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Good morning. $4.02 a gallon, that's the average price Americans are now paying for regular unleaded gas 보통 무연 휘발유 and the impact is being felt from Main street <소도시의> 중심가 to Wall street. This morning a survival guide. The heat is on. Record highs along the Eastern seaboard 동해안 today, temperatures in the triple digits while residents in the Midwest brace for ~에 대비하다 more heavy rain 폭우 and flooding.
And Adrift <배가> 표류하여, 떠돌고. 5 sailors rescued in the Gulf 26 hours after their boat flipped over 뒤집히다. They'll tell us their story of triumph 승리 and tragedy 비극 today, Monday, June 9th, 2008. From NBC News, this is TODAY, with Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, live from Studio 1a in
Parts of the Midwest under water, following a series of volatile 변덕스러운 thunderstorms <강풍이 따르는> 뇌우 this past weekend. 29 counties 군, <State 바로 밑의 행정 단위> in Indiana have been declared disaster areas from rapidly rising rivers. In Columbus, Indiana, residents barely had time to make it out of their homes and floodwaters 홍수 poured in and out of the city's regional hospital, now closed indefinitely 무기한으로.
In Mason City, Iowa, the Winnebago River swelled <강물 등이> 붇다, 부풀다 to 17 feet, a new record and it has yet to 아직 ~하지 않다 crest <강이> 최고 수위에 이르다. 40 miles Southwest of Grand Rapids, Michigan, two people drowned 익사하다 when their car careened 기울다 down a flooded ravine 계곡, 골짜기. Creeks 시내, rivers, and levees <강의> 제방, 둑 pushed beyond the limits and more rain on the way 다가오는.
West of Chicago, a resident captured this tornado touching down 착륙하다, <토네이도가> 강타하는 것을 의미함 taking out trees and causing damage to buildings. "We sat there like half a minute, you know, it just kind of in awe 두려워하는."
In Manly, Iowa, storm chasers spotted <구어> 발견하다 this funnel cloud 깔때기 구름. From volatile storms in the Midwest to extreme heat on the East coast, heat advisories 혹서 주의보 stretch from the mid-Atlantic to New England. "It's brutal out here, I have this ice pack, which was ice about 20 minutes ago, it’s now pure liquid."