murrah federal building in oklahoma city. oklahoma attorney stephen jones is appointed as mcveigh's public defender. jones immediately rejects the possibility of an insanity defense. >> timothy mcveigh was not insane. he was rational. he was interviewed by several psychologists and psychiatrists and didn't have any obvious mental disorder or emotional disorder. >> the question comes up, why is a non mentally ill individual going to conduct a bombing which kills hundreds of people? >> i don't want people to misread what i'm about to say, but i was surprised at how affable and likable he appeared to be for a man who had killed 168 people in cold blood. >> reporters dan herbeck and lu michelle spent more than 70 hours interviewing mcveigh trying to gain some insight into what led him to become a domestic terrorist. by all accounts, an early turning point for mcveigh comes in 1988 when he joins the army. while stationed at ft. benning, georgia, he and his roommate michael fortier bond with their platoon leader terry nickles over

a few tornadoes possible from oklahoma city down to dallas. now we have a strong risk from wichita, oklahoma city and some of these tornadoes could be very strong. 18 to 19 million people and then we move into saturday. again, that strong -- this is the day we are most concerned about lester, from wichita, falls into oklahoma. some of these tornadoes could be the long track tornadoes and the strong tornadoes that could cause major damage. >> all right. al roker, al thanks very much. >>> there are stunning new revelations about that terrorist attack at an anti-islamist event in texas. the fbi director revealing tonight that the feds sent a bulletin to local police warning them about one of the men who would open fire just hours later. our justice correspondent pete williams has late details. >> reporter: just three hours before sunday's shooting attack in garland, texas texas, the police sent a secure electronic message with eltoncism sob's number and car license number. the fbi acted as soon as it developed information that he was interested i

all the ingredients coming together right in oklahoma just south of oklahoma city. a large tornado on the ground it's moving only to the northeast about 10 miles per hour. of course, they've been dealing with tornadoes year in year after year inform thing got off to a slow start so far this month. the month of may is typically the most active for tornadoes but right there you can see live pictures coming out of the oklahoma area. ultimate doppler has been lit up up. showing that signature take a look of the you can sigh just south of oklahoma city. that classic hook that we've been tracking and it's moving toward norman, oklahoma. franklin oklahoma so we'll have to continue to watch that producing hail with this particular area that we're watching. a super cell thunderstorm just south of oklahoma city. but expanding the view, you can see a lot of tornado warnings and also severe thunderstorm warnings from, say just outside of dallas moving all the way through oklahoma as well as kansas. but thankfully nothing severe closer to our area. we've been getting a reprieve

this is the scene in norman oklahoma. 20 miles from oklahoma city. the cars submerged from the flash flooding. the areas of amber and bridge creek south and west of the metro area reporting heavy damage. >> these storms produced nine confirmed tornadoes in kansas. people in the north central part of the state assessing the damage now the strongest storms have moved through. two homes were severely damaged in sedgewick county. winds so powerful they snapped in two and toppled tombstones. >>> a huge twister in nebraska. a man saw it destroy a farm near the town of hardy on the state line with kansas. not far away with roseland another possible tornado yanked homes off foundations and put others in splinters. >> like what you see on tv. never thought i would see it in real life. i saw one cloud and saw it dissipate and saw two clouds meet as one. we could hear the sound of a train. our ears started popping because of the air pressure. we went to our locker room. >> again, heavy rains. you see what it does to the creeks and rivers there. >> meteorologist

warnings blared across university of oklahoma campus. outside rain, hail, and dangerous flash flooding left cars underwater. a wall was ripped off a hotel and roads bucked. one woman died when her storm shelter flooded. katie and josh thought it would happen to them. their underground shelter was filling fast. with their door covered in debris, they were trapped. >> that's the most scary thing when you don't know what to tell your kids. >> a neighbor heard their screams and rescued them. >> such a relief somebody was out there looking out for us. this is the oklahoma governor today. >> we save lives because we took action early, and we have a good system in oklahoma. >> tonight with more storms in the forecast, it's a race against time for already hard hit. families like this one that lost so much focuses on being grateful for what they have. >> our kids are safe. we're safe. we can rebuild. >> tonight, no roof over their head literally. that's what many families are dealing with right now as another round of storms are upon us. it's wor

