Flash Flooding Washes Out Roads
LEMON: This has been our breaking news now for a week we're talking about the nightmare weather, the heat wave consuming most of the country has broken all kinds of records 4,500 daily heat records have been broken in the last 30 days, 240 all time heat records are broken between June 23rd and July 5th and guess what? There is relief on the way. Well, sort of. A cold front is moving in, which is great because it's going to break that heat spell hopefully. But with that cold front comes more storms, more wind, hail and lightning. Not welcome news to all those who still have no power. As of today that's nearly 155,000 customers in ten states and D.C. The weather in Missouri causing a tragic death; a nasty storm blew through the town of Cuba last night. A new mother was riding out the storm in her car, she was talking to her brother on the phone. He was riding out the storm in car right next to her. Just then, flying debris crashed through her windshield and struck her in the chest. Can you imagine? While in Colorado now, they just can't catch a break there from fires to flash flooding, mud, branches, rocks washing out the streets in Ft. Collins. Meteorologist Bonnie Schneider here; Bonnie some parts of Colorado need the rain, but it seems that they are getting way too much at once. As they say, Bonnie, when it rains, it pours.</s>BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It does and that's really the last thing that folks in Colorado want to have to deal with right now because when you're talking about an area that was just severely burned, there's no trees, there's no shrubs to slow down the rush of the water. So when you look at the rainfall totals across the fire zones, imagine an inch and a half of rain falling north of Ft. Collins in just 90 minutes. That's what happened last night, so three days we saw almost two inches of rain. This rain would have been nice -- over the past couple of weeks gradually, but all at once as you mentioned definitely a problem. And actually when we look at the radar picture you'll see there are still scattered showers in the region and that always runs the -- runs the risk of lightning anytime you have a fire danger area. But I think flash flooding will still continue to be a problem across that region today and tomorrow. Looking across much of areas further east, we have a new threat. Thunderstorms, severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, large hail and very damaging wind; and these watch boxes extend all the way from Kentucky to the coast of Maryland and Delaware. So it's a pretty expansive area that we're looking at these thunderstorms. And I mentioned the lightning, unfortunately this weekend we had some deaths related to lightning strikes. So it's important to remember lightning is deadly and these storms contain a lot of it. You are looking at real time lightning strikes. So this is happening as we speak. I want to talk about the heat and some better news; I can't say it's great news because we still have a lot of advisories. But the picture is looking better at this hour than it did yesterday or for the past few days. The record heat just shattered many records as we've been talking about, literally, thousands of them for the past 30 days. But as you can see Don, we put this into motion, cooler air slowly but surely coming down. By the time we get to Monday and to Tuesday and Wednesday, we are going to see some improvements in the forecast getting a little more back to normal.</s>LEMON: All right, that's good news. Thank you Bonnie we appreciate it.</s>SCHNEIDER: Sure.</s>LEMON: Next --</s>LEMON: One of the fastest men on earth --</s>MICHAEL JOHNSON, ATHLETE: You want to get up to speed as quickly as possible.</s>LEMON: -- reveals the secret to his success -- slavery.</s>JOHNSON: I was able to break the world record.</s>LEMON: Is he right? Does the color of your skin make you better, faster, stronger?</s>LEMON: You don't have to be in front of a television to watch CNN. You can do what I do. You can stay connected, you can do it on your cell phone or you can do it from your computer at work. Just go to CNN.com/TV.