Areas, up to 35 inches of rain, because this is a massive rain making system, and due to complicated weather patterns, chad can explain, itll probably stall out in texas. Weve lost power to 63,000 homes in this area, thats Corpus Christi, theyve put together a boil order, thats a recaution, with so much water around here, essentially the citys Drinking Water could be contaminated. And the wind are not expected to dramatically die down any time soon. So, the hard shp really is not coming to a end, were shifting to a more difficult phase. Martin, well have chad along in a moment, there are 131 Miles Per Hour winds. How does this compare to the other hurricanes youve covered. You and i have both been out in a lot of them. Time. Because if the water does pile up as is expected, it could cut off not only rescue efforts to come in but Escape Routes to get out. Thats what you saw in new orleans after katrina. This is not a katrina, its a very different circumstance, but the danger is extremely high and no one should let their guard down now that the storm has come ashore. I want to get to ed from galveston texas. The dead Leest Hurricane to hit the United States was in galveston more than a century ago. Set the scene for us now. Reporter that was a century ago. In 2008 hurricane ike, similar storm to what Hurricane Harvey is made a direct hit on this island here. This is 2017 Hurricane Harvey is its own beast in many way. We are in the eastern edge of the storm. The good news is the lights you bring you now lieutenant generousle honor ray, and david brady from the red cross in houston. We thank you for joining us. Im sure your thoughts and prayers as all of us go out to the people in the texas. General im going to start with you. The president is at camp david tonight. He has been busy. He signed the ban for transgender military recruits, pardonedar pay oe. The worst part of the storm is yet to come. The eye is normally the big Kresh Endough for a hurricane. But this one its like the first half of a football game. Once the eye comes assure were looking at another three days of intensive rain and flooding. And this is a coastal plains
where it will be me and erg around for the next few days. The worst is yet to come. We hope everybody heeded the advice and stayed inside. My fear, as any case like this, resemblance to katrina is that the elderly and disabled people and the people that didnt have the means to leave are shut in their homes now and now they will be surrounded by flood waters either from the surge or the rain water. And the majority of people we lost during katrina were home alone, most of them we found alone at home. That was from most of them died from the storm surge, you know, from that flooding. I have to ask you, the president signed a disaster declaration. Explain what that means, general. The normal declarations are signed after the event happen, the normal tornado would come in
and a couple days later the governors would assess what their problems are and would ask the president for a disaster declaration. The enormity of this storm caused the president to sign a prelandfall declaration, and he had been asked by the governor of texas to do this. What this does is freeze up all federal assets are now available, and for available for them to use and the charge for anything that they rent, overtime, all those things start prior to landfall. This is a big deal. This is really going to help the small towns and can Rural Communities out there in texas. Now they know they will get reimbursed. Those counties have been declared a disaster area, and they can further prepare tomorrow. The ex spans of the storm, there
are people that are dry tonight, will be wet come monday morning, and under water, now they can be better prepared, they can get generators because the power is going to go out, and they can have the shelters as well as keep the infrastructure like hospitals, gas stations that will have generators. Theyll be able to put those in tomorrow. Lieutenant general, the president , the white house has said the president is planning to visit texas next week. Good choice, you think . I think depending where he go. I mean, he can go to texas and visit the state capitol, he can go to texas and go to some place thats he got access to. There are many airfields down there in the south that he could have access to. I think at this point in time, that would be a good call. I mean, people expect to see the president. You remember what happened after
hurricane katrina, that big boo bah. Lets see how bad this end up being. I expect the winds they going to be three to four times, hes going to have a hard time flying in the helicopters. The wind is expected to be above 35 miles an hour and thats hard fly for helicopters and unsafe. Those there are flying will be doing Search And Rescue and get water to people that are isolated. David, to you now, youve been sitting there patiently. Thank you. You are in houston tonight for the red cross. Hows the red cross been preparing . Well, im in houston at the Disaster Command Center here of the red cross. Hour strategy in everything that we do at the red cross is prepare, respond and recover. Last several days weve been in the prepare mode, the safety
mode. We want our staff, volunteers, neighbors and communities to be safe and preparing. Tonight weve sent people home to get some rest knowing this is the last time theyre probably going to get good rest because starting tomorrow in the southern part of our region, down in corpus, theyre in respond mode. Up in houston were trying to get the last night of rest because its going to be about respond for days and im guessing weeks here in texas. What are you most concerned about, david . Im most concerned about my fellow texas ans. This Community Means a lot to me. I huddle in my home in Channel View East Of Houston for hurricane alee shaw. And it was less than a hour after the storm passed that my neighbors and my fellow texans were recovering from that efent. From a red cross perspective what we need most is volunteers,
