A small city nestled on the Texas Gulf Coast has been hit hard by Harvey's wrath of torrential rain and high wind, leaving one dead, and the life-threatening weather has prevented emergency crews from responding to calls for help, officials said. 
 
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 Rockport Volunteer Fire Department Chief Steve Sims told ABC News around 9 a.m. on Saturday that its teams are out doing assessments of the area of about 10,000 residents. Earlier in the morning, about 22 firefighters were still hunkered down at the local fire station. The department had about 25 to 30 pending calls at the time, and firefighters were anxious to help, Sims said, but they weren't able to respond until weather conditions improved and it was safe for them to travel. 
 
 Sims said the firehouse fared well in the storm thus far. 
 
 "It rattled, it shook, but made it through it," he said. 
 
 At least one person died in Rockport as a result of the storm, officials said Saturday afternoon. The individual's identity was not released pending next-of-kin notification. 
 
 The extent of the damage in Rockport became more clear as daylight brightened. ABC News' crew on the ground observed homes and buildings with roofs that had collapsed or were blown off; storefronts on Main Street that were shattered; brick structures that had crumbled; and flooded streets with downed power lines and scattered debris, making some roads completely impassable. 
 
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 Rockport City Manager Kevin Carruth also confirmed to ABC News that multiple buildings were damaged in the coastal community, including the courthouse and the public high school. 
 
 Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane at around 10 p.m. local time Friday over the northern end of San Jose Island between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor. The storm's eye was 30 miles away from the coastal city of Corpus Christi. By Saturday afternoon, Harvey was downgraded to a tropical storm. 
 
 However, Rockport, located about 31 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, experienced peak wind surges of more than 125 mph overnight, according to the National Weather Service. 
 
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 The city was among a handful of Texas locales that had issued mandatory evacuations prior to Harvey's anticipated arrival Friday night. Rockport Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Rios advised residents who were not evacuating ahead of the massive storm to mark their identities on their bodies. 
 
 "We’re suggesting if people are going to stay here, mark their arm with a Sharpie pen with their name and Social Security number," Rios said at a news conference Friday morning. 
 
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 He said that grim step is necessary to prepare for the worst in case of deaths among people who remain in the area. 
 
 "We hate to talk about things like that," he added. "It's not something we like to do but it’s the reality, people don’t listen." 
 
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 ABC News' Janet Weinstein contributed to this report. ||||| A truck in flood waters passes a home damaged in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Aransas Pass, Texas. Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and... (Associated Press) 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14. 
 
 Throughout the region between Corpus Christi and Houston, many people feared that toll was only the beginning. Authorities did not know the full scope of damage because weather conditions prevented emergency crews from getting into the hardest-hit places. And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation's fourth-largest. 
 
 In the island community of Port Aransas, population 3,800, officials were unable to fully survey the town because of "massive" damage. Police and heavy equipment had only made it into the northernmost street. 
 
 "I can tell you I have a very bad feeling and that's about it," said Mayor Charles Bujan, who had called for a mandatory evacuation but did not know how many heeded the order. 
 
 Some of the worst damage appeared to be in Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 that was directly in the storm's path. The mayor said his community took a blow "right on the nose" that left "widespread devastation," including homes, businesses and schools that were heavily damaged. Some structures were destroyed. 
 
 Rockport's roads were a mess of toppled power poles. A trailer blocked much of one major intersection. Wood framing from ripped-apart houses was strewn along Route 35 on the town's southern end. 
 
 Harvey's relentless wind tore the metal sides off the high school gym and twisted the steel door frame of its auditorium. 
 
 "We're still in the very infancy stage of getting this recovery started," said Aransas County spokesman Larry Sinclair. 
 
 Rockport Mayor Charles "C.J." Wax told The Weather Channel that the city's emergency response system had been hampered by the loss of cellphone service and other forms of communication. 
 
 A day earlier, Rockport Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Rios offered ominous advice, telling people who chose not to evacuate to mark their arms with Sharpie pens, implying that the marks would make it easier for rescuers to identify them. 
 
 One person was killed in Aransas County when in a fire at home during the storm, county Judge C.H. "Burt" Mills Jr. said. A second person died in flooding in Harris County, where Houston is located. 
 
 Gary Norman, a spokesman for the Houston emergency operations center, said late Saturday that the person was a woman appeared to have gotten out of her vehicle in high water, though authorities had not confirmed a cause of death. She was found by neighbors about 30 yards (27 meters) away from her vehicle, and Norman said she was pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor who was in the area. 
 
