showers and thunderstorms. the same system is with us. out across the west. we have the same story going on as well. we basically have everything. the traffic jam in the atmosphere. what you have been getting the last couple days is what you are going to get the next couple days. severe weather texas, east mexico. new mexico i should say. into monday barely moving off to the east. big bend of texas. including places like hill country, stan antonio. take a look where the drought is across parts of the southern plains. it s right there here across this area. and that s where we are getting really great rain these few days. so everybody across parts of west texas, guys, oklahoma into kansas are incredibly happy getting this written. you might think don t want rain on memorial day, they do. speaking of memorial day, i didn t i can t believe we are talking about this. our veterans dying, waiting in line for healthcare. subject on memorial day weekend? my goodness. can t get the care t
of these states under flash flood watches and warnings. where you see the maroons, we re seeing flooding and streams and rivers past their flood stage. six to 12 inches of rain in an hour is potentially deadly. people are asking to stay off the roads. the severe threat extending from the great lakes down through the big bend of texas, and that s going to continue to move eastward. sunday we are going to be talking about the threat for severe weather across the northeast. heavily populated areas where we could see isolated tornadoes. so we will certainly keep you posted on all of those regions and warnings when they come up. i want to make mention, it is very warm across the plains states. folks without electricity are without air conditioning, can be very dangerous for the elderly and the young ones. please take shelter, go to your neighbor s. help them out. back to you. good advice. thanks for the update. we re also getting a look now at some other stunning images, all from last n
kansas south of the wichita area and then into iowa. that is a new tornado warning. and this unfortunately is going be the scenario as we head into the overnight hours when people are are sleeping. noaa weather radios need to be on and pay close attention to your local fox stations. the severe threat again extending from the midwest down through the big bend of texas with sort of a focus on the red shaded area where we think all of those ingredients are going to come together for the hail, for the damaging winds, long lived tornadoes as well. very destructive tornadoes. we have seen the video all day. damage has been documented in parts of oklahoma and kansas and now as we move into iowa. heading into tomorrow doesn t move much. the system continues to move eastward. affects will little more population. chicago, green bay with the focus on oklahoma city and joplin. just on the anniversary of the
all red pled guilty to plan slaughter in august and gave a tearful apology in court. instead of jail, the judge sentenced it him to probation and ordered him to go to church every sunday for the next 10 years. interesting punishment. check in with rick who is outside with a look at the first alert forecast. hey, rick. chilly morning. are you traveling on wednesday? anyone? no. we are working. we are all working thursday. i guess none of us are if you are out there traveling on wednesday. take a look at your first alert forecast for the big travel day. looking pretty good. much of the east coast absolutely perfect travel conditions. no problems for any kind of a flights or anything. no big systems out there. rain across parts of the big bend of texas. out across the west. that s where the action will be all this weekend and much of this coming week. it really will be into the pacific northwest. where typically this year you get some rain. southern california you are looking good
this is tropical storm rafael: getting up to around hurricane status going toward bermuda over the next four days. then go back in toward the mainland u.s.a. severe weather again. generally a severe primary season in the spring that s when we see the worst of the tornadoes. secondary peek of severe weather season and that is in the fall. we have that for us today anywhere from down around the big bend of texas stretching up towards wisconsin is going to see severe weather today. the bulls eye where we could be seeing tornadoes is from around kansas city down to oklahoma city and some of these possibly could be some large tornadoes. anybody in this area a lot of games going on today need to pay very close attention to this storm. we haven t talked about severe weather for quite a while. it s back for us again today. thanks for that heads up. you bet. scraper. get it out. coming up, as we have been talking about, vice president joe biden s comments on libya getting lots of critic