. >>> pedram javaheri is joining us now for the latest on the conditions. is what we're seeing now in new york, new jersey, heading up basically to boston? >> it is, yes. the next couple of hours. we see the last of the remnants of ida. and it was about a week ago we began tracking this storm system as it developed near the grand caymans. and then you notice the last breath of it here producing significant rainfall and we know of course that it will reshape the landscape of the gulf coast around parts of louisiana and certainly rewrite the record books around portions of the northeast here. as far as the rains left in place, portions of connecticut into rhode island and eventually massachusetts, that is where we have the brunt of what is left. there is a tornado watch until 6:00 a.m. across portions of this region. all of this in line here to see strong thunderstorms and maybe rotation enough to produce a tornado. notice rainfall amounts 6, 7, 8 inches, these are remarkable numbers no matter where you put them. usually related to tropical landfalls around t

pedram javaheri has been covering this for us. so quickly, these becames here where i am filled up. feet of water in some cases, gushing through windows and any kind of crease. this has already been a soggy summer in the northeast and now this. >> when you look at the numbers of what came down across this region, of course you are talking about one of the most densely populated corners of the u.s. the concrete jungle we know asphalt and concrete, they create about a 50 plus percent runoff, so essentially more than half of what falls out of the sky becomes runoff in these major cities. and then with the historic amount of rainfall, that is what leads to what is happening here. just a couple more hours before it is all said and done. just light to moderate showers, i think the bulk of it is just about done here as we watch rhode island, connecticut and up into massachusetts as it rains itself out. this is a tornado watch until 7:00 across cape cod. so still enough rotation in the atmosphere to spawn a few tornadoes. but we ran the n

so let's turn to pedram javaheri, he is tracking the storm for us. so pedram, tell us what you are seeing now. >> still a category 1 hurricane. i do expect to weaken over the next several hours, but we have see it meander right along the coast and interact with land and as well as keep part of the storm still over open waters. so there is quite a bit of tropical moisture. houston getting lightning strikes and certainly quite a bit of rainfall. nearly 5,000 strikes in the past two hours. so you would imagine it is a loud night across coastal regions of texas and approaching areas of houston over the next several hours. but hurricane warnings in place towards freeport, and tropical storm warnings from port arthur on into houston for this current hour. but rainfall amounts, you can see the previous 24 hours, much of the heavy rain remained just offshore. we'll now gradually begin to see that heavy rain encroach on to some of the major metro areas and houston will be one of the first to see first rounds of heavy rains to see the outer bands of the storm t

so let's go to meteorologist, pedram javaheri, for the very latest. and pedram, all this hasn't just been caused by ida. there is a frontal system in the mix, as well. >> that's right. the frontal system's kind of reenergizing what is left of ida here and it's really producing a tremendous amount of rainfall. and the forecast models did put top of the charts rainfall in the area but certainly, you can never forecast historic amount of rains and that is exactly what is playing out here. here is what is left of ida. you notice the satellite imagery as it kind of makes its final push across portions of the northeast and on into the canadian maritimes. and by the time we get to, say, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 a.m., it is all out of here. but before we get there, still tremendous amount of rainfall across parts of connecticut, areas of rhode island, on into massachusetts, boston include ud. and this is a dor nay dough wat through at least 3:00 a.m. because of the amount of rotation within these system, very often they spawn tornados and this particular one has alrea

pedram javaheri has the latest details. so where exactly is it heading and how bad will it be? >> kim, the storm is pushing right through southern georgia at this hour. it made landfall late last night and it is really a storm system that will move out very quickly and that is excellent news. tropical storm-force winds right now at around 40 miles per hour, very small system and of course it will quickly move offshore within the next couple hours. but already seeing tremendous rainfall across southern georgia, parts of the florida panhandle. generally 3 to 4 inches and some pockets pushing up close to 5 inches just south of tall tallahassee. but you will notice flood watches are prompted, flooding widespread along portions of the south, so any additional rainfall leads to flooding and that is the concern. but the good news is this storm system unlike the previous one in ida is as quick moving as they come, it will be out of here and other open waters within a couple hours. and then do expect it to weaken quickly over the next several days. that is what is left of the system. it

our meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us now. pedram, you're able to see these images coming in.ork. brian stelter is right on. this city is not built for this situation. when you get weather like this, rain, people can't get around. we depend very heavily on our mass transportation system, and that is basically shutdown right now. >> we had tropical storm henri, too, kind of meander across areas oof the northeast. that's what brought in the previous record rainfall which again hadn't been seen since the 1800s, and we break that by an additional here in the last couple of hours. 5.3 inches has come down in central park in the past three hours. go to spokane, washington, they've picked up 5 inches since january 1st. this happens in three hours in new york sit, of course a different population density and that's going to lead to significantly greater impacts, and that is exactly what's playing out here. brian really made a great point when it comes to the impacts of climate change and these events are happening more frequently. we have upwards of 7 million. but when it comes to our

cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri is tracking the system. pedram. >> it is across the eastern united states, tapping into some tropical moisture. a frontal boundary coming in slowly that will develop this region into being a very wet set up of rainfall here going in through much of wednesday from detroit south into fort wayne, indiana, east to portions of virginia. certainly parts of southern pennsylvania, slight to moderate risk of excessive rainfall. today is the 22nd, which means the seasons are changing. in the northern hemisphere, it is the first day of autumn. certainly going to feel like autumn here once the front arrives. we have 12 hours of daylight, 12 hours of nighttime across the globe today as the eternal equinox kicks in at 3:20 eastern this afternoon. flooding in portions of the philly metro. the great lakes seeing flooding alerts. you can see how much rain is forecast here. lights up like a i didn't say mass tree. we're talking 4, maybe 6 inches in the next 24 to 36 hours. the front does come in with a lot of dryer and cooler

let's get the latest now from -- on this storm from meteorologist pedram javaheri in the cnn center. m. hurricane nicholas just strengthened to a category 1 in texas. that is not good news. >> don, you know, one that was a tropical storm for so many hours could have made landfall as many as seven or eight hours ago. say, 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. has kind of remained pesky, remained just offshore. meandering along the coastline battering these coastal communities. now, reaching category 1 strength literally at the 11th hour here. but our 14th named storm of the season. it takes the 18th of november for us to get this far into the list of hurricane names. so kind of speaks to how active a scene it's been. but the weather prediction center already ramping this up sending this to a level four. this is a rare situation here to see a high-risk, severe-flooding event potentially in place. and we saw this issued in advance of ida's remnants arriving in the northeast a couple of weeks ago. only 4% of storms get this sort of a designation of these high-risk days. and about 40% of weather-

meteorologist pedram javaheri has the details. pedram. >> isa, we're following this very closely.last ten days we've seen lava flow. we are seeing i ammages of what's happening on the ground. satellite depicting where the lava floe is headed. the concern is interaction with sea water. here's a perspective from a couple days ago. that lava floe ending up in the atlantic ocean in the past 24 hours. it develops something known as lays. it doesn't sound all that serious. it's a combination of lava and haze. once las vegas is above 111 degrees celsius, it interacts with saltwater and leads to flash boiling and the evaporation of saltwater releases hydrochloric acid. if you heard that term, it's the same acid in your stomach that breaks down food and digests it quickly. it gets especially given volcanic conditions present across this region, steam is released and these flash steams cannot only be explosive, but they can release volcanic gas. shards of small gas into the atmosphere. of course, that is, in part, why we have so many evacuations in place on la palma. this particular set of