look at oklahoma city still seeing very intense storms down towards moore, oklahoma. thunderstorm warnings and this flash flood warning, they've seen upwards of 5 to 10 inches of rain. some areas up to a foot of rain. one of the wettest maydays never oklahoma city. that's going to be a huge impact for them tomorrow too. for us we dealt with rain across our area too. the good news is starting to see that rain really dying out across our region. but still some shower activity back towards the west and through warren county down towards rappahannock. i'll let you know when our next transof storms is in. we'll talk about the lightest on the possible tropical system moving our way. >> doug thank you. >>> new at 11:00, an effort to bring transparency to police-involved shootings in fairfax county. fairfax police chief edwin ressler released dash cam video of the 2009 shooting that killed david masters. the video begins with police chasing a large suv which gets stuck in traffic and then pulls away. that's when you see two officers run after the suv, and you hear gunshots bu

you say it is in new castle but moving toward oklahoma city including moore oklahoma. i was there in 2013 to cover that the aftermath of that tornado there. is moore potentially in the path of this tornado right now? >> yeah absolutely. this is what we are looking at this notch right here. if you can see that red notch, that is what we look for when detecting large and dangerous tornadoes. this is heading to the northeast at 25 miles per hour. here is moore right here. it is on the heels. we are going to continue to monitor it. these things waiver. they fall in a straight line. if you are anywhere in the vicinity of moore, norman the south side of the suburbs, be on the lookout. of course this is fluid, wolf changing second by second. we are going to stay with you throughout the evening and let you know if there are changes. those are the live pictures there. very heavy rain. expect very large hail associated with this. again, a very large tornado reported on the ground there. >> it is 5:15 p.m. central time there, local time. i'm sure there's a lot of cars on the road

notice oklahoma city there again. >> joining us now on the phone from moore, oklahoma is associated press reporter shawn murphy. what's the situation there now? >> well the biggest situation here now is primarily the flooding. st storms brought with them heavy rains and once the tornados moved through, the rain flooded a lot of roadways especially in this city which is a suburb of oklahoma city. people are just having to deal with mostly -- mostly just flooded roadways some are impassable. but that's about the worst of it right now. >> and is there a -- is there any indication about how things were going to be tomorrow when everyone gets up and tries to get to work? >> well it looks like the heaviest damage reports were in the community of bridge creek, which is actually about 30 miles southwest of oklahoma city. we definitely have reports there of homes and businesses that were heavily damaged and destroyed. that's where our tornado actually touched down. there's debris in the inner state forcing the closure of two major interstateds downed power lines. norm normal also suffered some dam

oklahoma state has focused all over the country but we welcome you to continue to carry the name of oklahoma with you because this phenomenal state and this great university, the heritage and tradition spreads around the country. take it with you. understand that we are americans . we do things differently in america. we're passionate about things like invention. more inventions come out of the united states than any other place the world. we find broken things and fix them. we work until things get done. we do not quit. we are americans. i get tired of the people that come to me and complain about where we are as a nation. i typically smile at them and say, why don't you get off the couch and get to work because this nation will be turned around when we engage. [applause] mr. lankford: i'm aware we have a bunch of stuff to work on as a nation, but that happens with each of us and each of you engaging and understanding we are americans. we fix things. so we get to work. couple years ago i had to privilege to village -- to visit with julia gerard. she was the prime minister of australia. very

adriana diaz, cbs news, oklahoma city, oklahoma. >>> there are no reports of significant problems from a rash of small earthquakes that rattled the concord area. three quakes hit within a 35 minute span yesterday morning along the concord green valley fault. they were centered near monument boulevard and cowell road. the largest wa 3.5 "evening magazine." researchers say the small quakes are helpful. >> they don't necessarily leave pressure but give -- relieve pressure, but they give us information about the fault. >> there have been at least 11 small quakes in the area since sunday. >>> 4:33. back to the tornadoes. your son is in oklahoma. >> i have such a terrifying afternoon yesterday. i was on the phone with the national weather service in oklahoma a good portion of the day. my son was in a basement a good portion of the day and night. one of the tornadoes touched down about four miles outside of the university of oklahoma. it was between moore and norman and moore was the scene of that devastating deadly tornado just two years ago. and they have more activity in the forecast again

a state of emergency in oklahoma. deadly tornadoes already. severe storm and flash flood watches across five states tonight, after a terrifying 24 hours. just listen. ferocious winds in oklahoma. and this number tonight. 48 reported tornadoes in just 24 hours. this one in kansas. and look at this. one family's storm shelter in oklahoma pulled right from the ground. abc's ryan owens from oklahoma tonight. >> reporter: good evening, david. i want to show you this house. it's one about 50 in this area with severe damage. this place is a total loss. but the family that lives here, they are safe and sound tonight, and here's why. they rode out the storm in this underground shelter.

