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We have a lot of them today, areas of northern mississippi and alabama get some pretty good thunderstorms waking people up. a lot of lightning. heavy rain. if you're up in the nashville area, that rain probably won't be ending until 5:00 in the morning. we're going to watch all this rain today tracking through northern new england. unfortunately a lot of laeheavi a -- leaves are peaking. a cold front will go through, it's warm and muggy in the i-95 corridor. that cold front will go through. there's not a lot of rain. this is at 8:00 p.m. this evening. a lot of the rain gets held up in areas of...

Bill karins. >> good morning, this time of morning, things can ramp up quickly. it happened yesterday in the gulf of mexico this is imelda it quickly become a tropical storm last night and now it's a tropical depression. the winds are never an issue it's just a rainfall forecast. of course, when we talk about the houston area and how flood-prone it is, heavy rain events are not welcome right now, houston is okay but the heaviest rain bands have been to the south of the city along the coast. you can see all of the bright red. and the issue is, we're going to do this for the next two days. we ha...

And store their belongings. >> let's get a check of the weather with bill karins. >> we're at the peak of hurricane season. this is typically where things can change in a hurry. yesterday, we had a 20% to 30% chance. now the weather center is saying the one closest to the bahamas has a 50% chance of development over the next few days it's bringing rain to the southern portion of the caicos. and the next five days, a 50% chance of development. here's that area of interest. anything heading into the warm waters of the guclf, you watch closely. no matter what, we're getting increasing rain chance...

Thunderstorms, earlier this morning, and you can see the darker colors, those are your heavier rains, that's what we're watching throughout the day. the storm prediction center, especially looking at minneapolis, and lacrosse, sioux fall, des moines, for the chance of these strong storms. and rainfall forecast, we mentioned the possibility of flooding rain, and we could see one to three inches of rain, through wednesday, and a lot of that could fall today and quickly and watch that throughout the day here. >> thank you, michelle. still ahead, new reporting by the "washington post," the paper...

Things further up the coast are going to be a little bit more interesting. you can see our computer models take it very close to eastern north carolina. some cross and actually have a landfall. by this time it would likely be a category 1 or a category 2 hurricane, but that's still significant and can still cause problems. it's also going to be a close call for myrtle beach and charleston and includes georgetown in that. our new european model just came in. safely off the florida coast. some rain bands making it to the coastal areas, tropical storm-force gusts, but the core of the hurricane is...