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we have cnn's chad myers. >> it is heading to the northeast. 84 million people in the way of the systemght now. 21 reports of tornadoes on the ground over the weekend. over 3/4 of a million lightning strikes hit the ground over the weekend. i was in indiana and saw half of those. a lot of lightning. a lot of rainfall. over 6 inches in spots. 24 rivers going record flood stage over the next few days. a lot of water into the mississippi. cape grand juirardo may crest. there is so much weather running down the rivers to the gulf of mexico. there is the map for today. new york city is involved in the area of severe weather. although i think as you move ahead, you notice it will be after dark tonight. most of the severe weather in the afternoon will be through the carolinas and pennsylvania and west virginia. chris. >> it keeps going back and forth. chad, thank you. >>> coming up on "new day" take a listen. >> pretty smart cookie. >> he is talking about kim jong un. why does the president seemingly say positive things about authoritarian leaders like kim jong un and vladimir putin and dutert

let's get to meteorologist chad myers. >> alisyn, not as severe today as yesterday.tainly the potential for a lot of rainfall in new york city. a train day as we say in new york. don't try to get in a cab. it will be a slow commute today. this weather is brought to you by purina. your pet, our passion. the rain from boston to new york to d.c. it will be dry in d.c. and richmond and baltimore before it dries up in new york. the rain continues across dubois and pennsylvania and into buffalo. just south of town. those spots are getting hammered with rainfall. 2 to 3 inches of rain in the rugged areas. watch out for flash flooding. it stays cool. in the 60s and 70s. how about that? 61, 74, 73 and 76. good weather. although the rain showers keep it cloudy. alisyn. >> chad, thank you very much for the forecast. >>> president trump is in brussels heading to the first nato summit. at this hour, he is at the working lunch with the french president macron. you remember, president trump called nato obsolete on the campaign trail. now it is not. an official tells cnn that sean s

chad myers has your forecast. as you know all too well. have a problem when the water comes, and you have a bigger problem when it leaves. >> absolutely, sure, because you have a lot of clean up after that. this could be a billion dollar disaster. just to give you an idea of how many counties here are under a flash flood watch or a warning all the way from detroit back down to st. louis. everywhere you see red there was six inches of rain in the past week. there are some spots purple. that's two months of rain in a week and you can't take that anywhere. it is going to be flood. there will be showers and flood on friday. it should be dry for the derby. we're not going to expect that much more rainful in that area. north of there, yes. but the damage is there are done. there is already so much water on the ground, it just has to run off. a nice, pleasant, clean weekend for you in the northeast. >> thank you very much. on a much lighter note, i think it is safe to say that president trump is a fan of donald trump. we look at why the president

cnn meteorologist chad myers has the forecast. >> alisyn, it will be a rain in days in the country.his weather is brought to you by xyzal. we will see significant rainfall in places that already have rivers to the record or major levels around record flooding from arkansas to missouri all the way back down into louisiana. by 1:00, raining from little rock to missouri and up to st. louis. the mississippi and missouri are right at the record level or close to that major flood level. new flash flood warnings this morning already because of the new rain coming down and the potential for tornadoes, potential for flooding and also for wind damage across louisiana today. chris. >>> appreciate it. thank you, chad. the family of alton sterling reacting to media reports that the baton rouge police officers who shot and killed him will not face federal charges. state charges still pending. the family is angry the justice department did not notify them before it happened. cnn's nick valencia joins us from baton rouge, louisiana. good morning, nick. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning, ch

let's get to meteorologist chad myers tracking the latest forecast for us. >> alisyn, that could have birmingham, alabama. storms going up so fast and heading that way. this weather is brought to you by purina, your pet, our passion. another day of potential severe weather but this time just toward the northeast. into new york and pennsylvania, dubois and williamsburg and williamsport, up even into parts of northeast new york. we will watch the storms as they move into the northeast today. reeling across parts of the turnpike in pennsylvania and on up into the adirondacks and catskills for most of the day. as the nighttime comes in, we could even get storms down to philadelphia, d.c., and, yes, even you new york city. you could see storms today. in between raindrops temperatures are nice, 60s and 70s. normal weather across northeast and southeast today. chris. >> all right. thank you very much, chad. appreciate it. want to show you this. a very ugly scene as one of baseball's biggest stars threw punches after getting hit by a pitch. coy wire has more in the bleacher report. the big qu

cnn meteorologist chad myers, what do you see?> chris, two to four inches of rain on top of places already flooded. there you go. here it comes. weather brought to you by purina, your pet, our passion. rain across the country relentless arkansas through missouri, indiana, illinois. it has just come down in buckets. six to eight inches on the ground already running off and more weather coming your way. now, to the northeast, we'll see rain in boston this morning. some clouds in new york. maybe a slowdown attila guard. other than that pretty good across the northeast. there is the next storm system there. it's going to run right across the same places that had all of the rain already. we're going to see two to four inches on top of those flooded rivers and streams and back up even if they were going down, they are coming back up again this week. alisyn, a dangerous situation out there flooding one of the biggest killers in the world. >> keeping an eye on it for us. thank you very much for that reminder. president trump is making ove