Local 2 Houston weather is showing that Hurricane Rita has moved to a more Northern path. Estimates as of about 10:30am CDT show the eye of the hurricane coming onshore much nearer the Texas Louisiana border than was previously thought.

This is good news for Houston, and Galveston especially.

Governor Rick Perry praised the evacuation airlift effort in both Beaumont and Ellington, where many people with special needs, the infirm, elderly, bed-ridden, have been airlifted out of the immediate path of the storm.