Epic Flood News Today

Alertmac now a category of four hurricane, boys to make landfall in florida and the next two hours. Things are getting very dicey, multiple states bracing for the worst, storm surge, heavy wind threatening the entire gulf coast and beyond. We will get to the monolog in moments but lets check in across city in florida, yeah, fox weather is robert rae, what is the latest? and things are deteriorating in a big way here, on the nature coast. And eminent landfall in the next two hours, the wind speed...

Me say before we talk flooding as a former mayor how my heart breaks for the people in virginia beach and our thoughts and prayers are with them as well. >> hearts are breaking for folks in virginia beach and across arkansas. you have been on the ground touring the damage. what are you seen? how can people help? >> it is an epic flood and you made a comment a minute ago about the dam in arkansas. that is an hour and a half down from the van buren and portsmouth area but to give you some context,...

And he knew that there would be a narrative the next day that there had been a complete purge of all of steve bannons people, and it would kill him with his base he thought. so what does he do? goes to the transgender ban. again, bad news. lets kick around people serving our country, and then of course joe arpaio, which is just -- >> an affront to the judiciary. >> heinous. he doesnt realize again, because he plays, hes a day trader, he doesnt realize when he did that, he enraged a federal judic...

It. this story is an american story. its an epic flood, its a tragic, tragic situation for the residents of houston, but the pictures that you just referenced, joe, there was one in particular over the weekend of a group of people in a rest home, a nursing home, elderly people, sitting there, submerged up to their waists. the picture went viral once it was displayed. rescuers within hours were in that nursing home rescuing people. it didnt matter who they were. it didnt matter their income, thei...

Flooded, the new evacuations to get the people out of there, kerry. you could be in that town for five to six days and they could have tropical storm force winds almost the entire time, bands of heavy rain on and off and this epic flood on the river through the downtown. when is the last time you covered a storm that did that for one location for five days? >> reporter: yeah. absolutely. the thing that people probably dont realize, especially since were so far inland here, is that flood insuranc...

>> this was an effort to mitigate the impact of another epic flood from big cities like new orleans and baton rouge. here in melville, its one of the cities that could pay a big price. today, this area has gotten an unexpected break. >> reporter: when the mississippi river roared through the gates of the morganza spillway, they got a break. the land is absorbing more of it because of drought conditions. crews in the drought zone extra time to prepare. workers reinforced levees across southern lo...

Which nobody can hurry. nobody can speed it up. we have to live until the water reseeds to scedes to see what w left. where the yazoo river empties into the mississippi officials think will cause an epic flood, the likes of which vicksburg has not seen since 1927. osama bin ladens personal diary. u.s. officials call it al qaedas playbook. the journal, apparently handwritten by bin laden, shows that he did leave his compound on occasion to meet with other terrorists. bin ladens notebook encou...

Because we are americans, and julie paces point which is absolutely spot-on, the president unfortunately is so self-involved that clearly he cant see one aspect of his job and thats to lead the nation in times of crisis. i mean hes tweeting out book recommendations in the middle of this epic flood. >> in the middle of an epic flood. nick, julie also talked about gary kohn, extraordinary statement talking about how shocked he was, thinking about quitting. rex tillerson being dead on. he was accur...