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U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducts successful test off coast of Hawaii amid North Korean provocations

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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced Wednesday that it successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii in a new test of its missile defense system at sea.

The USS John Paul Jones, a guided-missile destroyer successfully launched an SM-6 interceptor missile to shoot down the target.

This test comes after a previous failed test in June from the same warship.

"We are working closely with the fleet to develop this important new capability, and this was a key milestone in giving our Aegis BMD ships an enhanced capability to defeat ballistic missiles in their terminal phase," MDA Director Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves said in a statement. "We will continue developing ballistic missile defense technologies to stay ahead of the threat as it evolves."

The ship detected and tracked a target missile launched from Kauai, Hawaii, "with its onboard AN/SPY-1 radar, and onboard SM-6 missiles executed the intercept," the statement read.

The test comes after North Korea fired a ballistic missile from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before plunging into the northern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, an aggressive test-flight over the territory of a close U.S. ally that sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby.

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled around 1,677 miles and reached a maximum height of 341 miles as it flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

President Trump offered a surprisingly subdued response Tuesday, pulling back from his administration's recent suggestions of a dialogue with the communist country but also avoiding a repeat of his bombastic warnings earlier this month of a potential military confrontation.

Instead, Trump's terse, written statement reiterating that all U.S. options are being considered pointed to an administration cautiously searching for an effective policy, even as the North's test risked endangering Japanese civilians. Washington and its allies called an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting for later Tuesday, but looked short on new ideas for stopping the nuclear and missile advances that are increasingly putting the U.S. mainland within range.

"Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among all nations of the world," Trump said after the North's missile soared almost 1,700 miles into the Pacific Ocean, triggering alert warnings in northern Japan and shudders throughout Northeast Asia. "All options are on the table."
Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson and the Associated Press contributed to this report

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US shoots down ballistic missile in test amid recent North Korean provocations

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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced Wednesday that it successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii in a new test of its missile defense system at sea. The USS John Paul Jones, a guided-missile destroyer successfully launched an SM-6 interceptor missile to shoot down the target.

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Burger King is now offering Whoppers to fired employees as part of their new "Whopper Severance Package

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Who knew being fired could taste so good?

Burger King is offering customers who have recently been fired free Whoppers this week.

The fast food chain rolled out its "Whopper Severance" deal on Tuesday that will be in effect until Friday.

The burger joint offers those who have been recently terminated free Whoppers, but first they would have to "publicly confess on LinkedIn that you've been fired and want a free Whopper using #whopperseverance," according to its website.
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After writing the message, a person will be sent a link in order to register for "the Whopper Severance package." The package, including a gift card to the restaurant, would be delivered to the person.

The fast food chain said it intends to distribute some 2,500 free Whopper sandwiches, according to Business Insider.

It was not immediately clear if the restaurant would check if applicants were fired or if they were terminated for a serious violation in their workplace.
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A Burger King spokesperson told Business Insider that they hope the chain's fans would "understand the light-hearted nature of the idea."

"For over 63 years, Burger King restaurants have used fire to flame grill," a Burger King spokesperson told Business Insider. "While getting fired sucks, for Burger King restaurants fire grilling is a good thing."

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Burger King offers free Whoppers to people just fired from their jobs

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Who knew being fired could taste so good? Burger King is offering customers who have recently been fired free Whoppers this week. The fast food chain rolled out its "Whopper Severance" deal on Tuesday that will be in effect until Friday.

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The Houston Texans and the Dallas Cowboys preseason game on Thursday was canceled because of hurricane Harvey. The Houston Texans released an announcement that said the Texans would donate money equal to the number of tickets sold for the game.

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Hurricane Harvey has left thousands of people stranded and an estimated 30,000 or 40,000 homes destroyed, on the low end of water levels is about 3 to 6 feet in downhill areas.

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Thousands of people likely remain stranded, and an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the Houston area as Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical depression, continues to batter the Gulf Coast with torrential rains, flooding and strong winds, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said.

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Harvey made its third landfall, just west of Cameron, Louisiana, Wednesday at 4 a.m. CDT, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, according to the National Weather Service. As of 11 p.m. EDT, the slow-moving storm had picked up some speed, moving northeast at 9 mph, with its center was about 30 miles northeast of Alexandria, Louisiana.

The storm was starting to fall apart overnight, with rain scattered in nature and falling over Mississippi and Arkansas. Residents in western Tennessee, around Memphis, should expect heavy rains on Thursday morning and possible flash flooding as up to 8 inches of rain are possible locally.

