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Land and that's we're talking about a mountain, that land has no more root system. the trees, the grasses and everything that used to allow the water to run off is all gone. just dirt there. when the dirt becomes so saturated, it just begins to run off as a mudslide. here's what happened yesterday. thunderstorms and will happen again today. thunderstorms developed along the ridges of the mountain here and that thunderstorm activity caused rain to come down. as the rain fell in the same place for a very long time, it got into the canyons and, eventually, down through and eventually down into th...

Injuries. again, let's go back to fredricka whitfield, who is in atlanta. fredricka covered this story right when it broke on the air, and tom sader is there as well in the cnn severe weather center. tom, we heard there from jim tillmon who is also a meteorologist, he said the conditions were perfect. >> yeah. >> the conditions were fine. so, what gives here? >> you know, we're going to put this to rest as fredricka and i talked about earlier, don, obviously they're going to put this in the reports. there will be full detail of every hourly weather observations, even the conditions at flight l...

Visibility and ceiling. it was mostly sunny skies. we had a light wind 8 miles per hour. good landing conditions. the strongest wind we could find was 13 but that was 10:00 p.m. the night before. there are absolutely no problems weather wise and of course they still have to make a report on this and also the flight weather observations for every flight elevation they were at. this is the marine layer and of course our aviation specialists have been talking about this. you know on the west coast from san francisco down to san diego the marine layer moves in. visibility is reduced. that burns of...

Wind shift. now, what's going to happen overt next several days and probably weeks here, they're going to have to come up with a way to prevent this from happening or at least try to significantly prevent this from happening. tragedies will continue to occur certainly, but if they were on the horn with the national weather service they would have at least known that there was this line of thunderstorm activity. here we are sunday through the afternoon hours here with this line of thunderstorms that's pushing through. whenever you have a thunderstorm that's rolling through you're going to have ...

>> as those coastal residents prepare to be swamped, rough surf from andrea causing problems. more than a dozen swimmers had to be rescued from several beaches in alabama yesterday. >> tampa, jacksonville can expect downpours. >> andrea will venture north, hitting coastal cities. accuweather's jim dickey has the latest. good morning, jim. >> good morning, john and diana. here is tropical storm andrea. tough to pick out the center of the storm. that is good news. it is disorganized at this point in time. earlier on, you saw widespread thunderstorm activity. this enhanced infrared satellite imag...