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Folks don't live here, so it wasn't heavily populated and, really, spared texas. but, again we have got several months of hurricane season in front of us, so this is kind of a trial run. there's where we are right now, 70 mile-per-hour sustained win and is downgraded to a tropical storm -- winds and is downgraded to a tropical storm and texas got a bunch of rain. the totals, over 7 inches brownsville, a daily june record for you, over 6 inches, padre island, over 6 inches and they still could see an additional 2-4 inches of rainfall, there is the storm right now, infrared and still looks well ...

Right above the well head could seal it. and glassify the sand and the sand stone down deep. but one of the problems is the first 1,000 feet or so beneath the seabed is unconsolidated mud. so you're not going to get much sealant there. it's one of the ideas -- i've received scores of ideas from people about how to do this. and the unified command i know has received thousands of suggestions about how to handle this. detonation has been used on land, but mainly to snuff out fires from blowouts, basically by excluding the fuel source and oxygen for a fraction of a second and then putting out the...

About 10:00 p.m. local time, sending spectacular flames into the night sky. look at some of these images. these are just a few that we got in overnight. nbc's ron mott has the latest from the naval air station in louisiana where the search and rescue effort is located. and ron, 100 survivors. they've been reunited with their families. but as i mentioned, 11 people are still missing. >> reporter: yeah, that is the big focus this morning right now, tamron, is trying to find out where these 11 oil rig workers are. we've gone past now the 36-hour mark, as you mentioned, so time is becoming a real ...

From coal. >> the fossil fuel is responsible for 32% of total u.s. energy production. half of all electricity is generated from coal. natural gas and nuclear power plants supply most of the rest. unlike the upper big branch mine, most of today's coal production comes from surface mines as opposed to underground mines. in fact, the fossil fuel is so readily available in this country that the u.s. is sometimes described as the saudi arabia of coal. >> we have from estimates 250 billion tons of reserves. it's the cheapest fuel source. it's the most abundant. >> west virginia leads the nation in u...

Tom, look at the eye of that thing. it is huge, it is barreling, a hurricane category 5 heading for the caribbean. >> we know the damage. remember the pictures from rockport, texas when harvey was a category 4 storm. the maximum winds at landfall that devastated that area was 1 130 miles per hour and we're at 185? that is a huge difference. this is going to make landfall. this is going to devastate thousands and thousands of homes and businesses, and millions as it continues along the chain here. we've got the warnings in effect for the northern islands, lesser antilles, puerto rico, and now a...