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350 alligators have been released from their cages in Houston Texas. from the flood.

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A flood of gators? The alligators in this photo are high and dry, but rising waters from Harvey could free hundreds of captive alligators at a park in Beaumont, Texas.

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Swelling floodwaters in southeast Texas could spell big trouble for an alligator sanctuary that houses more than 350 American alligators on its property, according to news reports.

Drenching rainfall deposited by Tropical Storm Harvey has flooded Gator Country, an alligator rescue facility and adventure park in Beaumont, Texas. Water has already accumulated within less than 1 foot (0.3 meters) from the tops of the fences bordering the animals' outdoor enclosures; if waters rise high enough to cover the fences, the gators could escape, the southeast Texas news organization KFDM reported yesterday (Aug. 28).

"I've never seen [the water] stay anywhere near this before," Gator Country owner Gary Saurage told KFDM. "The staying power of this storm is just unbelievable." [ In Photos: Hurricane Harvey Takes Aim at Texas]

Gator Country is a 15-acre preserve - about the size of 11 football fields - near Interstate 10 in Beaumont. On the property, Saurage and his team house rescued alligators that were stranded by storms, along with so-called "nuisance alligators" that were captured in people's swimming pools and backyards, according to a description on the park's website.

The park is also home to an assortment of other reptiles - including crocodiles and venomous snakes - all of which have already been safely removed to higher ground, KFDM reported. Gator Country's two largest alligators - Big Al and Big Tex, both measuring more than 13 feet (4 meters) long, and the biggest gators in captivity in Texas - were recently moved to trailers, and are also not at risk of escaping, according to KFDM.

In a video update posted today (Aug. 29) to Gator Country's Facebook page, Saurage reported that recent checks of the enclosed areas confirmed that the park's bigger gators were still contained.

"All of them seem to be right there," he said.

Saurage and his team have temporarily suspended their work of rescuing alligators that have been spotted in residential areas in order to focus on keeping the park's present community of gators safely contained, he told local news outlet The Beaumont Enterprise.

Since Aug. 24, Beaumont has received 23.4 inches (59.4 centimeters) of rainfall, the National Center for Environmental Prediction reported today (Aug. 29). Up to 6 inches (15 cm) of rainfall and storm surges that could top 3 feet (1 m) are anticipated by Friday, the National Hurricane Center announced in a public advisory.

And for hundreds of Gator Country's alligator inhabitants, all that currently stands between them and freedom is less than 12 inches (30 cm) of water.

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Swelling floodwaters in southeast Texas could spell big trouble for an alligator sanctuary that houses more than 350 American alligators on its property, according to news reports. Drenching rainfall deposited by Tropical Storm Harvey has flooded Gator Country, an alligator rescue facility and adventure park in Beaumont, Texas.

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Explosions were heard and people were seeing black smoke rising the chemical plant near Houston by Hurricane Harvey. One deputy was taken to the hospital after inhaling the fumes and 9 other officers were taken to the hospital for a precaution.

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The situation at an Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, outside of Houston, has become "serious," the company said in a statement, and there is a risk that the plant could catch fire or explode.

"At this time, while we do not believe there is any imminent danger, the potential for a chemical reaction leading to a fire and/or explosion within the site confines is real," the company said Tuesday evening.

The site has experienced heavy flooding from Hurricane Harvey, "receiving approximately 40 inches by Monday afternoon," the company said.

Residents within a 1.5-mile radius of the facility have been asked to evacuate, according to the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office.

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

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The situation at an Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, outside of Houston, has become "serious," the company said in a statement, and there is a risk that the plant could catch fire or explode.

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A British supermarket worker cracked a police case when he located a missing 4-year-old-girl from his bedroom — 5,000 miles away. The girl  was staying with her father, Virgil Henley, 28. Her legal guardians are her grandparents Gary, 46, and Kim Forester, 47. The grandparents contacted the police and they looked for over 3 weeks. When the police finally found where he was, they hired a supermarket worker to deliver a pizza to there apartment and rescue the little girl. But instead of the supermarket worker showing up there the police did and arrested Virgil, her father, and rescued the little girl.

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Around 37 are dead from hurricane Harvey, and they are still counting.

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Harvey aftermath: Houston ‘open for business’; other cities suffering | CNN

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Houston Mayor Sylvester struck optimistic tone late Thursday declaring the “city was open for business,” pointing to signs of recovery.

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Miranda Lambert is sending trucks to Texas to get animals that are affected in the flood by hurricane Harvey. The mutt nation has rescued 72 dogs today.

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Miranda Lambert 's MuttNation Foundation has moved dozens of dogs from Hurricane Harvey-ravaged Texas to Oklahoma, the singer announced Wednesday.

