Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Hurricane harvey dangerous category four storm bearing down. The eye wall of that storm making landfall in texas as we speak. This could be a hurricane of historic proportions. The powerful and slowmoving storm could bring up to 3 feet, thats 3 feet of rain to the gulf coast. Thanks for joining us at 10 00. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. This is the most powerful storm in the region in roughly a dozen years. Foxs Lauren Blanchard is just north in galveston, texas tracking harvey. Reporter life threatening and catastrophic thats how officials are describing Hurricane Harvey having reached now well beyond major hurricane status. I would stress that this is serious storm. Reporter Hurricane Harvey now a monster as seen from spa space. We are predicting an extreme event. I rent a trailer and im worried about the flooding. Reporter last minute evacuations have been taking place all across the gulf coast. I figure we g
Ill go over some of the river warnings and creek warnings coming up next. This morning, drivers in the east bay will have to figure out how to get around a massive roadway mess on a popular shortcut. Look at this video. East of pinole, Alhambra Valley road collapsed last night and left a gaping hole, 70 feet wide, and 30 feet deep. It was washed away by all the water thats been flowing through pinole creek the past few days. Drivers use this to get to second inning 80. It is now closed indefinitely and no estimate on when repairs could even begin. In martinez, a large lip us the branch fell. They took out the entire tree after fears were expressed the entire thing could come down. This particular eucal has lost a branch before and i think the city is doing a great thing cutting it down. You hate to lose a tree but its a safe move right here. There was damage to the drivers convertible as you can see but he is reportedly going to be okay. Once the rain stops and the waters recede in hol
Check out how fast its moving. This creek feeds into the napa river. We have been told that at some time tonight that river is going to flood. Chp is standing by. They are closing roadways and also checking for rockslides. [ beep beep ] reporter flash flooding warnings and alerts sounded on our phones all day as we drove or tried to drive through napa and saint helena and the warnings are very real. We can tell you firsthand. This is silverado trail and Officials Say its closed indefinitely because right now officials are concerned that more rock will continue to fall. What thats doing is just loosening up that whole slab up there which is probably close to i would say 1,000 to 2,000 cubic yards of material that could come down. Reporter David Cardwell with the department of public works allowed us in for a closer look but not for long. Pretty unstable . Yes, yes. Very unstable. As you can see, theres two slip planes up there. Theres lower and higher section and right now you can see t
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