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We have reed hopkins from the national weather center. hes up by you in wilmington, reed, lets talk about whats coming our way in north myrtle beach. im looking at the radar and its showing those yellow bands showing light precipitation. its just not here yet. >> oh, yes, we had the storm moving along what looks like the eye. its got very, very large and weve had significant rain up in our area in southeast south carolina. weve had flash flood issued for the last several hours. and on the backsi...

The equipment, or the way its operated. there was a train up in north dakota that derailed, a train that was carrying crude oil. it was a broken axle. the philadelphia crash may of 2015 was train handling, the guy was going around a curve too fast. a wide gauge on the track, broken rail, a train went over it. all those, amtrak, railroads are going to do is start where the train ended up and walk backwards to see where it left the track. its going to happen a half mile before and it finally crash...

Performance error like they had outside philadelphia, itll definitely demonstrate it. >> with all the automation that happens, how much of what happens on the train is the conductor and then we see a drone that is up there over the seen. how much of that minute to minute is automated, and how much is it the conductor generally in a situation like this controlling actively? >> well, the conductor is back in the train taking care of passengers. youre talking about a locomotive engineer whos actual...

Meteorologist adam klotz is tracking. >> the good news is it will not make rainfall. a few folks will see impact. you are already seeing rain up in north carolina, winds are begin to go weaken at this point. the storm will wont to weaken. here is your track. what are we talking about as far as impacts go, the carolinas is really it and north carolina, thats a tropical storm watch in place. impacts will start to be felt on tuesday lingering into wednesday, guys. heather: the outer banks hunkering...

You have many crew members younger than the aircraft youre flying in. why propeller driven and not jets? >> turbo engines, were at the freezing level there. there is a tremendous amount of hail that we interact with and rainfall. so the good thing about the propellers in this aircraft, those props are churning that rain up and pushing it through the engine. the engines are extremely powerful. >> lieutenant colonel, i hope youre a patient man. im going to ask you to hold because we have a narrow ...

Predicted 4 to 8 inches of rain up until thursday. some 500 residents have been forced from their homes in lake charles, due to flooding. as the storming bears down on new orleans, a bit of good news, the city was able to fix a broken pump that threatened to make flooding much worse. >> joining me now by phone is governor edwards. thank you for joining us, first off. you know what this is like. you guys have lived through katrina, youre sending resources to texas, how long do you expect your res...

Wash the flooding on for. >> someone who may agree, doctor marshall shepherd is a director of a science program and former president of the meteorological society. i assume you would agree with that statement. >> i would agree and whats even scariers were probably talking more than 30 inches. were talking about 4 feet, perhaps more. i just read about 9 trillion gallons of water have already fallen on the area. that would fill the great salt lake twice. >> elizbeth: the narrative to say the storm...

Us is bolivar peninsula. its just a tiny little slip and apparently some houses have caught fire there. we suspect from lightning that has not come from first responders or emergency management officials but that is common because we have seen a whole lot of lightning also with these tropical bands as they move in, so that is a problem just north of us, so really, right now, all eyes are on the rain up in this area and certainly over in houston metro. youre talking about one of the largest citie...

Almost all areas of the west with the exception of the areas along the coast. on saturday, boise, you get the picture, near records to record highs as we go through the weekend. into next week, we take temperatures down a little bit like salt lake city drops five degrees, and near the grand canyon drops five degrees. right now way above average and returning back to normal. the rest of the forecast, we track rain up around new york city, and it will improve as we go throughout the afternoon, and...

It is unfathomable, it is unfathomable what happened out there. you literally have a trailer park that looks to have been disintegrated. you literally have smatterings of what used to be homes thrown into the woods. you have the smell of gas, you have destroyed homes, people crying, debris everywhere. >> yikes. that was painful. an official there from albany, georgia, describing the devastation from this weekends severe weather. well get right to meteorologist bill karins who has the latest. tha...