 Mills also said as many as 14 people suffered minor injuries in his county, including slips and falls, scrapes and a broken leg. 
 
 About 300,000 customers were without power statewide. Gov. Greg Abbott said it would probably be several days before electricity is restored. 
 
 Meanwhile, the storm was barely moving. Rainfall totals varied across the region, with Corpus Christi and Galveston receiving around 3 inches (8 centimeters), Houston 7 (18 centimeters) and Aransas 10 (25 centimeters). Tiny Austwell got 15 inches (38 centimeters). 
 
 In Houston, authorities were pleading with people not to leave their homes as a flood emergency was declared. 
 
 "The streets are treacherous," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said. 
 
 Elsewhere in the storm's immediate aftermath, the Coast Guard had rescued 20 people from boats and barges in distress, said Capt. Tony Hahn, commander of the Corpus Christi sector. 
 
 The Corpus Christi port was closed with extensive damage. Because the city is the third-largest petrochemical port in the nation, the agency will be on the lookout for spills, Hahn said. 
 
 The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds. 
 
 Harvey weakened to a tropical storm by midday Saturday. 
 
 By 4 a.m. Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said Harvey continued to cause "catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas." Harvey's maximum sustained winds were about 45 mph (72.42 kph), but the storm was practically stationary as it dumped torrential rain over an area that included Houston. 
 
 The hurricane posed the first major emergency management test of President Donald Trump's administration. 
 
 Trump met with his Cabinet and other senior administration officials to discuss the federal response to the damage and flooding, the White House said Saturday in a statement. 
 
 The president held a video conference from Camp David in which he instructed departments and agencies to "stay fully engaged and positioned to support his number one priority of saving lives," the statement said. 
 
 Trump, who on Friday signed a federal disaster declaration for coastal counties, also reminded department heads that the full impact of the storm will not be apparent for days. On Twitter, he commended the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for his handling of the disaster. 
 
 In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the storm's center, wind whipped palm trees and stinging sheets of horizontal rain slapped against hotels and office buildings along the seawall as the storm made landfall. 
 
 Daybreak revealed downed lamp posts and tree limbs and roof tiles torn off buildings. Along Interstate 45 leaving Galveston, the rain was so intense that drivers stopped under bridges because they could not see in front of them. 
 
 Rain fell on Houston at nearly 3 inches (8 centimeters) an hour, leaving some streets and underpasses underwater. The many drainage channels known as bayous that carry excess water to the Gulf were flowing freely and rising. 
 
 "Flooding is a minor issue so far," Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the chief administrator of the county that includes Houston, said. "Most of the watersheds are well within banks, but we're not out of this." 
 
 Francisco Sanchez, with the Harris County Emergency Management Office, said the storm would be around for a while. 
 
 "Someone is going to get those very high rainfall totals," he said. "Hopefully it's not us, but we're in that possibility area." 
 
 South of the city, about 4,500 inmates were evacuated from three state prisons in Brazoria County because the nearby Brazos River was rising. 
 
 The turbulent weather extended into southern Louisiana, where motorists were cautioned about the potential for high water, road hazards, high winds and tornadoes. 
 
 Harvey came ashore as the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in 13 years and the strongest to strike Texas since 1961's Hurricane Carla, the most powerful Texas hurricane on record. 
 
 The storm's approach sent tens of thousands of people fleeing inland. 
 
 Just hours before landfall, the governor and Houston leaders issued conflicting statements on evacuation. 
 
 The governor urged more people to flee, but Houston officials recommended no widespread evacuations, citing greater danger in having people on roads that could flood and the fact that the hurricane was not taking direct aim at the city. 
 
 The last Category 4 storm to hit the U.S. was Hurricane Charley in August 2004 in Florida. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Michael Graczyk, Juan Lozano and Nomaan Merchant in Houston; Tammy Webber in Chicago; David Phillip in Dickinson, Texas; and Jamie Stengle, David Warren and Claudia Lauer and in Dallas contributed to this report. ||||| People rest at the George R. Brown Convention Center that has been set up as a shelter for evacuees escaping the floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/LM... (Associated Press) 
 
 HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Storm Harvey (all times local): 
 
 11:15 p.m. 
 
