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Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new warnings to residents. Get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly p ....
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration awarded Delaware a $5 million Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) program grant to improve safety during flood events. The Delaware Department of Transportation will receive the grant for its Traffic M ....
Rushing across streets in central alabama where a flash flood emergency has been issued in jefferson and shelby counties. across the birmingham metro area, we re told a number of water rescues have been taking place and there are reports of damage to homes and trees blocking roadways. meteorologist derek van dam joins us with more. derek, these images are pretty staggering. give us a sense really of how bad it is and how long this may last. yeah, isa, you know, this was an extreme amount of rain in a very short period of time. the infrastructure here just couldn t simply handle that amount of rain. in fact, it led to the flash flood emergency that was issued within birmingham, alabama, flooding roadways. that water creeping into businesses and into homes. there was swift water and high water rescues that took place within this area. now, birmingham on average, the entire month of october, receives about 3.3, 4 inches of rain. that s for the entire month. in the very short period of ....
That means that this hurricane had strengthened after being out over the open ocean. the storm is now over naples and is moving north toward fort myers and it is on pace for a direct stake on tampa. a low-lying and extremely vulnerable city of nearly 400,000 residents. more than 2 million people were without power as of 4:00 p.m. today. that number has surely increased with the winds that we ve been watching. the storm is downing trees. it s tearing off roofs. it s flooding roadways even in areas that are nowhere near a direct hit. nbc news meteorologist bill carons is here with the latest. i want to get an update for those of you watching, bill, what are we looking with the storm? this is what i m staring at. this is the water height in naples and this red line is where the water level is, and you see this jump right here? ....