a 15-month old kansas girl is in critical condition after she suffered a possible electric >>> welcome to your monday morning. what a beautiful view. you got to stop, take a good look at this. clear skies, that is what we refer to as the 82% waning gibbous moon on its way becoming a half moon on the 18th of may and then it becomes a new moon where you can't see it at all but what we can see right now is a lot of clarity, a lot of clear skies out there. daylight hours today 14 hours, 13 minutes of sunshine, but i got to tell you something, we are going to be cool. we will talk about the cool temps and then the warmup. traffic and weather in four minutes. >>> a 15-month-old kansas girl is in critical condition after she suffered a possible electric shock at a carnival. her family believes she was shocked when she touched a guardrail surrounding one of the rides but police have not confirmed that detail. the toddler's grandparents say that moments after she touched the fence, she went limp and lost consciousness. a kansas state lawmaker says that a proposed law that would require strictin

host: let's go to sheila, in kansas, republican line. caller: good morning. you're on. caller: am i on? okay. i wish democrats in the house id senate with multi tasking, heard maxine waters say, incapable of doing work for the people. he wrote the affordable care act for their benefit and got it assed and i would like to see that anyone who takes donations from -- district of columbia, is office, according to his twitter account has picture of him which looks like he's in a hospital bed. well, looking forward to getting back to work, thanks wishes pray sxer well and goes on to describe the race he was running for. tillis, from his twitter account. a video actually of him talking about it. here he is. >> hey, everybody, i'm fine, ust running about 2-1/2 miles in, got overheated, no cpr, no checking asures, just me out. see you back on the hill. host: there you have it as far status of his ondition, that is from senator tom tillis. tony, democrats line, alabama. caller: yes. what i'm calling about, this is obama doing this stuff that doing now. we have all kind of hearing

it usually doesn't rain that much in southwest kansas. we've had 14 inches of rain in southwest kansas, that's incredible. i think the last time woe had that was in 1878. i remember that well. but the whole point of that is that with rain, we now have the habitat for the lesser prairie chicken, which has been listed and then not listed on the endangered species list. and i think with the habitat that we will have enough of lesser prairie chickens that we will have the greater lesser prairie chicken. that gets a little bit silly if you get down to it, but it isn't, because of all of the prohibitions to farmers and how they would conduct their cropping operations and everything else with regards to he the endangered species act. i would hope if any of you would have any ways that we could take a look at that, and we will cooperate with the other committees that have that jurisdiction, to see if we can get some answers. we are pretty close to listing farmers on the endangered species list given the rough patch that we're in. with that, thank

a high risk issued for this afternoon and this evening from central kansas to oklahoma. here is the timing for today. this is 2:00 p.m. the storms begin to pop around 4 to 5:00 in oklahoma, the high risk area between 5 and about 10 p.m. is when the worst of the storms are there near the great bend, wichita, down north of oklahoma city. then the storms will head over toward kansas city in the middle of the night. wind damage threat. dangerous day indeed. that's a look at the weather story of the day. a closer look at the day ahead. dallas, ft. worth area, you have to watch for strong winds today, also large hail. same in san about central kansas southward, then how about the back side of the storm where the cold and snow in colorado and wyoming. frances, talk about that mini heat wave that continues on the east coast. i'll let you know when it's going to end. >> thank you. check out this released video of a close call from the houston metro. one boy crosses the tracks, look another darts in front of a moving train. well, a split second about face saves that boy's life as

showers and thunderstorms will develop from kansas to illinois in the afternoon. some of those storms could be pretty severe with damaging winds and hail. >>> still ahead, a new airport confrontation emerging overnight. >>> plus, that tunnel collapse at a storage site for nuclear waste. we'll hear from a worker who was told to take cover. >>> and a frightening alleged threat at a north carolina high school. authorities say they foiled a plot within minutes to spare. >>> fema has okayed federal funds to fight the wildfire near the georgia/florida border. the west mims wildfire has expanded to more than 200 square miles. the fire has been burning for more than a month now and it may not be out until november. >>> officials in washington state are trying to figure out how to safeguard the area around a nuclear site after a mysterious tunnel collapse. the tunnel at the hanford nuclear reservation held railcars filled with radioactive waste. no workers were inside at the time of this partial collapse. now, local officials moving quickly to get people out of harm's way.

