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Respond to. they're trying to check welfare now. brooke? >> how entirely frightening for them. we'll stay in close contact with you, martin savidge, thank you, in rockport. let's head to victoria, texas, this is inland from the coast. cnn's derrick van damme is there live. how is the rain? >> it's not great, not going to lie to you, brooke. but here here, we're doing it. the storm keeps surprising us. we're about 40 miles outside of the center of tropical storm harvey that continues to churn across southeast texas. i a did pretty quick walkabout. the damage you would expect was what you would ...

Appreciate you. let's get to texas. catastrophic flooding is expected as the sun is setting. harvey right now stalling over victoria, texas. 20 inches of rain has already fallen. another 20 more on the way. we'll talk to the mayor there in just a couple of minutes. but my goodness, you see these pictures. just utter devastation in rockport where harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane. at least one person was killed. power lines mangled, arcing over waterlogged streets, roughly 300,000 people in the dark right now. and the lack of power. obviously, that's a massive concern in the overnight hour...

Inches in the area. i want to put a little dot there. i haven't done this all day. hope it works. that's houston right there. that's the part that i want you to focus on. make it bigger. i want you to focus on that. this is the radar at 9:00 local time. now i'm good to move you ahead. this is the forecast model radar. it's still raining. that's 4:00 a.m. >> ooh. >> thunderstorm after thunderstorm after thunderstorm all night long. now at 10:00 a.m., it's still raining, even raining harder to the east, beaumont, port arthur. there are purple areas in this map. this is a compute generated map th...

Because that's one of the other huge dangers in the city of houston. because a lot of the interstate -- i wish i could show you, but it's so dark right now, brooke, yes, but these interstates dip and valley and it becomes extremely dangerous because, as you know, in the dark you just can't tell when waters rise very quickly. you might be driving through a road that you've driven many, many times, but if that water has risen to a level, it's not passable, it becomes extremely dangerous. so the city has different points around the city, they have strategic points where they have resources ready ...

Concern here in houston is the flooding. this is the bayou city. there are bayous that meander throughout this town not only through downtown but through neighborhoods where people live, and the ground is already saturated because we've had rain for a few days. and so first responders, city officials, what they're worried about is what you're seeing behind me, this rain. you see the lightning, you hear the thunder. all of this rain has to go somewhere. and because the bayous which act as a drainage system, in essence, that flow into the gulf of mexico, because they're already full and because ...