jacqui jeras you know how fans are for the opening weekend, but better safe than not, right?adiums evacuated to keep them safe. bummer for the football fans, but tomorrow is another day and we will get more great games in tomorrow. and we are tracking storms still at the house. we have a sliver of a severe thunderstorm watch including the detroit metro area, and you have been pounded in the last couple of hours with heavy rain and lots of lightning and strong gusting winds to go with it. this is the cold front driving the systems across the u.s. this is heading into the eastern great lakes by tomorrow, and could be having an impact on tropical storm lee. i know know a lot of you are going to be trying to get out there, but heavy rain across the great lakes and the gulf coast because of tropical storm lee. and because of the windy conditions the fire threat will increase again in texas, but if you are looking for a great police to enjoy the holiday weekend, go out west. and this front will bring in high temperatures and minneapolis only 68 degree and dallas really much better

jacqui jeras, thank you. say i had to astro for me. >> okay. >>> we'll get an update on tropical storm lee, where it's heading and jacqui will be back. >>> nearly ten years after september 11th, dramatic new video from pennsylvania shot on that horrific day. it's now, just now, coming out. we'll play it for you in its entirety, next. from neutrogena naturals. removes 99% of dirt and toxins without dyes, parabens, or harsh sulfates. so skin feels pure and healthy. [ female announcer ] new from neutrogena naturals. oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online... [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. great! did i mention no hands in the bundler? bundling and saving made easy. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> the alabama gulf coast is another area feeling the impact of tropical storm lee. meteorologist reynolds wolf live from gulf shores. reynolds we spoke to you last hour and the wind was startin

jacqui jeras tracking all of the developments on tropical storm lee. she joins us now with an update. what is the latest? >> it is not moving. that's the biggest problem. it is stationary. we're given this burst here of convection near the center. as long as it stays over open water, we could see this inte e intensi intensify. look at this video we just got in. this is from overnight in mississippi. you can see big waves and this boat that was just pushing up and slamming up against this pier and the people were trying to save that. i wouldn't recommend this. let the boat go, guys. it gives you an idea of how power -- how much power we have with this storm and how big the waves are. the waves are not the biggest threat here. this is a flood stoorm. and something we're going to be dealing with for days because it is just not moving and you can see that forecast track. look at this. this is tuesday morning. it is still here in alabama. it is not moving a lot. we're talking about potential for land fall later today. look at some of the forecast totals. we

jacqui jeras, thank you very much i appreciate it. >>> it's a very busy week as candidates court voters in key states like iowa and new hampshire. governor rick perry is trying to shore up the granite state, typically the first state to hold a primary. the texas governor attacked president obama's economic policies. >> when it comes to economic growth, i know that the answer is not forcing government stimulus, poured through some massive bureaucracy to a handful of hand picked industries to create temporary jobs. i know that's not the answer. mr. president, you cannot spend your way to prosperity. it doesn't work. it has never worked. i'm tired of liberals who only care about jobs, just to staff up more government programs. we want to free it up so that families can have more income so that families can live free. >>> also a potential -- sarah palin who took on president obama and republican presidential candidates during a tea party rally in iowa. peter hamby is there, palin has not announced her candidacy, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, isn't it a duck? >> she's t

jacqui jeras, thanks so much. we mentioned football as jacqui did.tornadoes that ripped through alabama a few months ago? it left many communities in shambles. next, how the university of alabama's football team is helping its hometown of tuscaloosa bounce back. in here, pets never get lost. ♪ in here, every continent fits in one room. it was fun, we played football outside. why are you sitting in the dark? ♪ [ male announcer ] in here, you're never away from home. it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. it's a lifetime. gone. we'll make it right, john. when the unthinkable happens, we're right there with you to help you get your life back on track. nationwide is on your side. >>> the university of alabama football team opened the season today with a victory over kent state. the game meant more than usual to the school and the town of tuscaloosa. it was the first since the tornado ripped through april 27th killing 50 people, including six students. as lars anderson reports, one player saw his life change foreve

jacqui jeras can hear me pap cool, wet labor day for a lot of people. right?, a bummer for a lot of people. while it might seem like a wimpy storm to some, there's a lot of threats we'll deal with and unfortunately we'll deal with this probably at least a good week. here's the latest on tropical storm lee. it's a weak tropical storm but a slow mover. so the flood threat is real. we've also seen a lot of water coming up in louisiana as well as in the mississippi. we've seen rainfall totals. as much as a foot in the last two days. so this is 45 mimeles per hour, it's going to stay moving slowly over the next couple of days. here's where we're expecting it to go. through mississippi by tomorrow. heading on up towards tennessee as we head into thursday. that gives you an idea how much think thing is creeping along. we are concerned about widespread flooding here. especially as this thing gets up into the appalachians. we could have a threat of mudslides. rainfall totals, very concentrated. where the worst of it will be. this purple, right and red area, talking a p