Before that, it battered the Beaumont-Port Arthur area in southeastern Texas, dumping more than 2 feet of rain in some parts. By Wednesday evening, the storm had weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression.

"We have people who are on the second floor of their homes. They're riding it out, and they're waiting for the waters to go down," Emmett, who is also the director of Texas' Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said in an interview Wednesday with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on " Good Morning America."

"We've got probably [30,000] to 40,000 homes that have been destroyed," Emmett added.

Power outages in the Houston area are down to 75,000, but 32,000 of those outages are inaccessible to crews, officials said Wednesday.

The brunt of the storm's impact has begun to shift to western and northern Louisiana. Now, for Harris County, "the biggest challenge is going to get people back in their homes," Emmett said. "We've got to get those people back into their normal lives as soon as possible."

The Houston Airport System announced that it has lifted restrictions on commercial operations. On Saturday, Southwest Airlines will ramp up the number of flights, according to the airport system.

A curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. will take effect in Houston for the second night in a row, Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a press conference. No arrests were made during Tuesday night's curfew, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department said at the press conference.

The Houston Fire Department has received about 15,000 calls for assistance, a spokesperson said Wednesday evening. The fire department will begin recovery operations in certain areas and conduct door-to-door checks of accessible homes that got more than 3 feet of water, the spokesperson said.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said 911 calls for water rescues were down to about 40 an hour as of this morning. Still, the Coast Guard is taking more than 1,000 calls per hour from people needing rescue.

The Navy is sending two ships -- the USS Kearsarge and the USS Oak Hill -- to the Gulf of Mexico to held with storm relief efforts, it announced Wednesday.

Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that he will travel to Texas Thursday. "@POTUS asked me to travel to Texas tomorrow with his message: 'We will be with you every single day to restore, recover, and rebuild,'" the vice president tweeted.

Harris County Flood Control District meteorologist Jeff Lidner told reporters this morning that the lowest homes near the Addicks and Barker reservoirs have 3 to 6 feet of water.

Harvey, which first came ashore last Friday in Texas as a category 4 hurricane, dumped more than 51 inches of rain on some parts of the state, according to preliminary reports from the National Weather Service. The storm led to at least 31 deaths over the past five days, according to The Associated Press. Harris County officials, where Houston is located, confirmed six new deaths late Wednesday.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott -- who spoke by phone Wednesday with the president while the commander in chief was on board Air Force One, returning from Missouri -- said most of the deaths were due to people driving vehicles into high water.

An undetermined number of people are missing. The Coast Guard is leading a search for two volunteer rescuers missing after their boat crashed and capsized on Cypress Creek near the North Freeway early Wednesday. Authorities found a third rescuer clinging to a tree, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office urged people awaiting rescue to "hang a towel or sheet prominently" for rescuers to see because addresses are difficult to spot.

Harvey is expected to weaken and continue moving to the north and east across the Lower Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley through Thursday. But the National Weather Service said Harvey still has the potential to cause "life-threatening flooding."

"Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding continues in southeastern Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana," the service said in an advisory this morning. "Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses, as well as other drainage areas and low-lying spots."

The situation became serious in eastern Texas Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for parts of southeastern Texas, including the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, which received more than 26 inches of rain in some areas on Tuesday alone.

Port Arthur Mayor Derrick Freeman urged residents to get to higher ground in a Facebook post early Wednesday.

"Our whole city is underwater right now but we are coming!" Freeman wrote in one post. "Please get to higher ground if you can, but please try stay out of attics."

The largest oil refinery in the United States is shutting down because of the devastating floods. Its owner, Motiva Enterprises, announced in a statement early Wednesday that it began a "controlled shutdown of the Port Arthur refinery in response to increasing local flood conditions."

The refinery won't reopen until floodwaters recede, the company said.

Officials were forced to evacuate the shelter at the Bob Bower Civic Center in Port Arthur this morning after it began to fill with water. One witness, who was forced to relocate, said some areas of the center had almost 4 feet of water inside.

Displaced residents were taken to a secondary evacuation site at the Carl Parker Center, according to ABC Texas affiliate KBMT-TV.

The disastrous rainfall Wednesday led the National Weather Service to further extend a flash-flood emergency for the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur until 4:30 p.m. CT in anticipation of additional rain that morning.

The worst is not over for Texas, Abbott warned Wednesday. He said 24,000 National Guard troops, including all of Texas' force, have been deployed in the state and will be crucial in the weeks and months to come to help restore order.

