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Unfortunately on your own. this is considered ground zero. some of the strongest forces of the hurricane will hit this area. tonight the national weather service is saying 10-15-50. 10-15-50 inches of rain. unprecedented amounts of range. rain. uncharted territory. there's already already power outages. if you did stay, you could be without power for days on end. that could potentially be the poorest part for anyone who decides to stick this thing out. cell phones have been going off with tornado warnings. some of them were forecasted. a dangerous situation here. we are keeping our eye on the ...

If you've seen the projected path, it looks so funny because it goes on to the mainland and then adjust parts and it starts to back up. it goes back out in the ocean. make it a little stronger. a little moisture. it could even slide up into louisiana. and all the while, it's just dumping inundating rain. this entire time. just dumping rain. and it's raining for four or five days. if they're going to get rain like this, that's how you get feet of rain. it's an unimaginable amount of water when you really think about how much that could be and what that can do. we are in south texas. they are us...

It's estimated we could see somewhere between 37 and 40 inches of rain and, of course, if we see that much pertain rain, we have flooding problems, it would be a historic amount of rain in this area. and, you know, as much as everybody would like to think that hurricanes are typical, that they hit, they pass through and move on, harvey is going to defy that norm and really become a nuisance with a lot of wind and rain and the rain and the flooding is going to be the real final story here in this community. francis. >> a lot more ahead for the people there. i know you had mentioned that there w...

It then makes its way to galveston and up the eastern coast of texas. that's a big, big -- that's a big problem that is not going away anytime soon, sir. >> as a reporter noted -- despite what you are able to see because of all that wind, the worst problem probably will be the flooding. from feet of rain coming down. and just stacking up. we've dealt with this on several occasions across the gulf coast. it can have a dramatically horrific effect. you also asked about the coordination we've had with the white house. i got to tell you, it's been very impressive. i got a call from the president h...

Then corpus christi, things calmed down a bit there. but obviously, as the storm moves more, we still get these heavy gusts sometimes. it's clear that the this is not just a wind event, but a rain event. and as this rain continues to fall, there is a huge concern of flooding. but, again, right here where we are in sinton, texas, it seems to be quite dark here. there are police officers making sure people are off the roads. it has been a harrowing experience throughout the night to drive through this part of texas. >> we're about 30 minutes away from daybreak there in texas. can you give us som...