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new york is unusual. >> jacqui jeras called, didn't she? >> she tweeted.e wasn't responsible. you know, new york has a combination of like the weather pattern that moves in and then stuff that just happens because it's new york. there are days when it's not forecast to rain and it rains and then forecast to rain and it doesn't. >> can you just send her flowers? >> nuthing to do with the wonderful weather forecasters and meteorologists we use, it's just us. >> are we going to jackie? >>> with the conrad murray trial starting, you'll hear a lot about propofol. our dr. sanjay gupta takes us inside the o.r. to demonstrate just how quickly this drug works. >> so, we are here inside the operating room with the chief of an theseiology here. propofol is a medication all the time. >> milk of amnesia they call it. >> milk of amnesia. you okay? we have to monitor his breathing and see his saturation and make sure he's ventilating. >> that's all typical stuff. >> that's standard of care, yes. >> okay. so the propofol. >> you're going to get a little sleepy, vincent. g

. >>> and speaking of apple, talking the kind you eat, i don't know, our jacqui jeras says today may to actually go apple picking. she did. she's got details next. ♪ don't you cry ♪ soon the sun ♪ is going to shine ♪ [ male announcer ] toyota presents the prius family. ♪ walk if i want, talk if i want ♪ [ male announcer ] there's the original one... the bigger one... the smaller one... and the one that plugs in. they're all a little different, just like us. >>> guess what? it is beautiful. almost like summer like even though it's supposed to be fall in most places. jacqui and her family got out and enjoyed the weather today. went apple picking. >> we had a great time. awesome. this time of the year i love it, get the wine saps or the macintosh, make pies or apple crisp. >> you have serious baking to do now. >> absolutely. that's what i'll be doing the rest of the week. >> okay. in between letting us know all the other good things and not so good things happening weather wise. >> almost warm to bake. like 85 degrees right now. beautiful up and down the east coast but it does feel very

want to bring in jacqui jeras in the cnn weather center. a lot going on.e have been hearing that it's a rain machine. in texas, some fires and a tornado as well. >> yeah. a lot going on with the storm. let's start with the threat of fire. this has been breaking throughout the day. we look at lee on radar and say there is so much moisture. it's moving so slow. we have a strong intense area of high pressure in the midwest pummelling into the plains states. with the extreme conditions, the drought that's ongoing we have had at least six wildfires which have broken out within a couple of hours this afternoon they have gotten out of control because the winds are so strong here. we are talking about sustained winds. we have a couple of locators. sustained winds of 17 miles per hour near austin, but the gusts have been going up to 40 miles per hour. what you're seeing here on the doppler radar is actually smoke and ash that's being picked up on doppler radar moving across i-10. i understand it's been closed this evening in both directions. so the winds will conti

meteorologist jacqui jeras joins us from the severe weather center. we're hoping for good news. need to dry out there in the northeast, jacqui. >> they really do. most of the rivers have crested and are receding. that's the glass half-full scenario. but unfortunately they're still in flood which means there's still water all over the place. lots of roads are still shut down and they're not going to go back within their banks until monday and tuesday for many of them. so flood warnings remain in effect for about half a dozen states. there is rain in the forecast. we've been seeing spotty showers coming in east to west. we have a frontal boundary here and seeing light rain showers. the rainfall totals are going to stay pretty minimal, maybe under an inch for everybody over the next 24 to 48 hours. that rainfall is taken into account in those flood forecasts that we still expect that not to be enough to make the rivers go back up. this is still affecting, believe it or not, what's happening in texas. on the backside of the high, we're bringing in the dry, gusty winds. very dry in t

up to d.c., new york, boston, everybody in the east going to get in on that. >> thanks a lot, jacqui jeras. >> sorry. >>> president obama heads to an area still trying to recover from hurricane irene. and mr. obama's message to overwhelmed residents is next. >>> this may be the biggest public anti-government protest in israel's history. the issues, the anger, the demands. we'll have all the details, next. ♪ [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over. that's how it is with alzheimer's disease. she needs help from me. and her medication. the exelon patch -- it releases medication continuously for twenty-four hours. she uses one exelon patch daily for the treatment of mild to moderate alzheimer's symptoms. [ female announcer ] it cannot change the course of the disease. hospitalization and rarely death have been reported in patients who wore more than one patch at a time. the most common side effects of exelon patch are nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. the likelihood and severity of these side effects

