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Stressful situation may be. >> nbc's katie beck remains in victoria, texas, for us, just inland from where harvey came ashore friday night. and we have seen the winds, the rain come and go, come and go. give us a sense of the scene where you are right now. obviously the wind has picked up significantly. >> reporter: right. it has. and the rain, chris. and we're actually walking along a line of cars at the grocery store that are waiting for ice and for water. it's a car line that's been steady all day, probably at least 50, 75 cars all morning. this is nikki, a resident of victoria. and she's h...

Meteorologist adam is tracking harvey and adam can you bring us up to date on this tornado warning that we had mentioned its due to pass at 645 central time. is that over? >> it is not over. at least the tornado watches and over. we continue to see tornadoes spinning up. you see the rotation of the storm, it's grabbing some warm air off the coast of mexico. along the coast and into portions of louisiana. i will show you some tornado activity but i do want to begin with our spinning storm system. their desperate why will it be such a rainmaker? why do we continue to see these. it's not moving a...

That wraps up this hour of msnbc live. we would like to they kprc. they are our affiliate in how's. they are doing tremendous work. and my thanks to our correspondents out there in difficult conditions. they will continue to stay out there to bring stories to us. >> remarkable work all around. it is 2:00 p.m. here in washington, 1:00 p.m. in texas where harvey turned roadways and streets into rivers and could force 30,000 people from their homes. >> it is a landmark event. we have not seen an event like this, you could not draw this up. >> this is dynamic. things could champ by the hour

Whether there should have been a mandatory evacuation or not and a lot of people look back to 2005 during hurricane rita and they say it actually was worse, because it caused enormous traffic jams, people died, actually. what happened? give us some perspective about the history of houston that went into the making of the decision this time, not to have those evacuations days ago. >> reporter: i mean, i think the controversy started when governor greg abbott suggested that people should have evacuated, and, of course, local officials said, whoa, you know, we weren't going to move millions of pe...

Around. back to you, mike five thanks so much, matt, be safe. let's check in now with the meteorologist adam has been tracking harvey's every move four days. adam what is the latest? >> here is what we are looking at. this is the system where the tropical storm hit and were hearing matt talk about a potentially severe weather and that will continue through the overnight hours. he see the circulation in its grabbing warm air for over the gulf of mexico pulling it up to the coast and anything in this region we could continue to see severe weather. it is under that tornado watch that is stretchin...