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am taking the train. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. "cnn newsroom" starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. ♪ good wednesday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key faa safety system went down earlier this morning, that led to some scrambling from coast...

>> these storms hit us like a water balloon exploding and just dropped water down through our rivers and creeks, so it's been this excessive amount of flooding. >> reporter: blast after blast of torrential rain and wind gusts exceeding 70 miles per hour on california's central coast. >> we're soaked. this place is soaked. >> reporter: santa cruz county tuesday was in cleanup mode after the most recent storm. >> it's just from water everywhere and it's just rushing through. it was going fast. we had a canoe strapped up we thought if we needed to you can canoe out but it was moving too fast. >> ...