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Moving in from the southeast. take a look at this. the rivers are swollen. where you saw the rescue for the rescue operation in the kodiak where they took the gentleman off the roof, this is actually a golf course and you can see he put on his vest. he got in and after they went. seemingly he was nonetheless for wear but what a frightening event. one fatality also reported from this. a woman apparently had been in her car and it does not take that much water to float an automobile. you would thi...

everywhere. i thought it was a dream. >> a dream? more like a nightmare, if you want to be honest about it. this is what was left behind by a strong storm. total devastation. several tornadoes touched down. as many as 28 people are dead. in some areas, rescue crews worked deep into the night to find survivors and victims. national guard troops were called up to kentucky and indiana to the hardest hit communities. you can see tornado in tennessee. dozens of people were injured in the st...

Involved -- whats that tell you about the scope of this? >> well, of course, its unusually -- an unusually large number. the training effect of where you had tornadoes following tornadoes means that often you had -- the damage was much greater than you would normally see. this is the season for us. april is the season when we have many, many tornadoes. and yesterday was just as bad as i can ever remember. some people will make the argument it is as bad as it has ever been. certainly, theres neve...

Why. notice were seeing what we refer to as the training effect in an area like lexington or richmond. theyve had plenty of rainfall. you look farther back downstream, you see more intense rain on the way. what happens when you have the heavy rain, the ground gets saturated, then the additional rainfall comes through and the ground doesnt have time to absorb. the runoff causes flooding. thats an issue thats going to be a tremendous deal for people, millions of americans, across parts of the midw...

And alabama and maybe that will also help do some melting where we get some more of the rain in the forecast. but unfortunately one place thats seeing rain that doesnt need a lot more of it is the northwest. its coming down from seattle to portland, all the way into eugene. the problem is this area has been ripe for mud slides. we saw two mud slides on thursday in washington state and the problem remains that the systems are coming in one after the other. theyre kind of knolling a training effec...

Take a look at this. oops. lets enlarge this. let me show you. milwaukee right here. thats the big target. if you will notice farther towards the west, we see more rain. more development. you will notice that much of this is having a training effect which is where you speak of the rain falling over the same areas completely saturated. again, we are talking seven inches of rainfall this fell at a quick rate. we will see more of that form today. more development back to the west. that will compoun...

Also, for the second time this week, dangerous floods hitting eastern kentucky. local officials say well over 200 homes have washed off their foundations. one firefighter tells us that people had to be evacuated from the fast-moving waters. many were trapped and some forced to scramble to their rooftops to try to escape. nearly a foot of rain fell in the last 24 hours. >> reynolds wolf is in the weather center this morning. good morning, guys. one of the big stories, of course, what you just m...

Radar picture now. oklahoma city is showing very heavy rain, just to the north and east. heres where we are zooming in right here. here is edmond, where the rescue is occurring through here. so there is still moderate to heavy rain sweeping across oklahoma right now. it is not over yet. in fact, some of our projected computer models are showing that were still looking at heavier rain working its way through the region, intermittently for the next 24 or 48 hours, ali. so this is what we call a tr...

Okay. all right. pictures from oklahoma city, bonnie. again, just how much water were dealing with. >> thats right. >> if you would, walk us through this storm, the training effect of the system. it is a similar pattern that we saw last week that impacted arkansas. >> and before that, texas last sunday. >> and texas before that. >> right. this is -- what happened was, we had a storm system that tapped into tropical moist tour so that really got it going and thats when we saw a lot of rain coming...

Destroyed five homes. remarkable video but nobody hurt, thankfully for that. this storm, though, is beginning to weaken and spinning its way out. the southern part getting into the southeast, not really weak as far as rain goes. certainly seeing a lot of that from atlanta back through birmingham and montgomery. almost starting to see a bit of a training effect with this rainfall as it doesnt want to let up so were in it another couple of hours. once that clears out, another piece of energy begin...