The singer, a native Texan, noted that there are trucks heading to Houston today to pick up another load.

"MuttNation rescued 72 dogs today who are being transported to dry safe shelters," she tweeted on Tuesday, along with a picture of a black dog and at least five puppies. "Mama & newborns born this morning."

The MuttNation team headed to Houston on Monday to lend support to shelters in the municipal area, and by Tuesday night, Lambert, 33, herself was doing her part.

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas last Friday, at least 13 people have died. According to Harris County Judge Ed Emmet, an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 homes have been destroyed.

Thx to some amazing transportation volunteers, we sent over 70 pups to a shelter in OK today. Rigs now rolling into Houston for another load pic.twitter.com/XoQL4aJQ5I
- Miranda Lambert (@mirandalambert) August 30, 2017

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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Miranda Lambert 's MuttNation Foundation has moved dozens of dogs from Hurricane Harvey-ravaged Texas to Oklahoma, the singer announced Wednesday. The singer, a native Texan, noted that there are trucks heading to Houston today to pick up another load.

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AT&T went down for a couple days. It left cities and schools with no internet connection for awhile.

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AT&T offers local and long distance phone service, broadband internet and mobile phone services to individuals and businesses. Television service is available through the U-verse brand, which is delivered over the internet (IPTV). AT&T has near-national wireless coverage. Internet and local phone services are available in select areas and use either DSL or Fiber (Uverse) technology networking technology. AT&T also operates the Wayport Wi-Fi hotspots.

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AT&T outage or service down? Current problems and outages

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When the newly developed mars  2020 rover lands and's on the Red Planet in February 2021 after embarking on a seven-month cruise through space, we will be able to hear the sounds when we land.

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"Not only is there going to be a microphone, there will be several microphones," said Kenneth Farley, Mars 2020 project scientist. "There will be a microphone as part of [the camera system during entry, descent and landing] and we will also have a microphone on one of the science instruments that will allow us to hear sounds on the surface as we are driving around. So we will have the first sounds coming back from Mars."

Microphones were included on previous Mars missions, such as NASA's Phoenix Mars lander in 2008, but they were never utilized. A suite of cameras will allow us to see and hear what it's like for the rover to enter the Martian atmosphere, descend and land on the surface. It will also be able to take selfies, although NASA isn't disclosing how at the moment.

The rover's mission is to seek signs of life on the Red Planet for two years. NASA is aiming to launch within a 30-day window in July 2020. If officials don't have the rover ready to go during that short time frame, they will have to wait another two years to launch, said Allen Chen, Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

Scientists estimate that Mars is, or most certainly was, the most habitable planet in our solar system outside of Earth. Now, the planet is cold, dry and has a lot of radiation on the surface, which isn't conducive to life as we know it, Farley said.

But after spending a Martian year on the surface, which is 687 days on Earth, the Mars Curiosity rover has collected evidence of all the conditions necessary for microbial life within the rocks on the Red Planet. There are clues in the rocks pointing to a once wet, warm planet with lakes, rivers and deltas, a habitable environment where life could have evolved and thrived. When the planet transitioned to being a cold desert 3.5 billion years ago, that life most certainly disappeared.

The new rover on the block wants to find that life and any other secrets hiding in the Martian rock and soil. It hasn't been named yet because NASA wants to open that honor to the public.

Shiny new features

While the rover for the 2020 mission may look similar to Curiosity, which launched in 2011, it includes some exciting new features and proposed instruments from researchers in the United States, France, Spain and Norway that will enable us to see and explore Mars in an innovative way.

Using the same platform as Curiosity, the new rover has a nuclear power source that can last at least 10 years, and has several cameras. Mastcam-Z, aptly located on the mast, can zoom like binoculars and create both panoramic and stereoscopic images, while also determining the mineral makeup of the Martian surface. This camera can also make 3-D maps.

Besides imaging and mineralogy, a second instrument called SuperCam can analyze chemical compounds and detect organic molecules in rocks and the dusty surface from a distance. The researchers are also excited to have PIXL onboard, an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer with high-resolution capabilities to map the elements in the Martian soil with greater detail and the best detection and analysis of chemical elements so far. Located on the rover's robotic arm, these can investigate a piece of rock the size of a postage stamp to look at the structure, fabric, element and mineral make-up of Martian rocks, as well as identify and map the distribution of organic molecules. Some of those organic molecules could be associated with life.

Another spectrometer called SHERLOC will fire a laser at rocks in the distance and read the signals received in return to determine the elements and minerals within those rocks. This will give the rover an added advantage of learning more about the geologic environment it's exploring, which will be about 6.2 miles.

