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Texas posting on social media. what we're starting to see his more pictures of flooding. look at this video, this comes from instagram from jennifer lopez, it was taken at 1151 this morning. you can see the water covering the streets. jennifer said employees went to check on the store, another video comes from james, christopher from outside his home on galveston island. you can also see the road is being completely covered with water. this photo posted on instagram is from north padre island, posted at 10:33 a.m. showing a deck destroyed. another photo from josé in corpus christi. this is co...

Includes the texas military and texas parks and wildlife and texas task force wanted to, one of their primary focal points is search and rescue. they have already made several search and rescue operations, primarily hoisting through the helicopter process and we have about a thousand personnel in the state of texas who were assigned to search and rescue. the texas parks and wildlife has about 1500 evacuees at state parks and again, any costs that would normally be occurred at a state park has been waived for evacuees. for the texas department of public safety, they have

First responder who is affected by the storm, they will be able to say have the hotel taxes waived. i just got word from the fort bend county judge who has issued a voluntary evacuation for the brasses river area and a mandatory evacuation along the san bernard. this is one of the foremost regions in the state of texas that are ready has flooding and we anticipate that flooding to grow worse in that area. this morning i have the opportunity to make phone calls to several mayors who are affected by the hurricane. i spoke with the mayor of victoria and port ibaka.

Evacuation calls is that still the case? >> i didn't suggest they were not heeding it, what i was suggesting is that if local official has warned people to evacuate, it is very important that citizens heed those warnings by their local officials. >> thank you. >> michael: that was greg abbott given a comprehensive update on the reaction to hurricane harvey there in the state of texas, quite a comprehensive response. a lot of concern about rescuing those who are in harm's way, concern for first responders who are dealing with rescuing people who are victims of the store and sounds like a first-...

>> kelly: the governor went on to say the primary concern has been dramatic flooding. 20 inches in the corpus christi area. the biggest concern is more flooding is coming. 20 - 30 more inches could come between corpus christi and houston. he talked about that being the biggest concern. steve is joining us now in rockport, texas. that's a town hardest hit by harvey. what can you tell us? >> there is a category four hurricane with a hundred 34 mile-per-hour winds. this building was a laundromat the day ago. the roof and building completely gone. there picking through the wreckage. were seeing pe...