actually the eleventh longest river in the country for a little bit of trivia. right now its looking pretty dos ill and officia...

Welcome back to our breaking news coverage. im richard louie at nbc news headquarters in new york city. now it has literally come to a stop dumping rain on the texas coast, not moving but basically a fire hose sitting above the state. rainfall totals already reaching way over 20 inches in some areas. >> our primary concern remains dramatic flooding and our biggest concern is the possibility of between 20 and 30 more inches of rain in areas ranging from corpus christi over to houston. >> the dang...

I hope and pray that people evacuated. >> some buildings have been oh blit rated. >> theres very little they could do to respond to the fires when theyre also dealing with a hurricane. >> well, texas continues to deal with what is now tropical storm harvey. one person dead and the region facing the prospect of days of rain and potentially catastrophic flooding throughout the midweek. with us right now democratic congressman al green of houston. sir, thank you so much for joining us. how is houst...

Way. im still encouraging people to stay at home. ive been out visiting with the mayors no missouri city and the mayor of stafford texas. these are two mayors within my congressional district, and they are in fort bend county. upon talking to them, theyre telling me that there has been some damage, but they are also very much worried about the inunaddition thats to come. we understand were in an erie quiet before a monster arrives. and this storm is a monster. and our hope is that well dodge the...

The name implies. theyre floods that appear almost out of nowhere. and if youre caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, you can have your life taken from you. again, we encourage people to be aware and dont go out if you dont have to, because the rain appears to be coming. there is a calm now, but dont assume that we dont have a storm on the way. this is a stealthy, stealthy storm. it seems to be giving us indications that its over when we know that its on the way. >> do you have enough hel...

Wont get it moving very far at all. were lacking at the storm. the track staying in the same general direction for the next few days ahead. the rain victoria getting inundated with rain in the next few days and houston, an area that is again the fourth largest city in the nation getting all this rain here. close to the amounts of rain that they get within one year by the time we hit thursday of this week. so, again, several days of rain. even looking at hurricane watches in that area. were monit...

That water which is always a risky endeavor. its one thing city officials dont want people to do. it creates wakes that can then get pushed into the neighborhoods and make the flooding situation even worse. right now theyre worried about whats still to come here. they know theres going to be a lot of rain from this slow moving system over the coming days and eventually that system is actually going to move closer and closer to galveston, which means is the rain is only going to grow more intense...

>> hes there in galveston, texas. we may be having some communication issues. can you hear me? >> yes, i hear you. >> this is richard louie in new york and i was just saying youre in that important city as we look at galveston, not only because of its history, but because of flooding and its low lying. >> yeah. thats right. here in galveston right now. first of all, to set the scene its about as nice as weve seen it the last few hours. theres been sort of a break, a little bit of a breath of fre...

Going south as we head into monday. then it goes north all the way through wednesday of next week. the concern with that is the storm is not moving because theres nothing to move it along. weve got a high to the west and a high to the east as well. and with that its sand wichg harvey right in the middle. theres no steering air to really push this storm along. so for the next several days all the way into next weekend were going to see rain. so devastating flooding is the biggest concern right no...

Center just an hour ago. for those of us just joining us what are some of the taking a ways in terms of the changes hoouf seen coming out of this houston area. >> weve seen those tornado warnings in effect. you see the outer bands of the circulation are driving it a lot of that moist subtropical into those areas like houston and also looking at this all around storm, not moving at all. so from the last check that we had in the positioning, its not moved. its stationary. and its going to go over ...