canada and all around the world. i m kim bruun hoover. we begin with breaking news with what some call a once in a half century extreme weather happening right now in florida as we speak up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida in the past few hours with more in the forecast. well, that led to a flash flood emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you see here is the ford lauderdale hollywood international airport, which is partly underwater and closed until at least noon on thursday , the city of fort lauderdale has activated its emergency operations center and plans to issue a local state of emergency. officials also say airboats and high water vehicles will join rescue operations in the coming hours. for the latest, we go to meteorologist separately, ritz here in atlanta, who s keeping an eye on all of this? obviously relief folks in florida used to storms , but you know what we re seeing now so unusual. take us through what they
canada and all around the world. i m kimberly, who were coming up this hour on cnn newsroom historic rainfall in south florida leads to serious flooding power outages closing of the fort lauderdale international airport will tell you when the extreme weather will move out of the area, plus a late night ruling by a federal appeals court on the suspension of the abortion inducing drug. we ll have details, and president biden celebrates his family roots during his three day visit ireland just ahead we ll go live to dublin for a preview of today s events. live from atlanta. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun huber. and we begin with what some call a once and a half century extreme weather event happening right now in florida, up to 20 inches of rain has fallen in parts of south florida the past few hours with more in the forecast. well that led to a flash water emergency, the highest possible level of flood warning. so what you re seeing here is the ford lauderdale hollywood int