the weather channel's stephanie abrams is following it. >> lester, this is a look at destin, florida. a pleasant morning overall. we do have some clouds off in the distance, and those clouds, that's karen. it is now a tropical depression. and here's all that cloud cover we were looking at from destin, florida. but you don't see a center of circulation. it's really fallen apart here. there's been a lot of dry air and upper-level winds that have torn this thing apart. here we look 100 miles southwest of morgan city. winds at 30 miles an hour. so it's definitely falling apart and continues to doso here it is. we've had the upper-level winds, and dry air, which is not good for a development of a tropical storm. it will stay weak and we'll see rainfall out of this. perhaps around two inches around the mobile bay area. but overall, it's not going to be too bad, lester. >> we'll get the forecast for the rest of the country from you in a few minutes. >>> surprising new information in the beating that captured national attention, including who was on the scene when a driver was beaten when he

the weather channel stephanie abrams is following it all for us. what's going on? >> lester, this is a look at destin, florida. a pleasant morning. clouds off in the distance, and those clouds, well, that's karen. it is now a tropical depression, and here's all that cloud cover that we were looking at from destin, florida. but you don't see a center of circulation. it's really fallen apart here and the reason being, there's been a lot of dry air and upper level winds that have torn this thing apart. so here's a look right now, 100 miles southwest of morgan city, louisiana. the winds only at 30 miles per hour. so it's definitely falling apart and continues to do so. here it is. we have had those upper level winds, dry air, which obviously isn't good for the development of a tropical system. it is going to move eastbound, but stay weak and we are going to see some rainfall out of this, perhaps around 2 inches around the mobile bay area. but overall, it's not going to be too bad, lester. >> all right, stephanie. we will get the forecast from the rest of the country fr

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let's get a check of the weather from stephanie abrams in for al. >> willie, i don't think you shoulds active. we have a system in the west starting to get it's act together. it doesn't look very impressive right now. you're probably saying seriously abrams, that's weak sauce, we have nothing going on. but we actually do. we have low pressure starting to develop here. you can see the storms are making their way throughout places in texas, also into oklahoma. this whole system is going to bring a lot of rain to portions of texas, oklahoma, and arkansas. in this area, 2 to 3 inches and then it's going to be progressing as we head over the next couple of days it will be progressing eastbound. let's look at the forecast for today. what does that mean? we could see severe weather throughout a big chunk of the plains >>> it's going to be a very active next couple of days and willie and natalie a very windy next couple of days. we'll have the halloween forecast coming up. >> stephanie, we would never say weak sauce. we would never say that about you. >>> coming up, one year after hurricane s

al had to leave early but we have stephanie abrams in for al. >> did you take a legsie of that out fither. we have our coastal storm but first what's happening in the plains. there is a threat for severe weather here from grand forks on to fargo and aberdeen as well. rapid city, just recently we saw 48 inches, 50 inches of snow there and now we have rain on top of it. harrisburg, record rainfall yesterday. the old record was set back in 1894. look at that, we're getting more and we'll see a whole lot more, >>> 9:11. good friday morning to you. i'm christina loren. want to show you the golden gate bridge. we still havecthñ plenty of low clouds overhead and slight delays out of sfo. still at one hour. also, going to find a way to new york city. a lot of people traveling for columbus day weekend. this afternoon looks really good. comfortable temperatures. mostly the 70s. 73 for san jose. 73 in redwood city. once we get rid of the low clouds, forecasting 69 greetdz there. warmer weather as we get into this upcoming weekend. >>> all right. we're going to head back over to natalie and willie