that s where we are. i don t know if you all heard that. if our mics were up. it s wednesday, right? yeah, we tend to do that. yes. good morning. we re halfway there. halfway there. good morning to you all. welcoming back reena, a little under the weather yesterday. we missed you as always. thank you to marci gonzales. stepping in. but poor reena had some back issues. they asked me not to show this. what is that? it s a hot water pack. you fill it up with hot water. it looks like a whoopie cushion. it does. is that what that noise was? oh. makes sense now. i didn t have that problem. it s the back. i m relieved to know it was that. but welcome back. she s doing better. she s doing better. thank you. we have to start. we got these storms that are essentially parked over the southern plains right now making a mess. they ve been unleashing a new wave of torrential rain and floodings and yes, we ve seen tornadoes, as well. this is one of many twisters spot
most of it is completely drivable right now. we have the first thing we did, more than 750 cars, getting them off and getting the roads open, getting mud off the roads and it s fine. we will do a critical infrastructure assessment tomorrow morning. bridge by bridge. overpass by overpass. to make sure that nothing was undermined. our it is unusual, however, for there to be structure flooding, and particularly structure floodings of this magnitude. the area, particularly brays bayou, where we had a lot of the overflow, the army corps of engineers and our flood control district did a major overhaul of that bayou after tropical storm allison. it s wider, it s deeper, it moves water better. it holds water better. and yet i hate to think what would have happened had we not done the billion dollars of infrastructure across the city
missouri. how bad is it now? how much worse is it expected to get? hey, craig. as bad as it looks this morning, the folks in town will tell you they re relived. it s all relative here in clarksville. they ve had six floodings here s over the past ten years. they talk about 2008. that was a bad flood. they remember 1993 which was a historic flood. 37-plus feet into the town. it s three or four blocks down to residential houses down at the end of the block that are under water. at this point, we can tell you most of the water is in the basement an because we re so close to cresting, we think we will crest at about 35.2 feet. that s 10.2 feet above flood stage. they don t think they re going to get water into the businesses now on first street here. obviously, these businesses are hurt by the flood, obviously, they will be out of business probably for a week. maybe a week and a half. as quickly as the water comes
immigrants chanting, go home. the answer may not be so simple for the thousands of children who cross into the u.s. undocumented. it is almost the fourth of july. 5:00 a.m. here on the east coast. it is official, arthur is now a hurricane. still hovering near georgia and florida, make no mistake, it is picking up speed and strength and the east coast is in it sights. is governor declaring states of emergency for 25 counties along the coast. residents there making preparations for the first big hit of hurricane season. we re just prepping, tieing down stuff, things that will fly. there will be floodings. we are going move down the street to our other house. other than that, we re going to ride it out. they are dealing with dangerous rip currents from the storms. it could put boaters and swimmers at risk throughout the weekend.
enjoy it while you have it because this mild air is not going to be sticking around for long. we have more arctic air moving south ward especially toward the great lakes and northeast. along parts of the gulf coast we have showers and storms expected today in the pacific northwest. the same goes for you in very high elevation snowfall with avalanche danger out here. a number of warnings are in effect and flood warnings as well in terms of avalanches and floodings. your highs will be dropping. take a look at wednesday. thursday only in the teens in buffalo and mid 20 s in new york city. brian, let s head back to you. i will have updates on that possible storm coming up wednesday. straight ahead, a college basketball coach is accused of bullying a player to the point of suicidal thoughts. kelly greenburg is under investigation after several players have said her verbal abuse with a so bad they walked away from the team and their $60,000 scholarship.