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England. we just got word from the national weather service in new york city that central park broke a record rainfall record yesterday. um, they picked up 4.45 inches of rain. the previous record which was from the late-19th century, so a longstanding record, was 4.19 inches. so this is already a record-setting rain event as the system pushes to the north. we are going to see more in the way of records being broken across the northeast in terms of rainfall. the save grace here is that -- um -- hurricanes, tropical systems, to be really strong, they want sea surface temperatures -- that's how ...

Inches in one hour. the detail rainfall record for august 21st is about 4.5 inches. we were close to seeing a daily record in a matter of hours. we're going to continue to see really heavy rainfall from long island, new york city, all the way up into possibly new hampshire. some of these, and this is going to be on the west side of the track. on the east side we're going to see storm surge. this record rainfall here, because some of us will be dealing with record rainfall as the system stalls out over new england. that's going to lead to the potential for an already saturated ground to become ...

Charts in a part of the world that is so unused to this kind of weather activity that they have to say this is a once-in afonce once-in-a-thousand year event, well over a century this. is exactly what the worst predictions were even five, ten years ago this would have been alarmist to see what was happening. here we are. >> it seems like it's happening sooner than any of us anticipated. we know in california, they reported its driest rainfall record and that's on top of an existing drouchlt where could this be headed? >> nowhere good unfortunately. if you think about the food pressure of all t...

61 in hatteras, 64 around elizabeth city, so you've got have very gusty winds. and all of those areas that have had fluc chaugs anywhere from 70 to 80 mile per hour wind gusts. as those outer bands continue to push onshore for states like north carolina but as well as virginia tornados will still be a threat. flash flood warnings and flood watches are in effect for several states now because of those heavy bands of rain that will continue to come in. you have to keep in mind even though additional rainfall may not seem that high, it's on top of what they already had. portions of north and sout...

We do still have pretty strong wind gusts along the coastline, 40, 50, even 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts still being felt at this hour. the rain bands are still there. there is still the potential for some of these bands as they move onshore to perhaps have some rotation with them, so it's not out of the question to still perhaps have the tornado threat for the next few hours as well. we had over 20 tornado reports in just the last 48 hours. another big threat is still the ongoing flooding. you've got flash flood warnings and watches for numerous states because of those heavy rain bands. the go...