that can deal with 15 incs anywhere across the country. 15, 10, whatever in 15 hours. there s going to be a major flash flood event and people have to make the right decisions. yeah, be smart about it. just heard the emergency management person saying don t drive through it. we see the video every year. don t do it. chad meyerss in weather center. still ahead on cnn, we are reporting exclusively from inside north korea tonight amid new provocations by the regime. we ll take you live to pyongyang and live pictures out of houston where tropical storm harry is expected to continue pounding the city with torrential rainfall. we are minutes away from a new advisory. we will keep you updated on cnn. you re watching special live coverage on this saturday night. no, please, please, oh! (shrieks in terror) (heavy breathing and snorting)
will receive ten inches. every purple spot you see here will receive ten inches of rainfall. that s a flash flood event on a normal day. chad, thank you for the clarification. no, no, you were absolutely correct. i just wanted to point out how correct you were that the eye wall is on land. we say say that the storm never made landfall. you re correct. i was pointing out your correctness. look, if i m wrong, i want to make sure i tell people i was wrong. i want to get it right for them. so, chad myers i want to tell people that you were right. i appreciate that. thank you, sir. chad is going to be with us all morning because obviously that s a story that we re watching as matthew continues to cross into land. thank you so much, chad. and we ll be right back.
of making a decision to keep the trains on the track knowing that the storm was making its way in as you try to assess what happened. how much do you reflect on perhaps how it could have been prevented, whether it was a wise decision to have this train on the tracks in the first place. certainly, this is a storm event that union pacific has been monitoring for the last couple of days in advance of all of this. over the last 24 hours, we have deployed our track inspectors in the areas he with thought would be impacted, cl you go this area, and we had inspectors that actually traveled this track just a couple of hours before this train went through there. at that time, it was impassable. in this particular area, it seemed to be some flash flood event that overflowed the creek and took out the section of track. jeff degraph, thank you so much for your input from union pacific. appreciate it. ed lavendara is also in that
now, the cnn newsroom continues with randi kaye. have a great day. thank you. the treasury is sending out checks as promised, and somehow there is just as much fear and uncertainty and economic anxiety as ever. we will tackle the next three main questions. what is going on with the stock markets? the dow is on track for the ninth straight day of losses. any guesses on how long it has been since nine straight days of loss? 33 years. lots of scary numbers are behind these, and we ll get to those in a minute. question number two, who will make the cuts. the debt deal left a hard decision on taxes and spending and entitlements to a 12-member super committee yet to be appointed. thirdly, why did congress leave so much unfinished business? lawmakers went on their august break leaving thousands of faa workers on unpaid furlough. they are also leaving $1 billion in uncollected taxes on the table in a fight over $14 million. it s time to get some answers. don t you think? wa
flash flood event. the difference is this is a rise of a rush or stream out of its natural banks. a flash flood is a very quick event and sometimes those things only last over a six-hour period. that s why we re talking into july potentially for this river to be completely na vickable. 60% of all of the grains that are exported out of the u.s., by the way, goes through this channel, and there s been a lot of restrictions put in place because once you get the barges moving along the river, that adds weight into the water and that also sloshes things up. this is having a huge impact, fredricka. not just for people being evacuated from their homes, but we re talking exports, businesses. so many different factors come into play with this major historic event. yeah, that is very significant here in the u.s. thank you so much, jacqui jeras. appreciate that. also some of historical relevance in a big way, is the capture of osama bin laden, the