Tropical storm Harvey: officials confirm eight fatalities – live updates

The latest on Harvey

, with meteorologists calculatingthat Harvey is on track to saturate south-east Texas with enough water to fill every National Football League and Division 1 college stadium in the US more than 100 times over.
Authorities said Monday that 2,000 people had been rescued from the city, and it is expected that 30,000 will need shelter.
The death toll was rapidly rising on Monday, with reports of as many as nine dead, including a family reportedly killed when their van was swept away.
Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Texas on Tuesday after facing sharp criticism for a series of unrelated tweets during the height of the hurricane and aftermath.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) said its response to Harvey was “quickly drawing down” the reserves in the agency’s disaster fund.
Trump told reporters that his threats to shutdown the government over his proposed border wall would not impact funding for the storm recovery.
The president also defended his controversial decision to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio during the hurricane on Friday, saying, “I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally.”