severe storms causing major damage forcing rescues like this one in rockford, illinois.ake a look at that. abc's alex perez there with the very latest. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, amy. luckily that resident is going to be okay but it was a rough night of flooding here across the rockford area. many areas, take a look, ended up just like this one. cars floating away in the flood. overnight, a flash flood emergency. drivers stranded. water rising inside a hospital. this was the scene in rockford, illinois, water picking up and carrying away that car. >> hurry up, give me something to break the window. >> reporter: people jumping into action, smashing the windows, an elderly man trapped inside. everyone working together, miraculously, the man pulled to safety, that cadillac submerged nose first. emergency crews scrambling to the scene as more stranded drivers wait to be rescued. this man, out of his car, waving at drivers to stop. >> our hospital is flooding. >> reporter: and check out the halls of mercy health hospital, water streaming through the hallwa

that chancellor angela merkel has secured agreements with fourteen more a you countries for the rockford return of rejected a saw them seekers she also reportedly wants my current process and centers at germany's border as merkel faces h.l.i. first deadline set by hardline coalition partners for an overhaul of the migration approach and merkel told reporters the deal she forged could be enough to avert the collapse of her government. it's awfully if the existing agreements between the twenty eight of us are implemented together with what we've agreed upon today i would say it is more than sufficient. to. do critics within merkel's own coalition agree the deadline was imposed by her hardline interior minister horace silver of the bavarian conservative c.s.u. party he's threatened to tighten border controls of bavaria the german state which bore the brunt of migrant entries during the peak of the crisis three years ago say over is set to announce this weekend whether merkel dawn and no off the clash between the two could spell the end of her governing coalition. well to assess all of this

check this out from rockford, illinois. group of people pulled a man out of his car, rescuing him after raging waters trapped him in his car, and they got him out just in time as they started to climb off the back of the car, the front end of the vehicle sank into the water. the flooding in the midwest is blamed for one death and washed out several roads. we have nothing here. we have a heat wave with triple digits on the way. a beautiful shot from the east bay hills camera. right here, a dam break, just north of that antenna tower there, all the clouds and cooler air rushed into the valleys there this morning. we had a rush through the san bernardino gap, covering sfo right now, so that's why we have delays. first inland warming trend today, briefly cooler tomorrow, and heat wave starts friday, saturday, and lesser extent sunday. there is a small craft advisory in the bay, and it's stubborn. winds pick up noon through 9:00. that helps thin the clouds a little bit and there's going to be more sun. in the south bay, 79, 83 i

another severe storm hitting the midwest overnight, triggering flash floods and high-water rescues in rockford, illinois. >>> a major threat for millions continuing late into the night and all the way down to texas. al roker now joining us. he's monitoring all. al, what has you most concerned? >> well, lester, right now we are watching these systems stretching from utah all the way to washington, d.c. as we go to the radar, you can see that line of thunderstorms we've got still a tornado watch from eastern half of colorado, severe thunderstorm watches for western kansas. as we slide down to the south, you can see this low pressure system. you don't need to have a tropical system to cause massive rainfall and that's what we're seeing tonight. big storms firing up continuing to bring in and draw in tropical moisture. we've got a continued risk for flooding tonight into tomorrow from corpus christi and brownsville all the way up in to lake charles, louisiana. we've already seen anywhere from 10 to 12 inches of rain. and through thursday, we could see isolated amounts of 6 to 11 inches between roc

. >> glor: in rockford, illinois, last night, bystanders, one riding a jet ski, raced to help a driverwas submerged in a flash flood. they broke the windows and lifted the 70-year-old driver to safety. in texas, floodwaters filled port arthur today as 5-10 inches of rain fell on the gulf coast. eolorado was also hit by severe a orms, including a tornado, northeast of denver. fig atpparently carr undocument immigrants wash you wanted in laguna beach california. four men detained and taken to a border patrol facility for processing believed to be from mexico, another four men escaped. it is not the first such tecident in california an abandoned boat was discovered eight days ago. as a as a convicted felon, manuel fernandez was not permitted to have even one gun, but l.a. county sheriff's investigators say they found more than 550 at his home and the home of a friend. it is not clear what he intended to do with all of those guns. fernandez was arrested, the guns taken away. he is now free on bond. up next, the story of two fallen heroes reunited. heroes reunited. 98% of us don't get enoug

. >> i have never seen this much rain in rockford, i have been here since seven years old. >> a lot of the water absorbs, but it came down to hard, too fast, and couldn't handle all that.>> at least 7 inches fell, setting a new record. and all of that rain has created a spectacle in wisconsin, this is a waterfall at a park south of superior, water is running down and into a nearby river, people stopping on the side of the road, trying to get a better look.>>> area fire crews preparing for the worst -- preparing for the worst. >> it will cause fires. >> the fourth of july just around the corner. >>> tracking the warm-up, a little bit more today, tomorrow stays about the same, beyond thinto the heat and highup but -- at 7:00, on ktvu plus, making conditions for farm animals more humane.>>> we no know what killed a whale on the beach, what they are saying. at seven. ♪ i feel most times we're high and low ♪ ♪ high and low ♪ if i had my way enhance your moments. san pellegrino. tastefully italian. >>> firefighters are preparing for the worst when it comes to the fire season. >> anything tha

