that bucket that jen had there. >> i think there's ice buckets, she froze her butt off the last three hours at least. you got to do it, too. i think i'm getting dunked tomorrow. thanks. more nations joining the fight against islamic militants in iraq it come as the iraqi prime minister refuses to step down. he's not going anywhere. plus the growing efforts to save house to on mount sinjar. police say a man kidnapped a teenager for months. now, shepard smith reporting live from the fox news desk. >> first from the fox news desk, combat between american forces islamic state fighters in iraq is a possibility. that's according to u.s. officials. and american boots on the ground is right now the reality.

the pentagon confirms more than 100 so-called military advisers arrived in the north of iraq bringing the total of that country to 850. but don't let the hair splitting fool you at all. officials say that the u.s. advisers are u.s. troops and fully armed. the white house insists that the troops are not in combat roles, that they're there to help with the humanitarian crisis. according to senior u.s. officials troops are trying to figure out the best way to rescue tens of thousand religious minorities trapped and starving on a mountain surrounded by brutal terrorists. u.s. officials say such a mission could put american troops in direct contact with fighters for the islamic state, what's known as isis. today, the white house acknowledged american forces may have to protect themselves. >> absolutely, there are dangers involved with any military operation. we would absolutely acknowledge that. there's danger when pilots are

flying. there are dangers when you're in a difficult situation as we are in iraq. but he's confident that we can have a limited military objective. >> purpose for the proposed mission comes around as the united states continues air drops of aid to the trapped yazidis. and as the pentagon reports u.s. fighter jets have blown up more islamic state targets. but the president himself said air stwriex not be enough to fully stop the militant forces. now, u.s. allies are getting involved as well. the british government indicates it will send transport helicopters to the region to help with the evacuation. officials in france now say they're sending weapons to kurdish fighters. and australia's prime minister said he's open to the possibility of sending a combat force to help rescue refugees. all of this as the political drama plays out now in baghdad. iraq's current prime minister nuri al maliki refuses to leave office despite the advance from

the west and despite the will of the people. a car bomb exploded near the checkpoint of a home iraq see elected to take nuri al maliki's place. so we have team fox coverage. greg palkot in erbil. the white house insists they won't engage in any combat. >> well, shepard there are 129 u.s. marines and special operators who arrived in erbille yesterday to assess thousand rescue the people stuck on that mountain. all of them are on, as well as the 864 currently in iraq. those marines came in 3-22 ospreys. ospreys could be used as part of the airlift for the yazidis if an airlift is decided upon. there are other u.s. efforts that have been positioned there to protect the troops. again, all of the u.s. forces there are capable of combat because they are going to areas

surrounds by isis. >> this is not a combat boots on the ground operation. we're not going to have that kind of operation. >> these 130 personnel are not going nobody a combat role in iraq. they're there on a temporary basis to make assessments about how to get the population off that mountain. >> we've just learned from state department spokesman marie harf that u.s. air strikes have carried out 17 air strikes in days to protect erbil. >> jennifer, based on the reporting, do you have a sense where all of this is heading? >> well, anytime you send military advisers and you start called limited humanitarian crisis operations you face the likelihood of being sucked in combat. what happens if a u.s. helicopter gets shot down and an american service member is taken hostage? those troops will be in firefight and combat before you know it. remember somalia and black hawk down. the president is reportedly going to make a decision about whether to airlift the yazidis

off the mountain in the next few days. the president returns to washington for a few days on sunday. that decision, however, does not address what to do to stop isis from taking more territory, including the capital of baghdad, where isis is carrying out daily suicide bombings. the president has taken notice of the high-value target in the isis leader al bag datty. egypt's top cleric is condemning islamic state militants calling the islamic state a terrorist organization endangering all of islam. analysts say the islamic state now controls all of these cities. that's syria over there. north of iraq, saudi arabia down here, you see. and the militants were advancing on the northern iraqi city of erbil, before u.s. air strikes helped hold them back. let's go live to erbil and talk to greg palkot live on the ground there tonight.

