Enough to sweep away parts of homes overnight. Also overnight, a suspected gas explosion caused part of a jail in pensacola to collapse. That incident killing two inmates, injuring more than 100. Its unclear though if the blast is connected to the severe weather. Lets get to ed lavandera. Hopefully youre starting to get a better idea of just what happened. Good morning. Here the crews are waiting for the sun to come up. The jail and part of the green structure on the build that you see that exploded last night. It was a dangerous situation and deadly. Breaking news overnight. Day four of a catastrophic storm system in the southeast is now barreling up the eastern seaboard threatening millions more. Officials have issued flood warnings from florida to new york with six inches of rain predicted in some parts of the northeast. City streets are already submerged. In maryland several thousand gallons of water rushed into a town 20 miles south of baltimore after a breach in the dam. In baltimore the deluge so heavy that it caused a massive landslide on one roadway sending a half dozen cars tumbling into a revere. In the southeast, an explosion caused a roof to collapse in a county jail in the florida panhandle, injuring hundreds of inmays. Its not known if flooding in the area played a role yet. You can hear the roar of the violent flood waters on wednesday spawned by nearly 20 incheses of rainfall in only 24 hours. In an hour everything just started gushing. Reporter flooding over five feet in some areas forcing hundreds of rescues. In mobile, alabama, a dramatic moment as flood waters trapped one man, barely able to cling to a tree before hes rescued. The town of orange beach, alabama, almost completely flooded. Local marina now under water. And in pensacola, florida, the torrential rains went over a scenic highway, sending cars plummeting into a ditch. I twoentd one home where the foundation was gone. Reporter leaving entire neighborhoods in the city inundated. Ive lived here two 20 years. Ive never seen this happen anywhere in the city like this. Reporter and. This is a closer look of the jail here in pensacola that exploded last night. You can see the structural damage from the force of that blast. And officials here trying to figure out the cause, chris. That building did take on extensive t water in the flooding. The flood t waters have receded. Theyre trying to figure out if that flooding is what caused this gas leak and this explosion last night. Chris . Theyre going to have to check for cracks above and below to see if the building maintained its integrity. You just heard ed mention that dam break in maryland that was forcing hundreds of people to evacuate overnight. So lets get to janet with our cnn affiliate wjla. She has details. Reporter the rain has stopped for now but its too little too late for whats going on here. The current situation. Take a look behind me. This is route one in laurel. Look at the water levels here. This has been going on for the past several hours. I also want you to see right across the street theres a car dealership here. You see the cars parked. And that should give you an idea of how high these water levels are. A little over the halfway mark on those tires. Evacuations currently under way because of this. Everyone in the surrounding area is being asked to leave over 100 residents are already being sheltered at the robert j. Community center. Hundreds more are expected. But i want to explain why this is going on. It is due to the rainfall but its indirectly. Officials say they were forced to open the dam because of the rainfall and the levels. And so all seven gates are open indefinitely. Evacuations are mandatory. It is not an option. Of course, it is for the residents safety. We will follow this story as it developss. Back to you. Lets turn to another story breaking. Torontos embattled mayor rob ford is now taking time off from his job and Reelection Campaign to seek additional treatment for alcohol abuse. This comes just after reports of a new video surfaced that all e allegedly shows ford using crack cocaine. We have two developments live in ottawa. What do we know this time, paula . Kate, what have we ever known here . I think many supporters, even his lawyer saying last night, look, they wish he had said this months ago, and rob ford finally uttered those words that everyone wanted to hear, i need help. Calling it one of the most difficult times in his life, embattled toronto mayor rob ford says he is taking a break from his Reelection Campaign. This comes after the toronto globe reporting to have seen a new video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine from a copper colored pipe. The publication saying the video was shot this past saturday in fordss sisters apartment and that they cant verify the substance was, in fact, crack. In may of last year cellphone video was released appearing to show ford smoking crack we cocaine which he at the time denied and later conceded. Yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. Reporter this morning his opponents, outraged. For the good of the city i call on mayor ford to resign from office as mayor. Reporter mayor ford released a statement saying in part, i have tried to deal with these issues by myself over the past year. I know that i need professional help, and i am now 100 committed to getting myself right. His attorney told cnn ford is taking a leave immediately for