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Year event. it could be greater than that. the system will stall on us, without a steering current, it's unfolding before our eyes. many are wondering, why is it still a electron cal storm, hasn't it been on land long enough? shouldn't this be called the remnants of harvey? >> when they are over land, they really fire up. it's feeding off its own rainfall, it's called the brown ocean effect. it's just feeding on all the rain that it's already dropped on the ground. it gives it's energy and sustains its strength. we're watching in the brighter colors of push el and red, the heavier rain fanning...

We've never seen a system really recent american history that has been so challenging, but yet when you look to the computer models, so accurate. it is something something. in fact, even tracking storms around the world and typhoons, we've never seen one without a steering current that has just been me yandering for days. this is still a tropical storm. it's feeding off the rainfall it's dropped on land. when you look at the bands of rain in houston, there was another band getting ready to move through in about an hour half, two hours, already the rain and severe weather with a few tornado war...

Victoria, texas, which is just on the northeastern side of the eye of the storm right now and we're still seeing those really heavy bands of rain coming down. just to put it into perspective just how intense the eastern side of the storm is, areas like houston and just outside of galveston have had reported tornados because of this storm system. so even though we are on the western side of the storm, it's the eastern side of the storm that's going to really face the brunt of the damage with this. now, hurricane harvey has downgraded from a 4 down to a 1. winds are at 90 miles an hour. now the ...

The real concern is once harvey gets here, the steering current, according to the forecasters, looks like it's going to sit here for a while. that is why we have the most unusual prediction of 37.6 inches of rain expected from harvey in town here. that means the guadalupe river, as they say it here locally, is expected by wednesday to crest at 32 feet. that would be two feet shy of the record. that would be a tremendous amount of localized flooding as a result of the amount of rain that's going to be dropped here. the concern, because we're so far inland beyond the rain, of course, is going to...

Tonight. about in the last hour as a category 4 storm. it won't stay at that designation. but then again, the wind, the storm surge has never been the greatest danger from this storm. it's been what's about to happen. it is a colossal rainmaker. there are no steering current aloft. normally, it would hook on to a tributary of the jet stream and you've seen hurricanes come up out of the gulf and scoot on out in a high arc that leads them out over bermuda and the cold waters of the north atlantic. they lose their energy. and they die. they end up as a cloud bank over scotla scotland. this one ha...