>> Sreenivasan: WHEN HURRICANE

HARVEY MADE LANDFALL, THE EYE OF

THE STORM DESCENDED ON CORPUS

CHRISTI.

IT'S A CITY OF 325,000 PEOPLE IN

SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS, RIGHT ON THE

COAST OF THE GULF OF MEXICO.

NATALIA CONTRERAS, A REPORTER

FOR THE "CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER

TIMES," JOINS ME NOW BY SKYPE.

YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO GO OUT

THERE AND SEE IT.

HOW BAD WAS IT?

>> CORPUS CHRISTI WAS PRETTY

BAD.

WHAT WAS SURPRISING THIS MORNING

IS HOW MUCH THE STREETS ARE NOT

TOO FLOODED.

IN CORPUS CHRISTI, A LOT OF

DEBRIS OVER HERE IN CORPUS

CHRISTI, IN CORPUS CHRISTI BAY.

DOWNTOWN, IT'S STILL PRETTY

WINDY.

PEOPLE ARE DRIVING AROUND.

ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE

ARE STILL WITHOUT POWER.

>> Sreenivasan: DID A LOT OF

PEOPLE FROM CORPUS CHRISTI MOVE

TO HIGHER GROUND IN ADVANCE OF

THE STORM?

>> A LOT OF PEOPLE DID.

WE LOOKED AT SOCIAL MEDIA, A LOT

OF PEOPLE PREPARED, THEY BOARDED

UP THEIR HOMES BUT THEN ALSO AT

THE SAME TIME A LOT OF PEOPLE

DID BOARD UP THEIR HOMES HERE

AND STAYED HERE AND JUST RIDED

OUT THE STORM.

LAST NIGHT WE WERE MONITORING

OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS AND WE

WERE GETTING REPORTS OF PEOPLE

THAT WERE, YOU KNOW, TWEETING

AND POSTING ON FACEBOOK THAT

THEY WERE AT HOME, THAT THEY

WERE SAFE, THAT THEY HAD THEIR

PETS AND THEIR POWER DIDN'T

START GOING OUT IN THE AREA

UNTIL ABOUT 11:00 OR SO WHEN

THIS STORM GOT STRONGER.

>> Sreenivasan: SO RIGHT NOW,

BESIDES THE POWER OUTAGES WHICH

ARE SIGNIFICANT, ARE THE

HOSPITALS ONLINE, OR ANY OF THE

FIRST RESPONDERS OR EMERGENCY

SERVICES, THEY'RE ALL

FUNCTIONING WELL?

>> POLICE ARE RESPONDING.

I BELIEVE WE REPORTED ALSO THAT

THERE WERE BABIES BORN DURING

THE HURRICANE AT THE HOSPITAL.

SO RIGHT NOW, FROM ROCKPORT,

FROM THAT AREA OF TOWN, WE GOT

WORD THAT COAST GUARD WAS GOING

TO TRY TO FLY IN SOME PEOPLE

FROM THOSE AREAS INTO THE

HOSPITALS HERE.

SO YES, HOSPITALS ARE TRYING TO

HELP OUT PEOPLE HERE.

>> Sreenivasan: ALL RIGHT,

NATALIA CONTRERAS, A REPORTER

FOR THE "CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER

TIMES," THANKS SO MUCH.

>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.