Hurricane Harvey claims seven lives in Texas

In the United States, floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey, which has already killed at least seven people in Texas and was expected to drive tens of thousands from their homes, will likely rise in the coming days. Officials warned as heavy rains continued to pound the US Gulf Coast.

National Guard troops, police officers, rescue workers and civilians raced in helicopters, boats and special high-water trucks to rescue the hundreds of people still stranded in and around Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.

The storm was the most powerful hurricane to strike Texas in more than 50 years when it came ashore on Friday near Corpus



Christi, 354 km south of Houston, and the worst was far from over as the National Weather Service issued numerous flood warnings across the region.

US President Donald Trump plans to go to Texas today to survey the damage and may in the future visit Louisiana where the storm is now dumping rain.Trump warned that Texas faces a "long and difficult road" to recovery after floods triggered by an unprecedented rainstorm, saying there's "never been anything like it. Trump, facing the biggest US natural disaster since he took office in January, has signed disaster proclamations for Texas and Louisiana, triggering federal relief efforts.