The National Guard has made 8,500 rescues, evacuated 26,000 people and done 1,400 shelter-in-place welfare checks in Texas so far. Meanwhile, there are 32,000 people in shelters throughout the state, Abbott said.

Five days after Harvey first made landfall, FEMA said it's still in "life-saving, life-sustaining" mode, with recovering survivors being the top priority. FEMA Administrator Brock Long said at a news conference Wednesday that there are more than 12,000 emergency staffers on the ground in Texas and Louisiana, spread across 50 counties. The agency is operating more than 230 shelters in Texas, housing more than 30,000 people.

The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston is no longer accepting evacuees, Turner said. About 8,000 people are currently at the convention center, down from 10,000 people on Tuesday night. The city had opened up the Toyota Center as an additional shelter to ease the overcrowding at the convention center.

Long said the FEMA travel trailers used after Hurricane Katrina are a "last resort" and the agency will first try to move displaced residents into local hotels before helping them clear out their inundated houses so they can return to them. FEMA has already placed more than 1,800 flood survivors in hotels, he said.

The Air Force said it was providing aircraft assistance in response to Harvey, including two HC-130J Combat King IIs, three HH-60G Pave Hawks, air crews and other support personnel to College Station, Texas. Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs are carrying more than 30 tons of relief supplies to Louisiana's Alexandria International Airport.

Help is also coming from overseas. Gov. Abbott said on Wednesday that Texas is accepting resources from Mexico, including boats, food and other supplies. And Israel's embassy in Washington tweeted, "A team from the Israeli Rescue Coalition will arrive in #Houston on Thursday to help victims of #HurricaneHarvey."

ABC News' Max Golembo, Serena Marshall, Whitney Lloyd, Luis Martinez and Zunaira Zaki contributed to this report.

Take part in Disney's Day of Giving: To support people impacted by Hurricane Harvey, call 1-855-999-GIVE, donate at www.RedCross.org/ABC or text "HARVEY" to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

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Estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes destroyed in Houston area

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Thousands of people likely remain stranded, and an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the Houston area as Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical depression, continues to batter the Gulf Coast with torrential rains, flooding and strong winds, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said.

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Police in Pennsylvania find concrete slab in home that is believed to have the remains of a missing women from 1989

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A three-ton concrete slab in a Pennsylvania duplex may contain the remains of a young mother who disappeared in 1989, according to police.

Sunbury Police Chief Tim Miller said earlier this month that preliminary results from tests run on the concrete showed that the slab contained wood chips - a clue that might prove the woman's body was run through a wood chipper before being entombed into concrete.

A forensic pathologist is "dissecting the walls, so to speak, piece by piece, hammer-and-chisel type, looking for the smallest of clues," Miller said last week. He called it "mere speculation if a wood chipper was or wasn't used. Obviously the presence of wood chips in a concrete wall is highly suspicious."

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Investigators believe the woman, Barbara Elizabeth Miller, may have been murdered by her ex-boyfriend, a onetime Sunbury police officer named Mike Egan.

Egan "is and has been the lead suspect in this case since 1989," Tim Miller, who has no relation to Barbara, wrote in an affidavit that was used to obtain a search warrant to investigate the Milton home where the concrete slab was found.

Egan said Friday he had nothing to do with Barbara Miller's disappearance.

The police affidavit said that throughout the years, several people have said Egan would talk about driving past his sister's home in Milton to "visit" his "old lady" - located in the same building where the cement currently is being examined.

Egan, now 59, was paroled in 1988 after serving six years in state prison for receiving stolen property and other offenses - a crime he committed as a police officer. He reported Barbara Miller missing five days after she disappeared, then moved into her home.

The affidavit says that Barbara Miller, then 30, complained to police about Egan during the months leading up to her disappearance. Days before she vanished, she told friends that she feared for her life.

Barbara Miller's teenage son, Eddie Miller Jr., said his mother and Egan had a fight on June 30, 1989 - the night she disappeared - over her plans to attend a friend's wedding without him. Eddie Miller also said that the morning after the wedding, he was driving Barbara Miller's car when he noticed the tires were covered with yellow clay that he thought was related to concrete work.
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Seventeen years later, a judge declared Barbara Miller dead.

Within recent years, a local news outlet, The Sunbury Daily Item, began looking at the case again, and encouraged Tim Miller to take up the case after he became police chief last year.

An informant told Tim Miller that Egan's sister, Cathy Reitenbach, who - in 1989, lived in the Milton home where the concrete slab was discovered - had been one of the last people to see Barbara Miller alive. Reitenbach died in January.

