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Bringing strong winds and heavy rains. this strong storm is moving right now toward china. according to taiwan's central news agency, four people are dead, four people are still missing. two people were killed before the storm even made landfall on friday. a 7-year-old girl and her mother both swept to sea along with the girl's twin sister. she is still missing. this powerful storm has triggered mudslides and flooding. roughly 2 million homes remain without power. at this hour, we have a storm-chaser on the ground who joins us by phone. james reynolds is there. james, thank you for being with ...

York with blinding rain and deadly violent winds. at least six tornados across three states in smithfield, new york, as they pick up the pieces from this ef-2 tornado, they mourn the loss of four. a mother and daughter die when this home collapsed. and here, a man and his dog died when his house was literally carried into the air. >> so this is the house that originally was right there. lifted up. you can see some of the screens there on that pole. and just carried right over, on to another house. have you ever seen anything like this? >> never seen anything like that. i'm guessing that has go...

A hurricane or even strengthen it. so a lot to worry about. we'll certainly give you the latest. there's also potential for the storm to remain offshore, which would be the best case scenario but it looks like all of these computer models is showing potential landfall across north carolina, south carolina, virginia area on the fourth of july and wet one across the east coast unfortunately. >> we like to order up the offshore option if we can. >> absolutely. i'll do anything i can. i'll place phone calls to mother nature. >> we'll take all of it. j.d., thank you very much. stay close on that st...

This driver in st. paul, minnesota, barely making his way through blinding rain. the mighty mississippi river, rushing through the city near its highest level in more than a dozen years. a lightning storm over houston, texas, friday, captured from space -- >> look at that lightning. >> reporter: -- by an astronaut. a different lightning storm in columbus, ohio, late saturday turning tragic. >> like a bomb went off. >> reporter: off-duty firefighter was struck by lightning, sending him into cardiac arrest. his colleagues resuscitating him. he remains in critical condition. >> lightning is a ver...

Washed away labor day plans for many along the east coast. for some parts of the country the wettest summer on record. abc's steve osunsami has more. >> reporter: across much of the northeast, more blinding rain. >> reporter: why can't it rain just a little in lake county north carolina heavy rains were dramatic. rescue workers had to pull a set of parents and their young children from their car. after it started sinking in the floodwaters. same story, lexington, kentucky, where a police cruiser stalled in the flash floods. >> we have never seen anything like this. >> reporter: outside atlanta...