houston. that plant has been flooded ant without power on sunday when the backup generators for swamped. they lost the ability to keep thaer chemicals refrigerated. because of the chemicals that produce there, there s a risk of spontaneous chemical reaction if they re not kept cold. which means fire and explosion. last night before 1:00 in the morning local time the explosions came and the fire and a 30 to 40-foot plume of black smoke. but now tonight at this hour we re waiting for more explosions. more fire. this was the arkema mem call plant this morning. what you see burning there is the remains of one container of the chemicals. there are eight more on site. and the company fully expects all eight remaining container to explode and burn as well. a 1.5 mile radius around the plant remains evacuated and until the flood water recede,
explosions came and the fire and a 30 to 40-foot plume of black smoke. but now tonight at this hour we re waiting for more explosions. more fire. this was the arkema chemical plant this morning. what you see burning there is the remains of one container of the chemicals. there are eight more on site. and the company fully expects all eight remaining container to explode and burn as well. a 1.5 mile radius around the plant remains evacuated and until the flood water recede, there s little they can do but wait for the chemicals to explode and the chemical to burn off. this is the plant this evening a couple of hours ago. the fire is out for now but again we re waiting for eight more of the container to go. we re also waiting for some clarity on exactly what kind of danger is posed by the smoke from last night s chemical fire and the additional fires we re still expecting.
summer in the east and that left a lot of drought in place. you can get the kind of rain . reservoirs were lower and they will absorb the rainfall . that is good news. we move through and the rain is gone. we have pictures from pennsylvania from heavy rain and that is causing all kinds of problems. this is not just a localized problem. a lot of areas saw rainfall over 10 inches over a wide spread region . pictures coming to us out of pennsylvania have been extreme for a lot of people. today, it is going to be dry are and pictures like this are going to improve. we ll start to see the flood water recede. the flood waters will go in the reservoirs down stream and still going to be rising for the next day or two days. behind the storm, dry skies and cooler air . we have a system moving in through the chicago area and