Ike drar in över Texas och slår hårt mot Galveston och Houston vid Texas sydöstra kust vid gränsen till Louisianna. Här är ett videoklipp som visar lite av förödelsen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7613008.stm
BBC skriver också i sin artikel:
Hurricane Ike has made landfall on the Gulf coast of Texas, where it is expected to cause "potentially catastrophic" flooding and damage.
The National Hurricane Center said the storm's eye hit Galveston at 0710 GMT with winds of up to 110 mph (175km/h).
Much of the city, which in 1900 was the scene of the country's deadliest hurricane, is already under water after a 12ft (3.7m) storm surge.
There are fears for 23,000 residents who have ignored orders to evacuate...
US officials warned as many as 100,000 homes in Texas could be affected by flooding.
More than 1,000 buses have been laid on to facilitate an evacuation order affecting more than a million people.
The massive system is causing flooding along the Louisiana coast, still recovering from Hurricane Gustav earlier this month.
US officials warned as many as 100,000 homes in Texas could be affected by flooding.
In Houston, where the winds are threatening to shake skyscrapers, people have been told to shelter at home, board up their properties and stockpile supplies.
The hurricane's predicted path will take it past Galveston and on to Houston, home to America's biggest oil refinery and Nasa's Johnson Space Center.
In the Gulf of Mexico, ports are shut and almost all energy production has been suspended as a precaution, although Ike was expected to miss most of the installations.
The storm would be the first major hurricane to hit a US metropolitan area since Katrina devastated New Orleans three years ago.
President George W Bush has declared a federal emergency in Texas, allowing funds to be freed to help the state deal with the storm.
Källa: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7613598.stm
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