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. >>> let's check in with jacqui jeras. this is one of the last weekends, the last weekend of summer and feeling like it because it's very cool. >> very refreshing. it's football weather if i saw football weather today is that day. >> lots of football games this weekend. >> got to loyalist. gorgeous. cooler than normal. we're cooler than we should be for this time the year by a good margin for some people too. fall equinox takes place on friday. meteorologically when we take records, fall starts september 21st. i love fall weather. temperatures ten to 15 degrees below average for parts of the midwest. and then also the mid-atlantic states and down here into the carolinas everybody else in this blue swath looking for temperatures about five to ten degrees below normal. we body out in terms of how cold it will be with this area of high pressure that brought in this nice taste of fall. we'll gradually warm thing up through the rest of the weekend and continuing next week. enjoy your 61 in minneapolis. 65 in kansas city. 62 in

jacqui jeras is here to update us. what do you have?ns being confirmed. cleveland, mississippi. had a tornado touch down about an hour ago. we're getting word the walmart and sears sustained some significant damage there and also that there was some damage to a subdivision. we don't have any word on any injuries at this point. we're continuing to work that story. cleveland, by the way is northwest of the greenville area over here towards the delta. you can see a tornado watch remains in effect until 10:00 local time tonight. that's until the top of the hour. but i'm also concerned here for greenville because there some are very nasty storms moving through there. they are moving over the same area so we get real concerned about flooding. >> so be very careful and take shelter. so what about tomorrow's commute tonight? >> yeah, we've got a lot of trouble areas out there for tomorrow. and you know, a couple of big weather stories we'll be watching in the week ahead overall. first of all, this area of low pressure across the great lakes. wa

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it's going to change. >> thank you, jacqui jeras.segment, no talking points. it's where we hold newsmakers accountable to answer tough questions without rhetoric and spin. tonight the president and the congressional black caucus. first the president hammering one theme since he introduced his jobs bill 2 1/2 weeks ago. >> you should pass this jobs plan right away. pass this jobs bill. pass this jobs bill. you should pass it right away. pass this bill. pass this jobs bill. >> and he did it again with feeling last night at a congressional black caucus dinner in washington. >> pass this jobs bill and every small business owner in america, including 100,000 black-owned businesses will get a tax cut. you say you are the party of tax cuts. pass this jobs bill. >> the president had to be stern. he was speaking to an audience who represents the 16.7% of unemployed african-americans in this country. so before mr. obama spoke, my question to congresswoman sheila jackson lee, a cbc member herself, was a simple one. when it comes to black unempl

jacqui jeras is with us. >> a nasty fire up there. a little better today as they do have a chance of rain. check out this satellite. impressive looking from space. this will show you that fire in minnesota. the red you see in the corner there, that's the heat signature, and then you can see the big plume of smoke. some is actually cloudiness, believe it or not. pyro-cum pyro-cumulo cumulus clouds. add that word at the water cooler today. incredible pictures for you this morning. showers possible with a cold front moving through, also bringing in drier air behind it, but cooler. that's the big story across the country today is this cold front. it's going to make its way all the way down to the gulf coast by late tomorrow and across the east coast. so everybody, really, east of the rockies getting in on a nice break for you. at least in terms of temperature. highs today only in the 50s for the upper midwest. 67 in chicago. still hanging on to those triple digits across parts of the south, but only for one more day. frost and freeze advi