The chief found a tip within a department report in 2009 that said Barbara Miller's remains were found inside the Milton home, but apparently the tip was not pursued. There was also a 2004 report that said, "Egan put a body inside the wall of a home," and three people have said Egan would "get high on cocaine and drive by a home in Milton to 'check on his old lady,'" Tim Miller wrote in the affidavit.

The Milton home's current owners let investigators into the basement, where they found "highly suspicious construction," including a concrete floor that was added on, with portions of what appeared to be hand-mixed concrete. A small room in the basement, Tim Miller wrote, "was very peculiar," with thick concrete walls and an exhaust fan.

Another informant, according to the affidavit, told the police chief that Reitenbach's close friend, Harry Catherman, once told someone that if they did not pay a drug debt, they would "end up just like Barbara Miller did in Cathy's basement."

Catherman hung up when contacted for comment.
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Law enforcement officials brought more than a half-dozen cadaver-smelling dogs to the duplex in early June, where they all separately alerted the human remains may be present in the basement or in material taken from the basement.

In a weeklong dig after that search, police hauled the cement chunk from the basement, which led to last week's announcement that it contained wood chips.

Investigators are keeping quiet about what they found in a metal barrel recovered during an Aug. 10 search of a pond near Barbara Miller's former home.

Barbara Miller last was seen by friends around 8 p.m. the night of her disappearance.

She was putting flowers from the wedding into her car, and said she was going to change at home before meeting them at a bar later.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Concrete slab in Pennsylvania home may hold remains of long-missing woman, police say

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A three-ton concrete slab in a Pennsylvania duplex may contain the remains of a young mother who disappeared in 1989, according to police. Sunbury Police Chief Tim Miller said earlier this month that preliminary results from tests run on the concrete showed that the slab contained wood chips - a clue that might prove the woman's body was run through a wood chipper before being entombed into concrete.

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7 year old girl thrown from bridge swims to safety after being abducted

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A 7-year-old Massachusetts girl swam to safety after being abducted and thrown from an interstate bridge into a lake near Worcester.

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hurricane Harvey has hit again in the Louisiana Texas border. Over 8500 people have been rescued.

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Harvey just made a second landfall near the Louisiana-Texas border, as officials scramble to help those trapped by floods in the Houston area. Follow here for live updates.

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Two workers killed by toxic fumes at power plant

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State police say two contractors died after inhaling toxic fumes that also injured several other workers in an underground pit at a western Pennsylvania power plant.

Police said the Enerfab Corp. workers were in a "confined, well-type" area at the Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Beaver County shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday when they removed an elbow joint in a pipe, releasing hydrogen sulfide gas into the air in the confined space.

Police said 34-year-old Kevin Bachner and 42-year-old John Gorchock, both of Pittsburgh, were unable to make it out of the well and died. Three other workers were able to make it to safety and were taken to hospitals.

The plant in Shippingport, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Pittsburgh, is FirstEnergy's largest coal-fired plant. FirstEnergy spokeswoman Stephanie Walton says the plant remains operational.

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State police say two contractors died after inhaling toxic fumes that also injured several other workers in an underground pit at a western Pennsylvania power plant. Police said the Enerfab Corp. workers were in a "confined, well-type" area at the Bruce Mansfield Power Station in Beaver County shortly before 1 a.m.

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A photo of a dog (Otis) goes viral while he is carrying a bag of food during   Hurricane Harvey

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Meet Otis, the dog whose picture went viral in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

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Sandra Bullock has donated $1 million to help those hard hit by flooding in Texas.

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According to a press release from the Red Cross, the actress is a longtime supporter of the organization and made her donation Monday.

"I'm just grateful I can do it," Bullock said in a statement. "We have to take care of one another."

As of Wednesday, the former hurricane had been downgraded to a Tropical Storm but continued to batter parts of Texas and Louisiana with heavy rains and flooding.

At least 11 people have died in Texas as a result of the flooding.

Bullock is a former resident of Austin, Texas where she reportedly still owns a home and also maintains a residence in New Orleans.

Several celebrities have stepped up to offer relief support, including Kevin Hart, Kim Kardashian and Houston native Beyoncé.

Bullock has a long history of generosity after disasters.

She donated $1 million to the Red Cross after the September 11th attacks. She gave the same amount to the organization in 2004 after a tsunami in Indonesia and again in 2005, following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

In 2010, Bullock gave $1 million to Doctors Without Borders to aid in the Haiti earthquake relief effort.

CNN has reached out to a rep for Bullock for further comment.