 The Rockport-Fulton Fighting Pirates won't take the field Friday for their season opener, but some of their players took to the field Tuesday to help clean it up. 
 
 Winds from Harvey last week sheared the uprights from both goal posts, stripped most of the metal from the stadium scoreboards, scattered sheet metal through the stands and destroyed the gymnasium where the girls' volleyball team plays. 
 
 By word of mouth, some football and volleyball players met Monday afternoon to begin the cleanup. Even more players showed up Tuesday. 
 
 Athletic director Jay Seibert said that after three weeks of practice and a scrimmage, his players are now scattered all over the state after evacuating the coastal town near Corpus Christi and that the Pirates will not be able to play this week. 
 
 Right guard Angelo Trevino said that returning to the field will help the community recovery effort. 
 
 Harvey made landfall near Rockport last Friday as a Category 4 hurricane. 
 
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 10:45 p.m. 
 
 Officials say they have received disturbing reports of people impersonating Homeland Security special agents and telling residents to evacuate in order to rob their homes. 
 
 The city of Houston says people should ask anyone knocking on their doors for official badges and credentials with their name and organization. The city's statement also notes that during Harvey relief efforts, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not conducting immigration enforcement operations in the area. 
 
 The city also says in a tweet in both English and Spanish that it is not checking the immigration status of anyone coming into shelters. 
 
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 10 p.m. 
 
 The death toll from Harvey has risen to at least 18 as three more fatalities have been confirmed in the Houston area. 
 
 The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences updated its storm-related deaths Tuesday night to include an 89-year-old woman, Agnes Stanley, who was found floating in 4 feet (1.2 meters) of floodwater in a home. A 76-year-old woman was found floating in floodwater near a vehicle. Her name was not released. A 45-year-old man, Travis Lynn Callihan, left his vehicle and fell into floodwaters. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday. 
 
 Family members and authorities have reported at least 18 deaths although the bodies of some victims apparently swept away in the floodwaters have not been found. 
 
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 9:30 p.m. 
 
 Singapore's defense ministry says as many as four of its military helicopters will start assisting in Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts Wednesday. 
 
 The CH-47 Chinook helicopters are stationed in Grand Prairie, Texas, as part of a decades-long partnership between the Republic of Singapore Air Force and Texas National Guard. Singaporean airmen who train there learn how to face large-scale emergencies. 
 
 The ministry says the helicopters will be able to airlift troops, evacuees and supplies in the relief effort. 
 
 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the offer in a call with President Donald Trump late Tuesday. Both leaders are set to meet at the White House in October. 
 
 Singapore made a similar offer after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 
 
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 9:15 p.m. 
 
 Houston officials are opening a major shelter at NRG Park that can accommodate up to 10,000 evacuees from Harvey. 
 
 Darian Ward, a spokeswoman for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, said the convention center adjacent to the city's NFL stadium and the Astrodome will open at 10 p.m. Tuesday. 
 
 The new shelter will provide the city with additional capacity because the number of evacuees at the George R. Brown Convention Center is approaching 10,000, double its original capacity. 
 
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 8:40 p.m. 
 
 Just 500 cots are being added to the floor of the Toyota Center, as the nearby downtown convention center will remain the primary major shelter for evacuees of Tropical Storm Harvey. 
 
 Tom McCasland, Houston's housing and community development director, told The Associated Press Tuesday that the Toyota Center— where the NBA's Houston Rockets play — will serve as an overflow center for people still arriving Tuesday night and early Wednesday. It will only serve families with children that don't have pressing medical needs. 
 
 The George R. Brown Convention Center has an estimated 9,000 people seeking shelter. McCasland says more cots are on the way for thousands of people who didn't have one Monday night. Some people slept on towels or strips of cardboard. 
 
 He says, "We fully expect to have everyone in a cot tonight." 
 
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 8:30 p.m. 
 
 Federal and local agencies say they have rescued more than 13,000 people in the Houston area as well as in surrounding cities and counties in Southeast Texas since Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the area with torrential rain. 
 
 Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday his agency has rescued about 4,100 people. 
 
 Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña says his agency has rescued more than 3,000. 
 
 Parisa Safarzadeh, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office says her agency has rescued more than 3,000 people. Houston is located in Harris County. 
 
 U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Mike Hart says his agency has rescued more than 3,000 individuals. Hart says the Coast Guard total includes rescues in Houston, but also in outlying cities and subdivisions outside of Houston, as well as in surrounding counties, including Brazoria, Galveston and Matagorda. 
 