. >>> jacqui jeras is here in the weather center now. theast flooding has been significance and it's not quite over, is it? >> it's not. john mentioned the rivers are receding and they have crested. but we still have a lot of high water that you could see him standing in there. we still have a couple of days before those rivers are back below flood stage. on top of that, a weak system is going to bring additional showers. we also have some dry, windy conditions in parts of texas. those two things working together. more wet for the wet, more dry for the dry. let's talk more specifically about the wet. flood warnings are in place across about half a dozen states. rivers will be below flood stage on monday. into tuesday, the additional rainfall is in that forecast. so it's accounted for. so this is still what we're expecting despite maybe an additional inch of rain pblly in some of those areas. as we look long term, that's our big concern. in the upcoming months, very little rain is in the forecast for texas. you've heard us talk about la ni

jacqui jeras is here. the security issues we mentioned, will they affect travel at all? tomorrow. if there is a major security breach there will be a problem. hopefully not much more than inconvenient for you. maybe 10, 15 minutes because of extra security. this is at airports, train stations and subway systems. in new york city in particular they are doing an increase of baggage checks at all the areas. additional officers are patrolling. they will be working extra hours. canine teams have been deployed. they are doing checks at tunnels and bridges but expect a gradual decrease in the upcoming days. this has been going on since september 1. they say it won't be a big drop off tomorrow. what can you do? arrive early, be on alert. if you see anything suspicious, report it to authorities right away. let's get to tomorrow's commute tonight. number five, los angeles going to see fog delays there. number four, d.c. and baltimore, showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. windy in minneapolis. arrival and delays at the airport. number 2, new york city, fog as well as issues

let's check in with jacqui jeras.and sunny behind john, but you're going to tell me there's more rain threatening people in the northeast? >> well, there is more rain. but probably not enough to make it get much worse than it is. you know, the forecast account for the rainfall. and quite frankly, all the rivers are starting to recede. that doesn't mean the problem is over just because the river is receding, it's still out of its banks. so places like binghamton, wilkes-barre, they're not going to get below flood stage until monday and tuesday respectively. we still have several days to go with a lot of water. and as john mentioned, it's dirty and nasty, and we have half dozen states still dealing with this, and there are still a lot of roads that are closed and roads that have been compromised. and it's going to be a while before it's back to normal. now the rainfall is out there, very light, high pressure to the north, low pressure to the south. so it's coming in from east towards the west. and it's very light. total

jacqui jeras from the weather center. >> mid section of the country could see severe thunderstorms overt couple of hours. i want to show you amazing video if you haven't seen it yet from one of our ireporters from ocean city, maryland, on thursday. take a look at that. that's a tornado. it was actually a water spout. when it makes its way to shore we call it what? a tornado. this is viktor tsventanov. he said it was amazing to see it in front of him. no one was hurt. there was minor damage and the power went out in the area. we hope we don't catch more pictures like that today. let's show you where the threat of severe weather is. you can see the red box. that's a tornado watch which means conditions are favorable for tornadoes to develop. south of there a severe thunderstorm watch. the good thing is we are getting rain. we're getting rain in texas, believe it or not. it's nice to see it happening around austin, san antonio. we do have to be cautious and watch for some of the lightning strikes which may be out there to go with it. our other weather headline today, is it gorgeous outside

let's go to jacqui jeras in the cnn weather center for the latest. jacqui, it is still slow moving?is a little faster than yesterday. that's a little progress. but we're waiting for it to get caught up, progress a little more. unfortunately, it is a washout of a weekend for so many people across the southeast. not going to the beach. tornado watches in effect and flood threat will remain here all throughout the weekend. that cold front you were talking about, susan, is up here, across the great lakes, moving into the northeast. severe thunderstorm watches in effect. as that moves in, that will basically impact everybody else up and down the eastern seaboard. we already have big time trouble at some of the airports. we have ground stops at baltimore and reagan national and washington, d.c. delays in newark now, as well as jfk. tomorrow as you look at the map with lee and that front, it's basically going to be wet up and down the eastern seaboard. even if not raining at your house, you will have low clouds and that complicates things with the approach. things are great out west. those

jacqui jeras is in looking at that. you had a new advisory come in a minute ago, right? >> yeah. still holding status quo in terms of intensity but it is still offshore. so we're looking at 60-mile-per-hour maximum sustained winds with heavy downpours. ed was talking about how the rain wasn't too bad in new orleans, the worst of it will be to the east of there. we're talking about lower mississippi, mobile, apalachicola on west where the i-10 route is nasty right now and that red box. that's the threat of tornadoes. we have multiple warnings going on at this hour. they generally are weak tornadoes but can cause damage. you need to take them seriously. if your sirens are going off or your county is highlighted here, take cover right now. we have a cold front pulling on through. that will change conditions there. and we'll continue to track this storm that it is such a slow mover. >> thank you very much. we want to take you to iowa and a live event going on right now. sarah palin taking the stage at a tea party rally in iowa. let's listen in. >> thank you, iowa. thank you so much.

