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Significant wildfires this summer. intense heat continues in much of the south as rainstorms swamped the east. record rainfall hitting washington, d.c. the past few days. accuweather's paul williams on what we can expect for the rest of this week. paul? >> well, jon, what we're going to expect for the northeast is exact opposite of what they need or expect in the southwest or when i show you the comparison between those two, your eyes are going to go wide open as they would say in the south. we're looking at showers and thunderstorms in abundance from montreal to new york, covering the d.c. ...

The rain will continue to come down as we go through the next couple days. as we look what's happening on the radar, heavy rainfall hitting parts of the gulf coast. of course, we're talking about the florida panhandle area. the rain is going to be here today, tomorrow. in fact, we're talking some locations could pick up more than six inches of rainfall. certainly this is going to lead to some problems with flooding. we have flood watches really all across parts of the southeast in anticipation of this heavy rainfall. and for the tropics, we continue to follow an area of low pressure spinning i...