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And assess hurricane makes its way through. we pray nobody gets hurt. but he obviously dies. and that we can get help and assistance to you. thank you for being with us. also on the ground, corpus christi, texas, rob schmitt. what's going on where you are? >> hey, sean. good to hear from the governor. we are getting pummeled. as bad as we have seen it in corpus christi. right on the water in downtown corpus christi. this is not a mandatory evacuation. still a voluntary evacuation. you go out onto the water, the islands, across the bay -- they are in a mandatory evacuation. as well they should ...

Here. what's going to happen? >> is going to be about 25, 35 miles southwest of victoria. then it's going to turn southward and be very close to corpus christi late in the day sunday. just to the northwest. monday, it's back out over the water to the northeast of corpus christi. when it gets out there, you have to start dealing with the situation as far as where it will move. if it turns northeast into texas, it's still a major problem. a tropical storm with tremendous rains. the big fear i've had, it will try to move northeastward, become a very strong hurricane again and be close to the galv...

I guess as we speak, it's no hitting the coast. we had a category 3, a category 4. how bad to look, joe? >> the reliance on computer models, they are exactly right. a lot of the models for not picking up on how bad it was going to be. what we were using were samples from the past. hurricane celia, for those that live in the corpus christi area, 1970. it went from a category 1 to a category 4 in 4 hours. camille, and infamous hurricane, it went from a tropical depression to cat 5 in 36 hours. get ready, this is going to be a real bad situation. it's coming ashore right now. while sean is on the...

40-50-60-mile-an-hour tropical storm, and the trees take all that water come on the gets wet, start knocking trees down left and right on people's houses. you have half the wind, doing the same amount of damage as far as that goes. there's no question about the amount of rain that could come from this. it is not because it's a freak hurricane with a lot of moisture. it's just very slow moving and trapped. that's the problem. >> sean: i'm going to go to my colleague steve harrigan. we saw the gusts of wind. we've already seen 180-mile-per-hour gusts. he's literally knockdown, how dangerous is i...

>> sean: all right, steve. i know i speak for everybody -- the fact that you can talk about well, it's not as strong as katrina or this hurricane that i've been -- it speaks volumes. it speaks volumes about who you are. you said you could run 5 feet and you would be underground and in safety. he has my next question. you talk about 30 miles north of you, there are buildings crumbling. we were talking about real debris that's flying. is that the cut off point for you? we've got to cut and run here because something -- a shingle from a hard rooftop could obviously be flying against you or a tree...