perez did it using a bat gifted to his teammate by slugger miguel cabrera. perez said after hitting his first career grand slam, he will have to ask cabrera to send him more bats. it moves them to within a game of 500. lewis, you know new york knicks fans are not going to be happy about the news. not at all. still ahead, another check on tropical storm cindy. we ll get a live report from louisiana coming up next. plus, president trump calls for a new immigration legislation and senate republicans get ready to unveil their health care plan. those stories and more coming up next. why are my constituents not allowed to see the details about
rain are we going to still get from the storm and are we going to have flash flooding? yesterday we had some, but it wasn t historic. very isolated. the storm path will bring us more rain. we have feeder bands to mississippi, alabama. this is an area in the flood watch. that s for the heavy rain as the storm moves to the north, and even memphis is under a flash flood watch. here s our rainfall forecast. when you get up to the red, that s four to five inches. that s enough to cause flash flooding, and this is going to be during the day today. northern louisiana, right along the texas-louisiana border. then from areas of memphis right through northern tennessee and the nashville area too. even far from the center, even though it s a weak system. it s still bringing the threat of heavy rainfall. this will even go through the day on friday. right through kentucky and even into the mountainous areas of west virginia, which historically any time they get heavy rains in the mountain areas, th
yeah. chase. so you can. we re following the latest story for you about tropical storm cindy, which has made landfall, as we mentioned a short while ago. we re also talking about the impact it is having on the gulf coast. it is expected to bring the potential for life-threatening flash flooding, heavy rainfall, expected to produce up to a foot of rain in parts of the gulf coast. let s get a quick update on that and much more with nbc meteorologist bill karins. let s talk to us about the path of the storm. what s it looking like out there today? tropical storms become tropical depressions as they weaken. they can still have a ton of rain with them, even as though go into a weakened state. that s the case with this one. the actual landfall is somewhere near lake charles, louisiana. look at these two huge feeder bands. one on the mississippi-alabama border, and the other one up to montgomery, alabama, and right through portions of western florida. it s these feeder bands that will
bill, good morning. good morning, lewis. the heat is the story, but all attention is on the gulf of mexico. any time you get a tropical system in the gulf of mexico, you pay attention closely. water is so warm. thankfully conditions are not favorable this time around for any rapid strengthening. very slim and no chances it would become a hurricane, but it is likely to become a tropical storm or a subtropical storm cindy as we go throughout the day today. already heavy rain in the northern portions of the gulf and from new orleans. all the way to pan in a city, pensacola, biloxi, and all those areas will be drenched over the next couple of days. here s the new forecast path from the hurricane center. the key is here only 45-mile-per-hour wibdnds. that s not enough to do a lot of damage. we ll get beach erosion, stuff like that, but it s the rain that we ll have big issues. the storm system is asymmetrical. all the heavy rain is on the right side of it, so the texas coastline may get h
brunet and others prepared to be the next to pack up and move north. ed lavandera, cnn, along the louisiana coastline. our thanks to evident lavandera. coming up another airline facing a backlash at a video has a flight attendant taunting a passenger. you ll see the video right here live in the cnn newsroom. allergies with nasal congestion? find fast relief behind the counter with claritin-d. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the allergy relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes