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Madison, 7.3 inches. the rain totals themselves, how fast the rain is coming down. rainfall rates of two inches per hour on grounds that are already completely saturated. we showed you that. it was 36 hours. take a look this morning. oklahoma, arkansas, southern portions of missouri looking for more rain in the area. what i want you to watch, though, is the difference. this is the stationary front. the southern portion. keep your eye on the area that is blue. it's the cold front that is going to kick through faster. the northeast, the system will move quickly through the overnight hours. that'...

>> indira petersons is watching the flooding. that's devastating. >> truly devastating, unfortunately, almost identical pictures today that we saw yesterday. we actually pulled up yesterday's radar. we reported anywhere from seven to nine inches of rain yesterday. now, let's look at the current radar. almost an identical picture. we're still talking about rainfall rates, about two inches an hour. we see a band, kansas and missouri. you have that ground that's saturated. so any additional rain is still saturating. look at waynesville. let's talk about what we're expecting the next several days....

The numb bier of calls they've been getting ove the last hour or so. >> i can't imagine being stuck in traffic. it must have been terrified for a lot of people. so by the time we get to tomorrow, we'll have a much better idea and extent of the damage. this is the same line of storms we've been watching from 6:00 local time. they started popping up around that time. a lot of folks were saying there's nothing on the radar. it can't be a big deal. and then that explosion of severe thunderstorms that led to an outbreak. you see the orange and the yellow. those rainfall rates, around 3-5 inches of ...

Welcome back to "morning joe." it's 7:35 here on the east coast. if you're just waking up, we're following the path of hurricane sandy. let's go right upstairs to bill karins for the latest. hey, bill. >> good morning. we're starting to watch the worst of the weather now moving further inland. for the first time, washington, d.c., and the baltimore areas are starting to pick up really heavy rainfall rates. that's going to continue for a couple hours. your biggest concerns, i believe, are around d.c., baltimore and delmarva region. you could get up to ten inches of rain. flash flooding an issue...

The rainfall did, and the rainfall rates. as we mentioned probably maybe only a quarter of the way into the storm for new orleans, as hard as that is to believe. let's keep it in louisiana. definitely the hardest-hit areas. we want to bring in the president here of st. charles parish, louisiana, vijay st. pierre. as far as the damage, what kind of reports are you getting? >> well, bill, the main issues is power outages, as of 1:00 this morning, we had 11,600 people without power. rainfall hasn't been bad so as far as, 'we are receiving sustained winds around 58 miles an hour, you know, mostly ...