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Into saturday early morning. we had the winds at 75 miles per hour yesterday. now they've upped it to 85. now we're getting into the category of strong enough winds that we can get wind damage out of this, and the stronger the winds, the worse it will be with the storm surge. then look what happens. this is tuesday. this thing goes in here saturday morning, and then through tuesday it lingers on the south texas coast. that is the potential for horrific rainfall amounts. historical rainfall amounts. one of our long range computers. this is 15 inches of rain. look how widespread that is from lou...

In the dark. the heavy deluge opened massive sinkholes, swallowing cars and killing at least two people. officials remain on high alert today for mud slides, runoff, and high stream levels. but it doesn't end there for the golden state. another storm threatens to rip through the northern region, and residents fear the impact this storm could have on our nation after nearly 200,000 were evacuated earlier this week because of damaged spillways. let's turn to meteorologist bonnie schneider with more. bonnie, what's the latest of the storm's movements? >> well, kier, it's interesting to note that ...

Heavy rainfall around 100 to 150 mill meimeters total. keep in mind areas of southern california, we've had persistent drought. a lot of these areas are expected to get 1 to 2 inches of rain. that may not sound like a lot, but for these regions that's enough to trigger landslides and flash flooding. as you go east, the rainfall amounts increase around phoenix and flag staff, looking at the higher amounts in excess of maybe 2 inches. the higher elevations could see significant snowfall as well. now, this first system is going to be a strong one for the southwest. as it makes its way toward th...

Some weakening. we are seeing the torrential down supports, the gust of 55, 54 miles per hour. that is just five miles further off to the east. so hopefully we will see the trend of weakening, but i'm still concerned very much about the storm surge, the rainfall amounts and even the wind damage. i don't want people to look at the track and think, oh, it's no problem, it's still close enough to cause major problems. >> we've still got, as bonnie mentioned, craig melvin, kerry sanders in melbourne. we will try to show you what this looks like to be in if we can have their safety assured and get ...

This sort of weather. >> yeah. they see plenty of west weather, but now we're talking about 200% of normal in the first six to seven days of the month. so pretty incredible rainfall amounts. the northern tier of the country gets in on the warnings, the watches, in places where 50 specific flood warnings that are in place, 92 of them have been allowed to expire. look at the forecast. that's an improving one because the high risk zone drops, the medium risk zone exits the picture come monday afternoon/evening and tuesday with limited areas of flooding potential in place. but still rainfall to te...