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Helicopter rescue. people caught in the rising floodwaters, will as you described, so detailed just in because youve been through this just recently. i want to move on to the area you are, because youre in cisco. >> reporter: thats right. one thing ill add real quickly, sometimes peoples attention go to the tornado that comes with this weather. but the flooding is just as important to pay attention to on your cell phone. in the last couple of days weve gotten a couple of flash flood advisories. ...

Just a few moments ago from a county about an hour to the northwest of little rock. and we had two other reports of stranded motorists in that same general area last night. so flash flooding can be a tremendous threat and thats one thing that were going to struggle with probably the rest of the day. >> all right. rick fahr thanks so much for taking the time out to talk to us this morning. we appreciate it. so the threat is far from over. 57 million people could be at risk for severe weather. cnn...

Unfortunately, we havent seen the exact pictures yet, but it appears the town took a significant blow. 26 injuries reported just from last night and im sure theyre still going door to door trying to make sure everyone is safe. here is the current scene. tornado watch was dropped throughout areas of arkansas still severe thunderstorm watch in southern texas. maybe large hail around san antonio and austin. so heavy rains, possibly a flash flooding. watch out mem miss to greenville. and then its st...

Lookout for severe weather in the threat zone. places like houston, memphis and detroit. its packing hail heavy rain and possible tornadoes. it comes after a weekend of wild weather. in texas several reported twisters in cisco an ef-3 tornado left one person dead. outside of dallas theres flash flooding. up to 11 inches of rain. the national guard using boats and choppers to rescue people and in iowa a twisters direct hit. a tornado blasting a high school over 100 people were inside. no no one w...

Tell me what you experienced. >> thats right. its sunny where we are right now. but theres dangerous weather playing out across this region. a tornado actually touched down in denton a little bit earlier today. and for the past couple of days all across this region it has been raining nonstop. just pounding this area. so a lot of people think that theyre safe. what youre watching play out right now in denton is where people think theyre okay but within just a matter of seconds, the flash floodin...

One of these storms tell me what you experienced. >> thats right, harris, you know its sunny right now, but there is dangerous weather playing out all across this region. tornado actually touched down in denton a little bit earlier today, and for the past couple of days all across this region it has been raining nonstop, just pounding this area. so a lot of people think that they are safe. what youre watching play out right now in denton is where people think theyre okay within a matter of secon...

>> texas is definitely dealt with flooding, a lot of times we get these storms you have the warm moist air feeding in from the gulf of mexico and you have these slow moving fronts that will come in sometimes theyll settle out and sometimes move slowly. what you get are storms training and thats what were seeing a little bit of in texas. you get storms basically rail cars on a train track, one after another and the storms just follow the same line and thats how you can get six, seven, ten, even m...

Severe thunderstorms put the area on edge. some of the worst damage was in texas and that is where we are going now to alina machado who is live in dallas this morning. there is so much going on when we talk about weather. which area was hardest hit? >> the severe weather happened in eastland county, texas, two hours west of where we are here in dallas. it wasnt just here in texas where we saw some violate storms yesterday. >> right now, very pronounced funnel cloud and tornado in progress. >> r...

Tropical storm to make landfall in the u.s. on record. it is expected to continue to bring this heavy rain along the mid-atlantic, past virginia and maryland through tuesday. alex back to you. >> thank you. in other parts of the nation, cleanup this mothers day. more than 45 tornadoes were reported across the country saturday in cisco, texas, at least one person killed. three injured from a twister. >> not just large hail damaging winds, and tornadoes. that would be enough. flash flooding over...

Looks like the system will slowly slide north. may be close to delmarva and slide back off the coast. at least the threat as far as rip currents are there. there were some rescues that took place. flash flooding will be the event with this. >> looks like it could have been worse. tom sater, thanks so much. still ahead, cubas president meets with the pope at the vatican. why this visit was so significant and what it could mean for u.s./cuba relations.