. >> i have never seen this much rain in rockford. since seven years old. >> it came down too hard and too fast, it couldn't handle all that.>> at least 7 inches fell in the upper peninsula, setting a new record. all that rain has created the spectacle wisconsin, a waterfall at a park south of the city of superior, water is roaring down that waterfall and to get a better look.>>> the sonoma raceway is gearing up for its annual nascar event, they are expected to attend the save mart 350, they say it's the raceway's biggest event of the year, we can temperatures could reach into the 90s. >> it is something that we keep adding each year, a new fan zones, with tents, redwood deck, and shade features, and we've got a lot of water, a lot of beverages.>> the forecast calls for 90s in sonoma on saturday, and cooler in the 80s on sunday.>>> people on a whale watching tour came across a dead blue will floating in the water over the weekend, experts at the marine mammal center are trying to figure out if it's the same one that washed ashore, it

i happened in rockford. register star says witnesses saw the car being sweeped into a guardrail, so they broke out the windows to save the man. firefighters said they made more than a dozen car rescues. no reports of anybody in the area hurt. officials at the hospital say the hallways flooded and had to send incoming patients to other facilities in the area. in colorado, hail slamming boulder about 35 miles north and west of denver. the national weather service reports some of the hail the size of tennis balls yesterday. folks say hail damaged cars and homes in the area. forecasters are warning that more severe storms will hit this afternoon including possible tornadoes and damaging winds. the weather service says spotters are reporting golf ball size hail near denver. when it comes down in the mountai mountains, it comes down. the dow is down and we'll be right back. doesn't only belong to you. child: bye, grandpa! and if you have heart failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. entresto is a hear

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this was the scene in rockford illinois, where the local high streets became something of a river.inches of rain fell injust a few river. several inches of rain fell in just a few hours and that is not quite the end of the story. the weather system which has been very active as it rolled down off the rockies looks as though it could have the potential to deliver at yet more flooding rains across the northern states and on its southern portion and may well be that texas very glad to see some rain but when you give it 300 mm just a very short space of time, it could be some floods. i should say at the same time there is quite a deal of heat across the western side of canada and into the southwest of the usa where the drought persists. the monsoon is in full flow and it is great rafts of cloud here. and through the bay of bengal and up through the bay of bengal and up through the bay of bengal and up through the northern states of india andindeed through the northern states of india and indeed into the eastern end of the himalayas. we could be looking at several hundred millimetres of

. >> that was the case in rockford, illinois. flooding caught several drivers by surprise.ve to watch for missing manhole covers blown off by too much water pressure in the storm sewers. >> a dam failure in wisconsin about 40 miles south of duluth is causing flooding downstream. let's get the latest from paul williams. >> we're clear in new york, but still stormy in d.c. and chicago. and in houston, downpours courtesy of tropical moisture coming offer the gulf. widespread storms going into montana, idaho, missoula, bracing for severe storms with cheyenne, denver, north platte, and the heat is expanding even more. diane, kendis? >>> frustration is mounting at a major airport. hundreds of american airlines flights have been canceled at the charlotte airport since thursday. a computer glitch has grounded a regional carrier and this affects crew, scheduling and tracking. american says they have no idea when the hardware issue will be fixed. >>> apple will soon be able to share your location safely to 911. right now, outdated operating systems can only get the location of the ce

this is rockford, illinois. whatever you do, don't drive in this kind of weather. turn around and don'tro. we have two areas of precipitation, but we are really looking at what is going on down south through texas. we have low pressure and it could become a tropical system, and it's tapping into the moisture bringing an increasing rain threats. southeast and south central texas could get six to 11 inches of rain that could lead t flooding. we are also watching the stationary front making its way through the midwest. it will bng more rain tomorrow. finally bringing drier air into the northeast butook at the rainfall rates from nebraska s intothern ohio, looking from tw to fournches of rain. we'll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. >>> good morning, everybody. i am chuck bell. it's a cloudy start across the area and a lot of humidity outside as well. the early rain chance is going to be missing us, b we will have a chance for thunderstorms later in the afternoon and evening. keep that inin and generally dry between now and noontime but incre

this is just south and east of rockford, illinois.t rain now slides to the east with that low and the cold front, warm front attached. the severe weather threat that i was promising you not only >> "good morning america" is sponsored by state farm. talk to an agent today at 800-state-farm. 800-state-farm. it's 7:56. i'm reggie aqui from "abc7 mornings." we have a cool start to your day this morning. hi, mike. >> hey, reggie. hi, everybody. yeah, and a little thicker cloud deck out there because it's a little bit more robust. temperatures going to be a little bit cooler today. in fact, our coolest day for exercising is today. moving forward. small craft advisory on the water north of the bay bridge. temperatures low to mid-60s along the coast into san francisco, over towards oakland, some 70s around the bay. barely some 80s inland. now, we take a couple steps backwards today, but look at how much we leap forward to the 90s and 100s by saturday. here's sue. >>> all right, better news for commuters on westbound 24 into oakland. that sig

this is rockford, illinois. streets turned into rivers. don't drive into this kind of weather. turn around, don't drown. let's show you the radar. you can see we've got two areas of precipitation. we've got first up there where we had the heavy rain in the midwest. but we're looking at what's going on down south throughout texas. this is the one we told you could become a tropical system. it's tapping into all that tropical moisture in the gulf bringing increasing rain threat. the rainfall amounts, rainfall rates 3 inches per hour. southeast and south central texas could get 6 to 11 inches of rain. that could lead to flooding. and we're also watching this stationary front making its way through the midwest. it's going to bring more rain tomorrow. finally, though, bringing drier air into the northeast. but look at the rainfall rates in the midwest. from nebraska all the way into southern ohio, we're looking anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of rain. we're going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. >>> good tuesday morning, i'm kari hall. it's a cloudy start