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Or so either will not or cannot be rebuilt. i don't need irmy or anything like that coming close. >> neil: i can well understand. my best to you, mayor and your fine people. it's been horrific. that is putting it mildly. c.j. wax, the mayor of rockport texas. it's one of the lesser options and routes that hurricane irma could follow, to hit the gulf again. it's among the half dozen or so scenarios that show it's potential path. right now a category five killer storm headed right for florida. more after this. ♪

Billion and caught get delayed. they hope not. that must be very frustrating. >> real concern here. here's the headline to me in this neighborhood and many of the others that have never flooded before, they don't have flood insurance. so these guys are going to be relying -- that house right there, lady by the name of mary jackson, no flood insurance. no floods here. this is as a result of the reservoir waters. they'll be relying on fema because they don't have another choice that is a big concern to them. >> neil: all right. jeff, thanks very much. jeff in houston in the middle of the water a...

Those people aren't taken care of. this is the first time that we felt safe to depart with caution. and we are hoping they'll return here shortly to give us another estimate of what has truly happened. >> all right. we'll stay in close touch with you. we pray for those in rockport and hope that those who remain are safe. we have pictures of some severe damage in rockport, texas, including collapsed buildings. we'll stay on top of that with mayor c.j. wax and gabe gutierr gutierrez. we learned victoria, texas may get up to five feet of rain. our special coverage of hurricane harvey continues af...

C.j. wax, mayor wax, since we last talked, what's the handle that you have on people who did not evacuate rockport? it was under a mandatory evacuation, but some people choose not to do that. what do you know of? >> approximately an hour ago since the eye of the storm passed over the city around 11:30 last night. there is widespread devastation. the hotel wall that fell in, that's way. we had a description of major damage at the high school and a number of businesses and homes that are either completely destroyed. catastrophic damage. as of right now, i do not have any confirmed deaths, but mo...

Fire department in rockport, they have 10 to 12 volunteers that stayed behind and yet 10 to 12 people that are possibly going into apartment buildings trying to rescue people. that's not a lot of people and they have to be safe, too. can't have debris and stuff falling on them. the rockport area which is the town of about 10,000 people was under a mandatory evacuation. we just haven't heard yet how many did evacuate or how many stayed behind. if lives have been lost this could be the area. >> let's go right to the mayor of rockport right now. he's on the line. c.j. wax. mayor wax, have you hea...