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Rain. new orleans averages 62 inches of rain a year. theyve already had 65 inches and were not through august. can they take 15 to 20 inches of rain and can they withstand the flooding that is almost certainly going to occur in the streets? were just getting to the heavy part of this. again, some areas in downtown new orleans heavily damaged already. >> it looks bad where you are. thank you for the report and thank you for the great work. well get back to you as soon as we can. lets go live to b...

Of rain a year. already 65 inches. so this is going to really add to some of the record totals. we also just found out a short time ago, jim, two sewage pumping stations east and west banks of new orleans have been affected by power outages. so that could lead to some sewage backups. thats another problem theyll have to be dealing with in the coming hours. but they are going to address those sewage backups with a generator at the pumping stations. im going to swing down here. you can see again j...

Already doing it, like right here. >> thats taken a lot of big fish. there are some deeper holes here that we can work. >> you tell me, ill follow you. between the 1940s and 2013, the los angeles river was officially not a river but a concrete flood control channel. but thanks to the persistence of environmental activists, its once again legally a river. this man is famous for fly fishing in it. this is the fly in fly fishing. >> there you go. >> do it again? >> yep. youre a natural. >> this is ...

On a small scale, its here. >> theres some deeper holes here. >> reporter: you tell me. between the 1940s and 2013, the los angeles worker was fishing. its once again, into a river. its famous for fly fishing. straight up and straight back. just like that. >> reporter: this is the fly in fly fishing. ready? here we go. >> there you go. >> reporter: do it again? >> yep. youre a natural. >> reporter: this is amazing. >> first time. >> reporter: another environmental here is the l.a. river, is if t...

To the north. take a rook at this. last 12 hours its really fallen apart. the shear, the you were level wind that has been moving through very strongly has ripped this thing apart. that said, there is a ton of moisture in this area. notice it looks like its moving towards the east. its not. its going to move towards the west. a lot of the moisture has moved off towards the east which isnt good news. it settled all that moisture right back over the islands and a lot of it over the big islands tha...

The lighter wind certainly helps with that. the very dry place, a place that averages around 3 1/2 inches of rain a year. when have you that kind of desert and that kind of dry conditions fires anywhere would be a problem. obviously not the case with a building. thats a different story. the weather at this point not a problem for them. temps 73 degrees, clear skies. not a lot of humidity. not a lot of its pretty much d most of the smoke rising straight up ahead. >> yeah, you mentioned though, bu...

Were hearing some of the worst damage is in your county. tell us about some of the devastation this flooding has caused. >> good afternoon. yes, weve had a lot of rain up in the mountains that has eliminated access to several of our communities, has undermined roads and structures have fallen into the water. >> what is so unusual about these torrential downpours? are they worse than normal or is there something else thats causing the problem? >> well, colorado typically gets about 11 inches of r...

Perspective. we appreciate it. lets go to texas now where wildfires have been burning for two weeks. scorching over 1 million acres of land. the latest fires outside of ft. worth have destroyed about 150 homes and forced hundreds of residents to flee the area. nbcs janet schanlian is in next next. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. its really turned windy today. we use this phrase a lot, the perfect storm, that it really is the perfect storm for these wildfires that come to texas every s...