greg? >> reporter: a lot of people here in northern iraq are being targeted by the isis militants including as we've been reporting for days now, christians. more than 100,000 christians. we caught up with some of them here in today here in erbil. here is what we saw. i'm not sure we have that video. ba we're basically talk about is christian refugees here in erbil. they are being sheltered at a chaldean catholic church here. we saw thousands fleeing just with the clothes on their back, often robbed of what they had by the isis fighters. we heard multiple times they were threatened by the militants. they had to convert to islam, or

they had to flee or pay i high tax. one woman put her hand to her neck to indicate what the militants were trying to do. we saw the hungry, the thirsty, the sick. we saw parents worried about their kids. we saw kids worried about their school. and this was one of the better facilities run for refugees in this area. one old woman told us, please, please, the international community, do something to help us. and we have many people, how they felt, being singled out as christians by these militants. and one person replied to me, no religion does this. one more note here, shep, we have been watching all day, aircraft arriving here at the erbil airport. possibility a part of that u.s.-led international mission to try to pull out the remaining refugees under fire in harm's way. busy days ahead here. >> greg, thank you. there is breaking news on fox news channel. the truth between israel and hamas has just been broken.

fox news confirms two hours before the end of the 72-hour cease-fire, we've learned that militants just fire three rockets from the gaza strip into israel. israel's iron dome missile defense system, according to the israelis, intercepted one of those rockets. the other two landed in open land with no reported injuries. the cease-fire was set to end less than two hours from now. 5:00 eastern time which is midnight in israel. apparently -- well, not apparently, the cease-fire is broken. rockets have been fired. we'll wait to find out what response, if any, we get from the israelis. for now, let's get to mike baird, a former intelligence officer for the office of defense secretary. mike, you're here to talk about what's happening in iraq, of course but the breaking of the cease-fire in israel two hours early, where do you see that thing going? >> well, it's a natural reminder, shep, at the end of the day, you can't control what the other side is going to do. if there's one thing that you'd

like to think the obama administration has learned in the last six years about the engagement we have against global jihadists is that you can't control what the other side is going to do. basically, we find ourselves unprepared for the reality that we face. >> back to iraq. the idea of boots on the ground. the president said there will be none. the fact is there are boots on the ground. there are 800 boots on the ground, they're armed. i'm trying to figure out what would happen if advisers were suddenly attacked by sizeis militants. you need marines on ground to protect them, don't you? >> sure. and they have self-protection forces. the individuals there, particularly those operating in northern iraq, they're basically self-sufficient. they ought to be able to take care of themselves. the bigger question is what are we going do-to-do about isis? isis has taken over a third of iraq. at this point are we going to dedicate american lives to holding together this fictional state we call iraq saying well,

if maybe if al maliki goes maybe some leader will rise up like a george washington and pull the whole country together. or are we honest with ourselves, really it's three major factions and need to treat it as such. we need to allow the kurds to have an autonomous region. we need to recognize the fact that iran has taken over the southern part of iraq. and then isolate isis in the middle. and then deal with isis which is a global threat and much like al qaeda. >> a partitioned iraq is one that's been discussed throughout the course of the iraq war. and it was similarly rejected. why was it okay for all those years and why is it okay from your perspective? >> well i'm a realist, shep. the reality is at the end of world war ii the western world came together. we drew lines we said that's country "a," that's country "b," that's country "c." we're now at a point with the

internet and connection that's have gone on and 2,000 years of sectarian warfare throughout the region with sunni versus shia, the reality is there's a sectarian divide of sunni versus shia. we can try to put all the duct tape we can around syria and iraq and egypt and what goes on and on. while we recognize we're in the middle of a clash in islam of sunni versus shias. and this notion of trying to put together a nation state is just a fool apparent. >> so do we just get out of there? >> no, i think what i was saying about isis, they proved themselves capable enough and wealthy enough with american weapons, they need to isolate them with the sunni part. what i'm saying there's no way you're going to find a shia-approved leader in baghdad that the sunnis will allow to go

against isis in a real way. you need to isolate. cut into the three parts and deal with each part on its own terms. you can deal with the sunni part that militarily has a lost isis throughout it. you can go in and work with the local sunni groups to fight isis which is what we have to do. nobody has to do this. believe me, u.s. military doesn't want to do it. the fact of the matter is, we're in the middle of a protracted war against isis. and we cannot allow them to establish a full foothold. but the notion that we're going to it arm the heck out of a bunch of shia and support them politically and hope they can establish dominance over the sunni part of iraq, it's not realistic. it hasn't been for a decade. and that's why we've been in iraq for so long without anything to show for it. >> mike barrett. thank you. as we mentioned just moments ago, the cease-fire is broken. the confirmation that militants have violated a cease-fire between israel and hamas.

