night long, guys. the areas we re watching most closely at this hour stretch across parts of kentucky and to the deep south. the boxes that you see, that s where tornadoes are possible in the red. in the yellow we re more concerned about hail and wind damage at this hour. i ll tell you, parts of alabama right now are just getting lit so hard with this line of storms. look at those purple boxes. those are tornado warnings. that means tornados are being indicated on either radar or spotted. you need to be taking cover now. that s a line that extends from about interstate 20 all the way up to the state line with tennessee. that line is going to move eastward. huntsville and birmingham will be in the line of these storms later on this morning. now, to the west of there, we ve got redevelopment back behind the main line so we ve got hail makers in the orange boxes across parts of texas as well as into arkansas. all right. here s that high risk map that you guys were talking about. we re tal
hours. right now, we are watching severe thunderstorms that have been moving across parts of missouri through the st. louis area and to the east now. these have been hail makers. they have a history of producing golf ball size hail. this is kind of a warmup compared to what we are expecting. the bright red area, we have a moderate risk of tornadoes. a watch means conditions are favorable for severe weather to occur. a warning means you need to be taking cover right away. we hear you. we told you the president will speak around 10:15 a.m. eastern this morning. mr. obama is starting his three-day debt and taxes tour in virginia. that would be no accident. our deputy political director, paul steinhauser, is here to explain location, location,
million acres already. dozens of fires are burning right now. one firefighter has died. they are running out of resources and the governor wants the entire state to be declared a federal disaster area. extreme weather happening right now in northern new jersey as well. take a look at this mess. powerful storms dumped more than four inches of rain on some areas, causing rivers to swell, roads look more like lakes this morning. hundreds of homes are damaged. many residents forced to evacuate. others needed to be rescued by boat. officials say more flooding may be on the way in some parts, but they do expect the rivers to recede some time today. there s been an awful lot of rain soaking that part of the country. it s very, very dry in texas. kiran was pointing out people who want the rain don t have it. people who don t need the rain are getting too much. word of severe weather in the st. louis area. happening right now, jacqui jeras in atlanta for us. good morning. good morning. we h
weather center. quite the outbreak on monday. yesterday not quite so bad. we had a couple of hail makers. today the severe weather threat is amplified more. and we re seeing strong to severe thunderstorms across the mississippi river valley. those heavy thunderstorms moving across the st. louis area. they are training through here. you probably woke up early because of the thunder and lightning and flash flooding could be expected as well. northeast dealing with light rain and cool temperatures. we could see thunderstorms redeveloping later on this afternoon. we ll talk about the severe weather threat in the plains later on american morning. well, the oil spill is turning into an economic disaster as well. we re live in mississippi where the owners of one seafood plant had to deliver terrible news. live in just a moment. i d like one of those desserts and some coffee.
out of the sky. the helicopter pilot turns it on to auto rotate, which means i m crashing, i have to save this helicopter me did save the helicopter. and they got a little too close there. that was one of the channel 9 s helicopter. mick, the mayor, was saying how great the media reacts in this town. the meteorologists in this town are second to absolutely none. here s a live shot from koco. they are going to be acessing how much damage actually occurred, how big the storms may be. we may not know that for a couple of days. amazing. cha chad, boy. and today? today is good. today we re fine. we ll have a couple of hail makers but maybe one or two trn tornadoes. but yesterday there were more than four dozen. amazing. chad, thank you, sir. the oil spill creating jobs in coastal cities along the gulf. we look at that side of the story with our ines ferre.