meteorologist pedram javaheri has the latest. pedram. >> good morning, isa.al day of september on us here and still feeling like summer across portions of the midwest here as warmth still in place, but along portions of the gulf coast we expect rounds of heavy rainfall. it has been a a soggy go the last couple days here. coastal louisiana points back to the west, into areas of texas, tremendous amounts of rainfall. 2 to 4 inches have already come down. we know it has been, of course, soggy for the tropical season there in recent months. but up towards the north, this is where temps are running about 5 to 10 degrees above average. indianapolis climbing up to 82 degrees. the lower 70s, what you would expect this time of year. chicago same story. lower 80s where the lower 70s where you expect to be until the last day of september. not too bad in portions of west virginia as well. 76 degrees. that warmth is expected to migrate a little farther towards the east. as it does, our friends around the northeast in the month of october on a splendid note, an incredible

pedram javaheri har i has our focus on the cnn weather center. dram. >> autumn, just a few weeks, about a week old, i should say. and the temperature is back to summer like in nature across parts of kansas, parts of the state of north dakota, on into nebraska. we're talking upper 90s in some cases these records have been standing since the 1800s. the upper 70s where we should be this time of year. some incredible departure from where we should be this time of year. record heat continues in the central plains and also the northern plains of the u.s. where over the next several days, would you believe it, another 30 record temperatures could be tied or set in this region of the united states. really speaks to the incredible heat that is built in this region, but off towards the north and west much cooler. off towards the north and east much cooler. if you're in minneapolis cooler. the next arrives several days here. among the warmest weather you would expect this time of year. minneapolis well known to be one of the ice boxes of the united states. a

pedram javaheri has more. >> good morning. the latest on this earth quick, a 7.0 magnitude occurring just ab about 20 kilometers northeast of mexico city. and you will notice strong to very strong shaking felt by over a million people, as many as 15 million people across mexico felt shaking associated with the quake although the vast majority of it on the lesser end of it, about 300 kilometers away in mexico city where we had some shaking felt as well. usgs an horizons what quakes can produce given the magnitude and its location and they put economic loss estimates around $100 million to as much as $1 billion. again speaks to thmagnitude of this quake and its high proximity to high population areas. anytime that you bring any quake between a 7 to 8 magnitude that is considered a major earthquake and you bring that into a shallow zone of around 10 miles, that also leads to major, major destruction as well. so you will notice our planet produces about 15 quakes of such magnitude 7 or greater every single year, and of course we k

meteorologist pedram javaheri is with us again for the very latest on the storm. where we're looking here we're seeing the rain easing up in parts but obviously it's now moving further away up to rhode island and massachusetts, right? >> that's right. around new york city, around portion that's have already been very hard hit across new jersey as well conditions beginning to grangly improve. the rain showers tapering off over the last couple of hours. but the energy, essentially the last area across the entire country here going to see what is left of ida, is going to be right across parts of rhode island, connecticut into massachusetts, boston one of the largest cities in line here to see another line of heavy rainfall before it's all said and done. this polygon here that is the tornado watch that is still in effect through 6:00 in the morning local time. this storm has produced at least five tornadoes in the past few hours as we often see moving over a region. the rotation in the atmosphere enough spin in the atmosphere to produce tornadoes. not too often to see

i want to bring in now, our meteorologist pedram javaheri to walk us through this. , i know that we had expected bad weather. that you predicted it after ida hit the -- the south and came up to the northeast. but this is something that is just beyond. >> it's remarkable. you know, and no one's going to forecast historic rainfall. we knew it's going to be as wet as it's possibly able to get. that's what the storm prediction center gave it a high probability for excessive rainfall. and forecast said 3, 4, 5 inches. but unfortunately, in some of these areas, and some of the more populated areas from newark all the way into new york city, we saw these amounts 4, 5, 6 inches in a matter of just a couple of hours. look at this. 8 -- 8 inches coming down. the wettest-single day in newark in recorded history on september 1st, today. so it really shows how things have played out here. and new york city picking up 3 inches of rainfall in one hour. national weather service in new york city issuing its first flash-flood emergency in its history. again, when you have flash-flood