jacqui jeras is swroining me now where the cooler temperatures are all over the country. know i don't like it, right? >> i know you don't and it make mess sad because i love it. it is my favorite time of the year. i'm going to get you on the fall train. you will love it within a month. apples, pumpkins, cider. it's all good, sweaters, boots. >> especially the cider. >> you got the argyle socks out, right? that is a fall-kind of thing. we have some rain happening at this hour. some of the thunderstorms are reaching severe levels. we are expecting to see possibly some hail, damaging winds associated along with downpours. a bit of good news across texas. any kind of rain we want to see that we have to watch for lightning strikes and these watch withes in effect until 11: 11:00 a.m. local time. there is some airport delays at chicago o'hare. two hours and 15 minutes now. it takes a little longer to shoot that instrument approach and line the planes up farther apart so they can land safely when you have the cloud cover. here's the cool temperatures. it is 61 in minneapolis, as

we go to jacqui jeras in the weather center for the latest on tropical storm lee. >> we're going to waitcond on lee because we have some weather information we just got in to cia. that notre dame stadium is being evacuated. this is where we're talking about in northern parts of indiana. there are severe storms here that have a history of producing 60-plus-mile-per-hour winds in addition to hail. so they're evacuating the stadium right now, get everybody out of there, game delay to help keep those people safe. so great move on the part of officials and authorities there. if you remember, it was just three weeks ago today in indianapolis where the stage collapsed during the sugar land concert and three people died there. i'm not sure if that's being taken into account at all in this situation. it's great to see that they're evacuating the situation right now as these storms are approaching from the west. you can see there's a severe thunderstorm watch across the whole area, it does include chicago too, and there's been ground stops at o'hare as well as midway because of those thunderstorms

jacqui jeras in the weather center, now kind of helping us get a better scope of what is going on heres come down? >> it's a large area, they don't know and that's the problem. could be anywhere from northern canada all the way to southern parts of south america. >> that helps, right? it's going to be about a 500 mile stretch. scientists say don't worry about this. this happens all the time. satellites and other pieces of space debris fall into the earth's atmosphere, most burns up on contact and no one has been hit by this before. should you worry? your odds are not all that bad. they say the odds are 1 in 3200 that somebody will get hit by a piece of space debris. that person is you, one in 21 trillion. feeling more comfortable about that. they're tracking this out there. take a look at this from google earth. this will show you where it is right now. it is over the middle east. here's india just to put it in perspective. that's the location of the satellite right now. they're tracking all kinds of space junk which is out there. there are about 20,000 different pieces, about four inc

. >>> now we turn to jacqui jeras at the weather center. it's looking like it is slow moving. we talked about it before the show. it is very slow moving. what does that mean? that's not necessarily a good thing because it's hovering. >> right. if it stays over water, there's a chance for intensification. if it just sits there and hovers, that means it could be more of a flood threat than it's already been. we've seen upwards to eight to nine inches of rainfall already associated with lee. if it sits here for another 24-plus hours, that certainly is bad news. and inland flooding is really the greatest threat with this storm. now does appear that the center might be pushing its way on the coast now. landfall is not all that important, honestly. what's more important is how quickly we can get this out of here and prevent the flooding. the thing that's been saving us throughout the day today and why this is a little worse than what could have happened is that most of the heavy showers and thunderstorms have been down here into the gulf of mexico. and obviously nobody lives there.

. >>> our meteorologist jacqui jeras has been following a tornado warning in the memphis area.update on that. >> the warning expired. that's the good news. there was a funnel cloud spotted. a lot of lightning with the storm. i believe we have video to show you from the tower cam. a tornado warning was i in effect for a half hour. there the funnel was five miles north of the city. a close call for memphis. the warning is over with for now. however, a watch is in effect. conditions still favorable for tornados to develop and we will be watching the area through the evening. the watch will go until 10:00 local time for tonight. now, this is part of the weather system. it is associated with what we call an upper level low across the great lakes. there's nothing to move it out of the way. milwaukee, chicago, indianapolis, cincinnati, the dreary weekend you have had will continue in to the workweek, probably at least until say thursday when things look better. it will be warm across the rockies. it will be warm ahead of that system. watch for nice near 80-degree temperatures tomorrow

