11 alive. Morning news starts now while you were sleeping, we have been up all night watching severe weather and breaking into programming as we've seen tornado watches and warnings pop up throughout parts of northern Georgia. Really putting hundreds in its path of danger. Around 1236. This morning, a confirmed tornado was spotted near Walker County in Alabama by the city of Valley Head. So here is some more video this morning that we are seeing out of the city of Dalton from overnight. At 1.11 lives, Cody Alcorn jumped in to help Dalton. Firefighters carry some Children out of a flooded apartment complex as we quickly saw a flash flood warning move into Whitfield in Murray counties around one o'clock this morning. But don't worry, we will be bringing you team coverage all morning long as our weather traffic and reporting team keeps an eye on any c weather threats that we have moving throughout the area as you get ready to head out the door. Yeah, such a busy night overnight and our team had cover all the way through it. So in the next few minutes, we'll get to crash Clark and Jerry Carnes with a look at the roads. But first we want to check in with meteorologist Chesley mcneil Chesley, what's the biggest weather threat right now? And the areas that need to be high alert this morning, it's really up here to the north of the city of Atlanta. We have flooding that's taking place. Of course, we had these storms training up here to the north. They were severe at some point as they move through our area and now they're starting to push a little bit further over toward the east. We have one severe thunderstorm warning that's flipping just parts of our area. That's well over here, extreme east. That's now moving into South Carolina. As a matter of fact, coming out of Elbert County, moving into South Carolina, that's where the severe weather warning is extended there. So for us, things are starting to calm down. Now, we still have some very heavy rain. You can see the lightning strikes. Uh This is coming out of Gwinnett County, moving into, uh east, uh western portions of borough county and there a numerous lightning strikes see that very heavy rain in there. That's what we're dealing with this morning. Now, it's not a severe thunderstorm warning associated with this. Not as of yet, but that's what we're dealing with. Some of the heaviest rain in our area, gonna catch a break from this. And you can already see that over into our west, our westernmost counties a few isolated showers still popping up, but we're not done with this more. Back off to the north and west as you can see, tornado warnings associated with it, severe thunderstorm warnings associated with it. And we have a, uh, tornado watch that's associated with it over northern part of Alabama. This line is headed toward us as well, will likely arrive in our northernmost counties by 78 o'clock this morning and then make its way down toward the metro area. Arriving there just before, uh, 11 or 12 o'clock this afternoon. Temperature wise where we've had that rain so far is down into the sixties, seventies south of that where we haven't seen any rain here in the metro area. 75 degrees right now in Atlanta, over toward Peachtree City, 73 degrees over toward Carrollton. Now you'll notice the level three threat for Atlanta today from Atlanta southward. We have a level three threat for severe weather. What does that mean? Well, damaging winds, hail, of course, heavy rain associated with it and we cannot rule out spin up. Tornado is certainly possible. Here's the timing on it. We got the rain that's pushing out. Now, we'll catch a brief break. You'll get some isolated showers around, but notice this line pushes into our state just around the eight o'clock hour and then make its way down toward the metro area. By the time we get to 1112 o'clock today, very heavy rain associated with it. There will be some, uh, gusty to damaging winds associated with it. It will be with us at least about two or three o'clock this afternoon before it begins to subside and guess what another round of severe weather will come in late tonight. Going into Friday. We'll time that one out for you as well. But notice, uh, again, today is gonna be a stormy day for starting this morning and through early afternoon, we'll be dealing with the, uh, winds and the dam, uh, the rain from the storms, 70 degrees to start off this morning. At least here in the metro, we'll get up to 75 degrees by noon on our way to 83 for an afternoon high. And it'll be around the four o'clock hour that I think we'll start to see a little bit of sunshine before that next line of showers and thunderstorms will roll into the area. So a couple of rounds now that we'll be dealing with as we head through the rest of the morning right now, we wanna get a check on the traffic out there with Crs Clark. All right. Cheesy mcneil, somebody get that man some coffee and a large water. He's gonna be busy today. We're gonna be busy as well because we just wanna make sure we got you covered. I don't know why it's completely black behind me. Something's wrong with my cameras. Imagine that. All right folks, we are