a little bit more significant stream flooding as well. mike: rick leading us off, many thanks. live pictures coming from rhode island where tropical storm henri mainly in fall moments ago, there are concerns up and down the eastern seaboard as you just heard from rick concerns about interior sections as well and more on the latest conditions of the eye of tropical storm henri comes on short alex hogan is live, how are the conditions right now. we note the state has deployed 500 national guard members and thousands of state troopers to deploy across the state and this is one of the hardest hit areas in henri s path, this morning we saw heavy downpour and there is quite a wall something we have not seen through out the day but the torrential rain causing flooding into nearby roads, the storm as
on that dam, one of the largest dams in puerto rico officials say is failing. 80,000 people live down stream from that dam. it holds back a very large man made lake if the dam gives way, all of the water of that lake will be added to the down stream flooding that is already afflicting that area. those evacuations are underway. tens of thousands of people, this is a very serious situation tonight in puerto rico. stay with us. when it comes to heartburn trust the brand doctors trust for themselves.
for the next couple of hours these thunderstorms continue to dump heavy rain across the area. certainly street flooding and small stream flooding and the drains not working well are going to have issues throughout the rest of the morning. flood watches and warnings have been posted for not oblg the mississippi delta but on through mobile, alabama, for what s left over of tropical depression number 35. we do have flood warnings for parts of iowa. historic flooding for des moines and ames. ames water supply shut down four to seven days, contaminated because of heavy flooding. the worst since 1993. 105 to 115 heat indexes across this area. so not only flooding but record-breaking heat in some of the areas. west plains, missouri, hit 103 in d.c. 97. a little cooler today. jackson kentucky 97. 101 kansas city. 82 in new york, not too shabby and 92 in minneapolis.
it, live in massachusetts, just south of boston. mike, we hear it s really and we can see now it is just as bad there. as it was yesterday, down around new york and the jersey shore. yeah, the brunt of the storm, lynn, right now is stuck here in southeastern mass across the cap cape. we re still getting sustained winds of 40 miles per hour. up into southern parts of new hampshire and southern maine. it s going to stay that way through tomorrow afternoon with the storm not going anywhere. we re getting the onshore flow. expect 3 to 5 inches of rain in the boston area on top of what s fallen. still the risk of river and stream flooding as we roll on into the first part of the week. i want to show you, we pilds back to get a little more protection from the wind. look out there and look at those boats and the white caps. this is a pretty protective part of the harbor. if you go another half a mile where we tried to set up this morning, the wind is howling. you can hear it roaring bet