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Texas, Louisiana brace for Imelda flooding

A massive storm battering the Gulf Coast is just one of three potentially dangerous weather systems being followed by meteorologists Wednesday. Hurricane Humberto is a powerful, category three storm that's approaching Bermuda. Tropical storm Jerry is expected to strengthen into a hurricane later this week. And flash flood watches are in effect from southeastern Texas up through Louisiana, as tropical depression Imelda pushes inland. Jeff Berardelli has the latest forecast.

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Imelda is worse than Harvey, TX residents say

The powerful storm that's slamming Texas is now blamed for at least two deaths. Houston was inundated with more than nine inches of rain Thursday – that breaks the single-day record set in 1979 by more than two inches. Many communities devastated by Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters just two years ago find themselves underwater again. Houston fire officials say they responded to nearly 2,000 emergency incidents. Mireya Villarreal reports.

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