The rover will also be equipped with a ground-penetrating radar called RIMFAX, which can investigate tens of meters beneath the surface it is traversing and look for unusual features like ice or brine.

On top of the deck is a weather station called MEDA, which can measure temperature, the speed and direction of the wind, humidity and more properties of the dust it encounters.

Last but not least, MOXIE will convert the carbon dioxide of the Martian atmosphere into oxygen.

Many of these new instruments will help NASA determine more about safely landing humans on Mars and this mysterious surface they would explore.

The new rover benefits from lessons learned while observing Curiosity and the issues that it has faced during its mission. The wheels, which are tougher than those on Curiosity after it faced issues traversing sharp rocks, are capable of digging little trenches on the Martian surface. A puffer will blow compressed air across rock samples so that the instruments on the rover can study it better.

This rover is equipped with a coring drill on a five-jointed robotic arm that can position anywhere in front of the rover to take samples of rock, according to Matt Robinson, Mars 2020 sampling and caching team deputy manager at JPL. It can use a percussive jackhammer-like mode on tougher rocks, such basalt on Earth, and a rotary-only mode for the weaker ones, such as mud stones.

Five different drill bits, which an engineer operating the rover from Earth can program the rover to change out, have space to store a core sample. They will then drop each core sample into a clean tube, use instruments on the rover to take a picture of the sample, seal the tube and then leave the samples in a pile so a future mission can pick them up. Because that mission would be determined in the future, there are currently no more details on Martian samples making the journey to Earth.

The drills can also upbraid the surface or rock if scientists want to use the rover's instruments to have a closer look at the details.

Sticking the landing

Much like Curiosity, Mars 2020's rover will use a sky crane landing system. In order to land the rover gently on its wheels, a parachute slows the descent of the vehicle after entering the atmosphere and the heat shield separates. Rockets slow down the descent until it is safe enough for the sky crane attached to the rover to lower it on an "umbilical cord" of sorts. Sensors tell the sky crane when the rover has safely touched down, which cuts the cord and powers the crane to crash land far away from the path of the rover.

Then, it's ready to rove.

Unlike while it's on the surface and exploring, the rover's landing is entirely autonomous, with no help from engineers, This time, a range trigger will be added, which helps the descent vehicle determine if it needs to open the parachute earlier or later than expected. It will also use a suite of cameras to steer away from unsafe landing zones. This enables the rover to land in a more specific destination or a tighter spot. This new technology shrinks the area or margin of error by 50%.

But where to land? Scientists have narrowed it down to eight possible landing sites. They want it to be able to land safely on a flatter surface that is surrounded by rocky terrain with the signs of habitability they want to study.

"We want a lot of rocks or rock outcrop, because that's what tells us the geologic story," Farley said. "These must date from the days when Mars was wet 3.5 billion years ago. Out of the eight sites, the first half are associated with surface water such as rivers, lakes and deltas recorded in the rocks. The other half are associated with high temperature water circulating through the rocks. On Earth, those are areas where microbial life thrives."

Over the next couple of years, they hope to determine the final landing site.

"This is taking the first step towards what we've wanted for a long time," Farley said.

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When the newly developed Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021 after embarking on a seven-month cruise through space, we will be able to hear sounds of the landing and the Martian surface for the first time, according to NASA.

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US flies bombers, fighters in show of force against N.Korea

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Hilary Clinton writes a memoir about running against Donald Trump and is charging a large amount of money to buy the book and charging a fee to get into her book reading

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Hillary Clinton is ready to talk about "what happened." But if you want to hear her speak about it in person, you may have to spend some serious dough.

Starting next month, the former Democratic presidential nominee embarks on a tour across the United States and Canada to promote "What Happened," her memoir about running against Donald Trump for president. And the price for access is a throwback to campaign fundraisers.

For $2,375.95 (or $3,000 in Canadian dollars), Clinton fans in Toronto can obtain a "VIP platinum ticket" for her Sept. 28 talk. That ticket includes two front-row seats, a photo with Clinton backstage and a signed book.

For the same price, VIP tickets are also available during Clinton's upcoming appearances in Montreal and Vancouver.

The steep ticket prices have not gone unnoticed in the publishing industry.

"It is standard for high profile authors to do book tours that sell tickets to events, but Clinton's tour takes it to a new level of greed," an industry source told Fox News.
CLINTON BOOK REVEALS WHAT SHE WAS REALLY THINKING AT TRUMP DEBATE
But Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Clinton's book, defended the practice. A spokesman said Wednesday it is "customary for a venue to charge for tickets at events featuring high profile writers."