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 8:15 p.m. 
 
 Beaumont police say a woman has died after she and her young daughter were swept into a rain-swollen drainage canal while trying to escape their stalled vehicle. 
 
 A police statement said the woman pulled her vehicle into an office park's flooded parking lot about 3:35 p.m. Tuesday, where it became stalled by high water. The woman then took her daughter, exited the car and was swept about a half-mile away. 
 
 Two Beaumont police officers and two fire-rescue divers in a rubber boat spotted the mother floating with the child, who was holding onto her mother. Officers pulled the child and the mother into the boat. The child was responsive but suffering from hypothermia; the mother was unresponsive and efforts to revive her failed. The child is hospitalized in stable condition. 
 
 Authorities and family members have so far reported more than a dozen deaths from Harvey. 
 
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 7:55 p.m. 
 
 Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has amended his curfew order to run from midnight to 5 a.m., instead of beginning at 10 p.m. 
 
 Turner announced the change on Twitter Tuesday evening, about an hour after initially imposing the curfew. 
 
 Police Chief Art Acevedo said at an earlier news conference that curfew violators will be stopped, questioned, searched and arrested. 
 
 There have been scattered reports of looting during the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey. 
 
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 7:35 p.m. 
 
 Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says that the Toyota Center — home of the NBA's Rockets — has been opened as a shelter for people displaced by flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey. 
 
 Turner announced during a news conference Tuesday evening that the downtown basketball arena will be used to help reduce overflow at the nearby George R. Brown Convention Center, which is now sheltering 10,000 people. Officials had initially planned to have 5,000 individuals at the convention center. 
 
 Turner says people will still have to go to the convention center first before going into the Toyota Center. 
 
 Turner thanked Rockets owner Les Alexander for letting the city use the basketball arena as a shelter and also thanked him for his donation of $10 million for Harvey relief efforts. 
 
 Turner says because Houston police have been spread thin due to ongoing water rescues and other efforts, 50 Texas National Guard members will be stationed at the convention center to provide security. 
 
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 7:20 p.m. 
 
 Officials say they have evacuated homes northeast of Houston after a chemical company said there is a risk of an explosion at its flooded plant. 
 
 The Harris County Fire Marshal's office said in a tweet Tuesday that homes within 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) of the Arkema plant in Crosby have been evacuated out of precaution. 
 
 Arkema says in a news release that it manufactures organic peroxides in Crosby, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Houston. The company says the chemical compounds must be stored at low temperatures, but it lost refrigerated storage after power went out and backup generators were inundated. 
 
 Arkema said it shut down the Crosby site before Harvey made landfall last week, but a crew of 11 had been kept onsite. That group was removed Tuesday. 
 
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 7 p.m. 
 
 Harris County has confirmed the storm-related death of 64-year-old Alexander Kwoksum Sung, who drowned at a clock repair business Sunday in Houston. He was found in more than a foot of debris on Monday. 
 
 Authorities and family members have so far reported more than 10 deaths from Harvey. 
 
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 6:45 p.m. 
 
 Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says he is imposing a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in order to ensure public safety. 
 
 Turner says at a news conference Tuesday that there is no reason for people to be on the streets during those hours. 
 
 Police Chief Art Acevedo said violators will be stopped, questioned, searched and arrested. 
 
 There have been scattered reports of looting during the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey. 
 
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 6:30 p.m. 
 
 Authorities at a small city near Houston say a boater who was helping rescue people from the Harvey floodwaters has located a deceased man. 
 
 Friendswood Police spokeswoman Lisa Price said Tuesday authorities are not exactly sure how the man died and they haven't been able to confirm his identity. 
 
 Price says officers are still on the scene and the body has been taken to a funeral home. 
 
 Authorities earlier had confirmed five deaths that are believed to be related to Harvey. Another six people are missing and presumed dead after a van fell into a bayou. 
 
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 6:25 p.m. 
 
 One of the nation's busiest trauma centers has abandoned evacuation plans and will discharge patients more quickly as it prepares for an expected surge of new patients with injuries related to Harvey. 
 
 Spokesman Bryan McLeod said Tuesday that Ben Taub Hospital's case management workers will help patients who "no longer require hospitalization" get back home or to shelters if their homes are flooded or inaccessible. 
 
 McLeod said "we're going to need those beds once the next wave comes." 
 
