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Worst point there were crews coming by telling people to get off the beach. thats really been the extent what weve seen here on the island. >> all right. ed lavandera -- i mean, traffic is going by like nobodys business. you think where are they going, and whats open? i dont know whats open there. ed, do stay safe. i do keep in your live shot seeing that lightning behind you and that makes me nervous. do stay safe and your crew. our meteorologist allison chinchar has been tracking hurricane ha...

There is that threat of tornadic activity. heres that computer model i was telling you about -- port oconnor. 40 inches. port arances. 50% of the town has evacuated. thats good. ive hope you are heeding the warning, i really do. its been a while since weve seen a category three. take it easy. keep it here for updates. >> karen maginnis, thank you. the president encouraging everyone in harveys path to stay safe. the president tweeting, "as hurricane harvey intensifies, remember to plan ahead." ...

Adam: you guys teach me so much every morning. thank you for all that knowledge. here is what i know its about the forecast. beginning to feel more spring like here in new york city. but across the country spring like weather means big storms. thats what were seeing stretching down into texas and oklahoma. even farther up to the north now on the east side of dallas these are severe storms that did bring storms overnight hours. continuing to see that storm push off along the eastern side of oklah...

Weve got the warm most air which is pulling the gulf moisture upward. and as a result, those temperatures behind the front can be 30s and we watched temperatures out ahead of it will be in the 70s and 80s, in areas all the way down into texas, think about 16 million people just kind of stairing down at least a slight risk of severe weather. that orange shaded area thats the enhanced risk, thats about 2 and a half million people and into little rock arkansas. what can they expect, well might be a...

And tonight and renynolds wolf is here with the latest. the big threat we are watching this morning involves the upper level low in the jet stream. what well be dealing with today are these features but also something else. a lot of moisture coming in from the gulf of mexico. and we have looked into the daytime heating and the varying wind directions with height. well have a chance for a lot of storm development and with this come rotating storms. we are talking super cells. from the central p...

Breaking news. a tornado on the ground near oklahoma city. lets go live to our meteorologist jennifer gray. shes at the cnn weather center. what do we know? >> a tornado warning in effect right now for grady as well as mcclain counties including cities of blanchard and bridge creek. the tornado warning will include possibly norman, maybe the south side of oklahoma city. this is just on the outskirts. this is until 5:30 central time. you can see the proximity to oklahoma city just on the southwes...

Try to get into that area, but it is an area, if you look at the entire seaboard the mid atlantic states are favored for this to happen and its another way below normal year for tornadoes. only six. a record low for the date. so, things like this could be expected. >> what makes the difference between severe storms and a watch for them and then the next leap to tornado? >> the tornadic activity has a different stronger set of parameters that cause the extra rotation. forz the -- theres one area ...

The west and some might produce strong winds and hail and large amounts of rainfall and the chance of tornadic activity. you take a look at the national perspective over towards the central plains could see snowfall and rain move into the ohio valley and some into the great lakes, and we are going to see the chance of scattered showers. we could see widespread delays and in the deep south. sfl many headaches for a lot of americans on your saturday. so it looks like the weekend of troublesome wea...

They are saying parts of memphis between 12 and 18 inches of rainfall. cars have stalled out. we had an unconfirmed report that an apartment building had several feet of water in it. the rain is coming down so quickly its being measured in inches per hour. right now theres a flash flood warning out for the memphis area. but this area is also a region where the ground is absolutely saturated. they cant take anymore wet weather. the midwest, we have seen for weeks now the ground saturated there as...

This circulation is going to be developing here about a 40% likelihood in the next two days, we could see this possibly turn into tropical storm arthur. and then across the midwest, a big storm. not just from minnesota that you heard so much about over the last several days, but also across the ohio river valley with strong storms, oklahoma, wind gusts as high as 70 miles an hour. but heres the problem today. watch out. between interstate 80, interstate 70, where youve got this moderate risk fro...