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Up. it will most certainly be worse for areas to the north of here where the landfall was made in the big question from here on out is no longer about the wind and what the storm will do now that its been downgraded to a category three hurricane at this point. it will be about the water and how much rain we will end up getting some of these estimates are horrifying. were talking about 30-40 inches of rain over the next four or five days even though south texas is ready for that heavy rainfall, i...

We are running overtly and so will we intensify. you make a good point and that is its easy to forget how powerful these are. this is the first category four storm to make us landfall since 2004 and its the first one in texas has seen in over 50 years so its very rare event and we dont see it happen that often and the damage you get incredible high damage when you talk about gus getting up to 12s are backing down but its a category three hurricane and for now lifting a little to the north and ev...

It stalls out and dumps brain and water for four days it could be a dangerous situation for millions of people to live in south texas. theres a lot of people that live in this area and it could be a really bad thing if we see feet of rain dumped in the month of august when its already raining a lot and very wet down here. that will be the big story of where it goes on and will have to see how that develops. back to you. jackie: he is taking off the hood and there, folks. things are changing at l...

Bulletproof like nothing can happen. leeland: as we often say theres a fine line between brave and stupid and you try to stay on the brave side rather than the stupid side but, as you point out, there are so many people who dont have a house to come home to and as we cover these things and our reporters, lauren blanchard, rob schmidt, mattson, casey steagall, we all get to leave "after words" and its residents like you have to come home and deal with it. one thing that is striking when we look a...

That if he needs to move from his location there that he is able to. we bring in now, as we watched the storm in washington, is august, disaster recovery attorney. august, theres been a lot of discussion in terms of this new administration as to how things are going to work with fema because fema keeps talking about trying to push more risk down to the states and the homeowner level. at the same time, no six-month into the administration, the storm that could cause some estimate a minimum of $40...

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