this hour, and on the ground frenzy in the state. millions under mandatory evacuation orders. the entire state faces flash flooding. and then record-shattering storm surge, water officials say as high as 18 feet. enough to swallow two suvs stacked one on the other. one official warning if you are caught in that surge, you simply will not survive. let s get straight to our correspondents on the ground binning with beginning with bill weir. what are you seeing and what are you told to expect? reporter: this whole community is really bracing for the worse. the new numbers this morning sunk the pit of the stomach everyone here, trying to think about a 17 foot storm surge. and we re on the back side of the storm and this is sort of the reverse storm surge. locals never see this exposed seabed here. we re looking at crab traps and oyster beds blowing around in the wind with the rest of us here. but of course the water as the storm comes ashore will fill in fast. and we re next
If we get what is forecast here, this is now a model, i m going to show you what the radar may look like over the next 18 hours. this is now. now for the next few hours, the rain moves through houston, maybe toward pasadena. and at that point in time, bay city, you re really going to get pounded. later on tonight, it redevelops and goes right back over houston. the model i m about to show you should scare you because you should have a noaa weather radio on, your ala clock on. somewhere around 2:00 in the morning, get up andook outside because brooke, this purple area right there, houston and even beaumont over there, that is ten inches of rain by 10:00 tomorrow. and not a place in america can get ten inches of rain in ten hours and not flood. there might be flash flooding in a major metropolitan area by morning. that s the forecast and what i m warning people right now. there is the fair warning as you mentioned as you re pushing
Flight had been canceled until 6:00 a.m. in the morning. this isn t our first rodeo, so we know about this, but we ll get through it. the guy in the broncos jersey, think about that. his team lost, then he s stuck in laguardia for a day and a half. chad myers tracking the weather for us. what can we expect today? what we ll see with the next storm is a swath of snow, heavier than what we had before, but about 200 miles farther to the north. new york city, we re going to get an icy mess. it s going to be rain, sleet, snow, all mixed together, but saratoga, for binghamton, for buffalo, for pittsburgh, that s where the snow is going to be heaviest, and that s where the winter storm warning is, all the way to boston. yeah, that s 12 plus. see that purple area right there? let me highlight it for you. that purple area. that s a foot of snow or more everywhere. some spots could pick up 20 inches. but here, look at new york city. wow. not snowing. why? because i have better news, be