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And we say good morning America.

It is great to be here with you, Lindsay and Gio on this president's day.

And great to be here with all of you.

Yes, it is so great.

And it was an incredible race at the Daytona 500 on Sunday.

Going into overtime, William Byron pulling out his second straight win and this morning he's going to join us live to tell us all about that victory but also his incredible story and he has one looking forward to hearing about that also this morning Pope France is hospitalized over the weekend we are live from the Vatican with the latest on his condition but But we begin with the flooding emergency, heavy rain sparking deadly flash floods in Kentucky with more than a thousand people rescued from the rising waters.

Alex Perez is in Louisville for us. Good morning, Alex.

Hey, good morning, Rebecca. I want you to take a look behind me here. You can see just how swollen the banks of the Ohio River are.

This walkway behind me here, completely underwater.

It's been a long weekend of round the clock rescues, residents here struggling to keep up with the rising waters.

This morning, scenes of deadly and devastating flooding across the southeast.

Rescue operations underway in hard-hit Kentucky after at least nine people were killed, including one child,

when more than eight inches of rain battered parts of the state.

Every time we get a good rain that floods, every time.

Prompting more than a thousand water rescues. Water's close to going over the state. Every time we get a good rain at floods, every time. Prompting more than a thousand water rescues.

Water's close to going over the bridge.

You can see those high waters creeping up to this bridge in White Mills, Kentucky.

Road's gone.

Oh, this is never going to get big.

In Pikeville, flooding, tearing apart roads, and SUV washing off the road into a ditch.

And then Jackson, cars left abandoned, the storm leaving them submerged in water.

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