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Were seeing rainfall events in the u.s. tropical and nontropical that a lot of the flooding isnt even in the areas designated as high risk flood zones by fema. we need to get it out of our heads looking at the last 100 years in historical events is preparing us for whats happening. it seems like every couple of week, every couple of month, every couple of years, were having record-setting events which means we have no recorded history of looking backwards is not preparing us. >> thats a really, ...

This is imagine a baseball player that early in their career hit a lot of home runs, later takes some performance enhancing drugs and hits even more home runs. we know that the extra home runs were enhanced by the steroids, but we dont know which particular home runs were the ones that were enhanced. so what we can talk about is that the odds of home runs were changed. that is the odds of extreme hurricanes are changed, but we cannot specifically say this hurricane or that hurricane was made mor...

But there was someone who did attend who caught peoples attention. well tell you who that was. but first, washington, d.c. was hit by a historic flash flood yesterday and inundated the city with 3 1/2 inches of rain in two hours. lets bring in bill karins. >> i mean, mika, the timing was horrific. we saw people stranded. we saw people with their kids on top of the cars because the water rose so quickly. we even had school buss with children on them trying to drive through rivers. i mean, it wa...

Meteorologist bill karins. >> has it been raining lately? >> no, its been dry. >> one thing people dont realize with all of the climate change stuff its not just change, but we get more downpours. since 1958 it shows the ohio valley and the northeast have a significant increase in the number of heavy rainfall events. have you noted thiced how much been raining over the last year and a half? right now, we have 58 cities right now top-ten wettest cities. this is on the heels of last year which is ...

The atmosphere will push more sun in. the ocean absorbs more heat. that causes more evaporation into the atmosphere. the storms, these super storms, snowstorms all use moisture for their fuel. now youre putting more moisture many the atmosphere. thats creating greater storms. if you look at the last three years with number of hurricanes we have had. if you looked at the number of rainfall events that are more than three inches. the amount of flooding we have seen. the amount of super charged sto...

Went in, of course the weather destabilized, large rainfall events. in essence, the lower portions of the cave have filled up an honest created the issue. kristin: i have been inside several kids before and ill certainly think twice again. her remarkable effort underway. thank you so much. hopefully the remaining boys and their coach are able to get out. leland: president trump treating this morning about the cave rescue. hes up in new jersey right now at his club in doubling down on criticisms ...

Inches from a tropical system from harvey, that will be the biggest rainfall events we have ever seen in us history in terms of a tropical storm at landfall. the rain keeps coming for houston, you can still see heavy bands moving eastward, we are still in this heavy rain period east of the houston area, yellow and red onscreen giving the heaviest rainfall so just east of the city we are getting potential for more rain. as we get into wednesday and thursday things will start to look better for th...

Other big story, of course, is the west. where they are in some case up to the top three heaviest rainfall events of all time across the west coast and heavy snow there as well. a lot to cover. be careful today. back to you inside. ainsley: good advise. steve: all right. janice, thank you. ainsley: lets hand it over to heather childers who has headlines for us us. heather: stories we have been following for you. a woman not only berate as president trump supporter sitting next to her on a plane....

Filled. >> and climate researchers say these severe rainfall events signal a new normal in the u.s. caused by climate change. michelle, devin. >> josh, so much rain, obviously, helping the drought conditions in the west. is there any other silver lining here? >> well, the center for climate and energy solutions does say these storms expose our vulnerabilities. and what needs to be fixed. especially when it comes to urban areas. dealing with flooding. >> so things like roadways, drainage system t...

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