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According to a press release from the Red Cross, the actress is a longtime supporter of the organization and made her donation Monday. "I'm just grateful I can do it," Bullock said in a statement. "We have to take care of one another."

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Interstate 10 south of Beaumont in Texas now looks like an ocean with huge waves

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What used to be Interstate 10, south of Beaumont, looked like an ocean, with waves lapping.

This split-screen shows what that stretch of I-10 looked like before Harvey hit -- and what it looks like now.

The wind-churned waves almost tipped Wheat's boat over, he told CNN.

"The boat was being thrown around a lot," he said.

The waves, he added, were "anywhere from three to four feet."

Wheat and the owners of the Phillips Ranch in Winnie, Texas, set out Tuesday to move cattle to higher ground.

The three of them ended up having to boat two miles to the cattle.

Eventually they found some.

"They were in chest deep water," he said. "We only found a small group of them."

There was about 90 head of cattle in their herd; they were only able to find about 30.

"We know some of them are going to die," he said. "There were some calves out there."

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What used to be Interstate 10, south of Beaumont, looked like an ocean, with waves lapping. This split-screen shows what that stretch of I-10 looked like before Harvey hit -- and what it looks like now. The wind-churned waves almost tipped Wheat's boat over, he told CNN.

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will be a multi-year recovery and  the death count is rising to 20

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Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall early Wednesday, hitting just west of Cameron, Louisiana, which is in the southwest corner of the state.

The storm returned to land about 5 miles west of Cameron with maximum sustained winds of 45 m.p.h. National Hurricane Center meteorologist Dennis Feltgen said Tuesday that when Harvey came back to shore, "it's the end of the beginning."

Harvey is forecast to drop substantial amounts of rain on Louisiana before moving on to Arkansas, Tennessee and parts of Missouri, which could also see flooding.

Feltgen said there's still a lot of residents in multiple states "who are going to feel the impacts of the storm."

Harvey first made landfall Friday in Texas as a Category 4 hurricane.
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall early Wednesday, hitting just west of Cameron, Louisiana, which is in the southwest corner of the state. The storm returned to land about 5 miles west of Cameron with maximum sustained winds of 45 m.p.h.

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8,500 people rescude from Hurricane Harvey and at the Louisiana-Texas border gets a record 51.88 inches of rain

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Harvey just made a second landfall near the Louisiana-Texas border, as officials scramble to help those trapped by floods in the Houston area. Follow here for live updates.

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30,00 - 40,00 homes have been to destroyed because of hurricane Harvey.

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Thousands of people likely remain stranded, and an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the Houston area as Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical depression, continues to batter the Gulf Coast with torrential rains, flooding and strong winds, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said.

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Harvey made its third landfall, just west of Cameron, Louisiana, Wednesday at 4 a.m. CDT, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, according to the National Weather Service. As of 11 p.m. EDT, the slow-moving storm had picked up some speed, moving northeast at 9 mph, with its center was about 30 miles northeast of Alexandria, Louisiana.

The storm was starting to fall apart overnight, with rain scattered in nature and falling over Mississippi and Arkansas. Residents in western Tennessee, around Memphis, should expect heavy rains on Thursday morning and possible flash flooding as up to 8 inches of rain are possible locally.

Before that, it battered the Beaumont-Port Arthur area in southeastern Texas, dumping more than 2 feet of rain in some parts. By Wednesday evening, the storm had weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression.

"We have people who are on the second floor of their homes. They're riding it out, and they're waiting for the waters to go down," Emmett, who is also the director of Texas' Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said in an interview Wednesday with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on " Good Morning America."

"We've got probably [30,000] to 40,000 homes that have been destroyed," Emmett added.

Power outages in the Houston area are down to 75,000, but 32,000 of those outages are inaccessible to crews, officials said Wednesday.

The brunt of the storm's impact has begun to shift to western and northern Louisiana. Now, for Harris County, "the biggest challenge is going to get people back in their homes," Emmett said. "We've got to get those people back into their normal lives as soon as possible."

The Houston Airport System announced that it has lifted restrictions on commercial operations. On Saturday, Southwest Airlines will ramp up the number of flights, according to the airport system.

A curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. will take effect in Houston for the second night in a row, Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a press conference. No arrests were made during Tuesday night's curfew, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department said at the press conference.

The Houston Fire Department has received about 15,000 calls for assistance, a spokesperson said Wednesday evening. The fire department will begin recovery operations in certain areas and conduct door-to-door checks of accessible homes that got more than 3 feet of water, the spokesperson said.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said 911 calls for water rescues were down to about 40 an hour as of this morning. Still, the Coast Guard is taking more than 1,000 calls per hour from people needing rescue.

