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Us. >> thank you very much, sandra. >> sandra: first of all, can you give us an update on what you know and what you've been told by relief efforts? >> well, two on going important factors are occurring as we speak. one in tyler county, which is north and west of the area that's impacted. still well within the rain area. there's a large reservoir with huge gates that they have now had to open to avoid some sort of reservoir collapse. it means that there will be rushing huge amounts of water that will now be coming downstream. they have described this effect as catastrophic because of the speed...

Rescued now. people and pets had to be freed from their homes when the water got too high to drive many of those folks out. unbelievable. >> more rain fell last night. even more rain is set to fall in colorado today. indra petersons is watching all of this for us. give us the latest. >> what i keep talking about is how much rain they have been receiving. i said it before and say it again. they see normally 15 to 20 inches in an entire year. take a look how much the rain the area has seen since monday. notice colorado springs, they took in about 20 inches and 15 inches of rain already going dow...

Through new york. a little bit of that freezing rain as indicated by the pink and some snow, but we're only talking about a dusting of snow, folks. for new england, you're going to get by with this one. it's going to be changing over to all rain as we go later in the morning. west, more rain area more snow. talking a couple storm systems rolling in over the weekend but let me show you what it looked like yesterday. oh, yeah, do you like the snow? do you like to ski? this is at sierra mountains and looking at this coming out of california, lake tahoe. it came down pretty good. in fact, today we...

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