in now for a look at tomorrow's commute tonight, our meteorologist jacqui jeras here with all the details hey, don. kind of a rough weekend for a lot of travelers. today, in the nation's midsection, they saw the worst of the weather and the travel woes. we still have delays at chicago o'hare today. we do watch this weather system move to the east. we're going to be tracking the gulf coast to the great lakes here for the showers and thundershowers and any possible delays. so tomorrow's commute tonight. seattle, looking for patchy morning fog. things should be fine by the afternoon. give yourself a little extra time to get where you need to be. nashville, low clouds and mist in the morning. showers and thunderstorms throughout much of the day. airport delays and rough on the roads. cincinnati, showers and thunderstorms. that will be the rule here. it will be kind of on and off throughout the day. number two, chicago you had it all day today. unfortunately, you'll see it through the morning tomorrow. but say by noon, 1:00, things will look a little better for you. as we head to our number on

jacqui jeras in the weather center now with more on that. , but we didn't know it was going to be this bad. and it's now officially the most destructive wildfire in texas history. we have some numbers that have been just released for you now out of bastrop area, outside of the austin area in the eastern parts of texas. the cost of that thing, about $250 million. so that makes it, number one, they are on that list. 34,000 plus acres have burned, 1,500 plus homes have been destroyed, just in this one fire. and believe it or not, the whole thing isn't out yet. this is still 90% contained. so there are firefighters that are still actively working on this thing, they're cleaning up, they're doing what they call mop-up. they're putting out any hot spots that still happen to be out there. this thing has been going on for weeks and weeks and the drought has been such a big part of this fire and just no rain in the area. when you combine the drought along with the heat wave that you've been dealing with in texas, also with the wildfires, and you combi

. >>> want to quickly check in once again with our meteorologist jacqui jeras following some enormousrea. what's going on? >> yeah. this is in the northern suburbs, wolf. a couple of tornadoes have moved through here, an they have produced some damage and at least one person has been injured. take a look at pictures. you're taking a lack at it with me for the first time as we take a look out of those from woodstock. one of our producers here at cnn, victoria kennedy, lives near where this damage was, and about 100 homes have received some of that damage. this has been mostly tree damage. a lot of roof tops. we're hearing that maybe two homes have been flattened in this, and at least one man was rescued from his basement at this time, so this is still a developing situation. power is out across the area, and, of course, a very busy time of day when a lot of people have been out and about. rainy day here in atlanta as well. now there is still a warning in effect. very near where this damage occurred. that does include cherokee county. 30, 40-minute drive at best from the downtown area,

meteorologist jacqui jeras live in the cnn weather center. did you find the picture?e panic. >> it's kind of cool to look at. little big. doesn't make you feel better thinking to yourself no one knows where or when this thing will hit the earth. kind of scary to think about, but not as bad as you think, according to scientists. this is a big satellite and weighs about 6 tons and about the size of a school bus. to put that in perspective for you. the upper atmosphere research satellite that has been up in space since 1991 and been decommissioned since december of 2005. this thing is slowly making its way down towards the earth and they say a lot of this will actually burn up into the atmosphere, but, about 26 large pieces of space chunk are basically expected to fall down to the earth. and the largest of those pieces could weigh as much as 300 pounds. so, if that lands where somebody lives or somebody happens to be standing, yeah, you could imagine that would certainly be a very large problem. where and when is this going to hit? they don't know exactly. scientists thi

>> thank you, and jacqui jeras is watching the fires and the floods. let's start in the southeast. how much rain do you expect ahead for us? >> we're talking a about 4 to 8 inches out there, ted. the rain is pulling out of mississippi and now heavy across alabama and georgia. i think that's where the worst of it will be and also one of the great concerns is it moves into the southern appellations, you get the terrain and elevation. the rain comes down heavier and you worry about the threat of mudslides. we're tracking tornados, too. we have the outer bands moving through the panhandle. you can see the tornado watches in effect. the first one until 4:00 local time, and the second one which includes the metro atlanta area, and those could have weak spots. be aware that these things do happen with the tropical systems. now the flood watches and warnings are stretched all through the southeast and through the appellations and through the mid-atlantic and even into the northeast. we have the cold front which is impacting the northeast, and we will see the remanence of lee up the coast.