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"the voice" sparks a fire storm when he's caught on a hot mike saying he hates america. this morning, his explanation. good morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. thursday, may 30th. welcome to "starting point." we begin to what is turning into one wild spring across the entire country. if you weren't dodging hail and thunderstorms last night, you may be today. if you're in the northeast, it's going to be really, really, really hot. meteorologist peterson is here with a look at that. >> unbelievable. storms have hit the country hard this weekend. it looks like there's going to be much more still on the way. >> reporter: this video was shot in corinth, texas. look at the hail bouncing off of the ground. the diamondbacks and rangers game postponed wednesday night when the heavy rain and lightning moved in very quickly. the ground crew struggled to gain control as heavy winds ripped the tarp right out of their hands. in amarillo, texas, heavy wind gusts were blamed for blowing down this iconic billboard, ripping its post from the ground. owners of the business watched as the 30-year-old sign fell to the ground. >> my sales associate actually went to open up the overhead door to get ready for him because the winds were strong. we heard him holler. we all heard him running. that's when we saw the billboard falling down. >> reporter: just as crazy, flood waters caught on this surveillance video from tuesday. torrential rain caused flood that burst down the doors at an illinois college. >> oh, yeah, definitely some tough weather out there. the northeast today. >> everything, it's nuts. >> just as crazy, flood waters caught on this surveillance video from tuesday. torrential rain caused flood that burst down the doors at an illinois college. >> oh, yeah, definitely some tough weather out there. the northeast today. look how above normal you are temperaturewise. look at that warm-up. a heat wave expected. temperatures, 15 to 16 degrees warmer than average. definitely right there. a lot of 90s for three days here. the severe weather threat does remain. that is the big story. it's the warm humid air that we're feeling banking up as that cool dry air and shifting to the east. let in iowa down through texas. that's 15 million of us. we're really watching the dry line here in oklahoma city. unfortunately we could see that bump up to a moderate risk. a lot of instability. take a look at this. all this lightning out there, that is what we're worried about especially as we go through the afternoon today. yes, everyone still needs to remain vigilant. oklahoma city, debris on the ground. very tough day. >> ominous story. thanks so much. cnn learned the president is set to appoint a new top man at the fbi. james comey would replace robert mueller. mueller is stepping down in september. comey was at the center of some heated debates over counter terrorism in the bush years. brianna keilar is live at the white house with more. >> good morning, christine. this is a night in march 2004 like a scene out of a movie. john ashcroft, the attorney general then, was very ill and in the hospital. so ill that his deputy comey was the acting a.g. this was the night before a warrantless wiretap program was set to expire. the then white house counsel alberto gonzalez and chief of staff andy card went to ashcroft's bedside to get him to endorse this program that he and comey felt was illegal and comey actually caught wind of it and ordered his driver to the hospital. sirens blaring, so he could head them off. in the end, ashcroft didn't sign on to this but it made for one of the most remarkably dramatic scenes of the entire bush administration, christine. >> he was praised, widely praised foreseeing past politics in that event when he came to the aid of the very ill attorney general john ashcroft. what was that legacy? >> yeah, that is certainly part of his legacy. i think that's something that you see a lot of democrats and republicans pointing to when they say that they expect that he's going to be confirmed rather easily or they think that this is someone that a lot of democrats and republicans can get behind. one of the hitches for comey, i'll tell you this, has to do with his hedge fund experience. general counsel at a hedge fund. we've already heard from the top republican on the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley raising concerns about this, saying if he is confirmed as fbi director he would have to build a case perhaps against some of his former colleagues. so he'll get some tough questions before the senate for sure. >> we certainly know those confirmation proceedings, all of those ties are very closely scrutinized, especially when you're talking about the business ties with the hedge fund industry, private industry and the like. on this day when the president is prepare fog tom nate a new director of fbi, two apparent cases of domestic terrorism or at least violence in this country are capturing the bureau's attention. letters containing threats against new york no, mayor michael bloomberg testing positive for the deadly poison ricin. and this, disneyland employee in kusz to difficult for alleged li setting off a dry ice bomb in toontown. i'm going to start with pamela brown tacking the latest developments in the ricin case. >> good morning, john and christine. the fbi now working to determine who sent new york city mayor michael bloomberg two letters laced with trace amounts of ricin. new york city deputy police commissioner paul brown said a suspicious pink, orange, oily substance were found in both letters who were sent from shreveport, louisiana, according to the american postal workers union and contained threats on the mayor and mentioned the debate of gun law in which bloomberg is an outspoken critic. bloomberg had this to say last night. let's take a listen. >> there was a letter who threatened us. let me tell you, i have confidence in the nypd and the fbi and their procedures. >> do you feel threatened? >> one of the letters was received at new york city's government mail facility and the emergency service workers who handled the letter showed minor symptoms of ricin exposure but they have subsided. the second letter was opened by mark glaze, directors of mayors against illegal guns, funded by bloomberg. he indicated that he showed no symptoms of exposure to ricin in is the third case of ricin-laced letters being found. of course, a couple months ago there was letters sent to president obama, u.s. senator, there was an arrest made in that case. and, of course, fbi is trying to determine who could have sent this letter. >> pamela brown, thanks so much. disneyland