"Tickets typically include a book," Cary Goldstein, the executive director of publicity at Simon & Schuster, told Fox News. "Such was the case with tours for recent books by Megyn Kelly, Bob Gates, and any number of public personalities. Lecture venues have become a central component of book tours for public figures."

General admission tickets to Clinton's events are offered, too, for a lower price than the VIP versions. In Toronto, all the $70.49 (or $89 in Canadian currency) tickets for Clinton's lecture already have sold out.

Ticket prices for Clinton's events vary, depending on the location. In Broward, Fla., they range from $50 to $375 a ticket for an Oct. 3 appearance.

For Clinton's Nov. 1 event in New York, VIP tickets are going for $750.

"This pay-for-access has all the political wisdom of doing another round of private speeches for Goldman Sachs, but as her book tour makes clear, at this point in her career all she cares about is cashing in," the industry source said.
HILLARY CLINTON'S BOOK RELEASE HAS DEMS WORRIED, IRRITATED
Tickets -- especially the ones with VIP access -- to Clinton's events appear pricier than lectures with other major figures in the past.

Tickets to former Secretary of Defense Gates's first major book event in 2014 cost $30.

Clinton's book is set for release on Sept. 12.

Earlier this week, Simon & Schuster announced the first 15 cities Clinton will visit on her tour.

Her first appearance is Sept. 18 at the Warner Theater in Washington. The tour will take her through Canada as well as Florida, California, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, Georgia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington state and Oregon.

Promoting the tour in a news release this week, the publishing house said Clinton will "connect with audiences with a story that's personal, raw, detailed and surprisingly funny."

"Come join Hillary as she lets loose about her experience as a woman in politics, and other topics, in a way she never has before," it said.

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Hillary Clinton is ready to talk about "what happened." But if you want to hear her speak about it in person, you may have to spend some serious dough. Starting next month, the former Democratic presidential nominee embarks on a tour across the United States and Canada to promote "What Happened," her memoir about running against Donald Trump for president.

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at&t lines went down for a few days. thats about it left the town out of wifi for a bit.

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Kim Jong Un has launched a missle passed Japan and Japan thought they were under attack and sounded sirens.

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Pyongyang said it fired an intermediate-range missile Hwasong-12 in Tuesday's test.

The missile's flight path took it over Japan, further fueling tensions between North Korea and the United States and its allies, Japan and South Korea.

Tuesday's launch was "the first step of the military operation of the (North Korean military) in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam," a report from the state-run Korean Central News Agency said.

It said Pyongyang would be "conducting more ballistic rocket launching drills with the Pacific as a target in the future."

'All options on the table'

Earlier, US President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang that " all options are on the table."

Kim Jong Un's regime regularly fires missiles into the sea between its own territory and Japan, however this is the first North Korean ballistic missile to ever fly over the country.

North Korean officials told CNN in Pyongyang the launch was overseen by Kim, who was "very satisfied with the performance of the missile."

They said the launch sent a strong message in response to ongoing joint US-South Korean military drills in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. State media also pointed out that the launch came on the 107th anniversary of the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1907.

It also followed a fiery exchange of threats and insults between Trump and the North Korean regime in recent weeks, after state media said Kim was considering plans finalized by military chiefs to fire a missile off Guam.

In measured statements Tuesday, Trump said: "The world has received North Korea's latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior."

"Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table," he said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- who had a 40-minute phone call with Trump on Tuesday -- described the launch as a "reckless act."

"This launch of a North Korean missile is an unprecedented serious and grave threat to Japan," Abe said after the call, adding that Trump said "the US stands with Japan 100%."

"I would like to make the utmost effort to protect the lives and assets of the Japanese people under a strong alliance between Japan and US."

What happened

The missile, an intermediate range ballistic missile, was fired just before 6 a.m. Japan time (Monday 5 p.m. ET). The launch set off emergency sirens in northern Japan, triggering text messages that warned residents to seek cover.

"The launch occurred in the vicinity of Sunan Air Base, North Korea and flew east ... The ballistic missile overflew the territory of northern Japan before landing in the Pacific Ocean approximately 500 nautical miles east of Japan," a statement from the Pentagon said.

It was the fourth missile North Korea fired in four days -- Pyongyang tested three short-range ballistic missiles, one of which failed, from Kangwon province that landed in water off the Korean Peninsula.

South Korea responded by conducting a bombing drill at 9:30 a.m. local time to test its "capability to destroy the North Korean leadership" in cases of emergency, an official with the country's Defense Ministry told CNN.

Guam has been a focal point of North Korea's anger against the US. The Pacific island is the closest US territory to North Korea. It hosts Andersen Air Force base, from which the US has been staging B-1 bomber flights over the Korean Peninsula, often in response to North Korea's missile tests.

