but these are starting to diminish with time, which is good news. because the cold front responsible for the training thunderstorms that brought the flood in are offshore in the course of the day. it s going to welcome in much cooler temperatures behind be it as well. we have another system, potent system moving across the great lakes that will bring showers and thunderstorms to the area. the story is the cool autumn temperatures over the eastern u.s. and then, of course, the tropics. we have to talk about how busy it is. we ve just passed the peak of the atlantic hurricane season, but now we focus in on what is tropical storm sam, and it is gaining intensity and strength very quickly. 70 mile per hour sustained winds. the storm still several hundred miles off the windward islands. it is moving west at 15 miles per hour and it is anticipated to continue to rapidly intensify in the coming days. in fact, becoming a major hurricane by this weekend. and we are going to keep a very close ey