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Information. >> no, sir. >> we don't have that information. >> can you tell the number of -- [ inaudible ]. >> on our numbers? >> the challenges are happening toe fast in and around the rain bands it's hard to keep track. if i asked to report how many they were doing, it takes away from the rescues. we'll collect that information at the end of the evening. >> can you put this on a scale how this disaster compares to previously ones bottle nationally and then in texas? one of the worse? the worst? >> as it being a category 4 hurricane, it's the strongest storm texas has had since 1961, and when...

Areas. some small ports, no big cities in the way. the storm surge of 12 feet has happened or is happening. but we haven't heard a lot of ports about it. because it hasn't been populated areas. we'll find that out tomorrow. then the wind component of it will slowly weaken to tomorrow. by the time we get to saturday night, it's all about the rainfall. there's the rainfall map behind us here. this is the one that the people from our federal government that do our forecasting say they've never made a forecast like this before. they've never made a forecast calling for upward isolated totals of 40...

North and east or heads off to the north and east on the backside of it, we're going to get a northwesterly flow. any westerly wind component is what i'm looking here because it will push anything to the east. again, these are surface winds. we'd have to have a breach of the core in that power plant to begin to talk about anything into the upper levels of the atmosphere, we're nowhere near there. continuing coverage after the break. [ male announcer ] it's 2011 and everything is different. different jobs... ♪ ...different challenges. ♪ different opportunities. ♪ so why would universities...