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We're seeing rainfall events in the u.s. tropical and nontropical that a lot of the flooding isn't even in the areas designated as high risk flood zones by fema. we need to get it out of our heads looking at the last 100 years in historical events is preparing us for what's happening. it seems like every couple of week, every couple of month, every couple of years, we're having record-setting events which means we have no recorded history of looking backwards is not preparing us. >> that's a really, really, really important point. craig fugate, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. ...

This is imagine a baseball player that early in their career hit a lot of home runs, later takes some performance enhancing drugs and hits even more home runs. we know that the extra home runs were enhanced by the steroids, but we don't know which particular home runs were the ones that were enhanced. so what we can talk about is that the odds of home runs were changed. that is the odds of extreme hurricanes are changed, but we cannot specifically say this hurricane or that hurricane was made more intense. >> interesting. when it comes to severe weather we should point out that hurricanes are ...

But there was someone who did attend who caught people's attention. we'll tell you who that was. but first, washington, d.c. was hit by a historic flash flood yesterday and inundated the city with 3 1/2 inches of rain in two hours. let's bring in bill karins. >> i mean, mika, the timing was horrific. we saw people stranded. we saw people with their kids on top of the cars because the water rose so quickly. we even had school buss with children on them trying to drive through rivers. i mean, it was just -- for about one hour washington, d.c., was just -- it was at a stand still with water in ...

Meteorologist bill karins. >> has it been raining lately? >> no, it's been dry. >> one thing people don't realize with all of the climate change stuff it's not just change, but we get more downpours. since 1958 it shows the ohio valley and the northeast have a significant increase in the number of heavy rainfall events. have you noted thiced how much been raining over the last year and a half? right now, we have 58 cities right now top-ten wettest cities. this is on the heels of last year which is one of the wettest years we've ever had from the mid-atlantic to the ohio valley. that's the tren...

The atmosphere will push more sun in. the ocean absorbs more heat. that causes more evaporation into the atmosphere. the storms, these super storms, snowstorms all use moisture for their fuel. now you're putting more moisture many the atmosphere. that's creating greater storms. if you look at the last three years with number of hurricanes we have had. if you looked at the number of rainfall events that are more than three inches. the amount of flooding we have seen. the amount of super charged storms that have happened, that's all because of that essa ic -- sea ice. the summer minimum was the ...