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And assess hurricane makes its way through. we pray nobody gets hurt. but he obviously dies. and that we can get help and assistance to you. thank you for being with us. also on the ground, corpus christi, texas, rob schmitt. what's going on where you are? >> hey, sean. good to hear from the governor. we are getting pummeled. as bad as we have seen it in corpus christi. right on the water in downtown corpus christi. this is not a mandatory evacuation. still a voluntary evacuation. you go out onto the water, the islands, across the bay -- they are in a mandatory evacuation. as well they should ...

Some stop signs and stop lights coming down. the rain has picked up as well. they spent about 8 inches of it so far. the real story of this storm, if they get 30 inches of rain, that could cause a lot of destruction. there are right now extreme wind warnings along parts of the coast. the eye of the storm. gusts of 130 miles an hour or more. under evacuation. you have to hope, places like rockport -- people did actually leave town. you hope. >> sean: steve, go back inside.

40-50-60-mile-an-hour tropical storm, and the trees take all that water come on the gets wet, start knocking trees down left and right on people's houses. you have half the wind, doing the same amount of damage as far as that goes. there's no question about the amount of rain that could come from this. it is not because it's a freak hurricane with a lot of moisture. it's just very slow moving and trapped. that's the problem. >> sean: i'm going to go to my colleague steve harrigan. we saw the gusts of wind. we've already seen 180-mile-per-hour gusts. he's literally knockdown, how dangerous is i...

Continuing coverage of hurricane harvey. i want to turn now to nbc's joe friar live in galveston, texas. and the threat of the danger there, joe, isn't necessarily thou with hurricane harvey but in the days to come with the rain and flooding. >> yeah, exactly. a little bit ago on our phones, we expect to get a lot of those in the coming days and we can tell you just in the last few minutes here, the wind has picked up again and we are getting a little bit more of this sideways rain, which we've been seeing off and on over the past 24 hours. still in the storm hit, there were some pretty strong...

Worst, we'll show you that damage because that is going to be extreme, too. this event is just beginning as far as the extreme part.. the part that is going to make this historic is just the beginning. that's the radar over there that shows you the wide view of the storm. i mentioned the houston area. look at that feeder band coming down off the coast here from new york, galveston, out towards the osha yap. this is going to whip up all day long. the center of the circulation will spin near victoria all day long. it will weaken as we go through wrought the day. this is the satellite imagery. we...