Harvey Now A Hurricane, Likely To Become Major

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Published August 24, 2017 at 12:06 PM EDT

William Hazzard loads water into his car in preparation for tropical weather on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Houston. Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to intensify over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before reaching the Texas coast Friday. (David J. Phillip/AP)

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Harvey is now Hurricane Harvey and is forecasting it will become a major hurricane to hit the middle Texas coastline.

Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti finds out what to expect from the storm over the weekend from Jen Carfagno ( @JenCarfagno), meteorologist and host of “AMHQ” at The Weather Channel.

With reporting from The Associated Press

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