 This just-in barrel has again strengthened into a hurricane as it bears down on southern Texas, expected to hit there around 5 a.m. Nib Kitt is the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management. There's going to be someplace in Texas that with these tropical and hurricane force winds, we are going to have power outages. Now is the time to make sure that all of your devices are charged up, that your phones are charged up, your computers are charged up, and that you have fuel in your vehicles.