Is setting and Hurricane Force winds are now coming onshore as the sun is setting in this area. After this the storm will weaken slowly and still think it can do this buttonhook here. Maybe only as a Tropical Storm but regardless this is tuesday and this is wednesday up here near galveston and Galveston Bay area. Thats the long term trend. Well deal with the immediate threat the landfalling storm in the eye and storm surge that comes along with it. This is at 5 00 p. M. This evening, one of the computer models, pretty accurate. Showing the eye into the really squally heavy bands on the western side. With hurricanes the strongest side is the eastern side and strongest winds will be found. No that they are weak on the back side but usually in the Northeast Quadrant of the storm. Corpus christi almost in the eye of the storm at 11 00 p. M. This evening. You could go through, get the really strong eye wall, winds could go calm about 11 00 p. M. This evening and then well probably be in the eye moving slowly, maybe four or five hours and get the back edge will come on through and Hurricane Force will click back on. What a night its going to be. Anyone who has decided to wait the storm out there, its going to be a rough evening and get into the flooding after that. My advice, Corpus Christi, if you can get out, youre almost out of time. Its really getting late in the game. The current winds are 39. We have the first Tropical Storm force gust, once you get in sustained winds, thats when power starts to come out. This is by midnight tonight, computers estimating in the northern eye way around Corpus Christi, 97mileperhour winds are possible. Enough to do roof damage and knock down trees and well have significant Power Outages all in that area. As we mentioned during the day tomorrow the winds will slowly weaken. In victoria, could see Hurricane Force gusts into tomorrow morning. The immediate concerns is the winds and the storm surge and then add for the next five days after that well talk about the rainfall and historic flooding on the rivers. Lets get there. Lets bring in kerr y sanders, coastal town under this storm surge warning. Weve heard about mandatory evacuations. Please tell me people are listening. Reporter most people are listening. In fact the traffic out of here late last night was a 25 mile traffic jam, folks leaving, some folks had boat trailers and other p had horse trailers and people evacuated. But not everybody has evacuated. The police have gone door to door today, some refusing to leave and others who had no way to get out. They were the elderly or infirmed, you can see a bus behind me. Some of those folks, the police have gone door to door and brought them here to the Port Lavaca Chamber of commerce and put them on buses. One bus is on its way to new braunfels, a moment ago i spoke to one of the people on the bus. You can understand how emotional this is. So im scared. My husband is sick. Well be okay, i guess. Im worried about my husband. Reporter are you worried about your home when its over . I aint worried about my home. I just worry about our lives. Im just thankful were able to get out of here away from the storm and worried what were going to come back to. Reporter what do you think you could come back to . Being homeless. Reporter there we go, tom not even show when he comes back if his home will be standing he lives so close to the shore. 50 yards away. They are expecting anywhere from a 6 to 10foot storm surge. This is the other bus that will leave shortly. We can see folks on board here. Im kerrie sa y sanders. Police went door to door and ordered you out, how did this go this morning . I just left. Nobody came to my door. Reporter how do you feel about the fact that you are evacuating and how disruptive Mother Nature can be but the fact there are at least buses to get you to safety . I love it. I think its wonderful that were here. Reporter and for yourself how do you feel . I feel great. Im old but i still want to live a little longer. Reporter best of luck to you. You can see people on the bus. Theres children back there waving. Going to give us the thumbs up . Thumbs up. All glad to be getting out of here and then weve got the volunteers as well as the police long drive ahead of you but you guys will be sleeping where once you get to nu braunfels. Theres a hotel were going to stay in. They are going to a Catholic Church . Yes, they are. Reporter best of luck to everybody here. Were going to step out and this may be the last bus that will be leaving. A lot of works and of course the real concern here is those people who have not heetded the warning to leave, especially those we know of four who decided to stay put inside an rv park. Really the chances of survival with a 6foot storm surge and category 3 inside an rv are so infin tess mall, its almost a death wish according to authorities here. Wow. Kerry, thanks for your reporting. I hope people take this seriously. Lets go to galveston where joe fryer is standing by. Whats the situation there . Reporter weve been seeing all kinds of weather on the outer band of this all morning long. The winds have picked up more than weve seen all day. We saw heavy rain earlier today as well. Really what they are looking at here is