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Eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york alongside my colleague and friend chris jansing. For two hours of special coverage on what is expected to be a dramatic and consequential day in Donald Trumps hush money trial. The prosecutions star witness on the stand right now. Prosecutors spent a year preparing Michael Cohen for this moment. He is the witness that prosecutors need to directly tie trump to the payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside the cou...

Think of the major storms that have come up the east coast. this will have higher water levels than all of those. it will be a very significant flood event. call it a sneaky flood event. it isnt from a hurricane or noreaster. its two storms quickly in succession and the wind perfect to pile up. youre going to have pretty high wind gusts too. we could see isolated power outages in areas along the coast. for todays forecast, well watch the rain from the mid-atlantic to the midwest. we have a flood...

Where youll have that flood problem, but still get incredible rainfall. it wont take much wind to knock down trees and create power outages, so still some impact yet to come. >> all right. were going to be watching it, ken. let me ask you something before i lose you. explain do people why this storm, henri, did not become what it was feared to be, lets say, 16 hours ago? what happened with the path? what is attributable for that change in path? >> little wiggles matter, chris. youll have some bo...

Devastation thats there. >> you know, were in the living through the front edge of an era of increasingly extreme weather and climate disaster and climate crisis. are we getting better as a sort of civilization at dealing with disaster preparedness and rescue and rebuilding? >> nope. >> were not? >> no. we tend to build back the way it was. we tend to plan for what were capable of and then we hope its not that bad. climate change, you can talk about it all you want to. i think we need to be talk...

Ago. what are we hearing? >> heres that excessive high risk of flash flooding. according to the 5 a.m. update from the national hurricane center, there has been no change to the strength of the storm. we still believe this will make landfall late friday night, early saturday morning as a strong tropical storm or perhaps as a low end hurricane one category equivalent. we dont want to get lost in the minutia. were not trying to point home the idea that this is a major wind problem. we believe the ...

Heres the story of an ark with a flood problem. the owners of a noah ark wooden replica are suing over flood damage. the ark enkowngtser is demanding its insurance company pay nearly a million dollars the federal lawsuit says heavy rains in 2017 and 2018 cause a landslide on it access road and damaged structural support but not to ark i.t. insurance folks deny liability. the 510 foot wood ark opened in 2016 and modeled after one in biblical story of noah. >> farmer in mississippi delta face unce...

Heres the story of an ark with a flood problem. the owners of a noah ark wooden replica are suing over flood damage. the ark enkowngtser is demanding its insurance company pay nearly a million dollars the federal lawsuit says heavy rains in 2017 and 2018 cause a landslide on it access road and damaged structural support but not to ark i.t. insurance folks deny liability. the 510 foot wood ark opened in 2016 and modeled after one in biblical story of noah. >> farmer in mississippi delta face unce...

And ive got to talk about this. another storm system developing east of the rockies. not a bomb cyclone but this one is going to exacerbate the flood problem that is ongoing across the mississippi river valley p its going to bring more rainfall. compound it across the melting snowpack in place across the region and the deep frozen ground underneath, theres nowhere for this water to run. thats why we have an enormous flood threat into the mississippi river region. the flood threat extends into mi...

Starting at about the city of conway and moving westward from there. there are a couple of communities -- lumberton in north carolina, one of the smaller communities in northwestern orrie county that have not recovered fully from matthews flooding two years ago. we definitely have the flood problem on our radar. >> all right. were looking at flooding. we are looking at power outages. mark, thanks very much for joining us. mark kruea, the chief information officer for myrtle beach. our coverage o...

From is that storm surge, 7 to 11 feet this is friday evening. palm coast, daytona beach. and then our main focus moves into southeast georgia and south carolina. thats where we have a potential for a major flood problem. lefts dynamics at that talk about here. michael back out to you in the horrendous weather you are experiencing now. >> reporter: i can tell you, mate, it is a bit -- it is as they say in the surfing world getting a bit gnarly out here at the moment. derek thanks so much for tha...