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Think of the major storms that have come up the east coast. this will have higher water levels than all of those. it will be a very significant flood event. call it a sneaky flood event. it isn't from a hurricane or nor'easter. it's two storms quickly in succession and the wind perfect to pile up. you're going to have pretty high wind gusts too. we could see isolated power outages in areas along the coast. for today's forecast, we'll watch the rain from the mid-atlantic to the midwest. we have a flood problem in the northwest. heading into the weekend, the northeast is a trouble spot for heavy...

Where you'll have that flood problem, but still get incredible rainfall. it won't take much wind to knock down trees and create power outages, so still some impact yet to come. >> all right. we're going to be watching it, ken. let me ask you something before i lose you. explain do people why this storm, henri, did not become what it was feared to be, let's say, 16 hours ago? what happened with the path? what is attributable for that change in path? >> little wiggles matter, chris. you'll have some bouncing back and forth. sometimes they wobble back and forth 20, 30 miles. you have the colder w...

Devastation that's there. >> you know, we're in the living through the front edge of an era of increasingly extreme weather and climate disaster and climate crisis. are we getting better as a sort of civilization at dealing with disaster preparedness and rescue and rebuilding? >> nope. >> we're not? >> no. we tend to build back the way it was. we tend to plan for what we're capable of and then we hope it's not that bad. climate change, you can talk about it all you want to. i think we need to be talking about how we're adapting our communities, our systems, and our infrastructure for what is a...

Ago. what are we hearing? >> here's that excessive high risk of flash flooding. according to the 5 a.m. update from the national hurricane center, there has been no change to the strength of the storm. we still believe this will make landfall late friday night, early saturday morning as a strong tropical storm or perhaps as a low end hurricane one category equivalent. we don't want to get lost in the minutia. we're not trying to point home the idea that this is a major wind problem. we believe the rain and flood problem is the over arching concern. we have a flash flood warning including new o...