>> no, she's in kansas. >> stephen: she's back in kansas? this one's pretty profound. i believe this is a quote from thomas paine. "congrats, grads. the mind once enlightened cannot become dark." deep stuff, right, deep stuff. but the first draft read, "your drunk facebook photos are never going away." ( laughter ) ( applause ). >> oh, no! >> stephen: it's true. >> i better get to deleting then. >> stephen: what are you planning to do with your degree now that you're-- now that you have graduated? what do you want to do with your degree? >> i don't know. are you guys hiring? >> stephen: i'm being told we're not. i'm being told we're not. this one's a bit of a pep talk. it says, "congrats, graduates. now that all stands between and you your dreams is belief in yourself. that's true. the first draft read, "remember, if you have to, you can sell your blood." >> oh, no! never done that, i can say. >> stephen: i really like this one. it resident, "great work, grad. your future is up to you." it's true. it's true, ashlee. the first draft read,ing, ," wee not paying for grad

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, i can't argue in the basis of kansas. i can argue this on the basis of the j.f.k., '60s. i can argue this on the basis of 1930s if you want to go back there. wages, it's a wage-earners tax cut that's a big part of this too. you got consumer spending side no to the this -- >> you're made this point before but fill in the blanks. >> 70% of corporate tax cuts will go to better wages and benefits. corporations don't really pay taxes, they do but then they pass the burden along. and so they start with they're own staff whether that's right or wrong that's where they start, it also effects consumer prices. and by the way, it may have a national effect. if you're raising corporate taxes and wages go down in one spot it may effect the competition as well. this is a huge boost to business investment and consumer spending. i know we're going to have moderate l models and yelling and all that stuff, the museum from 1.8% growth which is the base lean for next ten years, to a potential 3% growth, i think is -- it's in the game. it's a

i too want to strengthen the protection provided for dairy producers, kansas is one of the biggest dairy producing states in the nation, but this should not be contingent on issues with dairy policies. i heard from a number of cotton producers about this proposal, and my message to them remains the same. i understand the economic hardship they are facing and i look forward to working with the new secretary of agriculture for those facing difficulties in farming. mr. president, i ask my colleagues to keep in their thoughts and prayers those farmers and ranchers who, through no fault of their own, are struggling today because of weather an fire. mr. president, i -- and fire. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island and the providence plantations. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for eight minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. the last two weekends have surged with political activism. around the world millions of people took to the str

i-70 we could get severe storms from kansas city into st. louis. from sunday we'll watch chicago to cleveland, buffalo. 40 will have a lot of rain, too, on sunday. by monday, the i-95 corridor has a chance of rainy weather. 85 from alabama into charlotte, north carolina. 20 from birmingham to dallas could have isolated storms. there will be headaches as we go into the holiday weekend as far as weather, no one will have a washout for all three days but we'll see isolated problems. as far as the big cities on i-95, boston looks good saturday and sunday. monday may have rain. new york city monday night we could get rain and monday, too. >> thanks for the good news yet again. >> yeah, right. >>> still ahead, wait until you see what happened when the white house budget chief tried to defend the president's spending plan to senator bernie sanders. >>> plus this -- >> were you offered the job? >> i can't say there was an actual offer, but -- >> but he said sort of, if you're interested, let me know? >> yeah. i don't want to go too far. he was very encoura

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look at what we saw in goodland, kansas yesterday. we saw torrential downpours, hail, wend and we are going to see more severe weather redevelopment today. we have a very moderate risk of seeing some of those stronger storms redeveloping, especially back through parts of the country like missouri. woor looking at the tornado threat and severe storms, especially through the midwest. we can see very large hail, we've had severe thunderstorm watches through the midwest, severe storms through kansas right now and we'll see move storms redevelop today. because of this setup, very moist, humid air, making it very uncomfortable down south. and we are going to see very large storms begin to develop later this afternoon. this area in red, that's where we have the moderate risk, we could see golf ball to soft balance size hail. also damaging wind gusts and a few tornadoes are very likely. some of those could be very small tornadoes. tomorrow they move farther to the east. we're still looking at the risk of hail, perhaps not as big of hail tomor

the national weather service logged closed a 20 reports of twisters from kansas, oklahoma, and texas, and several reports of high wind and hail. they are not in the clear as forecasters are predicting more tornadoes were the southern plains and parts of the midwest are scattered in pieces after a multi-day tornado outbreak. a stunning picture taken in the district. an eyewitness captured this photo during the storm last night showing the lightning strike near the washington monument. a beautiful photo but when you hear the thunder, you get nervous. doug: a lot of energy with the storms last night and heavy rain and today we could get a repeat performance but nothing like they have in oklahoma and kansas and in the central plains with different atmosphere of heavy downpours and thunderstorms but not under water's or advisories that watches or advisories. 89 at reagan national and 90 in frederick. temperatures off to a very rapid rise. the humidity levels are coming up and the combination makes it feel very uncomfortable. 91 at reagan national and 88 in hagerstown. 91 in fredericksburg.

