the threat from the storm is far if over. we ve heard the sirens all morning. torrential downpour. at least one fresh tornado hit this morning. now there is historic flash flooding forecasted. it is knee deep in our garage. we go into our house it comes to our ankles. man, i ll have to swim into the house. what do you mean? open the front door. it was already up to our porch. right now this storm is heading northeast. if this neighborhood is any indication the threat on the ground is very real right now, sandra. sandra: as you were talking there, there is live video coming in of a live rescue happening in the floodwaters there. the best we can see is a vehicle that is trying to get someone to help so we re watching all this as it comes into us. matt finn on the ground there. thank you, matt.
she slowly treks across the carolinas bringing torrential downpour that will linger for days. you can see they are dealing with a mess. the images and numbers are devastating, four people dead, nearly 1 million without power. hundreds of rescue operations, dozens remain trapped at this hour. residents are told to expect the year s worth of rain before this deluge is over. connell: correspondence on the field covering the storm zone, how long this will last. one thing we know is it will take months if not years for victims of florence to recover. jillian: a break in the rain from morehead city, north carolina after two days that dropped two feet of rain on the city. griff jenkins is there. you have been there this morning. you have been showing us the damage. what are you seeing across that
waiting for this for an awful long time, but you now, at least, have it, the transcript of the final communications, the conversation between the cockpit crew and air traffic control. what have you learned, jim? reporter: john, if you can hear me, we re in the midst of just a major, torrential downpour here. we obtained this transcript of the conversation between the pilots on board flight 370 and the control tower, kuala lumpur tower, as well as ground control. they show, if anything, a completely normal conversation. we understand now that the government is going to release this transcript to all of the media in the coming hours. it sets the record straight. it is something that they say they held back because of the investigation, that they feel that they can release it now. it says, and i m quoting here,
new aerial pictures. new video of the damage across the region. these are new pictures from the oklahoma city area. several homes and other structures are hearly dama lly or destroyed. yesterday s twitters killed nine, injured dozens more miles from where another monster tornado left 24 dead last week. as the oklahoma city area residents cope with flash flooding right now, lessons learned from surviving a massive tornado. from kfor showing miles of cars on oklahoma city area highways. those folks who are fleeing for safety in the midst of the storms. joining me now from oklahoma city is the city s mayor, mick cornett. let s talk about, first of all, flooding, flash flooding updates. tell me if your city s under water in any areas or the surrounding areas. you know, our city drains really well. once it stops raining. we had four hours of torrential
now for the very latest on the storm track, we want to check in with wnbc meteorologist raphael miranda. explain what we re seeing, where this storm is going to be going because, obviously, the gulf, it s already battered already and doesn t look like it s going anywhere any time soon. that s right, thomas. it s all about the slow forward movement of hurricane isaac. again, still a category 1 hurricane. and the storm, as you can see on the radar here, the eye wall has been fighting off the dry air. that s allowed this rain machine to keep going. the engine pulling in all of that tropical moisture. that s why the torrential downpour still extend from the panhandle to central louisiana. take a look at what we ve seen. rainfall totals already 9 1/2 inches of rain fallen in new orleans. and, of course, it s nowhere near over. we ve seen half a foot of rain in boothville and close to half a foot in mobile, alabama. this is what we ll dump on top of what s already falling. another half a f