At this. We go towards Saturday Night its moved in a little bit. Still a hurricane tomorrow night. And then it pulls back across the shore. Thats monday morning. Take a look. Tuesday, here we go. Wednesday, the exact same spot. Potentially dealing with a hurricane still. That is five days of this kind of rain. That is why we are expecting to see some Rainfall Totals likely over 4 feet and that is going to cause massive problems in the region. Tucker what a shame. Rick, thanks. We will talk to you again in a minute. Steve harrigan is in Corpus Christi tonight right on the gulf of mexico. Steve, what do you see . Tucker, we have seen things get worse here each hour. This storm has strengthened dramatically. Its really caught a lot of people here by surprise. Some of the people originally planning on riding it out decided at the last minute to make their evacuation. Still the worst is yet to come in the next four to five hours. We have already heard from local police who have said that for the next few hours they will not be answering emergency calls, the winds are simply too high to go out. Can you see it is pretty much a ghost land around here right now. We have guests well into hurricane stage. We are not seeing any branches nap off from trees. We are not seeing structural damage to the building as of yet. That is likely to change in the coming hours. Keep in mind what a category 4 storm means. It means large trees will be uprooted or snapped. There will be major damage to wellbuilt homes. So we could see a lot of homes without roofs or exterior walls over the next 24 hours. This was still, perhaps, 30 inches of rain ahead. Tucker, im going to toss it back to you. Tucker Steve Harrigan i dont know how you keep talking in that be careful. My gosh. Steve harrigan in texas. Texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick in houston. Biggest Population Center in
the path of this storm. Lieutenant governor, thanks for joining us tonight. Are you ready for this . We are ready for it although i will tell you, tucker, what makes this storm unusual is that it grew so big so fast. I mean, over last weekend i was down in galveston and it was sunny and it was looking like a Tropical Storm over the yucatan that would go into mexico and then a Tropical Storm even as late as monday or early tuesday. And then it turned into it ferocious storm now a category 4. But our state is ready. Our local counties and our cities are as ready as they can be. But the size of the storm, tucker, as rick just said, covering an area houston to corpus, for example is about 200 miles. We will still have strong winds here and we will still have by the time this ends, potentially wednesday or nurse thursday over 30 inches of rain in houston. Tucker what does that mean for houston . Houston is enormous spread out city. 30 inches of rain, what happens . We have tremendous flooding as we are very low lieinlying city concrete. Largest city in the country we will have a lot of flooding. We deal with that but, this will be unprecedented. We have neighborhoods that are never flooded before and levels we havent seen. Tucker, in this area of where the storm surge will be on the coast, there are over 225,000 homes. There is a Company Called core logic that has done an analysis that we could have close to 40 billion in damage. 232,000 hosms just along the coast. And then hundreds of thousands of homes in the area between the coast and san antonio and austin and houston. So you are looking at big try angle. Areas as far away as waco, texas may have 40 mileperhour winds and 5 to 6 inches of rain. This is going to be unprecedented storm for the country and particularly texas. Tucker, as you know, we are the center for refineries and oil and natural gas production. Our refineries about 30 will be closed down. About half of the Petroleum Oil refineries will be closed. Natural gas will be shut down. So that will have a dramatic impact on the country. Simply because the storm is not just going to go through as rick said. Its going to stay with us maybe until thursday, if you can imagine. Tucker that will Effect Energy prices as you suspect. You said this storm came out of the middle of nowhere. Most people were not thinking about this storm four days ago. Have you been able to evacuate those areas . Are they gone. No, they are not. Unfortunately those who day. We are very concerned about them. We dont want to send out first responders. There will be a window where you cant go and help people. We did have an evacuation in several counties around the coast, mandatory. Others were voluntary. Even i believe exrirps was Corpus Christi was voluntary. I was in the Grocery Store myself yesterday picking up water. People were coming up to me and saying dan, whats the water for . They werent aware of the