this is in oklahoma. another thing happening tonight because of the tornadoes the activity you see here, the explosions that are happening, likely transformers or down power lines of course making contact and exploding. this can make it difficult for emergency crews working tonight. down power lines making it difficult for police ape fire fighters to do their job to get the the help, anyone who may in need. the other mess that we talk about the the flooding. this is coming also from the storm giving drivers a hard time tonight on the roads. from there we can see a view from the sky. this is a chopper flying over oklahoma. it is showing the devastation that is happening homes as you can see here completely flattened, so far there are reports of at least 35 homes being affected throughout the the oklahoma area. of course that number could change, a dangerous situation. we expect more reports of damage as night goes on. we just got this video in the last 30 minutes. this video is actually from a motel, in mo

i want to show you norman oklahoma. about 20 miles from oklahoma city. you see the cars trying to work their way through the roads. submerged by the flash flooding. amber and bridge creek south and west of the metro area reporting heavy damage. >> the storms produced nine confirmed tornadoes in kansas. people assessing the damage now the strongest storms have moved through. two homes were severely damaged in sedgwick county. one lifted off the foundation. winds so powerful trees snapped in two and tombstones toppled at the cemetery. no reports of injuries. >>> huge twister in southern nebraska. look at that video. stunning. the man who actually took that video said he saw the twister destroy the town of hardy. not far away from this in roseland nebraska a tornado pulled homes off their foundations. >> it is like what you see on tv. never thought i would see it in real life. i saw one cloud and then i saw it dissipate. i saw two clouds meet as one. we could hear the sound of a train. our ears started popping because of the air pressure. we went down to ou

through oklahoma. >> trees coming down. back out of here. >> our nbc station kfor in the middle of it in tornado-prone norman. part of a widespread outbreak with millions in the danger. the eerie sound of sirens in oklahoma nebraska kansas texas. >> we have lots of debris on the ground here. >> at least 50 tornados across the four states. >> the destruction is a lot more serious and worse than i imagined. >> in oklahoma city the entire airport was evacuated to an underground shelter. warningsed blared across university of oklahoma campus. dangerous flash flooding left cars underwater. a wall was ripped off a hotel and roads bucked. one woman died when her storm shelter flooded. katie and josh thought it would happen to them. their underground shelter was filling fast. with their door covered in debris they were trapped. >> that's the most scary thing when you don't know what to tell your kids. >> a neighbor heard their screams and rescued them. >> we save lives because we took action early, and we have a good system in okla

this one from norman oklahoma, tonight. storm chasers, their cameras romming and watch the lefthand side of your screen there that light pole no match for the tornado that actually circles them. meteorologist rob marciano with the new storm track now and those pictures. >> tornado on the ground. >> reporter: stormchaser chance coldiron behind the wheel, reporting live for local tv. already, they're too close. >> get in! get in! it's on the ground right here. >> reporter: throwing it in reverse, the tornado following them. >> car behind you. car behind you. >> tornado behind us. >> it's going to hit us. it's going to hit us. >> reporter: they park near a church as the massive cloud lowers. >> it's hitting me right now. i have debris. i have major debris. we're getting hit so hard right now. >> chance, are you there? >> yeah i'm here, just pray. >> it's not over. circulation a mile wide. >> reporter: they finally run into the church the camera stick roll still rolling. >> they're lucky tonight. rob is with us now. tracking th

