already having dumped a half a foot of rain in spots. the flood threat is still up. in north carolina. bit of a tropical moisture feed there. it spins up the coast tomorrow. by 7:00 a.m. it s in d.c., then baltimore, then philly. by 7:00 p.m. it s in new york city. really coming down. we do have a severe weather threat tomorrow. but really more so on wednesday from shreveport, to little rock, and an even larger system with potential tornadoes as we get closer to the weekend. david. rob will be tracking it for us. and there s still much more ahead this monday the chaos in the cabin. first, it was united and now american airlines, and the fight with the family over the stroller. you ll see that in a moment. we re following that deadly shooting inside an office building today. employees evacuated. what we re learning now about the gunman. the five-alarm fire, the apartment complex up in flames. the nearby college forced to close. and we re monitoring that new headline tonight
flooding from hurricane joaquin is already wreaking havoc. rescuing homeowners and drivers stranded and the governor nikki haley warning it only is going to get worse. we are about to go through something we have never gone through before. we are going to see rainfall at historic levels. the east coast could see heavy rain through monday morning. meteorologist janice dean live with the very latest tracking for us. hey there. hi, julie. we are watching a power storm. category 4. at one point close to a category 5 status. 155-mile-per-hour sustained winds at the peak. now 150 miles per hour. and it s moving quickly northeast at 17 miles per hour. finally away from the bahamas and you can see the tropical moisture feed because we have this hurricane and then we have a cutoff low off the southeast coast and this moisture is being funneled right in to the
hurricane joaquin strengthening overnight as dangerous flooding threatens 58 million people. the monster category 4 hurricane is slamming the bahamas. the east coast scrambling to clear drains, another system is set to dump records amounts of rain. states of emergency in south carolina, virginia and in new jersey. chad myers is here with more. hi, chad. hi, carol. two separate systems. one upper low over the southeast and one hurricane with just a moisture feed from the caribbean will get together and push all of this rainfall all the way from new england back to the carolinas. my focus is on the carolinas where we ll see significant rainfall, where significant moisture comes up, dragged by the jet stream. a big dip in the jet stream and then a big rise. this backwards, see how it s going back to the west, this was always the factor in whether the hurricane here would get dragged back up into the u.s. that was always why some of the
models believe that. right now most of them do not. they believe the hurricane will just head out to the ocean and it will be gone. i ve completely covered up my buttons. we will see rainfall from this system, significant rainfall, up to 15 inches of rain as the storms progress over the next two to three days. but that rain truly won t be from the eye of the hurricane itself. just a tropical moisture feed. i can walk out here in atlanta and it feels like i m stand negotiate caribbean. there s so much humidity in the air. some models still get very close to the u.s., so i don t believe the chance of a landfall for u.s. is zero, but it might be 1% or 2%. not zero, but not very much. we re still watch it for you. the big impact will be significant flooding. all that water having to run down the rivers. all right, chad myers. thanks. i want you to take a look at the dow right now, down just about 194 points. this comes after a weak jobs report that just came out this morning. u.s. employ
workweek. nonetheless, it will bring another round of rain to places like san francisco and los angeles. simultaneously we will see the storm system gather steam and bring in mountain snow, which is great news for anyone heading to the slopes in colorado. by the way, this is a nasa image that has given us a great indicator of what is called the pineapple express. this is basically the moisture feed that provided the storm system, all of its rainfall across the western half of the u.s. thank you. on your little meteor shower graphic, i like your adirondack chairs. like that. lounging here in the weather center. from one dutch man to another now. what a dutch man intended to be a romantic evening with his girlfriend. well, it turned in to a smashing proposal. quite literally. he rented a crane with the with hope of reaching his girlfriend s window to propose. instead the crane tipped over and crashed through the roof of