Across the Nations Capital for the annual Rolling Thunder ride for freedom saluting the nations military veterans. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 25th. From abc news this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Well, a happy memorial day weekend to you. Bebe gan this half hour with a verdict in cleveland. The city earning praise this morning for the way the decision was handled. Certainly compared to what weve seen in some other cities. But protesters did take to the streets to express their anger. Some got out of hand. This morning streets are pretty much overwhelmingly calm. Alex perez reports from cleveland. Reporter tension in cleveland. Dont shoot. Hands up dont shoot. Reporter police making 71 arrests mostly for violence against bystanders. Most of those arrests coming at night. We had incidents of protesters actually pepper spraying patrons that were seated at restaurants in their patio areas walking down the street. A judge saturday cleared C
What went wrong. Wild ride. A crashfilled indy 500 after a dangerous week on the track. Drivers colliding just seconds in. Cars ripped to shreds. Even an accident on pit road. And the winner of the indianapolis 500 is juan Pablo Montoya. And the heartpounding end to the greatest spectacle in racing. And good morning, america. From all of us on this memorial day, we want to join in honoring our troops this morning. Those who have sacrificed everything for our country. Thats right. In fact we want to take a live look there at Arlington National cemetery. President obama will be there later this morninglaying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. And bob woodruff will be here. Thousands forced to evacuate. Dozens rescued from raging water waters and abcs phillip mena is in one of the hardest hit areas, wimberley, texas. Reporter this was completely submerged. Floodwaters were this high and rushed with so much force that they ripped these homes right from their foundation. Oh my god
The annual Rolling Thunder ride for freedom saluting the nations military veterans. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 25th. From abc news this is world news now with t. J. Holmes and reena ninan. Well, a happy memorial day weekend to you. Bebe gan this half hour with a verdict in cleveland. The city earning praise this morning for the way the decision was handled. Certainly compared to what weve seen in some other cities. But protesters did take to the streets to express their anger. Some got out of hand. This morning streets are pretty much overwhelmingly calm. Alex perez reports from cleveland. Reporter tension in cleveland. Dont shoot. Hands up dont shoot. Reporter police making 71 arrests mostly for violence against bystanders. Most of those arrests coming at night. We had incidents of protesters actually pepper spraying patrons that were seated at restaurants in their patio areas walking down the street. A judge saturday cleared Cleveland Police officer Michael
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, kate snow. Good evening. As we come on the air on this memorial day, it is a very dangerous night for at least 30 million americans under the threat of violent weather. Historic, relentless rainfall and flash flooding combined with an outbreak of deadly tornadoes has already produced catastrophic damage. Homes destroyed across parts of mississippi, oklahoma, and texas where the governor has declared a state of emergency. And theres a frantic search underway for the missing. Some of whom were swept away in raging flood waters which are still a big threat right now as new tornadoes fire up on the radar. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in the flood zone tonight in wimberley, texas. We want to search some of the debris piles. Reporter tonight a desperate search for the missing as the magnitude of the historic flood sinks in. I would describe it as a flood of biblical proportions. Its noth
Counterterrorism senator director michael l eeiqhter and what the president will say as he lays a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, mikaela, he will be making remarks. We will be listening to see what he has to say. We learn e certainly will. Meanwhile, what the are the iraqis saying . Cnn International Correspondent is in baghdad. She picks up that part of the story for us. Arwa. Reporter good morning, mikaela. Those comments are causing quite a few people to say the Iraq Security forces do have the will to fight and that it was the u. S. After all that did train them. Just take a listen to what the countrys Prime Minister said to the bbc. Im surprised why he said that. I mean he was very supportive of iraq. Im sure as he was headed back he was fed with the wrong information. Nevertheless ramadi was a disaster. It makes my heart plead because we lost ramadi but we assure you we can bring it back soon. Reporter and many here do feel that this is just the u. S. Attempt to try t