threatening the region with additional flooding and landslides. matt rivers is joining us. what are authorities saying about the danger of more flooding? well, they are saying it s a distinget possibility because it s still raining, jake, in many parts much the state in northeastern brazil most affected. and the interesting thing about all of this rain is that it s really been going back weeks now. you re talking about rainfall that s been torrential basically since november and so it built up and built up and built up, which eventually caused the culmination, these two dams to burst over the weekend. and that just inundated many of these communities with a flood of water that they simply have never seen before. one of the mayors of these towns said in his 50 years living in this one city he s never seen anything like this. and the video shows you how inundated some of these parts are with water. you re talking about hundreds of thousands of people in the state