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Difference and texas is grateful for the prayers and all the incredible generosity. >> texas senator ted cruz ahead of the briefing by texas governor greg abbott seen there and victoria was just declared a federal disaster area. one of 18 counties that the president just declared in texas and victoria was where we were spending friday night and saturday covering it because that was the population center closest to where that category 4 storm came on to shore. >> reporter: well, victoria has taken the brunt of the storm, so the rainfall has been consistent. the wind has been consistent. but the...

Pounding houston h. 24 to 34 inches reportedly in and around the city. and it is far from over. the national weather service is calling for an additional 10 to 20 inches of rain over the next 72 hours. no let up. probably until thursday night. some areas could see a stunning 50 inches of rainfall by the end of the storm. the big concern today is the buffalo bayou in houston, which is a river that goes west to east across houston. here is the problem. not only is it rising because of the rainfall, but there is a controlled release of water under way from two reservoirs on the northwest sides of...

That was texas governor greg abbott. senator john cornyn and fema administer brock long among other officials in texas providing an update on the response to tropical storm harvey. we're closely tracking that situation in houston. let me give you a little bit about what was just said. there are 254 counties in texas. abbott confirming that 54 hf those counties are under a sat emergency declaration. 18 counties are under a federal emergency declaration. that's where fema is setting upshot. there are 12,000 national guard members who have been activated. the governor just doing that earlier toda...

It's catastrophic flooding. that is a word that the national weather service doesn't usually use. harris county police say it has conducted more than 2,200 high-water rescues so far. harris county is the county of which houston is the seat. these images we're seeing are reminisce inlt of another close sal storm from 2005, hurricane katrina. anything we can learn from that, help us out from here. take a look at this guy. he's the face -- he's on the phone, actually, so you can't look at them. you've seen his face lots. it's the face of hurricane katrina. if you were watching any tv in august of...