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Article snippet: Overwhelmed by the news from Texas and Louisiana since Hurricane Harvey made landfall? Here is an overview of coverage by The New York Times that will be updated as events continue. The latest can be found in Wednesday’s live storm briefing. Local officials blame at least 38 deaths and many more injuries on the storm. Among the dead is a mother who was swept into a canal while her child survived by clinging to her body. Here are details on some of the others who have died. The storm has inundated parts of the Houston area with more than three feet of rain. In some places, totals surpassed 50 inches, setting a record for the continental United States. And, in Harris County, which includes Houston, up to 30 percent of the land had flooded, according to Jeffrey Lindner, a meteorologist for the Harris County Flood Control District. While the storm began to release Houston from its grip on Wednesday, it continued to wreak havoc east of the city: “Our whole city is underwater,” Derrick Freeman, the mayor of Port Arthur, Texas, said on Facebook early Wednesday. Harvey has hit Louisiana, too, where flash flood warnings and watches are in effect. Here are some maps of its path and destruction. Harvey was downgraded to a tropical depression on Wednesday night. As the storm strengthened over the weekend, experts at the National Hurricane Center raced to warn the public of what was to come and grappled with how to convey its scope. More than a trillion gallons of rain fell ... Link to the full article to read more