. >> wichita, kansas, is such an all-american town that back in 1951 an all-american comic strip was set here. "dennis the menace." one part of wichita, broadway street, proves that even a family-friendly city can have an underbelly. >> there is all kinds of issues on broadway, and it's not just one part of broadway, it's the entire stretch of broadway through town. you can find at any given time stolen cars, drugs, prostitution, human trafficking. just so much that goes on on broadway. >> just a half a mile from broadway's red light district is the sedgwick county jail. most of the 1,150 inmates here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. vegas walker arrived fresh from broadway. >> i've been robbed before, i've been jumped on, i've been maced. there's never a dull moment on broadway. >> somebody always getting stabbed, fighting shooting. it might sound weird but it's kind of like an adrenaline rush to me. >> walker says she has been a drug dealer on broadway for much of her young life and it was a confrontation with a man on that stree

this is how many occurred from texas to kansas. that's the highest reports and that's exactly where our threat is today. the best chance of a tornado western kansas, western oklahoma and northern portions of texas and the threat goes all the way down to del rio. now a closer look at your day ahead. temperatures will be warm. we'll get the heating and the thunderstorms will continue well into this evening. we have 50s in the rockies and we're in the 90s all the way up to omaha today with a lot of rain and thunderstorms through mi ever encountered a bear? >> thankfully, no. >> how about an entire family in your own backyard? that's what connecticut family woke up to. they saw not one, not two, but three bears frolicking on their trampoline and if you look there's a little one to the left that couldn't figure out how to join the fun. >> that's hysterical. first would be how cute, and second freak out lock the it doors. still to come america's top 10 fittest cities. >>> and the latest wrangling over the president's travel banl. if you'

i mean, it's firing up now in kansas and oklahoma city. i think this is the storm they are tracking to the west a diameter it's north of 40. i think at one time you have the highest probability of a tornado. i think it's close to the firing up to the west. for us we have storms. nothing severe. heavy storms as you head up i- 270. we will zoom into a couple of these. this is a pretty good storm north of germantown. this will cross over over the next 30 minutes or so. moving about 30 miles per hour. i don't see hail with this around barnesville. again, essentially, moving to the north and east headed toward damascus. this is a pretty heavy storm. over toward brookville itself and claysville. this is just heavy rain crossing over georgia avenue and route 97. back to the west, a little more lightning with this. this is a heavier storm. this is going to move off to the north and east, but this cell is g of leesburg, cross over the river, in the next 30 minutes or so. heavy rain there right now. no severe storm warnings yet. we'll talk about the

city, the company is backing out completely so in kansas city, 25 different counties, folks will not have insurance whatsoever. why is this important to you at the, humana, this puts pressure on congress to figure out what they are going to do. heather: every day we hear about another company pulling out. we have some shares being checked out. >> reporter: they were not made by this particular company but if you have these, they are -- you can see the chair on your screen, nuts and bolts in the chair, turns out they may come out, then you would fall. costco, officemax, staples, sold between july 2015, and february of this year. heather: it looks like one they have downstairs at "fox and friends". >> reporter: we will check that out later. these are a couple fan favorites they are going to bring back from the 90s. dairy queen -- what you are seeing on screen is eminem treats and reese's treatment. i brought for you guys to taste a couple of these. this is reese's, i don't want this to fall. then they also have this treatment that you are trying right now, four flavors in time for summ

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as many as 20 in texas, oklahoma and kansas. abc's rob marciano reports from the storm zone in oklahoma. >> we have another funnel coming down. >> reporter: the time to repair is over as storms fire up in the heartland. look at the storm. it is titanic. this is a serious >> reporter: a rare forecast and a major severe weather outbreak on the way. >> look at all of the storm, the tornado is kicking up. >> reporter: strong damaging tornados and monster hail possible. a door nade owe doing damage here in oklahoma, produced by this thunderstorm. the leader edge is over us. you see the clouds, tells you how turbulent this atmosphere is. public schools in oklahoma city let out early ahead of the storms. it is the latest in a deadly multi-day outbreak. over three dozen report editor na tornados reported since thursday. winds gusting to 165 miles per hour with a 27 mile staff with this one outside of wichita. this time of year the systems move slowly, so not far from here eastern kansas, oklahoma and texas will have a severe weather thr