people who have the means and ability to come out and support their neighbors. They can go to red cross. Org volunteers. We depend on donors and response in need. Here in new york i heard neighbors saying they were starting to send care packages. You mentioned volunteering and what they can do. If you can tell us more that the coming days, people are going to want to help. Whats the best way they can assist in. Honestly, at this point, the best way they can assist is financially. Red cross. Org is the best place for that information. This event is going to be ctens of millions of dollars. You mentioned the storm of 1900. The last Disaster Response that
our founder served on before retiring was the Galveston Hurricane in 1900, the weve been responding all over this country since then and we will be long after Hurricane Harvey. What are you most concerned about with this storm, first you, david. Im most concerned about the flooding in the greater houston area. The southern part of our region in our state, the winds and potential for tornados. Were hearing about building collapses. The flooding will have the long term impact that i think can be devastating and keep a lot of people out of their homes for a long time. I think for me thats what im concerned about the most right now. Lieutenant general, what about you . Flooding and the fact that we didnt have a fullfledged mandatory evacuation. You know, katrina, we had a mandatory evacuation. And we got 80 out of the city
before the storm. We may have come close to that in corpus, but the rest of that area, very little evacuation, particularly in the small rural area that are inland that can be affected by the surge water, and those areas subjective to flooding because its a coastal plain. Its a lot more dynamic than new orleans because its rural areas subject to flooding and now we have these small towns where people are isolated. That is what i fear the most. General, thank you so much. David brady thank you, as well. I appreciate it. When we come back, much more on all of our breaking news. Hurricane harvey makes land, north korea fires three Ballistic Missiles. Dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. Through the Tuition Assistance program, every day mcdonalds helps more people go to college. Its a lot more dynamic than new Hurricane Harvey makes land, no splashing wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that . Uhhuh. I switched to tmobile, kept my phoneeverything on it oh, they even paid it off wow yeah. Its nice that every bad decision doesnt have to be permenant ditch verizon. Keep your phone. Well even pay it off when you switch to americas best unlimited network. Whyoure not thinking clearly, so they called the Fire Department for us. I could hear crackling in the walls. My mind went totally blank. All i remember saying was, My Boyfriends Beating Me and she took it from there. And all of this occurred in four minutes or less. I am grateful we all made it out safely. People you dont know care about you. Its kind of one of those things where you cant even thank somebody. To protect what you love, call 1800adtcares tempurpedic helps there ayou get the most day. Out of every one of them. Only proprietary tempur material precisely conforms to your body. You get up to twice as much pressure relieving power, so you wont toss and turn. And tempurpedic is the best at minimizing Motion Transfer from your partner. Youll sleep deeply. And wake up, feeling powerful. Now through september 17th, save up to 500 on select adjustable sets. Find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic. Com theso when i need to book tant to mea hotel room,tion. I want someone that makes it easy. Booking. Com gets it. And with their price match, i know im getting the best price every time. Visit booking. Com. Booking. Yeah this is live pictures from rock port texas. This is the place that issued the warning to people that if they were going to stay, that they should write their name and Social Security number on their forearm so they can identify them. Again, someone just driving there. You can see the Weather Conditions as we have been telling you here on cth n, the storm has made landfall. The lower part of texas near Corpus Christi, they are in the eye of the storm. You ma martin staff image being
battered about, his last live shot, fairly calm, but once the eye moves forward, there will be more rain and wind on the other side of it. This is near rock port texas, you see a driving shot of the Weather Conditions in texas as Hurricane Harvey is Making Landfall on the texas coast. This all happening as north korea fires three Ballistic Missiles. President trump continues his ban on transgender troops. Not a slow news friday. Whe where do we start . First i want to get your reaction to this huge storm, and what the impact is on any u. S. Military bases, ports, the coast guard and others, so on. You can imagine theyve
