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Island right there. When its right in the middle of the eye, to get the crossover look like whats going to be here any second. We are going to see the most intense wins for the last hour, we have seen rockport move through that area. We are talking consistently up to 130 miles an hour. It would not be surprised if some cops got up to 150 miles an hour. Some widespread damage in this area. This is also an area, we see very strong winds. Thats going to be pushing water. We are going to be looking at very high water at port lavaca. That could be getting up to 1012 feet storm surges. Again, thats ...

Might be 8-10 feet. when you go up to the rivers and creeks, the banks narrow. it's like a funnel effect. the waters going to go up even higher. those areas might get 12-15 feet. a surge way up the river. it's farther upstream. >> jon: people well and linda will be experiencing hurricane flooding, probably something they weren't expecting. >> exactly right. okay i'm not on barrier island, okay. that's a real misconception. the higher surges will be inland. again because the funnel effect. the waters going to pile up because can't spread out. it's a problem there. this is quite an event. i have...

>> jon: 16 minutes past 11:00 on the east coast. at 16 past 10:00 in texas. welcome back to our live team coverage. hurricane harvey making landfall right now. another story tied to this massive story. some thousand passengers on at least three crews ships are stranded in the gulf of mexico because of harvey. are they in danger and when might they be able to get home safe? let's go down to stephen letterman. obviously this is a massive hurricane. it's moving on shore right now. what about those folks out at sea on the gulf? >> they will be seeing some very large swelling waves. it might be roc...

he's going to be meeting with them, obviously. he's going to be meeting with the leaders of iraq and the prime minister. all of this ahead of the scheduled troop drawdown. everything going relatively well and on schedule as far as the u.s. military drawdown is concerned. continuing a pace, he's -- he is. there we don't know how many days and a lot of these events, they keep it hush-hush, alex. there is a press contingent traveling with him. but they're swarn to secrecy until he arrives in country. they don't give us details about who he's meeting with and when he's meeting with them ...

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