in the five metropolitan areas in the kansas city asian the metropolitan county -- in the kansas city asian the metropolitan county, remember, they have through competitors this year in those five counties. but humana announced in february that they'd be leaving next year. blue cross announced today that they'd be leaving. so five metropolitan counties at this moment at least have only one company that will even offer a policy, and 25 counties have no company that will offer a policy based on that announce many. if you only had one choice, you really -- do you really is any choice at all? understand this plan -- under this plan, unless we go in a very different direction, the choice is to pay the policy or pay the penalty. and this exchange that was promised, where the average family would see their insurance costs go down $2,500 a year is a far from that promise as you could possibly get. not only is your policy likely gone up more than $2,500, but your deductible has gone up in even higher percentages than that. certainly 30% of the counties in america right now only have one compan

louis, kansas city, nashville, atlanta upper 80s in the mid 70s. this heat is going to build moving towards the east on top of it as we get into the middle and latter part of the week. in the short term this storm system still spinning with rain. parts of new hampshire this morning about 15 to 1800 feet woke up to snow on mother's day. this storm is giving us all of the wind we've been dealing with and a couple of showers in south west pennsylvania might just sneak in west of us but for the most part dry and breezy tonight and on monday until that storm system pulls away the wind will be up and that's going to happen monday night into tuesday. then here comes the warmth. tuesday looks great. highs tuesday in the going to just--it should stay hot. can't rule out an isolated storm wednesday afternoon. temperatures into the low 90s in many areas. 46 to 54 tonight, partly cloudy and brisk northwest winds 10 to 20. tomorrow morning 50s and 60s but with the breeze around yes certainly jacket weather for sure and then in the afternoon not bad at all. low

many served most of her prison time in fort leavenworth in kansas. it was in prison that manning began her gender transition and took on the name chelsea. there was domestic and international concern over the use of solitary confinement and other restrictions. apparently to protect manning. in his last days in office, president obama commuted manning's sentenced to a total of seven years. she tweeted a few days before her release, freedom was only a dream and hard to imagine. now it is here. you kept me alive. brent: german police may have missed a chance to arrest berlin truck attacker before he committed the crime. he killed 12 people when he joke into a christmas market back in december. investigators say police had enough evidence to arrest him on drug charges. they may have tried to cover up that fact after the terror attack. reporter: berlin, 19, december last year. it was the worst terror attack in germany today. he stole a freighter truck and drove through the middle of a berlin christmas market. he killed 12 and injured 67 others. authoritie

blaire road between kansas avenue and north capital. we still have all lanes blocked there this morning. inner loop after pennsylvania avenue, work zone blocks right lane. hi, sheena. >> good morning, melissa. looking at a beautiful day shaping up. if you like the warm weather or i should say the hot weather, well, we have a lot of that in the forecast. it will be a pleasant morning this morning. if the kids are heading out to the bus stop, you might want a slight jacket. a little bit cooler by the afternoon. heating up this week, 90s in the forecast. we stay dry. that will be our next rain chance. temperature wise in the 50s. gaithersburg at 52. in the district 57. dulles in that area, 54 degrees is the temperature. we will be warming up nicely today. if you're exercising outdoors, nice and dry. by 7:00 a.m., 54 degrees. a little breezy. winds will be picking up. by 6:00 p.m. temperatures in the nice 70s. rain near new england and a little bit down towards our south. that will allow temperatures to really heat up, too. no rain to cool

parts of oklahoma and kansas under a high risk storm alert. a rare warning for intense tornados, widespread large hail and winds greater than 70 miles per hour. >> these severe storms will continue to move into the midwest overnight, but tomorrow, another round of severe weather will break out in the same general area, the best chance of large tornados will be across oklahoma and down through texas. >> what is this? >> further west however, a late spring storm dumping heavy snow, shutting down colorado highways and many schools. up to three feet of snow in parts of monday tang in a. but in the northeast, a completely different story, record breaking heat baking boston and new york. >> it's a strong tornado. no question about that. >> a long night ahead in the midwest. a massive storm system, packing a punch. >> oklahoma's in the middle of a tornado outbreak, at least 11 reports of tornados so far with many more expected. here in oklahoma city, the rain is starting to fall, the storm will intensify and move up through kansas overnight. lester?

