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More intensity. again, i think we can look to that at another date. but i think the message today is for residents, especially with the newly -- new cat 5 is dont take your eye off this storm. >> here are the facts on how climate change could affect hurricanes. rising sea levels are making storm surge more dangerous and making storms wetter, increasing the rainfall rate as well as the amount of precipitation a storm can produce. strong storms are getting even stronger because of warmer oceans, a...

Take your eye off this storm. >> here are the facts we know that the climate crisis is making hurricanes more dangerous. here are the top ways listed in order of scientific confidence. the sea level rise is making storm surge more dangerous and making storms wetter, increasing the rainfall rate, as well as the amount of precipitation a storm can produce. strong storms are getting even stronger because of warmer oceans. and storms are rapidly intensifying more frequently. so we are seeing this pl...

>> hey, there, jon, plenty of folks still trying to squeeze out a little bit of summer. there are spots where temperatures are warmer. a gorgeous day in mid-atlantic, 73 degrees in new york city currently. you do see spots in the center of the country where it is still very warm, 91 degrees currently in kansas city. mid 80s in the midwest, chicago region. this warm air is going to hover throughout the course of the weekend, but notice this cool line. colder air behind it. thats a cold front. whe...

>> hey, there, jon, plenty of folks still trying to squeeze out a little bit of summer. there are spots where temperatures are warmer. a gorgeous day in mid-atlantic, 73 degrees in new york city currently. you do see spots in the center of the country where it is still very warm, 91 degrees currently in kansas city. mid 80s in the midwest, chicago region. this warm air is going to hover throughout the course of the weekend, but notice this cool line. colder air behind it. thats a cold front. whe...

>> theyre going to get breaks. there will be windows where its not going to be raining. 9 problem is we are in the rainy season. this is the monsoon, right? so we talk about torrential downpours. and its the kind of rain that can put down easily 100 millimeters of rainfall in just an hour. so thats the kind of rainfall rate were talking about. so lets check in here and stay positive here. they do have access to water, right? so if they did survive the flash flood out there and theyre in a little...

Outside. >> j.r., if you look up in the radar is in that orange part there. you see the yellows, the oranges, thats the intense rainfall rate and i checked out some of the gauges there in southeastern texas. already at this early juncture in the game, theyre picturing major flooding in these spots. again the storm is ramping umm. so lets get the latest on harvey here. harvey is still a menace, but the game is changing with harvey a bit. the storm surge still on the table the next several hours. ...

Normal monthly rainfall rate here as far as may. so six times. that is incredible. some areas picking up twice their monthly average and that continues for today. very heavy rainfall. you see the rain pushing towards the north and then out ahead of it, still the potential for some severe thunderstorms with tornadic development today as well. i think the main threat will continue to be the heavy rain and the flooding. guys? >> wow. thanks so much for that, ivan cabrera. we will have a report at t...

By night, its great. thats the problem with this search and we talked to a couple of researchers earlier that said if this is the case for the next few days we need to start doing the underwater search during the night when its calm doesnt matter whether its day or night down there. its all dark down there anyway. but the water is turbulent, visibility isnt that good. the rainfall rate is going to be about 4 inches the next two days a lot of cloud cover, a lot of rain. when the clouds come down,...

Rain causing major flooding in the houston area. that is being blamed for a roof collapse. take a look at it there. at a food mart in sugar land, texas. rick reichmuth is watching it. how bad is it? >> really heavy rainfall. the roof collapsed from the weight of the rain that had fallen on the roof. people were out of it, good news. this is what the last 24 hours looked like. just to the southwest of houston, where sugar land is, we saw six inches of rain in three hours. 1.2 inches fell in seven...

rob, help me out here. whats going on? >> theyre filing out, don. theyve just suspended festivities at lollapalooza because of the line of storms thats moving in the last couple years weve had a rash of accidents and unfortunate events with concerts and outdoor venues during summer time severe weather events like were having right now. thats whats happening out at lollapalooza. we have another tower cam showing michigan avenue outside of our cnn bureau there in chicago. traffic at a st...