Good friday morning to you all. We begin with this neverending deluge in the plains. More pouring rain rising rivers forcing thousands to abandon their homes and cars. The system blamed for two dozen deaths. Another two inches of rain dumped from dallas to oklahoma city. This is what it look like near dallas overnight. A flurry of lightning bolts lighting up the night sky. The same area is getting pounded with downpours. You can see the rain coming down in sheets. The worst yet to come for lowlying towns downstream. Many families living along the water packed up. The swollen rivers and lakes may not return to normal levels until some time in july. We could expect to see more scenes like this one. Firefighters in oklahoma here working around the clock, pulling off one dramatic water rescue after another. For more we turn to Accuweather Meteorologist justin povick. Justin good morning. T. J. And reena, thanks and good morning. Were almost at the weekend. More showers and thunderstorms over oklahoma and texas. I know i sound like a broken record. This is the pattern we have been stuck in all month long. Some good news this weekend. Mayb and cincinnati as well as pittsburgh on saturday. Could have gusty thunderstorms. Sunday looks like the i95 corridors turn with some travel delays as well. It will be noticeably cooler this upcoming week end. Saturday night, storms continue to soak the south plains. Well wipe out the wet weather on sunday. Now to the story that has washington buzzing. A formerer of the house. He was allegedly trying to hide huge cash withdrawals, money to keep somebody quiet about something in his past. Bazi kanani joins us now from washington with details. A lot of questions to be answered. Reporter its all very mysterious this morning. The indictment says investigators initially wanted to know in dennis has territory was the victim of criminal extortion. It does not say who he allegedly paid or why. What was his alleged secret . Questions swirls this morning around former House Speaker dennis has territoriers after federal prosecutors accused him of paying nearly 2 million in hush money to an unnamed person to compensate and conceal for some sort of prior misconduct. Its very surprising. Yeah. Its its a shock. Reporter the news of the indictment spreading fast in the small town of yorkville, illinois where he started out as a teacher and wrestling coach, later rising to hold the third highest office in the land. I never envisioned this former teacher and wrestling coach from Kendall County illinois, would have the opportunity to lead the United States house of representatives. Reporter but it was in the early days in yorkville that he came know the person hes accused of trying to pay off. He left office in 2007. Three years later, he held multiple meetings with that person agreeing to pay 3. 5 million. When first asked about the withdrawals from his bank account, he told the fbi he didnt feel safe with the banking system. Yeah i kept the cash. Thats what im doing. Investigators said he went on to withdraw cash in smaller amounts, under 10,000 at a time to skirt reporting requirement, making payments to the unnamed person until just last year. Has territory has not yet responded to our request for comment. Hes resigned from a law firm in washington, d. C. Where he was working as a lobbyist. If convicted, he faces up to ten years in prison. Manhunt is under way in kansas after an Oklahoma Police officer was shot in the head during a car chase. It all started when the officer tried pulling over an suv and it took off in the chase. Shots were fired. The officer was hit in the head. Two of the people from the suv are in custody. A third got away on foot and is likely hiding out in a wooded area. A spectacular volcanic eruption happening this morning in japan. Take a look at the moment it happened. Clouds of plaque ash and rock climbing straight up into the sky. It rose more than 27,000 feet. The few people on the island were ordered to evacuate. The same volcano erupted last august. New details about the anthrax scare. The u. S. Military using fedex to mail live spoers. At least 26 people are taking aept biotics. It was mistakenly sent to 18 labs in 9 states and to an army base in south korea. Before being mailed it was bombarded with radiation to kill any live spores. But some of the spores sur sprooichd official say the public is not in danger. The Southern California beaches plagued by a mysterious oily goo could be cleaned up enough to open this week end. Groups have been picking up tar balls and clumps on the beach. No new tar balls have been spotted. The material is being analyzed to see if it came from last weeks oil spill in Santa Barbara or from somewhere else. A spectacular view from the top of the world. The Observation Deck from one World Trade Center is open. Take a look. New york city lay oud in front of you from 100 stories above. Because of bad weather, they only saw clouds. On a clear day, you can see up to 15 miles. Still ahead here ink and infection. New concerns this morning about longterm Health Effects caused by tattoos. And watch your step. A man texting on his phone walking right into the path of a snake. Plus move that car. A picture proving why you should never park in front of a hirefire hydrant. All right, folks. Do not park in front of a fire hydrant. Yes, you could get