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Most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent this evening with us. good night from washington. i am shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we dont do a lot of weather segments on the show, but we couldnt help but notice this phenomenon called a polar vortex thats descended on the midwestern united states this week. temperatures dropped to lows that didnt even seem real. parts of the state of illinois fell to 38 below zero this morning. thats a ...

Record. they had to go out and check the instruments and everything else, but potentially this negative 38 in mt. carroll, illinois, the all time record low for the state. no location in the state has ever been as cold as it was this morning in mt. carroll. that is an impressive statistic. of course chicago got down to negative 23 yesterday, it was negative 21 this morning. they did not hit their all-time negative low of 27. theres a whole bunch on the map. some of the ones that were very impres...

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Right through portions of eastern regions munorth carolin where the heaviest rain comes down. 36 gauges reporting significant flooding at this hour. getting reports these gauges are beginning to malfunction was of the tremendous amount of water. some of them not reliable because of how much water has come down. current radar this morning shows showers pushing off toward this region. 17 million people underneath the flood alerts at this hour, quite a bit of them right there where flood warnings a...

Improve. notice how much rainfall came down. highest observation which is 34 inches which shattered the previous state record from hurricane floyd in 1999. that was two feet of rainfall. all of the flooding and rainfall at the surface and that is now surface flooding as the soil is fully saturated. very little room left for additional rainfall across the region. of course, the rain is still forecast through at least today. what has happened with the appalachians taking the brunt of the rainfall ...

Inland communities now getting some heavier rain. the other threat thatnt cos, a tornado threat -- the other threat that continues, a tornado threat, this typically happens with a tropical storm. everything you are looking at highlighted in the red, thats a tornado watch, which means that the conditions are there. and then when you get these pink boxes, thats a tornado warned cell. typically those are only at 0, ef-1, run themselves out pretty quickly, but it could do some damage if it comes dow...

Sunday. the rain, obviously, has been the big story and will continue to be so. this is our radar-estimated rainfall situation, anywhere from 20-30 inches of total rain, and we do have the a report of 30.5 inches in one spot. really all along the coast. thats where we saw these really big numbers. this is a state record for a system to move on through, 30 in. s, just a lot of rain. nowhere for it to go. you get that much rain, and you do begin to see flooding in rivers. that doesnt necessarily h...

This still moving. the center circulation over portions of south carolina but all of the activity remains off towards the east. the wind still at 35 miles an hour with this not tropical depression. there are large areas where there was a tornado threat. that is the pink, a tornado warned storm. everything in the box as they watch preconditions are usually small but if they land where you are you will notice it. even if it isnt you -- even if it is in ef0 or ef1. everything in white and pink is g...

Of 3 to 4 miles an hour. you could probably walk faster than this storm has been moving. the good news is it is still moving. you are starting to see that begin to push further and further inland. thats not good news for cities like raleigh or charlotte. along coastline, going to finally see an end to this rain, but not today. youre going to have to wait until at least tomorrow. and until that point, some of those rain bands are going to be quite heavy. where you see the dark colors here, the ye...

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