Water Balloon Exploding News Today

am taking the train. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. "cnn newsroom" starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. ♪ good wednesday morning to you, im jim sciutto. >> and im erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the wor...

>> these storms hit us like a water balloon exploding and just dropped water down through our rivers and creeks, so its been this excessive amount of flooding. >> reporter: blast after blast of torrential rain and wind gusts exceeding 70 miles per hour on californias central coast. >> were soaked. this place is soaked. >> reporter: santa cruz county tuesday was in cleanup mode after the most recent storm. >> its just from water everywhere and its just rushing through. it was going fast. we had a...