There’s a growing chance that an area meteorologists are monitoring in the tropics could develop into a storm around the southeastern United States. If the system comes to fruition, heavy rain, gusty winds and rip currents could hit Florida, coastal Georgia and the Carolinas into the holiday weekend.

Parts of the Mid-Atlantic States — including Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and New Jersey — were on alert on Tuesday evening, as a forecast for thunderstorms and heavy rain led to flash flood warnings across the region.

Heavy rain and damaging wind are possible, though a low probability in today's storms in Connecticut, officials say.

Constructed in eight days with an annual budget of $450 million, the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention camp in Florida is already feeling the strain, in this video from Democratic candidate for Orlando Mayor Anna Eskamani.

In the Florida deluge, water quickly seeps into the tent structures designed to house as many as 3,000 detainees.

New video showed a "garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm" flooding tents and drowning out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as he touted the "Alligator Alcatrez" detention facility he claimed was ready to house deportees,