jonathan walktell live. then melissa francis will fill in the final two hours because they couldn t meet my salary demands. steve: you reñi hot. brian: making a stand. attention second floor, i mean it. steve: meanwhile wild weather in colorado and maria molina is here in new york city to tell us what s going on out there in the rockies. good morning. unfortunately not good stuff going on across parts of the rockies, especially across parts of the state of colorado where in boulder, colorado, we ve had reports of extreme flooding. you can see the video here on your screen. incredible flooding. some areas reporting up toñr 11 inches of rain. a slow-moving storm system has been responsible for pumping up into parts of the rockies. a lot of this moisture, and we ve been seeing being very slow moving, lasting for days. unfortunately the forecast does not look good. we re talking about more rain possible today, saturday and also into sunday. so we do have a number of
it s about to come in to my downstairs. i m not even going to go down there. tonight the damage is still being tallied and the danger isn t over yet. that s nbc s miguel almaguer reporting from boulder, colorado, today. i have to tell you that tonight s weather forecast in boulder is sadly for more rain, as much as half an inch on top of the nearly 2 inches that have already fallen tonight and rain is in the forecast there tomorrow as well. sop this is not over in boulder. ongoing worries in both seaside, new jersey, and in boulder, colorado, tonight. we will keep you posted. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today, that s easy. ge is revolutionizing power. supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. using data predictively to help power entire cities. so the turbines of today. will power us all. into the future.
thank you for what you re doing. we want you to keep up with us as to how effective this is. clearly our thoughts are with all of these people. i want to take us now to mike, with the colorado emergency operations center. he s also on the phone right now, live in boulder. mike, i m sure you were able to hear the colonel talking about what the national guardsmen are doing at this point. can you differentiate and tell me what your unisit doing? that s the most updated information we have right now for lyons. we do still have evacuations for the town of eldorado springs, erie has voluntary evacuations. there are partial evacuations in longmont. we still do have the evacuations that were ordered last night for downtown boulder here. are you getting help from other jurisdictions? i m looking at the overwhelming situation you re in and wondering if you have the
they did that by digging up some of this new boardwalk, new since hurricane sandy ruined it. they tore up the new boardwalk to try and create a break. then the fire jumped that break because of these flying embers. they had to create a second break. it was that second break four blocks north of here that finally stopped it. chris welch in new jersey for us, thank you very much. horrendous situation there. let s get back to the terrible flooding in colorado right now. we ve reconnected with george howell in boulder, colorado. george, tell us what the latest information, i know at least three people have been killed. wolf, and you know, what we re seeing right now, it s a matter of evacuating certain communities and evacuation that s happened in lyons, colorado and you know, we re hearing from the governor that they re looking at different communities to figure out where they need to make sure people get up to higher ground. even though we have sun light right now, even though it s n
15 inches of rain. the situation is becoming increasingly desperate. it s remarkably dangerous for the people and rescuers. as you re about to see, a dam in big thompson canyon, just about lyons, is just one of five that s being overtopped with alarming veracity. look at that. that is a dam. normally it is not active. look at this. so clearly when that happens, everyone below is in a lot of trouble. that water is all racing downhill, straight for boulder, colorado. the city of boulder, colorado. george howell is in boulder right now with an accurate depiction of what things are looking like. the governor has spoken, george, in this emergency just moments ago. give us a rundown of his emergency message. ashleigh, good morning. the governor basically talking about what you see here. you can see this rushing water, the water going down the street.