Indicted on federal criminal charges according to court documents. Hastert is accused of covering up big cash withdrawals he was making allegedly to be used as hush money the pay off someone he had wronged. Congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. Reporter hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007, but its what hes done since that caught the attention of the f. B. I. According to the federal indictment, back in 2010, John Dennis Hastert agreed to provide someone referred to only as individual a, 3. 5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. The indictment doesnt say what that misconduct was but it notes that the two have known each other for most of individual as life and that the individual is from the same illinois town where hastert was a High School Teacher and wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. From 2010 to 2012, hastert made 15 50,000 withdrawals of cash from his local bank in illinois and gave the
Runway and crashing into a set. A young son on board. A quick thinking air Traffic Controller may have prevented something even worse. And great white quest the most feared in abcs thunder, nbcs Kerry Sanders is setting off to find one in the wild today. Today, thundershowers may 28 2015. Nouce this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, on a thursday morning, apparently at this table. In search of those wonderful creatures. We will watch in this case. Get to that in a couple of minutes. Lets start with our top story this morning. Problems with storm after storm in texas, rivers ridesing in houston and dallas. Some neighborhoods are being told to evacuate. There was a tornado outbreak. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in hard hit wimberley, texas. Good morning to you. Reporter matt good morning. The death stole now to 23. Rivers are swollen. Severe thunderstorms are expected in parts of the state. All this as we are hearing more
From the public as they continue to look for answers and for suspects. Jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. Leon that shooting in the search for suspects and evidence turned i295 into a crime scene. That made for a major backup for drivers are at the date. Stephen tschida exams the fallout. Stephen . Reporter this ramp onto 295 from virginia and all down to 95 north to where we are standing now shut down. Traffic backed up all the way here. People stuck in the traffic complaining about sitting there. Many not know what is going on. We caught up to other motorists that we shot from the chopper seven the traffic was backed up terribly. A lot of people pushed onto the side roads trying to get to their destinations to avoid this backup. And that caused problems. Traffic was gridlocked so i cannot go nowhere. Reporter a lot of people having concern about how they could not get to the destination. Also a lot of concern about whether this was road rage or not. Just the thought of bullets flying across
Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a thursday night. And we begin with the deadly storms. Several tornadoes touching down. And this one, a short time ago. These pictures coming in from liota, kansas tonight. And in canadian texas, theyve now confirmed this tornado was an ef2. 33 million americans bracing for storms texas all the way up to new york and boston. And lets go back to that stunning image. Oh no that family in texas, a father watching as the flood waters burst through the front door. Rob marciano with the storm track. But first, abcs matt gutmant that home where the flood waters came rushing in. Matt . Reporter good evening, david. I want you to see something. A fourstory wall of water came bashing right through here so powerful that it washed that truck 5,500 pounds right into that tree. And tonight, here in texas and across the plains more Severe Weather ahead. Tonight, Severe Weather stretching from the plains all the way to maine. Water rescues north
Deadly anthrax spores. They unwittingly used live and potentially lethal anthrax in a train traing exercise last week. So far no one has shown signs of sickness or at the affected laboratories in the u. S. Three lab workers in delaware and wisconsin are also taking antibiotics to prevent infection. The review must be thrower because the spores can survive for years out in the open. Theres concern because the samples were transpoerted by fedex along with everyday packages. The scare began last march at the dugway proving ground in utah when a batch of anthrax known as ag 1 was bombarded with radiation to render it safe. But some of the spores survived alive and potentially deadly. For years batches thought to be safe were sent to 1 labs across the country via fedex air. South korea received its shipment in march. Last week a lab in maryland detected contained live spores. Authorities are not sure how many spores survived the shipping. Were told the original batch contained billions of s