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Evacuati evacuation. what have the local authorities, federal authorities given them for advice? >> they said, look, if you thought about going by 1:00 p.m., that time is past. if you decide to do stay, stay with that plan and don't let anybody talk you out of it. and above all, don't let the wind and the howling change your thought process. you'll be much safer now staying where you are. they were evacuating people until the noon hour today. the local mass transit system was operating. they were taking them down to the natnatatorium there. because the weather conditions were deteriorating, th...

Camp david retreat. let's go to our white house correspondent sara murray. can the white house avoid the failures that certainly happened after hurricane katrina exactly 12 years ago this week? >> reporter: well, wolf, it is certainly something they're cognizant of. there have been senators out there today warning president trump, keep your eye on this one. don't make the same mistakes george w. bush did. earlier today tom bossert, homeland security adviser for president trump, said many who are advising the president on this storm worked for katrina, they learned their lessons from the past a...

Models actually turn it to the south, maybe gaining strength. five days of rainfall. a foot, 2323. everywhere you see white, over 25 inchds. let's put 25 inches on the entire straight of baltimore. the water is going to have nowhere to go. it's going to try to get into the gulf of mexico and it going to get into the rivers and flood. there are going to be river floods in this area that no one has ever seen before. and i'm afraid that people say, it didn't flood in allison. i'm going to be fine. this will pale alison. this will pale the flooding we saw in katrina. it's the water coming down. th...

Worsened. >> it has. now you look at the sky here, and actually it looks a lot brighter than it was, say, just a few minutes ago. but it's the wind that's really been intensifying here. we know the rain is yet to come and will come for a long time. but the first initial blast of this storm is wind. now, initially people were saying, well, the stronger, category 3. everyone has to remember what a storm like that can do. this will linger a long time, would have >> certainly will i i want to ga back to chad. as bad as the wind will be, 125 miles per hour, that's awful. it's a category 3 storm. ka...

Texas and heads toward land fall. possibly uninhabitable, forecasters are warning of catastrophic rains and flooding for days. that could force people to stay away from their homes for months. we're tracking the forecast and fears that harvey could have the makings of another katrina. calls to evacuate. residents are being urged to get out of the storm's path now. if it's not too late already, emergency officials worry that too many people may be ignoring their pleas and staying behind. and under the microscope, president trump travels to camp david as he faces a critical new test. what ...