towed. Yes, you could get a ticket. Or you could get two busted windows. See this. The firefighters said its too hard to go around this vehicle because lit restrict the flow. So were going to go right through the vehicle. Thats what they did. They were trying to put out a house fire. They were able to get the fire out nearby. Pretty quickly. But thats what they had to do in order to make it happen. Something tells me the Fire Department is not paying for the windows. I would hope now. You may soon be able to find out if your car has one of those potentially faulty air bags. Five makers are telling the government which ones need recalled. All the data has not been entered yet. Keep checking the safer car. Gov website. An allamerican muscle car is coming home. The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro will be built in lansing, michigan. It hasnt been made in the u. S. In 20 years. Its been built in canada. The production means 500 more jobs. Summit white, bright yellow and red hot. Just when you thought it was safe to return to the move i have theaters jaws yts is back. Just for two days. In order to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Just last year hollywood voters ranked it as number 24 among the favorite films. Tickets go on sale today. Youre going to need a bigger boat. A good movie. When we come back a quiet neighborhood rocked by an explosion. The device going off on top of a car. 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Available at walmart. All right. What do you see there, reena . A big pile of dirt right . Actually its extremely dirty ice. These are leftovers from bostons snowiest winter ever. Some 85 ton of trash has melted out of this big heap. Plenty more to do. Theres no snow expected on this mornings commute. Plan on another day of flooded roads from the northern texas area into oklahoma. Some rain could slow you down in parts of the up emidwest and east of the great lakes. If youre flying delays possible in dallas minneapolis, and chicago. A suburban North Carolina neighborhood is still reeling this morning after an explosive device planted in an suv went off. Man had driven about mile from his house when it ploeded. Amazingly, he was not injured. The blast coming from an ied usually linked to war zones. It was a loud boom. Saw some smoke. I dont know what the smoke came from. A big cloud of smoke came out of the vehicle. Police still investigating. Theyre class fieing the driver as an victim. And police in dallas have arrested a man they say posed as a doctor at a Childrens Medical Center then stole an ambulance and crashed into another vehicle. A nurse spotted a man wearing a lab coat entering a patients room. When she asked for i. D. He took off. The man has a long history of mask raiding ing masquerading as a doctor and a firefighter. Tattoo ink can cause longterm problems. Itching, permanently raised areas. The longer lasting effects occur most often in the places where there is black and red ink. A lighter note from whats been an awful situation. It happened to this guy, tim malone. He was checking his phone. Looking down. Not paying attention. What does he do . He stepped on a snake. He realized it at the last moment. You see him react. Adrenaline took over. I realized it was a snake. I started kicking. Get it off. A natural reaction. He did get some small marks, though. The snake bit him. Its believed the animal wound up on the sidewalk to get away from the rising floodwaters. The pros on the golf tour are on the same course in texas. The chances of them doing what this couple did is almost impossible. I need evidence. Tony and dennis backtoback holes in one on the same hole. Now, tony was first. And janet followed. Come on now. Come on david muir. Really . And you have witnesses on the course . Yes. When i had mine they came over and congratulated me. When janet hit hers one lady ran all the way to the hole. I dont know. Reena . Chances of that happening, according to the National Hole in one association, there is such thing . 26 million to 1. Tony and janet said they got calm of hats from the golf course as a reward. Thats it . Calm of hats. Maybe calm more rounds. We got the pulse coming your way. Cool calm, collected. The National Spelling bee crowns two champs once again. 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Reporter you may expect to get cards and letters from loved ones celebrating an anniversary. Never expected manager like this. It blew me away. Reporter everybody pr bill clinton to billy crystal, too many to name including all the living president ers september them letters of congratulations. Starting with obama. President bush. Clinton, yeah all of them. And even carter huh . Thats your favorite. Reporter carter may have been one of his favorite prez departments. But his most prized response is from the vatican. I treasure that quite a bit. I know that possibly they september many of those out. But, the way its worded means a lot to me. Reporter now it all began when their granddaughter, who was living in germanidy sided to make it happen. We wrote the vatican. And, then we got a response. And then we started thinking who else if we can get this we got the president , we have the pope who else can we get . Reporter it took banister over a year to coordinate in undertaking. 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