there were blizzard conditions in western kansas, the state hit by late season snow shutting down power. nbc's jay gray, what can you tell us on the latest deadly storms? >> reporter: this is the kind of devastation many are experiencing. ripped apart by raging floodwaters. >> look at this thing. >> reporter: a monster tornado. one of more than a dozen to strike this weekend part of a storm system that in other areas delivered flooding rains. >> some of the flooding we're seeing in parts of missouri has surpassed historic levels. >> reporter: soaking and swallowing entire communities. >> the power of water is something that people under estimate and so it is scary, you know, when it's taking people's homes. >> reporter: and taking lives. the storms have claimed more than a dozen victims across 16 states. >> very tragic. very traumatic. i never went through anything like this. >> reporter: at lose four ripped through this city east of dallas. trees pulled from the ground and tossed aside. homes and businesses chewed up and spit out by the violent twisters leaving survivors stunned and ov

southbound side closed from blare towed nicholson to kansas avenue. back to you. >> 4:47 is the time. fox5 tracking passenger recovering after he says he was attacked by a group of people on the red line. the victim tells fox5 it happened friday evening at metro center. he says he was pushed to the ground and punched by five men. he suffered a broken hand and bruises to his face. he says nothing was stolen. so far metro police hasn't released any information about any possible suspects. >> a second incident happened sunday morning at the van ness station. police were called to deal with a fight. three men were involved. one of the men suffered a cut to his face. he was taken to a hospital for treatment. other two people were arrested and charged with assault with dangerous weapon. the incident caused minor delays on the red line while police investigated. >> ♪ >> we continue to follow the search for a missing woman and her eight month old daughter in central virginia. keira and chloe johnson were reported missing back on april 30th in the hampton ar

a moderate risk for western kansas, oklahoma and texas, a very dangerous day on thursday. the day is not quite as bad. an enhanced risk of isolated tornadoes in areas of iowa. we'll watch it over the nt twoen seattle. only the 50s in boise. >> even some snow in the rockies with the storm going through right now, frances. a lot of interesting weather across the country. a lot of extremes. >> bill, how about this for your dad envy, i'm sure you've got it when you see this. this awesome creation from an arizona family. they were wanting to do this, inspired by a movie. they created their own pirate ship in the back yard, inspired by the black pearl from pirates of the caribbean. it stands three stories high, taller than their town's city hall building, by some vantage points even bigger than their own house. >>> just ahead, details of the largest cockfighting raid ever recorded by law enforcement. what led to chaos in washington, d.c. at the turkish ambassador's residen residence? (vo) more "doing chores for mom" per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% lon

that has from the texas panhandle, oklahoma and into kansas, prime time for severe weather today. for us focusing with high pressure building in and warming up for most. 60s, 70s and upper 70s with low 80s. the trend is to keep warming up into saturday for inland with low 90s, cooler into early next weekend. >>> it is 5:20 am. >>> the federal reserve says that americans owe more money now than in any time in history. and the first quarter this year we owed 12 and three-quarter trillion dollars surpassing the old record from 2008 when the u.s. economy plunged into the deep recession. the debts are piling up in different places, and these days the student loans and car loans make up the bigger part of the debt. mortgages and credit card debts aren't prerecession levels. a landless say the debt is more sustainable because the interest rates are lower and the lenders are more focused on credit worthy borrowers. >>> it is 5:21 am. >>> reaching the brim of wet winter time and water levels at lake tahoe at near maximum capacity, and coming up, how that is affecting the people nearby. >>>

take a look at what we saw in kansas yesterday. this is a huge shelf cloud over i-70 in goodland, kansas. a severe storm was affecting the area with large hail, damaging winds and torrential downpours. we are looking at the chance of seeing more of this wet weather as we go through today. we are looking at the possibility of the strongest storms, especially through southern missouri, where we could see some tornadoes, large tornadoes, and also some damaging winds. so could see some of the strongest storms today across missouri. and we could see some really heavy rain back through tennessee as well. so we've got this set up producing severe storms. we already have severe storm watches in effect for parts of the midwest. and it is all because of this setup in the jet stream colliding with very warm, humid air. with dew points running in the low to mid-70s. as the front moves eastward, we're going to see another round of storms redevelop this afternoon. the area in red includes southern missouri, that's where we could see golf ball to

it doesn't usually rain that much in southwest kansas. we've had 14 inches of rain in southwest kansas. the last time was 1878. i remember that well. but the whole point of that is that with rain, we now have the habitat for the lesser prairie chicken which has been listed and then not listed on the endangered species list. and i think with the habitat we will have enough lesser prairie chickens that we will have the greater lesser prairie chicken. that gets a little bit silly if you get down to it but it isn't because of all of the prohibitions to the farmers and how they would conduct their cropping and the endangered species act. i hope if you have any ways that we can take a look at that, we will cooperate with the other committees in that jurisdiction to see if we can get some answer. we are pretty close to listing farmers on the endangered species list with the patch that we're in. thank you for the witnesses to take your time to share your views on issues impacted agriculture and the crop protection industries. the testimonies will

we want to tell you about yet another hero in kansas city. a good samaritan credited with springing into action to help a group of elementary school students when this happened. the bus caught on fire. the man herald a loud -- heard a loud noise, saw the flames, and he ran there to the bus and he helped get all 33 kids out. no one was hurt. nancy: to wyoming where dozens confiscated from the owner. they were being kept in a large kennel with no food or water. this was at a home in the countryside. authorities now working to find shelter space for all of these animals. >> going to no-kill facilities that will have the manpower to help the dogs sort of figure out what life is all about. nancy: some of the dogs have medical issues like worms and malnutrition but once they recover they will be placed with permanent homes. alison: trial underway in france now. britain's prince william and his wife duchess of cambridge are suing the magazine "closer" that published topless photos of the duchess in 2012. the royal couple looking for $2 million in da

