rob marciano in the weather center. your heart really goes out to that lady because there really is nothing you can do. you don't know who to be angry at. >> right. >> especially when this happens over and over and over again to your home or your community. >> this is not the only spot this has happened. folks who live in north dakota, they've increased their flood insurance. last year when these floods happened there was about 4,000 people that had flood insurance, now it's over 13,000. i guess that's one thing you can do, but if you live in a floodplain sometimes you can't get the insurance. you feel for these people. jersey, rhode island, still under flood warnings, also parts of eastern massachusetts as these rivers continue to try to unload the water they've built up with the snow pack and the rains this past weekend. try to get that into the atlantic ocean. they have crested but it's going to be a couple days before those riverings go below flood stage. this river, the red river, which flows to the knot, is rising

>> rob marciano breaking it down on why this is happening.k from the diplomatic brink, so to speak, trying to ease their deepest rift in decades triggered by israel's announcement last week during joe biden's visit that it plans to expand settlements in east jerusalem. secretary of state hillary clinton called that insulting. yesterday she reiterated that the countries have a close, unshakable bond. >>> democratic leaders in the house coming short on the 216 votes they need to pass health care reform. it's unclear if speaker nancy pelosi will try a controversial tactic to deem that the bill has been passed. minority leader john boehner is planning to block that attempt. >>> honda now plans to recall more than 400,000 minivans and trucks saying problems with the brakes could make those vehicles hard to stop. this recall affects 2007 and 2008 odyssey and element models. the carmaker says the brakes may start to feel, quote, soft over time and should be repaired to prevent a crash. >>> in detroit this morning, an sos, save our schools. officials

let's check in with rob marciano. to someone on the ground there, one of the officials dealing with this and helping with the people in the community, the school kids and everyone else who are helping to fill those sandbags. that's next hour, but man, they've got a real problem on their hands now in fargo and in the northeast as well. >> can you imagine having a life-threatening deadline that you knew about two months out? >> is it sunday? are we talking about -- >> the crest is sunday. >> they've known this was coming for a month or so because of the snow pack and the fall rains and because it had been so cold and now it's happening, and to add insult to injury it's happening for the second year in a row. >> exactly. >> good news today. it's sunny. it will remain dry, not only today, but for much of the next few days, warm air is coming in and coming in ferociously. temperatures can get into the upper 50s, if not lower 60s and that will speed up the melting. a little bit of rain in the southeast and that's about it a

temperatures soaring into the 80s over much of the country, senator, rob marciano?ink i account for about 600 of those tweets. >> nothing is a loaded gun for me. i tweet and then get in trouble. >> it's like your life. >> that's my life. >> that's what makes you interesting. by the way, my twitter account got verified today. my friends say i have an identity crisis of some sort but that proves that i'm me. hey, this just came over the wire. earlier today we had a major aftershock in chile, 6.6. now i'm getting word of 6.5 or 6.6, they haven't figured this part out, in sumatra, that other major spot where a quake happened back in 2004 so this is a major quake here. at this size, 6.5 or 6.6, likely no tsunami generated by that, but local tsunamis potentially around that area, so this incredibly active pattern -- not pattern, but time that we're in with regards to earthquakes continues. often when you get a major quake, it can trigger quakes on other plates. >> that's the question we've been asking. is this all sort of interconnected. >> yeah, there is a yin and yang o

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