Tornadoes and flash flooding. Before that lets take a look at the market. The u. S. Equity futures shaping up to a positive day with the bulls if they stay for the early trends. S p fauutures up by 3. 5 and nasdaq up by 14. Lets tell you the big stories were watching this morning. The april employment report due at 8 30 eastern time. Forecasters say the economy added 228,000 jobs last month. The Unemployment Rate is seen declining to 5. 4 to a near 7 year low but of course there are lots of varying views on what this could all mean including some much higher estimates and also much much lower estimates. Also Billionaire Oil man boone boonepickens say oil will hit 75 by end of year. He notes Oil Inventories peaked. And the New York Times reporting that Taxi Service Uber submitted a 3 millioned by for nokias map business. Its a competitor to google maps. Theyre teaming up on an offer for that service as well. Google bought waves too. Ways still has its own app. They have their own app. T
Police say several rival motorcycle gangs had gathered. Trouble apparently had been brewing between the gangs for weeks. Police say it began as a fistfight at the twin peaks restaurant in waco, then involved knives and guns. All of those killed nine, were bikers. We are told no innocent bystanders or officers were hurt. Police say they have called in extra resources tonight trying to keep that situation calm. Our other big story tonight, the Violent Storms moving across the midwest. Heres a look at the current updated radar. The main danger zone stretches from dallas to detroit. In broken arrow oklahoma carroll cole stood outside ba was left of her home after one tornado this weekend. More pictures of destruction came in from baton rouge louisiana. Manual bojorquez has more on this. Parts of mossby missouri are underwater today. Heavy downpours have left the town nearly engulfed by floodwaters. More than 100 people have been asked to leave under a voluntary evacuation and Officials Say
Man with his family. Came down into rural indian territory. We associate him and his adult life with tulsa, where he became a very important civic and business leader. But most of all he believed in roads. He liked roads. He came along at a time where we had the big roads moving. We were starting to get more and more automobiles. A teamster could buy one. A farmer could buy one. A schoolteacher could buy one. People took to the roads. Everybody had to get a car. That is where americas love affair with the internal Combustion Engine began. I do not think that has ever ended, to my dismay. So the people like avery got involved in this movement. He became a highway commissioner. And he tried to get as many there are roads paved as possible. And of course is a guest triumph was route 66 his biggest triumph was route 66, which came along in 1920 six. Building longer roads, interstate roads. That is what happened with route 66. It is a road that connected with chicago, ran down through illin
Phase, they are looking to return to that argument that the older brother planned all of this and now they have to decide whether hell get the Death Penalty. Leon the jury in the Aaron Hernandez trial in boston returned today from the first full day of deliberation. He is charged in the 2013 murder of his friend oden lloyd. Hernandez hernandezs lawyer acknowledged he was there but not the one who pulled the trigger. Prosecutors said that he planned the murder and tried to cover it up. Alison we turn to breaking news coming to us from the district this afternoon. Police have made a second arrest in the murder of david messerschmitt. He was the attorney found dead inside the Donovan Hotel back in february. Brianne carter is in northwest with these breaking details. Brianne, tell us about it. Brianne alison this is in the last 90 minutes weve learned there have been another arrest made by metropolitan police. They tell us that 19yearold Dominique Johnson was arrest the earlier today in co
This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Substituting tonight, Savannah Guthrie. Good evening. As we come on the air tonight, one section of the country is bracing for a wave of Severe Weather. Another is cleaning up after a night of powerful tornadoes. It is the upper midwest under the gun tonight with the threat of heavy thunderstorms and hail. And just look at the size of this twister. One of nearly 30 reported this week through the middle of the country over the weekend. Nbcs john yang joins us from broken arrow, oklahoma. John good evening. Reporter good evening. Take a look at the damage here in broken arrow. This isnt a limb off of the tree. This is the trunk of the tree the top snapped right off. Take a look at the house across the street. One of two. The tops just peeled off and opened up like an onion. Once again Tornado Alley has lived up to its billing. Oh my goodness. You can see it clear as day. Reporter overnight, tornadoes sliced across south western oklahoma. To the