Heavy rain is expected to continue across parts of the U.S. after moisture-laden storms pummeled the Northeast on Thursday.

New Jersey is under a flood watch today, and officials are warning residents to be careful and pay attention to conditions.

Impact Day Today

Two top leaders in a rural Texas county were asleep and a third was out of town in the initial hours of a catastrophic flood that caused widespread destruction and killed more than 130 people

For the first time since catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, Texas, the county emergency management director conceded that he was sick and asleep as the water rose to historic levels on the Guadalupe River.

All key leading officials from the Texas county hardest hit by the July 4 flash flooding that killed at least 136 people, were absent from an emergency briefing call ahead of the flash flooding incident,

Texas lawmakers held a day-long hearing in Kerrville to investigate the lack of warnings during the deadly July 4 flooding along the Guadalupe River. Officials revealed that key county leaders were unavailable during the early hours of the disaster.

State lawmakers will be in Kerrville Thursday, nearly a month after the deadly Texas Hill Country flooding. It's all part of a joint hearing to discuss what happened during the flooding tragedy, explore possible solutions,