. >> i'm feeling for people in kansas. >> i. don't want to live anywhere where there's snow in may. >> it could have been us if we had the right weather set is up. it could have been. the thing is it's not good timing because the leaves are on the trees and they collect the snow and they get heavy. so the leaves make a huge difference when you have heavy snowfall. locally, we're not talking about snow at all. we're talking about the complete opposite. we have storms that are approaching the area. there's still pretty far away. they are not moving in right this second, we have a weather alert for this afternoon. stng p.m. temperature wise, we're warming up pretty quickly. expected to be in the 80s. 76 in clinton. 74 in dulles. that's going to fuel those storms. if you're dining out, lunch still looks dry. just warm and windy. happy hour still fairly dry. 85 degrees. we'll start to see the approach of some showers. by dinner time we're looking at some potentially strong to severe storms, especially after sunset. right now we're dr

down in a rural area of southwest oklahoma and tore through northwest texas as well and south central kansas. wow. it went on for a while. the storms are also bringing heavy rains and hail along with some flash flooding. so far there have been no reports of injuries or major damage. forecasters say more potential dangerous weather on tap for today. >>> woukt meteorologist justin joins us with the details. >> good morning to is over the same area, stretching from kansas and missouri all the way south into texas along interstate 35, damaging winds, flooding downpours, large hail and tornados. the northeast turning cooler over the interior but still talking about 80s in boston and 90s from philadelphia heading into d.c. meanwhile, the snow continues over the rockies. highest terrain will be miss fisheruring it in feet. kendis, diane. >> justin, thanks. >>> the last of four prominent statues honoring the confederacy comes down in new orleans. the city is removing a monument to general robert e. lee. pro the lee statue will come down during the day. an online auction site cashed in on remnants of

eastern, we'll visit the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri, and talk with the you museum's senior curator, door rin clark, mitchell faulkner and museum's president and ceo, matthew naylor. >> we seek to do here tell the story through the lives of people, ordinary people, men and women, volunteers as well as those who served in the armed forces from all sides. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. >> law enforcement officials from new york, massachusetts, and maryland testified about efforts to combat the ms-13 street gang in local communities. ms-13 is a multinational gang which started in los angeles with members in major u.s. and central american cities. the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee

that around to where they were thinking of kansas, and we won our first one. david: but the next year you came against kentucky in a semi final, and that became one of the greatest games ever played. mike: right. david: can you recount what happened at the end? mike: it was really a back-and-forth game, and they went ahead 102-101, and so our guys called a timeout with 2.1 seconds. we were down by a point, and when all the guys came in -- i think the very first thing a leader has to show is strength, and so i met them as they were coming to the bench and i said, "we are going to win. we are going to win." i don't know if i really believed that, but i kept saying it. and then we sat down, and a lot of times it is good to ask a guy to do something instead of telling him, so grant hill, i said, can you throw the ball 75 feet? he was going to inbound the ball, and he said, yeah, i can do that. i said, well, i want you to throw a ball and i'm going to bring laettner up to the top of the key, and i looked to laettner, who was very confident, very cocky, and i said,

in a photograph from arlington national cemetery, the memorial day sign at the kansas restaurant going viral. get the full story on the website. richard from missouri, good morning. retired military. caller: yeah, well, i served my time during the vietnam war. happened to be in the national guard. they kept telling us we might have to be called, they had draftees, so didn't call the guard in that war. i was calling about my great grand father, union soldier, served in company g eighth calvary, a union soldier buried in st. louis up there. goes way back. host: thank you. tweet from another viewer, everyday is an appropriate day to thank those who have served. share your thoughts at cspan wj. ken from california, up early on memorial day monday, go ahead, please. caller: yes, my mother and father were both naval officer necessary world rar woem cspan wj. ken from california, up early on memorial -- war ii. my mom was in the wave and was one of the first to serve. my my -- one of my uncles served in world war i, he was in the army and later became a chaplin later. yeah memorial day is tim

