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Governor christie right now is on the scene, anderson? >> do we know what caused the fire at this custard shop? >> reporter: yeah, that is the one big question that officials are not even going to speculate on. they say they don't know and won't give us any answers. we do know there have been no major injuries. the only injuries so far are with the firefighters and from heat exhaustion. >> it seems like this fire has moved incredibly fast. the fact it was able to spread so quickly and engulfed such a large area. >> reporter: yes, that's right. the winds picked up. we could see this fire from s...

Are not even going to speculate on. they say they don't know and won't give us any answers. we do know there have been no major injuries. the only injuries so far are with the firefighters and from heat exhaustion. >> it seems like this fire has moved incredibly fast. the fact it was able to spread so quickly and engulfed such a large area. >> reporter: yes, that's right. the winds picked up. we could see this fire from six -- about 20 minutes away from here and we can see the fire going down the path of the boardwalk. we heard from governor christie there may be rain tonight and that could he...

One big question that officials are not even going to speculate on. they say they don't know and won't give us any answers. we do know there have been no major injuries. the only injuries so far are with the firefighters and it's from heat exhaustion. >> it seems like this fire has moved incredibly fast. the fact it was able to spread so quickly and engulfed such a large area. >> reporter: yes, that's right. the winds have picked up. we could see this fire from six -- about 20 minutes away from here and we can see the fire going down this path of the boardwalk. we heard from governor christie ...

Not realizing it or did it collapse later? >> great question. >> no, that is a very not traveled very common road. it's really more of a frontage road. and at that time of the morning, it was pitch black. it was raining heavily. three cars went into the road at that point in time. and all three ended up in the creek, but the road had washed away. they probably never even saw that the road was washed away based on the weather conditions, and they went in one after the other after the other. >> chief, it's going to continue to rain all night. you're going to have your hands full tomorrow as well...

To the massive flooding hitting the midwest and southeast. missouri is getting some of the absolute worst of it. so i want to bring in missouri's governor, jay nixon. he joins us on the phone. first of all, governor, we hope you are doing well. we hop your state is fairing well. we heard about a woman who was swept away in mcdonald county. we heard earlier in the week about a 4-year-old boy killed in flooding. give us a sense of deaths in that area. will this number rise over the next few days? >> i mean, we're already -- we've seen those two and we're in the middle of a search for another pot...