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Louisiana. and i want to talk about a couple specifics. this is the forecast radar imagery. this is a slow moving tropical system. whether or not it is a hurricane or tropical storm, it doesn't matter because this threat is really about the storm surge and the flooding that will come to this area most likely. because of the excessive amount of rainfall that we have in this forecast. you can see the flood threat there, we have about 5 million americans under a flash flood watch as we speak. and when you look at the amount of moisture associated with the system, that dark shading of orange and r...

Into charleston. savanna 5.7 feet higher than average. charleston, 4.7 feet above high tide values. that is a significant concern, life threatening concern for that area. that is something to be something that people need to take seriously as we go forward in time. look at the amount of rainfall being produced from this storm. our computer models doing a great job depicting that dark shading of purple and shades of white that's approaching the upper echelon of our scale. 20 inches of rain available locally from there. flooding is a major concern. >> absolutely. 20 inches. can you imagine? dere...

Strong cat 3 winds. we get updates every three hours or so. this is the 2:00 a.m. update. it has dropped in strength by 10 miles per hour bringing to it a strong category 3. 120 miles per hour winds right around the center of circulation which by the way is becoming more defined. so this storm hasn't really lost its ability to strengthen just yet. er with, that eye wall is still over the warm ocean waters across this region which lgbt like jet fuel to help intensify and strengthen the storm. you are looking at the latest radar. i want to point out a few things. the eye wall is starting to take...

Buildings. it was lifting up. probably wasn't the best place to be. >> in iowa look at those ominous storm clouds. wow! in clinton, iowa, a twister downed trees and power lines and scattered debris. officials say no injuries reported. >> meteorologist derek van dam joins us with the latest. looking at that video of the truck flipping over because of the wind shows you the power of the storm. >> terrifying and extraordinary at the same time. we need three ingredients to get this severe weather outbreak that we saw on thursday. you need warm moisture air and some sort of instability in the atmos...

Place. so if we consider the fact that thunderstorms towering to 53,000 feet, the airplane requested to get to 38,000 feet, it didn't clear these thunderstorms. so it clearly made its way through some of the most turbulent parts of the thunderstorms that were present at that moment in time. what we have here is a satellite image taken at roughly the last point of contact with airasia flight and you can see we've highlighted with this green circle the convective or thunderstorm activity that was present at that moment across the java sea. this is roughly about 7:30 local time. and this dark sha...