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At 24 past the hour, you're looking at more destruction caused by hurricane harvey. it is now downgraded to a tropical storm but not at this time, you're seeing right here. it tore off part of a roof of this hotel in quero, texas. it's about 60 miles from corpus christi. 6 million people under a watch as tropical storm harvey expected to drop 16 inches of rain across northeast texas. brazoria county is expected to be hit hard by massive flooding. joining me now, the ceo for the texas gulf coast region american red cross, david brady. david joins me on the phone. welcome to you, david. there ar...

>> reporter: tell me, in terms of what you've experienced last night, did you wake up to the sound of noise in the storm or what happened? >> we were awake. my son lives with me. he's 23. we had power probably until about 3:00 in the morning, i'm thinking, but yes, it was -- could hear a lot of banging. i have an awning in the back and i was afraid that was going to get ripped off, and just a howling and the intensity of the rain was so bad. it's scary. >> reporter: let's take a look at this tree in your front yard. it looks like it snapped in half here, a pretty large tree. were you concerned...

Them. but it is a risky thing, alex. if this storm turns out to be really bad, if it's a killer storm, you don't want to be out there doing distracting things focusing on other issues, when you could have been focusing on visiting fema, making sure texas was prepared for the storm and that leads to accusations that you potentially dropped the ball if the government response isn't top notch now. >> quickly, shawn, you're welcome to address that as well, whether this seems out of the norm overall or not, and then i want to ask you about sebastian gorka. >> i agree, i think this is a strategy in ...

I know you guys prepare as best you can for the inevitable, but when you have a place like -- for example, i was talking to one of my producers about the area of san antonio which is being used as a place where evacuees have gone to, but san antonio itself may be hit with some really heavy rains and flooding. there will need to be evacuations of its local citizens as well. how do you deal with things if you're really compounding two different facets of red cross needs? >> that's a great point, because alex, this storm is not just going through like many hurricanes do. they have an impact for a...

We're reporting absolutely everything that goes on in the inclement weather, and we're still hoping to see some improvement on the weather. but as this continues, our truck and our systems continue to report everything going on right now. the governor of san antonio is asking people to please stay away from the roads to avoid any more hazards and any more casualties. we'll continue to chase the storm and we'll have more information as soon as we have it. >> that was telemundo's sarah. thanks so much for that. joining me on the phone, san mateo ron nirenberg. ron, good afternoon to you. san a...