coming up now at 47 minutes after the hour, let's get a check of the weather headlines. and rob, an awful lot of rain out there today. >> yeah, on the east coast especially. all that rain was in the midwest last week. its slow-moving system dropped a foot of rain in some parts of wisconsin and minnesota. and the result is the flooding we're seeing right now. rivers cresting over the weekend, but the levees in stress mode in portage, wisconsin. the wisconsin river cresting at a record over 20 feet yesterday. and it's going to be over flood stage here for the next several days. so where the levee hasn't failed may very well do that in the next day or two. so we're very concerned about that. we also have flood watches and warnings posted for the east coast because of the rain that's happening right now. several inches of rainfall for georgia and across the carolinas and up towards the northeast. so this wide swath of moisture with a little bit of a tropical connection here from the