river here expected to stay above major flood stage until tuesday. david? alex, thank you. let s get to the track of this system. rob marciano along new york city s westside highway tonight. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. more rain on the way as you saw. the rivers are maxing out, and soil saturated, so just issued is a high risk for flash flooding widespread from arkansas across the ohio, tennessee and mississippi river basins for the next 36 hours. two more rounds of rain coming, including a threat for severe storms in those same areas late in the day tomorrow. northeast texas through much of arkansas and through the heartland, and then it pushes east during the day on sunday from atlanta, d.c., new york, for much of the country, david, it will be a tough weekend weather wise. we ll be watching. rob, thank you. we turn to new numbers on the deadly flu tonight. the disturbing number when it comes to children, high flu levels still in 39 states. the rate of hospitalizations tic
reporter: those plows for now, focusing on those main streets, but a lot of the smaller side streets like this one, buried in snow. those crews won t be getting a break. more snow headed to the midwest this weekend, david. thanks to you. let s get right to senior meteorologist, rob marciano along new york s westside highway tonight. this is moving east, and you told us another storm system right behind it. reporter: that s right, david. the second one is not going to be pretty, i promise you. first let s get through this one. snow flying across i-90, central new york, back through chicago, but another pulse of snow expected tonight, and a third one with the next system that s going to have a southern component. look at it during the day tomorrow. heavy rain across the mid south. the tennessee valley, plateaued up the appalachians. i-95 on sunday, d.c. and new york. boston, heavy rain potentially flooding there. an additional 1 to 3 inches of snow, in areas that got snow today. bi
reported in the midwest in the last 24 hours. this twister touching down in lafayette, minnesota. we re watching the tropical systems in the atlantic. one now a named storm late today, and one possibly affecting the u.s. coastline. let s go to rob marciano, our meteorologist live on the westside highway tonight. first rob, what are you watching in the u.s. tonight? reporter: well, considering what this system did last night, david, folks who live downstream need to be heads up. we ll show you on the radar who that is. western new york, western pennsylvania, ohio, kentucky, virginia. there have been trees down with this system as it moves east by tomorrow morning, gets right into new york city for the morning rush. going to get to new england by the evening and the evening rush, big cities get hit again. potentially a one-two punch on that friday, david. in the meantime, you re tracking those three tropical systems. it was just late this afternoon, one now a named storm, and the pos