Major Texas metros eye dangerous flooding, tropically enhanced threat stretches to Chicago

Major Texas metros eye dangerous flooding, tropically enhanced threat stretches to Chicago

More than 80 million people are now in the path of a dangerous, weeklong flood threat that has shifted into a corridor stretching from the major Texas metros of Dallas, Austin and San Antonio northward to Chicago, as thunderstorms fueled by tropical moisture from Hurricane Rachel and the remnants of Polo unleash torrential rain.