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And moving up towards shreveport eventually headed up towards the tennessee river valley in the next couple days. it's not going to be at tropical storm intensity but will have the rain shield associated with it. as we head towards the weekend memphis and nashville, eventually louisville, don, it looks like they see the remnants of what has been this horrible harvey that has just inundated houston, in some cases almost 50 inches of rainfall. >> wow. and i know you said it. you said the second landfall in the early morning hours, correct? where do you think it's going to hit? how is it going to...

Louisiana and texas where staggering rain fall totals, maybe not 40 and 50 inch in houston and galveston but certainly right around a yard of precipitation, 30 to 36 inches in places like beaumont, mcfadden. technically the center of tropical storm harvey is off shore but creating swells all the way around galveston bay over towards new orleans but this is going to make a second land fall. tropical storm harvey probably between 5:00 and 7:00 a.m. local time is expected to cross the coast line in the vaicinity of deep southwestern louisiana and produce rain shield into the mississippi valley. s...

I want to go now to bill karins. let me pick up where the deputy sheriff left off. they're hoping and praying this tropical storm moves out so they won't get more of the torrential rain that stephanie gosk ref rensed. how much longer do they have to hold out? >> not much longer. here's the beaumont area. houston cleared out last night. no rain whatsoever on the way to beaumont. this is the last bands. the center of the storm now starting to move up here north of lake charles and eventually this afternoon it will pull this huge rain shield away with it. it's still pouring. i'm glad we have step...

And looking at this radar, i was floored by just how broad this rain shield is. extending all the way towards san antonio and austin, edging toward dallas, extending toward galveston into louisiana. a huge broad deep tropical moisture laden area. the ground is saturated. the more the rain comes in, and there will be plenty more associated with this, and the ground is saturated, the bayous are filling up, we have looked at some of these reports and we may even blow away by feet what some of these by by yours have do by by yours have done. but there is no play for tce fo water to go. there are c...

Made landfall around 10:00 p.m. local time. north of the airport in corpus christi, the corpus christi airport is closed. the victoria airport is closed. still has a clearly defined eye. still a broad shield of rainfall. but it's just not going to be moving very far or very fast. and i have made this point before, can't emphasize it enough. we go from laredo to san antonio to austin. pretty much that rain shield is going to be to the east of that interstate. not exclusively. but this is where we're looking at the greatest impact. now, this made landfall during the nighttime hours. and there we...