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Texas posting on social media. what were starting to see his more pictures of flooding. look at this video, this comes from instagram from jennifer lopez, it was taken at 1151 this morning. you can see the water covering the streets. jennifer said employees went to check on the store, another video comes from james, christopher from outside his home on galveston island. you can also see the road is being completely covered with water. this photo posted on instagram is from north padre island, po...

Includes the texas military and texas parks and wildlife and texas task force wanted to, one of their primary focal points is search and rescue. they have already made several search and rescue operations, primarily hoisting through the helicopter process and we have about a thousand personnel in the state of texas who were assigned to search and rescue. the texas parks and wildlife has about 1500 evacuees at state parks and again, any costs that would normally be occurred at a state park has be...

First responder who is affected by the storm, they will be able to say have the hotel taxes waived. i just got word from the fort bend county judge who has issued a voluntary evacuation for the brasses river area and a mandatory evacuation along the san bernard. this is one of the foremost regions in the state of texas that are ready has flooding and we anticipate that flooding to grow worse in that area. this morning i have the opportunity to make phone calls to several mayors who are affected ...

Evacuation calls is that still the case? >> i didnt suggest they were not heeding it, what i was suggesting is that if local official has warned people to evacuate, it is very important that citizens heed those warnings by their local officials. >> thank you. >> michael: that was greg abbott given a comprehensive update on the reaction to hurricane harvey there in the state of texas, quite a comprehensive response. a lot of concern about rescuing those who are in harms way, concern for first res...

>> kelly: the governor went on to say the primary concern has been dramatic flooding. 20 inches in the corpus christi area. the biggest concern is more flooding is coming. 20 - 30 more inches could come between corpus christi and houston. he talked about that being the biggest concern. steve is joining us now in rockport, texas. thats a town hardest hit by harvey. what can you tell us? >> there is a category four hurricane with a hundred 34 mile-per-hour winds. this building was a laundromat the...

Nothing in the upper levels to pick this up and move it. its anchor between two areas of high pressure across florida in the southwest. this is moving the storm towards the south and a possibility it may go back into the gulf of mexico. for the next five days will wash the sit and spin. it could potentially be a disaster for rainfall amounts. >> so people get through the high winds and heavy rain and now they have to worry about tornado. >> the worst could be at to come. >> lauren: as a country ...

Just so warmhearted, so full of spirit, and so pleased to be alive. >> its way too early to make estimates about that. we are very pleased the federal government and white house have stepped up in the strong way they have, by granting her disaster declaration that will enable texas and texans to be able to better deal with the financial consequences of the storm. >> weve heard that undocumented immigrants may be turned away give information on that? >> i have no information on that. >> you sugge...

Hurricane harvey. theres the door that we expect the governor to walk out of. continuing coverage throughout the day and crews all around texas as well as on fox news.com. >> we begin with the fox news alert. as we await a major update from texas governor greg cap it on harvey, which has been downgraded to a tropical storm dumping 20 inches of rain. >> hello and welcome to a brand-new hour inside americas news headquarters. >> and im michael. harvey is making landfall at that point harvey was a ...

Winds, the counterclockwise wins and we see tornadoes out of the houston area, reports of at least 60 tornadoes that the made landfall. thats why you need your weather radio. so far over 14 and 15 inches of rainfall and on top of that reports of 30 or 40 inches are yet to come. flood advisories for a huge chunk of texas for the houston area. we have an outer band right now moving through houston. within those bands we could see several inches per hour. rainfall totals, a staggering, weve never s...

Assigned about 80 troopers to the corpus christi area to assist in law enforcement needs in that region. for the red cross, they had 21 shelters open with a population of about 1450. they have 42 more shelters on standby to be ready. those are red cross shelters, there are many other red cross shelters whether they be churches or other local facilities. we are appreciative of everyone in the state of texas is providing shelter, food, and other supplies. i want to express my gratitude at the shel...