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fox news has confirmed the cease-fire is over. militants in gaza fired three rockets toward israel. israel's iron dome missile defense system intercepted them. one of them. the others went into an open area. our producers in jerusalem said warning sirens did go off in the south of israel. meantime, palestinian representatives are set to give a statement about the apparently failed peace talks in egypt. but we've just gotten word that they have delayed that statements. this, after they indicated they were considering an egyptian deal to end hamas' deadly month-long war with israel. the latest cease-fire in gaza had been set to expire 5:00 eastern time this afternoon. they didn't make it. rick levinthal is live in gaza. the bottom line, rick, is the palestinians want something out of this. they've lost close to 2,000 people. most of them civilians. the infrastructure is decimated.

they don't have power, they don't have water. they want to be able to go fishing, they want an airport, and they're getting nothing, right? >> well you might think because of all of those issues in that humanitarian crisis that the negotiation might have led to some sort of compromise. but as you said, that apparently has not happened. we hoped we wouldn't need our flak jackets. we heard code red sounding close to the border. the sirens were wailing, sometimes, that happens and it's a false alarm. but not this time, as you mentioned three rockets fired, one in the iron dome defense system. one landing in an open field. you mentioned a palestinian statement or press conference that was supposed to happen at 9:30 local time, roughly 40 minutes ago. it was postponed, and we wondered what that might mean. we also had heard that the israeli delegation had left cairo and headed back to tell aleve. they do that every night when the talks end. we're wondering what might

happen tonight but apparently hamas and palestinians have broken the cease-fire. >> i hear the drones overhead. >> well, they've always responded. you can hear the drones. you hear them every night. they're up there now, some of them are armed. they have fighter jets and they have plenty of other ways to attack gaza. and in the past when rockets have been fired, they responded with force. and often deadly force. owe you can expect, because rockets were fired because the palestinians broke the cease-fire, israel will most likely respond. >> you can give us a more complete sense of whether you believe from your reporting that the israelis have any sort of incentive to give into any of these hamas and more broadly palestinian regrets? >> from everything we've heard, shepard, the israelis have been playing hardball at the negotiating table. they don't want to give too much

freedom to the palestinians because they're worried that hamas will take advantage of open borders or an open seaport and use to rearm. the big concern was hamas had deleted its resources and wanted more rockets and ammunition and would use a deep border, open borders at sea, to bring in more materials. even construction materials that were designed to rebuild gaza were in many cases used to build tunnels underneath the borders that hamas used to attack israeli soldiers and to smuggle goods in from egypt. the big concern was security. remains security. and get now with the cease-fire broken yet again, is there any hope for a deal here. >> we'll come back to you for any israeli response. before you go, rick, an associated press video journalist and a translator workinging with both killed today. what happened? >> the man's name is simone

tomili. he was 35. he and a translator were at a site in northern gaza where some gaza policemen were bomb techs were trying to disarm what they say was an israeli missile that didn't explode. they were trying to disarm it and then it went off. surviv survivors, another ap photographer said there was an explosion. this guy said he was hit by shrapnel, and a second blast knocked him out he woke up in a hospital others not lucky. four techs kid. three at the scene, one in the hospital. and that ap photographer and that translator. >> in gaza city, no doubt a tense night. we'll be back to rick levinthal for more news. coming up in the united states, the story we've been following. we've learned more about the kidnapped teenager who turned up at home after nine months of captivity. there are new details today, and they're horrifying.

