hardest hit gets on the back side of this. we re tracking plenty of rain. this is an opportunity for them to get out of it. how much rain will be get? 30, 40 inches. houston looks as though another 10 inches additional than what we ve seen. there s still some spots out there, richard, we ll see a good 15, 20 more inches of rain before it s said and done. thanks, adam. we appreciate it. 30 inches of rain. can t really imagine it. we ve been hearing the reports and watching the devastation all weekend. the rain coming down. friday night when the story broke and when it was happening, seeing steve harrigan and the others in the field trying to report on it. could barely stand getting pummeled by the winds and the onslaught of the downpour. one of the things we ve had to deal with is the devastation of water and the rain that comes after. the winds are bad enough. when you see what happened in katrina and what happened here, it s just can t help us feel
there that there s a certain line that is not to be crossed? reporter: there is worry, not just from today, but i think over the past two years since the occupy umbrella movement to 2014. and more recently the detention of a number of book sellers who published books deeply critical of the chinese government. these men, five of them, were suddenly discovered across the border in china. moments like that have raised questions about the future of democratic freedoms here in hong kong. there s other anxiety as well. concern about and here the skies are starting to open up with the rain coming down, and the umbrellas which are everyday utensils and tools here in hong kong. but also a symbol of that umbrella movement, the protest movement of 2014. but part of the anxiety is
completely demolished and neighbors across the street around the corner with nothing because the narrow vortex of the tornado bounces up and down through the region. when it hits, very difficult to track but when there is a tornado warning of course that s when you want to take cover and with the light of day you can see the ground is pretty wet and saturateded. texas everyone saw devastating floods over the fall season and the threat continues for flood this season now because the ground is so saturated. i mentioned the snow, you can see it s calming down all the way across parts of texas and oklahoma right now. we have several inches on the ground in amarillo but in new mexico we re getting reports of 16 inches in the eastern part of the state. here is the heavy rain and storms working their way through texas into sulfur springs along i-30, treacherous travel on one of the busiest travel days of the year. the flood advisories are widespread, texas, indiana, illinois, and into ohio. f
a depression, we are looking for the threat of flooding and the possibility of landslides and mudslides and hard to believe that less than 24 hours ago, it was a category 5 storm that just broke records for the fastest intensifying hurricane ever. it was incredible to watch. and here we are looking at the track and now it is getting close to texas. the moisture is really starting to plume on in. so many flood warnings in effect right now, and look at, this austin, and just getting inundated and houston as well, and it is going to be worse for houston before it gets better. the national weather service are there is around tonight at 6:00 p.m., we could see rainfall rates of 4 inches per hour, which is incredible. i can t imagine being out in weather like that, but through austin, there is bastrop county and the burns that have been happening in the fire areas, and unfortunately with all of the rain coming down and the scarred land, we are seeing a lot of the flooding with that and you m
good morning ainsley and all of you at home. crews are ready at seaside heights. the workers are, woulding hard. they are trying to make sure that there aren t pieces of debris, glass and nails and things like that. they are worried about storm surge, erosion and flooding. the first system already has the wind whipping around out here and the rain coming down. you see the waves here are crashing. the town of seaside heights largely in rebuild mode. the construction of the homes th they are trying to make them stronger. many of them are higher on stilts. they are concerned abowith the threat of hurricane joaquin and they are worried they are going to ruin the progress already made. with all of the high rain we are going to get and the flooding that we are going to get, we are worried about the soil being soft and the homes