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This accident outside philadelphia. at least three people killed tonight when a passenger van flipped over in the rain. the nor'easter forming after two storm systems combined. one from the midwest, the other off the atlantic coast packing a powerful punch tonight and right into tomorrow. we do have the new track tonight, and abc's stephanie ramos leads us off from new jersey. >> reporter: tonight, a rough ride home for millions in the northeast. >> these rainfall rates are really going to get pretty fast and furious. >> it's really a one-two punch. it's not just the rain, it's also the wind. ...

Florida. if you have a storm that's a major hurricane putting on the brakes it looks like that's going to happen on monday. this area will get hammered by devastating storm surge that will last for multiple tidal cycles also the very heavy rainfall is something that is a little bit of overlooked in the large hurricanes approaching. but he they stall out the prolific rainfall rates hammer the area and you also have the storm surge flooding i just mentioned and the winds gusting over 150 miles an hour with a category 4 storm. just battering the coastline here across the florida peninsula. if tha...

Into the baton rouge area. it's seen one to two inch rainfall rates. we have 11 million people under a flash flood threat and this water is going to move its way across the river valley. you see the shading of red anywhere from central louisiana, right through the northern portions of the state into arkansas, western tennessee, as well as mississippi. those are areas that have the potential for 10 to 15 inches of rain that's why we have river flooding occurring along the mississippi river basin there. by the way, a very saturated environment. any wind gusts, 40 to 50 miles an hour wind gusts c...

Of rain. there will be rain for hours. and also the flooding that will come after for a better sense of what is coming our way. i want to bring in meteorologist allison chinchar. as we look at this, this may be a lull but it's certainly not any indication that barry is done with the region. >> no. all you have to do is look at the radar hypbehind me to see t. you see all of this intense rain. look over the majority of the heavy rain and lightning. look at this huge cluster of lightning to the east of houston and south of louisiana. again, that's what we're worried about. we don't want this sec...

They have to understand that as this moves to, the rainfall rates are going to be extremely high, flooding is going to occur with flash flooding quickly. it's going to put people at risk all across, you know, southeastern louisiana, into portions of the central portion of the state. by the time we get to midday, the rivers will respond. and we'll have some places that will see, you know, major, record flooding i believe by the time we're all finished with this sunday into monday. >> sunday into monday, by the time we're finished with that portion of it. and we've been talking about this this m...