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Into tomorrow? >> reporter: well, erica, were talking about heavy rain in tennessee and now also heavy rain across new england. with climate change and our warming planet, heavy rain events are 40% more likely to occur by the end of the century. warmer air, ability to hold more water, the potential to unleash more frequent flood events. heres an update of what im seeing with the latest out of heartfield, connecticut. this is an area with 2 to 4 inches of rain from henris arrival. then the storm ...

This is bbc news with me, christian fraser. 16,000 people have been evacuated from afghanistan in just 2a hours, but time is running out for those afghans who are eligible to leave. borisjohnson and joe biden have spoken ahead of tomorrow g7 virtual summit. tomorrows g7 virtual summit. the british side wants an extension to next weeks deadline. the taliban says there would be consequences. search and rescue efforts continue in tennessee where at least 22 people have died in flash flooding. a thi...

For rhode island, connecticut and new jersey. hopefully expediting some of the relief aid as henri turns back towards the east, those same areas will see those showers today. the good news, though, this is now just a low pressure system as janice has mentioned before so not as much of a significant wind impact but we will continue to see the active weather today, into tomorrow. live from smith point beach, well send it back to you. jillian: that was fox weather correspondent steve bender. carley...

News correspondents from ron allen, kathy park, and vaughn hillyard. >> reporter: henri pounded the shores of long island, not the hurricane many expected but the rain and wind still extremely intense. >> pretty crazy. a lot stronger than i thought it would be. >> reporter: across the region, downpours caused flash flooding. in new jersey, nearly 100 motorists who ignored the warning rescued from vehicles. a huge concert in central park evacuated because of lightning. >> proceed to your vehicles...

Week. couple more days to go. the temperature continues to climb. a lot of people lost power sometime yesterday afternoon. extremely muggy outside. the big headline yesterday, the storm moved closer, were fierce winds and ground was saturated from past storms. you might see behind me a massive tree that toppled onto pushes and pulled down the neighborhood. sometime by mid week when the power will be restored, this is a scene thats playing out and trees toppled on homes and power lines. new york ...

Debris and devastation, this is tennessee after flash flooding wreaked havoc. im like trying to get them out the door, but the water is so high and its pushing against the door that im having a hard time pushing to open the door to get them out. im holding two babies. as locals assess the unimaginable damage following the record rainfall, search and rescue teams were looking for survivors. tremendous loss of life. a number of missing people on the ground, homes washed off their foundations, cars...

0 not a credible ally, not someone -- steve: that is what is so. im sorry were out of time, you have summarized it. have summarized it. jillian: it is monday, august 23rd. were following two major stories this morning. first, more chaos in kabul, the biden administration defending its botched withdrawal from afghanistan while struggling to evacuate thousands of americans stuck in harms way. this as isis poses a new threat to soldiers on the ground there. we have the fallout. >> tropical depressi...

That is where we start to see trouble. i think later on tonight, we will have significant flash flood problems in areas of the west, the brokers, also from connecticut through the catskills and the hudson valley. so, you know, the next couple of hours we will focus on that landfall, the power outages, what kind of wind damage we get, and the rest of today and tonight it will all be about where the flash flooding is. >> all right, bill karen, thank you so much for that update. we appreciate it, w...

Hes a program director and storm spotter, wzyp. tell us the situation in tennessee. was this flash flooding that caused such havoc from long periods of rain, but to have the death toll thus far and counting, i mean, its extraordinary. were people caught by surprise? >> most definitely. i woke up yesterday morning. we knew there was a flash flood watch. i woke up and saw a lot of storms in the area. they were training. storms moving over the same area. when i got there, i expected to see normal f...

Warns we could see isolated areas of up to 10 inches. this will warrant the potential for flooding. its definitely going to lead to some power outages. that ground is already saturated. you take the saturated ground, take a hurricane force wind, that could can lead to trees toppling down and trees and branchs are one of the leading causes of power outages. we have crews from 30 states, d.c. and canada coming to help. thats what kind of storm were looking at. we are looking at the potential for t...