. >> big time weather on the way for oklahoma. >> reporter: as homeowners in kansas and oklahoma rush to repair their homes -- >> do what needs to be done. >> reporter: amid reports that saturday could be even worse. >> just lost everything i own and trying to get it out of here before the next storm comes. >> reporter: the university of oklahoma announcing it will move tonight's commencement indoors. >> every night when we go to sleep, we see the storm. i can hear the sounds of the tornado when we sleep. >> reporter: katie and her family had to be rescued when debris trapped them in their underground storm shelter. now, she's worried about what's to come. >> we already have been hit, why are we going to get hit again? >> reporter: tonight, as severe weather is set to strike again, moments like this. 5-year-old dawson collecting bricks from his fallen home, promising his mom for mother's day he will build her a new one. amid the destruction of just two days ago, right now in oklahoma city, we are under a severe thunderstorm warning and a flash flood warning. in fact there are storms a

fell within a short period of time and around oklahoma city and at the oklahoma city fire department as a twisted out that they set their boat and a neighborhood because there is always high water possible rescues from home we also just learned that we got the first report of injuries at a mobile home park you're looking at how we do not know the extent of injuries no word on any potential death but certainly you're well aware when you have tornadoes i know how strong they are at their this is possibly of damage destruction and fatality unfortunately the airport is closed in oklahoma city this is right near more oklahoma which is devastating in 2013 to four people died there more has been hit hard we do not know the extent on daybreak we will find ala begin to see the damage. >>reporter: is going to be difficult to get the efforts going we will have an update at 11 we hope to see you then have a nice evening everybody. ( chickens clucking ) don't look so worried. it's my job. no, it's not. you're a housewife. yeah, punk? you see my house around here?

that includes dallas oklahoma city. we've seen some 1,600 lightning strikes in a 60-minute period across this region of the country. this is pretty remarkable. what this means, the conditions are favorable for tornado to form. you take a look at the map across eastern portions of eastern oklahoma and south dakota and western kansas tornado watch in place as well. this far more sparsely populated. again, we expect the tomorrows to really fire up later on into afternoon and potentially evening hours. that becomes a concern. zooming out for you, a wintry weather aspect. pretty impressive snowfall across portions of high rockies could see as much as two feet in the coming days. denver you could pick up to nine inches of snow tonight into tomorrow morning and again not unheard of but impressive to see the cold side of this storm with parts of south dakota maybe up to two feet snoefw before mother's day is over with. >> ryan pedro mentioned may. when you think back to 2013 it was may 20th when that horrible tornado struck moo

even cars flipped along interstate 35 just outside of oklahoma city. take look at the sheer markers here. you can see looking at pretty moderate shear as you take look at the legend here that purple and also as you move toward magenta color showing a lot of rotation so there is some activity with tornado that's been on the ground in sections of oklahoma. now, as we expand the view it's really just an outbreak of severe weather from texas into oklahoma as well as sections of kansas all of the ingredients comeing together this evening to produce that severe weather. pretty quiet across our area. we've been dealing with a few passing sprinkles but certainly we need the rainfall and we're not dealing with severe weather across our area. temperatures right now 63 philadelphia. 50s in pottstown. mid 50s right now in wildwood. so scattered clouds, comfortably cool overnight temperatures bottoming out in the mid to upper 50s. we'll talk about a rapid warmup in the offing later on this week as well as things heating up in the tropics. we could have a named syst

it goes even west of oklahoma city. i can't begin to name all of the communities that are just seeing so much rain that has left us in these conditions where everyone is just in a state of shock basically. we even had -- here in tulsa, we had a teenager who was driving his truck when the rain first started. he hydroplaned and crossed the center line and this morning, his family is grieving because he was killed in that accident. so every minute, we are getting phone calls here at the station from something that is happening from just roads being closed to accidents. last night, from 9:00 until 11:00, our emergency responders responded to about 55 different incidents and some of those were rescues of people stalled in their cars because we are telling our viewers with just 6 inches of water is enough to knock an adult over, you know? and possibly be swept away. a foot of water is enough to jeopardize them in their car. so with situations like that, you had cars on main roads. i'm talking roads that the malls are on, so p

tornados tore through oklahoma kansas and nebraska. dozens of homes destroyed outside of oklahoma city. the storms downed power lines and flipped cars. and the nfl is having new foul out and finding that they probably deflated footballs and that quarterback tom brady knew about it. and chicago is paying 5.5 million dollars in reperations. as many as 80 people could get $100,000 each from the city. the mayor said it left a permanent stain. >> there's no amount of money that could totally heal or close the book but it is about a culture of accountability and being accountible for a wrong. >> victims can also get free counseling and college tuition. the senate is expected to take a test on the bipartisan deal. they would also get a chance to possibly reject any deal with iran. >>> driverless trucks are being tested in nevada. it is made by daimler and a human driver must still be inside the cab ready to take control if needed. >>> pope francis tried basketball tricks and welcomed members of the harlem globe trotters. they helped him spain

