Loop 12 News Today

Because inaction has consequences. >> weve seen the consequences in mosul and ramadi and tikrit and other places as well. appreciate your time. >> always a pleasure being here. >> good talking to you. this is an extreme weather alert. president obama signing a disaster declaration for texas as severe storms soak the lone star state. the torrential rain and flooding killing dozens and even more wet weather is in the forecast. will carr is live from dallas. will? >> reporter: hi, elizabeth. this...

As the region grapples with another round of dangerous storms. heres what it looks like today in the dallas area. roads once again turning into rivers. will carr is standing by live in dallas. will what kind of weather can we expect today? >> reporter: well uma, this area got pounded by bad weather again this morning. behind me is the trinity river. the national weather service just told me its expected to crest at some point tomorrow morning. you can see behind me a stop sign that has water all...

Line the banks of this river. just swamped by all of this water. we have a map of what the trinity river normally looks like. some people around here call it the trinity trickle, and that is like a stream compared to what were seeing today. now, flash flooding impacted this area the past two days closing loop 12 at i-30 a very busy traffic area for dallas forcing people to abandon their cars sow the south, in southeast texas, mandatory evacuations right now going on for the cities of wharton and...

18-wheeler completely flipped on its back with wheels in the air. our concern was whether anyone was inside. >> we might have lost our connection. >> dallas police officers say they believe there was a touchdown at jim miller road around route 12 and i-30 and, also, loop 12 area there was a touchdown and, maybe, 635 and garland. the police officers believe there was a touchdown and officers saw tornado and believe they may have had touchdowns. >> part of the cell that went up from i-20, hit the ...

Much cold air is in place. minus 5 here in denver. 18 down in dallas. everybody dealing with wind as well with this storm. its wound so tightly when you factor in that wind, it is brutally cold, dangerously cold, feels like minus 26 here in denver and 1 in dallas. take a look at 1078 live pictures we have out of dallas. this is out of loop 12. which is right by interstate 30. cars stranded all over the highways. because there have been so many accidents from the ice and the snow and now these pe...

In 50 years. and we do have this breaking news coming to us out of texas. take a look at this fresh video coming to us on a massive back up due to flooding. hundreds of cars have been stranded by high water after the city of dallas received 6.8 inches of rain overnight in the northeastern part of the city. ron thompson has been stuck on the highway now for hours. explain what you have gone through today and what youre seeing on the roads. >> reporter: well we have gone about 30 miles since abo...

Three months of this year. thats worse than the positive growth rate we all would like to see. and that the government had estimated. this decline marks the slowdown in consumer spending in part which economists say is probably due to harsh winter. but well see how this plays out over the next several months. wall street reacting a little today, along with other news the dow trading lower by 67 points. from the fox extreme weather center the death toll just rising to 25 in the devastating floo...

Right, you can see a line of trees here. those trees normally line the bank of the river. they dont touch the water at all. today they are swamped by this flood water. this is an area that has seen a lot of flash flooding over the last two days, which closed loop 12 at i-30. normally a very busy area. it forced people to abeen done their cars, snarled traffic. to the south of us and southeast texas, there are mandatoryçó evacuations now in the cities of whartont moreñr concernsçóxñ there d...