i m gary tuchman. a live look at newark, new jersey this morning. it s a sad day for family and friends of whitney houston. it s the new hope baptist church. this is where the funeral for the pop star there been held beginning at 12:00 noon, four hours from now. we ll take through live and hear from her closest friends. plus, a 29-year-old man is arrested for an alleged blod plot to blow up the u.s. capital and the fbi had been watching every single move he made. just earlier this morning, pope benedict xvi added 22 more cardinals to the cath lynn lick church. one of them, the arch bishop from pen pep. announcer: live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. in just a few hours, families and close friends of whitney houston will back their own church in new york, new jersey to say good-bye to a legendary entertainer. don is live in new york. what do you see right now? good morning to you, gary. we re seeing the media beginning to gary and fans begin to go gather h
our school and community has been overwhelmed not only by the floodwaters but the amount of support and people have come together to help get through these very difficult times. i m concerned that there s a lot more rain and the river will go up and probably the same thing will happen again. well, for more to bill karins. good morning, bill. well, good morning, alex. flooding a big concern this weekend. we ve already hit the flash flooding overnight in areas of arkansas and the heavy rain threat is pushing east. everywhere in the solid, kind of a lime green color, is under a flash flood watch as we go through the weekend, from mem r memphis to nashville all the way back up into ohio. pittsburgh, just outside of new york city, and western new york. now the green counties colored in, that s where we have river flood warnings already and the rain is still coming down. the green is the rain and that extends all the way from arkansas through the memphis area approaching nashville an
i believe the people next door have been pulling water out of their basement for the last few days. good saturday morning to you, bill kairp karins. good morning, alex. flooding, a big concern this weekend. the heavy rain threat is pushing east. everywhere in the solid, lime green color is in a insurance flood watch. the green counties colored in, that s where we have river flood warnings already. the green on this map is the rain and that extends from arkansas through the memphis area, approaching nashville, heading up through kentucky and west virginia. now, the white on this map up in northern michigan, that s where we re getting snow on the northern side of this storm system. so a little bit of everything. we don t have to deal with too much severe weather out there. the flooding is the biggest concern. you notice that heavy rain over the last couple of hours
at this hour, a potentially dangerous southwest developing in the midwest and plain states. flash flood watches are out for several areas of the country. a new round of storm is bringing heavy rains to the region, up to 3 inches where the areas are water logged from this week. areas in marion county are anxiously watching the water levels. our community has been overwhelmed, not only by the flood waters, but also by the amount of important people that have come together to help get through these very difficult times. i m concerned that there s a lot more rain and they re just going to go up and probably the same thing is going to happen again. for more, let s go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, good morning. good morning, alex. flooding, a big concern this weekend. we ve had flash flooding overnight in areas of arkansas. everywhere in the solid, kind of a lime green color is under a flash flood watch as we go through the weekend. that goes from memphis to nashville, back u