Menacing Harvey on verge of reaching Texas coast

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Hurricane Harvey was on the verge of reaching Texas on Friday, bringing fierce winds and torrential rain to a wide swath of the state’s Gulf Coast and prompting tens of thousands of residents fleeing inland in hopes of escaping its wrath.
The National Hurricane Center said the eyewall of the dangerous Category 4 storm reached the Texas coast Friday evening, suggesting that the eye of the storm would soon make landfall.
With time running out, residents fle