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Extreme Flooding in Vermont

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Residents describe entire towns underwater as flash floods decimate the Northeast. The government fines Bank of America for deceptive practices. And Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., walks back claims that white nationalists shouldn’t be labeled as racists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, July 12th. The storm of the century was supposed to come while a lot less often than this. We start here.

0:40.0

As violent storms flash across the northeast, towns find themselves defenseless.

0:46.0

I could feel the vibration of it in our floor.

0:49.0

We'll take you to Vermont where soggy earth is shifting under residence feet. When a bank gives you a credit card account, you're kind of supposed to know about it.

0:57.0

They open up a credit card in your name and you're unaware of it. Well, that could ding your credit report.

1:02.0

Bank of America is being penalized, but is it enough? And the FBI wanted white supremacists out of the military. He said not so fast.

1:11.0

I'm told against racism. If the Democrats want to say that white nationalists are racist, I'm told against that too.

1:17.0

Senator Tommy Tuberville enrages foes and friends in Washington.

1:22.0

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

1:35.0

You've probably heard about these devastating floods that hit the northeast over the last few days. Like when you think about small picturesque towns and upstate New York and New England right along the river bank,

1:45.0

these are the places that were suddenly underwater.

1:50.0

Vermont, in particular, saw historic amounts of water converging right in town centers.

1:55.0

The state capital of Montpelier has waste high water right outside its doors, and the state is now wearily watching a nearby dam.

2:02.0

If water rises above that, even more areas downstream could be swept away.

2:07.0

And even though the sun may shine later today or tomorrow, we expect more rain later this week, which will have nowhere to go in the oversaturated ground.

2:17.0

And yes, river banks flood all the time. Yes, there are disasters in lots of places, but these floods are happening in places where weather disasters usually involve snow banks.

2:27.0

The sky's opened up and brought so much rain that they're calling this a 1,000 year event.

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