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And youll notice that in the track here. the cone of uncertainty as we head into sunday, monday, still includes florida, but now starting to see the caroline as show up in that. thats because of the model trends. and ill show you the molgd z right here. notice lots of agreement through say friday into saturday morning. and then the turn happens. theres one cluster of models taking the storm into florida, south florida here. and then another cluster taking irma into the caroline as for possible l...

Mountainous terrain it tends to tear the storm apart. even if it weakens, category 4 potential storm by sunday. somewhere near florida. now, we have been using these computer modtools track how this storm may trend. i want to show you these spaghetti plots. these spaghetti models we call them these for obvious reasons. pretty tight with the spaghettis. but look what happens as we head into the part where irma may impact the u.s. much more spread out here. florida certainly in the crosshairs and ...

Friday afternoon, we expect the northern turn. thanks to this trough. although, we want to see this turn sooner than later because if theres any hope and possibility that it would skirt and stay off the u.s. coastline, we want that to happen. but that window is shutting. so lets take a look at the spaghetti plots, again, a tight cluster, means they have a real grasp, jim, on the environment. then sometime friday, it turns to the north. until that turn occurs, we will not know whos going to have ...

In the area. another statistic to tell you, of 88 river gauges, all the way from corpus christi toward lake charles, the vast majority of them are at moderate to major flooding. you see the cluster around the houston area as we well know. back to you. >> all right. karen maginnis, the cnn weather center in atlanta. thank you very much. we mentioned the city of beaumont, texas, has lost its water supply after pumps failed in the floodwaters. for more, drew griffin is live just outside beaumont....

There with beaumont, port arthur receiving 26 inches on tuesday alone. in 24 hours. that far exceeds their record from 1945. so the cluster of activity still remains around that beaumont, port arthur area. it did make a second landfall to the west of cameron, louisiana. there is expected storm surge between 2 and 4 feet. a lot of people wondering whats happening with new orleans. just garden variety showers, maybe some thunderstorms, the typical round that some of them could be brief, but heavy ...

I have meteorologist allison standing by. and so the water there, just quickly, i mean, we talked about harvey, hitting, what was a category 4 and then churning and stalling over the state of texas, went back over the gulf and now its that more eastern portion, like port arthur, thats really feeling it. >> thats right. so theyre now where we see some of the heaviest rain. again, and you can see that on the radar. weve got that line thats -- that cluster right there along the louisiana/texas stat...

In southwest houston. >> wow. extraordinary. well continue to look at this, oftentimes when you see rescues like this you might see a rescuer attached to that cable, go down, assist someone in basket. bring them up. difficult to tell. looks like one person. perhaps that line we saw dropped down may be a rescuer was already on the ground to help get that person in? and on that line, and lifted and -- >> reporter: wait. absolutely. thats very well -- very likely. again, as i said, we cant really g...

Up, just behind a tree line. were directly right next to i-69 as youre driving into houston from sugarland. a municipality just outside of the city. so very likely we may have just witnessed one of the many rescues taking place here in houston, texas. i took a closer look, an aerial view of more or less where that helicopter is hovering and recognized what appears to be several apartment buildings, a cluster of apartment buildings behind the treeline and where two bayous meet. some of the water ...

>> yes and no. the first round is starting to exit out. you can see that. follow the purple color. you see it around houston. it begins to push to the east. then you notice its starting to backfill. more rain is coming back into those areas where the original cluster of rain has begun to exit. thats where the problem lies. some of these areas keep getting rain over the same spots over and over again. in addition to the flooding threat, we also still have tornado warnings active at this very mome...

West. lets bring in karen mcginnis with more. karen? >> it has been a violent night as far as weather is concerned in the central united states with strong storms coming in across the center of the united states and kansas and missouri. you can see that cluster of storms as it plows through across kansas city. now, beginning to push through st. louis. not just there, also into the ohio river valley. a frontal system that is lingering across this region is triggering heavy downpours across this a...