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That is your morning dish of scrambled politics. canada's largest city endures a month's worth of rain just yesterday alone. toronto had extreme flooding and transportation shutdowns with over 300,000 people without power and at least 1,000 people were also trapped on a flooded g.o. train which serves as major public transportation. meteorologist bill karins is here. fires last week, flooding this week, and now a tropical storm? >> i think we'll be talking about it the next seven, eight days in a row. >> that long? >> yes. just got the new update. storm continues to be weak, unorganized. has...

Somewhere near florida or the bahamas as a weak system. now we have storms heading across illinois and wisconsin overnight. you're going to deal with the rainy morning there. we've had very warm temperatures this last week or two. today will be no exception. the humidity, it's still very high from chicago all the way through dallas. that's a high humidity level for dallas, the dew point is 70. these numbers represent the amount of moisture in the air. anything in the upper 60s are or 70s is nasty. there's that forecast path of chantall. not concerned with it as it should be a weak storm by the...

Purple and then the lighter purple, that's where we could see seven to ten inches of rain. notice the northern half of the storm, new york city, hartford, albany, boston, you're going to have rain, but it's not even going to be a quarter of what they're going to see further to the south. that's the issue with the rain. the winds are really starting to pick up now. look at belmar on the jersey coast. that's the highest gust you've had at 43. so winds are not just picking up, but they're staying high. and this is as the storm gets closer, we're going to continue watching the winds peaking. we ha...

Immediately with heavy rainfalls. it is only about 200 miles away from new orleans. the winds will begin picking up in new orleans as we go throughout the next 12 hours. this is the tropical storm force wind field. they are just now impeding on the coastal areas. you will only feel those when you get any squalls that go through. the storm itself, the bottom half, looks very impressive. looks like a hurricane. the whole northern half of the storm is really tame. there is barely any rain in the northern half of the storm. don't expect to see a lot of our reporters down along the gulf coast with ...

We begin this morning with tracking isaac. folks from new orleans to the florida panhandle are watching and waiting as tropical storm isaac makes its way into the gulf of mexico. forecasters say by the time isaac makes landfall it could be a dangerous category 2 hurricane. nbc's jay gray reports. >> reporter: isaac continues to intensify in the gulf. wind and rain thrashing florida for much of the day. >> we're very vulnerable. we're only about two feet above sea level. >> reporter: thousands are without power. emergency officials have ordered mandatory evacuations in several coastal communiti...