Tens of thw rk ickly we you. Eag fitzgerald. Thank you for joining us. Im corym sh. Aibeautiful nny. Mynlkntoha doesnt to humidithrghout the talk u the t rquickmpact us you seesome of, heavier band rain osh really jus through theo gulf of mexicand its just to the west of new orleans. So a lot of that train of moisture ntinues to roll in there. It has weakened significantly, still a Tropical Storm. This is going to continue to push in louisiana. Likely bn a tropical depressio later on, but still they are worried about the threat of heavy rains. Back closer to home we hav no rain. We barely have any cuds out there. Ous a beautiful morning right in thegh 75 its going to letabout it comi we are staying on top of tropical stm barry this morning. It is dumping rain and threatening communities in floda to alabama. As Nbcs Jay Gray explains, louisiana is taking the h strongest punc right now. Reporter barry announcing wits arrivalth gusting winds, rain, and places like mandeville, louisian a Violent Storm surge. Es this is lake pontchartrain. Reporter wavushing into this neighborhood. Thats the area ofs tropical rmforce winds. Its going to take a few days for this to get out of the reisdown c stranded re pth safety. Unorthodox and unorganized system also lashing bamalabama mississippi where even this alligator seems to be searching for higher ground. Forecasters warning the storm will pus inland it floodingmoe. W in. E twe pedctures yesterday. T te designated the Maryland Task force one. Paed their bags and gear is assembled. Parts of louisiana louisiaand mississippi face major risks of flash flooding. Humans arent the only ones way. Rms some of these Shelter Animals a from louisianare coming to our area as Tropical Storm barry moves through the gulf coast. More than 50 dogs have arrived here on friday evening and many shelters in the storm zone in louisiana were at capacity and they are bracing for damage to their buildings. Of cours we will continue to track the storm as well as live reports from louisiana this morning. Stay with news4 on ourng washin app for continuing coverage of barry. Il famies drandstranded in a potomac, maryland, neighborhood are anticipating their treat will be reopened after a massive sinkhole opened up during the torrential rains last week. The hole opened up on mondayat ntofficials some r buted founds underneath the road delaying. Thin since the road has been shut down for repairs families have been stranded on the other side fol tare sgles because ithaut as no kidding. Crews have been working through st weeroad. 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Parts of manhattan and midtown plunged into darkness yesterday evening leaving thousands without electricity. Traffic lights were out and r firefighteeven had to scramble to rescue people stuck in elevators. The blackout stopped subways, halted broadway shows. Even a jennifer lodz concert hao be evacuated. This is the scene at Madison Square gaen last night. Lopez tweeted this video saying she was devastated that this happened. Her so has rescheduled for tomorrow. Theevoutage is belien caused by fire. Scary stuff in any major city. Especially in new york, who has, you know, fair share but the sun isup out ere. Well be right back u know whar well be right back u know whar forecast is li need help paying for college . So does. Everyone. Rayer has graduation fund. Finish youd bachelors degree ansave up to 25 with tuitionfree classes in your last year. Welcome back. You know, just for the record, the humidity inmy hair, when i had an afro, it would bleak havoc. So i do know the struggle. A struggle to keep the curls intact and looking halfway decent. Anyway, lauryn, you have been busy. You have been keeping a close eye on barry in new orleans, uisiana, the gulf coast, and our weather here. The latest on barry, still a Tropical Storm. Winds 45 Miles Per Hour. The pressure has come up al tle bit, guys, so that means it has lost a little bit of intensity and is expected to do that because it lose fuel once it gets over land and its fuel is that warm hot water in the gulf. So its weakening now as it pushes into louisiana. Its moving about 8 Miles Per Hour now. So its sped up a little bit. T over land, we are talking about the slowmoving s bormnging flooding rain to that area. So they have seen some rain over the last 24 hours. Its not done yet in terms of in the flood conditions because i believe its going to be sitting over louisiana for the next 24 hours. Lets take a look outside. Our weather right now, today hot and humid. We have a slight chance of rain in our area today, but just stray shower. Most of us are dry as a frontal system comes through. That will create some low humidityor some. Blue skies tomorrow, nice. Tuesday we could have an isolated shower or sto out in front of remnants of barry. So there could be a little wave thatses through thatings us chance. Dryinbeot. We are ok late raures, its a ot c littl 60s to 70s right now. 75 in the district. Headed to 93 degrees today. O sterday we were 91. Eso itoiut 100eees. Gain anctrf u are headed to a l. As mh as irfect. Should have yesterday because i am burnt. 