 Ben Taub is Houston's main public hospital of last resort, and many patients are poor and uninsured. 
 
 Building repairs continue on a burst sewage pipe and leaks that damaged the basement of the hospital's main building and affected pharmacy, food service and other key operations. 
 
 McLeod said the hospital has enough food to last until Thursday, when all hospital staff and administrators will be expected back at work. 
 
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 6:10 p.m. 
 
 Authorities say an 83-year-old woman has died after her vehicle was caught in floodwaters caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in Walker County, north of Houston. 
 
 Officials with the Texas Department of Public safety say a state trooper out checking the road conditions early Tuesday morning came across Ola Mae Crooks' vehicle. Sgt. Richard Standifer with the Texas Department of Public Safety tells The Associated Press that the trooper contacted the swift water rescue team, which recovered the body. 
 
 Sgt. Steven McNeil with the Texas Department of Public Safety tells the Huntsville Item newspaper that a preliminary investigation indicates Crooks drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto River near her home. McNeil says it appears Crooks was trying to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters. 
 
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 5:50 p.m. 
 
 Hundreds of people are waiting in line at the George R. Brown Convention Center to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster assistance. 
 
 Many evacuees arrived with what was in their pockets and nothing else. 
 
 John Boyce lived in a west Houston apartment and had to be pulled out by boat. He was initially taken to a local hospital and was given paper scrubs to wear before being taken to the convention center, because his clothes were wet and soaked in sewage. 
 
 His two possessions are a cell phone and a wallet. He dried the cards inside the wallet on a piece of cardboard, and his cellphone worked after he held the battery under a bathroom hair dryer. 
 
 He took his first shower Tuesday in a mobile unit brought in by the Red Cross. 
 
 FEMA is expected to provide assistance to people left homeless in Harvey. 
 
 The 49-year-old Boyce hopes he can get enough money to travel to Alaska and join his daughter and grandchild. He says, "I have nothing to go back to here." 
 
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 5:30 p.m. 
 
 For the drenched Houston region, an end to the rain and a sunny day are almost in sight. But that's only because meteorologists forecast Harvey to come inland Wednesday, then slog through Louisiana and take its downpours north. Arkansas, Tennessee, parts of Missouri and southern Illinois are on alert for Harvey flooding in a couple days. 
 
 Harvey is forecast to return inland around the Texas-Louisiana line and close to Beaumont, Texas, early Wednesday morning or late Tuesday night with 45 mph (72 kph) winds and heavy rains, spending much of Wednesday in Louisiana. Along the Gulf Coast, rain is expected to continue Wednesday but taper off. 
 
 Dennis Feltgen, National Hurricane Center spokesman says, "Texas is going to get a chance to finally dry out as this system pulls out." 
 
 But Feltgen cautioned that this doesn't mean Harvey is ending. 
 
 Flash flood watches are already posted for parts of Tennessee, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri. 
 
 Those areas and Arkansas could get six or seven inches of rain, but it won't be anything like what southeast Texas got. 
 
 The National Weather Service in Houston forecasts less of an inch for the city on Wednesday, and only a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms for Thursday. And then for Friday it says, "mostly sunny." 
 
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 5:15 p.m. 
 
 In far North Dallas, hundreds of volunteers are handling a steady stream of cars, trucks and trailers loaded with water, diapers and other goods for hurricane relief. 
 
 The drop-off point announced by the city of Dallas is managed by the nonprofit Trusted World, which also has other drop off points in office buildings and other public locations. 
 
 The volunteers say they have seen thousands of vehicles loaded Tuesday with items to donate for hurricane relief. The volume of vehicles loaded with items to donate extended out onto and down the northbound frontage road of the Dallas North Tollway. One 34-foot trailer belonging to a cabinet maker was filled with bottled water and other items. The drop-off point was open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. 
 
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 4:15 p.m. 
 
 Harvey has gained a bit of strength but stayed a tropical storm. Its winds increased from 45 mph (72 kph) to 50 mph (80 kph). 
 
 But the National Hurricane Center says that reading Tuesday afternoon may be unusual because it was from a low flying hurricane hunter airplane. 
 
 Forecasters say heavy rains are continuing to spread over southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana. 
 
