"tropical storm Harvey"

Five Coast Guardsmen from Air Station Sitka and eight others from elsewhere in Alaska will be working in the Texas area for the next two to three weeks.

The Alaska National Guard is sending personnel and equipment to help with on-going rescue efforts connected to Harvey, a hurricane-turned-tropical storm.

If you took all that water that has just fallen on Harris County and you put it right over the urban part of Anchorage it would be about 60 or 70 feet deep. It’s an extraordinary amount of water that’s fallen.