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Harvey actually made a second lawful tod landfall today and where ask it now and where is it heading? >> this is the backside of that rainfall, and as you said, 26 inches in 24 hours, that's the same type of event that downtown houston had on saturday night and sunday. 51.88 and that's not higher because the rain gauge broke when it got that high, so we don't know what that number would have been. everywhere you see white, there's houston, here's the gulf of mexico, everywhere you see white, those 25 inches have fallen. it's not that one spot got 40, the entire southeastern part of the state g...

Also hit texas. hurricane heeky dropped 52. now that 51.88 that gauge broke. it doesn't matter. we're looking at land fall in about four to five hours and it looks like the will be in southwest louisiana. the problem is beaumont. they picked up over 33 inches. i don't know how lake charles missed out today but thank goodness they did. fans to the north and south are flooded but lake charles okay right now. beaumont is going to be inundated. 245 the storm system once it makes land fall continues to make land fall. we are looking at this to pick

More. think about that. 6 million people. and it's really the images. this is a wendy's sign and dr. marshal shepard from the weather channel tweeted this out. that water is up to the bottom of the wendy's sign, so it's really the images that help you comprehend the numbers we have been seeing. and i have new numbers for you. let's take a look at the radar for you right now. you asked when will the rain end. and i think the rain will be coming to an end here shortly in houston. but, again, the problems -- >> shortly. >> within the next couple hours. >> that's a big deal if that's shortly. >> w...

I'll get to that in a second. there's cameron parish right there where that center of circulation came onshore just a couple hours ago. and there goes harvey. finally, finally moving. the rain is moving away from houston, but still in beaumont port arthur. in some spots raining as much as 18 inches. i suspect we should focus on the beaumont port arthur area for the rest of the day. still will see a six to ten. cedar bayou, a new record at 51.88. four days ago i walked on this platform here and said there's a potential for 50 inches of rain. look what the computer model is showing. we couldn't ...

Cities of port arthur and beaumont. the floodwaters are rising and sadly there is no way for people to get out. >> this is all coming as rescues continue in houston. the red cross says 17,000 people are now in emergency shelters, two stadiums in houston, the toyota center and nrg stadium are taking in evacuees which houston convention center over capacity. it dumped 51.88 inches of rain in a suburb east of houston and unloading 15 trillion gallons of rain in texas. the amount of water is astounding and overwhelming. we're on the north side of houston near the reservoir that's overflowing. good...