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Were able to save that man after he was filling up bucket after bucket in his car to get that water out of there and save himself today. >> and the dynamics of flash flooding are such that you can literally be driving down the road in rain, right, and then you get a cloudburst and the next thing you now, you're in this situation. >> it can happen in minutes or perhaps you're approaching a bridge that goes over a river, and that river might be right at the cusp of coming over. you never know when that's going to happen or how deep it is. at the beginning of the rescue, we saw the firefighters a...

Edmond, just to the north of the city, where we saw the most intense rainfall. 9 inches or more since the storm began at 2:00 in the morning. so imagine if you're just heading out to work in the morning at 6:00 or 7:00, you see it's raining, don't think it's going to be that bad, but doesn't stop and keeps going over the same places again and again. and even looking at the radar picture right now, it is still raining. and want to show you as we advance the picture on a wider scale, we're looking at widespread rain, not just across oklahoma, but well into areas of southern kansas and areas to t...

Appearance of oil. you can't see it in the shot, but a few miles out from me is a barrier island, a remarkable sank area there with pelicans on it, the oil has reached that point. between that island and here are booms, all the boats are gone, some helping with the clean-up, but preparing for the oil to hit where we are in mobile shortly. but the other part of the story, the reason i'm here with the cnn express, tony, is we're going to find out about those people whose income has been affected by this oil disaster. how that's affecting them, and how that's affecting the very fragile economy in...

Look at that current just making it that much more difficult for this boat to make its way back up here to where rescue crews are waiting to make sure these folks are okay. you seeing this okay, paul? >> yeah, brandon, we got it. look how fast that water is moving it. it just shoved that boat all over the place. >> it shoved it into something on the side. this is a dangerous situation. >> jacqui, the current? >> the current. it's so strong, and not to mention all of the debris in there. they don't know how deep that is or what chunk of tree they could still be hitting yet with the boat. what a...

Thank you. jackie, let's do this. let's do a bit of a reset here on what we know. we just heard from mark that the rain, heavy rain, two to six inches of rain -- >> yeah, but that was just in the last couple of hours. i'm seeing doppler estimates as much as eight inches since 4:00 this morning. >> this is the one that we're seeing here? >> yep. >> that's it? >> right. we had this big complex of thunderstorms that started rolling through early this morning. this has been going on for five or six hours at least, and this thunderstorms are doing what we call back building. we have a thunderstorm,...