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We have not felt a drop of rain at that time, but the winds we're feeling will remind you this storm is close. local officials tell me they're expecting 40 to 50-mile-an-hour sustained winds. that means they're anticipating power outages and tree damage. this ground already saturated and wet. that means the roots of those trees are weak and soaked already. while yesterday the headline was that more than 500 people in this area, cal cass sue parish had been rescued. i spoke with the director of emergency preparedness for this parish a little bit ago. he was relieved to tell me that no calls cam...

That's a good problem to have, being flooded with volunteers. hopefully they sort it all out. the concerned citizens corps is giving an unprecedented response to an unprecedented catastrophe. we'll check back with you, rosa. harvey is back this time as a tropical storm. but it's every bit as dangerous to areas especially when they're already saturated. southeastern texas, western parishes of louisiana taking a pounding right now. heavy rain adding to already flood conditions. we have cnn's kaylee hartung there. the mayor says so far, so good. that's a qualified term given the amount of water i...

Crosss that has close to 100 shelters set up across the area. >> how did you do it? you suspected it was going to be as bad as all the forecasters predicted. so days ahead of the rain, you were getting into place. why were you so forward looking with this one? >> i have to give so much credit to our national team. they did an amazing job of very early last week mobilizing around this, giving us the resources we needed, the people we needed. we had the people and the resources set up in this community right in front of the storm. the challenge we had once the storm came in, you couldn't get acc...

Shelters that have opened. they're taking in more of the storm victims to try to alleviate the overcrowding in all of them. so what's next? what can people do? how are they organizing all this? joining us is david brady, the chief executive officer with the american red cross of the texas gulf coast region. great to have you here. >> thanks, alisyn. >> this morning there are 8,319 people here in this shelter. some of them without their medications. they had to leave them behind. some of them have lost their cell phones. where do you begin getting help for all these folks? >> our main goal righ...

Today. the dow lost five, the s&p 500 was up 1, the dow gained -- the economic effects will easily be in the tens of billions of dollars. lauren semon that he of fox business has that part of the story. good evening, lauren. >> as mr. long just said, this is an epic storm. houston responsible for a third of texas' output, responsible for a tenth of the nation's economic output. houston is home specifically to a quarter of america's oil of refinery. we are talking about 5.5 millio. that includes exxonmobil, second largest in the nation. >> roughly about a quarter of the capacity of the state's ...