The Navy is sending two ships -- the USS Kearsarge and the USS Oak Hill -- to the Gulf of Mexico to held with storm relief efforts, it announced Wednesday.

Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that he will travel to Texas Thursday. "@POTUS asked me to travel to Texas tomorrow with his message: 'We will be with you every single day to restore, recover, and rebuild,'" the vice president tweeted.

Harris County Flood Control District meteorologist Jeff Lidner told reporters this morning that the lowest homes near the Addicks and Barker reservoirs have 3 to 6 feet of water.

Harvey, which first came ashore last Friday in Texas as a category 4 hurricane, dumped more than 51 inches of rain on some parts of the state, according to preliminary reports from the National Weather Service. The storm led to at least 31 deaths over the past five days, according to The Associated Press. Harris County officials, where Houston is located, confirmed six new deaths late Wednesday.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott -- who spoke by phone Wednesday with the president while the commander in chief was on board Air Force One, returning from Missouri -- said most of the deaths were due to people driving vehicles into high water.

An undetermined number of people are missing. The Coast Guard is leading a search for two volunteer rescuers missing after their boat crashed and capsized on Cypress Creek near the North Freeway early Wednesday. Authorities found a third rescuer clinging to a tree, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office urged people awaiting rescue to "hang a towel or sheet prominently" for rescuers to see because addresses are difficult to spot.

Harvey is expected to weaken and continue moving to the north and east across the Lower Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley through Thursday. But the National Weather Service said Harvey still has the potential to cause "life-threatening flooding."

"Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding continues in southeastern Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana," the service said in an advisory this morning. "Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses, as well as other drainage areas and low-lying spots."

The situation became serious in eastern Texas Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for parts of southeastern Texas, including the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, which received more than 26 inches of rain in some areas on Tuesday alone.

Port Arthur Mayor Derrick Freeman urged residents to get to higher ground in a Facebook post early Wednesday.

"Our whole city is underwater right now but we are coming!" Freeman wrote in one post. "Please get to higher ground if you can, but please try stay out of attics."

The largest oil refinery in the United States is shutting down because of the devastating floods. Its owner, Motiva Enterprises, announced in a statement early Wednesday that it began a "controlled shutdown of the Port Arthur refinery in response to increasing local flood conditions."

The refinery won't reopen until floodwaters recede, the company said.

Officials were forced to evacuate the shelter at the Bob Bower Civic Center in Port Arthur this morning after it began to fill with water. One witness, who was forced to relocate, said some areas of the center had almost 4 feet of water inside.

Displaced residents were taken to a secondary evacuation site at the Carl Parker Center, according to ABC Texas affiliate KBMT-TV.

The disastrous rainfall Wednesday led the National Weather Service to further extend a flash-flood emergency for the cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur until 4:30 p.m. CT in anticipation of additional rain that morning.

The worst is not over for Texas, Abbott warned Wednesday. He said 24,000 National Guard troops, including all of Texas' force, have been deployed in the state and will be crucial in the weeks and months to come to help restore order.

The National Guard has made 8,500 rescues, evacuated 26,000 people and done 1,400 shelter-in-place welfare checks in Texas so far. Meanwhile, there are 32,000 people in shelters throughout the state, Abbott said.

Five days after Harvey first made landfall, FEMA said it's still in "life-saving, life-sustaining" mode, with recovering survivors being the top priority. FEMA Administrator Brock Long said at a news conference Wednesday that there are more than 12,000 emergency staffers on the ground in Texas and Louisiana, spread across 50 counties. The agency is operating more than 230 shelters in Texas, housing more than 30,000 people.

The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston is no longer accepting evacuees, Turner said. About 8,000 people are currently at the convention center, down from 10,000 people on Tuesday night. The city had opened up the Toyota Center as an additional shelter to ease the overcrowding at the convention center.

Long said the FEMA travel trailers used after Hurricane Katrina are a "last resort" and the agency will first try to move displaced residents into local hotels before helping them clear out their inundated houses so they can return to them. FEMA has already placed more than 1,800 flood survivors in hotels, he said.

The Air Force said it was providing aircraft assistance in response to Harvey, including two HC-130J Combat King IIs, three HH-60G Pave Hawks, air crews and other support personnel to College Station, Texas. Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs are carrying more than 30 tons of relief supplies to Louisiana's Alexandria International Airport.

