city of houston. up to two feet of rain in some areas before this all over. the monster storm has already left behind a wide swath of destruction in rock port, texas. some homes and businesses are piles of debris now and more severe weather is expected soon. this video shows a large funnel cloud rolling through a neighborhood in cyprus, texas. new reaction from president trump tweeting wonderful coordination between federal, state and local governments in the great stephie texas, team work. record setting rainfall, unquote. we checked with the weather center, no records set just yet. 75% of the rain is yet to come. let s get started with our special coverage of the disaster in texas. we ve been showing you the devastation out of rock-port, texas, it s also where the state s one fatality is.
fortunately, there is the a large storm system that is churning up the atmosphere. really dispersing these noxious particulates that formed over northeast china. and it s also the same storm system has not only been responsible for dispersing this pollution, but also for some record setting rainfall across mainland japan. in fact, wettest 24-hour period in month of december for kochi and similar totals across the rest of mainland japan. look at fukushima. 244 millimeters of rain in a 24-hour period. global climate change. i ll leave that up to you. certainly one thing is for sure. our weather patterns are connected. and it s all connected by what is called the jet stream. this is that strong layer of upper-level winds that in the northern hemisphere at least moves our storm system from west to east. we re seeing this almost a direct tie from storm systems from japan, all the way to the pacific northwest. and we have been discussing the heavy rain that has caused flooding for u.s. state
says joaquin has strengthened to a category 4 storm, centered about 500 miles southwest of bermuda, moving northeast at 17 miles per hour. it s no longer expected to hit the u.s. despite that threat being gone, parts of the east coast seeing record setting rainfall. president obama already declaring a state of emergency in south carolina. rain and flood warnings remain in effect for much of the east coast through tomorrow. i m lauren green. now back to red eye. welcome to red eye. hello, everyone. i m tom shillue. let s check in with andy levy over at the news desk.
it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started. first, it s a super soaker. tropical storm hammering florida with extreme weather. the slow-moving snow sith off the coast of alabama and the florida panhandle. the outer bands whipping up dangerous surf and triggering this huge water spout off juneau beach. also spawn ag deadly tornado in florida as it drenches the coast. officials say a woman was found dead in a home in venus located in the middle of the state between port st. lucie and sarasota. a child in one of the damaged homes was also injured and taken by the hospital. people say they were blind-sided by the twisters. i got my wife and my dog put them in a hallway there and said it s coming. about that time it started blowing real hard. it happened real fast, in a matter of 30 seconds. we saw a bunch of wind pick up. shoved into the bathroom. scared half to death. it was pretty traumatic. meteorologist alexandra steele is tracking the storm for us. slow and fierce.
look, there s more of the ocean making its way from this seawall that s been breached and going out to the street. this the broadway. there s a row of houses out there with garages. garages look like they are filling up with water. this just continues to come in. we re at high tide now and it s going to continue for a while. but we re not at the storm surge is piling on top of this. again, the problem is going to be once the system pulls away, we re going to get a return flow. and that s going to affect the north facing beaches of long island which there are many and a lot of bays. so, we re not done with that. we got flooding to talk about. in inland sections. flooding will be worse away from the coast. ten to 15 inches of rain. we ve already had philadelphia has had record setting rainfall for this month. washington, d.c. new york city. and it s heading up towards