Nightly News   |  September 29, 2010

East Coast braces for flooding

The East Coast is expected to be slammed with heavy rain on Thursday as storms move up the seaboard. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Much of the East Coast is under a serious flood watch tonight. And take a look at why. It's a weather system that stretches between two major cities

very far apart: Miami all the way north to New York , as if traveling along I-95 . It's already dumped 17 inches of rain in Delaware . It's set to merge with what remains of Tropical Storm Nicole . Heavy rain, dangerous flooding, high winds, all expected from the south Florida coast all the way up through New York and then western New England , before we say goodbye to this on Friday. We'll be keeping a close eye on the system, which could bring eight more inches of rain to some areas and throw travel along the East Coast into chaos.