chad meyers standing by. chad shall getting better or worse. >> depends on where you are, john. getting worse for people in the south side of baltimore. right here, to the south of town, a tornado warning. that storm has been on the ground with that warning since buoy, maryland. at least 20 miles have seen a little bit of damage with the cell. here is washington, d.c. the square right there. more weather from the west moving into d.c. you have had enough already. most of the problem we are going to have from now on i think in the weather will be flooding. now, we are going to start to get dark after 8:00 or so. you are going to be driving. >> along and you aren't going to realize that the road in front of you is blooded. here is booey. that is about new carlton. it went across there and a little bit of damage here and up towards severn and into baltimore proper. the southeastern and southwestern parts offer the city, you may be hearing the sirens now. that's because the storm is to your south moving up i-95, the bw parkway into your neighborhood, john. >> check on us throughout

cnn meteorologist chad meyers has the pictures and details. chad? can't believe the pictures you're seeing right here. this is galaway in new jersey, not that far from atlantic city. high school graduation in that area and this is what the graduates saw. that's what they would see if they were turning around and there they are on the lawn on the football field here. the people in view watching this what looked like a wall cloud, possibly a tornado. certainly a funnel coming out of that wall cloud for a while. as the storm came down from the northwest and blew up right over it, and look at that in the last couple of frames and that's where the storm was spinning and it was a super cell thunderstorm and that's where the funnel possibly came out of the storm itself. let's go through this video and frame by frame, and there's the funnel cloud, and the graduates not all that faze said, cheering along until the lightning was striking very close to the football field and all of a sudden people were panicking and literally you can hear them screaming there

i want to go in to bring in chad meyers to the cnn weather center to talk about it. chad, are we seeing any hopeful signs for these guys? >> well, it is good news and bad news and a chance of rain. that sounds like a fantastic thing, and for the old high park fire up near fort collins, it was a fantastic thing, and in fact, wednesday, there was a flash flood warning over the fire area and right now the high park fire is 85% contained, and that is the huge one, and that was 100,000 acres and 140 or so square miles and now it is 85% under control, and fantastic. but the same day, there was some rain that was in jen nesscessj n county, and that rain caused an outflow of the boundary and then all of the houses were engulfed in flames. so you want the rain, but right on top of the fire and not five miles or ten miles away, but right on top of the fire and then you have a chance of putting some containment with the natural causes here, and the chance of rain is 20% today and all of the way through the weekend. the temperatures are not over 100 like they were for a lot of th

chris, it is the first hurricane in the atlantic this season and chad meyers is watching it all for usthe last. chris is not impressive right now, but earlier a nice eye right there in the middle and 70 miles per hour probably now, and at the time it was 75 making it the first hurricane, hurricane chris. this thing is not all that impressive and it won't hit any land, but let me show you in a second what is more impressive than this. there it goes. it is going to make a loop and head back into the ocean and lose ground and speed really because there is not much warm water out here, and in fact, looking at the models, we like the show them to you, and look at how schizophrenic that thing is heading out to the middle of the atlantic and because it is cold out there, this storm has no chance of getting too big. but the problem is an awful lot of warm water in the gulf of mexico, and by this time on saturday we could be talking about debbie. let me tell you how impressive this is. the first hurricane of the season should be in august. the first named storm should be july 11th. we could hav

and let's bring in chad meyers who can tell us more about debby. it is weakening, right?>> yes. the winds are down to 45, but some of the things that john touched on are really, really important, because the ground s are so saturated that a 45 miles per hour wind can knock over the trees, but at is wet and the trees won't stand up well. more rain across big bend, and tampa to orlando and some of the storm storms, because of the entire is storm is spinning, some of the storms right now are also spinning, and you can get little tiny tornadoes, and not texas and kansas-sized tornado, but you don't need much. you see what that one did that was a waterspout that came on shore, because it knocked down a couple of big buildings where john was. this center is not a lot of convection around the center and not much to worry about with the storm, but john was talking a about could it reintensify, and absolu absolutely it could because the water is warm. some of the new track shows that three days for florida and another couple of days to the east. watch out for flooding and watch ou

chad meyers is here with more on that. does it mean that people should not go? be careful? what?me cabins will be permanently closed or moved. >> they are in the line of fire? >> if you have ever taken a look at yosemite, the walls and the faces of the walls of the cliffs of granite are almost straight up and down and greater than 60 degrees for sure, and parts of the wall will fall off once in a while, and it is what happens. rocks falls down, and water in between and freezes and breaks away and trees grow in between the cracks of the rock and the roots get better and eventually parts of the rocks fall down and people are down here in the bottom where the rocks are falling. so there was an assessment done, and put together in april, and now the assessment put out now for curry village, one of the areas there where a lot of the employees live there and dormitories and also people who rent the cabins will not be used anymore because of the potential rock falling. this is so cool. this is google earth, and we will take you right into the yosemite national park, and there is califor

let's bring in our meteorologist and severe weather expert, chad meyer with the latest.ld be headed that way? >> yeah. an underreported story, i think, we just didn't have very good pictures coming out of duluth, minnesota. everywhere you see in orange, pink or red, eight inches of rain in the past 48 hours. this is what eight inches of rain will do to any city or any countryside. look at these dreadful pictures. roads are gone. there are sink holes all over the city of duluth. there was a state of emergency for a while that said nobody get on the road unless you're going somewhere in an emergency. and so this is what we have up in duluth. it rained all monday into tuesday. finally stopped now. but it's the heat of the summer. we're finally in that summer pattern. showers will pop up all afternoon long today, tomorrow even into the weekend. and not like we're not going to see a lot of this runoff finally get into lake superior, but even one more inch of rain was not going to soak in. it's going to run off and make some othese rivers go back up. dramatic pictures, wolf. >

meteorologist, chad meyers is in the cnn severe weather center with more. hey, there, chad, of course, it is almost the fourth of july and it is supposed to be hot but not like this. >> exactly. the same bubble of air that was the heat bubble over the fire lines has shifltted to the east wechwe talked about how hot it was in colorado, plus the fire, plus the sun. we had heat indexes of 110, 111 up and down the coast. d.c., 111. 91 in new york. the heat will come up from the south. right now, 97, philadelphia. the heat all the way down to richmond, virginia, petersburg for a while south of richmond, 108. that is not a heat index. that's the thermometer. you have to understand, the thermometer is placed in a hotbox with shutters on outside so the wind can blow through. and, it is in the shade. all the numbers you see are in the shade. if you are working outside or standing with the dog or whatever, outside, it is going to be warmer than the numbers you see here. here is centennial olympic park in atlanta. you get yourself wet and start to evaporate and things

let's go to our severe weather expert chad my meyers. >> the humid air wants to rise. we have two tornado watch boxes. that means storm are possible and they could rotate. warnings mean they are rotating. so the watch boxes mean storms could happen anywhere from central philadelphia back over to state college all of the way down even to north carolina. we do have one, i would say the most significant storm close to d.c., just moved over quantico and it is now close to the potomac river and that's potomac heights and it may clip maryland and we don't have enough rotation on doppler to put that tornado warning on. probably rotating a loft. it's still raining in some spots here and our affiliate here, wjla is flying around and looking at flash flooding and zooming around a little bit, but there are creeks and streams going through that cattle gate and over roadways, turn around. don't drown. do not drive through rushing water especially after dark. you don't upon how deep that water might be. >> a little while ago, even bethesda, maryland, which is one of the subures righ