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Flooding streets, knocking out power to some 30,000 customers in southeast louisiana. we're monitoring the situation for us as well as the continuing flooding in the midwest. i was asking earlier, this is the worst flooding they've seen. folks that are in and around the chicago land area are saying they have never seen anything like this. >> you know what? we've seen flooding across parts of missouri as well as illinois. a lot worse than years in the past. i want to show you what we're looking at now. some of the reports from the tornado from yesterday out of new orleans. we do know it was an ...

Meteorologist maria molina has been all over these storms. she joins us with the latest. welcome back, maria. >> martha, good to see you. this is associated with a strong cold front that basically started to impact the west coast on monday. now it is friday and we're tracking the storm system producing areas of rain across the northeast even down into the carolinas. i want to show you first the severe weather we saw between thursday afternoon and friday morning. mostly through the overnight hours. we have reports of damaging wind gusts and tornados and across parts of kentucky, the carolinas, ...

That was pretty much the story for many people across new jersey, parts of pennsylvania, and also the higher elevations of the state of west virginia. on the southern side of this system, we saw some severe weather, over 300 reports of severe weather, including large hail, damaging wind gusts and even two confirmed tornadoes. alabama, one area hit hard by the severe weather. you can see all of this damage. we didn't have reported tornadoes in alabama. they were actual lea in tennessee for an ef-0 and ef-1 were confirmed out here. you can see, unfortunately, some damage out here. they are very ...

>> today the cleanup process for many people. and tin pittsburgh. and rick, to the weather center. >> i like the weather center is just about 20 feet over here. >> a stone's throw. >> alisyn: it's magic. >> yes, we said there would be big, severe storms. there were, they're done, that's the good part. all of this is now pulling off shore and a little bit of rain in maine, and down towards parts of florida. but this is the the last 24 hours, they were extreme. and that breezy point. that little bit of land that sticks out in the atlantic and one moves over land and we called it a tornado later ...

Issues, south of the border and it's crazy with the different watches and warnings. >> the tornados look so gigantic there, i mean, the funnel cloud is bigger than we remembered seeing the one that was sent in by jeremy holmes, when you were issuing the warnings as were so many forecasters, using the term life threatening, is that because you knew there'd be so many tornados or they were bigger or more powerful? >> yeah, we knew yesterday they would be big tornado, not small, ef-0, ef-1, but knew they would be big tornados, the one in kansas, if anybody was watching yesterday and seen the rada...