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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, August the 27th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain after the once
00:17fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in
00:23a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.
00:27Throughout the region, between Corpus Christi and Houston, many people feared that toll
00:32was only the beginning.
00:34Authorities did not know the full scope of damage because weather conditions prevented
00:38emergency crew from getting into the hardest-hit places.
00:42And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger
00:46for days and unload more than 40 inches of rain on cities, including dangerously flood-prone
00:53Houston, the nation's fourth-largest.
00:56Floyd Mayweather Jr. put on a show in the last fight of a spectacular career.
01:02Conor McGregor didn't do so badly either.
01:06Mayweather figured out a 50th opponent on Saturday night, letting McGregor have the
01:11early rounds before stalking him late and leaving the mixed martial artist defenseless
01:16and exhausted on the ropes in the 10th round.
01:19It was a smashing end to a career that earned Mayweather more money than any fighter before
01:24him, including an estimated $200 million for his last bout.
01:29I think we gave the fans what they wanted to see," Mayweather said.
01:34Spotify says Taylor Swift has set a new global first-day streaming record.
01:40The music delivery site said it had logged more than 8 million same-day streams for her
01:45new single, Look What You Made Me Do.
01:49The 27-year-old singer dropped the much-anticipated song late on Thursday to streaming platforms
01:55and iTunes.
01:56She wrote and produced it with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, who performs in the bands Bleachers
02:03and Fun.
02:04It's the first single from her sixth album, Reputation, set to be released on November
02:0910.
02:10And finally, the weather.
02:11Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
02:17That's all for now.
02:18Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.