Substance Abuse problems. Also in comments to the globe he questioned the authenticity of the video and the motivation behind it. In march ford was recorded stumbling and swearing outside Toronto City Hall, and back in january ford admitted to a, quote, minor setback after this rant surfaced. He insisted he had a small amount of to drink but had not taken any drugs. Now, Canadian Media saying that they have seen partz of this new video. None of it has been released. At this point, kate, even his lawyer saying, look, he needs help. Hes taking some time out to deal with what are clearly some very serious personal issues. Michaela . Another dramatic chapter in the life of rob ford. Lets look at more of your headlines. The simmering tensions in ukraine threatening to come to a boil. Russias calling on kiev to halt militaryistic statements after ukraines acting president declared his countrys military was put on full combat readiness. Ukraines leader making a stunning acknowledgement wednesday saying prorussian militants have taken control of much of the eastern chunk of ukraine. In virginia, federal investigators are raising to find out what caused a train to jump its track in downtown lynchburg. Several cars burst into flames. Thousands of gallons of crude oil were dumped into the james river. Cleanup crew rsz scrambling to contain the damage. Some 50,000 gallons of oil are unaccounted for. Thankfully no injuries were reported, but the incident has Safety Experts calling for greater oversight. Flight departures expected to be back to normal this morning. Out west after a Technical Glitch for several airport toss ground the airplanes. F,aa sayses there was a malfunction at a radar center north of los angeles. It afri affected los angeles, phoenix, and salt lake city. No word of what it caused the radar problem. Of course, theres the Ripple Effect. Technology. Air travel today . A lot of questions this morning but at least we have one answer. We now know how quickly the nba owners will meet to decide the fate of Donald Sterling. They will meet today, in just a few hours. And they will decide if the clippers owner should be forced to sell. Sterling was just banned for life and fined 2. 5 million. Thats the max he could get, because of his racist comments. There appears to be no shortage of suitors for the franchise but the big question is will Donald Sterling give up the clippers or is he going to fight it . For more on that lets get to cnns Stephanie Elam. I am banning mr. Sterling for life. Reporter now that nba commissioner adam silver has ousted Donald Sterling from the league, the question is, will the clippers owner put up a fight to keep the team. Donald sterling to me is not going down without a fight. Reporter sterling disgraced after his racist rant went public told fox sports that the team is not for sale. But according to the nbas constitution, if 3 4 of the owners agree that he has to go, sterling could be forced to sell. Silver pledging to do everything in his power to ensure that happens saying he pecks to get the backing he needs. More than 20 teams stating they support silvers harsh punishment but its not yet clear if those public positions would translate into votes. And sterling does have the right to try to convince the other nba owners to side with him. Any owner who decides to side with Donald Sterling in this is a fool and in the court of Public Opinion he will just as guilty as sterling. Reporter allstar trio is already waiting in wings ready to pay big bucks for a contender in the league. A spokesperson for Oprah Winfrey says shes talking to entertainment mogul david geffen and software billionaire Larry Ellison and a possible joint bid. Peaked interest in boxers Floyd Mayweather and oscar de la hoya. What about sterlings family . His wife was at the game but only after asking for and getting the green light from head coach doc rivers. This ruling applies specifically to Donald Sterling and Donald Sterlings conduct only. Reporter the nba says no decisions have been made but the Players Association telling yahoo sports it wont accept any sterling as an owner. The nba once they get the 3 4 vote, they are in charge of this franchise and they decide who gets to buy whoond doesnt. I have zero doubt that the nba is going to prevent anyone from the Sterling Family from controlling this franchise. Reporter Stephanie Elam, cnn, los angeles. How long will this legal battle drag out . Well have to see. Yeah. Its a little confusing. The standard for why they can make him sell. Never happened. The reason why the make him sell is fuzzy in this. We have a document here, beautiful read if you want to look through it. But how he will test that process is what the question is. Uhhuh. Lets take a break. Coming up next on nnew day, were wait for a first look now at a preliminary report expected to be released any moment by malaysian investigators on the disappearance of flight 370. Its been a long awaited report. Families have been demanding it. Is it telling us anything we dont already know . Our experts will break it down. 