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Predicted 4 to 8 inches of rain up until thursday. some 500 residents have been forced from their homes in lake charles, due to flooding. as the storming bears down on new orleans, a bit of good news, the city was able to fix a broken pump that threatened to make flooding much worse. >> joining me now by phone is governor edwards. thank you for joining us, first off. you know what this is like. you guys have lived through katrina, you're sending resources to texas, how long do you expect your resources to be needed out there. >> well, it's going to take a long time in texas for them to get t...

Wash the flooding on for. >> someone who may agree, doctor marshall shepherd is a director of a science program and former president of the meteorological society. i assume you would agree with that statement. >> i would agree and what's even scarier's were probably talking more than 30 inches. were talking about 4 feet, perhaps more. i just read about 9 trillion gallons of water have already fallen on the area. that would fill the great salt lake twice. >> elizbeth: the narrative to say the storm is weakening would be dangerous. i want to put up a graphic for viewers that shows the concentrat...

Us is bolivar peninsula. it's just a tiny little slip and apparently some houses have caught fire there. we suspect from lightning that has not come from first responders or emergency management officials but that is common because we have seen a whole lot of lightning also with these tropical bands as they move in, so that is a problem just north of us, so really, right now, all eyes are on the rain up in this area and certainly over in houston metro. you're talking about one of the largest cities in the country and millions and millions of people potentially impacted in addition to the milli...

Almost all areas of the west with the exception of the areas along the coast. on saturday, boise, you get the picture, near records to record highs as we go through the weekend. into next week, we take temperatures down a little bit like salt lake city drops five degrees, and near the grand canyon drops five degrees. right now way above average and returning back to normal. the rest of the forecast, we track rain up around new york city, and it will improve as we go throughout the afternoon, and then into the weekend. the best weather on saturday, the great lakes and it's travels to the east c...

It is unfathomable, it is unfathomable what happened out there. you literally have a trailer park that looks to have been disintegrated. you literally have smatterings of what used to be homes thrown into the woods. you have the smell of gas, you have destroyed homes, people crying, debris everywhere. >> yikes. that was painful. an official there from albany, georgia, describing the devastation from this weekend's severe weather. we'll get right to meteorologist bill karins who has the latest. that is so bad. >> georgia was hit the hardest, mississippi hit very bad on saturday. georgia was the...