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Coming here to try and take what they can get from what is no doubt a tragic scene, something that collapsed during this earthquake. there are people that have been here trying to help, people trying to look for survivors. that is not the majority of whats happening here right now. what you dont see here are haitian authorities. there is no police presence. theres no firefighters. there are no search and rescue crews here. theres just people from the community and this lone excavator that is not...

Depression is approaching the country. meanwhile there are also multiple storms churning in the caribbean and gulf of mexico right now. haiti is bracing for heavy rain from grace while fred heads toward the florida panhandle. pedram javaheri is tracking it all for us. >> good morning, rosemary. this is a story a lot of people looking at carefully and you notice across portions of the gulf into the western atlantic, areas around bermuda, a trio of tropical systems to tell you about. grace in pa...

This area near the epicenter. a lack of authoritative stance from the government trying to help people get control of this situation. unfortunately this is the reality on the ground at this moment. matt rivers, cnn, in les cayes, haiti. >> now, as we mentioned, haiti is bracing for a storm in the coming hours. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins me now. what are you seeing in terms of when its going to hit? michael, were very close here. were approaching peak hurricane season in the next several...

Matt rivers, cnn, haiti. >> mean whil the head of haitis civil protection agency says an approaching storm could complicate the search and rescue efforts for earthquake victims. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us now. and pedram, as if haiti doesnt have enough to deal with. what are you seeing with his approaching tropical depression? >> its a storm system weakening rather quickly, thats the one piece of good news, but unfortunately, rosemary, its doing so with the expense of interacting wit...

In the next couple of days. you put that in a search and rescue effort sort of scenario, it is going to be as challenging as it gets. of course the buildings have already been compromised, so any additional gusts of wind, any additional heavy rainfall, all of that could lead to more issues. but models really struggling with where this system will end up once it pushes through this region. notice general consensus is going to traverse southward, potentially south of cuba, maybe interact with cuba...

And that is the concern in an area thats seen so much deforestation, there isnt much soil here to absorb the water. we do expect additional problems to begin because of that. and of course we know after shocks are ongoing in this region as well. hundreds potentially still left to be had over the next several weeks. so this is really a difficult scenario here as a tropical system moves across the region, rosemary. >> all right, pedram javaheri, many thanks for bringing us up-to-date on that situa...

So well watch this. >> dont want to see that. well keep tracking it. pedram javaheri, thank you so much. there are brutal heatwaves fueling wildfires. the dixie fire has grown to half a million acres. it has already destroyed a,000 stru thousand structures and threatening more. a man in southern italy was killed while trying to save his animals from a wildfire. and temperatures are just shy of 49 degrees celsius or 120 fahrenheit. in al fgeria, there is three da of national mourning. and firef...

Lets bring in pedram javaheri. so you have been tracking this. what are the chances that it could get worse? >> certainly possible. there are some elements that will allow the storm system to flourish potentially as we go towards early this weekend and then eventually into next weekend a then there are other elements that will try to inhibit it and at this point the model consensus is that it will try to inhibit strengthening. it is a system with 35 mile-per-hour winds, not very organized, very ...

Thank you so much. meantime tropical storm fred has weakened but still on track to reach the florida coast by tomorrow. here is pedram javaheri. >> all eyes across the island of hispaniola as it is a weakening shell of itself from yesterday where it was a tropical storm and because of the elevated tur rain across this region, as high as 10,000 feet, breaking the system apart. but when you look at the models, pretty good consensus that over the next 24, 48 hours it parallels the northern coast ...

. scary video from arizona which has been plagued with weeks of monsoons and flash scu this one where a man had to be pulled to safety after a flash flood overwhelmed his truck. and were tracking a new tropical storm that has developed in the caribbean. tropical storm fred is the sixth named storm of the atlantic hurricane season. pedram javaheri is tracking the storm. >> good morning, rosemary. yes, we do have tropical storm fred and this is a storm system that forms in latter portions of t...