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Provided at the time. as i said earlier, the national weather service has done a heck of a job setting this up and letting people know that this is going to be torrential rainfall inland and inland event. the problem with forecasting rainfall is it's one of the toughest things can do. you can say it's going to rain over five days, 30 county prediction. pinpointing exactly what watershed that is going to go in to it, it's dang near impossible to figure that out. unfortunately, the city of houston is huge. it's 2 to 3 million people. you know, pulling the trigger on that is incredibly difficult ...

Slow down. the track forecast through the next five days basically has it meandering around southeastern texas or very near the coast or perhaps moving offshore. dumping tremendous amounts of rain. we're going to see catastrophic rainfall event with widespread rainfall amounts of 15 to 25 inches in these dark purple areas across the houston, galveston area, corpus christi. we could see isolated totals as high as 35 inches. so from a water perspective, the rainfall and storm surge, a multiday disaster here in portions of the texas coast. >> jon: i've covered a bunch of hurricanes and i've never...

Particularly in the areas that are going to receive the torrential rains. storm surges, the 50 meter target, storm surge is the most dangerous element of hurricanes, in my opinion, because it has the highest potential to kill the most amount of people and cause the most amount of damage when they come ashore. once the system starts to dissipate over time because of interaction with land, it's going to turn into that rainfall event. and then it's going to be a frustrating event because it's going to take time for the system to move out. one of the things that we are watching very carefully is t...

Amounts. and these were some of the high rainfall totals. up to 26 inches of rain. we do have a cold front stretched out across the eastern seaboard moving in and a little bit of an area of low pressure moving in this morning across south carolina. we'll see that continue to spread eastward throughout the day. do not worry, we're not talking about another huge rainfall event. but some isolated areas might see an inch or so, maybe an inch and a half. and this could cause some flooding. river flooding is ongoing. this won't really exacerbate it and it will be out of here and then we do try out a...

Feet late tuesday and into wednesday. that's just from the previous rainfall event that we had. there is more additional rain in store today and even into sunday, as well. we've got a low-pressure system that will develop across georgia and into the carolinas. that's going to bring rainfall. you see the counterclockwise spin in the precipitation on this high-resolution forecast radar imagery. that means more rain from columbia to charleston. that's why the national weather service has flood watches and warnings ongoing anywhere you see the bright green. and again, more rainfall starting to edg...