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We are anticipating the release of a longawaited report on the disappearance of flight 370. Now, the malaysian government is agreeing to make it public this morning, so lets turn to cnns Richard Quest who has been covering the story since day one. And very well, i might add. Now, we have to wait on it obviously to get the details but there are some things that we can expect to see. Right. The very basics of the report. This is a report that is required by icao, International CivilAviation Organization. It has to be presented within 30 days. They just about made that deadline. Now, what would we expect this report to say . You want to real basics. You want the who, the when, and the where. Those are the details. The absolute basics that this report needs to do. Now, once youve done once youve short of ticked off the who, what sort of plane was it, where was it flying to and who was flying it and when was it flying. Those are the details. Thereafter, you can move into an entire arena of possibilities because at its basic, for example, the United States, when it does a preliminary report, the ntsb, its just three pages long. It is literally the who, what, when, where, and why not the why. The who, what, and where. You can put more information in. So for instance, we may want to know what happened at this particular point when the plane was flying and it did its turn back and which route did it take. They may tell us that. They may not. Do they know . Well find out when the report comes out half an hour from now. What would be the rational for not putting obvious disclosures into this first report . The reason why you might keep the report extremely brief is you really dont want to give too many details away because youre not sure of those details. But im going to give you an example of where we have seen pretty different types of reports. Where we have seen them. Lets take, for example, in the case of air france 447. Now, in air france 447 the report ran through 128 pages. In 32, 53 pages. You can do large pages if you so wish or you can choose to make them three to four. Known data or completeness . Is there a lot of stuff in this thats just paperwork . You would expect to find out the plane, the route, the details of what time it departed, which route it left. Youre looking as if to say tell me something i dont know. No, no, no, its not that. But theres something curious. A big function of this if im hearing you right is motivation of those putting out the report. And the idea that, well, you may not put out some details because youre not certain of them, okay, but what if you just dont know details or what if you do know things and for some reason, see, thats the suspicion here is they may know things and theyre not saying those things. Right. That is not the function of the icao preliminary report. The function of this report is known facts. And the rationale and the annex 13 under the icao treaty, manual of accident investigation, is that after several weeks you know certain things and those certain things can be released publicly. What i think is perhaps a little bit worrying here is, first of all, the malaysians didnt tell us that they sent this report. We had to pull it out of them. Secondly, theyve made such a deal about releasing it. This should have just been released when it was sent. You were generous. You said the period is 30 days and they just about made it. My understanding, my understanding is they were given leeway. And quite right, too, because they had such an enormous task on their hands. I can look, if this report, when it come out, is only five pages long or four pages long, i can make an argument that says, i can understand why because theyre too busy trying to find the plane. Theyve got a blank sheet of paper what do they know exactly . I feel i can put it down as one screen what they know, right . Other than the obvious and kind of, you know, boring details of the plane and all of those other things. Why this actually happened and why this other stuff put into the report should be very thin. Yes. But will be the detail, were looking for detail here about after this last known point of contact what did they know as the plane did this. Whatthats what were lookin for. Who saw it as it went over malaysia. What did they do about it . What happened at this last point of contact . Did vietnam notice it . Did the controller at malaysia notice it . Thats what youre looking to find out. And if they know details about this, we know this from air france 447, we got chapter and verse on what the air Traffic Controllers did. If you know it here are they going to tell us it now . Why do they get to control the report . Why wouldnt you have someone issuing a report like this checking on the actions on this body as opposed to allowing the body to dictate the completeness of their own work . That happens everywhere. Thats like saying when the ntsb does a report who polices the ntsb . The bea in france, somebody has to present the report and its the investigating authority of the state of occurrence or state of registry. Its just how it is. It is. So we look for woord to getting it. Im morest sbred in whats not in the report. What it seems they dont know or what they speculated about that they shouldnt have. I can tell you one thing. From my visit to malaysia, there is is no great single fact out there that is not known. There is no hidden secret thats under the carpet that i believe that everybody is saying, pst, dont tell anybody about that. There are things they dont want to talk about but its not a big secret. Richard quest, thank you very much. We will be back with you soon. Kate . Coming up next on new day, about two feet of rain fell in pensacola, florida, in just over