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Largest rainfall amount from a single storm that has ever been recorded in the continental united states. when texas broke that record today it surpassed the previous record which has stood since 1978 which was also a storm that hit texas. texas has a history, a geographic destiny to be the target of major tropical storms in this country that can be incredibly damaging and that in particular can cause huge flooding. but after that gigantic flood in houston in 1935, and actually that one in 35 ha...

More. think about that. 6 million people. and its really the images. this is a wendys sign and dr. marshal shepard from the weather channel tweeted this out. that water is up to the bottom of the wendys sign, so its really the images that help you comprehend the numbers we have been seeing. and i have new numbers for you. lets take a look at the radar for you right now. you asked when will the rain end. and i think the rain will be coming to an end here shortly in houston. but, again, the proble...

Folks have evacuated or found the strongest structure they can find. it could make the land possible category 4 or 5 and continue the track inland. lit weaken considerably once it makes landfall and a lot of the the reason for that is because of the terrain, it is mountainous, and the wind forecast is going to get up to 60 to 100 miles per hour in the next 24 hours, and the forecast of rain is from 10 to 20 inches across places along the coast, and because of that terrain mountainous, we are loo...

A point for each house we searched in order to give us an accurate idea. >> he is the emergency management director in boulder. he joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta, how are you doing? >> well, im doing better than a lot of people out there. just in your words, how bad is it for people in colorado? >> well, unprecedented flooding, obviously, put many residents in our state in a bad way. when this flooding started we had never seen anything on this scale or level. the rainfall a...

A point for each house we searched in order to give us an accurate idea. >> he is the emergency management director in boulder. he joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta, how are you doing? >> well, im doing better than a lot of people out there. just in your words, how bad is it for people in colorado? >> well, unprecedented flooding, obviously, put many residents in our state in a bad way. when this flooding started we had never seen anything on this scale or level. the rainfall a...

Missing and crews have had to rescue about 100 people. the heavy rain has been relentless today, more than nine inches have fallen and the san antonio river has hit a new flood record. karen maginnis with more on that. pretty remarkable record that broke one that took many days to set. this one just took one. >> it does. this is less than a 24 hour time period, about 12, maybe 14 hours and this morning we saw a record rainfall amount at 3:00 this morning in san antonio. they already had three in...

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Morning." im meteorologist jacqui jeras. its been the wettest july on record for you in milwaukee, wisconsin. unfortunately, were adding to that number today. as you can see, showers and thundershowers have been moving through the area. theyve been weakening a little bit, so thats some good news, should keep the rainfall amount to half an inch to an inch but we do expect thunderstorms for fire up again say mid afternoon and through the evening. some could become severe. well watch places like ch...

Well throw some mileage up here. 100 miles to the south of brownsville but only about 28 miles from the coast here of mexico and its moving off towards the west, shepard. within two hours, well see landfall, the center of this storm crossing over land. head north up to the u.s.a. area, sustained winds around 37, 38 miles an hour at tropical storm force. at least whats going on up there right now. >> this is pour about water than wind. >> it is a little bit more about water than wind. you said it...