not so much a wind event, yes the winds will be strong but it likely wont be Hurricane Force winds. They are preparing for a rain event. Once this storm as youve said hits the coast its going to sisit and rain heavily for days. They are expecting a lot of rain in galveston. This is a long, but Narrow Island community normally a tourist community. Not a lot of tourism behind me. Theres a ferris wheel and roller coaster on a pier here. No one is there today. Im told this was built after hurricane ike hit the area nine years ago. This place was hit very hard by hurricane ike. A lot of damage, a lot of flooding. They know what a hurricane can do here. All eyes are on this to see what happens. Again, the bigger concern is going to be the days and days of rain that follow and this area alone could be in that 15 to 20inch rain range and it could be even more in some isolated areas. Thats really what they are worried about here. Back to you guys. Rebuilt after 09, that ferris wheel the pleasure pier, certainly seen more days of pleasure, not today. Lets go to Corpus Christi, harvey is expected to make landfall there. The mayor joe mccomb joins us now. Whats the situation where you are in terms of the evacuations and terms of people who have not evacuated . Where do things stand . We dont have a mandatory evacuation but urged people in low lying areas, padre and mustang and flower bluff and another area which is before it goes into the laguna madre to get out because of the storm surge predictions. The wind is picking up now but i understand i havent heard the latest, i got a call that said they are talking the winds 70 to 90 Miles Per Hour which is better than 125 if that information is correct. Were concerned about the low lying areas and flash flooding and so were targeted the areas encouraging people in strongest language other than mandatory to get off the island and get out of dodge. We just dont want anybody to face the flooding event and possibly drown. My number one concern is individual safety. Are there people who arent leaving . When we look at the warnings from the National Weather service, in Corpus Christi saying this thing could wash away buildings, knock down major trees and make things uninhabitable, do people think its reasonable to stay with a warning like that . Well, i mean, weve been through this before. I lived through celia back in the 70s and the wind gauges back then broke at 160 Miles Per Hour. The rain is what has got us concerned there. During celia we had very little rain and storm surges wasnt in effect. So the rain and the storm surge combined is what were concerned about in the low lying areas. The wind at this point, while its a little stronger than just a regular northern blowing in in the wintertime is not a concern to us at least to me its not. Weve got Good Building standards in our community and supposed most buildings are supposed to sustain winds up to 140 Miles Per Hour. So we feel pretty comfortable with our physical assets here in the community but the rising water and the storm surge are really are the main concerns right now. Mayor mccomb, thanks very much, well stay close to you and the folks in Corpus Christi, our thoughts are with you. Good luck and stay safe. For sure. Our breaking coverage continues next with a live report from the National Hurricane center. Thats warning people in texas to finish their preparations now because the time is here. Youre watching velshi ruhle live on mmsnbc, that shot again on the pleasure pier. No one on that ferris wheel today. Ico has been saving people money for over 75 years. Hey, big guy come on in let me guess your weight win a prize sure, why not. 12 ounces sorry, mate. Four ounces. Ive been taking the stairs lately. You win, big guy. Sorry, scuse me oh, he looks so much more real on tv. Yeah. Over 75 years of savings and service. Get your rate quote today. Super cool notebooks. Done. 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Im so proud of the fact that 100 of the students in wtef graduate from high school. These kids are keeping the ball inside the lines. Inside the lines. Breaking news this hour, we have brandnew numbers on Hurricane Harvey, damaging hurricane strength winds and historic rainfall and 12foot storm surge and tornadoes. The National HurricaneCenter TakingHurricane Harvey so so seriously. That is sending out updates this hour. Well be giving it to you all day long and the National Hurricane center issuing the newest advisory just moments ago. When you said historic rainfall, thats not our words or producers words, that is a category that the National Weather service uses. Everything else is major, major. Under landfall it says historic. Joining us with the latest on where things stand, Michael Brennan from the National Hurricane center in miami. We were speaking to the mayor of Corpus Christi who seems to think this is diminishing compared to what they thought it was going to be as it makes landfall. Does that jive with your accounts of whats happening . At this point were expecting harvey to be an extremely dangerous hurricane. There are three life threatening hazards associated with the storm. The hurricane winds in the core here around the eye wall as it begins to move northwest