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Waterfront, you see busy traffic. we havent seen a lot of signs of people boarding up windows and preparing for the worst and the wind damage coming from the storm. we are going to be on the eastern edge of the hurricane as it makes land fall. many people on the streets this morning taking last moments to load up on supplies. flooding, especially in this area of southeast texas major concerns about flooding and what the heavy rainfall will do over the next coming days. john? >> days and days of ...

Texas is about to have a significant disaster. the bottom line is, if you have not heeded the warning, the window is closing. if you refuse, its on them. >> that was fema director issuing a dire warning for residents in the path of hurricane harvey to get out, your time is running out. it may be already a category 3 storm. we want to bring in the chief of emergency management. thank you for being with us. tell us your chief area of concern right now. >> john, thank you for the invitation. thank ...

Makes land fall. after that point, land fall should be midnight tonight and 7:00 a.m. early saturday morning. after that, though, its not going to move much in the next 48 hours. we are going to talk about incredible amounts of rain. that storm is going to sit over the same spot and produce rain over and over. you are talking four to six inches after rain. in texas, between houston and c corpus christi, we could expect 15-20 inches of rain. louisiana is going to have the potential for heavy rain...

Thank you so much. i want to get to meteorologist allison. we are expecting an update from the national hurricane center in a few minutes. where are we? >> sitting at 110 miles per hour. that is one-mile-per-hour below a category 3 strength storm. we expect it to get to a 3 today. the upgrade may come in five minutes or may come in five hours. in the last hour or two, you can see the eye begin to come back. we are goupg to an eyewall replacement cycle. that means the storm, as a whole, is trying...

>> just, i didnt think it was going to be that bad. we boarded up the house and got supplies. >> reporter: you have been through something like this before? >> yeah, when i was little, a kid. i saw my dad board up the house. me and my mom went to a shelter, but it turned out to be not that bad. >> reporter: does it worry you, this is going to be the worst storm we have seen? >> yeah, it does. we just boarded up the windows. >> reporter: take us in your mind. what makes you want to stay? is it no...

2.8 feet and corpus christi, 1.3 feet. it is taking the water where it would normally be and pushing it up and in. that can cause roads to flood on its own. here is a look at the radar. again, we talk about the heavy bands pushing back in. the main portion of the storm, the center of circulation that we talk about, that is still yet to arrive. thats where the strongest winds are going to push in. right here is a look at engleside. we have light showers out there now. likely going get heavier as ...

I have been here just six months, so, we had a major flood, over 100 year event in may of last year. we had dozens impacted by that. we have drainage problems. we are very flat. the water tends to move slowly and stands around, literally. so, we are bracing for the worst. >> obviously. we wish you the best of luck. we are all thinking about you. a few moments ago, nick was across the bay in corpus christi, talking to a young man and his son, who decided to ride the storm out despite the warnings...