the governor of missouri expected to address the public in a news conference. of course, that happening at 3:45. meantime, want to bring in meteorologist alex wilson from the weather channel. talk about the flooding. the mayor talking about people getting back in the homes. yeah. we are not going to see that river crest yet. i mean, the river s still going to rise and take a few days before things really begin to get better even though we don t see additional rainfall. flood warnings from illinois, back into eastern oklahoma. you can see a lot of missouri, a lot of arkansas and here s the reason why. looking at the past three days, rainfall up to a foot from parts of southwest missouri, become into arkansas and oklahoma. anywhere from ohio, down into texas, that yellow, three to five inches. plenty of places seen half a foot of rain in three days and exceptional rainfall rates as we have gone forward in time and
area. roughly 40 miles. still a chance of severe threat. that s not the context of what i m discussing at the moment. let s hop to the other side of the world, the philippines and talk about their natural disaster. been an active tropical season for the western pacific. guess what? there s another typhoon that has its eye set there. this is a country with 100 million people. lieu zahn is the most populous island. that en konl passes manila. look at the string of this typhoon. it s expected to increase in intensity over the next 24 hours. it will stall out and produce a significant amount of rainfall. i realize we have domestic and international viewers watching us at this moment in time. rainfall rates could go over 3
hourly rainfall rates, one to two inches in some locations. the heaviest rain still from areas of southeast texas all the way to northwest georgia, where we could see three to four rest country goes, we are talking about a very, very warm northeast. look at the temperatures. 72 in boston. 73 in new york. 79 in washington, d.c. contrast that to 73 degrees in phoenix. we are going to see cooler weather begin to push on through and as it does we are going to see changes in the forecast. heading into the weekend, everyone, seeing the temperatures drop into the 60s in the northeast. most everybody still gets cooler weather, more autumn-like weather and keep in mind we re going to stay soggy in the southeast. heading into sunday, everybody feels finally like it is autumn. but for us, here in the northeast, as that tree goes up in rockefeller center, 78 feet tall and the thermometer is reading just about the same number. we expect to see a high of 75 and 77 degrees today.
you can get a closer look at the terrain. storm surge and rain washing down from the mountains so that s where we ll get incredible rainfall rates and we re also going to see the flash flooding and those possible landslides. what we re dealing with the in south, we have moisture coming in from this storm. we have gulf moisture and we also have an upper level low. these ingredients will come together and we ll continue to see massive flooding across texas. when it s all said and done, places like houston could have seen about 15 inches of rain over the course of this entire event. anderson? jennifer, thanks. just ahead, big news with donald trump s campaign, two new polls with one big surprise, mainly he s not number one and what we re learning about the hostage rescue that saved dozens of people from being slaughtered by isis.
a depression, we are looking for the threat of flooding and the possibility of landslides and mudslides and hard to believe that less than 24 hours ago, it was a category 5 storm that just broke records for the fastest intensifying hurricane ever. it was incredible to watch. and here we are looking at the track and now it is getting close to texas. the moisture is really starting to plume on in. so many flood warnings in effect right now, and look at, this austin, and just getting inundated and houston as well, and it is going to be worse for houston before it gets better. the national weather service are there is around tonight at 6:00 p.m., we could see rainfall rates of 4 inches per hour, which is incredible. i can t imagine being out in weather like that, but through austin, there is bastrop county and the burns that have been happening in the fire areas, and unfortunately with all of the rain coming down and the scarred land, we are seeing a lot of the flooding with that and you m