storm. This literally has come out of nowhere in about two days. So we are concerned about them. Lock, we have our first responders, our police, our fire, our National Guard, they are the best at water rescue, roof top rescue, tree top rescue. I mean, we have done this unfortunately too many times. But, at this scale we have not. But governor be a bought has been on top of this for the last several days. We will be ready, i understanding the president plans to come down here sometime early this week. We are working with fema already. We will take this on with a texas size effort for a texas size storm. And this is when. Tucker i believe it. When people come together, tucker, when a time when our country is divided many ways, this is when everybody comes together in texas and helps each other. Thats what well do street by street, Neighborhood By neighborhood, county by county and all Up And Down Texas from the coast of san antonio to austin and houston and beyond. Tucker knowing the state, i believe it. Thank you for joining us, i appreciate it . Thank you, tucker. Thank you for focusing on texas tonight. We thank you. Tucker of course. Timothy march marshall is chasing that hurricane. He joins us on the phone. Timothy marshall, can you hear me . Yes, tucker, i can. Tucker where are you . Im just north of rockport on route 35. The outer road. And is it is quite windy here. Racing by like a time laps movie. We get white out conditions occasionally. Power poll poles started of going down about an hour ago. A lot of power outages. People will to deal with that for days and maybe even weeks. We just are getting another squall now. The show is yet to come. We still have the eye wall offshore. So, another hour or two with that wind things are going to go really down hill. Hill. Tucker so you are doing this obviously because this ask what. Do you the Lieutenant Governor saying he hoped
people would be gone from that area. Do you see residents of where you are . Are they leaving . Are they hunkering down . I saw a whole line of cars leaving this morning and im out here now and there is nobody out here. Im just by myself. I think we may have lost contact. No. Im here. Were just getting these really strong gusts that are occasionally birds are just going sideways. They cant fly. Just occasionally we get these white out conditions here. Were going to lose cell service soon. Tucker i bet you are. Look, if you can call us later, i would be grateful. Call the producers anyway. I hope you are okay. Oh, yeah. Timothy marshall driving through the hurricane. Good to talk to you tonight. Thank you. Fox News Reporter henry is in surf side beach, texas
right now. There she is. She joins us. Lindsey, what do you see . I cant hear anything. Tucker lindsey, can you hear me . The storm has affect our Electronics Like nothing else. Lindsey henry, can you hear me . Tucker that connection seems to have gone down. We will be back to that stay with us as we track this hurricane as we will for the duration of the hour and the evening. Hurricane harvey barreling towards texas. Also ahead, nfl players are expressing their contempt for america by sitting out the national anthem. Now the naacp is getting involved. We will talk to one of its leaders coming up. Can i give it to you straight . That Airline Credit card you have. It could be better. Its time to shake things up. With the capital one venture card, you get double miles on
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sitting out the national anthem. Their grievance america itself. This week protesters met outside the nfl headquarters in new york to express outrage over the leagues systemic racism keeping Collin Kaepernick unsigned and out of a job. Protesters had lots of fervour, watch. We are here because we believe Collin Kaepernick deserves a job. Today its time for the nfl to take a stand. No justice. No peace. No racist. Police. When i say nfl, you say what the hell. Nfl. What the hell. Nfl . What the hell. Its political for the nfl not to give Collin Kaepernick a job. Tucker now the naacp wants in on the action and threatening a possible boycott of the league if they cant get a meeting with the nfl commissioner to discuss kaepernicks status. Griggs with the naacp chapter involved in the Boycott Discussions and he joins us tonight. Mr. Greg, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me, tucker. Tucker so have you a league that is 70 africanamerican. 70 of the players are black as compared to about 13 of the population so clearly there is no racism in hiring. Have you a guy who signed a contract in 2014 for like 126 million. Collected 39 million of that. Just on the basis of those facts alone, its hard to see how Collin Kaepernick of 29 is a victim of racism. Tell me how he is. Well, considering that is he the 17th best quarterback in the league and a League Theme Ploys well over 90 quarterbacks there is no reason for him to not have a job at this point. Yes, he did opt out of his contract and decided to take his talents to another team. But the fact that, again, only 16 other quarterbacks have a higher Quarterback Rating than Collin Kaepernick speaks a lot to whats going on with the nfl and the reason why we believe this is an issue of race. Tucker okay. Now maybe the honors are making a poor decision in