In early August North Korea said it was "examining the operational plan" to strike areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic missiles.

Specifically, a KCNA statement mentioned a potential strike on Andersen Air Force Base designed "to send a serious warning signal to the US."

In Wednesday's statement, North Korea called Guam the "advanced base of invasion."

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Sheriff: Shoplifters taking TVs kill Sears guard, 81

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An 81-year-old Sears worker whose job was to stop shoplifters was killed by two men who shoved him down while stealing television sets from a South Carolina store, a sheriff said Wednesday.Sheriff Leon Lott charged them with murder as well as strong-arm robbery when the worker died, four days after his head hit the store's concrete floor.The victim, Duaine Hamilton, was "enjoying the golden years of...

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Reuters 13 hrs ago By Idrees Ali and Soyoung Kim

WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Aug 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared "talking is not the answer" to the tense standoff with North Korea over its nuclear missile development, but his defense chief swiftly asserted that diplomatic options remain, and Russia demanded U.S. restraint.

Trump's comment, a day after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile over Japan that drew U.N. and other international condemnation, renewed his tough rhetoric toward reclusive, nuclear-armed and increasingly isolated North Korea.

"The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years," Trump, who just last week said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was "starting to respect" the United States, wrote on Twitter. "Talking is not the answer!"

When asked by reporters just hours later if the United States was out of diplomatic solutions with North Korea amid rising tensions after a series of missile tests by Pyongyang, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis replied: "No."

"We are never out of diplomatic solutions," Mattis said before a meeting with his South Korean counterpart at the Pentagon. "We continue to work together, and the minister and I share a responsibility to provide for the protection of our nations, our populations and our interests."

Top Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats will hold classified briefings for members of the U.S. Congress on Sept. 6, congressional aides said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by telephone with Tillerson and urged the United States to refrain from any military action on the Korean peninsula that would be "fraught with unpredictable consequences," Russia's Foreign Ministry said.

Trump, who has vowed not to let North Korea develop nuclear missiles that can hit the mainland United States, had said on Tuesday "all options are on the table," a veiled reference to military force.

Lavrov also said Russia, which wields veto power on the U.N. Security Council, believed any further sanctions on North Korea would be counter-productive, the ministry added.

Japan urged fresh sanctions. In Geneva, U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said discussions were under way among world powers on what kind of further sanctions could imposed.

North Korea said the launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Tuesday was to counter U.S. and South Korean military drills and was a first step in military action in the Pacific on "containing" the U.S. island territory of Guam.

The 15-member U.N. Security Council on Tuesday condemned the firing of the missile over Japan as "outrageous," and demanded that North Korea halt its weapons program but the U.S.-drafted statement did not threaten new sanctions.

Trump's mention of payments to North Korea appeared to be a reference to previous U.S. aid to Pyongyang.

A U.S. Congressional Research Service report said that between 1995 and 2008, the United States provided North Korea with more than $1.3 billion in assistance, mostly for food and energy. The aid was part of a nuclear deal that North Korea later violated.

The latest tweet by the Republican U.S. president drew criticism from some quarters in Washington. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy wrote on Twitter: "Bar is high, but this is perhaps the most dangerous, irresponsible tweet of his entire Presidency. Millions of lives at stake - not a game."

Mattis and Tillerson have emphasized finding a diplomatic solution on North Korea, and have used softer tones than Trump on this and other matters.

For example, days after Trump vowed on Aug. 8 to unleash "fire and fury" against North Korea if it threatened the United States, the two wrote a Wall Street Journal commentary assuring Pyongyang that "The U.S. has no interest in regime change or accelerated reunification of Korea."

North Korea had threatened to fire four missiles into the sea near Guam, home to a major U.S. military presence, after Trump's "fire and fury" remark.
'KEY MILESTONE'
The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency and the crew of the guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducted a "complex missile defense flight test" off Hawaii early on Wednesday, resulting in the intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target, the agency said.

The agency's director, Lieutenant General Sam Greaves, called the test "a key milestone" in giving U.S. Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense ships an enhanced capability, but did not mention North Korea.

The United States and South Korea are technically still at war with North Korea because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. North Korea routinely says it will never give up its weapons programs, calling them necessary to counter perceived American hostility.

North Korea has conducted numerous ballistic missile tests in defiance of U.N. sanctions, but firing a projectile over mainland Japan was a rare and provocative move.

Japan pushed the United States on Wednesday to propose new U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea, which diplomats said could target the country's laborers working abroad, oil supply and textile exports. Diplomats expected resistance from Russia and fellow veto-wielding power China, particularly given new measures were only recently imposed after Pyongyang staged two long-range missile launches in July.

Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke by telephone and confirmed their "continuing, close cooperation" regarding Pyongyang's latest launch, the White House said.

Speaking during a visit to the Japanese city of Osaka, British Prime Minister Theresa May called on China, North Korea's main ally and trading partner, to put more pressure on North Korea, echoing Trump's view.

Asked about her comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that some "relevant sides," when it comes to sanctions, "storm to the front, but when it comes to pushing for peace they hide at the very back."
(Additional reporting by Jack Kim in Seoul, Philip Wen and Michael Martina in Beijing, Susan Heavey, Yeganeh Torbati, Tim Ahmann, David Alexander and Patricia Zengerle in Washington, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations, Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru and William James in Osaka, Japan; Writing by Will Dunham and Lisa Lambert; Editing by Alistair Bell and James Dalgleish)

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Hurricane Harvey made a second landfall Wednesday dumping tons of amounts of rain again and also flooding smaller cities close to Houston.

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The Washington Post 9 hrs ago By Todd C. Frankel, Avi Selk and David A. Fahrenthold

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HOUSTON - The storm once known as Hurricane Harvey made its second landfall Wednesday, dumping record rains and spurring additional flooding in small Texas cities that lie east of now-devastated Houston.

Harvey, which had swung out into the Gulf of Mexico again, came ashore at dawn near the Texas-Louisiana border. Its rain bands preceded it, pounding Texas towns including Orange, Port Arthur and Beaumont with more than two feet of rain.

City officials said much of Port Arthur - a city of 55,000 - was under water. A shelter for flood victims flooded. One official estimated that water had entered one-third of the city's buildings.
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"We need boats. We need large trucks, and we need generators," said Tiffany Hamilton, a former city councilwoman in Port Arthur who was helping coordinate relief efforts in a city that is also without electricity. "The entire city has been flooded."
[Houston's floodwaters are receding, but they remain dangerously high in many areas]
About 80 miles to the west, the Houston area was just beginning to recover from the biggest rainstorm in the recorded history of the continental United States.

Nearly 35,000 people were in shelters. Thousands of homes were still submerged.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Wednesday that 20 people remained missing in the city. At one point, that figure had gone as high as 47, but Acevedo said 27 people have been found alive and removed from the list.

At least 37 people were dead, and that number was climbing as water receded, revealing the storm's awful toll.

Harris County authorities finally located a van, containing six members of the same family, that had been washed off the road days earlier. All six were dead.

A few miles away, authorities discovered the bodies of two friends who had gone out in a boat Monday, trying to rescue neighbors. They lost control in the current, drifted toward the sparks of a downed power line. They jumped in.

Three other men, including two journalists from a British newspaper, suffered electrical burns but survived by clinging to a tree above the water.

By Wednesday afternoon, the remnants of Harvey had moved into Louisiana, and by the evening had weaken to a tropical depression.
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Louisiana officials, who had worried that Harvey might devastate their state as well, said the threat of flooding seemed to be lessening.

"Somewhere between being complacent and being panicked is the right place" to be, said Gov. John Bel Edwards (D). "That's where we're going to ask the people of Louisiana to settle."

More than 50 inches of rain fell onto Houston over four days, turning the country's fourth-largest city into a sea of muddy brown water, boats skimming along what had been neighborhood streets in search of survivors.

At the height of the flooding, between 25 and 30 percent of Harris County - home to 4.5 million people in Houston and its near suburbs - was flooded as of Tuesday afternoon, according to Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the county flood control district. That is an area as large as New York City and Chicago combined.

On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said more than 210,000 people in his state had applied for assistance from FEMA.

The number of people who have registered for federal assistance is expected to go up, William "Brock" Long, the FEMA administrator, said during a news briefing. It will take "many, many years" before the full scope of Harvey's impact is clear, Long said.

"We expect a many-year recovery in Texas, and the federal government is in this for the long haul," Elaine Duke, the acting Homeland Security secretary, said at the same briefing Wednesday.
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President Trump has pledged swift federal aid in response to Harvey's devastation. Abbott said that given the sheer number of people and geographic area impacted, he expects the federal government's aid package "should be far in excess" of the roughly $120 billion in funds allotted for Gulf Coast recovery after Katrina.

Trump could request a package of emergency funding to deal with the damage caused by Harvey as soon as next week, a senior administration official said, reshuffling the political agenda as the White House scrambles to deal with devastation left by the storm.

The funding package is expected to only be a partial down payment and serve in part to backstop depleted reserves that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had on hand to respond to disasters.

No final decision on the funding request has been made and it could fluctuate based on conversations with lawmakers. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) said the aid package request could be as much as $200 billion.