western portions of kansas. from colorado. one spot picked up 32 inches in the mountains the of colorado. ridiculous stuff. little bit of snow for minnesota, south dakota. and nebraska getting snow on the backside. front side we're worried about today. 80 million people at risk of severe weather. go over the timeline. a lot of activities with the kids. 2:00 p.m. around pittsburgh. charleston. by 7:00 p.m. storms at the strongest and peak as they go through central new york. central pennsylvania including state college and then looks like they get towards dc by about 7-8:00. storms break up a little bit after that. they're not going be the straight line doing a lot of damage. we are at a slight risk in areas like new york city and albany and washington, d.c. and philly and baltimore. wind damage throughout as the storms go through. isolated strong tornado today. if that happens. most likely pennsylvania, new york. how about the rainfall. this was # 5-10 inches from missouri to illinois. try to do a visual on some of those thing

our chs there's a high risk of severe weather across parts of oklahoma and kansas. if you're haeaded out towards kansas city, flight delays later. >>> we're also keeping an eye on how your 401k will do today after stocks saw their worst day on wall street. how the turmoil surrounding president trump is impacting your bottom line. >>> it's a first for >>> good thursday morning. it is a warm one when you walk outside. 72 degrees right now in the district. some areas are even close to 80. don't expect it to get much cooler. we'll be in the 90s today. i'll show you that full forecast including your weekend straight ahead. >>> and he's behind a shocking crime. this morning he's still on the loose. the new video that police want you to see of an arlington rape suspect. >>> and a special counsel on collusion. we're live from capitol hill where the investigation into russia's efforts to influence the presidential election is heating up. >>> the controversy at the white house affecting stock markets around the world. erika gonzalez at the live desk. >> reporter: good morning

i lived in kansas for two severe weather seasons and i saw almost baseball, but never softball. that's very rare to see that, so impressive, too, the damage that can do. as far as today goes, we won't see anything like that, small hail, 5 million people at risk in western new york, also central pennsylvania. dip in the jet stream over the great lakes. all the warmth continues throughout the west. it was a gorgeous three-day weekend. salt lake city at 87. to contrast that, minneapolis only getting to 60 degrees if they're lucky. later this week, the warmth continues from albuquerque down to texas. much of it continues through th around eureka and crescent city. >>> have you seen what happened over the weekend? an all-out brawl at the giants-nationals game in san francisco. the washington's bryce harper was hit by the fastball. points. let's dance. even throws the helmet for good measure. then they go at it. hunter strickland on the mound. the fight lead to all the benches clearing. then they danced in the middle and pushed and shoved. the pitcher and harper were ejected and each

this area around texas panhandle, oklahoma, into kansas. they are going bonkers for this right here. tornadic activity looks possible today. for us, warmer temps. and then upper 70s low 80s inland. and the temps trend goes up until saturday. that will be the warmest day. then fog creeps back sunday and monday. >> do you see rain anywhere? >> no. it is tough. it can happen but i don't see it. >> all right, steve. the time is 7:50. well, the fidget spinner toy is one of the hottest toys around. coming up at 8:00, the warning from one mother after her daughter almost died while playing with that toy. >>> plus, the growing problem at lake tahoe with graffiti. some of the most beautiful and scene tick parts of the -- scenic parts of the lake. have assembled. so, what's the plan? breaking out the guardians, pal. celebrate the summer of heroes, only at disneyland resort. hero up! >> welcome back to mornings on 2. a sacramento area man was arrested and accused of stealing almost $1 million worth of bees and beehives from farmers in the central vall

we've seen a special election in kansas for a house seat. it was a district that donald trump won by 27 points. what was the margin in the special election? republicans won but it came down to 7 points. that was 20 points in the democrats' direction. think about that. the democrats in kansas, they made up 20 points in the special election. again, we don't know what the final number is going to be here, but donald trump won montana by 21 points. let's say it landed at 6 points which is where it is right now in montana. that would be a gain for the democrats of 15 points off the donald trump margin. we also have, don't forget coming up in georgia in the suburbs of atlanta, you have a district down there that donald trump won by just one point. you have a runoff there coming in a few weeks. democrats, they'll be sorely disappointed if they don't win that one. they want to be able to see in all these special elections at a very minimum, they want to see progress in their direction. make no mistake about it, they also want to see a win. they thou

rajini vaidyanathan is outside the prison in kansas. as chelsea manning said anything today? she has not given any on camera statements but she did release a written statement not long ago. just saying that she was looking forward to her freedom so much and also thanking all her supporters from around the world. who have helped and lobbied for her release for the past seven years while she was held here at an all—male military prison. she also released a photo of her lace up shoes and said, first steps of freedom in the caption. her release was under the cover of darkness, with very little fanfare, in the early hours of the swelling. it has been met with mixed reaction, supporters are delighted and after a long campaign she has now been released. but certainly hear some people have been driving past while we have been here this morning, one man stopped his car and said, chelsea manning is a traitor. and that certainly is how some people in this military town feel about the fa ct this military town feel about the fact that she has been given an early release. it is important

