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  <h1>Hurricane Harvey: Texas crews rescue hundreds from homes, cars as tropical storm hits Houston </h1>



  
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  <p>Emergency crews are racing to pull people from cars and homes inundated by rising floodwaters across south-east Texas, rescuing more than 1,000 people in the Houston area as Tropical Storm Harvey pounded the region.</p><div class="inline-content wysiwyg right">
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  <h2>Key points:</h2><ul><li>Rain will lead to "potentially catastrophic flooding" well into next week, weather service says</li><li>Two people killed in storm with fears Harvey death toll could rise</li><li>Texas Governor activating 2,800 military members to help with recovery and clean-up</li></ul> </div>
</div><p> </p><p>At least two people have died and more than a dozen have been injured due to the storm that has battered the region, including the cities of Corpus Christi and Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States.</p><p>Throughout the region many people feared that the death toll was only the beginning, as the weather conditions prevented emergency crews from getting into the hardest-hit places and assessing the damage.</p><p>Emergency services told people to climb onto the roofs of their houses rather than into their attics to escape rapidly rising waters.</p><p>Houston authorities warned the city's more than 2 million residents not to leave flooded homes because many of the city's roads were under water.</p><p>The US authorities said its emergency service call centres were unable to respond quickly to all of the requests for help.</p><blockquote class="quote--pullquote"><p>"Call centres are inundated. Don't hang up and call back. If you do, then that call will increase the call volume," one official Harris County emergency account tweeted.</p></blockquote><h2>'Catastrophic life-threatening flood'</h2><div class="inline-content photo full">
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       Harvey is weakening at a slow pace, authorities say, and is expected to lash Texas for days. <span class="source">(Reuters: Adrees Latif )</span>
      </a></div><p> </p><p>The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said Harvey was producing torrential rains across parts of south-east Texas as it weakened at a slow pace.</p><p>"This rain will lead to a prolonged, dangerous, and potentially catastrophic flooding event well into next week," the National Weather Service (NWS) said.</p><div class="inline-content right">
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NWS Houston tweet: 1:45 AM CDT FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY LIST UPDATE. CATASTROPHIC LIFE THREATENING FLOODING ONGOING ACROSS SE TEXAS</span>
        </a></div><p> </p><p>Harvey slammed into Texas late on Friday as a category four hurricane with winds of 209 kilometres per hour, making it the strongest storm to hit the state since 1961.</p><p>One person died in a house fire in the town of Rockport, which took a direct hit from Hurricane Harvey and had streets flooded and strewn with power lines and debris.</p><p>The second fatality was an elderly woman who was killed as she drove through flooded streets on Houston's west side. Fourteen people have been injured.</p><p>A "catastrophic life-threatening flooding" warning has been issued for areas south-east of Houston and areas on the Texas coastline.</p><p>Houston Police chief Art Acevedo warned residents who were reportedly trying to get into their attics to escape the floodwater not to "do so unless you have an axe or means to break through onto your roof".</p><p>Water rescues were going on and emergency services were severely impacted, the National Weather Service Houston said on Twitter.</p><p>The storm ripped off roofs, snapped trees, triggered tornadoes and flash floods and cut off power to nearly 230,000 people, mostly in the Houston area, on Saturday night.</p><h2>Trump to visit Texas as soon as feasible</h2><div class="inline-content video full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>The US Coast Guard said it had rescued 20 people from distressed vessels on Saturday, and was monitoring two Carnival Corp cruise ships carrying thousands of people stranded in the US Gulf of Mexico.</p><div class="inline-content wysiwyg right">
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  <h2><a href="/news/2017-08-26/hurricane-harvey-smashes-texas-in-pictures/8845324" target="_self" title="">In pictures: Harvey hits Texas</a></h2><a href="/news/2017-08-26/hurricane-harvey-smashes-texas-in-pictures/8845324" target="_self" title=""><img alt="" class="float--none" src="/cm/lb/8845666/data/rough-seas-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-data.jpg#Rough seas in the gulf of mexico as hurricane harvey looms"/> </a> <br/><a href="/news/2017-08-26/hurricane-harvey-smashes-texas-in-pictures/8845324" target="_self" title="">Category four Hurricane Harvey brings heavy rain and damaging winds to communities in southern Texas.</a></div>
</div><p> </p><p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he was activating 1,800 members of the military to help with the statewide clean-up, while 1,000 people would conduct search-and-rescue operations.</p><p>US President Donald Trump said he will be traveling to Texas "as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption" in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which he said experts are "calling a once in a 500-year flood".</p><div class="inline-content right">
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Donald Trump tweet: Great coordination between agencies at all levels of government. Continuing rains and flash floods are being dealt with. Thousands rescued.</span>
        </a></div><p> </p><p>Mr Trump tweeted that the "focus must be life and safety", and praised the response to the storm, commenting that there has been "great coordination between agencies at all levels of government".</p><p>"Many people are now saying that this is the worst storm/hurricane they have ever seen. Good news is that we have great talent on the ground," he tweeted.</p><p>The US President, facing the first big natural disaster of his term, met with his Cabinet and staff on Saturday to discuss the federal reaction to the storm, according to a White House statement.</p><p>"President Trump emphasised his expectations that all departments and agencies stay fully engaged and positioned to support his number one priority of saving lives," according to the statement.</p><p>A convoy of military vehicles arrived in the Rockport area on Saturday to help in the recovery efforts, and town officials announced an overnight curfew for residents.</p><p>A high school, hotel, senior housing complex and other buildings suffered structural damage, according to emergency officials and local media.</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>The streets of Corpus Christi, a city of about 320,000 people, were deserted on Saturday, with billboards twisted and strong winds still blowing.</p><p>City authorities asked residents to reduce use of toilets and taps because power outages left waste water plants unable to treat sewage.</p><p>Elsewhere, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said it was forced to evacuate some 4,500 inmates from three state prisons near the Brazos River because of rising water.</p><div class="inline-content video full">
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