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Corp corpus christi, texas. we're hearing about catastrophic flooding possible the next several days, correct? >> reporter: that is the potential here. and that is something that corpus christi and the surrounding areas are certainly bracing for. right now we have a lot of people here that do not have power. about 162,000 people in the corpus christi area without electricity at this point along the texas gulf coast here. 211,000 people. we're told about 100 circuits are out of service. these are major transmission areas. that is why we are now talking about people in the hundreds of thousands ...

Rainfall totals in feet. and of course here in corpus christi, you have an area that is sort of low lying, near the water that we're concerns about storm surge between 6 to 12 feet. further inland of course you have drtributaries. what we're waiting for is first responders to be able to go out once the winds calm down, assess the situation, see what streets are open. what areas might be inaccessible. areas being inaccessible for several weeks dependsing on the level of damage. that is something we don't have handle on because the storm is still unfolding at this point. right now 162,000 people...

We had corpus christi firefighters over there earlier this morning battling a massive house fire, trying to make sure that that fire would not spread to other homes there, obviously, a lot of people chose to leave those parrier islands. those homes were unoccupied at the time. fire fighters doing tear best to make sure that fire would not go further than that one house. what exactly caused that fire is still not clear at this point. again, these were first responders that had to head out to a fairer island in the middle of a category 4 hurricane. in the meantime. we do have -- 211,000 people o...

We here have we're functioning off emergency power right now. again in the corpus christi area alone. 162,000 people without power. number that is are expected to climb throughout the day. >> wow. thank you. >> let's get the latest on the storm which made land fall a few hours ago. let's get straight over to meteorologist steve. i gez as we watch the slowing of harvey we're seeing lower wind gusts. >> one thing that i want to let people know you're going to be hearing a lot throughout the day today, downgraded, downgraded. and the reason why you shouldn't focus on that is because the storm thr...

These people are so knocko onox it's not just about him using the right words. he needs to come out with the right tone and condemn this stuff and i hope he will, because it's a great opportunity to unite the country at a very divided time. >> amazing book, still out there in hard cover. been on the best-seller list for weeks. more than a year i suspect. thanks for writing it and joining us. >> thanks, wolf. j.d. vance, if you haven't read his book i recommend it. coming up, north korea's dictator backing down from threats to lob missiles towards guam. that's a u.s. territory. 162,000 u.s....