Reporter people of all faiths joined up to the Islamic Center open forum in alameda. Many muslims feel their religion is under attack. He says it has not been this bad in years. I would say after 9 11 there was definitely a lot of tension that happened, but nothing like this. This has been much worse. And it ties back to this whole notion of isis. Isis is definitely a fringe group that doesnt represent muslims or islam at all. Reporter vandals broke a window Islamic Center of alamedas former building a couple of weeks ago in richmond, police detonatedded a pipe bomb at the home of a man accused of making threats. Saturday morning in tracy, a mosque was damaged after being hit by what happened to be a molotov cocktail. There have been 70 incidents affecting Islamic Centers and mosques across the country, which is unprecedented. So we want authorities to be more proactive and look at this as hate crime. Theres been an uptick in vandalism, attacks and intimidation of muslims. Among those
Reporter even by texas standards it was a monstrosity. I see it. Its crossing the highway right there. Big, big tornado. Reporter at least eight tornadoes exploded through dallas county. The hardest hit areas are garland and rowlett. Oh, theres stuff flying in the air reporter damage has been reported along a 40 mile stretch of homes and businesses. In the darkness last night the destruction was hard to see. But by this morning the path of the tornadoes was clear. Entire communities are flattened. Many of the houses Still Standing are without roofs. Vehicles are flipped or buried under debris. In garland, the storms killed eight people and destroyed 600 structures in a two mile area. In rowlett, the tornadoes injured 23 and leveled 40 homes. High winds tossed trailers at this Mobile Home Park and damaged this strip mall. We pray and support those who have lost a family member. Abbott say more storms today are complicating recovery efforts. I want you to know that texas is doing everyth
Good morning. Lets get to our lead story. The deadly storms in the nations heartland. Theres more extreme weather on tap for the south and midwest after a severe storm system claimed at least 19 lives. The dallas area in particular hit hard with nine strong thunderstorms. We get more now from abcs megan hughes. Reporter the christmas twisters marched across the texas landscape. In rowlett, they tossed trucks and tore trees from the earth. You can see the transformers blowing up. Reporter the survivors count themselves lucky. Just very grateful were alive and were all safe. All this can be replaced. Reporter in missouri, flooding like this led to several deaths. And led the governor to declare a state of emergency. In oklahoma, west texas and new mexico, snow created whiteout conditions on the roads. Mike springer from affiliate koat. Just last week, it was 60 degrees in ross well. Today, everything is covered in snow. Reporter trucks out of control rest in the snow bank. More than 20 m
As rescue crews in north texas sift through debris for people still unaccounted for. Nat soti found the jet. Many residents are retrieving what little they have left following this weekends deadly tornadoes Denise Garcia resident compared to our neighbors, i think we got pretty lucky, the house is still standing, the walls are standing more than a hundred homes in the garland were reduced to rubble saturday when an ef4 tornado, packing winds of up to 200 Miles Per Hour, tore through the area. 61yearold Gwendolyn Wheatley says it was the scariest night of her life Gwendolyn Wheatley resident i just stayed in my closest all night long, shaking like a leaf on a tree Omar Villafranca cbs news rowlett, texas a 24 hour curfew remains in effect here in rowlett where an ef3 tornado also caused extensive damage. On sunday authorities evacuated residents near this damaged water tower out of fears of flooding Brian Funderburk rowlett city manager at this point weve had an engineer assess it. He w
The new star wars movie, the force awakens, makes movie history cracking the 1 billion mark in just 12 days. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 28th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We begin this half hour with the extreme weather in the south. The series of tornadoes ripped through the dallas area destroying homes and tossing around cars on the highways just like toys. At least 11 people are dead after as many as nine tornadoes descended. Winds up to 180 miles an hour were recorded. Experts say these are the deadliest twisters to hit the dallasfort worth area in nearly 90 years. One official says it will be months, maybe years before everything is fixed. Walking around and driving around the area, you can see it is total devastation over there in the area. Were very grateful that were alive and all safe. All this can be replaced. And to the north in missouri, at least eight deaths reported because of flooding. The governor has dec