89 is the temperature tloorrow. Wer humidity throuhe day tomorrow w, see its sll we thought ma b getting the seeing. Its ge go. By Tuesday Morning still remnants of it going through north louisiana. We are dry. We could have an isolated shower on tuesday. As we ge mainly es expect some roh thursday. Toe hot this gu ryrd out. Reporters notebook is up next. Good morning. Im pat lawson. Heavy rain and flash flooding drenched roads and strand high waters. The storm broke records because of the volume and pacehealrainga singleafer seen in washington. Here with usni news4s chief meteorologist ka brke. The rain came down so fast. Many commuters didnt stand a chance. G n places aveo get out we have ner t olific even was te flota area, e tuckset r uer. People s to. 5nches ofrain, most rainfall ever in an hour in d. C. Ino think that. Day actually te met in place arond r region. Foe m a. Normallash flood we see often. Flash flood energies emergencies, thats never happened in d. C. T the severity ofhadseveral goot when you talk aboweve seen the previous the wettest we havest year was r ee everr saw i mi down in the d. C. O area last year. We continue to see incredible amounts of rain coming down with thek storms, and i thinis is something we are going to see moving forward in time in the future. You got a chance to see a lot of the damage close, you know, up close. Tell us about what you saw. You traveled arorend the gion. Yes. I was mainly in montgomery county. It was absolute ei personally eve seen anythin s roads thate belfast road off of mcarthur boulevard, the road completely gone. It took out the sidewalk. That was devastating for tt thatad thro forest. K countless cars swallowed u. Some folks had to escape through the windows n, rain and mud came washing in. I felt absolutely awf for them. We saw a lot of homes damaged, basements flooded with sewage water. A woman was kind enough to let us into her home and the smell was overpowering andngllected sewageer cered so just to amm flooded. That was and a flooded . Yeah. So that wa at river falls swim and tennis. The Swimming Pool and tennis court that were basically underwater. The swim te has been displaced for at least a week. Summer is the time for swim teams to practice and have their ets. We saw video from a woman ha to the te damage they it will take them time tosaniti. All the water is brown. Doug, we have seen pattern. We get a few really nice days and then we get slammed with storms that seem more severee than wre accustomed to. Rmhanging our warming temperaturein months andarmer temp around d. C. Water arpo i are developingnard able t rinf ndsult. This is a tre we will continue to see moving forward as the world continues to warm and we events lihiste bit more, is is. Ee moref little bit quicker thrgh the next couple of years a change co about texmes,becausex the spectrum. Extremes caused by the jetstream. Nglk a little bit about that. The amazihing about the jet stream, its the river of air that travels at 30,000 fe. Th pr o air the he summerntglobe, se e jet sheart,ards alaska andy h. Wn into the so thats why we saw so many rainy days, gloomy days in the month of june, even though june ended p a little bit above average. Rain alaska has alltime recordigh ts they hit 90 d you normally record by aegree, a noteact they broke it on noumo days is incredible. They are going on half the year where they have seen aboveaverage temperatures throughout the last half of the year. Not a single day below average. Amazing. We are seeinger what we have nev seen before. Getting back to the flooding, you tell people all the time turn around, dont drown. The washed out roads you were talking about, belfast and we saw one in mclean, kirby road,y the illustrate the importaef tun absolutely. Oa in water you cant tell part is washed away, its weak, crumbling, about to give out at any moment. Last week i was in woodbridge, a similar situation. There was a car parked there. The roa. Gave o the car sank into a hole in the ground. These are cases where you really ont want to take that risk because you never know what you are going to be driving into. People are tempted, doug. You think, ill just drive through it and ill get through it. It makes me so angry because we talk about it all the timlk we tabo aut turn around dont troun all the time. Peep are driving through. You saw this the other day, a fathera hve to rescue his kids out his carecause he drove into flooed roadways. Ca your r can flo in a foot of moving water. F your feet wept o with six inches of running water. The interesting thing about this event was the fact that turn around, dnt drown did not work in many areas like canal road, along 66 where you have mediansh going througnd you have the jersey walls on one side. Canal road, you have themo ntain on the other side. That water came up so quickly, there is t nowhere ton around. People were on tops of their cars. They had no choice other than to go through the sunroof and their windows we rig back. Stay with us. And amy this aging notst here but acrose country, but wasngs a wakeup call for us . I think it was. All the flooding in the area is a wakeup call. They have to really completely change all of the way t at they control the water going through the city in ellicott c nning the rivt s, they are10 w some of years old. We hear about them breaking all the time, especially in the winter. The amount o water is more than before. You take that with the same small pes, we areseeing flooding in areas that we have not even floodiseen flooding be. That trend will continue, too. Our drainage system cant handle the volume. Right. Waters in the gulf of mexico are always warm, but you said right now they are extremely warm. Yeah. Do we dare ask what that means . Thats Climate Change, too. The gulf of mexico is a fairly shallow body of water. So its much easier tosee those waters warm. But tr gulf of mexico y after year after year continues to get hotter and t atmosphere. Wie wel have storms down there that will produce a northern rain than they normally would. You had Hurricane Harvey last year which put some of thehe higst rainfall totals ever in the, United States over 66 sawn that ine storm from houston. They would have seen alot of rain without Climate Change, thhe anging climate, bu becahanng climate th before are now just a l we know twhaanfor us ealith o daily lives. Thats hurricane season. Does warming mean winters will be better, easier . For the most s. Part, but it also means that when the storms are stronger,hen we have bigger storms, those will betronger, to bli, think that was a proud of clima pro Climate Change. We will have ss snowfall over the course of the whole winter, but when we get those big storms they are going to be able