Wasnt Wind News Today

Station. this wasnt wind. this was water that brought this roof down. you come this way a little bit, you can see underneath is a car that got trapped under the roof. thankfully, the owner of that car was actually inside the gas station when it fell. the national weather service did something last night that it very rarely does, and, in fact, has never done before in the city of new york. they declared first a flash flood warning, but then they upgraded that to a flash flood emergency, and thats...

Good morning. breaking news coverage of hurricane harvey continues. lets get started. >> we have been here for quite a while. the eye. you get a break with the absolutely unrelenting winds. >> were being hit by a pretty significant band from harvey. >> my gosh, what a fix here in texas for days to come. almost getting blasted back to the stone age. its going to rain and rain. its not going to stop. and it may be days before it ends up finally stopping. >> the wind is still blowing. the gusts som...

Youre not even close to the amount of rain youre going to get over the course of the next couple of days, but our reporters keep telling us the ground is saturated, so its going to take a lot less wind to drop a beautiful oak from victoria than it would under normal circumstances. >> absolutely, and we also had some pole damage, power pole damage in the front yard. its leaning on top of the stop sign right now. so its kind of scary. >> rick, we talked to your son richard a little earlier who als...

To get out, but we stayed here. >> because you texans are like that. >> were tough. >> how did it go? how did it play off? >> well, it went very well until the power went out this morning at 2:06:00 a.m. we also caught a lot of wind. it was very scary last night. my daughter was upset. shes 15 and she was upset with us being here. my wife and i just hunkered down with her, and we just said its going to be okay. when the sun came up, we could see what happened. theres a lot of tree damage. we als...

Welcome back. im ali velshi. hurricane harvey is now a category 1 storm. its still a hurricane, though. continues to batter east texas this morning. >> reporter: if they got a call for help, there is no way their officers can be out in the middle of this. >> reporter: oh my goodness, oh my goodness. we just got word its a category 4 hurricane. i hope and pray that people evacuated. because if they did not, they are going to go through the worst night of that irlife. >> a hurricane here and it is...

Happen next other than the fact theyre hearing from us rain, rain, and more rain. >> it is psychologically grating, even if you know the worst has passed to hear the rain and wind hitting you at those speeds. most people are used to 25 miles per hour winds, but at 80 miles per hour, thats not what normal people go through on a regular basis, and it hurts you psych longically to be standing in it. kerry, thank you for your great reporting. im going to come back and find you as we continue to repo...

Down with the wind. >> all eyes are on the skies to see how much water falls. >> theres very little they could do to respond to the fires when theyre also dealing with a hurricane. >> thats almost half a years worth of rain for some of these areas in just about half a day. >> let me give you some perspective. i have covered seven hurricanes and never before have i been in a hurricane for 12 hours. this hurricane made land fall more than 12 hours ago. and it remains a hurricane. it is slow-moving...

In. >> the first thing is be extremely safe the next couple of days. watch water conditions and watch downed power lines. just coming over here we went by two downed power lines. remember, you can still get electrocuted. you can still be harmed. the state will be bringing in assistance. i have already been on the telephone with the department of public safety that will be setting up things, there will be shelters being set up but the key thing for the next two days is be safe, be smart, be very ...

Residential streets, because again, theyre blocking some of the roadways, theyre blocking certain lines. sometimes we had to cross over into the opposite lane of traffic. thankfully no traffic on road its been very light for obvious reasons but there are plenty of downed power lines out there and officials in corpus christi are asking people to please be careful if they go outside of their home today. >> maya, well check in with you later. maya rodriguez in corpus christi. i bring in kerry sande...

It becomes hard to evacuate a place like houston. whats the right thing for people from houston or people who live in the greater metro area? there are 6 million or 7 million of you down there. whats the right thing to do now? >> yes. thank you for allowing me to address this issue. the mayor and the county judge met yesterday. i was privileged to be able to be with them. at that meeting there was a discussion about this circumstance there on the ground here, and at the press event they had, the...