Monster category for store. Texas governor warned the president of the state that this would result in very major disaster. With that, we bring in adam as we continue to look at life pictures they are from down in texas. Adam, where does this say we are in the progression of the store as of now . Four hours ago for landfall, our folks out of the woods yet . Leland, no. Especially when you talk about that katrina level store because they werent saying that because of that initial impact but its been warned that this is a storm that will go on for four or five days continues to rein in continues to rain and continues to rain until eventually theres no water way for the water to go. Putting is a big issue. This is the newest information we have. We seen this potato watch around houston in surrounding areas and really everything here on the front right quadrant of this particular hurricane but we got a report recently about a 20 oh south of houston. The conditions are there, tornadoes spin out quickly when theyre associated with the hurricane but there are dangers thunderstorms rolling on shore. Well see heavy rain stretching toward galveston and eventually up to the houston area. Back towards where the hurricane i is, made landfall about four hours ago, it did begin to turn to the north and perhaps that initial punch will come down to the areas of Corpus Christi, 300,000 People Living there and in terms of the north it begins to take the most Severe Weather with it to the north so things like the hardest hit in the right side of that i wall youll see the strongest winds and the winds still getting up to 150 miles an hour currently sitting at 115 miles an hour consistently which are coming down a little bit but thats still a massive system in a nasty system. Heres what i will leave you with as we look at the two High Pressure systems. Why is this just beginning . Why is the were still on the horizon . Well, we have the hurricane there and has nowhere to go. Typically you see a storm run on shore and it can lift up and perhaps in some cases run up to the middle of the country but it wont be able to do so because of the cut off High Pressure system and it will move inland and eventually hit this high. The high will win and will have nowhere to go but retreat back to the coast. Where it is now is where it will have to stay for a while. When that happens the rainfall totals starts to pile up. These numbers are almost hard to believe when youre getting up into the mid 50 inches down toward Corpus Christie getting into the 25inch rain and these are big totals and they stretch all the way over to houston getting up to 20 inches of rain and this historically floods fairly easily so i take you over to san antonio and thats getting more on the borderline and it will move inland orifices back to the coast. There is that line from 5 inches to 15 inches and only there within a 2030 miles man. This is what will be watching closely and when you talk about a very wide area all the way down from Corpus Christi to portions of louisiana look at 275 miles and the wind gusts have taken all these getting up to 7080 miles an hour. Leland, to answer your question here all these minutes later is i think were in the early stages of this. Leeland that map hide you might be the most telling in the sense that even the weather instruments that are built to withstand a storm like this and bring you and other meteorologists the information you need to make a forecast have all been knocked out. The uplinks have been knocked out in places like rockport where the storm came to shore trying to get a hold of the mayor they are but cell phone signal is out and the towers are out. Its clear we might not see the damage especially at night right now but the damage exists there. We are now getting these data points in as you point out, of just how bad things might have been when they got hit by 100mile an hour gusts. I have been watching this ever since 7 00 oclock and i could see these getting up to 8090 miles an hour and thats when they started disappearing. Every one of these that are gone they had seen the winds get up to the 80, 90mile an hour range and now with getting up to 130 miles an hour. That will do that. Leeland adam, thank you. Adam, as you get more information and jackie, its important to note that the data that adam has, and the data that he does not have is that were not getting any readings from the gulf where, those oil rigs and offshore drilling facilities are out there in the gulf and its unclear how many of those are damaged to provide so much of the crude oil that comes into galveston to supply the southeastern part of the United States five this could spike gas prices we got to fill up the pump and it could take weeks if not several weeks to get those refineries back up and running. We had a guest a couple hours ago talking about the technology and how great it is but that being said one of the most important in telling signs of hurricanes is to see people out there and see it life and thats what we have matt finn, in blessing, texas. Hes been there all night long and its 100 miles southeast of houston is a very latest there for us. Matt, what can you tell us . It looks worse than when we last saw you. Is that the case . Reporter yeah, its been deteriorating for the last couple hours but the waned and rent becoming more violent. We been hearing from adam and other forecasters brought the storm surge and when we first arrived at this location the water