atlanta, chad myers at the cnn weather center. he's the cnn weather anchor and severe weather expert at all. chad, is it ain't what we thunk? >> it isn't the category 4 it was yesterday. this was a 145-mile-per-hour little monster in the southern part here of the atlantic. the good news is, it has fallen apart a little bit. the biggest thing, follow my finger here, this is what the storm has done in the past hour or so. turned to the right. away from right there. that's cape hatteras. that right there, that's rob marciano. the more it turns away, the further it gets away from cape hatteras, the less damage it will do. if this thing literally would have waited five more hours before it turned, it would be over here. and it would be making direct landfall in north carolina. five hours. that's it. that's all we basically lucked out by with this storm. it's big. it's 110 miles per hour. it's not category 3 anymore. it's not category 4. it's still a very big storm. it may even make a run at nantucket, at cape cod, 85 miles per hour. tha

let's bring in chad myers. chad, this is pretty bad right now. >> it is. 60 counties with something out of its banks. a river, a creek, a stream, something. that's why all of these -- this is minneapolis. as far west as yankten, south dakota. the town we're talking about here is portage wisconsin. there are two levees. one very old one, 120 years old. it's made of sand and wood. made by farmers 120 years ago to keep the wisconsin river in its banks and out of the farmland down here. well, right around here, right there, in an area named blackhawk, because there is a blackhawk road there, the water is going under the levee, bubbling through the sand and water is coming out the other side and the dnr, department of natural resources, really afraid this thing is going to break. some pictures from portage earlier today had the water all the way up to that levee. we're talking right to the top. sandbaggers are out, trying to hold this back. but what happens -- and it's called a boil. when you get water to push under a levee, doesn't matter how high the levee is

i'm tj holmes sitting in for ali velshi today, and joined by chad myers. we have a storm. carl, we thought this was going to -- it got a little weak, but this is starting to pick up some steam once benefit. >> yes, and now it's on shore so it's going to lose steam, that's what happens when it blows dry air here. this is all desert, basically, mexico. but here is the scary part, right there is the city of veracruz, under the southern part of the eyewall. now, i know we always talk about this part of the eyewall coming on shore, blowing storm surge into -- this will have storm surge at 20 or 30 feet. the great yus is, not very many people live right there, but there are going to be winds through veracruz and dlu boeka dell rio, meaning mouth of the river. this is my google map of this town itself, the eyewall is up here, but the winds are blowing in this town of veracruz, 711,000 people, plus another couple 100,000 down into boca del rio, and tearing this city apart right now. this thing -- this storm karl, made a slight jog to the left where it should have been up here anot

bring in chad myers to scope occupy the terrain. what's it look like. >> oaxaca, the southern most state in mexico, santa maria, a very rugged area from the way to, let's say, oaxaca, down to keft con deceit oh and the dirt here. not a very solid piece of land mass. so when it rains like it has rained, because of what was matthew. there you go. tropical depression matthew. what we're talking about. where the rain has been so very heavy. raining still today. maybe another inch or two. they can't get to some of the spots because of the mud spots. along the roads, smaller slides that didn't bury anyone. they're fearing in this landslide. this is oaxaca, there could be 1,000 people still to be found here before it's all done. one more thing i want to get you before we get to the next hour, clearly we'll get to this in the 2:00 hour. a new tropical storm warning issued for south florida. that's west palm, ft. lauderdale, all the keys, for a storm that doesn't even have a name yet, but it will be nicole tonight. it will be gone tomorrow n

the meteorologist still known as chad myers keeping track of all this.>> tremendous amounts of rain. wilmington, north carolina, over the last five days, 20 inches of rainfall. literally. 10 inches in the past 24 hours in some spots. and the rainfall continues. i can move this around, but here's north carolina. obviously you see the cape hatteras area dry there. wilmington and morehead city and all the way up into d.c., people didn't go to work in new york city today because of all -- even in washington, d.c., because of all the rainfall that's been coming down here with this system. all the way down to florida. the problem with this, t.j., is this. we look at all the precip that's coming down here right now in this light color. then look to the south. i know nicole is gone, but, boy, this thing really has blown itself back up again. they're calling it not nicole. they're calling it just tropical moisture or a new low pressure center. that's going to run right up over the top of these areas that have picked up so much rainfall already. everywhere that yo