Tens of thousands of Houston-area residents were living in shelters as they waited out the floodwaters. After the George R. Brown Convention Center took on nearly 10,000 evacuees, a county official asked to use the NRG Center south of downtown.

"They called up our CEO yesterday, and said: 'Hey, we need you to do the shelter,'" said Frederick Goodall, director marketing for the nonprofit Baker-Ripley, which is overseeing the new center.

That call was Tuesday morning. By the same time Wednesday, the NRG Center was lined with cots and thousands of volunteers. By the afternoon, 900 people had been bussed in from other shelters, and nearly twice that many were expected to arrive by the end of day. Six days after the storm made landfall, residents were still unsure how long they would be out of their homes or what they would find when the waters recede.

Some of Houston's bayous began to retreat inside their banks - although Buffalo Bayou, Houston's main river, was still rising in some sections because of the release of water from upstream reservoirs.

"The watersheds are falling, and while most of them remain well over their levels, and some remain at record levels, the water levels are going down," said Jeff Linder, of the Harris County Flood Control District. But he cautioned that some homes already under water may "degrade."

Across Texas, the storm shut down 11 oil refineries and curtailed production at nine others, while causing damage leading to at least 45 releases of harmful chemicals. In Crosby, Tex., a chemical plant was in critical condition after flooding disabled its refrigeration system and two backup power generators, raising the likelihood that the volatile chemicals usually kept at cool temperatures on the site would warm up and catch fire or explode.
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Arkema, a French-based maker of organic peroxides used in plastics, pharmaceuticals and construction materials, evacuated all the personnel from the plant. Harris County police were scrambling to keep people at a distance; local media said the evacuation zone had a 1.5 mile radius.

"We have lost critical refrigeration of the materials on site that could now explode and cause a subsequent intense fire," Rowe said. "The high water and lack of power leave us with no way to prevent it."

Elsewhere, it was the first day of the rest of Houston's history, where millions of lives had been reshaped and burdened by the flood's destruction.

Cleanup doesn't begin to describe what's next.

Power was out. Debris littered the city. When a house caught fire in West Houston, firefighters couldn't get water pressure to fill their hoses. Instead, they turned to the water around them and used a jet boat engine: They pointed the back of the boat toward the house, fired up the engine, and sprayed a massive water stream toward the blaze.

On highways that allowed for some traffic, large pickup trucks - some outfitted with monster truck-style tires - hauling boats made up the majority of those who dared to travel. Grocery stores, doughnut shops and Mexican-food restaurants reopened.
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For those lucky enough not to be in a shelter, it was a day to take stock of what Harvey left behind.

"I feel like I'm dreaming," said Julie Steptoe, who ventured Wednesday morning to an intersection in Kingwood, north of Houston. Never taking her eyes off the water that engulfed the area, she continued: "I don't know what to think. I'm hoping it turns out okay for everyone."

In Katy, people offered gifts to the "Cajun Navy" volunteers from Louisiana, who had been conducting rescues in the area west of the city. What gifts does one gift after a flood? Chewing tobacco. Bottles of water. Packs of dry socks.

Neighbors then turned to start the enormous task of removing water and waterlogged debris.

At the Ehlert house, China chests filled with Christmas village ornaments, computers, sweaters and silverware were stacked in the center of the living room. A grandfather clock was flooded. Floral wallpaper was peeling. Neighbors were lugging out trash and soggy drywall and insulation.

"Our neighborhood army is here - pizza and tools," said Don Ehlert, 69, who lives in the house with his wife and two grandchildren who are 5 and 12. After a call for help on a social media app, 50 people had shown up. Ehlert had never met most of them.

"This is what America is all about," said Don's wife, Cheri.
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Nearby, Linda Oliver watched from a waterlogged golf course as helicopters continued to pluck up her neighbors. She'd left her home and car behind when she was rescued. They were probably underwater.

"I'm certainly just happy to be safe," she said.

But she was thinking about what came after "safe."

"I don't think I ever will recover financially from this," Oliver said.

Further east, in Port Arthur and Beaumont, the rain was so bad that it sounded like hail on windows. Hamilton, the former councilwoman in Port Arthur, said that in the rain, emergency lines were overwhelmed, and friends called friends for help.

Hamilton said one of her friends got a call about 2 a.m. from an elderly woman.

"She and her husband were both in the water and he was in a wheelchair, and she said she was struggling to hold his head above water," said Hamilton, who was finally able to relay the information to emergency workers about 10 a.m. Hamilton does not know if anyone was ever able to reach the couple.

In nearby Orange, the water began rising at 3 a.m. Wednesday, covering first the streets, then the small residential lawns. And by morning it was rising with speed, pushing into homes and submerging to the rooflines of cars, trapping hundreds of people in their homes.

