The Latest: 1 person dead in flooding in Houston
One person has died in flooding in
It's the second confirmed death from
One person has died in flooding in
It's the second confirmed death from
Wiersema's comments came after
Turner said at a news conference Saturday night that he had just gotten word that a woman apparently became trapped in a car and it wasn't yet clear whether she survived. He did not provide any additional details.
He and other officials were urging people not to leave their homes. Turner says "the streets are treacherous."
Many of
Officials are urging people to stay off of the roads. The
Hathaway says the weather service has issued a Flash
The center says the storm is drifting over southeastern
The center said Saturday night that the storm now has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (64 kph). It's moving at just 1 mph (1.6 kph), so it's hanging around and dumping rain along the coast, including in
The center says
Forecasters expect
The tornado wound through the
Shaughnessy, a retired police officer, says she had her family run to their laundry room and wait out the tornado. Their house shook and framed pictures fell off the walls.
It passed a few minutes later. Shaughnessy came outside to find small holes in her roof and wooden planks from her fence missing. Nearby, contractors tore the remains of a chimney off one home and sized up the broken windows of another.
Shaughnessy says she plans to stay in her home through the next several days, when heavy rain and strong winds are in the forecast.
The center said in its Saturday evening update that maximum sustained winds have now decreased to 60 mph (96 kph) and additional weakening of winds is expected during the next day or two.
The tropical storm's center was about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of
Authorities say sheriff's deputies in the
More than a dozen
The
The
Capt.
The
Further south along the
Officials say the
Capt.
The
Hundreds of thousands of people in
The number of people without power has fluctuated throughout the day Saturday.
The
Council spokeswoman
The center's late Saturday afternoon update says the center of the storm is about 45 miles (72 km) west-northwest of
The hurricane center says catastrophic and life-threatening flooding is expected across middle and upper
The tornado hit about
Meteorologist
In
Rackley says a tornado watch is up for most of southwest
He urges residents to remain on guard as a heavy amount of rain was expected to fall on the state over the next several days.
Damage from
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The city is mostly a ghost town. Power is out, as are cellphone and internet service in what was mostly a ghost town. At the city marina, a handful of boats had sunk.
Those who stayed and ignored orders to leave before
He says that when
Abbott said Saturday that the biggest concern is the possibility of between 20 and 30 inches (51 to 76 centimeters) more of rain from
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Abbott says state military forces activated 1,300 service members to help with storm response. He said the
Officials say rainfall amounts have averaged 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) in the last 12 hours across the county that includes the city of
A break in the rain from
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The mayor of the island city of
Mayor
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Bujan had called for a mandatory evacuation of
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City leaders said at a news conference that their coastal community has been turned into a debris field and that the storm damaged a school, the library and other public buildings.
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Capt.
He says several boats sank in the
Hahn also says that since
He says the
The
It issued a statement Saturday saying that Trump held a video conference from
It says Trump also reminded his department heads that the full impact of the storm won't be apparent for days, as residents of
Abbott said at a news conference Saturday in
Abbott says it's too early to speculate as to how much property damage the storm has caused, but he has expanded his disaster declaration to cover more counties.
Forecasters warn that the storm could cause catastrophic flooding as it lingers in the area for several days.
But officials say they are still worried about potentially catastrophic rainfall that will continue for days, with more than 40 inches and flash flooding possible even well inland.
Experts say hurricanes almost always lose strength quickly after making landfall and moving away from the warm waters that fuel their winds. But the danger doesn't end there.
Hurricane
Forecasters are predicting major flooding in the area by Tuesday.
A handful of freeway service roads and streets and some scattered neighborhoods that normally experience high water in heavy rain have been flooded.
Families who escaped
Another
Additional food and water has been delivered to the prisons receiving the displaced inmates.
The center says in its
The hurricane center says that although the winds are weakening, the storm could cause catastrophic flooding over the coming days.
The
The
Two MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrews have been sent to rescue the crews.
Hurricane
The
That figure rose to 293,000 on Saturday, when the hurricane was downgraded to Category 1.
In addition to loss of power, emergency personnel in the communities northeast of
The rain was so torrential along
The downpour on Saturday has also caused minor street flooding along a highway in
It gradually weakened over the next several hours and the
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He says emergency response system for the city of about 10,000 people has been hampered by the loss of cellphone service and other forms of communication.
The city of
Daybreak has revealed some of the damage caused when Hurricane Harvey came ashore overnight, including downed lamp posts and tree limbs in
An old white sport fishing boat was partially submerged and several boats' sails came unfurled and were ripped and whipping in wind gusts of more than 50 mph.
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