not picking up Collin Kaepernick. Im not qualified to assess that and i doubt you are either. What makes you suspect its racial . Again, the league is 70 black. If anything, it seems like it might be able to use a little diversity. I mean, thats not i mean, how is that racism . Im honestly confused. Well, the issue is with the ownership. And, again, there are no owners that are africanamerican. There is one owner thats a person of color. So you have 32 teams, 32 owners who we believe are acting in a way that goes against putting a good product on the field. If its about ability and the ability to win games, and to produce on the field, Collin Kaepernicks stats speak for themselves. Again, his Quarterback Rating shows he is the 17th best quarterback in the league. There is no reason he should not be able to get Training Camp invite to be able to show his talents on the field. Tucker okay. So he singsd for 126 million before. How much do you think he should sign for this time . Im not sure. Im not qualified to answer
that question. Im qualified enough to know that his Quarterback Rating, again, rates him the 17th best quarterback in the league. He threw 16 touchdowns, four interceptions. He had 90 Quarterback Rating. There are quarterbacks who have a job like eli manning, quarterbacks like Philip Rivers who have far less Quarterback Rating last year alone that have jobs, have starting jobs. Tucker again, neither of success a coach or talent scout. Let me ask you a question if the owners are racist, why are 70 of their employees black . I mean, wouldnt they not want to hire black people if they are racist and pay them hundreds of millions of dollars . This is about talent. And again his talent speaks for itself. If there is no other reason other than talent thats keeping him off the field. Thats a question better asked to the owners. Tucker the question i want ask you. I got it he is a great player and all this stuff somehow they are racist. Thats what talent and
thats what the nfl is about. Its about putting a good product on the field. Tucker right. So you represent the naacp. Heres mile question. Yes, im the Vice President of naacp atlanta. Tucker over 70 of black children are born out of wedlock this year is that a bigger problem or smaller problem than Collin Kaepernick getting another 126milliondollar contract . Because i dont hear you saying anything about that. Well, first off, if you google me, you will see the work i do in the Africanamerican Community here in atlanta. So a question like 70 of the africanamerican children being born out of wedlock. Tucker seems like thats. Bait. Tucker its not a bait its a fact. What is the rate in atlanta . I live in atlanta, georgia. So you could tell me. Tucker i dont know. Here you are sucking up to a guy who just signed 126milliondollar contract. I think in a country of 320 million you could find someone who is actually the victim of racism or oppression. But this guy, who is 29 years old and has more money than god, he is the victim . I guess thats what im
saying. There are a lot of people who might need your help. How is kaepernick one of them . Is he paying you . I assume you are getting money out of it . First off, im not getting any money. Its about not any paid protest. Tucker i dont believe that. This is not about a narrative you are going to spin. This is about talent. Its about the nfl. Its about the nfl needing to answer the question why the 17th best quarterback in the league is out of a job right now. If its about talented, if its about talent, you are needing to answer the talent question. Tucker my last question. Do you feel that you are devaluing any of your moral authority to the extent your organization has any left, by taking your time and energy defending 29yearold millionaires against fake accusations of racism . Okay. Again, we are not losing any of our moral authority to do anything. We are not going to get into name calling or debasing anyone. We are talking facts. And the facts are clear. He is the 17th best quarterback in the league. Tucker i got it . No real reason why he is not on a team right now. Tucker all right. Again we are sending a strong message to the nfl. Mr. Goddle has gotten a letter. If he decides not to meet with us, then we will take appropriate actions after that. I appreciate the opportunity being on your show. Tucker thanks, i appreciate it, too. Thank you, tucker. Have a great day. Tucker you, too. One of the worst hurricanes in decades set to make landfall over texas. A live report on that storm coming up next. Because only your authorized mercedesbenz dealer has the skilled technicians to certify that your preowned vehicle is up to mercedesbenz standards. Visit the certified preowned sales event, now through august 31st and learn more about our unlimited Mileage Warranty and how your confidence can be as unlimited as your mileage. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Its happening, its happening in the modern world, you can control just about anything with an app. Your son is turning on all the lights again you can do the same with your <