definitely gonna keep an eye on the roadways because they are going to be wet. We do have some wet conditions. I was gonna show you a sky tracker up along I 85 near Buford Drive and you could see that water kicking up from those roadways. So certainly we're gonna be seeing a lot more of this as that second round of storm starts blowing through. Gonna be right there in the heart of the rush hour. Folks be prepared for this stay weather aware if you can stay home and postpone some of your travel that is highly recommended. I actually saw G dot doing some work across the top end 285 westbound in between a couple of raindrops looks like they're clearing all that out of the way. Big three in fairly good shape right now. In fact, they in great shape, 75 400 I 85 all condition green. But again, this is all subject to change and believe me, Aesha, we know it will over to you. All right, Christ, thank you. You mentioned doing some delays or staying behind if you can. People already taking a page out of that book right now. Walker County schools on a two hour delay. And this morning, we are hearing some reports about damage in nearby L AJ which is just south of Blue Ridge. We are also tracking some other key areas for you this morning as more Os continue to come into the newsroom. 11 lives Ariana Manish joining us in the studio this morning to really just kind of go over how bad things got overnight. Good morning Ayesha. Uh we had a crew in Dalton overnight as the storms moved through Whitfield County in North Georgia. And this is video lightning off in the distance. Take a look at this that our crew experienced during the storm and as they were driving around, they also found an awning from a gas station that had fallen down during the storms overnight. If you take a look at this video, now this video will soon pop up. It's from an Exxon gas station where a large part of the awning over the gas pumps, it collapsed all this as rain was coming down pretty hard overnight. Um At this point, we are learning that thankfully no one was hurt. We also have video from our reporter Cody Alcor. He captured a flooding on Fourth Avenue in Dalton. Moments later, firefighters evacuated an apartment complex on Fourth Avenue. Firefighters searched through the flooded apartments. We also saw the firefighters carry some kids to their family's car when the ground level units of their apartment had to be evacuated. Yeah, this right here is video of that water. You see it rushing down the street. You also see lightning off in the distance. Our reporter Cody Alcorn, he also jumped in to help carry the kids to safety. Now as they were helping the small Children, other firefighters escorted the older kids out of the building as well. Also, we also have videos of cloud pictures our reporter took as he and his photographer were driving in Dalton overnight. This is also video of that apartment complex being evacuated and thus also pictures of the clouds that our crew captured as they were driving. Also, our team was in Dalton overnight. They came across some people who were dealing with their car had stalled out because of flash flooding and, and it caused this car to shut off. Also, be careful when you're driving through puddles, you just don't know exactly how deep that puddle could be. Also, meanwhile, in LJ, a photographer, Tyson Paul, he found the storm damage. He says this happened on the old highway five south and the person who was there tells us that they heard a loud noise and realized the building next door had blown into their home. That's right. Thankfully, everyone is ok. Just a little shook up at this point. Also, in that same area, we saw a tree that has snapped some power lines. Now, if you took any weather videos, if you have any photos that you wanna send us uh from the rain overnight, from the storms overnight, please be sure to send that to us as we can use that on air as well as online. All you have to do is sex your photo or video to the number you see on your screen, which is 44885 7600 back to you. All right, Ariana, thank you. We see just how wide and vast the damage is. And even more people waking up in the dark this morning, we're talking Gilmore and Madison County. They do have 2000 outages individually taking you to Habersham in Murray County. They're seeing about 1000. Meanwhile, there are hundreds in Raban County as well. So far we are seeing just under 10,000 outages in the North Georgia area. All right. And as Chas Chesney was saying, we've got some rounds coming starting this morning throughout the day. Once those storms move through, experts say it's better to avoid taking showers or baths. You're plumbing can conduct electricity as you hit the roads this morning or head to work, drop your kids off at school. Remember, turn around, don't drown. You should never drive through a flooded roadway as Ariana mentioned as well. And if your vehicle happens to stall, ditch, it, get out, be safe. Just seek higher ground. Finally step away from floodwaters. Don't let the kids play in them because you never know what's in that water down. Power lines, debris, waste all dangerous possibilities. Let's get
