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few-hour hike. six days in the desert. yeah. and from record heat to the record rain we re having. big-time out here. all up and down the east coast. record-setting rain. some areas received 22 inches. it s not over. philadelphia and new york, still in the thick of it right now. thousands along the east coast are without power this morning. sam says there could be more rain to come. and we ll get to all that in just a moment. look at that. like a river. a lot of flooding. and big changes coming at the white house today. the first reported earlier this week, the president chief of staff, rahm emanuel, will head home to chicago. already running hard to replace richard daley there as mayor. this is one of many departures from the obama white house. the president in the middle of a major midterm shakeup. what it all means, ahead. and big medical news this morning. one in ten americans suffer from depression. dr. richard besser will have the new guidelines on t ....
hours at airports in new york city. also amtrak service was disrupted as well. and some of that rain is expected to linger over the northeast until this afternoon. with more on the track of the storm, here s accuweather s eva. the flood concerns far from over across the northeast. in fact, we have another heavy slug of rain building in across the area. we did see that rain taper off thursday in the mid-atlantic. here comes that new rain. it is with a low pressure system building back in across the mid-atlantic and this will bring another heavy slug of rain up to the north. this time shifted off to the east just a bit as the frontal boundary is moving east as well. this will bring the heavy rains anywhere from jersey back into new york city, even into new england as we progress throughout the day. this will lead to additional flood concerns, especially across low-lying areas. poor drainage areas and many small streams. we ll see a couple of showers back into upstat ....
earlier this week to the 60s today, the lower 60s. mid- to upper 70s from san rafael to vallejo. and 78 degrees today in santa rosa, 79 degrees in napa. today we cool down again. could a continued cooling be in our weekend forecast? we ll take a look at your weekend forecast and your seven- day forecast coming up. thank you. this morning, all eyes are on the governor s race and the scandal surrounding it. meg whitman says she didn t know in 2003 that her former housekeeper was an illegal immigrant. in a press conference yesterday she denied allegations by attorney gloria allred that the social security administration contacted her about her housekeepers citizenship. allred presented a copy of a letter from the social security administration with a note from whitman s husband written on it asking their housekeeper to look into it. whitman s husband said he doesn t remember receiving the letter but that it does look like his handwriting. we ll have more on this story ....
the storm is moving into the northeast this morning leaving behind a trail of flooding, downed trees and travel headaches. overnight the drenching rain and high winds pounded maryland, where up to eight inches of rain fell and some 40,000 customers lost power. but, so far, north carolina, where at least five people were killed, has had the worst of it. dean reynolds reports. reporter: the victim s car ran off rain-slicked highway 64, two hours east of raleigh, where it plowed into a watery ditch killing four members of a georgia family. the first fatalities from this enormous storm that roared up the eastern seaboard, turning roads into canals, ponds into lakes, and front porches into docks. just keep your fingers crossed it doesn t come in because when it decides to come in there s much you can do. reporter: dropping a third of the total annual rainfall in carolina beach in just five days, exceeding even the infamous hurricane floyd in 1999. robert stuart lives h ....
but the messages he wrote on his hiking hat kept his hope alive. hello, everyone. what an amazing story that is out of california. the man takes a wrong turn. think it s going to be a few-hour hike. six days in the desert. yeah. and from record heat to the record rain we re having. big-time out here. all up and down the east coast. record-setting rain. some areas received 22 inches. it s not over. philadelphia and new york, still in the thick of it right now. thousands along the east coast are without power this morning. sam says there could be more rain to come. and we ll get to all that in just a moment. look at that. like a river. a lot of flooding. and big changes coming at the white house today. the first reported earlier this week, the president chief of staff, rahm emanuel, will head home to chicago. already running hard to replace richard daley there as mayor. this is one of many high-level departures from the obama white house. the president in the ....