already for days been taking preps to make sure their families were evacuated and moved off if they needed to be, that they moved assets if its aircraft or ships or boats out of the area so they didnt get damaged. And also to make sure that they were ready if needed to come in and help. You had a great interview earlier with Texas National guard, just do amazing work, our National Guardsmen all over the country. They are always prepared for this kind of thing. But the active duty military may be called in to help. That happened in katrina for sure. Well see what happens here if theres a need for it. Theyll be ready and available to do i. Thats why if they have aircraft on the bases, they want them to move out of the area so they can stay operationally ready. This happens while north korea fires three short range missiles. This is while south korea and
u. S. Military exercises are underway. I think at its core, it is the the timing of it is a reaction to the exercises as you rightly noted these are knowing on. These are yearly exercises, they are defensive in area. We need to do them to keep up our readiyness. Typically, every year pyongyang reacts. That yesterday, i think we we Shouldnt Have Blinders On here. He, kim jongun, continues to try to improve a Ballistic Missile program in violation of countless u. N. Security council resolutions. Every time he shoots them off, even if they fail, he learns something. While i think its a reaction to the exercise, we shouldnt take it lightly. Lastly, the president issues instructions on how to imt plement his transgender ban. This is after he took his Joint Chiefs Of Staff in surprise a week ago. He was rebukd by both parties. What happens now . Let me say i continue to find this Policy Approach for him short cited and against all the core values of the military. It makes no sense why we would be moving down this path after president obama lifted the man. Ennen what matters is can you do the job, can you do the mission. The policy shouldnt be reversed. That said, i think that dod, the Defense Department had a role in shaping this new policy memo by the president , which means they have, if you read it carefully, theyve given themselves flexibility. Mattis has flexibility in terms of what happens to current members, combat effectiveness
and contributing to the mission. But also even though we havent enlisted openly transgender members, because even under president barack obama we didnt get there, the president made said he was going wait for a review of that issue from Secretary Mattis and he would take under consideration as he reviewed this, he would take under consideration combat, cohesiveness, it gives Secretary Mattis flexibility. I hope he takes every bit of that and makes sure these qualified individuals can continue to serve their country as honorably and bravely as they have openly in the last eight or nine months. Thank you. When we come back, much more on Hurricane Harvey, The Monster Storm Making Landfall and pounding the texas coast. Showing off my arms . Thats cool. Being comfortable without a shirt . Thats cool. Getting the body you want without surgery, needles, or downtime . Thats coolsculpting. Coolsculpting is the only fdacleared noninvasive treatment that targets and freezes away stubborn fat cells. Visit coolsculpting. Com today and register for a chance to win a free treatment. Karl, have you met everyone . You see, time is just a construct of human perception, an illusion, like this one. Help, i cant breathe which means theres no pressure to get a great rate on a hotel. Theyre available for an unlimited time, always. So, book now. Or dont. No pressure. You dont let anything lkeep you sidelined. Come on thats why you drink ensure. With 9 grams of protein, and 26 vitamins and minerals. For the strength and energy, to get back to doing what you love. Ensure, always be you. Announcer your daughter just had her first breakup. Do you. [both sobbing] dont worry, sweetie. This is gonna happen a lot. Announcer or. Nice, single boys. Heh heh. That was weird. Announcer as a parent, there are no perfect answers, but you dont have to be perfect to a perfect parent. Thousands of teens in foster care will love you just the same. Thats up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. Get Fast Internet and add phone and tv now for only 34. 90 more per month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Live pictures. Heres a highway in texas outside of rock port. As you can see the Weather Conditions deteriorating by the minute. This is a driving shot showing our viewers how bad the weather is in this part of texas in rock port. Hurricane harvey has made landfall with winds of 130 miles
an hour. In hurricane headquarters, chad, whats the latest . What is this storm doing . It is moving inland a little bit. And those pictures were deceiving that we were just showing you in rock port because they are in the eye, in the center of the eye where there is no weather. But its about to get really bad again. Winds gust at 130 Miles Per Hour near rock port earlier, and theres a lot of damage in that town. And theres going to be more damage with the second part of the eye moves over. Heres what we expect for the next few hours, the storm to linger along the coast. Done you might have a barometer at home or your mom does or grandpa did. Look for 27. 70, pretty much guarantee thats not even on the barometer. Thats the current pressure of the storm. Even though its on shore, its going to take days for it to
die. This is one of the lowest pressures to make landfall in a very long time, one of only four cat 4s since 1970. The last was charlie. This is a big deal. This was a big wind damage deal. Good news it didnt get in the way of any real big cities. Corpus christi had damage, but this did not run over houston. So, it is going to be there for a while. It is not going to move very much. We show you these Spa Spaghetti Molds all the time. This is what might happen in the next 72 hours. There will be one thats right. But there are 13 others that