"It was unbelievable," said Robin Clark, who was ferried, along with her wheelchair-bound mom and three dogs, out of her home on a volunteer's john boat.

Dozens of rescued residents stood in a pelting rain outside a Market Basket supermarket.

They were saved. But being saved was just the start.

"We don't know what's going to happen," said Keeleigh Amodeo, 15, who was waiting with her sister and mother.

Meanwhile, North of Beaumont, Tyler County Judge Jacques Blanchette wrote a blunt warning to constituents after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened floodgates on the swollen Neches River. Blanchette warned residents living near the river, south of B.A. Steinhagen Lake, to evacuate.

"Anyone who chooses to not heed this directive cannont expect to be rescued and should write their social security numbers in permanent marker on their arm so their bodies can be identified. The loss of life and property is certain," Blanchette wrote on the county's Facebook pag e.

"GET OUT OR DIE!"
Selk reported from Houston and Fahrenthold reported from Washington. Dalton Bennett, Tim Craig and Kevin Sullivan in Houston; Emily Wax in Katy, Tex.; Alex Horton in Crosby, Tex.; Ashley Cusick in New Orleans; Leslie Fain in Lake Charles, La.; and Mark Berman, Steven Mufson, Ed O'Keefe, Damian Paletta, Mike DeBonis, Wesley Lowery, Katie Zezima, Dave Clarke and Jason Samenow in Washington contributed to this report. [Disaster relief agencies ready to help Harvey victims, but they can't get in]

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The Washington Post 9 hrs ago By Todd C. Frankel, Avi Selk and David A. Fahrenthold Photo gallery by photo services HOUSTON - The storm once known as Hurricane Harvey made its second landfall Wednesday, dumping record rains and spurring additional flooding in small Texas cities that lie east of now-devastated Houston.

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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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A federal judge in Texas late Wednesday temporarily blocked key provisions of a state law that banned sanctuary jurisdictions in the state.

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The law was slated to go into effect on Friday.

The bill -- referred to as SB4 -- established civil penalties for local government and law enforcement officials who didn't comply with immigration laws and detention requests. Additionally, under the law, government entities would be fined $25,500 for every day the law was violated.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed the bill in May, said the judge's preliminary injunction would be appealed "immediately," and he is confident that the law will be upheld as constitutional.

"Today's decision makes Texas' communities less safe," Abbott said in a statement. "Because of this ruling, gang members and dangerous criminals, like those who have been released by the Travis County Sheriff, will be set free to prey upon our communities."

But critics of the bill have come out in support of the preliminary injunction.

ACLU, which issued a travel warning in the state after the law was signed, put out a statement from Lee Gelernt, the organization's deputy director of its Immigrants' Rights Project: "The court was right to strike down virtually all of this patently unconstitutional law. Senate Bill 4 would have led to rampant discrimination and made communities less safe. That's why police chiefs and mayors themselves were among its harshest critics -- they recognized it would harm, not help, their communities."

And Efrén C. Olivares, racial and economic justice program director with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said: "Today, Judge Orlando Garcia confirmed what we've known to be true all along: SB4 is unconstitutional, threatens public safety, and encourages racial profiling against Texans."

CNN's Tammy Kupperman and Eli Watkins contributed to this report.

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The law was slated to go into effect on Friday. The bill -- referred to as SB4 -- established civil penalties for local government and law enforcement officials who didn't comply with immigration laws and detention requests. Additionally, under the law, government entities would be fined $25,500 for every day the law was violated.

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Isabel Pena started going into labor after the power went out due to the storm. Isabel and her boyfriend used the light from a cell phone to help deliver the baby. Both mother and baby are doing fine.

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A couple in Corpus Christi, Texas, welcomed their baby girl into the world at the height of Hurricane Harvey.

Isabel Pena started going into labor after the power went out due to the storm. Isabel and her boyfriend used the light from a cell phone to help deliver the baby.

An ambulance was still trying to make its way to them, through the flying debris, when their daughter was born early Saturday morning.

"I had walked away with the light to the front door to see if EMS was coming and then I hear her scream "we need the light" so I came back and as soon as I got back to the room I seen her head and then right then it was over," said Andrew Garza, the baby's father.

The parents say paramedics knocked on the door seconds after the baby was born. Both mother and baby are doing fine.
This story originally appeared on Fox 2.

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A couple in Corpus Christi, Texas, welcomed their baby girl into the world at the height of Hurricane Harvey. Isabel Pena started going into labor after the power went out due to the storm. Isabel and her boyfriend used the light from a cell phone to help deliver the baby.

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