the animals arrived in the lehigh valley from the zoo in kansas city last week. the zoo ceo says everything went well at first. >> when he came into the barn murphy took the side of his face and rubbed it against ernie's neck. >> reporter: but scene officials say it was over this past weekend when murphy and ernie turned aggressive toward each other. while it's not unusual behavior forever rasers their handlers decided to keep them in separate enclosures overnight into sunday as a precaution. when scene officials returned sunday morning, they found ernie was that standing with his head bowed unusually low and they knew something was wrong. the medical staff quickly converged onto the scene. >> as they started taking his vitals ernie fell over and he passed away on his own. that was probably the -- that was probably the most -- i never want to see or experience anything like that again. >> reporter: at the outset it was believed that ernie may have died from a possible neck injury endured while scuffling with murphy. the cause of death remains unknown pending the

. >> manning will be released from a kansas military prison after sevenning seven years out of a 35 year sentence, all for leaking government material to is off the pedestal in new orleans. that's three out of four civil war monuments getting removed. people from texas to the canadian border are cleaning up. tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ripped through the center of the country. the nays si weather left one person dead, dozens injured in western wisconsin. capitol hill is in an uproar other the latest to come out of the white house. president trump tried to pressure former fbi director, james comey, drop an investigation into fired national security adviser, michael flynn, the white house denies the account. the news at 4:30 starts right now. >>> this is wakeup washington on wusa9. >> good morning, i'm mike hydeck. we are in for a hot one. the news for us in a little bit. 93, allyson rae. >> yes, it's going to be hot today. if you t aren't going to be too hot for too long. two days of 90-degree temperatures and then we'll be back in the 80s. this weekend is shaping up to be pretty c

she posted this picture of herfeet on kansas. she posted this picture of her feet on instagram ansett first steps of freedom. she was expected to be injailfor decades but president obama commuted the sentence. now, this is the king of the netherlands, he is called willem alexander, looking very regal here during an important visit but he has revealed he has been secretly flying commercial passenger aircraft. a p pa re ntly commercial passenger aircraft. apparently for the last 21 years he flew twice a month as a co—pilot with klm. unbelievable. he says he was rarely recognised while in uniform. and these are images of catholic devotees taking part in a religious festival in the northern philippines. they are dancing to worship the painter and saint of fertility. this procession begins and ends in the town of dando at the 263—year—old church where the priestsjoin the 263—year—old church where the priests join the parishioners 263—year—old church where the priestsjoin the parishioners in 263—year—old church where

the same storm drops snow in western kansas and as you might imagine, it caused problems for drivers and pulled down branchs and power lines as well. >> to stay on top of the weather here and across the country, download our nbc washington app and get alerts sent directly to your phone. >>> now developing in virginia at this hour, investigators say a fire may have started after a fight between a husband and a wife. first responders found them inside their home with burn injuries. one of them had to be airlifted to the hospital. deputies say no one else was inside the home. it's unclear how bad the injuries are or how much damage was done inside the home. >>> if you think you're having a case of the mondays, check out the damage in montgomery county. police say a group of teenagers stomped in the windshields of about three dozen vehicles overnight at an apartment complex in gaithersburg. that's a mess, pat. doreen. it was a windshield smash-a-rama. they got this red chevy. look at this, bull's eye. and this nissan over here, you don't even want to see what it's like inside there. you

this area out here, near wichita, kansas, that has eyes on us for friday morning. four things to know, number one, take it in and enjoy today. and as the clouds come our way, we'll be weather alert particularly friday morning. and weekend plan s -- ooh, you need backups, we'll talk about the chilly and potentially soggy details. for now, let's hear about the good news, sheena. >> the good news starts this morning. temperatures on the cooler side. 65 degrees. very comfortable. we expect the n dropping until about sunrise this morning. another breezy day, but we're going to stay very nice and dry. here's a look at your wednesday planner. plenty in the forecast. a little breezy at times, 66 degrees. nice weather if you want to have lunch outside by 4:00 p.m. by 7:00 p.m., we're still looking at the mid-60s. a beautiful wednesday coming up. we're taking a look at the timing. >> good morning. right now, a couple of here hanging on the beltway, inner loop and georgetown road, left lane getting by there, inner loop to alex sand degrandria. we have the ramp block. waxpool