DHS Secretary Kristi Noem addressed the deadly Texas flood, promising to upgrade "ancient" National Weather Service systems for better early warnings.

A flood advisory was released by the National Weather Service on Friday at 9:54 p.m. EDT in effect until Saturday at 1 a.m. EDT for Macomb and St. Clair counties.

At 3:32 p.m. on Friday, the National Weather Service released a flash flood warning in effect until 7:45 p.m. for Monroe County.

The First Alert Weather Team will be tracking possible severe weather including tornado warnings and thunderstorms Friday. LIVE Weather updates11:32 p.m.: Bettendorf Fire Department is evacuating homes on Parkway Drive.

EDT on Friday, the National Weather Service released a flood advisory in effect until 11 p.m. EDT for Ontonagon County.

The flood watch is in effect until 7 a.m. Friday for Cook County, the collar counties and the majority of northern Illinois, according to the National Weather Service.

The White House is defending the National Weather Service and accusing some Democrats of playing politics in the wake of devastating floods in Texas.

I-93 was essentially a river Thursday morning as torrential downpours dumped up to six inches of rain across eastern Massachusetts. As you probably heard from your phone's alert system screaming at you,

Communities south of Boston have seen between 3 and 4 and a half inches of rain on Thursday, with much of the region still under a flash flood warning. Weymouth so far saw the most rain, with preliminary reporting showing it’s received 4.