it's not just oklahoma city. it now includes moore, oklahoma the city that this whole nation saw flattened by a tornado just two years ago. our meteorologist jennifer grey is tracking the breaking news. jennifer how does it look right now? you're looking at a whole lot of storms it appears converging right in these highly populated areas. >> yeah absolutely. we've been tracking these for the last several hours. and we just got word that a tornado emergency right now for portions of norman. if you are in the norman area take cover. we had reports of brief touchdown around 48th street north side of the campus ou's campus. so we are looking at very strong storms that have had a path of destructive and violent tornados. we've seen large tornados with this storm. passed through newcastle just a few mopes ago. moore is getting very heavy rain. we or the lookout for these strong storms to continue on the same track. they're just on the south side of oklahoma city. their airport has evacuated. they sent everyone to the t

imagine all that water just piling up into oklahoma, texas. and unfortunately, we still are in that pattern. looking ahead to tuesday. we could still see several more inches of rain into northeast texas, parts of oklahoma, across arkansas and rain working its way to western tennessee as well as southeastern sections of missouri. now tracking incredible rain today, well, the blanco river impacted reaching a record crest at 40.21 feet. that's the highest it's ever been. luckily the floodwaters there expected to recede over the next couple of days, jeff? >> glor: pretty amazing numbers. bonnie schneider, thank you very much. isis has taken control of key territories in syria and iraq in recent days. seizing palmyra, the al walid border crossing and the iraqi city of ramadi. and today the u.s. defense secretary questioned iraq's will to fight. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the iraqi military's hasty retreat from ramadi was evidenced that iraq's forces lacked the will to fight, u.s. defense secretary ash carter told cnn's "state of the union

here is from oklahoma, i get that. oklahoma state has focused all over the country but we welcome -- people from all over the country, but we welcome you to to continue to carry the name of oklahoma with you because this phenomenal state and this great university, the heritage and tradition spreads around the country. take it with you. understand that we are americans . we do things differently in america. we're passionate about things like invention. more inventions come out of the united states than any other place the world. we find broken things and fix them. we work until things get done. we do not quit. we are americans. i get tired of the people that come to me and complain about where we are as a nation. i typically smile at them and say, why don't you get off the couch and get to work because this nation will be turned around when we engage. [applause] i'm aware we have a bunch of stuff to work on as a nation but that happens with each of us and each of you engaging and understanding we are americans. we fix t

there's one tornado warning here to the east of oklahoma city. as you can see, most of the warnings and watches to the west are dropping out. that is good news across the region, and up here to parts of minnesota, we had tornado warnings in place, but they have been dropped to a tornado watch right now >>> we'll stay watching that. joining us on the phone is jerry loika, a spokesman for the oklahoma emergency management. thank you so much for joining us jerry. >> my pleasure. >> tell us what is the severity of the situation on the ground there right now. >> well we have localized flooding. there were many tornado that touched down. the wedge was the large one in western oklahoma going through roger mills county near the border near texas. some damage. we don't have an official - anything official from the country emergency manager out there, but we do know that we have a couple of businesses and some homes and mobile homes that have been damaged or destroyed. and then there were at least 20 other counties that the weather passed through. so there

also up through dallas and across the red river and oklahoma, oklahoma city seeing a tremendous amount of rain. and this ground very much saturated, and that's why you're seeing the flooding. flash flooded watches and the reds are in the good. more rain coming. east of i-35 houston to sheave port will get the heaviest. dan? >> rob, thank you. as you said, we know that you'll stay on top of this story all day long on abcnews.com. >>> but we do want to move on now to our top story this morning, cleveland a city on edge. arrests overnight, as a judge acquitted a white police officer in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and woman. the officer climbed on to the hood of the car and fired 13 shots. and abc's alex perez is on the story. in cleveland right now. alex, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. many here going to bed last night not knowing what to expect. authorities working through the night to keep things under control. overnight, tensions in cleveland rising. police in riot gear. three people arrested. clashes with protesters after this officer is acquitted

