think about that. think of 20 inches of rain on any state or for that matter any country, you re going to get flooding because it can t all get off at one time. here s houston proper. talk about three to four inches around houston so far. but just west of there especially here the river you ve already got some spots between 12 and 14. that water s going to get into the river and head down towards sugarland and the lake. corpus christi, he talked about that, somewhere between 10 and 12 inches already on the ground, already has fallen. and guess what, this thing only made landfall 14 or 16 hours ago. so we have a long way to go. and we ve had this much rain already as the storm came onshore in the overnight hours making all that wind damage and then now i think the real threat has changed from a wind damage maker to a flood maker where there s the latest number 14 inches of rainfall in one city. not every city. it just depends on if you re
it could be in elizabeth city, north carolina. almost durham or almost halfway to the bahamas. we ll see what the hurricane center does. they will adjust the forecast track at 11:00. they do it 5:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m. what we know is that this is going to be a flood maker, whether it makes land fall or not. because there will be places with ten inches of rain in the carolinas, maybe through virginia and that will cause flooding because it is already saturated. i specially down by charlotte. ten inches plus, wow. top stories this morning. in a stunning move, an oklahoma inmate is being spared the death penalty for now at least. oklahoma governor granting a stay of execution for richt glos p. he revealed they did not have
perfect kplings combination of what the storm will do. whether there is land fall or not. i will make 5-10, maybe 15 inches of rainfall and cause flooding. trees will blow down even with a 40 miles per hour wind. this is a flood maker even if the eye doesn t hit. thank you. i do want to turn now to the rising tension between washington and moscow and confirmation that russia has carried out a second straight day of air strikes in syria. they are taking a look at new video we got overnight of more of those bombs. at the heart of the concern though, doubts, doubts that russia is actually targeting fighters as it claims. claims they are striking the u.s. backed rebels who are trying to oust assad. the questions enough to prompt a face-to-face meeting between rs washington and russia top diplomats. the mood is increasingly volatile. minutes ago we heard from
a 60 miles per hour flood maker. there is the model from this morning. here is the model from last night. let s go back to this morning, back over here into parts of florida. there are models that take it all the way to the gulf of mexico. if that happens, then all bets are off. because you know whats to the gu gulf of mexico when a storm gets there. i would say the dominican republican and haiti are really in line for the next big part of the rain. it flooded there. that was a tremendous flood and a dangerous situation going on there. as the storm moves on towards the dominican republican and haiti that s where the rainfall is going to be in the next 12 to 24 hours as it makes it way toward the u.s. from the keys to the bahamas.
drought-stricken texas where strong winds from tropical storm lee are kicking up several major wildfires. you see them here. this is south of austin, texas. crews are scrambling to knock down flames as soon as they pop up. 1,000 homes are at risk, in the line of fire. the situation has been getting worse. fire officials can t tell us how many evacuations they have or any damage assessments as of yet. we ll have more ahead on the fires including a live report from the scene and also a man who may lose his home to this fire. first we want to bring you up to date on the enormous amounts of rain tropical storm lee is dumping on louisiana and also mississippi. this was tropical storm lee tearing through the gulf this weekend. this is an oil rig and the workers there, you see them leaning into the wind holding on for dear life just to find out how fast the wind is blowing. they found out fast. on land, lee has been a flood maker. parts of louisiana have gotten a foot of rain or mor