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Least one of them. it's about 30 minutes south of houston in an area called sienna plantation. we've seen fences, trees, roots upro uprooted. this area has more than 6 million people, and it hasn't seen a storm like this in more than a decade when 1.5 million people didn't live here. in addition you have people who were uprooted, displaced from hurricane katrina. tens of thousands of them. we met one of them yesterday and talked about how they're preparing and how this is bringing back all those memories. in houston, the fourth largest city in the country. it's so developed. you have all these...

6 miles per hour. these are the peak wind gusts when it made landfall, 132, 125, easily a strong category 3, low end category 4. official making landfall at category 4. pressure 938, the second lowest ever recorded in the state of texas. incredible stuff. this is the radar view i showed you before. if i go into the houston area, you can see the beltway around the 610, heavy band of rain we'll continue to watch throughout the day today. there is the flash flood warning. a huge area from houston almost down to south of victoria. 12 million people affected. 4 million people in the flash flood war...

Authorities are awaiting first light and will assess the damage and figure out the extent of what harvey brought to texas. frances, back to you. >> it's alex here actually. >> i'm sorry. >> not a problem. it's okay. you guys saw a precarious situation. lester's crew was making its way to corpus christi and had to think twice about crossing a river that had come up under a bridge and was spilling over. i see sinton is just a bit north of corpus christi, just a bit to the -- looks like the northwest of rockport. you couldn't even get there at this point. >> reporter: right. we started in corpus ...

There. one thing that immediately popped to mind are wires that can be so, so a dangerous in water. do you see any freestanding wires there or is it self-contained at this point? >> reporter: we have not seen any downed wires. again, we're in an area of town where the electrical leans are actually under ground. however, the city of corpus christi did put out a tweet saying there are a lots of downed leans and please be careful if they venture out of their homes today. >> maya rodriguez, thank you very much for that. we'll go to houston where jacob rascon is standing by. good day to you, jacob....

1 hurricane. look at the news crew standing by the side of the road. everyone hunkering down in that area. hurricane harvey is not moving offshore. it is staying over texas for days. it could complicate the rescue efforts. we'll give you insight on what first responders are going to need to do next. here's to the safety first... i think i might burst... totally immersed weekenders. whatever kind of weekender you are, there's a hilton for you. book your weekend break direct with hilton.com and join the summer weekenders. tha...oh, burnt-on gravy?ie. ...gotta rinse that. nope. no way. nada. real...