for oklahoma city now. the tornado emergency issued in rare occurrences where they are expecting widespread damage. for oklahoma city now, tornado emergency issued. we can go back to showing you the images and of course what we have around here. still some storms that continue to fire up. >>> oklahoma city to the south is the town of moore which was devastated by an f-5 a few years ago. that storm is very close to tracking over that area. we're just dealing with some thunderstorm area. activity and some very heavy rain. if you're heading down. a lot of people heading downtown. you're going to get wet for sure. we have a lot of rain moving in. the temperature tomorrow 80 degrees with some sunshine but also some cloud cover. yeem degrees on friday. 82 on saturday. 83 on sunlds. maybe an isolated shower on saturday and sunday and then much warmer as we head toward monday and tuesday. this is like a summer forecast. some hotter weather and some chances of storm, too. >> all right. thanks. >>> relief is in sight

we came to southern oklahoma city. and, destroying everything in the direct path. and, almost completely wiped off. this massive tornado is one of dozens that tore through the central part of the husband. and, homes and buildings were leveled. south of oklahoma city rescue crews search through piles of debris for anyone missing. >> if you live in seminole, or one or 2 miles south you need to go to your safe spot right now. if you live in the mobile home you have to get out. >> reporter: first time in oklahoma city history national weather service flash flood emergencies as unprecedented rainfall turned road into rivers. >> this hotel south of oklahoma city, tried to prepare, they boarded up, their windows with you little chance against a people here in other parts of the country aren't a out of the woods yet. >> thursday afternoon and evening, watching kansas, oak, west of 35, in the texas panhandle. chance of more tornadoes large hail, damaging win gusts. >> reporter: forecasters say another storm system could bring more bad weather through mothers day weekend. fl

a tornado on the ground in oklahoma. you're looking at images from cnn affiliate kfor showing dark skies, what chopper pilots are seeing and describing as swelling clouds moving closer and closer to people on the ground, growing. earlier we did see a funnel cloud touch the ground. a warning was officially in effect until 4:15 eastern. but this is clearly still a very dangerous situation. the national weather service advising people in kansas not just in oklahoma, to take cover. meteorologist jennifer gray is watching it all for us in the cnn severe weather center. jennifer, tell us what's going on. >> all across the plains don't leave your guard down because this is going to be fluid throughout the rest of the afternoon. and the early evening and extending into the late evening. we do have that tornado warning in effect. it has been extended until 3:45 central time for caddo and grady counties in oklahoma. this is just to the southwest of oklahoma city. be on the lookout, about 18,000 people in immediate danger right now

texas and oklahoma being hit the hardest. thousands of people remain under weather warnings and watches. in houston, an apartment building collapsed around 6:30 this morning after being hit by a tornado. two people were sent to the hospital but there were no serious injuries. in the suburbs north of houston, montgomery county issued an evacuation order for residents near lake lewis dam. they say the dam is still intact but they are taking precautions because of the heavy rain. in oklahoma the record-breaking rain claimed a life. a firefighter if claremore was killed twig to rescue people trapped by rising water. he died after being swept onto a storm drain. >> we're family it's going to be really hard for our department to come together and heal and go forward. the effects won't be known for a little while. >> the rain in oklahoma city broke records. roads and houses are still under water today. more than 17 inches have now fallen for the month of may. more is expected in the coming days. let's get more on this severe weather

at least six tornados were reported in parts of texas and oklahoma last night here in the oklahoma city area the storms marched in around the evening rush hour. hail caused damage to windows, but rain was the biggest problem, causing flash flooding. several inches fell in a matter of hours in areas that are already saturated from storms earlier in the week. the national weather service says about 20 mill uppeople could be impacted by today's severe weather outbreak. the threat is expected to move east tomorrow. >> our thanks to join champion in oklahoma city. >>> in addition to the tornado threat, a powerful tropical storm is now swirling off the east coast. tropical storm ana is south of south carolina. it's expected to bring rough surf and at least three inches of rain to the area. from a look at the weather from the plains and beyond here's ed curran of our chicago station wbbm. good morning. >> a lot of tircht across the country. here you can see a chance for severe storms. a slight chance for the area in yellow a more enhanced chance in areas that are orange through texas and into