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her kidnapping was violence. her survival miraculous. those are the words of a lawyer for this 15-year-old named abigail hernandez. she vanished in october of last year. then returned home nine months later. in a statement, the teen's attorney said she was violencely abducted by a stranger. and for many months she suffered numerous acts of unspeakable violence. the family is also asking the public to give her time and space, what she needs to heal. they live in conway, new hampshire which is about an hour and a half north of state's capitol. according to a local report, the kidnapper may have held her

captive inside a rusty storage chamber in the yard. the suspect has pleaded not guilty to felony kidnapping charges. right now he's locked up on a $1 million cash bond. a judge has ordered them to keep track of case including 911 calls, e-mails and text messages. a criminal defense trial attorney, these details today are awful. and this evidence is key. >> hi, shep. the details that we're hearing are horrible. the evidence is key. and i think the judge made the right call because the defense wants to preserve evidence and keep this trailer and this pan, i guess you will, in the same place as it was now. the prosecution is trying to move it, they say if it is where it is in the trailer park they're worried that somebody might come in and steal things. the defense is concerned about the exact opposite, they're worried that moving it would be what would destroy the evidence. >> you said that you believe the neighbors are going to be really

important in all of this. >> absolutely. the neighbors, because remember, we're in a trailer park. so these homes i would imagine are very close together. what the defense attorney wants to do, he's going to want to stand inside the trailer home, where it is. and look outside and see what somebody in there could see. and he's also going to want to stand at the neighbors' homes and see what could they sea or hear and see does that match up with a teenager being held inside of that trailer against her will. the neighbors are critical. >> go ahead. >> go ahead. >> no-no. >> neighbors are critical, if this young child was held there, teenager was being held there, you would think that somebody after months and months would have seen or heard something. >> yeah, you would think. >> and the details of her return are interesting. pilar prinz, thank you very much. there's an ongoing political crisis that pits iraq's

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are why i'm shooting for something better. eliquis. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor today if eliquis is right for you. serious troubles on the political side of things in iraq. the prime minister, nuri al maliki who has screwed up everything. not included any of the minorities in the country. not been able to bring together a government, has been part of the rise of isis over there. nuri al maliki will not leave office. the white house said today he's still there. and that's about all they'll say. remember iraq's president snubbed al maliki by not nominating him for another term. instead, the president chose this man, a member of the prime

minister's own party. and the white house says it supports the nominee. in fact, there's good word that the white house was pushing for this candidate well before the transaction actually took place. anyway, that didn't go wii over well. al maliki is refusing to leave. demanding a third term and accusing of a coup. and nuri al maliki also calling for the troops to take to the streets but then told them not to get involved in politics. nuri al maliki also suggesting things could get worse if he leaves. and now maliki says he's not giving up power nrl a federal courts on what he calls a constitutional violation. leah gabriel with more. now they're both saying nuri al maliki needs to go. iraq, though, some disagree. >> reporter: all the people with nuri al maliki in baghdad today,

some expressing frustration, saying united states and iraq have no business weighing in. and today in a weekly televised address, al maliki remains defiant. >> translator: it's a conspiracy being hatched inside and outside the country. we cannot surrender to such a constitution breach. >> reporter: meanwhile, others includes saudi arabia and the european union and the united states have expressed support for that leadership. and the white house is stressing that the move to oust al maliki included the kurdish president the sunni speaker and shia political fashgzctions. >> this is the one process consistent with the iraqi constitution that is going to lead to a new government. and he needs to respect that process, let it go forward because frankly this is not being imposed on anybody from outside of iraq. this is what the iraqis themselves have decided to do.

>> while the prime minister is telling maliki not to get involved "the new york times" has said that one has reached out to the new president to say the military will not stand by al maliki. shep. >> leah gabial, thanks. continuing coverage of breaking news out of the middle east. fox news confirms the cease-fire between israel and hamas is over. hamas broke the cease-fire by sepsding three rockets into israel. the cease-fire was set for an hour and a half from now, 5:00 eastern time. i guess this isn't all that big of a surprise, the palestinians, specifically, hamas wants things and hasn't gotten things. >> that's a good point, shep. that may be a sign of defiance really on their part because in practical terms if the cease-fire was going to expire soon anyway, it may not really matter that much. the last 90 minutes but they're sending a message, they're not happy. and making sure that people

consider their demands. as you know, they want rights to move in and out of tunnels or air fields they want something that feels and looks like a real country even without wait for peace to be negotiated. and they want to send the message they want to play bit rules. they'll just stick a finger in the interpretation. the other is a splinter group launched that. >> down the road, michael, you see israel losing support around the world especially in europe where there's been a lot of anti-semitism, raising its ugly head. does israel risk a lot more of this, if it doesn't give to some of these demands? or is it on a clean footing? >> no, that's a good question, shep. but i've heard other people speculate that maybe israel actually has more room to maneuver these days because it doesn't depend on the united states quite as much as it once