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let's get advice on what's going on there from chad myers.ot over yet though, is it? >> overnight, it was sliding east and still sliding now. this was a milwaukee event. this was rochester, minnesota. the line of weather here, all these green counties are not flood warnings so much as the water is up. it was three feet lower an hour ago. these literally, every single county you see in that bright green, those are flood rivers out of their banks. rivers that are somewhere above flood stage. i didn't count them, but there must be 70. 70 counties with a river or more and lot of times more, out of their banks. that all happened when a storm system refused to move. it just sat there. the front sat in one spot and the rain happened all night long. and this could happen again tonight and into tomorrow, but for a different part of the world. for this. tropical storm matthew. this is really concerning for honduras, even maybe el salvador and nicaragua. it's only a 50-mile storm. this is insignificant at 50 miles per hour. why is this going to be so da

check in with chad myers. igor, category 4 and julia is starting to make noise.tion? >> absolutely. looks like the bottom of the world. doesn't it? >> it. >> does like it's in antarctica. no up and down in space. all three dimensional, right? my son wants to know, the people in china, how do they stay on the world because they should be upside-down, wouldn't they fall off? >> oh, you're only 5. i got to figure that one out. hold on. get that in a little bit. igor, category 4, 135 miles per hour. what a storm. it was 150 yesterday. i don't know how you tell the difference, other than the tops were more purple. the purple is coming back in. maybe 135 will be upgraded to 140, 145 later on. what you might know. the most important thing. draw a line as much as i can east to west. notice how it's come off that east to west line. it finally made that wobble to the north, that turn we wait for. it's going to turn, going to turn, going to turn. you go, really, really, really? finely it did. the problem is, can't see it. under that, too, is bermuda. literally under the 2,

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chad myers checking that.essure already there and apparently building even as the rain has stopped. >> we talked about the rain over the weekend. they didn't get any. okay, some, but not the flooding rainfall. this rainfall affecting the levee fell upstream. why we always say, you better know where you are on a river if water falls upstream, because that water la to eventually get down into the gulf of mexico or up north, east or west, somewhere. it la to get to a lower level. this was lower than where the rain wall came in. here's portage. what the river looks like. wisconsin river crested at least for now. we believe that happened because the levee broke. now, not the portage levee. on the north side of the river, that would be affecting portage itself. but the southern levee on the south side of the river, maybe some good news for the residents of portage, because of a little bit of release of water, releasing pressure on the northern levee. we're going to find out right from the mayor. mayor ken john with

right now, let's get to chad myers. >> karl, hurricane karl. >> might intensify gens?off the coast of yucatan for like an hour and it was a hurricane again. never lost that much intensity over the yucatan. kind of wet, so when it rained, it was still hot. when that happened, comes across flat land, we think about hurricanes getting dead, but they didn't. didn't die. went down to a tropical storm, but then category 1, then 2 by the time it makes landfall on friday then ends up close to mexico city and that could be a problem. that big ball at 8,000 feet in the sky, that could be a problem. you can you could get significant flooting there. we will watch that. look at this. still, igor, the amount of energy that this thing has now expended is amazing. still 140 miles per hour. not hitting anything. making gigantic waves out there. i would suspect now, the leeward islands through the british virgin islands, probably seeing just tremendous waves here and the waves are in the water and they are propagating toward the u.s. so later on this week and into this weekend, we'll pr

thank you very much for that, chad myers. >>> criminals in mexico exploiting young women and girls and and prostitution, preying on young women and girls, and then forcing them into the sex trade in the united states. cnn's raphael romo shows us one alleged plot and one teenager's shocking story. >> reporter: he is a 36-year-old mexican national, charged with involvement in a prostitution ring based in the atlanta area that victimized women and girls smuggleded from mexico, some as young as 14. >> they were brought in with a romantic promise, with job promises, young girls from a certain state of mexico of the. brought up, smuggled in, immediately forced into prostitution. >> reporter: immigration and can you say to hims enforcement agent says four members of the family were involved in the prostitution ring. this 27-year-old who has admitted to providing false information, drove victims to several secret locations in the atlanta area, forcing them to see multiple clients per day. they were kept locked up in several houses. >> the houses had bars on the windows. locks on the outside of

chad myers is the name of our meteorologist, though.f a mess. >> all the tropical storm warnings, real ones, other than just for a little bit of breeze, gone for the florida keys for florida. i still think we'll see significant rainfall across florida. for the most part, southern florida can take an awful lot of rain. it gets flat, water coming up a little bit, but five or six inches of rain in the streets doesn't cause widespread flooding across the everglades, because nobody's living there. this whole thing spinning out of the caribbean and on up into the straits of florida. the florida straits are very, very warm. warm water is going to be the key to whether this thing can develop anymore or not. coming off the coast of cuba, north of havana, almost see spin. 40 miles per hour. not a hurricane. the problem the track, pushing moisture up into the carolinas. kind of a line of weather here. to the east of wilmington, up towards the sound and into the, eventually towards cape hatteras where the heaviest rain will be causing flooding. tha