including oklahoma and kansas as well. at least good news in that sense that the rainfall now pushing back the drought situation there. the models are bringing back another round of rainfall to dallas and north by this afternoon. areas around austin and east toward houston as well. tremendous rainfall possible. some models over the next couple days 4 to 6 inches into dallas and into shreveport as well as louisiana and mississippi. the rainfall not done with just yet. look at the river gauges. one gauge with a rise of a couple of feet to over 40 feet in some spots. nearing 40 feet in spots. that is record territory for how quickly waters were in the region. temperatures in the 70s across the region. >>> pedram thank you. the city of cleveland on edge this morning. protesters taking to the streets over the weekend after a police officer was acquitted of manslaughter charges in the shooting death of two unarmed amount suspects. authorities able to keep the protests peaceful for now. nick valencia has more. >> reporter: with t

jay gray nbc news oklahoma city. >> i'm jason pugh here at live desk. the capitals let one slip away in new york. here's how it went down tonight at madison square garden. tied at one in overtime. the new york rangers, they finally got the best of goaltender braden holtby. ryan mcdonagh sending this series to a game six. new york winners in o.t. dianna talking to a few caps players now and we'll have that live in sports. from the live desk i'm jason pugh. >> a developing story coming in from littleton, colorado, a motel surrounded by police after an fbi agent was shot while trying to serve a warrant on a bank robbery suspect. the agent was shot in the leg and is expected to recover. police believe the suspect is the longhorn bandit a nickname him because he often wears longhorn hats during robberies. >>> first on 4, a district family is relieved at how d.c. fire and e.m.s. is responding to their concerns. it all started when the family's 1-year-old son fell down son steps and was knocked unconscious. family called 911 and then wait and waited some more

jay gray is in oklahoma city with the latest there. good morning. >> reporter: in some areas the devastation is overwhelming. take a look at the hotel behind me. there were actually people inside when the storm hit. they all thankfully got out. if it wasn't the wind it was the rain. in some areas more than seven inches. overnight dangerous storms unleashed a string of tornadoes in and around oklahoma city. sirens warning hundreds of thousands to take cover as the system delivered tennis sized hail and tornadoes. >> that thing started spinning. >> reporter: reporter mark diller found himself in the middle of one. >> we have to back out of here. i have trees coming down on me. back it out. back it out. >> reporter: some of the twisters believed to be f-3 with winds in excess of 158 miles per hour. southeast of oklahoma city what was once a storage facility is now gone. and for the first time ever a flash flood emergency declared for oklahoma city as torrential rain caused wide spread flooding. homes and businesses swallowed by the water.

storms pounding texas and also oklahoma. at least six people now killed in the storms and dozens more missing. following record rainfall and unprecedented flooding and tornadoes. the damage that has been done and storms still on the way. >>> breaking news this morning from iraq. iraqis launching a new operation to take back territory seized by isis. will it work? we are live in baghdad ahead. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is tuesday and 5:00 a.m. in the east. officials are warning that storms killed at least six people will likely continue for weeks to come. in hayes county texas, one person confirmed dead and 12 missing. the missing likely including some children two families gathered in a river side vacation home for the long weekend. a home washed away off the foundation by a flash flood. the ground is saturated. forecasters are warning there may be more flash flooding ahead. the texas governor greg abbott added 24 more counties to the disaster declaration bringin

and, boy those people in oklahoma i feel is he sorry for them. stay for fox news for any breaking news on it. ♪ >>> the o'reilly factor is on tonight. >> i will fight to stop partisan attacks on the executive actions that would dreamers at risk of deportation. >> hillary clinton calling for illegal alien amnesty. even as new polling says she is becoming more popular. how can that be? we'll have analysis with bernie goldberg. >> >> did mishandled sarah palin. >> the interviews for sarah palin made and her look bad. >> nicolle wallace telling all tonight on the factor. also ahead this man now banned from going to iran. dennis miller wil

here is the radar across oklahoma and texas panhandle and parts of kansas. this system continues to move east and once we get the daytime heating from the sun, we will see more shower and thunderstorm activity. we have the possibility of severe weather in western texas and oklahoma panhandle and western kansas and nebraska. large hail and damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. i talked about silvering lining in the forecast, a drying trend. >>> breaking overnight, federal officials investigating after the defense department accidentally shipped live anthrax samples to labs in nine states and a u.s. military base in south korea. officials say no one has become ill. there is no threat they say, to the public. four defense workers in the u.s. and 22 in south korea are on post exposure treatment. we have kathy, with the latest from the osan air base in south korea. >> reporter: christine it was an emergency situation here in south korea that the live anthrax was sent from the lab in utah. 22 people were involved that may have been exposed to the anthrax. we are

