Millions hooked on every word. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. There will be no parades or picnics in parts of texas this memorial day weekend. Caught up in a flood emergency after more than a foot of rain fell in some places. Its been a dramatic day of highwater rescues and heartwrenching loss. At least two people have died and others have gone missing in the surging floodwaters, that has closed roads, damaged homes and forced many to evacuate. All happening as Severe Weather is developing right now for yet another night in the center of the country. Al roker with the forecast in a moment. But first, nbcs Gabe Gutierrez with the very latest. Reporter in travis county, texas, they were desperate, surrounded by raging water, hoisted to safety from vehicles and rooftops one by one. An allout flood emergency. Its never been this bad. The waters never gotten to our house. Everyth
That haze hanging over ther the studio. It is warm out. Wow. It really got hot in a hurry hry and the humidity got prettyot pe high yesterday, too. , to thats what we have for today. So, as we take a peek at yourou saturday forecast, i will say wy this is probably the best day ta of the memorial day weekendi forecast because it will remain dry but it is pretty is p sultry out there this morning. I satellite and radar cleare and skies overhead just someust sunshine. A nice looking start to the t day but those temperatures struggled fall overnight andd fa just like in the middle of theil summer were starting the day around 70 degrees and its muggy, too. Temperatures in the mid 60ses north and west but thats asha cool as it gets and welle watch those temperatures jump j very quickly into the 80she today. Heres the setup for youror y memorial day weekend what it wei looks like on the surface map. Fm High Pressure off shore just like a very summer type te pattern, 80s, upper 80s to around 9
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Roads and washed cars away. 21yearold Darren Mitchell posted this haunting facebook as water topped the roof of his truck. He wrote, all i wanted to do was go home. A short while later he disappear disappeared. After fields were flooded in chappell hill, ranchers tried desperately to save their cattle by herding them towards the shore. Homeowners are only now just beginning to soak in the damage of flooded homes and fallen trees and branches. Super scary. You dont know what to do. Reporter ed davises entire neighborhood of cut off. Its the second time it happened in a year. What are you going to do . Im probably going to have to move and i dont want to move. Reporter as you can see water has started to recede in some areas. This home and these cars were all covered. The threat is far from over. Thunderstorms are expected next week. Jane. Pauley don, thank you. Eric fisher is chief meersologist at he is tracking
Your world in 90 seconds. Reporter tensions are increasing. They aaure tnting each other. Temperatures flare outside a trump tempers flare outside a trump rally california. Unbelievable the debate between donald trump and Bernie Sanders, not going to happen. Trump called it off. Ie hop that he changes his mind again. Well, mr. Trump, what are you afraid of . An estimated 38 monilli people will travel this holiday weekend. The busiest memorial day in a decade. Tropical storms up for south canaroli. Itl wilbring heavy rainfall to the eastern seaboard heading into memorial day. Flooding in south texas led to a frantic rescue. Ranchers had to round up 800 head of cattle. In new york city, the pilot of a vintage world war ii fighter plane crashed into the hudson river. Could see g theuy trying to gut oat of the plane. Just couldnt make it out. A Police Officer had a brush with death. Wasnt a suspect. It was there it goes. Spacex has pulled off another rocket launch and landing. [ cheers ] a
So slow moving its going to continue to cause problems. We my great north a bit. Down through fuquay and holly springs, headed toward raleigh. Cumberland, storms moving to the north, headed toward orange and durham county. Hail in parts of western Person County number one and storms in northern mecklenburg. You see the big picture. A lot of us are getting bad storms. That Severe Thunderstorm Warning goes until 10 00 tonight. Ill talk about what we can expect. Well track Tropical Storm matthew coming up. We continue to follow the breaking news out of south carolina. Anderson county deputies wrapping up a presence conference. Two 6yearold boys, students and a teacher were shot. The hospital. A croarnlg was arrested at the scene and had an arm gun. South carolina governor governor nikki haley is expected to speak. She sent out her regards before the 5 00 news urging for prayers. In the past 0 minutes 20 minutes, cbs North Carolina received an apology. This comes hours af chance or post ad