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Wind gusts of up to 132 miles per hour. Winds and massive storm surges pummelling large swaths of the state leaving thousands without power. Areas like rockport get hurt worse than others with entire buildings collapsed, trapping residents and sending others to hospitals. President trump declared Hurricane Harvey a disaster late into the evening. Hes monitoring the storm and tweeting from camp david with his National Security team and the Vice President there. Leaders in texas also urged residents to evacuate, warning those who remained would be subjected to the storms wrath for days. Heres go...

The vice president. leaders in texas are urging residents at this hour to evacuate, warnle those who remain would be suspected to the storm's wrath for days. here's governor greg abbott. >> we are concerned that not enough people have evacuated. we are still urging people if at all possible if run in low lying areas, if are you if zones where evacuation orders have been if place, there may still be time for you to get out. >> all right. let's start our coverage this hour, going to corpus christi, texas. that city getting hammered overnight, maya rotd guess has been there, we are hearing some 4...

Covering katrina, the bayous, the low areas exist all throughout this area, ken for that great state of louisiana as well as texas, too. >> louisiana is on the northern fringe of the storms, the winds will be severe, you have that on shore push of water. you also have in those rain bands, the three-to-five inches of rain i was talking about t. concern here, north and east of corpus christi is the water pushes in with the wind flow, the water that normally bleeds out to the gulf has nowhere to go. so it piles up. >> yeah. >> so that's why this is an accumulation over days, it builds and builds ...

It came in 13 minutes ago. steve will get that to us in terms of what came up. of course, will you hear all hour and all morning. i'd like to bring in mark rylander, there is some concern here, because this is highly court made theed, right? law enforcement, first responders on the ground up and down the gulf of mexico, you are saying there might be complications right pow? >> well the law enforcement officers are ready. the officials are here from the federal, state, local law entities. here's where we will have complications. when day breaks, if people who did not heed warning and they decid...

Swim for safety. it's a scary situation. we don't have really any answers, right now we are waiting for daybreak. we have another two-and-a-half hours for. that so we keep telling people, it's a wait and see kind of thing. that's about all we can do and hope for the best. >> a paper there in the town of victoria, about an hour-and-a-half north of corpus christi. it's these situation, jr, where residents are looking for reporters leak you to get the right information out. thank you for being there i know in the middle of this big storm. j.r. ortega. you bet, thank you so much, j.r.. let's go ov...