the steady rain in the forecast through friday, just look at the map, it stretches all the way up the coast. there is concern tonight, so, let s get right to meteorologist rob marciano with us live tracking it all. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. you know, where it s not raining, it s really humid, and that s feeding some of the severe thunderstorms and heavy rainmakers, like you mentioned. look at the flash flood watches from florida all the way to pennsylvania. we ve had warnings tonight in mobile, it s been raining heavily in atlanta and the setup is the same. high pressure pinning that flow against that front that s not moving. the next couple of days, more rounds of rain coming over super saturated flow. and this setup really doesn t move to the east until well into the weekend. could seal four see four, five, maybe six more inches of rain across an area that doesn t need it. david? rob marciano with us again tonight. thank you, rob. and meantime, the battle against wildfir
there wasn t anything near my house and they didn t give know advantage situation noti know advantage situation notices or nothing, my wife called me and i took off back up there and when i got up there, there was traffic blocking the road all the way. i got down there and some guy was blown over by the fire, i helped him get out but i still went down there and they stopped me and wouldn t let me go in. it was my babies and my wife and i should have been laying there with them. oh, ed i should have went regardless of what anybody said. the fire was just a big fire tornado and they were and the fire didn t come across down
said when he opened his doors the leaves hit him like somebody was slapping him. he said it was sucking his breath out and he got back in his car and tried to get out. it s unimaginable. others of us know house fires and maybe if you re lucky you can get out a window or go out a door but with a wildfire, what you re describing, hearing you amanda saying it has its own weather system, it s a fire tornado all around your house.
down on the side of the road. engine fire, setting up sparks and igniting what is called a monster. it s so erratic and volatile. firefighters are having a hard time beating back the flames. it s killed six people, including two firefighters and it s wiped out entire neighborhoods and whipped up a fire tornado that terrorized the community of redding. shepard, that smoke that you saw hit any face is the wind changing directions erratically. that s what s causing these firefighters a lot of challenges. overall, the state has spent $119 million just on fire suppression. not the cost of the two structures that has been lost. that s almost a quarter of the fire budget and we re a month into the budget. shepard? shepard: thanks, hillary. a priest on board a plane that crashed in mexico says the weather was so bad, he thought the pilot might call off the flight. that s what he told one of the
talk to us about how quickthry conditions changed. the fire that came in t was on the west side of the sacramento river and it moved actually about five miles overnight from the national park into close to redding and during the day relatively stagnant at the western boarder of the city of redding. by 6:00 it jumped across the river and flew up one of the hill sides and took out a number of neighborhoods, some partially, some in total and it just moved rapidly what i hear from the fire individuals is that the fire behavior was that with which they had never seen before. they referred to a fire tornado and i think there s been video throughout that shows that. and so just extreme fire conditions. and fire behavior that people in the fire service for 30 years have never seen before.