Admitting a mistake, now giving back 330 million to customers. Tonight, find out if youre one of them. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this saturday. Im tom llamas. As we come on the air tonight, the severe storm threat, states of emergency in missouri and ohio. You can see the high water there in arkansas, massive flooding, weather warnings across 12 states, drenching rains and damaging winds, even reported tornado activity sweeping from texas all the way to new york. Abcs marcus moore in arkansas starting us off. Reporter neighborhoods across the heartland under water tonight, and right now, 12 states under Severe Weather alerts. In dallas, roads washed out and water as far as the eye can see in kentucky, this parking lot in louisville swallowed. Days of rain here in arkansas have left many roads impassable dozens of them just like this here in white county. The land around paul rhodes cabin submerged in six feet of water, somehow his belongings spared. Its just nature. You ca
Barbecue weather. Is in your family in town . Was it your family members . Heres the deal. Make sure you are ready to get inside if you need to we do have potential for strong storms today. A round of rain early this morning. If the cloud cover lenders it will decrease our chance of the storms. If we have more sunshine you can almost place your money on more thunderstorms popping up this afternoon. Right now that line is to go west. It will weaken but you can see the big front moving through. There will definitely be showers through the day. Typical high, 80 degrees. We make 815 5 00. Tonight we dry out and stayed dry. Over menlo 67 all sunshine tomorrow. Highs near 80 degrees. With construction on ashland avenue as a head out this morning. Between 37 pyrrhic washed for that also closures are in place downtown in the aftermath of the jazz festival which goes through the weekend. Watch for that along jackson boulevard. Thats a quick look at traffic. A car crashed into a day care and pre
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Are colder than normal. So far its 18 degrees. We continue on this and we will end up in the top10 coldest figure is all time. Mostly cloudy today. The record low coming into tonight. Whats wrong with that . Your graphics are purple also. 13 degrees right now in waukegan. 19 of the lakefront. 15 in aurora. Morris is at 18. Its way too cold for this time of the year. Later tonight and wind chill advisory goes into effect. We will have a cold wind chills that advisory does not expire until noon tomorrow. Looking at the satellite, generally dry conditions. Not much snow but we will see cold temperatures tonight we go 4. Double the record we dont want to break. Told the greece is our high tomorrow. It will feel like 1025. Thursdays high is only 10. Traffic is looking pretty good. Temperatures always come into play in terms of your drive but so far theyre not affected. Most overnight roadwork has been cancelled. With a bit on the outbound eisenhower between morgan taking up the two left lan
From all of the rain water and melting snow. Strategic sand bagging is in place in some areas. City agencies monitor the rising level of the river. An action plan will kick and when it hit 7 ft. The level is nowhere near their right now. Probably around 34 ft. Things could change quickly due to the forecast. Tempters are getting above freezing. You do have some melting snow. There is a lot of snow. It is a big concern to us. Were keeping an eye on it. Right now were looking pretty good. Baccy alive you concede all of that ice that is in the river right now. Earlier this morning that was a solid sheet of ice. Because of the rainfall it is all breaking up and creating sort of an ice dam. That is an immediate concern right now. Officials keeping a close eye on that. If it becomes a solid band that will create quite quite a flooding situation residents are keeping an eye on the water. This is an area that typically floods. As you can see still some ice that is on top of the river. It is co