Good monday morning, everyone. Its been a busy overnight hours for us. Were following several breaking news stories starting with the epic floods in southern louisiana expected to get worse today. Overnight the number of people being rescued nearly tripled in size to 20,000. Parts of the area received over 20 inches of rain since friday. And this new video, take a look. A boat full of people making its way through a flooded street. Only car roofs peeking above the water. Abcs ray raimundi has the latest. Reporter this drone video giving a snapshot of parts of baton rouge, louisiana, submerged underwater. I roger that. Reporter u. S. National guard helicopters swooping in to rescue this man and this little boy from the rising floodwaters, just 2 of the more than 20,000 rescued in southern louisiana. The federal government officially declaring louisiana as a major disaster. Obviously this remains a very flooding, and it remains ongoing. Reporter cars submerged underwater. Im going to break this window. Reporter dramatic rescues like this one captured all across southern louisiana. Get my dog. Get my dog. Your dog . Get my dog. Reporter this man rescuing a woman after her convertible sunk underneath the rising waters. Interstate 12 a major highway now a makeshift river complete with a tenmile stretch of abandoned cars. As you can see behind me, a lot of interstates are flooded. Weve been here for about 30 hours now. Reporter the National Guard moving in to rescue those trapped. More than 10,000 people now in shelters. This woman lucky to escape the floods with her two daughters. I just wanted to get out. Im like, its not going to stop. Once i saw it coming up my we got to get out. Like my kids got to be safe. Reporter in the midst of the disaster extraordinary acts of courage from flood victims. Oh, lord. Glad to see you. Reporter neighbor helping neighbor, some delivering water. Others passed out food. Ray raimundi, abc news, new york. And the regions rivers are cresting, which means more flooding is likely. The storms are still active and moving up from the gulf of mexico bringing in more heavy rain today as well. Yeah, so clearly were in the thick of a busy weather pattern right now. Accuweathers Paul Williams tracking it all. Good morning. Good morning to you as well, diane, kendis. A High Pressure system will keep it hot boston, new york down towards d. C. But heres whats in the wings, afternoon, evening thunderstorms from richmond all the way towards columbus covering the ohio valley region, and it reaches down towards the deep south as well. In fact, this is widespread rain thats going to be in the misery of heavy downpours. And likelihood of some flash flooding to occur. Gusty winds with these as well. Winds accelerating up to 45 to 65 miles an hour. Kendis, diane. All right. Breaking news story were covering, this from Northern California. A fastmoving fire known as the clayton fire threatening towns in Northern California forcing thousands of people to evacuate. Officially ten homes have been destroyed but eyewitnesses report seeing others on fire. Commercial buildings and a post office have also been burned and another 1,000 structures are in danger right now. One resident taking shelter in his swimming pool. Just about 20, 15 minutes or so, it got intense, smoke and fire and sparks just blowing for awhile hire. Well, the fire has burned at least 3,000 acres, and were told it is 5 contained. That same area was devastated by a wildfire nearly a year ago. A second day of protests in milwaukee ended with shots fired and at least two people injured, one of those people was rushed to the hospital after being shot. The other was an officer injured after his patrol car was pelted with rocks. The violence marked the second day of unrest in the city, though, there was less widespread destruction of property than we saw with saturday nights rioting. Deadly Police Shooting of a black man, but police say the man had a gun and they have the video to prove it. Also breaking overnight, reports of a shooting at new yorks jfk airport shut down operations and sent people running for cover. A loud noise prompted a report of gunfire at term flals used by american airlines. While officers were seen running through with their guns drawn you see people there in the terminal dropping to the ground. The terminals were evacuated and a by but the gunfire was actually never confirmed and there were no injuries. Donald trump is looking to get back on message today as he lays out his vision for defeating isis. This after spending a lot of the weekend tangling with the media. Trumps now facing a a blistering oped suggesting a landslide defeat is possible and it comes after trump blasted the New York Times for an article about turmoil in his campaign. The newspapers going to maybe well start thinking about taking about taking their press credentials away from them. And Trumps Campaign manager is now the focus of another New York Times article. Investigators in the ukraine told the times they found secret ledgers showing 12. 7 million in an undisclosed cash payment designated for paul manafort. Manafort had consulted with ukraines prorussian political party. His lawyer says he hasnt received any such payments. And Vice President joe biden is hitting the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton for the fit theyre holding a rally in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. Now, scranton has been a democratic stronghold, but trump is hoping to capitalize on their stagnation and anger over illegal immigration. Clintons support among the working class there has been eroding, so shes hoping biden can help. Well, lets get on now to the olympics and simone biles in action again today looking to build on her third gold medal performance. Biles came out on top in the vaults last night. She now has two more events to if she can medal in both, shell be the First American gymnast to win five medals in a single round of games since 1904. History in the making. It is an olympic threepeat for usain bolt. The jamaican sprinter hangs on to the title of worlds fastest man beating out american Justin Gatlin in the 100 meters. Bolt is the first man or woman to win the event in three straight olympics, and have you seen this photo . Bolt, even before the final, he pulls away from his opponents in his semifinal heat. Now while bolt has a what, me worried look on his face, the other three guys look a little stressed out. 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Well, after a glare at the careless kids, she takes a different route down to the pool and fishes the cubs out of the water. And drivers should watch out for road flooding in a large region of the country from the gulf and the deep south all the way up to the ohio valley and the great lakes. Wet roads are also likely in the upper plains and rockies. Have airport delays. Houston, chicago, miami, memphis and new orleans, problems are likely. A nightmare for a family in idaho watching in horror as their little girl was swooped up by a Mountain Lion. Thats right, and just like we saw the mother bear this is a different kind of mama bear that jumped into action. See what happened. A harrowing tale of child versus the wild. We didnt think we were in danger. We just thought it was passing through, but now we know it was actually stalking the kids becaus h dinner. Reporter kelsi butt was out camping with her family near green canyon hot springs when her mother put her down for a nap. 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Neighbors believe it was an antimuslim hate crime but police have not yet confirmed a motive. And who needs a life preserver when you have an ice cooler. Three men whose speedboat sunk clung to a cooler and seat cushion and cries for help were heard on shore and a fourth tried to swim to shore. None of the four had been wearing a life jacket but luckily for them they had that cooler. U. S. Swimmer, ryan lochte, and three teammates victims of a gunpoint robbery. The u. S. Olympic Committee Says the group was in a taxi heading back to the Olympic Village early sunday morning when armed men posing as police pulled them over. Lochte says the gunmen told the swimmers to get on the ground and he initially refused. And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked, put it to my i put my hands up like, whatever. He took our money. Well, lochte tweeted his thanks to family, friends and fans for their concern. The message went on to say, the most important thing is he and his teammates are safe and unharmed. Now, its kind of strange that the International Olympic committee actually denied the story just a short while before the u. S. Olympic committee came out and confirmed it. As if you wouldnt have four people saying, we lived through it. We know what happened. Now were hearing from them directly. Yeah. All right, time now for lets go to espn. Good morning, america. Kevin connors, john anderson. You know, i was wondering at some point watching the 100 meters on sunday night if usain bolt was going to burst into flames he was so fast. He is fast and a little slower but at 29 youre allowed to do. Here i will recreate the 100meter dash. All right, and now we. On to baseball. Mookie betts just went crazy for the red sox agait off zack greinke in the first. Tworun shot. Its 20 and then he plowed a threerun homer out there. Fenway all his home runs were over the monster. 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