did. it has a lot more economic dealings, for example, with other countries and doesn't need our 3 billion $ a year in aid quite as much. so you can make the argument the other way. on the other hand there's no threat for israel like the united states like the military power and the diplomatic clout. so i'm not sure i find either of these arguments all that persuasive. i think the bottom line is we haven't been able to persuade israel or the palestinians to negotiate for decades. and we've had different levels of power in the region supposedly throughout that whole period and yet we've always had the same outcome. so i'm dubious that it boils down to those kinds of factors. i think it's going to boil down to getting new leadership for the palestinians and the israelis and starting afresh some future day. that's my best guess how they have to go forward. >> palestinian authority making its way in? i mean, israel has destroyed the tunnels, it seems to have done what it wanted? why would it have to give up anything if it doesn't want to?

they got to be running out of rockets? >> well, the problem is nothing ever lasts in these cease-fires. that's why they keep lasting two or three years and then there's a new fight. and then there's a new effort to negotiate. meanwhile, maybe new weaponry on both sides gets introduced. as you pointed out, we have two new weapons here longer-range weapons for hamas. and a better rocket defense, a missile defense, for israel. so people try their luck, hoping somehow the change in technology or change in politics will favor them more this time than last time. but it winds up having to stay cruel repetitiveness. the people's aspirations the next time are going to different are never borne out. the only hope to break out of this to get back to the two-state solution. i'm not sure they can do it. >> humanitarian crisis unfolding in gaza there. fixing it is going to be really hard if there's not a lasting cease-fire, isn't it? >> very good point. i mean, i'm talking big picture

and theory and long term. and you're making the very valid point, we've got almost 2 million people to keep alive in the meantime. and it's not going to happen if cease-fires keep getting invite violated. make hamas concluded all that could be delivered is delivered. i'm not sure what their logic will be, what they'll say in coming hours and days. but the bottom line is, israel is not going to be particularly inclined to keep going back to cease-fires if they can't trust hamas. your point is valid. it's very sad and a shame. ebola now, the husband of one of two american workers infected with ebola says his wife does continue to hold signs of recovery. he held a news conference over skype just a few minutes ago. we'll have more on what he said. doctors who have been treating his wife and another american

aide worker. the husband and two u.s. doctors who cared for ebola patients in liberia arrived in charlotte on sunday. health officials say they placed the three in quarantine but they show no signs of the disease. jonathan is live in charlotte. what did the husband say during the news conference? >> reporter: well, you know, it's got to be frustrating because here he is in a trailer living on campus where sim usa where she was working in africa when she became infected. meanwhile, she has come under treatment. he says he gets to speak with her regularly on the phone. each day her voice sounds stronger and stronger. says she's not in the clear just yet, but at least her condition is heading in the right direction, shep. >> jonathan, what else do we know about the husband's

quarantine? >> reporter: well, we've been told that the incubation period for ebola is 21 days. in theory, each of these missionaries will be kept in quarantine for 21 days after the last contact they had with anybody suffering from ebola. but during that skype call, mr. writebol explained to reporters that state and local health officials are still in discussion as to when that quarantine period should end. although we know it's approximately 21 days from the point of last contact. he doesn't yet have an exact release date. jonathan serrie, thanks. racial tensions rising continuously in a st. louis subur suburb. a police officer killed an unarmed teen. and details of a lifeless discovery. that's coming up.

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breaking news now. fox news has just confirmed the united nations is reporting that the humanitarian crisis in iraq has reached the highest level on record. they call it a level three emergency. so what does that mean? it means this is on a firm path -- i want to read this exactly to you. the level three puts the humanitarian crisis in iraq at the same level as syria, south sudan and the central african republic. this new designation will help trigger additional aid and money to people on the run from the islamic fighters. tens of thousands of people are still trapped on the dry and lifeless mount sinjar. they have little water, no food and no shade to speak of, really, from the blistering desert sun. the justice department has announced its leading a broad review of police tactics. that's after an officer in a st. louis suburb shot and killed an often armed black teenager on