 The rains in Cedar Bayou, near Mont Belvieu, Texas, reached 51.88 inches (132 centimeters) as of 3:30 p.m. CDT. That's a record for both Texas and the continental United States but it doesn't quite pass the 52 inches (133 centimeters) from tropical cyclone Hiki in Kauai, Hawaii, in 1950 (before Hawaii became a state). 
 
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 3:20 p.m. 
 
 An official says that a levee protecting a subdivision of homes in a county south of Houston has been fortified after being breached but warns the threat is far from over. 
 
 Brazoria County spokeswoman Sharon Trower said Tuesday afternoon that the levee had been fortified. Earlier in the day the county had posted on Twitter: "NOTICE: The levee at Columbia Lakes has been breached!! GET OUT NOW!!" 
 
 She says that some water did get through but it wasn't substantial. She warns that authorities don't know how long the fortification will hold. She also notes the breach happened due to rainwater but that the nearby Brazos River continues to spill out of its banks. 
 
 Trower says that the mandatory evacuation ordered Sunday morning still stands and notes that most of the residents in the area have left. 
 
 Brazoria County Judge Matt Sebesta has said that there are hundreds of homes in the tree-lined subdivision situated around a golf course. 
 
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 3:10 p.m. 
 
 Federal regulators say dozens of offshore oil-and-gas platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have been evacuated as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to dump heavy rainfall on the region. 
 
 The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said in a statement Tuesday that workers were evacuated from 102 production platforms, which is nearly 14 percent of the 737 manned platforms in the Gulf. 
 
 Five of the 10 drilling rigs currently operating in the Gulf also had been evacuated as of noon Tuesday. The bureau estimated that approximately 19 percent of the Gulf's oil and natural gas production was "shut-in," or temporarily halted, as of midday Tuesday. Offshore facilities will be inspected once the storm has passed. 
 
 The Texas Gulf is a key area for U.S. oil refineries and oil and gas production. 
 
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 2:55 p.m. 
 
 Facebook and Google are matching donations to people affected by Hurricane Harvey, the tech giants announced on Tuesday. Facebook says it will match every dollar raised through its platform, up to $1 million, for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's Hurricane Harvey Recovery Fund. The money will support local recovery and rebuilding efforts. U.S. Facebook users are getting a message at the top of their news feed on how to donate. 
 
 Google says it is matching $1 million in donations to the American Red Cross. To donate, go to https://www.google.org/harvey-relief/ . The company also matched donations from employees, and said Tuesday it donated $750,000 between its nonprofit arm, Google.org, and employee contributions to organizations such as the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and Save the Children. 
 
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 2:30 p.m. 
 
 Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed that police Sgt. Steve Perez has died after he became trapped in his patrol car as he was driving to work. 
 
 The Houston Chronicle has reported that the 30-year officer was heading to work Sunday when he became trapped in high water on Interstate 45 in north Harris County and then couldn't get himself out of his car. 
 
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 2:05 p.m. 
 
 NAACP interim President Derrick Johnson says his organization will carefully monitor government assistance in Houston and other areas to ensure minority neighborhoods get adequate resources following Harvey's destruction on the Gulf Coast. 
 
 Johnson says the NAACP's goal will be "to ensure that resources directed from the federal government don't skip neighborhoods." 
 
 Johnson told the National Press Club Tuesday that he met with officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency earlier in the day. He says the NAACP has a responsibility to make sure "equity is at the table" during recovery efforts, noting that minority neighborhoods suffered disproportionately during Hurricane Katrina. 
 
 Johnson is the former president of the Mississippi State Conference NAACP. He says Katrina shows "it is critically important for the association to ensure that the recovery is equitable." 
 
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 1:35 p.m. 
 
 Gov. John Bel Edwards says Louisiana is offering to shelter storm victims from Texas while the state also helps its own residents who were rescued from Harvey's floodwaters overnight. 
 
 Edwards said at a news conference Tuesday in Baton Rouge that he expects Texas officials to decide within 48 hours whether to accept the offer and transport flood victims to Louisiana shelters. 
 
 Approximately 500 people were evacuated Monday night and early Tuesday from flooded neighborhoods in southwest Louisiana. Edwards says about 200 of them spent the night in area shelters. 
 
 Edwards says more than 600 members of the Louisiana National Guard are on storm-related duty. Many are assisting with rescue efforts. 
 
 Edwards says Tropical Storm Harvey was strengthening slightly after moving back into the Gulf of Mexico but wasn't expected to become a hurricane again before its predicted Wednesday landfall in Louisiana. 
 
