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>> joy reid, thank you for being with we. great to see you. >> always great seeing you. remnants of tropical storm erika neerz t arka nears the so. the storm lost a lot of steam after flooding the dominican republic. 18 inches of rain there. it caused millions of dollars in damages and killed at least eight people. let's head out to clearwater beach. sara, good morning. what's it like now? >> reporter: good morning, jose. as we wait for the remnants of erika to roll in, people making the most of the beach today. families out there enjoying their vacations. everybody still keeping an eye on t...

It wash out one bridge in the town of wimbarly. the floods you see where we have these concerns where you have the red color, that's flash flooding going on right around the austin area same across dallas and oklahoma. severe weather a little bit farther to the east. a few more tornadoes could be seen. maybe another three or four inches of rain there. >> three to four inches of rain in texas. >> some spots had 8 inches yesterday and some spots have seen up to 20 inches in the last three to four weeks. and on to some other stories making headlines. new court documents reveal three workers rac...

Texas. we were doing okay. then, all of a sudden, in 24 hours, we went from no stage as far as flooding, to record stage. they have never seen this kind of flooding. we are now at record 41.5 feet is what we are talking about here and that just occurred in 24 hours going from nothing to 41 feet! that is amazing stuff! and that is why we have had so many people getting in trouble, obviously, the firefighter there that lost his life trying to save someone. >> an incredible amount of rain there. wow. thanks, ivan. we have a different problem out on the west coast. beautiful southern california ...

On two counts of murder in connection with two fast food restaurant robberies. yesterday, a judge in alabama dismissed his case said that forensic experts said the chain of evidence was not strong enough to keep him in prison. anthony ray hinton on death road three decades, freed from an alabama prison a few moments ago. a weather alert now, flooding heavy rain and thunderstorms are threatening parts of the nation's midsection today. dozens of folks had to be rescued from flood waters in louisville kentucky after a night of strong winds and rain there. we are keeping an eye on a six alarm ...

So the day before christmas, or christmas eve it will be raining out there. for some of you will have lightning out there. on this side storm system we'll see snow across upper portions of the great lakes and across portions of the midwest. so we could see a white christmas for some of you out there. across the northern rockies, we have another storm system that will be arriving bringing in areas of rain for lower elevations and some mountain snow. right now the weather picture before christmas eve looks relatively busy. we have a storm system across the northern plains and midwest producing s...