saturday. racial tensions are still very high in the city of ferguson. and more violence between cops and protesters overnight. police say an officer shot and critically wounded a man near a protest after he pulled a gun on the police officer. also last night, police reportedly fired tear gas in an attempt to break up large crowds. this all started with saturday as deadly shooting. and investigators are still trying to piece it all together. or that's what they tell us. as we reported the accounts from the st. louis county police and eyewitnesses are very different. the police claim that the officer got into some sort of scuffle with the 18-year-old named michael brown that ended in gunshot. the witnesses say at one point the teen's arms were up in the air in a sign of surrender that the policeman reportedly shot him in the head and chest as one witness put it, like an animal. friends and family said brown is not the type to start fights with anybody. in fact, had was supposed to starday and was

very much looking forward to it. we should note that police have not revealed the name or the race of the shooter. the police department says because of death threats that they've received. according to witnesses, the officer is white. there's another important angle here. the feds are now enforcing a no-fly zone over that city. they said that police asked for it to make airspace safer for police helicopters. that means for now, news choppers cannot report on the story from above that city. mike tobin live in the midwest news. good afternoon. it sounds like it's bad every night there, mike? >> that's usually the way it shapes up. to follow what you were saying about the no-fly zone, the primary reason for that, they feel the police chopper doesn't have to worry about any other aircraft as it's operating but police have told fox news that their chopper has come under fire during the course of these riots. as you mentioned at nightfall, the demonstrations become clashes. for the third straight night in a row, tear gas was fired into the crowd to disperse the crowd

of demonstrators. police officers, one police officer, did shoot a man in the early morning hours. the man now has critical wounds. through it all, more calls for calm. >> i need y'all to come together and do this right. the right way. >> yeah. >> the right way so we can get something done about this. >> no violence. >> no violence. hackers threaten to attack police computers if police clash with demonstrators. they chose the word hacked. they confirm, police computers have been hacked. criminal charges are filed? >> criminal charges have been filed. this is what we saw on sunday night, some on a subsequent night. the charges red to the looting of three different stores. keep in mind about a dozen stores were vandalized, looted, ransacked during the rampages on sunday night.

in addition, i should point out that gun sales, local gun sales have spiked. the manager of midamerica arms said gun sales doubled yesterday. ammunition sales are way above average. shep, mike tobin live in the midwest news in chicago. thank you. folks in the northeast got slammed last night, the rain was incredible. some areas got more rain in one night than in an entire summer. islip, in long island, the most it's recorded any day. 7 inches. last night, 11 inches. between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., 5 inches of rain. long island is soaked. and we'll take you there for the information at the fox weather center.

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cease fire in israel broken, but who broke it? we have just learned that the spokesman for hamas in gaza says hamas is not to blame for the rockets fired minutes ago into israel. it's important to note, analysts say splinter groups operating in the gaza strip are really just parts of hamas, but by a different name, not under an organized structure such as it is in hamas. three rockets from the gaza strip did come into israel. this was about four hours before the temporary truce was set to expire. so the truce fire is broken. the question is, who broke it? now to long island new york, heavy rains forcing folks on long island and across the country really into a serious situation, forecasters say some parts of long island got more than a foot of rain overnight. more than those areas normally get in the entire summer. look at this slide show up here,

flash flood, this was last evening and this morning. this was this morning actually. this looks like the southern state freeway here. local media report firefighters rescuing people by boat. officials here forced to close roads around long island and the ones that were open had bumper to bumper traffic during the commute. islip, rhode island got 11 inches, i was wrong, it got 13. this was not just on long island. these pictures coming out of phoenix where just a few drops of rain cause flooding. firefighters said that conditions were so rough in some areas that even the fire trucks got stuck. and you can see a rescuer here rescuing a woman from her car during a flood.

so from phoenix to long island. >> this broke the all-time rainiest day anywhere in new york state, this storm. it gives you an idea, think about all the tropical storms we had across new england and in towards new york and this storm nowhere near this, you just said islip, 13.27 inches, down towards baltimore, not just new york, but baltimore, from the same storm, six inches. this is just what we call training, you get a few lines of storms that go right across the same spot. and that's what broke the new york state 24-hour rainfall record. most of it is gone, a lot more hills up in this area, and that rain funnels into those hills and causing flash flooding, the burk shires, and worcester

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