Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a busy friday night. And we begin with the severe storms hitting this evening. Possible tornadoes and flash flooding threats from dallas all the way up to philadelphia. Then, new york city and the northeast. A confirmed ef2 tornado in alabama, destroying several businesses. That f16 flipping in the rains in dayton. And look at the map tonight. 30 million in the east at risk. Travel will be challenging, as though dangerous storms make it up to new york city. This evening, images of the effort to save a woman and her sinking car. And abcs gio benitez leads us off. Reporter tonight, with a deadly mix of flash flooding and severe storms, cindy is not done yet. My husbands trying to help. Reporter alabama hit hard. Rescuers forming a human chain, rescuing a woman from her sinking car, just in the nick of time. There she is. She got out reporter the car completely submerged. West of birmingham, where several people were hurt when an ef2
Good evening. Were happy youre here for this even. Ive one of the reference librarians here and were here to listen to howard mean about his new book 67 shots at kent state where the shooting take place, only ten miles from here. Beer excited to have this program of national interest. Mr. Means a biographer and former editor at the washingtonian, Business Books include pakistan the ageneral jerry takes tis play. Johnny appleseed, the man, the myth, and the american story. And also wrote the first biography on colin powell. Join me in welcoming mr. Mean. I also wrote 67 shots. Im going to talk about that tonight instead of 76. Thank you, amanda. Ammann to is also herself a very accomplished novelist, and mystery stories, won an agatha christie. Everybody who was at kent state in 1970, stand up and raise your hand. Okay, this is scary. This is really scary. I wanted to point out jerry back there. [applause] jerry was a great help to me in putting getting contacts and writing the book, an
We want to start off today with a debate closer to home gas prices. Congress is considering raising the federal gas tax. The money could be used on bridges and infrastructure. We want to get your thoughts and comments on this issue. You can also join in on the conversation, many already have, on our Facebook Page. Or send us a tweet. Good sunday morning to you. Front page of the Washington Post focusing on two big stories. First of all, in france, the Prime Minister saying that the country is at war. Next to that, jeb bush and mitt romney beginning to maneuver on a potential bush romney primary in 2015. I want to share the story with you from cnbc on gas prices. According to the aaa, gas prices have dropped putting over 14 billion in the pockets of consumers. The question of whether or not the congress should increase the tax rate it is argued that consumers can take it. Speaker the house john boehner sharing his thoughts. How we will funded, we will have to work our way through this.
Anybody to hire veterans. The rate of unemployment for veterans has been higher. I had the chance in rhodesville, michigan, to meet with veterans Vietnam Veterans some months ago. And i was deeply troubled by the high rate of unemployment for those Vietnam Veterans. This country has not done an adequate job in terms of making sure that veterans have a real opportunity to work. That is the tribute that we must provide its more than a tribute its an obligation to those who have served this nation. Thats why this is called the heroes act. Lets not distort it. Lets not lets not undermine what is the purpose of this legislation. Those who have served deserve as our priority any reasonable effort to provide them with the opportunity that they want. They have served, now they want to work. We need to make sure they have that opportunity to work. Its within that spirit that i support this legislation and urge its passage and i yield back the balance of our time. The speaker pro tempore the gen
Irrigation accounts for half of the water consumed by a homeowner. Im okay with losing grass if that is what i have to sacrifice, im okay with that. The board claims to apply rates for efforts. Like increasing access to recycled water and offering rebates for low flow appliances the rate hike is just up for discussion if it passes the vote in two weeks, customers can expect to pay more starting june 1st. If they do the right thing and achieve a level of conversation, they wont have impact at all. East bay mud says mandatory measures will not be necessary this year. Officials continued to continue a cut back to purchase 5 billion gallons for the river, and make the purchase with current funds no price increase a Spokesman Says conservation is working. Customers initially responded in 2008 with a 19 reduction. And they continued 17 through today. Do you think that is why youre not having to make it mandatory . Absolutely. Because they conserve through those years were not in a crisis, to