With the deadly storm overnight bringing dangerous winds and widespread
flash flooding, take a look at downtown Houston right now
you know that is just a glimpse of the of
the severe damage there.
At least four people were killed, killed near the city.
And our ginger GZ starts this off and Ginger this
is this is look like, you know damage after a
possible.
Yeah.
Tornado.
Yeah.
And it doesn't really matter whether it's a tornado.
Straight line winds.
They'll get out and tell us what it was today.
But is your family all right Because this was big.
They're all right.
It was a gnarly line of storms and unfortunately it
went right into downtown Houston.
So we saw the time lapse there taken over.
You know, the the mayor was actually saying that the
damage looks like when they had Hurricane Ike.
Unfortunately, we're not done yet.
We've got flood watches all the way to Destin this
morning and more storms to go tonight.
Overnight, deadly storms sweeping across the western Gulf Coast, Southeast
Texas raked with winds over 80 mph near Houston.
At least four people were killed at one point.
Overnight, more than 1,000,000 customers in Texas and Louisiana without
power as those vicious winds took down transmission lines.
I can't emphasize enough the danger of falling trees and
falling utility wires.
Downtown is a mess.
It's dangerous due to the glass and the lack of
traffic lights.
So stay at home.
Downtown Houston.
A mess.
It just looks like the bomb went off and everything's
damaged.
Windows blown out of skyscrapers, streets littered with debris.
We can literally hear a feel of the building shake.
And then the ceiling tile was coming down the roof
of this Hyatt hotel sent flying, a large chunk of
this bar crumbling.
I realized it was pretty bad when it got black.
I mean, it really got dark.
Astros fans scrambling after rain got through the Dome at
Minute Maid Park, trees littering the streets, this tire shop
barely standing.
It's hard because this might work for two years and
a half, my 5 minute business.
And it's hard.
Really hard and layered with all the damaging winds, torrential
rains, Radar estimates up to 1/2 foot, leading to widespread
flash flooding.
So I think flooding is the daytime hazard that we're
going to watch for because the storms are slightly less
powerful.
But we are going to reinvigorate the atmosphere.
And later tonight from Lafayette, right through New Orleans, in
the overnight hours, people are going to be sleeping and
you're going to get this big line of storms blowing
through again.
You do want to note that you're going to have
from Hattiesburg to Montgomery, Auburn as well, the flood concern
going through tomorrow.
And we know you'll stay on it.
Ginger, thank you.
And we'll be thinking of all those people in that
zone.