oklahoma city looks a lot better. we get another 2 to 3 inches in rain on top of the pictures you just saw, that water is not gone yet. it's still there and everyone on the eastern seaboard is looking fan fantastic. all the problems are in the middle of the country. >> bill, thanks. it took a bomb squad to deal with a scary situation near the u.s. capitol building in d.c. they deemed a vehicle suspicious and they found a pressure cooker and the odor of gasoline. the bomb squad came into detonate what they called items of concern in the car. follow up search did not detect any suspicious. pressure bombs injured and killed others at the boston marathon. >> at the same time isis they're on a roll in iraq and syria. tracie potts live for us in washington this morning. there is a spirited debate going on among lawmakers for the need to increase u.s. troop levels. >> here in washington on this memorial day not everyone agrees whether or not that needs to happen. we just found out this morning 15 new air strikes by the syria

tornadoes reported in oklahoma, kansas and nebraska. much of oklahoma city is underwater. so much rain fell. along with the tornadoes. the city has never seen anything like it before. a flash flood emergency declared for the first time in oklahoma city's history. there are reports of flooding at city government buildings and municipal courts. downtown. rescue crews have launched boats into neighborhoods. after reports of waist- high water. also in oklahoma city, 12 people are injured -- two of them critical -- at a demolished mobile home park. police say, the injury toll could rise above 20. it is going to take a long time to sort through the damage. at this point it is not clear what is underneath. this is what it looked like as the severe storms kept moving into norman, oklahoma. the storms produced frequent lightning. the dark skies. flashing from lightning strikes over and over again. and also *hail* tonight. these pictures posted to social media. on the left: hail found southeast of norman. the one on the right came with the caption: "literally sounded like people sto

but that's oklahoma. i've got no hard feelings. >> well, it might have been embarrassing if the president went to 49 states. he's got two years left and if he doesn't go to visit south dakota. >> reporter: in fact the would he or wouldn't he visit the mt. rushmore state was already the butt of late night jokes. >> much like uber and sweater sweatshirts without glitter on them. >> there's no place i would rather be on this friday afternoon without celebrating with you. >> reporter: it wasn't until 1971 that richard nixon became the first president to stop in all 50 states making a fund-raising trip to delaware for just over three hours. george herbert walker did itbush did it the fastest. and bill clinton hit his 50th state in the final weeks in august. pr george w. bush could have gone to all 50 but elected to skip vermont. anthony? >> vermont's still recovering. thanks. kris van cleave. >> it's interesting. he got a note from an 11-year-old girl rebecca who said please come to the warmest of the >>> up n

this is a live shot out of grady county oklahoma just southwest of norman oklahoma chickasha -- we lost our live shot, i apologize for that. but tornado watch is in effect. >>> we start with major news on the transpacific partnership. the trade deal is causing a lot of headaches for the hillary clinton campaign. clinton has declined to give a simple yes or no answer on fast track or the tpp. the clinton campaign chairman was reechbltly asked how clinton would deal with the tpp and he joking responded can you make it go away? unfortunately for them the tpp isn't going away any time soon. it's becoming a bigger issue every day and average working americans are seeing what it's going to do to their future. even donald trump has taken a stand against the trade deal. he released this radio ad earlier today. >> i learned a long time ago, a bad deal is far worse than no deal at all. and the obama trans-pacific partnership and fast track are a bad, bad deal. for american businesses for workers, for taxpayers, it's a huge set of handouts for a few insiders that don't even care about our great, g

that one rule alone between pso, public service company of oklahoma and og & e in the state of oklahoma have seen 15% to 20% increases in their generation of electricity with just one rule. when we combine all these others, it's going to be obviously substantially more than that in the future for consumers in the state of oklahoma. >> so these regulations would directly hurt, hurt the people of oklahoma. >> some of the folks that can least afford it. >> thank you. thank you, madam chairman. >> thank you. senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much, madam chairman. this is an interesting hearing because the questioners on the republican side and the attorneys general who are present are all from states who have the characteristic that attorney general pruitt just described, ie, they have a robust coal economy and clearly we have a practical problem in that coal -- the burning of coal for electric generation creates some very, very dangerous consequences, but they're not fairly distributed. so where there is a robust coal economy, this creates one kind of problem. in rhode island where our