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Mh370 that disappeared and airplane that went missing over ukraine. the planes will go out again as soon as the weather clears. the air search has been called off as david is reporting until tomorrow due to rough weather. of course, it is now nightfall over there in asia. rick reichmuth is joining us live now. talk to us in a sense of just how bad these storms are this time of the year in that part of the world over the java sea? >> this is the time of year when the storms are bad. when you se...

Quickly the thunderstorms developed. that shading of red, by the way, is infrared satellite imagery telling us that the cloud tops were extremely cold and very, very high. we recall what took place in june of 2009 with the air france flight 447, that devastating tragedy that took place. the final outcome was that this plane traveled through thunderstorms and the ice from the upper parts of these thunderstorms blocked a very critical part of the airplane, which was called the pitot tube. this mea...

And that is really critical when we consider the altitude that they were ascending to when they asked to deviate around these thunderstorms. what weve done here in the cnn world weather center is weve stopped the satellite imagery. were having trouble finding some of the radar imagery from this region, but satellite is important and it tells us certain clues of what took place at that last moment of contact which was roughly 7:15 in the morning on sunday local time. and you can clearly see there...

>> well, lets show you a cross section. i even have questions for the experts because im not a pilot. im not an aviation expert. this is a cross section. now, earlier satellite pictures were showing a pretty large thunderstorm. a thunder head and anval cloud that was moving into the flight path. we dont know. we can only assume maybe this is the one that caused some turbulence. this is not to scale. the plane would be much smaller. >> sure. >> again, assume 32,000 feet. has an issue. calls to as...

Hurricane. surfers, we need to be out of the water. this is formidable storm. we think it is going to become a hurricane within the next to 24 hours. this is 3d satellite view. you see the cloud tops and move into the radar. closed circulation. this is eyewall started here. that would be beginnings of formation of our hurricane which we do believe is going to happen again, within the next 12 to 24 hours. that is the latest track. as of 11:00. we havent changed wind speeds, still 64 miles an hour...

>> it is cloudy here any way. >> there is a ceiling above me. i wont be able to see a thing. even if i went outside in atlanta it is a mess. the southeastern u.s. has been getting hit with some nasty thunderstorms. and those cloud tops going to the stratosphere. clear sky across the mid section of the united states and a lot of clear weather toward south america. not too bad there. this is where we have the entire total eclipse visible if youre in the red shaded area. not going to be as exciting...

New mexico. let me take you farther east to texas to guadalupe mountain national park where weve seen such an inundation of flooding as well. you see the pictures here. the swollen rivers. it only takes six inches of water to sweep you off your feet. the national weather service talked about this as being biblical. it is historic. weve never seen some of these water leveling quite so high. this is the water vapor satellite. this is what meteorologists use kind of to look at the atmosphere. we do...

Monday morning. as that rain continues to move in. its likely they could be extended although were starting to see a lull outside of the florida panhandle as far as the rain goes, we had a tornado watch in effect out here and harris that wasnt allowed to expire and were thinking of a severe weather component as far as flooding goes with the storm system and impact parts of the mid atlanta tomorrow. >> harris: im looking at your key for your map. a the lot of red. i see purple, purple and thats w...

where a manhunt by nato forces, muammar gadhafi keeps surfacing and taunting the world. earlier today nato bombed the barracks in baun knee wall lead where some reports say gadhafi may be hiding. if he is they didnt get him. a few hours later, gadhafi or presumably his voice turned up on a sympathetic tv network, al rae. >> translator: give up ourselves to them? were not stupid. we are not cowards. the libyan people are brave. >> a few hours ago, the voice was back, this time gadhafi c...

hiding. if he is, they didnt get him. a few hours later gadhafi or presumably his voice turn up on a sympathetic tv network al rai. >> translator: give way or give up ourselves to them. were not stupid. you know, were not a coward. the libyan people are -- >> few hours ago, the voice was back. this time gadhafi called on his followers to start an insurgency like the one that nearly destroyed iraq after the fall of saddam hussein. >> translator: we will fight against you wherever you ar...