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Really, arent the corpus christ region. were already starting to see some of those heavier outer bands impact places like galviston. the winds at 110 miles per hour. that puts you at the very top of the cat foegory 2. expect it to cross over that threshold at some point today. you can start to see them pushing from gal vaston. already winds starting to pick up. before the center of the storm makes land fall we can start to see power outages and trees begin to come down. the practice pushes it pr...

City hall to my home, i didnt find anybody open, so theres no reason for people to be out on the street, theres nowhere to spend money. and we are just waiting it out. >> neil: how many did evacuate, mayor? >> its hard to tell. we really stressed evacuation, obviously, north beach here in corpus christi, where the big drain goes into the lagoon. but anybody in the city was certainly welcomed and encouraged if they wanted to leave to leave, so i dont have a good number of that. there is a conside...

Soon. >> the only thing predictable about the storm is its unpredictable. we are up to and almost at the threshold of mandatory evacuation. we are not going to cross that line right now. >> we are going to encourage the residents in the low-lying areas to, as they say, get out of dodge. >> for you and your crew there, the go time for you guys when you need to get shelter, about 10:00 p.m. this evening is when the really strong hurricane force winds will arrive, and it will probably continue unti...

The national weather service upgraded this storm this last hour. harvey which is expected to make landfall in southeast texas saturday morning is intensifying quickly and is expected to deliver life-threatening flooding. check out this picture from noaa, showing what harvey looks like from space. huge. back on the ground, people are doing what they can to prepare. the mayor of corpus christi, texas spoke about evacuations at the top of the hour. >> we are up to and almost at the threshold of m...

And we have to speak to mitch. >> two things. they need all 52 republicans to line up on something before that becomes an issue. and mitch mcconnell has reiterated time and again there is no appetite whatsoever for doing away with that threshold. they want to keep the senate rules. a missouri death row inmate gets a reprieve from the governor hours from his scheduled execution. attorneys say new dna evidence unavailable during his trial in 2001 proves his innocence. he was set to be put to dea...

Legislation, we have over 200 bills. and we have to speak to mitch and we have to speak to everybody. >> all right. >> oh, boy. >> of course, molly, you know, six weeks is a lot of things in the docket that need to get passed in the six weeks coming up in the august recess. how does this affect things there? does it have a major impact or does it blow over? >> again, this is donald trump on the stump. hes speaking out against a lot of things he doesnt like, obviously, the 60-vote threshold is ke...

Buy into, get to the governors desk, and get signed. in fact, i got 19 bills signed into law in 2015 alone. bills to shrink the size of government, to lower taxes, to lift the heavy hand of government off the heads of small businesses so they can thrive. those kinds of attacks are ridiculous. people are looking for a change in washington, they want someone that is action oriented, and i do want someone who wants to support president trumps america first agenda. that is why so many people are flo...

"the new york times" claiming the two men have not spoken in weeks and that mcconnell has privately voiced doubts about whether the administration will be able to accomplish much at all. this is president trump once again calls on the senate to change its 60 vote threshold. >> our friends in the senate -- oh, boy, . [boos] the senate, remember this -- look. the senate, we have to get rid of whats called the filibuster rule. we have to. and if we dont, the republicans will never get anything pass...

Heres the thing. in the united states, we have an electoral college that makes it so that even a majority of the country doesnt mean that you win the presidency. in the senate, theres a 60 vote threshold. even if you have the majority of votes, that doesnt mean its good enough. like the electric back electoral college. that protects the rights of the people prayed i dont see the president being anywhere near having 51 votes in the united states senate to change those rules. i do not think that j...

F -- profanity laced shouting match. the conversation unravelled when the president began to express frustration with the russia investigation and the russia sanctions bill passed by congress. >> the new york times now reports mcconnell is questioning whether trump can salvage his presidency. president trump speculated that mitch should do away with the 60 vote threshold in the senate. >> a white house official is dismissing the seriousness of this rift but is not denying reports the two men are...