and as you may know, in march of 1955 a 15-year-old by the name of claudette colvin refuses to give up her seat on the bus. maybe this will be the case, the community begins to galvanize. the judge throws out the segregation charge in claudette colvin's case, and second, the community doesn't fully stand behind colvin. they see her as two too young, too feisty. so when i say it's not planned, rosa parks is not a freedom rider, she doesn't get on the bus to make a stand, but it also is not spontaneous, it doesn't come out of nowhere. rosa parentings had made -- parks had made stands on the bus before december 1, 1955. one of the things that galled her was many bus drivers would make black people pay in the front and get off the bus and reboard in the back. she refused to do that. and she'd been thrown off the bus by both this bus driver, cho will have her arrested, and other bus drivers who considered her uppity for not being willing to do that. so this is not her first act of bus -- [inaudible] but on december 1, 1955, she's coming home from work about 6:00 at night. she actually let t

more importantly claudette prevailed. she gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl.udette has a monday profit called miracle baby that helps women deal with the emotional scars of miscarriages. her marriage to her childhood friend did not last. they came to a work in a row and ended their 27-year marriage. they remain a respectful friendship that began during their childhood. looking at pictures of her past is like looking at history of motown's rise to success. she was there to witness the beginning stages of others who emerged as stars. >> there are a lot of talented people. but then there are people that i call superstars. i would have to say smokey is one of those. >> stevie wonder? >> oh, boy, he played many instruments. there were times you would think is stevie really blind? i have a picture of stevie and bobby and i. he was my cousin. we were helping him ride a bicycle. >> the temptations. >> the dancers of light. they were number one as far as our routines and the choreography that they had. ♪ >> marvin gaye. >> genius talent. handsome. loved by all the wome

you have to go back to 1979 with hurricane claudette dropping 29 inches.n southern texas. and hurricane allison dropped 37 inches. now south carolina indirectly related to joaquin. upwards of 2 feet in recent days. you put the models, the observed rainfall totals, about a 60--mile stretch of land from the coast to the capital where we saw a 10 to 20 inch corridor of rainfall. mind boggling. you do the math, about 4 trillion gallons of water came down across the state of south carolina. in some places, historic when you talk about a one in 500 event year. that every year, you have a one in 1,000 chance of this occurring. you take a look. here goes joaquin. the moisture drawn in. another upward level disturbance parked in place. the rainfall could pick up on the order of 1 to 2 inches in the next 24 hours. rain gauge or flood gauge up to 17 feet shattering a nine-foot record previously set. when this occurred, it broke the gauge and floated downstream. incredible across columbia. >> just incredible and still going on. pedram javaheri, thanks. >>> 35 minutes

and july gave us claudette. the first hurricane of the season was danny on august 19th. danny was a category 3. it brought winds of about 115 miles per hour to the windward islands. just a day after danny, hurricane fred was born off the coast of south africa. number four, tropical storm grace, henry and ida bring us up to date with hurricane joaquin. here's the latest on the track of joaquin which right now is the strongest storm of the season. the nbc washington app will be your best friend in keeping you up to date with the latest weather. veronica johnson will report live today from ocean city on the storm's impact. >>> it's rainy, windy and chilly today. temperatures in the low to mid 50s. the greatest time period where we could be seeing the biggest potential for flash flooding is from 3:00 p.m. this afternoon until 3:00 a.m. saturday morning. heavy rains likely at times as we head into the afternoon hours. this will likely lead to some areas of flash flooding, flooding on area creeks and streams. a low to moderate risk that we are dealing with isolated storm damag

you have to peel back the data and bring in claudette and it brought in 45 inches of rain.l rain tropical storm allison with 37 inches of rainfall. this thevent is related to joaquin. 24 inches of rain. the mind boggling amount of water. you see charleston located by the coast and work to the state capital and into areas around columbia. a 60-mile stretch with 10 inches of rainfall out to the capital. 1 in a 500 year event. you take a look. here goes joaquin in place across the bahamas and as it pulled way, you see moisture. and it drew moisture from joaquin to this region. you look at the flood gauge points. we knew the previous flood gauge in columbia was 9.4 feet. we had an observation of 17 feet. the water was so high, it broke off. we don't know how much higher it got. you talk about a foot of water moving downstream, it has 500 pounds of lateral force behind it. incredible. you take a moving box, a one yard by one yard. you have 1,700 pounds of weight if you fill it with water. you put a couple of these down on the road, it could easily move a vehicle. >> this is very

claudette put down 45 inches in texas. allison put down 37 inches in houston. here we go for this storm, 24 inches. so, not a new record-breaker for anywhere in the world, but certainly a big record-maker here for anyone who has ever lived in south carolina since it has been a state. obviously, something may have happened in the year 4. we don't know about that. that's certainly a possibility. 21 inches in atlanta with their historic flood. 20 in nashville with that historic flood. yes, nick said it's still raining. i don't believe we're going to get a lot of rain here in south carolina. it's moved up to north carolina. but the water is just still running off. guys? >> the rain ends and the danger, it is definitely not over. chad's on it. thanks. >>> more news breaking this morning. the u.s. coast guard says it's searching for 33 people miss-a board a missing cargo ship, but the coast guard believes the ship itself has sunk. the "el faro" went missing off the coast of florida in the middle of hurricane joaquin. there's been no contact with the ship since then.

brown offers a new opportunity and as you may know in march of 1955 of 15-year-old by the name of claudette colvin refuses to give seat on the bus. at first it seems like this would be the case against -- the judge throws out the segregation charge and her case in the community doesn't stand behind colvin and they see her as too young so when i say it's not planned, rosa parks is not a freedom rider. she doesn't get on the bus to make a stand but it's also not spontaneous. it doesn't just come out of nowhere. rosa parks had also made stance on the bus before december 1, 1955. one of the things that called her was many bus drivers would make black people pay in the front and then get off the bus and report on the back. she refused to do that and she had been thrown off the bus by this esther brimmer would have her arrested another bus drivers who considered her uppity for not being willing to do that. this is not her first active bus boycott that she's coming home from work at 6:00 at night. she lets the bus pass by because it's too crowded and goes to the drugstore and buy to do things boar