line was about five10 feet off the walkway and now the water is pretty much engulfed this walkway behind us. Its starting to push up along the grass area so the water line has pushed this ten20 feet since you been here. The wind and rain are violent in the water would be fatal if you were to go near it. We been seen a lot of blue flashes in the distance so you can imagine this might be some downed power lines or Power Outages and the mayor of the neighboring town and we interviewed earlier tonight said theyve already started to experience Power Outages and it could be out for days. In the county we are in there was a mandatory evacuation issued last night at midnight. Buses left at 1 30 this afternoon and whoever is here now is Law Enforcement says if you decided to stick around you are here on your own. The county we are in there is 36000 people here in a short while ago we talked to the emergency manager director he thanks the majority of people didnt decide to evacuate and there are still a few people around here but few and far between and some Law Enforcement authorities starting around in the process a few times to make sure that we are doing okay. All in all, no major damage to report although we cant get deep into the town yet. Tomorrow sunrise will tell us much more about any Severe Damage here in texas. Back to you in new york. Jackie its in the middle of the night and you can hardly see whats happening. Once the light comes and will start to see the devastation that has happened. Matt, one thing i noticed in these life shots you have rob in Corpus Christi, im seeing the light in the back and the light on your camera seems to be on so while Power Outages are deadly happening it seems like power is on there for you guys. Reporter its coming and going. Theres a major. Dot right here to my right and the power has been going on and off all night there and we can see some residential areas but they are completely blacked out right now. Im not sure if theres a couple blocks or what portion of this community were in is with or without power there are some utility poles that might be operating up generators are sent to back up our but all night long, just before i would live we saw a bright blue flash light up the sky. It looks like there could be some type of significant downed power lines or outages coming in goingim so surprised to see those lights on after what we have been seeing overnight. Matt, in blessing, texas, we appreciate your work. Youll join us for the next couple hours so stay safe until we see you next. Leland. Leeland noteworthy, jackie, thats where matt is is about to 10 00 a. M. And right now it is low tide. It is the very lowest tide you will get throughout the night as the tide moved up and then you have the storm surge. That is that eastern part of the counterclockwise wind and we will continue to push more and more water up onto those locations for galveston as the tide comes in. Those two things combined only magnify each other as the water rises both from the storm surge in the whipping of the water and the tide rising so, we will check in with matt and make sure 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 sixmonth into the administration, the storm that could cause some estimate a minimum of 40 billion in damage. Where do these two intersect . And like to think that this isnt a political event and that hurricanes dont storm is between the republicans and democrats but i do think Hurricane Harvey is a big test for donald trump and his new head of fema. How they respond to harvey could be a defining moment for this president. They will be judged initially on how they handle the evacuation in the rescue and thats thing but theyre also going to be judged on how they treat people after the storm and that is critical. Thousands of homes are going to be damaged and destroyed and people in the storm are going to lose their possessions, their memories and everything and fema and its Insurance Companies are the ones they get to decide how much money these people are going to get to rebuild their homes and thats a ton of responsibility. Leeland when you say get to decide, to folks who dont live in hurricane country you thank you have insurance and you if your house burns down the Insurance Committee comes and pays to rebuild your house is that different from folks who live along the gulf coast and live in the path of these hurricanes . Well, were really talking about two different type of insurance. Homeowners insurance generally covers wind damage so both types of insurance might be implicated in this type of storm where there will be a lot of wind and a lot of flood. Your homeowners policy which is issued by private Insurance Companies would respond to the wind damage but then the federal Flood Insurance policy is what will pay to cover the damage by flooding and thats a policy thats underwritten by fema, the federal government. Fema contracts with private Insurance Companies to go out and adjust these claims and you are right that you thank you buy insurance, whether homeowners or federal Flood Insurance, you pay those premiums every year and when the storm hits you think that everything that gets damaged will be paid for but it just doesnt seem to work that way. I will be praying, since Hurricane Katrina fema has been a total train wreck Flood Insurance. They havent treated people well at all. Its a big problem and we are all watching this next one very, very closely. Leeland as you note, when two