next year in 2013, already adding insult to injury for many americans, jamie. jamie: we hope they find work soon. thanks so much. casey stegall live in los angeles. thanks. rick: talk about the weather, severe storms rocking parts of the east coast overnight. take a look at this. video of a water spout damaging boats at the hampton yacht club in hampton, virginia. the national weather service confirmed at least one other tornado touched down in maryland. this same weather system is now dumping plenty of rain on parts of new england. meteorologist maria molina live at the extreme weather center. this looks nasty. hi. yeah, we had over 200 reports of severe weather yesterday from that storm system. 17 of them tornadoes from the midwest all the way into portions of the mid atlantic and the storm system still going, today bringing more of a heavy rain concern across portions of new england and the same storm system that also produced heavy storms here across the new york city area, e
the basement and the minute we got down to the bottom of the basement steps we heard a huge thud. frightening moment for them. maria molina is live with more details on what is happening out there weather wise. looking at the storm system still on the move. yesterday produced over 200 reports of severe weather and still that time of the year where we get the strong storms that produce large hail, damaging winds and even tornadoes and we had 17 reports of tornadoes from the planes all the way into the mid atlantic yesterday. not really looking at that kind of threat today from this storm system. more of a heavy rain concern across portions of new england where that rain is coming done across boston, new hampshire, up into portions of maine and there is a flooding concern base that rain is going to come down heavily at times throughout the entire weekend on the order of two to 4 inches. locally 6 inches of rain possible. a number of flood advisories and warnings for parts of southern
during the home opener. as a result, the stadium was evacuated twice. first during half time and again in the third quarter. and now to louisiana where tropical storm lee has come ashore. rain has triggered flooding and that prompted evacuations in jefferson parish. thousands of people have lost power because of that storm. jen with the weather channel is here. good day? thomas, tropical storm lee, as of the latest advisory, winds at 45 miles per hour and the problem today is it has lost its energy source and it s been pumping moisture with winds out of the south into louisiana, into mississippi and alabama. we re going to see a heavy rain
good morning. winds are at 45 miles per hour and it s about 30 miles south of lafayette. the problem today is that now it is on shore, it s lost its energy and pumping moisture with winds out of the south into louisiana, into mississippi, into alabama. we re going to see a heavy rain concern out ofly and the circulation from lee. we have two things going on. is going to be a tango going on. we have this front tracking into the northeast and it s going to bring rain and storms there, independent of what is happening with this tropical storm. however, you ve got the remnants of lee by monday that is still down here. you can see it hasn t moved very much at all. moving into mississippi at best. and that moisture is going to combine with the front. so in the southern appalachians, we re going to see heavy rainfall. on the order of two to six inches of rainfall. flooding will be a concern for us. perhaps around virginia, north carolina, right along the tar river where after irene we had