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Interstate. it is rushing by. this is not just standing water. there's actually fight a bit of current here. that's why we talk about how flooding can be so deadly. it is extremely dangerous. they have been doing evacuations. this is going to rival the 1993 floods, in fact, some areas south of st. louis will actually be worse than that. we're also going to see a lot of these stations south of st. louis break records. so they have been doing evacuations. of course, you have all of these different rivers that are feeding into the mississippi river. this is a very different scenario from the 1993...

Missouri, and a major interstate was closed eastbound and westbound traffic, and they are expecting it to happen again. out to the meramec and interstate 44, and 144 goes underneath, but it is flooded and expected the go more. and the meramec will go to fenton and arnold, and so again, this is where st. louis meets, and if you have seen the city flag, it has the three rivers, and that is the problem. some cases, not as bad as 1993, but in some cases along the m a meramec, it is going to be worst flooding we have seen. >> and now, we will look at things are looking to get worse in the coming ho...

But he's all right and everyone has a good laugh. look at the size of that shoe. shaq, thank god he's okay. let's get a check on your weather with bill karins. bill you said yesterday that they didn't think the weather was going to be too severe in the midwest but it got bad. >> we call that an overachiever. it's may. it's the peak season. we were expecting some tornadoes but not 50 to be reported in one day. that's how it happens. as far as predictions go in weather, winter storms hurricanes, a lot easier to predict than thunderstorms and what the form is. the pictures out of the area it was ...

Interstate 44 just to the north of chickasaw. again, no tornado reported with this but this storm is cycling through. the storm itself actually split into two and has two separate circulations. eventually one of those will win out over the other one and it should gain strength. but there's still a lot of daytime heating in this area. we'll see if this regenerates and the tornado threat returns. we'll have our eyes on the oklahoma city area about an hour hour and a half from now, ed. it's not a widespread tornado outbreak but isolated tornados are possible over the next couple of hours. that's ...

Severe weather. and we'll see it in parts of oklahoma, arkansas and missouri. the moderate risk for severe weather and highest threat for damaging hail. and along the interstate 44 area we could see it in that area. if you are in oklahoma watch out for it. this is the time when you watch that as well. and where you have the pink you will generally see tornados in the month of march and we are right where we are looking at this. we have been so quiet jenna. and severe weather season is upon us and we'll see that ramp up and so quite and today is not the case. >> that is a sobering reminder and ...