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 1:35 p.m. 
 
 Volunteers and donors are lining up outside of the Toyota Center, the downtown arena that's home to the Houston Rockets, in anticipation that it will open as a shelter for Harvey evacuees. 
 
 City officials and Red Cross spokesmen have not confirmed that the arena will open to shelter evacuees. But several people who went to the George R. Brown Convention Center to volunteer or drop off clothes were told that the Toyota Center would open Tuesday afternoon. Around 30 people are waiting outside an arena entrance. 
 
 The convention center has nearly doubled its original 5,000-person capacity, and Mayor Sylvester Turner says the city may open multiple major shelters to accommodate the thousands of people still seeking shelter. 
 
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 1:25 p.m. 
 
 Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña says his agency has responded to more than 1,000 calls for service — including 400 water rescues — since Harvey inundated much of the city. 
 
 Peña says some fire department crews have been working for three days straight, without a break, and he has implemented procedures to ensure firefighters get the nourishment and rest they need. 
 
 Peña says it has been difficult to get in fresh crews to replace firefighters at some locations because in many areas, "we can't get in and out of the fire stations" due to flooding. "We can't deploy them to where we need them with their equipment." 
 
 Peña says the fire department is managing the resources it has on hand and will rotate in fresh firefighter crews as it is able to do so. 
 
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 1:10 p.m. 
 
 The University of Tampa has fired a visiting assistant professor who suggested in a tweet that Harvey's destruction is "instant karma" for Texas because it voted Republican. 
 
 Sociology professor Kenneth L. Storey posted the tweet and two responses on Sunday before removing the entire thread and his profile photo. 
 
 University spokesman Eric Cardenas said in a statement Tuesday that Storey was fired after the school weathered an outpouring of online outrage over the comments. 
 
 The Tampa Bay Times reports Storey issued an apology on Monday, writing that he "never meant to wish ill will upon any group." 
 
 In a Facebook post on Monday evening, the university said it "stands in solidarity with the people impacted by Hurricane Harvey." 
 
 Officials said another sociology professor will take over Storey's classes. 
 
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 1 p.m. 
 
 Weather forecasters expect Tropical Storm Harvey to come ashore somewhere near Louisiana's southwestern corner, following its trip through Texas and return to the Gulf. 
 
 National Weather Service meteorologist Roger Erickson said Tuesday that officials project a landfall in Cameron Parish around midday Wednesday. Erickson says another 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of rain is likely across southwest Louisiana. 
 
 Forecasters also project heavy rain running east from New Orleans to Pensacola along the Gulf Coast. 
 
 Harvey is expected to bring gusts up to 45 mph (70 kph) in coastal areas and gusts of up to 35 mph (55 kph) in Lake Charles and along the Interstate 10 corridor. 
 
 Erickson warns that some coastal rivers won't be able to drain rains effectively because Harvey's winds are pushing storm surge into coastal waters, aggravating flooding in places that have already received more than 20 inches of rain. 
 
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 12:55 p.m. 
 
 The Salvation Army says it has provided more than 5,000 meals in the Houston area since Harvey swamped parts of the city. 
 
 A Salvation Army statement Tuesday said the charitable group has deployed 42 mobile units that each can provide up to 1,500 meals per day. The group also sent two field kitchens, which can each serve up to 15,000 meals per day, to emergency personnel and flood survivors. 
 
 The Salvation Army says multiple staging areas are being set up across Texas to coordinate relief efforts as Harvey impacts more people. Those sites include Houston, San Antonio, Victoria and Arlington. 
 
 Lt. Col. Ron Busroe says donations from the public will help provide food, shelter and other valuable resources to people in Houston. 
 
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 12:45 p.m. 
 
 There was no escaping Harvey for members of one Southeast Texas family who found themselves on an extended stay at a New Orleans bed-and-breakfast — where sandbags are in place to guard against possible Harvey-related floods. 
 
 The Auld Sweet Olive Bed and Breakfast is the new, temporary home for Joe Aldape (ahl-DAH'-pey), his sister Cynthia, his son Joseph and other family members from the League City, Texas, area. 
 
 They had forged ahead with New Orleans vacation plans as Harvey developed. As of Tuesday, they had no way to return to their flooded homes. Meanwhile, bands of rain from Harvey prompted flash flood watches in New Orleans. 
 
