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50, 60 years since a cat 4 hit texas. abby: that is down to category 1. that does not mean it is not dangerous. matt finn has been live for us all night long in place placios, texas. >> we have been here for about 8 hours. it has gotten progressively worse. violent winds and rain. when we first arrived here last night, the water line was probably 5 to 10 feet past the shore and now as you can see it is just engulfing this walkway here. now creeping up towards the grass here. so, between high tide and the surge, we have seen this water line move about 10 to 20 feet closer to the shore. we talke...

Todd: rob, you mentioned power lines. obviously we don't know if that is the cause of this fire. in your travels arranged the area where you are going, have you seen a lot of power lines down? it seems at this point when people end up getting back, that is the major concern besides flooding. >> yeah. well, yeah. right across the street there were power lines down. which is why i thought that could have been the igniter because that certainly would make sense to me. who would think that jeep wranglers are going to burn to a crisp in the middle of a hurricane. it's one thing to have a house fire...

Within the last hour. >> yes. i mean, it has gotten worse every hour leading up to where we're right now. it's very violent winds and rain. i mean, you would not guess this is a category 1. you would feel like this is much worse than that. what we are looking at is probably a very large storm surge here. when we first got here last night, we were able to see probably 5 to 10 feet out where the water line was and now you can see it's inching up behind me here. and in the distance it is probably 10 to 15 to 20 feet into the grass line. so a very large storm surge here mixed with perhaps the risi...

Into that area. they couldn't get in there because their cell tower is down. no communication. roads impassable. look at this fairfield inn. abby: look at towels all along the hallway. rob schmitt our reporter was trying to get to us from rockport. zero cell service. people have hopefully evacuated that area. had you people i guess from nursing homes had evacuated. people going to jails to find shelter. just now getting that visual as we are waking up this morning. clayton: look at dropped ceiling there goes to show you sure devastation. water sitting on flattened commercial buildings there. t...

Just to the west of port laf carks towards victoria, texas move in towards tomorrow and in to monday, the storm is right in the exact same spot. that means continued rainfall all across this area. the flooding is going to be extreme and for people who are thinking we have maybe dodged a bullet places like galveston, you were never going to be the worst of it that doesn't mean the rain is not going to be with you. you will still see very heavy amounts of rain there the next several days. clayton: we will get to griff jenkins who is in houston, texas. abby: he said an inch of rain. clayton: an i...