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We're here, we're here, and we've got your back. legalzoom. legal help is here. we want to get you up to date on the latest on patricia. the storm made landfall last night in mexico as a category 5 storm. it's weakened to a tropical storm. joe fryer is live in ixtapa, mexico. joe, what you got? >> reporter: good morning, you know, consider this. when this thing started off in a 24 hour period, it went from 85 miles an hour to 200 miles an hour in a 24 hour period. now in just about the same period of time, the storm has dissipated now 50 miles per hour, still though mexican officials are war...

Its hurricane hunt -- [ inaudible ] >> joe, you're breaking up a little bit, but i think we got the sense of it. that's joe fryer on a cell phone connection from puerto vallarta -- actually, from ixtapa, which is south of puerto vallarta in mexico, on the pacific coast. joe, thanks so much and we'll keep checking back with you. now let's go to texas, where ten million residents are under flood watch. heavy rain expected through sunday night, and you may remember that just months ago, that same area suffered major devastation from flash flooding and record rainfall, which back then left more th...

Joins us again with the latest from there. joe? >> hi, kate, good afternoon to you. we ended up having to fly into ixtapa, because there was no way to fly into puerto vallarta this morning. that flight was canceled, with pretty much every other one coming into puerto vallarta. that's how great the danger was. we are south of the eye of the storm, not in an area considered to be in huge danger. but the rain has been coming down heavily each and every hour, it seems to get heavier. the waves are getting larger too. so even way down here, the key up there is to get people away from the shore, int...

And waco is under the flash-flood warning because of the cold front. we have a lot of onshore flow, meaning all of this water gets pushed in from the gulf of mexico, and that could cause flooding. the rainfall totals, the rain now through the weekend and into monday, as much as seven or more inches of rain and even into louisiana, we could end up with five or six inches of rain. flash flooding is going to be a major issue. kate? >> thanks so much. president obama has tweeted, our thoughts are with the mexican people as they brace for hurricane patricia. usaid sdaft experts are on the ground an...

In ixtapa, mexico, and from your vantage point, how badly hit was mexico from the storm? >> well sh, alex, a lot of peop are feeling a sigh of relief here, because the officials in mexico are saying that according to the early reports, they are not seeing the reports of the major catastrophic damage in at least some of the well populated areas, and some of the damage, and certainly some damage, but it is landslides blocking the roads and trees down and billboards knocked down and flooding in the streets. so there have been some damage reports, but already some of the trees have been clear prd ...