 Bed-and-breakfast owner Nancy Gunn said her business took on water during Aug. 5 flash floods, but that it has not flooded so far during Harvey's rains. 
 
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 12:35 p.m. 
 
 A South Texas ferry system operated by the state is closed to the public until further notice after at least two vessels were damaged during Hurricane Harvey. 
 
 A Texas Department of Transportation spokesman said Tuesday that all seven boats in the Port Aransas (uh-RAN'-suhs) Ferry System are being assessed. Rickey Dailey says the ferries must pass Coast Guard inspection before returning to service. 
 
 The ferry system provides free transportation connecting travelers between Aransas Pass on the mainland and Port Aransas on Mustang Island. It's a quarter-mile trip. 
 
 The ferries, each capable of transporting at least 20 vehicles, were taken out of service Friday morning as Harvey approached Port Aransas, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi. The area is where Harvey made landfall Friday night. 
 
 Dailey says all seven ferries were docked on the Port Aransas side when the storm hit. 
 
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 12:30 p.m. 
 
 Kim Kardashian West and her famous siblings are donating $500,000 to help victims of Hurricane Harvey. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the reality star says she and her mother and sisters have given $250,000 to the Red Cross and $250,000 to the Salvation Army on Tuesday. 
 
 Kardashian West announced the donation on Twitter Tuesday, saying: "Houston we are praying for you." She used the hashtag #HoustonStrong. 
 
 They are among several stars who've said publicly they are helping hurricane victims. Kevin Hart on Monday announced a $25,000 donation to the Red Cross for storm victims and called on other celebrities to do the same. 
 
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 12:25 p.m. 
 
 Houston plans to open up at least two more big shelters to house people trying to escape Harvey's floodwaters. 
 
 Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a news conference Tuesday that more than 9,000 people are now staying at George R. Brown Convention Center — the largest shelter that has so far been opened. The capacity at the convention center was supposed to be 5,000 people. 
 
 Turner says Houston will open up two new big shelters, and possibly a third. He didn't identify where the shelters would be. More details are expected later Tuesday. 
 
 Turner says the number of people at the convention center has continued to grow because the facility is housing not only Houston residents but people from surrounding communities outside the city limits who are in need of shelter. 
 
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 12:25 p.m. 
 
 The mayor of Galveston is asking residents to stay put and off flooded roads as the city anticipates more rain from Harvey. 
 
 Mayor Jim Yarbrough says the city of about 50,000 could get up to 4 more inches (10 centimeters) of rain by Wednesday. The mayor says he wants Galveston residents to stay off the roads until conditions improve. Public transportation is not in service in Galveston. The city is 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Houston. 
 
 The Port of Galveston remains closed. 
 
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 12:20 p.m. 
 
 Houston's top law officer is warning would-be looters amid flooding from Harvey. 
 
 Police Chief Art Acevedo said during a news conference Tuesday that armed robbers were apprehended overnight and a "handful" of looters were also taken into custody. He didn't say just how many have been arrested on charges related to looting. 
 
 Acevedo says he's spoken with the Harris County district attorney's office to ensure anyone suspected of looting is prosecuted. He also says he'll lobby judges and prosecutors to secure the most severe punishment Texas law allows. 
 
 State law allows for penalty enhancements for crimes like burglary and robbery that occur during a state of disaster
– The first death as a result of Hurricane Harvey has been reported in Rockport, Texas. Rockport Mayor CJ Wax confirmed the fatality Saturday, the Washington Post reports. According to ABC News, the identity of the victim has not been released. An Aransas County judge says 12 to 14 people were injured in the area, the AP reports. Officials expect to find more victims as searches continue. When Hurricane Harvey hit Rockport, a city of about 10,000 people, winds were peaking at 125mph. The wind and rain prevented emergency crews from responding to distress calls. At one point Saturday morning, 22 firefighters were stuck sheltering in a fire station, forced to ignore up to 30 requests for help. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says it's too early to make any guesses as to the extent of property damage or casualties. But in Rockport, where residents who ignored a mandatory evacuation were advised to write their identities on their arm, buildings were destroyed. Wax described the situation to the Post in an email: “Widespread devastation unknown loss of life.” The area could still face serious flooding, with up to 60 inches of rain by the middle of next week. Meanwhile, some Texas residents remained unimpressed with Harvey's fury. A 56-year-old man in Galveston described his most-pressing concern: "We're running low on Corona."