Described as cold blood. Norah. Imtiaz tyab. Thank you. For a look at how the weather will impact the fires in the days ahead as well as a potentially historic blizzard on the west coast, lets bring in meteorologist mike bettes. Hes from our partners at the weather channel. Good evening, mike. Norah, good evening. Unfortunately the weathers not leng matters across the lone star state. We know dry and windy conditions will persist into the weekend. We have fire weather watches and red flag warnings extending from new mexico and texas all the way into iowa through saturday. And heres the major factor in all this. Significant wind picking back up, especially this weekend, where winds may be gusting as high as 50 miles per hour. Again, fanning those flames. We expect rapid spread of the fire to continue. The rain thats falling actually falls well to the east of where the Smokehouse Creek fire is burning here in the panhandle of texas. Then our attention turns to the west. Weve got a monste
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Least six states in the south and midwest, this as kentucky oklahoma and arkansas clean up from the last round of storms. Manuel bojorquez reports. Reporter there were more than 160 water rescues in louisville after more than six inches of rain fell overnight, stranding cars and flooding homes. Flooding is going underneath. Its going straight through the building. Reporter the same weather systems spawned tornadoes in the plains. This is the destruction in the town of afton, oklahoma. Harrison, arkansas, was hit by what people believe was also a tornado. So i jumped into the bath tub, heard an awful noise and thought roof went because i heard water coming in. Reporter despite the damage, its been a relatively quiet tornado season with only 4050 touching down since the beginning of the year. The average is 150. The same large and persistent jet stream that has caused a historic drought in california and a recordbreaking winter in the northeast has suppressed Severe Weather activity in t