heavy rain bringing massive flooding to parts of florida as people brace for even more rain today. the flooding forcing authorities to close major highways in the tampa area, snarling traffic and even delaying flights. people say the flooding happened so fast there was no time to react. search-and-rescue times had to help residents stranded by rising water. governor rick scott said the state is ready to whatever it can to help. no one should be driving in water. everybody should be careful around any flooding. flooding situations, with the flooding situations they re still dangerous. we don t want anybody to feel like the situation is totally over but it could have been a lot worse today. but the situation is still dangerous. heather: yep. don t drown, turn around. what they say. meteorologist maria molina live from the fox extreme weather center to give us details what is in store. hi heather. good to see you, hello to everybody at home. we re dealing a lots of flooding
lloyd welch told them the girls were act ducked so that he and his uncle could sexually abuse them. actually12-year-old sheila and 10-year-old catherine lyon disappeared from a shopping mall back in 1975. heather: to a fox news weather alert. only first-responders are being allowed in illinois town hit hard by tornado. video taken by a storm chaser showing the twister as it churned through but the heaviest damage was eight miles away in cameron. that is where access was blocked to all but emergency crews. that is 200 miles southwest of chicago. the twister caused major damage but thankfully no serious injuries which is amazing. more storms with hail, high winds and potential tornadoes expected for the same area today. meteorologist maria molina is in the fox weather center with more on this story. hi maria.
very warm and humid ahead the system. talking about very warm extreme heat in parts of the south and portions of illinois and iowa. looking at heat index values rising into triple digits for many of this. let s head over to you, heather. heather: thank you very much, maria. jon: pouring over the background of a killer. investigators are trying to figure out what drove a 24-year-old man to open fire on those two military facilities in tennessee. it all started 24 hours ago. plus authorities still working to identify this girl. baby dough, almost a month after the four-year-old s body was found on a beach in massachusetts. the new effort to solve this very sad case.
we ve seen incredible flooding out there. we re talking historic proportions across some of the areas with records being broken. unfortunately the forecast is for more active weather across parts of the plains. we re looking for severe weather across texas and oklahoma and further east into the great lakes and northeast. let s head over to heather. all right. maria molina thank you so much. got some headlines to bring you, and first starting out with a mysterious fire which is considered a homicide investigation. three people were found dead after a raging house fire and a barn fire in colebert washington. the victims were found burned inside their home. a neighbor who lives across the street saw the flames and ran to help but it was too late to save the family. investigator are calling the fire suspicious. autopsy on the victims is scheduled for later today. a marine court-martialed
dozen people still missing. rescue crews are looking for them. check out this video out of oklahoma. a twister touching down against a yellow sky. fortunately no one was hurt. over to houston, texas, where five people are confirmhead dead. officials inundated with more than 500 911 calls. fema is on the ground assessing the damage and folks are trying to get their lives back together with the help of fema. it tears me up. we have nothing. i worked so hard to get all of this by myself. iate have nothing. i have nothing. this hour, 46 counties in texas have been declared disaster zones. all of oklahoma is in a state of emergency. the storms aren t over yet. meteorologist maria molina is tracking it for us. good morning to you, what can you tell us about all this? good morning, just really heart breaking the scenes out of texas and oklahoma.