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Mary recovered at brooke army todd 33 minutes after thes, hour there were looking at a shot there of Corpus Christi yo, can see a tree uprooted, for the very latest we go to fox 26s Steven Morgan he is live there in Corpus Christi with the verya latest on the ground. Steven . Reporter yeah, good morning. We have some wind still blowing here. We have the rain thats continued to fall and in fact its lightened up a little bit but that wind still how els and as the sun has risen were getting a first look at the damage in Corpus Christi. Were actually at a t head. Its a local restaurant actually that you can see the Corpus Christi bay and if we want to pan over and just see some of the damage done here at the land ers shrimp and seafood house a as they call it, some debris scattered on the ground here. Also some glass has been shattered. When those winds came at about 130 miles per hour, just yesterday as Hurricane Harvey landed and really pummeled the coast just north of corpuso. Non christi, we still saw a lot of the damage. You can see the roof here completely torn off just sort of the frame left, the canopy and the covering was tossed about 50 to a hundred yards out to sea close to out to sea just near the beach and as we still stand here just this morning, this afternoon that wind continues tn howell, and people have been out checking their boats seeing damage done and im sure there will be quite a bit of damage they have to pick up but a category 4 storm making landfall last night at about 10. We still feel those winds, its since been downgraded as its made its way inland. Ly now we just have that rain and flooding to deal with. Here in Corpus Christi though we are dry. Were just going to have a longe cleanup ahead of us. Abby steven can you give us a sense Corpus Christi where you are was supposed to be the eye of the storm. Its really hard to predict what happens with these hurricanes and where they go. It has moved up the coast. Rockport, texas is really seems to be hit the hardest. Service but where you are though in Corpus Christi has it pretty much been evacuated . Is there anyone out and about . What does it seem like . O reporter well slowly but surely yes people are startinghe to come out actually the hotel we were staying at lost powerba and there are a few residents who actually escaped that live closer to the coast. They moved inland too to try to stay away from where the brunt of the storm is experiencing and were going to make the attempt, were going to risk and try to go up to rockport later this afternoon because i know there is a lot of damage up here but down here in Corpus Christi, people are slowly getting out and just assessing the damage that has happened because of Hurricane Harvey. Abby looking at it this morning tough for a lot of people there steven thank you so much. Fox 28. Todd lets get down to rick now whose been tracking the storm and rick as we look at the map in front of you there on the floor and we see the different ways in which this thing is spin ning, where can we expect to see the most rain . I always get confused is it the bottom side of the hurricane . Is it the top part of the hurricane, what area is it . Not all hurricanes are created equal so they dont all behave in the same fashion. Anywhere closest to the center is where its going to be and likely to the right of it because thats where we will have the feeder bands that continue to be pulling in. The south side of it towards Corpus Christi is going to get a lot of rain over the next couple of days but if you go just kind of south towards kingsville beyond that i think youre mostly going to be dry. I want to show you so talk about the forecast and forecasting has come a long way in the last couple of years. Thursday morning, this is what the National Hurricane center put out of a forecast and we always say dont follow the exact line but if you do follow this exact line to landfall, thats where it made landfall about five to 10 miles off of that center spot so the nhc is getting very very good and they even are Getting Better at strength forecasting and theys were forecasting a major hurricane category 3 almost to a category 4 and thats what it was. He also this year guys we have new satellite imagery because of the satellite that launched last fall. Take a look at this image a couple hours before it made landfall youll see the center of the storm the eye that was about to go over rockport. Rockport is the town were talking about it was just on ths left side of it so they got very strong winds but they were in the center of the eye so they had that experience of going outside and having calm conditions for that little bit. Here is the setup we have now youve got this High Pressure off towards the north and thats going to block it and we talked about on models we look at and sometimes talk about spaghetti plots this is that. Because sometimes it looks like spaghetti. All of the different models just meandering this thin all around the area and if you look at the end of the lines thats thursday morning. You get the idea here we are saturday morning. Weve got another five to six days of this storm in the same area. Thats why we expect to see the rainfall totals so high. Its because of the rotation these things rotate counterclockwise so the center of it has the worst of the rain at this point but these bands that come up and will continue to get pulled up into that rotation, thats where we will see the raining of the thunderstorms for hours at times and sometimes well see maybe three to four inches of rain and then clear out a little bit and another band feeds back into the same spots. Overall once you put all of this together, the rainfall totals are extreme for some and model outputs continue to be scary to be honest with you alarming to see these amounts in the 50inch range. Certainly well see spots well over 40 inches where that is hard to say but a big swath that are going to be over two feet of rain and thats why this flooding will be extensive and very damaging for the people who are right in the path, guys. Abby wow okay live for us thank you, rick. Todd rob schmidt has been live for us this morning trying to get into rockport, texas earlier this morning but cell towers down it was too impassable to drive, barely able to drive and had to turn around and head back. Rob where are you right now and what are you seeing . Reporter well we just came back into Corpus Christi just to get you guys some of this video. Nothing special about where i am right now i dont know if we get a signal to send it to you but what we saw was category 4 hurricane. We saw what the eye of that storm can do the most dangerous part of the storm a lot of flooding we had downed power lines, leveled homes. Lets play some of that video well show you the highlight ree l. Were coming up in rockport, texas this is ground zero for the storm that you can see this is a category 4 hurricane and this is the damage it can cause. We hope and pray that nobody was in this house because this is really terrible. This is complete devastation here and another one right over here a number of homes weve seen these as weve driven down this main drag this is Market Street through rockport. Its a small town maybe 10,000 people and were just about a mile from the water that way and the eye wall came right through here and were expecting to see more devastation like this and a lot of water. Theres so much water even parts of the freeway that we took in here would be under water for a good quarter to a half a mile. We saw just completely under water a lot of water, a lot of wind. This is a category 4 hurricane. Reporter were back now we have another one that we have if we can play it. Im not sure if we have it but we have one from downtown on Market Street which we dont have that one just yet. Were working on it right now but you can see some of the devastation there. That home just completely leveled. We saw a couple of cars near that house too. We hope that nobody was there at the time and to be honest with you i dont think anybody has gotten to there yet so back to you in the studio. Todd rob what did you see in rockport . Emergency crews out we were asking the Lieutenant Governor a new minutes ago about rockport because it seems like that is ground zero and with cell towers down communication people taking to twitter to try to tell people that im here, maybe im even stuck. I need help what did you see as you were driving through the streets there, emergency crews and otherwise . Reporter we saw two rockport volunteer fire trucks movet goot through. They looked like vintage fire trucks and that was it. It honestly felt like we were h the first people that had come through in some ways. Lets show you that scene from Market Street. This is kind of like the central part of rockport. Its 8 00 in the morning and getting slammed by this storm here in rockport. This is where the eye came through and this is the epi center of the storm and look here behind me you can see this traffic light completely spun around by the heavy wind and here a tree in the middle of the intersection and just debris everywhere. Metal pieces and sticks every where back here behind us. Thats a trailer in the middle of the intersection and across the street you can see this gas, station that got ripped apart by the high wind and that dangling traffic light and this shows you the impact of a category 4 storm. And we saw a lot of flooding as well. We had to drive threw two feet of water in some places just to get through it so a real mess and we didnt really even scratch the surface of that town we went down Market Street and had to hustle back to get this stuff on television for the show there was no Cell Phone Service just a mess in that area. Well go back in and see what else we find. Abby rob just the winds. I mean the speed of the winds what it must have been to knock over the size of those trees and it looked like an rv was turned over. You were feeling that wind. How hard was it . Reporter oh, yeah here in Corpus Christi it just seems like it would be a bad day to play golf where im standing but you go 20 miles that way even right now and i mean the sustained winds were so much more powerful. It was what felt like a constann 80mile an hour wind it was incredible and the difference it can make in a small distance was something else. Its really bad in rockport thats where the story is the next few days. Clayton rob schmidt live in Corpus Christi great work and please stay safe. You know, you see these images at this point coming out now and you are realizing thats someone s home, thats someones memories, thats everything theyve worked for probably in that home and just now the human toll really sad to see. Abby absolutely. Well, coming up hurricane harvee expected to be the most devastating storm to hit texas in decades. What will the economic toll be . Trish reagan is here to discuss all of that with us on the couch , next. Todd welcome back as w communities pick up the pieces in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, what will the economic toll be . Joining us now is the host of the Intelligence Report on fox business trish reagan and she always raises the intelligence on this. Trish thank you for that. Todd good to see you there and flattery always gets you. 40 billion could be the Economic Impact of Hurricane Harvey in that region. Harvey in that region. Oil r harvey in that region. Oil r so we need tablets installed. With the menu app ready to roll. In 12 weeks. Yeah. The world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. Data, applications, customer experience. Which is why comcast business delivers Consistent Network Performance and speed across all your locations. Fast connections everywhere. Thats how you outmaneuver. Disconnect, the total bureaucracy you can imagine of the federal government trying to get these resources and aid to the people and thats where the break down comes in. I would argue that the companies and the private sector does it a whole lot better, but then you have to deal with the companies that are going to try and get out of some of these things. Its very challenging in these events about when its that destructive and you need to to rely on the federal government for help. Its always scary. Abby trish reagan always good to have you with us. Trish thank you. Good to see you. Abby theres a lot of news weve been following all morning long. , i want to bring you other headlines were watching closely starting with this one several right wing alley rallies forced off the street in an effort to avoid violence. Organizers with the Group Patriot Prayer canceling rallies in San Francisco and berkeley saying they didnt want to a attract groups of white nationalists who would only promote racism and this comes after one person was killed in slashes several weeks ago in charlottesville. Abby and the most talked about fight in years in just hours away. Boxer Floyd Mayweather coming out of retirement to battle it out with usc fighter conor mcgregor. Mayweather looking to earn his 50th career win against mcgrego who will be making his pro boxing debut. The action begins tonight 9 00 p. M. Eastern at the tmobile arena in las vegas. Todd but lets be clear its 9 00 p. M. Eastern but that fight wont start until like midnight right . Just when were waking up . Abby will you be up . [laughter] clayton well the sun is ris ing in texas and were t getting our first look at the damage done by harvey from raging fires due to the heavy end to the heavy floods. You know, i mean, its elegant. But its simple. Right. You know, it fits the home and the character of the home and the whole ambiance of the home. And you can see how you would use this as a family. Absolutely. Have breakfast here. Sit at the breakfast bar. Absolutely. Now were into the master bedroom area. We are in the master suite, yes. You can see european oak wood floors, the very clean detail throughout, the sitting room behind us. You really have your own dream space back here. And with a view of where we, you know, the backyard, the guest house. You wake up to the best view in the house. Yeah. Youve got the private patio behind me that you can access. Really, it would be hard to leave this space. Lets go look at the bath area. Oh, please. The marble flooring, his and hers sides. 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