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Welcome back to "first look" on this tuesday. umbrellas, take them out if youre in memphis, up to st. louis, cincinnati, lexington, louisville, all the way back through areas of the mid-atlantic states, too. were going to get drenched today in the carolinas. this is the storm system that soaked up some of the moisture from patricia and now it is going to be on the move. its going to go all the way up towards the great lakes over the next two days. we will see the rain in the midwest, mid-atlanti...

By the time it is all said and depu done. 12- 18 rainfall amounts. and this has had very heavy rape last week. we have seen incredible flooding pictures from charleston and mountain areas. 12 inches of rainfall, that water has to go somewhere. the ground is saturated and will cause flooding problem. we are dealing with a historic situation in south carolina and maybe north carolina and virginia. it is difficult to say where these line of storms are going to line up. but we know that somebody in ...

Coming down, blocking roads, blocking evacuation routes, blocking emergency crews getting in, theyre also worried about massive power outages and then you heard the severe flooding problem. and the winds. all of that combined, it could be a horrendous weekend even if the storms off shore, wolf. >> quickly, how are people preparing for at least a lot more rain? >> theyre taking it seriously. a lot of the store shelves have been heavily hit up the usuals, water, bread and milk and theyre hunkering...

Neighborhood before? of course, but building restrictions are very difficult here, permitting is difficult to get, and for the most part, you dont expect this sort of thing to happen. certainly not in the middle of the afternoon, smack dab in manhattan. what we dont know is, were there people inside or who was on the street and the initial reporting suggests to us that they believe people were trapped inside and as you can see, a fire has now broken out after this collapse. there is of course --...

Temperaturewise, watch what happens. warmer temperatures had 42 on nond boston. feel amazing. good to get this slow warm-up. a lot of snow there. really warm temperatures and rain could have a massive flooding problem. we want to see a number of days of 40s. >> such a good spin on it. i like that. >> thats the way it works. >> gracias. >> youre welcome. the scandal surrounding hillary clintons private e-mail account grows by the day. but the man who ran against her says it wont affect her 2016...

We found that out -- we had 100 mile per hour winds when we talked about arthur and that didnt do a whole lot of damage. but a 75 mile per hour wind will likely do less. its the wind, the surge and the flooding rainfall. there have been six to ten inches of rainfall already here in parts of japan as the storm does make its way right over tokyo eventually. not that far from where will is right now. winds by then will be about 45 miles per hour. the big surge problem here and also the flooding pro...

Democratic opponent and you have to go to alaska. the senate democrat really vulnerable trying to push for energy policy in his home state. president obamas green agenda in his way and he said he doesnt have any interest whatsoever in campaigning with president obama. the bottom line is democrats find themselves really particularly in red and energy states fighting people in their own party. democrats are divided. they are up against their own the and this cause election seats in the senate and ...

Help the flooding problem in hoboken. you said to the governor, just as shore towns are not being asked for development in exchange for protecting them from future storms, the solution to hobokens flooding challenges can not be dependent on future development. this is sent before your meeting with the lieutenant governor. does this mean you felt pressure already? >> in various meetings i had with their administration i did feel there was a lot of discuss about development. but i will say there -...

Whats your sense of how they feel about all this? >> i think chris christie has taken the initiative, putting 2016 on pause. i think this buys some time for other potential candidates who may be deciding what they do. and not be at risk of losing donors and activists that commit to christie. >> so that was dana bash reporting. thats the backdrop, allegations along with the bridge scandal, reinforced the notion that political poison to chris christie, charge fair or not that he is a bully. in so ...

Insofar as the bridge and the hoboken story are concerned, the fast -- the fact picture is far from complete. tonight, only on this program, the hoboken mayor, dawn zimmer, is joining us. you sent a letter to governor christie on november 23rd that you sent to us and were putting it on the screen asking for funding for pumps to help the flooding problem in hoboken. you said to the governor, just as shore towns are not being asked for development in exchange for protecting them from future storms...