coast. most of the rain would be off shore. we could see even this weekend, an increased rip current threat and larger waves in florida and southeast coastal areas. miami to fort lauder dale area. and some added rain in the carolinas. not the best end of your weekend here if you head to the beaches. as far as the great, apple picking, pumpkin spice weather is around the great lakes. chicago with 77 for a high. temperatures are below normal for the first time. new york city, only the high of 79 on saturday. at night, as the sun sets, the temperatures will rapidly cool.
the threat is going down daytime heating is gone. darkness the cooler temperatures are coming in. we a moderate risk as we go through the evening. this is kind of rare to see into the overnight hours to see a moderate risk still up for these areas where we still think we could have potential for tornadoes. tomorrow it starts up all over again. the same type of risk for long track perhaps very dangerous life threatening tornadoes from north texas up towards the great lakes and midwest region, oklahoma city, joplin, missouri you are in this danger zone again. as we head into tuesday slow moving storm system. we could be dealing with this well into wednesday and even thursday as it finally moves into the eastern sea board. but all of these big cities could be affected by hail, damaging winds and tornadoes. and the flooding threat. one thing we haven t talked about, harris. this area still very saturated. we have flood warnings along the
oklahoma, kansas and iowa tonight. it has been a heck of a day. the worst of it is in shawnee, oklahoma. we have an oklahoma state representative that will join us by phone now. he was in shawnee when the twister hit justin wood is on the line with us mr. wood. what exactly happened and what is the situation there. what can you confirm? i can confirm there was one death that we were told in the dale area. i know for sure that there are many cars a, a large semi turned over. we drove through an area where homes were completely destroyed roofs were taken off, insulation, shingles, all of like the is this the worst united
emergency how many people is that? i am not sure at this point. we have been moving pretty quickly trying to make sure we are keeping everybody safe. we have had about 23,000 homes, we don t know how many homes or businesses have been destroyed. we had cars and semis in the interstate that wshut down one f our main highways. you are seeing pictures of the area that is actually the area that i grew up in in shawnee. my family lived in that area. thank goodness they were all safe. i had one that lost her home lost everything. we were really sad for her. we have a lot of things going on in our state. we have a great emergency management operation we have headquarters and department of control and department of
mississippi river and up towards the midwest. we are going to continue to see 3 to 4 even 5 inches of rainfall which will add to the worries along this already devastated area by floods and tornadoes. the rain wrapped tornadoes is that part of the problem in terms of keeping keem safe even in the tie time? you can t see the storms coming. at least in the daytime you have a chance of looking out your window and seeing a strong storm coming your way but because we are in the overnight hours we have to rely on tv, radio and i always stress if you live in tornado alley you need to have a kn noah weather radio with fresh batteries that s the only way you are going to know other than a siren in your neighborhood if a storm is on its way. janice dean will come back at the top of the hour as we put danger red on the map the areas we are watching closely.