towards the middle texas coast. We have maximum winds right now in the storm of 110 Miles Per Hour, seeing the storm continue to deepen and the data were getting from the aircraft in it. That core of the storm approaches the middle texas coast late tonight and early saturday, that will bring Hurricane Force winds onshore. Thats one deadly hazard. The second deadly hazard is the storm surge. We have a storm surge warning in effect for much of the texas coast but in particular from the area south of Corpus Christi to up west of houston, thats where were expecting the 6 to 12 feet of inundation, flooding at my head or twice that high. You can imagine if youre on the coast in that area, thats water in your house and water in the roads. Its going to make it impossible to move or even get out if you have an issue. If youve been asked or urged to evacuate, this is the time to do it. The Tropical Storm force winds are basically moving onshore as these bands reach the coast. Thats basically cutting off your time to prepare for the storm. The third hazard, that historic rainfall. We could see catastrophic flooding, widespread areas here including the houston metro area, southwest louisiana, Corpus Christi, 15 to 25 inches of rain isolated areas of 35 inches of rain. Thats going to continue for several days. Michael, heres the question. You talk about storm surge of 6 to 12 feet. Around galveston they have a wall and a lot of places have storm surge walls. Some of these levels will be higher than the walls but even if they are not, this water gets around in some places. Youre talking about many peoples first floors are not 12 feet. Sure, right. Once youre talking about water thats going to be in the first floor of your home along the coast and thats why storm surge is what generally drives evacuation decisions and where we want people to get out of the way and storm surge warning is there to help reinforce this message that this is an area where youre going to see the danger of storm surge flooding with this hurricane. Michael, thank you very much. Well stay in touch with them through the course of the day. The one takeaway here, youve got to take this seriously. Without a doubt. Make sure people are watching the news and this is a serious one. Im still as tounded by the people in Corp Us Christi lookig to stay in a parking lot in a mobile home. Lets bring in ron nearen berg. San antonio could get 25 inches of rain. What are people in your city doing . Thank you, steph, our first role in this effort is Public Safety and make sure were taking care of the safety of our residents here. But as a regional coordinated center for Emergency Services throughout the south texas area, our role is also to be a ready and able and compassionate neighbor. Were receive evacuees people evacuated by mandatory order or selfevacuating and also to make sure were receiving resources from volunteers and from state Emergency Services throughout the area and deploying them. Thats been happening really since earlier in the week. We spun up our Emergency Operations center, which is a regional south texas center and i along with the county judge yesterday declared local state of emergency. Local disaster excuse me to make sure we have access to resources quickly. Mayor, you have you guys got 15 inches in a year. You have the beautiful river walk and the alamo can your city handle the drainage . We have to take it seriously. In san antonio they wont get the same winds in Corpus Christi or thunderstorm winds most likely, but boy youre going to get a lot of water. How does that affect the businesses and people in your city in terms of where this water is going to go . Well the public has invested hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 20 years to ensure better drainage in our area but we do know were in flash flood alley and a small amount of rain over a short period of time creates a massive flooding event. Were prepared. But we know that we have to get everyone ready and watching the news and ready to turn on a dime. What were asking people, stay off the roads, dont frafl if you dont have to. Make sure you have everything that you need to carry you through the weekend. Dont travel unless its absolutely necessary. We need the roads cleared for emergency vehicles as well as for people coming in off the coast. And also were just making sure that folks are connected to stay informed of changing weather events. Were asking the download the ready south texas app to stay up to date with the latest storm information. We are ready. And we are able and were just making sure our citizens are fully cooperating with the orders from here locally but also from the state. Well, sending you our warmest wishes, please stay safe and to people of san antonio. Mayor ron nirenberg. Stick around, everyone, were covering this hurricane and a whole lot more. Plus criticism of the Trump Administration from within the white house. President Trumps National economic adviser gary cohn, who had to stand next to trump last week when he hijacked that press conference at trump tower and doubled down on his remarks, you know those about both sides regarding charlottesville, the domestic terror attack. 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