WATCH: Major flash floods, tornadoes in the Midwest

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We turn now to that major flash flooding across the midwest. Severe storms causing major damage forcing rescues like this one in Rockford, Illinois. ABC’s Alex Perez there with the very latest. Good morning, Alex. Reporter: Good morning, Amy. That resident is going to be okay. But it with us a rough night of flooding here across the Rockford area. Many areas, take a look, ended up just like this one. Cars floating away in the flood. Overnight, a flash flood emergency. Drivers stranded. Water rising inside a hospital. This was the scene in Rockford, Illinois, water picking up and carrying away that car. People jumping into action. Smashing the windows an elderly man trapped inside. Everyone working together, miraculously, the man pulled to safety that Cadillac submerged nose first. Emergency crews scrambling to the scene as more stranded drivers wait to be rescued. This man, out of his car, waving at drivers to stop. Our hospital is flooding. Reporter: And check out the halls of this hospital, water streaming through the hallways. There is a river here. Reporter: Trash floating through, patients evacuated overnight. A dam failing. Raging water pouring through the dam. Flowing for miles downstream across the border into Minnesota. To give you an idea, residents got about 5 inches of rain in 3 1/2 hours. Many residents here of beginning that process of assessing that damage. Amy. So many frightening images. Unfortunately those storms aren’t going away in the midwest. New concerns about flash flooding and ginger has been tracking it all for us. Reporter: You get that type of event from training storms. As the low moves through, just north of Des Moines, could see more than four inches. Also we’re watching in galveston, Texas, it looks tropical because it is. 3 to 5 overall. Michael. All right, thank you, ginger. We’re going to go overseas

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