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Now lets get to the picture from the tragic weather and flash flooding that took place in the mountains of north carolina. we saw some epic rain. some areas reported up to a foot of rain over the weekend. three people per esished on the creek when the road washed out and they didnt see it coming. they had heavy thunderstorms to deal with. we say it a million times, not to do what that car is doing. were watching a little bit of rain heading up the east coast. theres heavy rain off the east coast...

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Thats all i knew to grab. >> thousands trapped. should there have been a mandatory evacuation order? >> if you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are cree yafting a nightmare. >> and as the president plans to visit texas tomorrow, is there a rift opening between president trump and his highest ranking cabinet member, rex tillerson? >> and the presidents values? >> the president speaks for himself. >> but lets begin with the desperate situation unfolding righ...

What im going to do. >> so many heartbreaking stories. katie, thank you for all of that and thanks to all of our reporters who have put themselves in harms way to bring us these stories. lets bring in meteorologist bill karins. we keep hearing about how this is going to go on and on and on. this has been described in apocalyptic terms. whats next? >> you notice the reporters today, different from yesterday, winds higher, raining once again as the tropical storm gets closer. youll notice that i...

Get rain. theyre expecting more rain this afternoon. last night we were at the grocery store which was packed as people were stocking up as a precaution, many businesses in town are closed. they cant get the employees in to keep the place going. and most of the gas stations here are out of gas right now, at least on the island of galveston. were working our way up to the northern part of the county, dickinson, of course, incredibly hard where we heard about that nursing home rescue. just that in...

Tall so lets add almost double this on top of the old record. so we have thousands of new homes that are going to flood in the region. just really pain to feel even say that to these people. the forecast path drifts it over the water today. lit get a little more organized but not a lot stronger. winds not an issue. just a rainfall problem throughout the area. thursday, finally north of houston, finally north of lake charles in beaumont, by the time we get to wednesday at midnight, well be done w...

Feet of water downtown. again, chris, this is something that this area has never seen before. the nations fourth largest city paralyzed. back to you. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you for that. to galveston, another city feeling the intense wrath of harveys aftermath. it was in galveston county where 15 senior citizens were rescued from a dickinson assisted living community hours after this photo showing them sitting waits waist deep in water went viral. jbs nbcs joe fryer was there. whats the bigges...

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Going to happen during the day today, why we thought today would be the beginning of what should be a heavy round of rain, possibility today 4 to 8 inches on top of what theyve seen. the flashflood warnings, the biggest thing that happened overnight some of the bayous started coming down, slowly, coming down, because it hadnt rained that hard in the last 12 hour, but they also had to release water out of the two dams and all of that water from the two dams comes into the buffalo bayou which goes...

Can you give us a sense of place. where are you? why are you there? what is going on where you are? >> i am in the northwest part of houston near jerseyville and jerseyville is northwest part. its been picking up here and there throughout the morning. it was pouring last night when we came in. its, you know, going sideways now and were under an awning now and not getting completely pummeled but you can see how strong the winds are blowing the rain. this is such a problem because all the bayous a...