A sprawling area of storms infused with tropical moisture is dropping heavy rain along the Gulf Coast and could produce significant flash flooding into the weekend. The threat Friday is not as bad as previously expected,

Fifteen million people across the country are under flood alerts Friday. Along the Gulf Coast, heavy rain is expected to continue until Saturday. CBS News' Kati Weis reports.

There will be no tropical depression in the Gulf, at least this week. The National Hurricane Center on Thursday said an area of low pressure that had attracted the attention of weather watchers this week as it moved across the northern Gulf has moved inland in Louisiana as of Thursday evening.