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Warning, even a flash flood watch, rainfall rates of two inches are in the forecast, rain in the forecast all the way through the weekend. look at the rain totals they've seen over the past 36 hours, they've seen day after day of similar rainfall amounts. there you go today currently seeing a "360" hour loop still dealing with the training thunderstorms, thunderstorms that are pretty much stationary right along this front that just won't go anymore. we'll take a look at it, you can see that stationary front, that's the portion of it in the northeast. we're also talking about rain, notice it's ...

>> indira petersons is watching the flooding. that's devastating. >> truly devastating, unfortunately, almost identical pictures today that we saw yesterday. we actually pulled up yesterday's radar. we reported anywhere from seven to nine inches of rain yesterday. now, let's look at the current radar. almost an identical picture. we're still talking about rainfall rates, about two inches an hour. we see a band, kansas and missouri. you have that ground that's saturated. so any additional rain is still saturating. look at waynesville. let's talk about what we're expecting the next several days....

And hello again, everybody, i'm tony harris in the cnn "newsroom," where anything can happen. a flash flooding nightmare. right now people are trapped inside cars on rain-swollen roads in oklahoma. some are getting rescued, as you see here. others are hoping for help soon. so let's do this. let's get started with our developing story. let's get you to meteorologist jacqui jeras, and jacqui, talk us through this and the system that brought this rain. >> we have been seening training thunderstorms all morning long. this began about 2:00 in the morning, it's been raining steady ever since with to...

Or higher. as we take a look at what's happening in stant lewis area right now, unfortunately more rain. heavy thunderstorms sweeping across parts of missouri or arkansas and affecting parts of tennessee, but a lots of rain in southern indiana. that's going to be a problem for the next couple days. this system will produce training thunderstorms that will ride along a stationary front and that means rain over and over again in the same area. we could be looking at several inches of rain in this part of the country for the next few days. that is why the flood watches are up and extend over the ...