of the water. we ve got flooding under way in parts of virginia. right now look at these areas of yellow and orange. that s where we re getting the heaviest rain. you see right around washington we don t have any heavy rain. look at that band of very heavy rain stretches from near looks like williamsburg over towards charlottesville. that is advancing to the north. there s even heavier rain farther south from richmond down to the north carolina border. close into washington and the nearby subsuburbs, just a littl light rain in arlington and fairfax counties. these areas in green have had flooding. in fact, they ve had two to four inches of rain in parts of fauquier, culpepper county, and down towards charlottesville. many of the roads closed there in the rural areas because creeks and streams are flowing over the roads and out of their bank. that area of flooding may come up toward the metro area. we could have flood warnings closer to the metro area as the day progresses.
good morning, everyone, i m lynn berry, those stories and more are straight ahead, this is first look on msnbc. we begin this morning with a slow and stubborn storm, severe weather marked the unofficial end of summer for tens of thousands of people in texas and several states along the gulf coast. the remnants of tropical storm lee continued to fan flames in texas, and flood parts of the southeast. nbc s kurt gregory has more. reporter: texas firefighters are looking at another extreme day on the job. even with help from above monday in the form of firefighting helicopters, crews on the groundy outmatched. i have seen a number of big fires in my life. this one is as mean-looking as i ve ever seen. reporter: just outside of austin, more than 450 homes have been reduce dodd cinders. 500 families have been forced out of her homes. monica lost her home. i m sitting and praying, hoping to god, because i don t know right now. reporter: in louisiana, the biggest proble
622639. we ll read the best responses later. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this tuesday, september 6th, the day after labor day and a lot going on as we get back to business, including michele bachmann s highly regarded campaign manager stepping aside, declaring the republican competition a romney/perry race. plus, what does this video of mud, fires and stretchers have to do with me? it s the race that quite literally broke me. talk about that a bit later. first, let s get to the news, live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. with this jobs address to a joint session of congress just four days away, president obama previewed his plan yesterday, saying he will propose new ways to restore the middle class. speaking to a labor day crowd in detroit, the president urged parties to work together on his plan, but said democrats quote, won t be waiting around for republicans. we re going to see if we ve got some straight shooters in congress. we re going
detroit, the president urged parties to work together on his plan, but said democrats quote, won t be waiting around for republicans. we re going to see if we ve got some straight shooters in congress. we re going to see if congressional republicans will put country before party. we ll give them a plan and then we ll say, do you want to create jobs, then put our construction workers back to work rebuilding america. do you want to help our companies succeed? open up new markets for them to sell their products. you want, you say you re the party of tax cuts? well then prove you ll fight just as hard for tax cuts for middle class families as you do for oil companies and the most affluent americans. the president s thursday address comes as a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows his job approval at 44%, the highest disapproval rating the poll has recorded for this president. and to be expected, his job rating on the economy also at an all-time low, only 37% of those
81, just about the heaviest stuff we ve got going on headed toward middleton, steven city, winchester moving to the northeast at about 20 miles per hour. needless to say, a wet, cool day ahead. monika? all of the flooding problems being caused by the rain and it is going to be a heavy traffic day as well. the terrible tuesday is what it is called after labor day. good morning, everybody. first to the southeast southwest freeway where we ve had several spots reported with flooding including at 7th street and 12th street and into the third street tunnel. be aware of that as well. southeast southwest freeway. you re looking at right now. we ll go over to the maps right now. the beltway is doing fine all around town. we ll zoom in first to the northside and just show you the volume beginning to form already. here at university boulevard as you can see, people are up early trying to get over to the west side through silver spring. no delays yet. back over to the maps, this time,