a lot of cases, it feels like the dead center of summer and unfortunately, that doesn t change. that doesn t change, the storm track continues the same direction and that willif you a, that he continues and parts of the high plains, take a look at that, more severe weather. we will watch the tornado threat throughout the night and all across that area tomorrow.f seve weather impacting spots because of severe weather, same spots. look at the moisture of the last few days. when you say the last few days, the last few months they have had so much moisture. a very wet winter. and the very massive areas of flooding, those little green lines, rivers and flood stages right now. we watched the rivers, probably at an all-time record high. it will devastate the cities across arkansas over the weekend because we have over the weekend, some spots probably 2-4 come isolated 6 inches of rain falling again.
potential. this it wintwinte winter s not of potential. we had that huge snow in november and it hasn t snowed since. if i want to talk about the flood threat, a minor inconvenience with slippery roads. but this heavy rain is wunls again going to plague us from galveston to houston. this area was drenched at the end of 2018. a lot of these rivers are over their banks and in flood stages. now we re going to add another puten potential rain event. two inches, and a area of four inches. so we ll watch this developing today. the best chance will be later on
they have to evacuate that water to the gulf and that s going to continue. so flood stages will continue. the low is up to the north. the tail end stalling out towards north florida. we ll see a little moisture left the. watch the clock through saturday think we ll begin to see improvement but that won t last long. and then on our last day of 2018 watch what happens here. we have another storm brewing. i don t think the rain will be as heavy but stillheaded off to the north and east. so by midnight we re raining in new york. here s how much rainfall we can expect, anywhere from one to perhaps three inches of rainfall and as we head into new year s eve itself, pick your city and there s your forecast. a lot of rain across the east. 70 in atlanta. not too bad for the peach drop.
we have river gauges in flood stages in purple shaded areas there, and we have flood watches and warnings in effect. the rain is going to continue. it s a cold rain at that, and we are going to continue to see it into dallas as we go throughout the day today, so that threat for flash flooding is definitely there. two to four additional inches of rain possible as we go throughout the next couple of days. this is for the next three days. that s where we are going to see the highest amounts, but we are going to be watching for that closely as we go through the day. thank you very much for that forecast. back to politics. the gloves come off in texas, ted cruz and o rourke sparring. what happened, ed? reporter: good morning, alisyn. the newest cnn poll shows ted
takes off again after going down sideways. the plane attempted a second approach and landed safely 15 minutes later. i am glad i was not onboard. that must have felt like the longest 15 minutes of their life. meantime the rain subsided in the carolinas. six rivers, four of them in north carolina are at major flood stages. cnn meteorologist, chad meyers, has more with your forecast. we have been talking about this for more than a week, but the water is still running downhill. some areas still have water rising. there are still over 400 roads that are closed in north carolina. this weather is brought to you by purina. the old record was less than 18,