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Thanks for your time tonight, sir. >> hi, keith. how are you doing? >> well, how are you doing? what is happening with the rescue and relief efforts? >> it has been quite a harrowing few days in middle tennessee. today the effort moved from a rescue to more of a recovery effort. they're trying to restore power in the downtown district, but floodwaters are still at some stations there so the power company is -- could be days before some of those areas downtown are restored to power and there is still some residents, 3,000 to 4,000 in the nashville area that do not have power. the army corps of ...

Today the effort moved from a rescue to more of a recovery effort. they're trying to restore power in the downtown district, but flood waters are still at some stations there so the power company is -- could be days before some of those areas downtown are restored to power and there is still some residents, 3,000 to 4,000 in the nashville area that do not have power. the army corps of engineers is focusing on trying to strategically bring down some of the reservoirs around nashville without creating more flood problems. the concern there is that if additional rains were to come, that you could...

They're trying to restore power in the downtown district, but floodwaters are still at some stations there so the power company is -- could be days before some of those areas downtown are restored to power and there is still some residents, 3,000 to 4,000 in the nashville area that do not have power. the army corps of engineers is focusing on trying to strategically bring down some of the reservoirs around nashville without creating more flood problems. the concern there is that if additional rains were to come, that you could have more flooding because they -- without the -- the dams are very...

To three days, then we'll deal with a big rain event. sunday's forecast, rain increasing late in the day buffalo, also d.c. monday looks like a wash-out. potentially tuesday also could be a washout. this looks like another slow moving storm just like the last couple. potential for heavy rain, river flooding, maybe even coastal flood problems and also downed trees just like we did with the last one. won't be as bad but that's the potential. the rest of the country, west coast looks just fine with the storm system that's going to head east, currently today located in kansas, through missouri wit...

>> yeah, but you know there's a little catch to that. rob was talking about how the weather pattern is staying cool. a lot of people probably bummed about that, saying, oh, can we just get rid of this. but we're talking feet of snow. if we melt that off really rapidly, we would have major flood problems so we want to see that gradual thaw process. you can see the storm system way out of there already, no problems. nothing coming down on our radar here in the northeast, but the winds are still kind of brisk so the windchill factor down there in the teens and 20s today. so it is certainly feelin...