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Warning, even a flash flood watch, rainfall rates of two inches are in the forecast, rain in the forecast all the way through the weekend. look at the rain totals theyve seen over the past 36 hours, theyve seen day after day of similar rainfall amounts. there you go today currently seeing a "360" hour loop still dealing with the training thunderstorms, thunderstorms that are pretty much stationary right along this front that just wont go anymore. well take a look at it, you can see that stationa...

>> indira petersons is watching the flooding. thats devastating. >> truly devastating, unfortunately, almost identical pictures today that we saw yesterday. we actually pulled up yesterdays radar. we reported anywhere from seven to nine inches of rain yesterday. now, lets look at the current radar. almost an identical picture. were still talking about rainfall rates, about two inches an hour. we see a band, kansas and missouri. you have that ground thats saturated. so any additional rain is stil...

And hello again, everybody, im tony harris in the cnn "newsroom," where anything can happen. a flash flooding nightmare. right now people are trapped inside cars on rain-swollen roads in oklahoma. some are getting rescued, as you see here. others are hoping for help soon. so lets do this. lets get started with our developing story. lets get you to meteorologist jacqui jeras, and jacqui, talk us through this and the system that brought this rain. >> we have been seening training thunderstorms all...

Or higher. as we take a look at whats happening in stant lewis area right now, unfortunately more rain. heavy thunderstorms sweeping across parts of missouri or arkansas and affecting parts of tennessee, but a lots of rain in southern indiana. thats going to be a problem for the next couple days. this system will produce training thunderstorms that will ride along a stationary front and that means rain over and over again in the same area. we could be looking at several inches of rain in this pa...