to dump a lot more in the way of snowfall. I think on ae whol you will get less, it will be a little bit warmer, but those days where its really cold, it wi be colder. Those days are we have big storms, the storms ll beeven bigger. Aimee will be in the thick of it, you know, making sure that everybody is all right. Folks seem to take it in stride. Did they . Yeah. It hasto be devastating to see all of your belongings desoloyed . Absutely. I was surprised how calm y everybodemed to be that day. They were responding very well. One w the who her it when t eventually told herself these are just things, they can be replace aed. They are glad no one was hurt. All across the region iave been talking to people. Es, their cars weredestroyed, swimming and tennis courts. Of the day they were okay and thats what most people are thankful for. A lot of it is lot i porecy is if yourts covered. Anythinew uvered. Anything coming and for many people it was the first time ey fl think has my home fl nd floodrae. Even iyou are notn dpin, goodte those people will have flood insurancew. They may not need it again. This was maybe a onetime evente in their li but a good idea to do it because a lot of these people are not going to be able e eople had five, thament. Thatevything. I the basement whereever seen water in the basement before. Ill raise my hand to it that. Suddenly its cumming up through the floor. The cleanup andpa res are just beginning. So we are talking about a long journey for a lot of the folks you have seen . Oh, absolutely. Like you mentioned, the insurance may not cover all of it. I met a lot of people who are trying to figure that out. Who to call. They have never had to deal with this before. They are having to navigate o possessions destroyed. Now they are dealing with Insurance Companies and trying to get that taken care of. Its just been a very long journey. For the folks who had their street washed out, they are trying to figure out how to get it to and from home, where to park their car, how they are going to get around. A lot of people whoseives have been thrown out of place. Doug, we mentioned earlier this pattern. Is this pattern that weveeen ith the nice days and then the severe storms that just slam usw is this what are going to get the rest of the summer . My summer forecast, i said for the mostart i thought july and auguste could b below average as far as rainfall is d. Concerne thats a very good thing. But to youro pt, you know, my tenday forecast right now, we have got almost no we have got two days of rain, all right . But one of those could f besh flooding again. The next one that we see could be severe storms again. Thats two o of ten days. Most of the days are dry. Most of the days are hot. We dont h te much inhe way of rain. When we have severe thunderstorms we will have more theattern towards theer and to wh your a . Rom grand scale, you , my advice buy rain boots. Yeah, and always be weather ready. You cant say enough about knowing where the storms are. T and t why we say download the nbc washington app. I am not saying that because, hey, its our app. It can save your life. Sds that ha practices and you ar goi o d you have dinner plans going t, take a look at the radar. Know where you live. Know which county you live in. Know where the storms are. Ou can always put that in tion. Anindus, us. Im 700 ath,lah, blah ould i take an umbrella . Ill make sure that you know whats happening because you need to know. You nee be prepared. E knrat lawson m announcer news4 today starog th nothing you c v have n. Hton i think people are going to enjoy the second half of the weekend as well. Tunfortunately, we have add a little bit more humidity out there today, but then we get into tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be absolutely gorgeous. Lets go to our maps and show you whats going on. We are looking at barry in a second. First ls take a look at the beautiful sunrise that came up about 40 minutes ago or so. Its gorgeous os throughout the is a sma showea through the area. For most of us, we are staying dry. Temperatures are in the 60s and 70s right now. It is just a wonderful morning. Now, you are going to walk outside and you are going to feel a little bit more of that humidity. But it is nice out there. As far as injutl sunday ouok is concerned, any Church Services its going to be but its going dry. Morning. Muggy outthere. Pool, perfectnd s poolside. Lets talk about barry and the impacts that we will see from barry etaying on ropical storm bar t aba. It arrival withusting winds, n. Rain, and in places like mandeville, louisiana, a pu a intoto t in lowlyi down. The coast guard pulling 12 sy atipp seems tos and two petsu for warning tlo storm y pushgi rainse areas 20 inches. As the water continues to pour in. Jay gray, nbc news, new orleans. Oinue tracking sto from louisiana all morning. St withew and nbc flds swept through the d. C. Area a major road is expected tt reopen itmo llelst poseto reopen ry. Rter heaquipnt gravel. Conio working roheen on belfast road in potomac. I really feel bad for the people who are in the singlefamily houses. It must have been really tough eo be cut off like that and cut off unectedly. Reporter this is the kind of damage a flash flood can do. E a huge sinkhol this rirs on their cars. We understand about Climate Change and the excessive rainfall, four inches in half an lot. Tal working througut the wskend. Mazing to me though, if thareto rebuild thadut, i mean, this is huge ff et that t are y morning, nearlys the roadtoe d aft thestorm. The nstruction wora made a lot of progress, but there is still a lot of work to do to get this road reopened some waymorning, b will b news for people trded on the otf thiscynctoy. Anxie high this as thousands of uum immigrants fear they could be rest. R 2,0toy. O them dasdd told ch , ur is offering undocumented immigrants a safe place to stay. 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