Deadly Storms Hammer Mexico; Flooding in Acapulco; Twin Named Storms Hit East and West Coasts of Mexico
HOLMES: South of the border today. Mexico has been getting hammered hard by three serious storms all hitting at the same time. A triple whammy. Nearly 60 people already reported killed.</s>MALVEAUX: And the hardest hit area, this is on the Pacific side, this is near the beach resort city of Acapulco. This is a bird's eye view. It shows the water up to window level. But from up high you can't see just how dangerous this flood is. Wow. So it's just a few miles inland from Acapulco. It is the only way to get across streets that have turned into raging rivers.</s>HOLMES: Yes, rescues are becoming incredibly difficult, relief supplies often impossible to get in at the moment. About a million people, Mexican citizens and tourists as well, are either trapped, stranded or hunkered down against these deadly storms. Our Nick Parker is in Mexico City today.</s>NICK PARKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Dramatic scenes in the popular beach resort city of Acapulco. Tropical Storm Manuel creating chaos there with many residents struggling to cope with its devastating aftermath. Forty thousand tourists have also been stranded with the airport only just reopening. The main road to the city is still closed. Further north, rays from Tropical Storm Ingrid are raising fears of further flooding there. Dozens of people have been killed in these twin storms. Authorities are now closely watching a tropical wave near the city of Cancun.</s>MALVEAUX: Chad Myers in the CNN Severe Weather Center. So this is coming from many different places and it's kind of a confluence of a lot of different weather events.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: One storm on the east coast of Mexico, Ingrid, another that could be here for the weekend named Jerry, the "J" storm, and then the "M" storm in the pacific named Manuel. And so we always talk about the bad side of a hurricane, the right side of a hurricane. Acapulco was on the bad side for hours and hours. It rained for hours, at least a foot of rain on those coasts there around Acapulco. Let's look at the Google map. Acapulco is a bowl. I know there's a little empty spot on the other side where there's an ocean there, but Acapulco is literally a three-dimensional bowl. The rain ran up the mountainside and all the rain came down. This is not unlike what happened in Colorado last weekend. When you put rain up a hill, it has to come down the hill. And it rained right and rolled right back into Acapulco, and that's where these pictures are from. Literally, just gobs of people trying to run for their lives, trying to run up those hills as the water was coming back down those hills at them.</s>HOLMES: Pretty unusual weather event, one would have to say, I mean, to have it hit from both sides at once.</s>MYERS: Yeah, obviously. This has never happened since the '50s where two storms with names have hit within 24 hours. Now they didn't combine. They didn't converge. They didn't even hit the same areas. One hit Tampico, Vera Cruz. That's the east side near Cancun and up toward Brownsville, Texas. The other one hit the West Coast, and obviously, there's a 14,000-foot Sierra Madre in the middle, so they obviously can't converge when you have a mountain range in the middle. But one on one side, one on the other, and people are running for their lives, still. The water is still going up in some spots.</s>HOLMES: Unbelievable. Chad Myers, thanks.</s>MYERS: You're welcome.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: CNN tonight, at 7:00, "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT," controversy and the crown, the new Miss America responds to racist comments over her win. Then at 8:00 on "ANDERSON COOPER 360," remembering the victims who lost their lives in the Navy Yard shooting. 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More than 19,000 homes and businesses have been damaged or destroyed. Floodwaters are now rolling east towards Nebraska.</s>HOLMES: Good heavens. The damage done there just extraordinary. All right, well, Russia says the U.N. chemical weapons report on Syria is distorted and one-sided. They still have their theory on what happened in Syria. We're going to be live in Moscow with the very latest.