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The second floor. rainfall rates are approaching two to four inches per water. switch water rescue teams are being deployed to the area under a flash flood watch. a woman trapped inside of a local business shot this video from the outside of the window. she tells cnn, there are about 30 people stranded, including children and he hadderly people. she says everyone is safe and relatively calm. tom joins me now in the weather center. you've been tracking this flooding. what can you tell us about this situation? >> reporter: it is eerily similar to what happened july threeth two years ago. continu...

Preparation. abby: meteorologist rick reichmuth is here tracking the storm. rick, another one? rick: yeah, we are still in hurricane season. really active season. we'll kind of expected to see a little bit more. by the way the season doesn't end until the end of november. not saying this will be the last one either. in satellite representation looking fairly organized. that's a bad thing. one thing we have going for us here is that it is moving very, very fast, it doesn't have a lot of time over water to continue that strengthening. that said, it does have some time. so we'll likely see it str...

Surge in jacksonville. at the same time we have tremendous rainfall rates in here. what is going to occur as the storm moves north is the winds are going to shift. the winds are going to go this way. all that water that has been getting piled up that's flooding homes along the st. john's river, this water is all going to surge and head toward downtown jacksonville on the way to dumping out -- i can even go in closer to the downtown jacksonville area. if you're driving on 95, you've been over the bridge. all of that water is what is going to be heading in this general direction on its way as it...

Westward, something since we were just focussing on the track that also came out in this advisory, get this, hurricane jose's been upgraded to a major hurricane, category three, making it's way towards the islands that have been decimated. we've heard from the prime minister it's barely habitable. hurricane watch is in effect. and these people have nowhere to go. there is no convention center like there was in houston. keep them in your thoughts and prayers. it's hard to imagine that, but it looks like it will pull away but get dangerously close. now on irma, continues to move at a good clip. ...

Aftermath but the challenges then we have got to focus on louisiana. they are about to get smacked. hey, janice. janice: flooding emergencies east of houston. beaumont as well as port arthur. if you reflect back to hurricane katrina. we were all focused on new orleans. people cannot get rescued right now east of the houston area in beaumont and port arthur, flooding emergencies right now. so we're going to be watching you throughout the hours. because you can see the radar. the radar has moved a little bit east of houston. but we're still seeing incredible rainfall rates for southeast texas in...