• The toll is only beginning to emerge from Hurricane Harvey, which tore across the U.S. Gulf Coast and, even as a lesser tropical storm, is expected to pound the region with torrential rains and catastrophic flooding for days. “It’s bad now and it’s getting worse,” a weather official said.

Here’s video and a map of the storm’s path. The National Weather Service called it “unknown and beyond anything experienced.” Rescuers made more than 1,000 high-water runs and asked the public to offer boats. One of our own correspondents is trapped with his family in their flooded home.