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35 million face dangerous flood threat across South

Heavy rain continues across the South and along the Gulf Coast, including portions of Texas and Louisiana that were battered by Beryl. Some 35 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are included in the Level 2 and Level 3 flood risk areas on NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center’s 4-point scale.

The Level 3 risk zone covers parts of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana, where two weather systems will combine to drench the region with up to 3 inches of rain per hour on Thursday.

Hurricane HQ: Tropical Storm Bud forms in Eastern Pacific

The second storm of the hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific formed Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center designated an area of disturbed weather over 400 miles off the coast of Mexico as Tropical Storm Bud.

Tropical Storm Bud was expected to exist for only around a day or two before beginning to weaken while in the open waters of the Pacific and working westward.

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Oregon battles country’s largest ‘megafire’

A wildfire raging in eastern Oregon is now the largest in the country. The Durkee Fire, ignited by a lightning strike on July 17, has scorched nearly a quarter-million acres.

Watch this: Incoming … fish?

A Tesla owner got quite the shock when they found their windshield smashed. But when he went to review the footage, you’ll never believe what came flying out of the sky. The theory is that the fish was dropped by a bird that had plucked its catch from a nearby bay.

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — “She’s as cold as ice,” said the caller to the 911 dispatcher. “I think she’s deceased.”

It was 4:06 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2014. A girl’s beaten body was found in a vacant apartment in Clear Lake, Texas.

“It looks like there’s a toilet bowl lid thing-you know from the back of the tank?” said the caller. “It’s smashed up all over the place. I think that might be what they used to kill her.”

It was dark and dank in that empty apartment with no power, but pieces of that white porcelain toilet tank lid were shattered and strewn about.

Authorities would later identify the murdered girl as 15-year-old Corriann Cervantes. She had been killed four days earlier, by two teens she trusted.

Now, ten years after her brutal murder, Corriann’s family is telling their story.

In our latest Texas True Crime episode, you’ll hear never released, exclusive interviews with the people who helped send Corriann’s killers to prison. You’ll see how police got a 16-year-old to confess to murder. And, for the first time, a convicted killer talks.

“Deal with the Devil” is now streaming on ABC 13.

Watch Texas True Crime on your favorite streaming devices, like Roku, FireTV, AppleTV and GoogleTV. Just search “ABC13 Houston.”