Help is also coming from overseas. Gov. Abbott said on Wednesday that Texas is accepting resources from Mexico, including boats, food and other supplies. And Israel's embassy in Washington tweeted, "A team from the Israeli Rescue Coalition will arrive in #Houston on Thursday to help victims of #HurricaneHarvey."

ABC News' Max Golembo, Serena Marshall, Whitney Lloyd, Luis Martinez and Zunaira Zaki contributed to this report.

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Thousands of people likely remain stranded, and an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed in the Houston area as Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical depression, continues to batter the Gulf Coast with torrential rains, flooding and strong winds, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said.

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Harvey hits again: Live updates

Harvey hit the lone star state again. with 51.88 in of rain and 8,500 recuse

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Harvey just made a second landfall near the Louisiana-Texas border, as officials scramble to help those trapped by floods in the Houston area. Follow here for live updates.

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"Talking to them is not the answer." Donald Trump states we have been paying extortion fees to North Korea for 25 years but does not say where the money is coming from considering our debt. Also strongly suggesting we go to war.

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"The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!" Trump tweeted just days after North Korea launched a missile that flew over northern Japan.

It was not immediately clear what Trump meant by "extortion money," though previous administrations have tried to defuse nuclear tensions by offering the North Korean regime food and aid packages.

The North Korean launch was "the first step of the military operation of the (North Korean military) in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam," North Korea state media said.

But despite the most recent provocation, Trump's suggestion that talk is not the answer seems to break with recent comments made by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday when he was asked about how the US views North Korean missile launches.

"We do view it as a provocative act against the United States and our allies," Tillerson said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." "We're going to continue our peaceful pressure campaign as I have described it, working with allies, working with China as well to see if we can bring the regime in Pyongyang to the negotiating table."

Trump's post comes just hours after North Korea's state-run media reported that leader Kim Jong-Un presided over the dawn launch Tuesday of the "ultra-modern rocket system," the first missile ever fired from Pyongyang, the nation's capital.

North Korean officials told CNN in Pyongyang that Kim was "very satisfied with the performance of the missile."

The intermediate-range missile, identified by the North Koreans as the Hwasong-12, flew over Japan, further fueling tensions between North Korea and the United States and its allies, Japan and South Korea.

Early Wednesday, the US conducted a test intercept of a medium range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii, according to a statement from the US Missile Defense Agency.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that "talking is not the answer" when it comes to reining in North Korea -- seeming to contradict a statement from his top diplomat that the US will continue to seek a peaceful resolution to tensions with Pyongyang despite its provocative missile tests.

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A 7-year-old Massachusetts girl swam to safety after being abducted and thrown from an interstate bridge into a lake near Worcester.

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Joel Osteen responds back at people who didn´t like the fact that he closed the church

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Pastor Joel Osteen said today that his Lakewood Church has been taking people in "from the very beginning" of Harvey as he pushed back against criticism that the church did not initially welcome evacuees.

"We were here for people. We were a shelter," Osteen said today on " Good Morning America."

"We were taking people as soon as the floodwaters receded," he added.

Osteen also called it "totally not true" that the church, which can hold more than 16,000 people, did not open early enough for the residents of Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city that has been devastated by Harvey.

"I think somebody created that narrative that somehow we were high and dry and none of that is true," he said. "This building -- it was a safety issue and we took people in from the very beginning."

On Sunday, Lakewood Church posted on Facebook that it was "inaccessible due to severe flooding" and directed displaced residents to shelters in the city. The church has previously been active in relief efforts, including sheltering displaced people during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Harvey, which first came ashore on Friday in Texas as a category 4 hurricane, dumped as much as 51 inches of rain on some parts of the state. The storm is responsible for at least 11 deaths, all in Texas, over the past four days.

The church's Facebook post drew criticism on social media, where photos appeared to suggest that the massive building, once home to the NBA's Houston Rockets, had not been damaged by the torrential rains.

The already heavily criticized Joel Osteen isn't helping himself by not opening that mega church of his. And leads me to ask WWJD?
- Chase Donahue (@chase_david18) August 29, 2017

In response, Osteen insisted in a statement Monday evening that he and his church are "prepared to house people once shelters reach capacity."

"We have never closed our doors. We will continue to be a distribution center for those in need," the statement read, adding, "Lakewood will be a value to the community in the aftermath of this storm in helping our fellow citizens rebuild their lives."

Osteen tweeted Tuesday, "Lakewood's doors are open and we are receiving anyone who needs shelter."