Insurance Companies begin to argue about who is responsible for any damage it is the consumer who almost invariably, in that situation, loses. Im guessing someone like you, harvey, would come in, august, to talk about the disaster insurance. , i only have 30 seconds or so. When does this assessment began to take place . What do folks like you talk to homeowners and say okay, this is what you might get in this is what i can help you get . As a lawyer, i only really should have to go in when things break down into work. In theory, homeowners should be able to call their Home Insurance company, fema or whoever the interestonly working for fema is, and the adjuster should come out and tell you what has been damaged and tell you how much they owe you and pay it and you can rebuild your home but it doesnt usually happen that way. What usually happens is that people find themselves ten, hundreds of thousands of dollars short and the adjuster and the Insurance Company will offer them one amount but they realized that amount they cant rebuild their home and thats when they have to call in lawyers and Public Adjusters in others to try to get the money that they are owed under that policy. Leeland august, i appreciate your time and staying up late with us. Obviously, it would be our hope that you wont be needed down there in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey but if history is to be our guide, you will be. Patient your time. Thank you very much. Leeland august, jackie, brings up important points especially since these people will be out of their homes and have faced catastrophic flooding and at the same time there out of jobs as well because the storm doesnt discriminate. It takes out businesses just like it takes our homes. Its a double whammy for folks who have nothing left in their homes and perhaps they been completely destroyed or flooded out and at the same time have no way to make a living and are forced to make the process surprised i cant help but think of the hospitals and medical facilities that are set down. I know theres a hospital in texas that had to flag newborn babies. Ten of them because they were in the Neonatal Unit and they needed the electricity and they needed help. Thats happening to a number of hospitals. The transport people before it happened and it could take weeks, who knows. Youre exactly right. Thank you, leland. Were going to go to Corpus Christi texas a city along the coast, completely shut down due to the hurricane. About 300,000 plus people live there and thats where we find rob. Hes live there now. Every time we go to you we see something different. It doesnt look as rainy but very windy and its a Little Something every time we see you. Reporter yeah, its a little different. Its scary because i have the hearput on. The wind is not nearly as bad, frankly, its late cleaning up quite a bit but now were starting to get more rain. You said Corpus Christi, a town that shut down. It has shut down but not mandatory. It was not under mandatory evacuation so people can stay here and that were close to where the i was expected to come and came about 20 miles from here and areas that will try to go investigate as the sun comes up. We also have reports of a wall that came down of an Apartment Building and looks like an exterior wall came down during the storm is in Corpus Christie. Will try to make the way over to that and see what happens there. Our goal is to see just how bad that is. Hopefully, it is not too bad and no one has to deal with storm without an experience while on their apartment. Well see how that develops. Yet, for the moment, it would seem that Corpus Christi, for the most part is out of the woods and it will be mostly rain after seeing some pretty tremendous when overnight. We had gusts of iraq hundred miles an hour and sustained winds were heavy for the most of the night as the storm came on shore, made landfall and the bulk of the damage that it did to Corpus Christi, we saw a couple satellite dish come off the top of the building, land in the median of shoreline boulevard which is to my right and the water is a hundred yards this way but theres no point in showing you because of the darkness. A lot of cleanup to do the downtown area, we havent seen significant damage at this point in Corpus Christi. That is good news that they may have averted some of the trouble, although, didnt you never know until the sun comes 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 3040 inches of rain over the next four or five days even though south texas is ready for that heavy rainfall, i should say, anywhere is ready for that much rain and what i can do. That could be the most dangerous part of the storm yet to come which is unusual because frankly when a storm makes landfall it begins to dissipate and its usually good news once it makes landfall. Once the eye gets over the land it no longer has the fuel to continue to build up and its a good thing but with this one if 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 least in Corpus Christi or it appears so. What is the temperature there, rob . Reporter it is warm. Its got to be 75, 80 degrees. It was so hot when that storm kicked up that its unbelievable. The stones get so powerful because they love warm water, warm air and it be that. Its warm. Jackie lets hope that the next time we check in the coat is often you can shed those wet layers. It looks like a mess. Thank you so much for being out there. Well check in later. Still a lot mo