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Headed towards houston right now. that's going to be over houston all evening, and all -- overnight long into the morning hours, and that's where the flooding problem there for houston will be. it's raining in san toep owe, austin, and it's making some tornados around the houston area as rosa said. this is a possibility as the next band, you can see, the colors right there, rotates over houston in the next, i would say, 30-45 minutes and last for five to six hours. there's your tornado watch. anywhere in the box, you could see tornados. the problem is, i think, shifting attention from the wind...

That could flood, 263,000 square miles will get some type of of rainfall and it all has to runoff somewhere. >> yikes. chad myers, you have put in some long hours and are keeping us up-to-date. we appreciate that. at least one estimate puts the potential damage from this storm at $20 billion in metro houston alone. joining me now on the phone is michael walter from the city of houston office of emergency management. michael, thanks to joining us. what is the biggest concern in houston right now? >> well, as chad was saying, the biggest concern for us is that rainfall potential. in many places ...

C populated corner. the populations there 22 million people. so you think new york city metro population that's exactly how many people live across this island. the air rises here and condenses and you have the recipe for tremendous rainfall in place and take a wet sponge and press it against the wall, precisely what's going to be happening across some of these high elevations of madagascar. and the rainfall potential could be extreme come sunday into monday. half a meter in the forecast for a few spots coming into the early portion of this week. now, the other story we're following, the extre...

Damaging winds, so something we'll monitor very closely. cold air across the north. chance of rain showers for the oscars this weekend in los angeles. here's our rainfall potential across the east coast. i'll end off with this. this is coming out of lake s superior in duluth. it kicked up some surf on the lake water. >> they asked me to do the polar plunge in chicago, and i couldn't do that. >> you saw the ice chunks floating by and said no way. thank you. i want to tell you about the story that the network is -- important for the net work. the focus is on modern day slavery with a launch of...

Storms and heavy rain for the drought stricken southeast. let's get the latest from meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> miguel and christine, good morning. the drought area is expansive. it is larger than the drought situation across portions of california when it comes to the extreme element of that. you notice places like birmingham. it has been september since we last saw rainfall. 41 consecutive days and counting is the number of days in atlanta without rainfall. over 50,000 days in the city. the largest gap has been preside39 days. we get a secondary batch of moisture from the gulf of mexic...