phone back at buckingham palace. we hope kate has her baby at any moment now because nine hours later is not fun. not fun at all. on with other news of the day. not every day you hear about massive flooding in arizona, but keeping emergency workers busy in the phoenix area. fast-moving waters turned roads into rivers and left several people stuck on flooded streets. apache junction saw some of the worst flooding and that s where we find cnn s stephanie elam. good morning, stephanie. good morning, carol. the neighbors are starting to wake up. we ve seen some people pulling in here. as you can see right there, they re bringing in signs to tell people to watch out where it s really muddy, really messy and one man here told me that everything happened within an hour and a half. take a look when we say everything. raging monsoon waters flooded parts of the phoenix area on
smothering heat. this is the phoenix area sunday. two inches of rain in an hour. that opened the flood gates leading to one dramatic rescue after another. we have team coverage of that as well. meteorologist indra peelt tersos tracking severe weather in several parts of the country. first stephanie elam live in apache junction. reporter: good morning. it s one of those things. it rains in the mountains, comes down in the washes and it happens really fast. there were many people who got caught out there in the water. raging monsoon waters flooded parts of the phoenix area on sunday. leading firefighters to a series of dramatic rescues caught on camera. at least has a dozen people brought to safety. this is pretty bad. i mean, i think the worst i have seen so far. i ve lived here for three years. reporter: emergency crews braved the thigh high flash floodwaters that swallowed whole cars in its wake. one rescue after another after
good morning, stephanie. reporter: good morning, chris. it happened very quickly. and several people were in their cars and found that they had to find their way out of them and to safe land. take a look. raging monsoon waters flooded parts of the phoenix area on sunday. leading firefighters to a series of dramatic rescues caught on camera. at least half a dozen people brought to safety. this is pretty bad. i mean, i think the worst i have seen so far. i ve lived here for three years now. reporter: emergency crews braved the thigh high flash floodwaters that swallowed whole cars in its wake. one rescue after another after another. watch as emergency crews rush to the aid of these two 19-year-old boys in apache junction. who crawled out of their submerged suv to a small patch of land nearby. at that point the natural instinct is to get out of the vehicle. at that point they re going with the flow of the water which is very powerful. reporter: a helicopter hovers above lowering