pedram javaheri has the latest forecast. >> yes, watching what is left of tropical depression nicholaseople often get caught up in the satellite depiction and wind speeds and kcategories but it really doesn't change the rainfall. it is still tapping into quite a bit of tropical moisture and you will notice in the past 24 hours, upwards of almost 14 inches of rainfall fell in galveston, houston about 6.5 inches. the concern is that it will be in an area that was very hard hit by hurricane ida. so notice radar still producing strong thunderstorms around southern portions of louisiana, at least 7 million americans nearly the entirety of the coast of louisiana under flood alerts as a result of the system moving off toward the east and frankly it is moving very slowly, 3 to 5 miles per hour over the next 36 hours. so as the system moves very closely, it will rain itself out across the region and it is really the last place you want to see heavy rainfall as people of course still in full recovery mode across this region. 4 to 6 inches widespread, some areas could get close to 10 inches of ra

. >>> and pedram javaheri is joining us with the latest on all of this. what are you seeing? >> rosemary, we'll start off with what is happening across portions of louisiana. as we noted here, massive power outages still remain in place for upwards of a million customers. but peak summer-like weather across the region with heat indices or what it will feel like close to 100 degrees in some areas such as baton rouge already exceeding 100 degrees wednesday afternoon. and heat advisories from the national weather service including much of southern louisiana, portions of texas into oklahoma, climbing up to 110 degrees. again, incredible heat if it was the middle of july when it is peak season for excessive heat, but here in september we're seeing them take place across portions of the south. what is left of the storm system? there it is, you kind of still see some organization with this, it is a tropical depression as it rains itself out across parts of the ohio valley into the northeast. and tremendous amount of rainfall in store here across the northeast. upwards of 70 million

pedram javaheri is live for us this morning.his is now weakening to a tropical storm, still sounds like a ton of rain for an area that has already seen a lot of rain. >> that is going to be the problem. when you look at these urban environments, 7 million people across the metroplex, whether a category 1 or category 5, the concern is the incredible amount of rainfall associated with it because the category really doesn't dictate how much rainfall comes down. just based on the track and how it has meandered along the coast of texas for so many hours here, we are still pumping in quite a bit of tropical moisture. so sustained winds about 70 miles per hour gusting close to 80 miles per hour, but you will notice widespread coverage of tropical storm warnings in place including areas around houston. and with the system again kind of hugging the coastline, we've seen 7 to 10 inches of rainfall, radar estimated just offshore. the concern is that it will gradually shift inland and we know at least 12 million people across this region un

here is pedram javaheri. >> good morning.ida as it works across the ohio valley and eventually into the northeast and a tremendous amount of rainfall in store for you around parts of the northeast here upwards of 70 million americans dealing with the flood alerts and the storm system really goes out with a bang. you notice excessive rainfall risk here as high as it gets, a 4 out of 4, that includes again some of the major metro cities, philly and into new york city for rainfall that could be 2 to 3 inches, pockets of maybe 5 to 6 inches possible into southern portions of pennsylvania. and even some severe weather to be had on the back side of this as well. so here is the coverage of excessive rainfall. flooding almost imminent across some of these regions. and you take a look at this level 3 for severe weather even a 10% chance of a tornado possible across an area in and around parts of the delmarva, southern new jersey, about a 25 mile distance or so from areas around washington, d.c. where tornadoes are possible. so certain

more now from pedram javaheri. >> good morning.ere as it pushes its way across georgia and obviously eventual shore in the next couple hours. it had 30 to 40-mile-per-hour winds as it made landfall as a tropical storm. rainfall amounts, 3 to 4 inches have been observed just south of tallahassee, even higher amounts across the region. several parts of florida could see another round of strong thunderstorms into the morning hours and potentially the afternoon as well. coastal georgia also getting in on heavy rainfall but the system eventually moves over cooler waters and out of here fortunately very quickly and it is guided out of here by the incoming front that will bring some of the coolest temperatures in months across parts of the south and birmingham and atlanta dropping off into the upper 50s in the coming days. but notice back towards the west, fire weather risk in place, critical risk across the interior portion, temperatures climbing up into the upper 90s with extremely dry and gusty winds in the forecast there. >>> the stat