employee being held on $1 million bail in connection to that explosion in toontown. christian barnes is responsible for the dry ice bomb that rocked the theme park. cnn's sarah following developments live from disneyland in anaheim, cal. good morning, sarah. >> good morning, christine. investigators are still looking at evidence in this case. that suspect who worked insfid of the park has not yet been charged but police and disneyland saying they are taking this case very seriously. and you can imagine, toontown is a place where very young children hang out with their parents. it's where mickey mouse's house is so people were pretty scared when they had to be evacuated. disneyland's toontown turned into a ghost town. >> it was loud. it startled us. ducked and looked up and i looked higher than the ground. >> reporter: crowds evacuated as the bomb squad responded. not the kind of scene visitors ever expected to encounter. police say no one was hurt but they did discover evidence of a small explosion. >> when our officers arrived they found the remnants of a water bottle which is indicative of a dry ice type explosion. >> reporter: 22-year-old christian barnes, a vending cast member at disneyland, is being held on a million dollar bail on suspicion of possessing and detonating an explosive device. >> there's potential, any time this occurs, for there to be injury. there's potential for someone to get injured to the point where they lose their life. that's why the charges are so serious. >> reporter: disneyland official says barnes had the dry ice in his vending cart where he sells items that need to be kept cold. police say that barnes is cooperating. that's right. this stuff, dry ice, often used for special effects. it turns out exploding dry ice bombs is a popular form of fun in some circles. if you don't believe me, just check out all the videos on youtube. >> we're going to show you how to make a dry ice bomb. >> reporter: the results when they do. what the videos don't tell you is that creating and detonating an ice bomb is a crime. you could be charged with a felony if you're caught. across the country in disneyworld's animal kingdom a grandmother found a loaded gun on the seat of a dinosaur ride as she boarded with her grandson. the gun owner said he had a permit to carry a concealed weapon but told authorities he didn't realize that guns are not allowed in the park. happiest places on earth turning scary for some visitors until both situations were under control. cnn, anaheim, cal. nine minutes after the hour. so we're getting our first glimpse in a new jersey governor the largest employer in the aa so people are concerned about what happened but so far things have gone smoothly. it was a couple of hours that people were out of that section of the park. people have been coming back and forth ever sense. we're joined now by cnn counter terrorist analyst. you hear about a explosion going off in disney world. if you're a parent like us that sounds frightening. is this serious or a daumb pran? >> from my time in the white house, disney happens to be a company i know the security arrangements probably better than any other company in the country. they take this stuff incredibly seriously in terms of their training of employees, their screening of people. and i talked to two people inside disney. this really was a prank that turned bad. the employee saw something on the internet. thought it would be cool to see what it did. didn't intend to hurt anybody. has been fully cooperative. nobody was hurt. it's naturally frightening to patrons. i think what people need to understand is just how seriously disney takes these sorts of incidents, looking at it, understanding how and why it happened, making sure that those who visit the park are really very safe. >> something that doesn't look like a prank, the ricin letters now to mayor bloomberg. that's sort of an interesting and frightening trend. you see these things kind of come up in twos and threes it feels like. what do you make of these letters to bloomberg and to also the person who runs as mayor against illegal guns and what kind of a serious threat that may be? >> the problem here is that the ricin recipe is basically the components of very easily obtained. it comes from caster -- ground up castor beans. it's not that hard to make, one. two, they recipe like most of them these days is available on the internet. the counter terrorism community had first seen it, the recipe in al qaeda training manuals. that's the context in which people have heard of this. here's the thing. to weaponize ricin is -- takes a little more sophistication. we think of anthrax, that wasn't this. this was very crudely made. this description in reports now is of the sticky orange material. it would have been very hard. the only way you could have been poisoned by that is ingesting it. it's not a contact poison. they're taking it seriously. we're seeing more of this because the information is available. but it's clear, at least so far, that no one in this particular incident was seriously hurt by it. >> james comey, a man who has worked in republican administrations but may be popular with some democrats. >> i think it's a terrific pick. we should be very clear, jim comes comey also worked in democratic administrations and prosecutor, u.s. attorney. he and i were colleagues when we were young lawyers in the u.s. attorney's office here in new york. this is also the man who picked pat fitzgerald, the u.s. attorney in chicago, to invest gate a republican in the bush administration for the valerie plame leak. he's dedicated and very experienced. i think he will be well respected in the fbi. >> fran townsend, appreciate you being here. the chinese baby rescued from a sewer pipe in dramatic video seen around the world. that baby is home this morning with his maternal grandparents. known as patient 59 is drinking formula and is being nursed back to health. left the hospital now with his maternal grandparents. rescuers had to carefully cut the pipes surrounding him in sections in order to get that baby free. so far, police believe the 22-year-old mother's story that this was just a terrible accident. she is not facing any charges. so interesting the world has watched this baby for the past several days. this is not really a widely told story within china. >> it is so hard to believe that it could be an accident. 13 minutes after the hour. ahead on "starting point," the american mother, grandmother jailed in mexico speaks out from behind bars making a desperate plea. hear her tearful defense, next. and cnn exclusive, could this be the smoking gun in the michael jackson case? 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