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>> a national guard helicopter did rescue all 15 residents. eleven of them have been hospitalized. we will continue to follow that story. heavy rains continue to overwhelm much of southeast texas. flash flood emergencies. more areas are being placed on the mandatory evacuation list. they now include those living west of state highway 288 and south of highway six. that's the western half of the county. joining me now is judge matt, the emergency management correlator. thank you very much. >> tell us what you have seen on the ground and what you're expecting right now. >> we've received an awful...

Here's where the storm currently spins. look at all the rain and thunderstorms and occasionally a tornado. that's all been happening on the right side of the storm and that's where the rainfall totals are so big. we are looking at numbers getting into the 20-inch or more range and that is becoming horribly widespread. take a look at this, zooming in and you start to see everyone of those, 20, 25 inches and were only about halfway done. whatever you seen so far, imagine doubling it because that's what we have a possibility of. here's our future radar. it will spread out a little bit more in the...

...ask your dermatologist if cosentyx can help you find clear skin that lasts. welcome back to the facts report. tornado warning issued for harris county texas. that warning in effect until 645 central. tropical storm also causing catastrophic cell outing in houston. this is a weather service said some areas could end up with record-breaking 50 inches of rain. federal disaster declaration has been expanded to cover 18 counties, home to nearly 7 million people. that is on top of the 50 counties already declared disaster zones. it's being blamed for at least two deaths. one happened in rockport.

Power and what i will do is caution people to be very careful. right when i took those photos, the highway, one of the lanes, the flooding is starting so they were down to one lane. i'm worried when it gets dark tonight, people do not need to be traveling. >> a lot of people, as the flood waters rise, they were told to stay home and now they're saying maybe we shouldn't of done that and they're trying to get out. >> some of those areas are mandatory evacuation areas. the key thing is, they can still get out of the area. i'm concerned about the darkness and them trying to travel, especially wit...

Adam is in the fox extreme weather center. >> you wonder how do you get to 50 inches? it's based on the movement of the storm. currently 40 miles away from victoria, it's a little ways inland, it's about to start drifting down toward the water. here's our tropical model, will put it in motion. where will ahead? our next stop is back down to the coast. it's bumping into high pressure system just off to the north and west. once it gets there, it makes a turn and begins running back up the coastline. all areas that have been hit, the rain keeps running this entire time. unfortunately were getting...