Victoria and I care deeply about our fellow Houstonians. Lakewood's doors are open and we are receiving anyone who needs shelter.
- Joel Osteen (@JoelOsteen) August 29, 2017

A Lakewood Church spokesperson told ABC News Tuesday its doors have always been open and the church, which does not have showers or a kitchen, is waiting for city officials to designate it as a shelter so it can obtain cots and other materials to help people.

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At first, it was difficult for church staff to get to the facility from their homes, the spokesperson told ABC on Tuesday, adding the facility did not initially shelter people because it would be too dangerous to have people on a lower level, which could flood.

Now that the floodwaters have receded, the church decided to bring in evacuees, the spokesperson added.

The church tweeted photos of rescue efforts on Tuesday and thanked the "hundreds upon hundreds of volunteers" who came to help.

Thank you Houston. Your response has been overwhelming. We cannot thank enough the hundreds upon hundreds of volunteers who came out today! pic.twitter.com/hI1jl5Sry8
- Lakewood Church (@lakewoodch) August 29, 2017

ABC News' Mark Osborne, Karma Allen, Emily Shapiro and Tara Fowler contributed to this report.

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Pastor Joel Osteen said today that his Lakewood Church has been taking people in "from the very beginning" of Harvey as he pushed back against criticism that the church did not initially welcome evacuees. "We were here for people. We were a shelter," Osteen said today on " Good Morning America."

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Hurricane Harvey is going to cost up to $75 billion in rebuilding. This makes hurricane Harvey possibly one of the top five for most costly natural disasters.

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The only thing known for certain about the cost of Hurricane Harvey is that it's one of the most expensive natural disasters in the nation's history. It might even be the most expensive.

Two estimates on Wednesday put total losses -- including property damage, lost wages and disrupted business -- at as much as $75 billion.

"It's certainly going to be in the top five," said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.

Moody's estimates that property losses will total between $45 billion to $65 billion, while economic losses will add $6 billion to $10 billion. A $75 billion price tag would make it the second most costly natural disaster. Superstorm Sandy in 2012, which currently ranks second, caused $73 billion in damage when adjusted into today's dollars.

Beyond the property losses, business in one of the nation's largest cities has come to a virtual standstill.

A big chunk of the nation's oil refining capacity has been taken offline, and the port of Houston and its airports have been shut. Some of the lost business activity will be made up once they reopen, but some will be lost permanently. And those shutdowns are affecting the nation's economy, since gas prices are rising and air travel has been disrupted.

The most recent preliminary forecast by Enki Research puts losses in a similar range -- between $48 billion to as much as $75 billion. That's up from Tuesday's estimate of $42 billion. But the firm cautions that even its latest estimate is likely to change.

"The normal models just don't work on a storm like Harvey," said Chuck Watson, director of research and development for the firm. He said debris floating down a street can clog a drain and cause water to back up and damage numerous homes that otherwise would have escaped damage.

"Flooding is so horrifically complex to forecast," he said.

Related: Flood insurance - Harvey tests a broken system

One estimate from weather forecaster AccuWeather says the full extent of the damage from Harvey could total $160 billion, which would top the $118 billion estimated cost of Hurricane Katrina.

"The disaster is just beginning in certain areas," said AccuWeather founder and president Joel Myers, whose company provides cost estimates for major storms. "Parts of Houston, the United States' fourth largest city, will be uninhabitable for weeks and possibly months due to water damage, mold, disease-ridden water and all that will follow."

Related: Corporate America's Harvey relief - $55 million and counting

Myers said AccuWeather's forecast could rise.

"If a building disappears, even if insurance pays for it to be rebuilt, it has to come out of someone's pocket," said Myers. "And a number of businesses are never going to reopen. Some might come back but employees might not get paychecks for weeks or months. And the infrastructure has been hurt tremendously."

Much of the destruction will not be covered by insurance since traditional homeowners' policies do not provide coverage for flood damage. Homeowners and businesses need federal flood insurance to protect themselves from the massive flood damage associated with this storm. And only about 15% of homes in Harris County, which includes Houston, have federal flood insurance.

The tropical storm made landfall again Wednesday in east Texas and Louisiana, causing even more widespread flooding.

And while the water has started to recede in some neighborhoods of Houston, AccuWeather said there could be additional flooding in Texas as rivers and bayous continue to rise.

CNNMoney (New York) First published August 30, 2017: 12:53 PM ET

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Two estimates on Wednesday put total losses -- including property damage, lost wages and disrupted business -- at as much as $75 billion. "It's certainly going to be in the top five," said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.