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Stretching over to texas, some of these areas could get incredible rainfall amounts. >> now, you personally have been working with communities along the gulf coast to prepare for situations like this. baton rouge, new orleans, some of these gulf coast towns with so many water issues. are they prepared for this much rain? >> we've had this before. we get ready. the hard part is even outside of flood zones when you have situations like this, you don't have to be in a flood zone to get incredible rain. for the viewers out there, we have to realize it's not just along the coast. it isn't just alon...

Around the lbj dam in texas hill country. 45 minutes northwest of austin. at least one death has been reported in the area. more trouble may be in store for more than eight million texans as the rain refuses to let up. here's pedram javaheri. >> good morning, dave and christine. the concern across texas really has been such a drawn-out event here. still watching about eight million people deal with the flood watches and flood warnings in place from dallas, points just to the south and west. and in fact, look at the last three days, the area of coverage pretty tremendous if you ask me. and th...

Wind, bringing in all that moisture off the atlantic ocean, that's going to produce amazing rainfall amounts. so even after we kind of get past this coastal version of a hurricane, it's going to transition to perhaps record-breaking rainfall for some of these people. >> they have been talking here in wilmington of eight months of rain in the next three days. >> almost unimaginable. when you have to bring up the yard stick to measure rainfall, you know it's a problem, and these people are going to have extreme wind in the first place. like we said, the wind field is so large, so maybe they're d...

Channels and rivers. normally we want them to flow out whenever it rains hard. the water goes out of the area. in this case the storm surge comes in and where you see those channels shrink and become smaller the water gets funneled and comes out. we've seen the high values of water around new bern and it's just a lot of rainfall on top of that. if you think about all the rain that's coming down trying to drain it gets backed up. increasingly we'll see more and more of a danger associated with the rainfall as well. so we do see that storm surge but really looking at the rain. it will continue t...

Landfall early tomorrow morning. by 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon what a slow crawl, walk, jog drift it will be. and then it will rain itself out as we go throughout the upcoming weekend. the things that are the most threatening to life is the water. surge is number one. then the rainfall, flash flooding and river flooding is number two. this is what's happening now. we're heading towards high tide. the high tide is going to be here between 11:00 p.m. and midnight in the zone of greatest concern from cape lookout through emerald isle, surf city, wrightsville beach, carolina beach area. 11:13 p.m....